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A newbie guide to EL MACROING

Yes, yes, you read right. I know, I know, macroing is wrong...

Says who?

With this post, I am not encouraging you to cheat. You're old enough to decide what's right or wrong, what's morally acceptable and what makes you feel like throwing up. In case you're not old enough to decide, then stop reading. Anyway, it's not a guide to build an atomic bomb, just some hints on how to macro a game... The worst thing that could happen to you if they got you macroing, would be to ban you from EL... Imagine how much time you would have to play better games!!

Here is the fact: Eternal Lands is a game that's specially prone to being macroed (and other cheats of the kind). I know well established players who multiplay (discreetly) from time to time. With the new rules they try to implement, as they squeeze their brains to try to get some bucks from the players (guild storages, bots, p2p races, and so on and so forth), the player base moves a step forward.

Macroing consists, basically, on having your computer doing things for you. Macroing could be extended to almost any game, and any circumstance, but it has to be done wisely!

My point of view, is that if I can use my computer to save me from getting arthritis in my finger after so much clicking-mixing, then that's fine. So today, I am going to show you how to use a macro to do simple things in Eternal Lands. If you want to move on to more complicated stuff, do your own research. If they get you macroing, don't accuse me! You probably weren't swift enough.

The 1st step: You need a program to macro with! There are some FREE programs available, such as AutoHotkey, which is the one I'll use for this example (it's not necessarily the best one, NOT EVEN the one I use).

There are MANY more, some of which you have to pay for. I think Autohotkey is rather easy to use for non experienced macroers. If you have any other suggestions, leave a comment!


When you download Autohotkey (it's a very light download), you'll download these programs along with it:

-Autoit3 Window Spy, which gives information about screen and the position of your cursor in it.
-AutoScriptwriter, which is a handy tool, in case you don't want to learn the scripting language used by Autohotkey. It will simply record your movements and translate them into Autohotkey orders, so that you don't have to write the scripts manually.

In order to create a script, DIY style, do these two things:

-Open your text editor.
-Open Autoit3 Window Spy.
-Get your EL open.
-Try to put your food, and the mixing window, always in the same position, so that you don't have to readjust the scripts all the time.

Allright, here is how a very simple macroing script for EL could look like in your text editor:

#f::

click 290,767
click 350,886
sleep, delay 18270
click 350,886

Let's translate it:

A) TRIGGER THE SCRIPT

#f::

This order would trigger this script if, and only if, you pressed
+ the "f" key. This is; it wouldn't bugger you if you were doing other things while playing.


B) EAT!
click 290,767

This order would place the mouse in that position, and click (in this example, this would be where you could happen to have your food ) .

C) MIX!

click 350,886
sleep, delay 18270
click 350,886

This batch would drive your mouse to the click 350,886 position and click on it. Of course, this could represent where you have your mix button.

The sleep, delay order, would separate the time between clicks in the amount of time specified (in this example, 18270). This would give EL time to stop mixing (either because of critical fails, or for completion of the task) before restarting the task.

Some other things I want to make clear:

This is a very simple guide, and a very badly explained one at it. Fortunately for you, any macroing software you download (including Autohotkey) comes with very handy step-by-step tutorials. Invest a little bit of your time in them, 'cause this will enable you to save time afterwards.

You can macro to do everything you dream of: You could move your character around (by using the map), without having to watch it pleasantly walking thru tiles you've seen a thousand times.

Harvesting events were done to prevent people from macroing... In principle. As long as you have the map of the place where you are (or a blank one), even teleport nexuses won't prevent you from anything.

Well, levelling this wayALL THE TIME in a MMORPG makes it pointless. But you can use it while you're cooking, or while you have to study, or while you're chatting with a nice EL player (there are many of those).

Feedback, comments, and insults, welcome.

Another secret place contribution, and more updates on the way.

