RavenQuest is a free-to-play, web3 play-to-earn, top-down MMORPG that redefines the genre with its focus on dynamic world-building, community-driven gameplay, deep character customisation, and a player-driven economy. This game stands out by prioritising player freedom and community, creating a rich and immersive world where your choices truly matter. Unlike many other web3 games, RavenQuest sets itself apart by developing a robust game first, drawing on the success of its web2 predecessor, Ravendawn, and thoughtfully integrating web3 elements to enhance the experience.

• Getting Started
  To start your adventure in RavenQuest, head to the RavenQuest website and create an account. Be sure to use my Referral Link during registration to unlock exclusive in-game benefits! Even if you’ve already joined recently, you can still benefit from using the referral link to enhance your experience. Once your account is set up, you can download the game client directly from your account page. RavenQuest is currently available in English and Portuguese, with plans for additional language support in the future.
• Platforms
  At the moment, RavenQuest is available on Windows. The developers have hinted during official live streams that the game may also launch on platforms like the Epic Games Store, Steam, and potentially on mobile devices in the future. Keep an eye out for updates on these platforms!
• Monetisation
  RavenQuest is free to play but offers an optional subscription service known as Patron. Additionally, players can purchase various items with real money, such as cosmetics, RavenCards, and Silver, all of which are on-chain assets traded between players
• Web3 Gaming
  RavenQuest features blockchain integration and enables players to play-to-earn by earning $QUEST tokens. Players can own NFT assets within the game that can be sold or traded with others. These assets include open-world land, which is limited in availability, as well as RavenCards, cosmetics, companions, and more.
• $QUEST
  As an on-chain premium currency, $QUEST can be used to purchase Patron, cosmetics, companions, effort points, and to trade Silver, which is the primary in-game currency. Silver can be earned through a variety of in-game activities, such as completing tradepacks, defeating enemies, finishing quests, and trading on the market. $QUEST facilitates player-to-player trading of Silver, creating a player-driven economy that benefits both casual and competitive players.
• Patreon
  Becoming a Patron provides several in-game benefits. These perks include custom chat badges and colours, faster login during peak times, reduced marketplace fees for more efficient trading, and free fast travel across the game world. Additionally, Patrons receive extra North Star quest rewards and rested experience boosts to help with progression.

• Character Creation
  Once you’ve downloaded and installed RavenQuest, launch the game and log in to begin creating your character.
• Appearance (X)
  When creating your character, you can choose between Male or Female. While initial appearance options are limited, in-game customisation allows you to change your outfit and customise its colours, as well as your character’s hair. To modify your character’s appearance later, press X to open the Character Menu, then select Customisation to update your look.
• Classes & Archetypes
  In RavenQuest, there is no fixed class system, giving players the freedom to fully customise their playstyle. The game’s multi-archetype system allows you to choose and combine 3 archetypes at any time, each with its own unique abilities and passives. This creates endless possibilities for customisation, letting you build a character that fits your perfect playstyle. Here’s a quick overview of the 8 Archetypes available at launch:
  • Holy: The primary healing archetype, using holy magic to heal and protect allies while smiting enemies with holy power.
  • Spiritual: Supports allies with wind magic, creating barriers, speeding up movement, and refreshing mana.
  • Witchcraft: Specialises in curses and debuffs, exploiting enemy weaknesses with occult magic and control effects.
  • Warfare: A brutal melee archetype that excels in self-healing and mobility, gaining strength as they take damage.
  • Shadow: Masters of stealth and deception, using toxins and quick strikes to defeat enemies without being seen.
  • Protection: The tank archetype, defending allies, mitigating damage, and buffing the party with morale-boosting abilities.
  • Archery: A ranged damage dealer, focused on outpacing enemies with speed and keeping them at a distance with control effects.
  • Wizardry: Harnesses elemental magic, using fire and ice for devastating AoE attacks and crowd control.

  As you progress, you’ll unlock additional archetype slots at Level 7 and Level 15, allowing you to combine up to 3 archetypes. The combination of archetypes determines your character’s class, giving access to 56 possible class combinations. This dynamic system ensures every player can create a build that suits their playstyle.

