Darkstone

Hint:
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Submitted by : tanara

Extra Gold Fill your inventory slots full with stuff, leave only one
open.Place one single gold in the slot, have a 10,000 pile on the 
ground already. Close inventory, pick up pile and it will automatically
make the 1 gold 10,000 gold. Repeat as necessary.

Bonus Song: 
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For a lovely bonus in the single-player game, toss some coins in 
the bard's tray (in the center of town.) 

Easter Egg: 
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When playing as the thief, you can steal from the chickens in town.
Your reward is entirely appropriate. :-) 

Extra gold:
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Begin a new game and give all money from one character to the other 
character (money holder). Start another new game, and select the money
holder as one character and create an entirely new character. 
Transfer 1500 gold from the new character to the money holder.
Repeat as needed to build your gold total.

Money Trick: 
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The fastest road to easy money is by starting a new game with two monks.
Transfer both the money and book of resurrection to one monk then quit 
the game. Start a new game with that same monk and another new monk, 
repeating the process until inventory is full of books and money. 
Ideally transfer books to a fighter with a good trade skill and sell
all the books bringing in a total of about 180,000gp. Deposit gold 
and repeat. Mmmm. 

Hint: Avoid player killer problems:
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Use the following steps to save your game when playing over a network.
Copy your save files to another directory that is outside of the 
DarkStone directory before joining a network game. To restore a save,
reload DarkStone from the CD, then copy the saves from the outside 
directory. Note: Make sure all three saves are copied.

Play Music in MP3 Player 
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Because the music in DarkStone is stored in MP3 format, rename the 
file (giving it an [mp3] extension) to hear it in your MP3 player! 

GameTips 
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The spell of choice for magic users:
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The spell of choice for magic users, especially between levels 1 and 20,
is the Magic Bomb. This is a magical contact grenade that you can drop 
directly onto your enemy's head, even from around a corner or through 
a wall. I never saw a monster resist it, and it does around 30 to 70 
points of damage per hit.

tired of getting killed:
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Are you tired of getting killed over and over by spike traps and mines 
while you're trying to get to the treasure? The problem often can be 
solved by one or two Scrolls of Telekinesis, or a Scroll of Teleport.
They cost a few gold pieces, but can save you a lot of time.

The Time Orb:
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The Time Orb, once you have it, still won't do you a lot of good in the
battle against Draak. It has only one charge, and its effect doesn't 
last long. You have to do hundreds of points of damage to Draak in about
30 seconds if you want to win the fight.


Basic tactics:
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Hints by Reuben Kee
Eat! If you get too hungry, your characters will start losing hp. Know
that the value of armor or weapons decreases as the max duration and 
current duration decrease; always repair if you have the skill before
selling equipment off. Characters can grow old and their stats will 
start dropping like mad. You start off at 20 years; you must find ways
and means to prolong their youth. 
Every monster has its traits, meaning each monster has its own pattern
in attack, movement, etc. Knowing your enemy well will result in more 
efficient kills. Use your skills! Each class features its different 
skills; use them well. They can really help a lot! 
To set spells, simply press the numbers 1-5, bring up your spell book
and hold shift while clicking on the spell you wish to place under 
the number. 

How to be a millionaire:
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Different combinations of characters can complement each other very well,
take a Warrior/Amazon, and a Thief/Assassin, and you can get rich really
fast. First, have your thief's steal skill be reasonably good (doesn't 
fail so often) and you warrior's repair skill reasonably good (doesn't 
fail too often) and proceed to the dungeons below. Since the equipment
you steal from the monsters is usually better than the stuff bought at
the blacksmith, all you have to do is repair the second-hand equipment
with your warrior and sell it off to the blacksmith! Know that the 
further you progress in the game, the more money you will be making,
but the tougher the enemies. Hence, you will have to find out ways and
tactics to keep alive and steal. Happy hunting!

Note: Stealing from the NPCs will get you nowhere; you need to be daring
and steal from the monsters for the good stuff.

Tell your computer-controlled character what spells to cast: First, 
temporarily switch to the character you want the computer to use, 
select the spell from the spell book. Next click on your blue bar,
your mana bar, it’s right beside your red bar, or hp bar. Notice a 
line? The top part of the line is how much mana you want to allow 
your computer-controlled character to cast with, the bottom part 
is reserved, just in case you have a spell which consumes HUGE 
amounts of mana. That’s it, switch back to your character and let 
the teamwork begin!

The "croak" tactic:
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If heavily overpowered by a ungodly powerful enemy, use a long range 
offensive spell or weapon to keep our of harm’s way.  If he has long
range offensive capabilities as well, attack, dodge, attack, dodge, 
etc. Croaking will get you through the harder parts of the game.

Infinite food trick:
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During the horn of plenty quest, you can right-click on the horn to 
get some nice pieces of chicken!  Also, the forester skill can get 
you lots of fish too, use it on a pond to fish!

New Song:
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In a single player game toss coins in the Bard's tray in the center
of town.

