How it works

Every number on this page is generated from the same game data the bot uses, so it can't drift out of date. Server tier right now: 1 (everyone's damage and health are ×1.1).

1. The basics

• Start with .duel start (random class, race and gender) or build your own and paste .duel char setup <class> <race> <gender>. After that you can switch once for free, then it costs 100 coin and a wait.
• Stamina (max 60) pays for commands: a fight costs 5, moving between town and arena 10. It regenerates 30 per half hour (centaurs twice as fast).
• Fights happen in the arena, shopping in town. Running a command in the wrong place moves you automatically, for the stamina cost. You can only fight people who are in the same place, opted in, and active recently.
• Health is seven body parts. Everything regenerates slowly over time (50 points per half hour spread across the body).

2. Characters and SPECIAL+M

Your character is your class plus your race, added together, plus any temporary effects (tavern drinks, weather, potions).

Classes

Races

Perks

• Rogue: can't hurt themselves, and gets an extra d20 in the opening roll.
• Ranger: double XP, and keeps their loot (it goes to their locker) when they die.
• Druid: when losing a fight, may transform into an animal and strike back. Bigger animals unlock with higher tiers.
• Blacksmith: cheaper forge prices, better sell prices, and sturdier armor.
• Mage: regenerates mana (up to 500) for spells.
• Barbarian: may go into a Berserker Rage on a hit for bonus damage equal to Strength×10. Vampire: heals by the damage they deal. Fiend: loot and magic only work on themselves. Centaur: double stamina regeneration.

3. Anatomy of a duel

Every fight is recorded step by step. Open any duel from a player page to see the rolls with the actual numbers.

1. Loot roll. The player who started the fight rolls randint(min(Luck×10, 90), 100); 90 or more finds an item, which goes to whoever wins.

   Luck	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
   Chance	11%	12%	14%	15%	18%	22%	27%	35%	52%	100%	100%

   Roll 100 finds rare items (stimpack, grenade, poisondart, steroid), 96-99 normal (healthpotion, manapotion, poisonpotion, timepotion, staminapotion, mysterypotion), 90-95 common (syringe, water, tranquilizer, garlic, antimagic).
2. Who gets the upper hand. Each fighter starts with one d20 (0 to 20), then earns an extra d20 for each advantage: the coin flip; more total SPECIAL; more current health; more XP; more kills; fewer respawns; a shorter current win streak (a catch-up bonus); being a rogue. Each fighter rolls all their dice and keeps the best; higher wins, ties are broken at random. A cursed fighter counts as 0.

   Chance that the row's number of dice beats the column's:

   	vs 1	vs 2	vs 3	vs 4	vs 5	vs 6
   1 dice	50%	33%	25%	20%	17%	14%
   2 dice	67%	50%	40%	33%	29%	25%
   3 dice	75%	60%	50%	43%	38%	33%
   4 dice	80%	67%	57%	50%	44%	40%
   5 dice	83%	71%	62%	56%	50%	46%
   6 dice	86%	75%	67%	60%	54%	50%

3. Body part. 50% torso, 10% head, otherwise a random part that still has health.
4. Damage roll. randint(Strength×10, 120) × tier scale.
5. Defender's reactions. Deflect: roll randint(Perception×10, 100); 95+ and the roles swap. Druid shapeshift: a flat chance of 2% + 1.2% per point of Agility, and the druid strikes back as an animal.

   Stat	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
   Deflect	6%	7%	7%	8%	10%	12%	15%	19%	29%	55%	100%
   Druid	2%	3%	4%	6%	7%	8%	9%	10%	12%	13%	14%

6. Attacker's bonuses. Barbarian Berserker Rage: roll randint((10-Charisma)×10, 100), 80+ adds Strength×10×scale damage.

   Charisma	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
   Rage	100%	100%	100%	68%	51%	41%	34%	30%	26%	23%	100%

   Vampires heal for the damage dealt.
7. The damage pipeline (in order):
   1. Dodge: randint(min(Agility×10, 100), 100), over 90 dodges everything.

      Agility	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
      Dodge	10%	11%	12%	14%	16%	20%	24%	32%	48%	91%	100%

   2. Magic shield soaks damage until it runs out.
   3. Endurance removes a random amount between Endurance×10 and the full hit. High Endurance makes you very hard to hurt. Average damage that gets through per hit at scale ×1 (after Endurance, before dodge, shield and armor):

      Strength \ Endurance	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
      2	25.0	20.3	16.0	12.3	9.1	6.3	4.1	2.3
      4	30.0	25.0	20.0	15.3	11.3	7.9	5.1	2.9
      6	35.0	30.0	25.0	20.0	15.0	10.5	6.7	3.8
      8	40.0	35.0	30.0	25.0	20.0	15.0	10.0	5.7
      10	45.0	40.0	35.0	30.0	25.0	20.0	15.0	10.0

   4. Armor on that body part shaves a random 1-33% off the hit and loses one point of durability. At 0 it breaks.
8. Aftermath. Winner and loser both earn XP (Intelligence × tier scale). Win/loss streaks, ranks and server tier update.

