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The basics
Everything happens on a beat of 0.6 seconds. You click to walk and click to work; the game does the rest one tick at a time.
The tick
Pendekar runs on a fixed beat of 600 ms, called a tick, like the old games it borrows from. Moving, working, fighting and healing all happen on ticks, so a thing that takes 4 ticks always takes 2.4 s.
| What | Ticks | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Walk one tile | 1 | 0.6 s |
| Run two tiles | 1 | 0.6 s |
| Swing, strike or shoot | 4 | 2.4 s |
| Cut a tree, harvest a palm | 4 | 2.4 s |
| Cook one thing | 3 | 1.8 s |
| Get back one hit point | 10 | 6 s |
| Lie knocked out | 3 | 1.8 s |
| Autosave | 10 | 6 s |
Moving and working
Click the ground to walk there. Click a thing (a tree, a fishing spot, a person, a crab) to walk up to it and start: the game finds the path, stops beside it and works until you click something else, your pack fills, or the thing runs out. Right-click (or long-press) for the other choices, like Examine and Talk-to.
Paths go around water, trees, buildings and people. Diagonal steps cannot cut a corner past something solid.
The label under the pointer names what you would do. For a creature it also gives its level, coloured against your combat level (the average of Attack, Strength and Defence): green if it is more than 2 below you, red if more than 2 above, yellow in between.
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| 1–5 | Pack, Skills, Quests, Craft, Gear. Press again to fold the panel away. |
| R | Run on or off |
| M | The map of Malaysia |
| Space | Next line of a conversation |
| Esc | Close menus, the shop and sheets |
| ←→↑↓ | Turn and tilt the camera |
Running and energy
Press R or tap the run orb to run: two tiles a tick instead of one. Running uses energy; anything else brings it back.
At zero you stop running and the game tells you you are out of breath.
Health
Your hit points are 9 + your Body level, so 10 to start. You get one back every 10 ticks (6 s) on your own. Eat food from your Pack to heal faster; you can't eat at full health, and eating holds back your next blow by a tick or two.
Getting knocked out
At zero hit points you fall where you stand and lie still for 3 ticks. Then you wake at the zone's landing spot with full health and everything you had: nothing is lost. Any creature that was chasing you gives up.
You black out. You wake on the beach, battered but whole.On Perhentian Island
Your pack
The pack holds 20 things, one to a slot. Nothing stacks, so twenty fish fill it. Money and arrows don't take slots: ringgit are counted in your purse and arrows in your quiver. When the pack is full, gathering stops with a message.
Click food to eat it and gear to wear it. In a shop, click to sell; shift-click to sell every one of that kind.
Saving
The game saves itself to this browser every 10 ticks and after every conversation and trade. The save stays in this browser on this device; another browser starts fresh. New game in the menu wipes it, after asking twice.