Playing as Thief:
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Steal from the chickens to get a good reward :)

3 Cool Tricks
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Here's some tricks for Darkstone that I discovered and haven't seen
mentioned anywhere. The first 2 can only be done in single player 
games, the 3rd can be done in both single and multi.

1. Surrogate Pool Drinker - If you switch to solo mode and leave the
character you're not using at a mana or health pool, whenever you 
get low just switch to the character by the pool, walk a short 
distance from the pool, then click on the pool and before the 
character gets there to take a drink switch back to the other 
character and that one will get their health or mana filled 
instead of the one by the pool.

2. Permanent Magic Door - If you want to keep your magic doors from
crumbling when you go back through them, when returning through the
door from town use the character who did NOT create the magic door 
to enter the portal. If you are in a multi player game, 2 characters
can both make a magic door then return from town using the other 
guy's door instead of your own. This way you can keep them open 
and use them over and over.

3. Earn More Money - Of course you want to use a character with 
the Trade skill to do all the buying, selling, and repairing (if
you have one). But if you have the character with Trade skill pay
the blacksmith to repair all your items before you sell them you 
will actually get MORE money. He gives you a discount on the 
repair and pays your more for the fully repaired item than what 
he would have paid before + the price he charged you to repair it.
  
by Scot Linkletter
sh_link@hotmail.com
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Even More Money
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Create Two New Monk Charaters:
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Start am single player game with these charaters. Then sell their 
copys of Ressurection for lots of Cash. Then give the money two
one charater. Start a new single player game with a two new monks.
Deletee the charater (MONK that has no money) and repet with the 
new monks. Then make the charater you want and start a new game 
with the really rich monks. Take their money and start a new 
single player game with another new charater. I did this 13 
times and ended up with over 100000 gold.

Hint:
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Submitted by: Gwenevere

Here's something my mom found and doesn't want to share: when you
go through the dungeons and find a desk with a spellbook/scroll, 
switch to the carachter that doesn't know any magic. Go in solo 
mode, grab the book, then sell it in town. We did this, and never
got scrolls. We also noticed an increased amount of desks.

Duplicating items:
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Place the object to be duplicated in your inventory and save the game. 
Start a new game with two characters. Give the other character the 
item to be duplicated. Then, load the game. You and the other character
will still have the item.

Level up faster:
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Create a new character, then begin a new quest. When you are in town,
equip the items you have. After you have done this, exit town and start
to fight enemies. When you level up, save your attribute points. Keep 
doing this in Ardyl until you feel comfortable with the level you are 
at. You should reach expert level in about one hour. This will work as
if you are at level two the entire time. Doing this trick can turn a 
warrior into a warrior/wizard. 
Note: If you quit the quest, this will no longer work; or if you are
leveling up slowly again (after level 16 or 18) buy learning. 

Healing your character:
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The best way to heal your character is to go to town (or select "Town" 
from the "Places To Go" menu) and talk to Madam Irma. Select "Cure". 
Not only will this heal your character and detoxify him/her from poison
for free, but also conserve food for that character.

Unlimited chicken legs:
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In the land of Ardyl, the town nearby asks you to recover the Horn Of
Plenty for them. Instead of giving it back immediately, you can keep 
it and get unlimited chicken legs. Just keep right clicking on the 
Horn Of Plenty. At the end of the game you will need all seven crystals,
so go back and give the horn back to the town for the last crystal.

Extra gold: 
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To do this trick, you must have at least 10,001 gold in the bank, and
a full inventory, except for one slot. Withdraw 10,000 gold and throw
it on the ground. Then, withdraw 1 gold and try to pick up the 10,000.
The game will not allow you to do so, so throw it on the ground again.
Look at the gold in your inventory to find 10,000 gold. Deposit the 
10,000 gold and withdraw 1 gold again. Pick up the 10,000 on the ground,
then repeat as needed. 

More Gold:
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Start a new game as the person you want to be strong and rich as character
one, and a monk as character two. Start in the town, and have your monk 
give your other character everything (club, Book Of Resurrection, money,
and apple). Go to the weapon shop and sell the club, then to the magic 
shop and sell the book. Take the money back to the weapon shop and choose
"Upgrade". Continue upgrading your weapon, armor, and other items. Then, 
go to the Land Of Ardyl and fight. You should level up, or at least gain
lots of experience points. Then, select "Quit" from the menu (do not 
save game) and answer "Yes". Then, start a new game, delete the monk,
use that same person as character one. Make a new monk, use him as 
character two, and repeat the steps.

Defeating Draak:
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Before he transforms, use Magic Door and gather potions and equip the 
best fire resistance items then head back out. Let him transform, then
equip a long range weapon (need to have at least 80 in Dex). Use the 
orb and belt potions and run back to the entrance until you cannot see
Draak. Fire in the direction Draak was standing. After a short period 
of time, an intermission sequence will appear and you will have defeated
the Dragon. Gather the key, scale, and hand then open the gate. Gather 
all the money (900,000 depending on the level of your character) and 
gate to town.

Rags:
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There may be rags in your pack that say 16 to all attributes. If you 
wear, it will say Buimia and you cannot take it off.

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