4. Body parts, death and deathblows

Everything scales with the server tier. If your head or torso hits 0, or total health drops under 150, you're nearly dead: the attacker has 120 seconds to land a .duel deathblow. If they do, you respawn in town and they take your loot and any bounty. If not, you're healed and sent to town. You can't act during that window.

5. Ranks and the shared server tier

Your XP sets your personal pepper rank. The highest tier anyone has reached is the server tier: it unlocks commands for everyone and scales health and damage for the whole room.

6. Loot and the economy

• Merchant (town): buying costs list price ÷ Charisma (plus the market drift below); selling pays list price × Charisma ÷ 100. Stock is limited to 100 per item. Buying pushes an item's price up, selling pushes it down, and the shelves restock each hour.
• Forge: each armor piece costs 500 coin, lasts 10 hits; repairs cost 50% of the proportional price.
• Tavern: drinks cost 80 and give temporary SPECIAL changes (+3 and -1s).
• Craft: poisondart = 1 syringe, 3 poisonpotion; stimpack = 1 syringe, 2 healthpotion; steroid = 1 syringe, 1 healthpotion, 1 poisonpotion.
• Bounties: put coin on someone's head; the killer collects. Random fights pay 100 coin to the winner.

Body armor, speed and weight

Everybody starts in Rags (up to 3% off a torso hit, never wears out). Real suits come from the forge and unlock as the server tier rises. A suit shaves a random 1..N% off every torso hit and loses a point of durability each time; when it breaks you're back in rags.

Speed = Agility × armor class (light 1.0, medium 0.95, heavy 0.90) × build (average of race and class: light 1.1 up to heavy 0.9) × encumbrance. If one fighter is at least 50% faster, they get an extra d20 in the winner roll. Medium and heavy armor also cost +5% / +10% stamina.

Carrying: capacity = 30 + 6×Strength + 2×Endurance + a build bonus. Past half capacity you slow down; you can't buy or take more than you can carry. Anything in the town chest (.duel locker) weighs nothing.

Amulets give +1 to one attribute and -1 to another. Each torso hit has a 50% chance to crack the worn amulet (10 cracks), and they can't be repaired.

Skill points

Every time you reach a new rank you earn a skill point to put into a base stat (.duel skills add strength). A stat can't go past 10 (base from your race and class, plus trained points). Resetting your points costs 100 coin each; a full game reset clears everything. Stats also do jobs outside of combat:

• Strength: damage, carry capacity, armor requirements
• Perception: deflecting hits
• Endurance: thick skin, health regeneration (+5% per point), carry capacity
• Charisma: shop prices
• Intelligence: repair costs (-3% per point, up to -30%)
• Agility: dodging, speed, stamina regeneration (+3% per point)
• Luck: loot finds, who wins close rolls
• Magic: spell power, mana regeneration (+5% per point)

The shared monster levels up with the server: every two server tiers it gains a point in each stat (Agility every three), up to 10.

Exploring

Leave town with .duel explore enter. Zones are generated from a world seed, so everyone explores the same layout, but fog of war is personal: a cell stays hidden until you step on it. Each step costs 3 stamina (more in heavy armor). Cells hold monsters, loot, traps, shrines, camps and, in some zones, a town. Monsters in the wild are tougher the deeper you go; if one kills you it keeps your items until someone beats it. Beat the warden at a zone's exit to complete it and open the next, bigger zone. Completed zones slowly fall back into fog (after 7 days per cell), and their monsters return.

A town portal (inventory use townportal, sold by the merchant) takes you home from anywhere. Finding a town opens a caravan route: new goods at the merchant for everyone, and the first one opens the casino.

7. Magic

Spell power is randint(Magic×10, max) × tier scale × amount cast.

8. Events and weather

Weather (hailstorm, fog, sandstorm, windstorm, duststorm, snowstorm, thunderstorm) hits either the town or the arena and gives everyone there a -1 to one stat for 20-40 minutes. A "supply drop" puts a mystery potion in a random active player's locker. Neither runs on a fixed clock: they're scheduled at random, happen more often when more people are active, and only fire when someone is actually around.

Room events

• Monster: one shared monster whose health is the average of the active players. monster attacks it, monster hunt sends it after everyone in the arena. When it dies a new one appears next time.
• Grenade: needs a grenade. The first victim takes 100, the next two take 50 each (all multiplied by the server tier), the rest dodge.
• Trebuchet: a random projectile at a random arena player.
• Roulette: one bullet in six chambers, shared by everyone. Each safe pull grows the pot; whoever finally gets shot pays out everybody who survived. Pull twice in a row and a safe chamber is removed. Cursed players always hit the bullet.
• Assault: you fight everyone in the arena. Mayhem: everyone fights everyone once. Hunger games: knockout bracket. Colosseum: knockout where each fight deals a fixed 30 per entrant and the winner takes that as coin. Each has a shared cooldown and you can't instigate the same one twice in a row.

9. Your history

The bot keeps the last several duels for every player, including every roll. .duel why explains your latest fight in chat, and .duel web gives you a link to your page, where each duel has a full breakdown of why it went the way it did.