An anonymous contributor wants to let us know about the location of a secret room in Tirnym. This is what you have to do to get there:

Ruins of Tirnym

Go through the gate at 33, 90. First use the lantern lying on the floor (left). You will be teleported behind the first barrier. By using the bone you will get behind the second barrier. After that use the violet sword. Congratulations, you found a secret room. (anyone's got an idea what to do there?)

, contributor!

Tin and copper harvesting

This list will be updated slowly (have RL things to do):


TIN:

-Idaloran mines
-Palon Vertas, NE mine (the mine that leads to the "ghost" blacksmith house).
UPDATE! - Morcraven Marsh, southern/gold cave

To harvest this item, you need an IRON SWORD!
You need to have read the book Tin Mining, which can be bought (as usual) in Naralik, for 20000 gc.


COPPER:

-Idaloran mines.

To harvest this item, you need Matter Conglomerate (80 Earth Essences+ 25 Matter Essences).
You also need to read the appropriate book, which can be bought at the same place as before, and for the same price.

If you want to share other locations with us, leave your comment!

Red dragon guide

This guide was sent by one of ELCHEATS marvellous (and anonymous) contributors :

Here are the items you need before you can see the red dragon.

1. 1 gold coin
2. One piece of leather that offers heat protection (helmet, body, pants, or boots)

The red dragon is on north redmoon island. First download these 2 maps from el-cel:

http://www.el-cel.com/info/Images/maps/cont2map15_caves.bmp
http://www.el-cel.com/info/Images/maps/cont2map15_mountain.bmp

On the north redmoon map you should see a large mountain and a trail. Go to the trail and you should see a arrow sign. Use it. Proceed using the map and go up to the volcano.

Once inside the volcano go to the main el directory and make a new elm file called cont2map15_caves and save it with a .elm extension. Now copy and paste these coordinates into it:

110 88 1
156 86 2
334 48 3
115 246 4

In the volcano go to these coordinates in order. On the forth coordinate use your 1 gold coin you brought along on the praying statue in front of you. You enter the treasure room. To exit look on the map from el-cel and use the praying translucent statue.

Happy Dragon hunting!!!

Related: How to add your own coordinates to Eternal Lands' maps

Look cool for free!

A contributor sends me the following trick to get the look you always wanted w/o paying a single cent.

Tired of your greenish cape? Then try another one on!!! Want to be a P2P race? Then just do it.

Here is what you have to do:

-Locate your ETERNAL LANDS folder in your hard drive.
-Find the file you want to change, and the file you want to change it with.

For instance, capes, races and clothes are in MESHES... Just explore around a bit, and choose the "file preview" option in your folder, so that you can just visually spot what you're looking for.

-Copy and paste into a txt document, or simply write down, the files' names. They should be "EXACTLY" the same, so bear this in mind and do not modify a single letter.

-Right click on the 1st file whose name you want to exchange. Choose "change name". Paste the name of the other file. Do the same thing with the other file.

SUMMARIZING: SIMPLY EXCHANGE THE FILES NAMES.

With this method, you can:

-Put on better clothes.
-Change your look/race.
-Change your cloaks color.
-Change your hairs color.
-Use better weapons and armor.
-Turn Roja's statue into a Yeti's.

The disadvantages are:

-If you change the look of a very usual cape like, say, excavator cloak, you will see a lot of people wearing it!

-You will be the only one who sees the changes, as well as anybody playing EL in your computer, so it's not valid if you want to show off officially.

-The changes are just visual, and not effective in the game itself. Therefore, keep what you're doing secret!!

BrOD, what for?

1. Branch of destruction.

Our mighty BRoD is quite a controversial item. It will maybe grant more visits to EL shop. It's quite expensive to buy, but pays off really quickly, when you can screw up many people's efforts (and ) with one single hit!!! (just ask DonPedro)


The result is: EL's PK is kinda screwed up now!!! YAY!!!