• Changing Archetype
  Once you reach Level 15, you can change your archetypes freely. To do so, open the skill menu with K, select a different archetype, and confirm which archetype you want to replace. This flexible system allows you to adapt your character to new challenges or playstyles whenever needed.
• Starting The Game
  After creating your character, your journey in RavenQuest begins. You’ll start in a story-driven tutorial set in your parents’ house on an island. Complete the tutorial to reach the main continent and begin your adventures in the world of RavenQuest.
• Movement & Controls
  Movement in RavenQuest is controlled via the WASD keys:
  • Move diagonally by pressing two keys simultaneously (e.g., WA for diagonal southwest movement).Alternatively, you can click on the minimap or ground to move your character. This option can be enabled in your settings by pressing O > Misc > Point & Click On.
  • The game uses a fixed top-down view, so there are no camera controls.
  • To engage enemies, right-click on them or select them from the battle list to begin auto-attacking. You can also use abilities by pressing their respective hotkeys on your action bar.

1. User Interface (UI)
   RavenQuest provides a lot of important information through its User Interface (UI), and here’s a breakdown of the key elements:
   • Chat Window: Located in the bottom left corner, the chat box allows you to communicate with other players. You can switch between different chat channels (e.g., local, guild, party) and even customise the window to display only the messages you want to see.
   • Health and Mana Bars: In the top left, you’ll see your health and mana bars. You can also monitor these directly above your character’s head during combat for quick reference.
   • Enemy List: The Enemy List appears on the middle left side of the screen when you encounter enemies. You can customise which enemies are displayed and in what order—whether by type, distance, health, name, or level—by adjusting the settings via the icon at the top of the list.
   • Legacy Level and Experience Bar: Your Legacy Level and experience bar are located just below your ability bar, allowing you to track your progress at a glance.
2. Enemy List
   The Enemy List is located in the middle left of the screen and becomes more visible when you’re near enemies. You can customise it to:
   • Display specific types of enemies or players.
   • Arrange enemies by type, distance, health, name, or level.
3. Menus
   In the bottom right corner of the screen, you’ll find the Menus and utilities. Clicking on the RavenQuest symbol opens and closes the menu, giving you access to various options including the Character Screen, Inventory, Infusions, Ravencards, Archetypes, Professions, Reputation, Aether Rifts, Transport, World Map, Quests, Adventurer’s Board, Rangers Company, Trade Pack List, Journal, Guild, Social List, Tutorial, RavenStore, and Settings.
4. Mini Map
   The Mini Map is located in the top right corner and includes several useful features:
   • Zoom in/out using the middle mouse button.
   • Displays the current zone and in-game time.
   • PvP mode toggle, house mode for land/farm management, battle list toggle, quest tracker, and the zoom function are accessible here as well.
5. PvP Mode
   From the mini map, you can toggle PvP Mode. This allows you to choose between offensive or peaceful PvP settings, though you can only attack or be attacked in zones that are under conflict or designated warzones.
6. Fast Teleport
   The Teleport to Raven Crest feature allows instant teleportation to the main city with a 4-hour cooldown, as long as you’re not in combat.
7. Server Channel
   Server Channels help manage the game’s population by splitting players into multiple instances. To change your channel, open the Channel Selector next to the mini map, select Switch Channel, and press Change Channels. This feature is especially useful if the area you’re in becomes too crowded. Keep in mind there is a 15-minute cooldown between channel switches. Note: You can only switch channels while in protection areas, such as the main city of Ravencrest. Additionally, you can use this system to switch to War Mode or Plunder Mode channels.
8. Hotkeys & Editing Them
   At the centre of the screen, you’ll see your abilities, quick slots, and Aether Meter. To add a skill to your hotbar, Open the Skill Menu (K). Click on a skill to learn it, then double-click it to add it to your hotbar. Once a skill is on your hotbar, you can drag it to a new position by holding the left mouse button. To customise your hotkeys, press ESC and select the Hotkey Menu to reassign inputs for each skill.

• Character & Progressions
  There are multiple level systems in RavenQuest that impact your character’s growth:
  • Legacy Level: This is the combined experience from all archetypes and determines what gear you can equip and what quests you unlock. It’s displayed in the main UI.
  • Archetype Level: Each archetype has its own level, which increases individually. Levelling up archetypes rewards you with extra skill points and attributes, so it’s beneficial to switch archetypes regularly to gain additional benefits. This can be viewed on the skill screen.
  • Effective Level: Your current character level, based on the combined levels of your active archetypes. This level determines your overall strength and helps you target enemies that match your power. You can see this on the skill screen next to your class.
• Inventory (I)
  Your inventory holds all the items you’ve collected from quests, gathering, and defeating enemies. You can purchase additional inventory slots at the bottom of your inventory window, and also access a Quest Tab, where quest-specific items such as keys, documents, tradepack certificates, Ravencrest Emblems, and Aether Essence Traps are stored. You can further upgrade your inventory by purchasing extra tabs, allowing better organisation.
• Equipment (X)
  Your equipment tab is found on the character screen. You can equip gear either by clicking it from your inventory or dragging it onto the corresponding equipment slot.

• Armor Types
  Armor comes in three types: plate, leather, and cloth. Equipping 2 or 4 pieces of the same type grants special bonuses. Plate gives you increased health, healing received and weapon defense. Leather increases crit chance and reduces crowd control effect duration on you, Cloth increases attack speed, spell defense and reduces casting time. For PvE content Plate is the most commonly used, with Cloth a bigger preference for PvP.
• Gear Tiers & Grades
  Gear in RavenQuest has no level caps, but wearing gear that exceeds your level results in a temporary reduction in stat benefits.
  • Gear is divided into 7 tiers. Tier 1 is basic gear with no attributes and tier 7 is top-tier gear with multiple primary and secondary attributes to enhance your character. All gear can be crafted by players.
  • Gear is also graded from 1 to 11, indicated by the border around the item. Higher-grade items provide better stats such as attack power, defense power, attributes, and sub-stats. Gear can be upgraded through infusion.
• Infusions (U)
  You will frequently loot infusions, which are items dropped by enemies. Infusions, along with silver, are used to improve the grade of your gear. To infuse an item, go to the Infusions menu (U), select the gear you want to upgrade, and choose the infusions you have available to increase the grade of that item. You can also use old gear or weapons as infusions to enhance your new equipment.
• Enchantment
  Enchantments are powerful runes that can be applied to your gear and weapons to enhance their performance. These runes can be purchased from specific NPCs associated with the Journal (J). Each piece of equipment can only have one enchantment at a time. While enchantments cannot be removed, they can be replaced by applying a new one to an already-enchanted item. Runes come in various types and tiers, offering a range of benefits, but they are non-tradable
• Jewellery (Rings/Necklace)
  You can equip one necklace and two rings. These items provide significant stat boosts. Jewellery can be obtained through quests or by increasing your reputation with the Rangers Company, which gives access to stronger items from the Munk Quartermaster located near bounty boards.
• Trinkets
  You can equip one trinket, which can be obtained through quests or the Rangers Company shop. Trinkets offer unique benefits such as summoning battle creatures, providing stat boosts, healing, or other niche effects. Explore the various trinket options to find the one that best suits your playstyle.
• Character Stats (X)
  Upon levelling up, you’ll receive 2 stat points to distribute among vitality, might, intelligence, dexterity, and wisdom. It’s best to match your stat allocation to your chosen weapon and abilities. Early on, you’ll focus primarily on one stat, but later on, you can diversify as you gain more attributes from levelling up and equipment.
• Attributes (X)
  Your attributes tab, found alongside your stats, shows a detailed breakdown of how your stats, gear, trinkets, and other elements affect your overall character performance. This includes your spell power, weapon power, defense, and more.
• Attack Power
  This value represents your total damage output. It’s a crucial stat that determines how much damage your attacks deal.
• Defense Points
  Your defense points determine your ability to mitigate incoming damage. A higher DP means more effective damage reduction.
• Mana
  Mana, represented by the blue bar above your character’s head and in the top left of the screen, is used to cast magic abilities.
• Health
  Your health is represented by the red bar above your character’s head and in the top left of the screen. Some abilities may also require a portion of your health to be used.
• Gaining Experience & Levelling Up
  Experience is earned in a variety of ways, including killing enemies, completing quests, crafting, and gathering. Legacy level has a soft cap of 75, after which the amount of experience required to level up increases significantly. While there is no hard cap, further progression provides diminishing returns. Archetype levels follow a similar system, with each archetype also soft capping at level 75, after which it becomes more difficult to level them up.
• Reputation (H)
  When interacting with NPCs and completing quests, you’ll sometimes encounter dialogue options that affect your reputation as order, mercenary, or criminal. Your reputation unlocks various options, including different quest rewards and access to special NPC dialogue.
  You also earn general reputation points, which can be spent in the reputation menu to unlock buffs affecting combat, economy, movement, and crafting. To progress through the reputation system, you must purchase perks from each line before unlocking the next. Reputation can be reset using Dawn Essence, but the cost increases with the more perks you’ve spent.
• Artifacts (J)
  Artifacts are collectible items and tasks obtained through story quests, events, exploration, NPC interactions, and rare creature drops. You’ll find them in your journal menu. Collecting artifacts provides various benefits, such as unlocking docks, shops, respawn shrines, workshops, secret dungeons, and hidden locations. One of the most valuable artifact rewards is access to rune enchantments.

• Combat
  In RavenQuest, combat uses a tab-target tile system. To engage in combat, you need to right-click on enemies to begin auto-attacking or press tab to target a nearby enemy. From there, you can use abilities to deal additional damage, protect yourself, heal, or apply crowd control effects to enemies. For faster targeting, you can enable Quick Targeting in the Settings menu (O), which helps you automatically target enemies that are attacking you.
• Melee Combat
  Melee combat involves using close-range weapons and abilities to deal damage or defend against enemies. Positioning is key, and many melee abilities will have area-of-effect (AoE) components or buffs that enhance your survivability.
  
• Magic and Ranged Combat
  Magic and ranged combat allow you to attack from a distance, using spells or ranged weapons to damage enemies before they get close. Magic users can harness elemental forces, while ranged combatants, such as archers, can keep enemies at bay using disengage abilities and snares.
  
• Skills and Abilities (K)
  With RavenQuest’s multi-archetype system, you can choose from a variety of skills and passives to create your ideal playstyle. As you level up each archetype, you’ll earn skill points that can be used to unlock abilities. Stronger skills require more skill points to unlock, so managing your points is key to unlocking powerful abilities.
• Choosing Abilities
  The choice of abilities is entirely up to you, and you can unlock them in any order that suits your build. To maximise your effectiveness, focus on abilities that synergise with your weapon and character playstyle.
• Hotbar Abilities
  Once you unlock an ability, it needs to be placed on your hotbar to use it in combat. If you have more abilities than can fit on one bar, you can add additional hotbars by going to Settings (O) > Windows and Ability Bars and selecting more bars for better organisation.
• Passives
  For every 5 skill points spent in a single archetype, you can unlock passive abilities, which cost 3 skill points each. Passives offer permanent or conditional bonuses that activate automatically, such as increased damage, reduced cooldowns, or defensive buffs.
• Blocking/Dodging
  In RavenQuest, there is no active blocking mechanic. Instead, you must rely on abilities, buffs, and passives that reduce incoming damage or absorb it. Dodging is not a general mechanic either, but it can be done through specific abilities, such as the Illusive ability available to the Shadow Archetype.
• Interrupting & Crowd Control
  Some skills can interrupt enemies while they are casting, allowing you to disrupt their attacks. Additionally, many abilities offer crowd control options like slows, snares, or even stuns. These are essential when dealing with groups of enemies. Certain crowd control effects can also be enhanced by equipping specific RavenCards.
• Looting
  Looting is automatic in RavenQuest, so you don’t need to manually collect items. Everything you loot from enemies or events will automatically be added to your inventory (I).
• Supplybags
  As you gain experience from hunting enemies, crafting, and gathering, you’ll receive Supplybags. These bags can contain valuable items like silver, Dawn Essence, Moa Rations, and, on rare occasions, Tradepack Certificates and Aether Echo Scrolls. Supplybags come in three rarities, with the rarer ones offering significantly better rewards.
• Death
  When you die in RavenQuest, you incur an experience debt. A portion of your experience is lost, and you must earn back this experience before you can start gaining new experience. You also have the option to pay silver to clear your experience debt. The amount of debt and the cost to clear it increases with your character level.

• Quests (L)
  Quests play a critical role in RavenQuest, not only for the rewards but also for gaining experience, silver, reputation, and infusions. Some quests are legacy level-locked, meaning you must reach a certain legacy level before you can access them.
• Finding a Quest
  You can find available quests by looking at your World Map (M), where quests are marked with an orange exclamation mark. This symbol indicates quests that are currently available for your level.
• Interacting with NPCs
  To interact with an NPC, approach them and press F. NPCs will offer you quests or give important information needed to progress.
• Starting a Quest
  Speak to the NPC and follow the dialogue options to receive your quest or mission. Pay attention to the task, as you’ll need to complete it to earn rewards.
• Jensens Key
  In one of the early quests, Jensen loses his key. You can find the key by interacting with the bush nearby, which will allow you to continue with the quest.
• Completing a Quest (L)
  When completing a quest, it’s important to pay attention to your surroundings. The quest icon will mark the destination, but the task may require you to travel through underground passages, higher ground, or tunnels. Always read the Quest log (L) for detailed instructions on how to complete the quest. After finishing the task, return to the NPC to hand it in and claim your reward. Be mindful of the dialogue at the end of quests, as your choices may affect the rewards you receive.
• Rangers Company (B)
  The Rangers Company becomes available at level 15. After completing the introductory quest, you gain access to the Rangers Company mission boards. These boards are found at outposts scattered around the world, offering three region-based enemy hunting tasks. To complete these tasks, you’ll need to kill enemies in the relevant area and gather experience.
  Completing missions earns you prestige points, which increase your rank within the Rangers Company, and bounty marks. Higher ranks unlock more powerful items in the Rangers Company store, while bounty marks can be used to purchase these items.
  Additionally, you gain creature expertise, which provides various benefits such as increased damage or defense against certain creature types. These benefits can be viewed on the Rangers Company menu by pressing the B shortcut, where you’ll also see your current Ranger Company rank and a weekly leaderboard.
• North Star Quests
  North Star Quests are automatically triggered legacy level objectives. You’ll be tasked with reaching certain level goals, and upon completion, you will receive rewards such as silver, infusions, and dawn essence.
• Dynamic Events
  One of the highlights of RavenQuest is its dynamic world events. These events occur randomly across the world and require players to work together to complete objectives. Regardless of whether you are above or below the suggested level for an event, you can scale to the event’s level by pressing the green arrow and earn rewards. Your contribution is tracked with a green bar, while the contributions of other players are shown by a purple bar
• Selling & Buying from NPC’s and Shops
  You can sell junk items for silver. Look for NPC Xeniad in Ravencrest, near the gate to the Slums. They will buy junk creature products that currently don’t have any other use in the game. Additionally, you can sell junk items to any Munk Quartermaster NPC, found near Rangers Company bounty boards across the world.
• Buying & Selling Jewellery & Trinkets
  Jewellery or trinkets obtained from quests or purchased from the Rangers Company shop can be sold to NPC Mercier at Glademire Fort for bounty marks. This is useful for offloading items you no longer need. You can also buy items from Mercier using silver and bounty marks, which is particularly helpful if you lose an item or need to obtain an item from a quest where you had to choose between multiple rewards.
• Bank NPC
  You can store items with the Bank NPC in Ravencrest or by using a storage chest in your house.

• Travel & Transport (Y)
  In RavenQuest, you can travel using several methods. One way is through Respawn Shrines for fast travel. Stand on a Waypoint, press F to open the waypoint menu, and select a destination to travel there. Some waypoints are locked until you reach the required legacy level or complete certain artifact journals. You can also use the Mini Map button to fast travel to Ravencrest, but this has a 4-hour cooldown.
• Mounts
  The only mounts in RavenQuest are Moas, obtained early in the game through the Mortal Enemies Quest. You can only have one active mount at a time, and they cannot be used in combat. You can breed Moas on your land to get higher-tier mounts.
• Levelling Your Moa
  Your Moa has a bond level with you, which increases its stats and provides additional bonuses as it levels up. You can increase your Moa’s level by feeding it Moa Rations while riding. Additionally, you can further boost your bond by giving your Moa treats while riding, which can be obtained from Supplybags.
• Moa Gear
  Moas can be equipped with gear that enhances stats such as speed and strength. To equip Moa gear, access your transport menu by pressing Y, where you can manage your mount’s equipment and barding. Moa gear can either be purchased from the Market or crafted through the Weaving profession. Once crafted, the gear can be assembled into usable Moa equipment by visiting NPC Jareer, located at the south exit of Ravencrest.
• Moa Rations
  Rations can be purchased from NPC Jebediah at the south exit of Ravencrest, but it’s generally more cost-effective to craft them yourself or buy them from the market.
• Wagons
  Wagons are used to transport multiple tradepacks between trade posts for silver. After completing the Lighthouse Keeper quest in Barnsley, you’ll receive wagon parts. Visit a Wagon Crafter NPC in Ravencrest or Barnsley to craft your first wagon. Wagons have limited health and tradepack capacity. Be cautious—wagons can be attacked, and tradepacks can be stolen. You can upgrade wagons via the Carpentry profession.
• Using a Wagon
  To use your wagon, press CTRL + RMB on your character, select create wagon, then get on wagon.
• Ships
  Ships are useful for transporting tradepacks, exploring new areas, ocean fishing, and naval combat. You’ll get your first ship through The Reliant Shipwright Quest after defeating The Mountain King. Upgrades are required to carry tradepacks, and each ship part is upgraded individually. Visit a Ship Builder NPC near the docks in Ravencrest to upgrade your ship. To equip new parts, access the transport menu, select your ship, and manage the parts. Ships are PvP-enabled while in ocean areas, and you may encounter sea creatures during your travels.

• Professions – Gathering and Crafting
  RavenQuest offers a wide range of professions, including fishing, carpentry, weaving, cooking, breeding, mining, woodcutting, farming, blacksmithing, herbalism, alchemy, and husbandry.
• Where to Craft
  The main hub for crafting is Ravencrest, where you’ll find all the necessary crafting benches. However, you can also find crafting stations scattered throughout the world. Additionally, if you own a house, you can craft there, which gives you a slight crafting buff.
• Crafting Skill lines
  Crafting professions include carpentry, weaving, cooking, blacksmithing, alchemy, and breeding:
  • Weaving: Craft cloth gear, leather gear, housing items, Moa equipment, and ship modules.
  • Blacksmithing: Create weapons, plate armor, fishing items, housing items, Moa equipment, and ship modules.
  • Carpentry: Used for housing items, weapons, fishing rods, ship crafting, and wagons.
  • Cooking: Make meals, drinks, and food that provide stat buffs and regeneration, as well as Moa food.
  • Breeding: Breed Moa mounts to create higher-tier and rare mounts.
  • Alchemy: Craft potions and elixirs that provide strong buffs to your character.
• Finding Materials
  Materials are scattered across the world. Early on, you can easily gather resources from your community farm, while exploring will uncover ore, trees, mushrooms, and plants. Fishing is another gathering option. Gatherable materials are marked by icons specific to the profession they belong to.
• Refining raw materials
  To refine materials like ore, logs, or hair into usable resources such as ingots, planks, or cloth, you’ll need to use a workbench.
• Creating & Crafting new Items
  Interact with a crafting bench by pressing F, then select the item you wish to craft. If you have enough materials, press Craft Item. A crafting progress bar will appear, and you’ll need to use the Synthesis ability to fill it and complete the crafting process.
• Deconstructing Items
  You can deconstruct unwanted items into Dawn Essence. Visit NPC Selenia between the bank and market in Ravencrest to deconstruct gear. Similarly, if you have unwanted Moas from breeding, speak to Marcus Goldfeather to trade them for Dawn Essence.
• Community Land
  For players without land, the community farm is an excellent place to practice farming, husbandry, and breeding. It’s located to the right of Ravencrest—look for the brown square of land on your map.
• Housing Mode & Editing
  While at the community farm or your own land, you can place new items by using the Toggle House Mode button located on the mini-map. This menu allows you to buy crops, animals, and trees and place them on your farm.
• Farming
  Farming provides valuable resources that can be used for crafting, selling, or making Tradepacks. You can plant crops, raise animals, and plant trees. These actions run on timers and require regular care such as watering and feeding until they are ready for harvest.
• Harvesting
  To harvest crops or resources, press F to interact with the item, then press on potatoes to harvest. A mini-game will appear where you need to press F at the right time to stop a bar in the green zone, speeding up the harvest process.
• Effort Points
  Land activities require Effort Points, which are earned by killing enemies and completing quests. Every 100 XP earned equals 1 effort point, which can be used for farming and other activities.