Secret Yeti's cave

Yeti's cave

A contributor sends me the coordinates of a Yeti's cave in Irinveron:

iriveron 710 146

More secrets:

Secret place list 3
Secret place list 2
Secret place list 1
Get to C2
Get to Roanoff
Grahm's Village shop maze solved


Please bear in mind that secrets in EL sometimes come and go.

---For those who dislike me posting secrets... Don't read them, ok? And anyway, what are you doing here? If Roja ever knew...

My Hype

This is the hype I made for Eternal Lands in MMORPG.com. I know many people will agree with me:

((SUMMARY OF MY OPINION: Don't waste your time with this crappy
click fest. ))

My opinion (extended version):

Things that make Eternal Lands worth playing:

* A lot of nice community members
* An acceptably big world to explore and discover
* Most of it is free

Things that make Eternal Lands not worth playing:

*CRAPPY graphics.
* EL is forever and ever under development.
* The developers are the personification of ARROGANCE, and treat their player base like SHIT!
* FREE? Unless you want: A cool race, a bot, a guild, certain items that almost never appear in game... For all those things you DO have to pay a fee.
* If you die, you lose part of your stuff.
*Not so many creatures/monsters, so that spawns are always crowded.
* The isometric view gets very annoying, specially if you have to scroll in and out and left and right, to guess where your target is among tons of tree branches, and hit it.
* Movement in Eternal Lands is slooow, and running is (of course) not possible.
* The levelling system in Eternal Lands is problematic. Not because it is slow, which it is, but because it takes ages of dumbily sitting and clicking the "use" button to mix, blend, create, and some more other ages to run around clicking on creatures, hopping to hit your target (as I mentioned before, a nervebreaking task). Some more ages, nevertheless, are required to harvest items. SUMMARIZING: A CLICK-FEST
* The market system in Eternal Lands is completely out of control. Many players complain about this, but no solution is given.
* Some mods/admins/devs think of themselves as demi-gods.
* Watch out what you mention and to whom, you'll get (at least) censored, and sometimes banned from the game, if a mod dislikes your topic.
* The possibility to customize your character is very limited. Not many options given. 3 races are free, but for the other 3 races you DO have to pay (let's not call it donate, donating is voluntary, and this is not the case).
* Locating secret places and C2 can also drive anybody nuts. They are not placed in any logical way, and that requires the player to either be told about the secret place by a merciful player, either run around clicking on anything they see... A brick in the wall, a stone in the ground...

The reason to play Eternal Lands, is basically having an old computer that is UNABLE to handle bigger games, like the magnificent (AND FREE) Shadowbane, Rubies of Eventide or Planeshift.

If you play Eternal Lands and like it, it is because (IMO):

-You haven't played it for a long time.
-You already clicked your way to a high level, and don't want to waste you effort.
-You haven't got to know Entropy&CO.
-You feel too much attached to your guild mates.
-You think that THAT is all a f2p MMORPG can offer.

Please, browse this crappy web, and you'll find links to other REALLY GOOD free MMORPG. When you try them, tell me what you think (if you still have Eternal Lands in your mind, by then).

Blodoks' ultimate cup of tea: Summoning stones

As you know, summoning stones have been implemented... How original! This post will be updated as I am further informed on the issue.

_________

Where can you get the Summoning Stones books?

The NPC (Nahark) can be found in Grubani peninsula 68,116.

_________

Prices for the books
(might vary according to His Almighty's state of mind)

Giant Spider Stone Construction 6000 Gold

Tiger Stone Construction 6000 Gold

Phantom Warrior Stone Construction 10000 Gold

Fluffy Stone Construction 15000 Gold

Sslessar Stone Construction 20000 Gold

Yeti Stone Construction 25000 Gold

Giant Stone Construction 35000 Gold

Keywords: Summoning stones construction books eternal lands mmorpg game videogame rpg summoners summon

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, ELCHEATS READERS!

Improve your fighting experience

What follows are just some pieces of advice. Follow them at your own risk! (and... you can always state your disagreement in the comments). Let's go:

How to maximize your defense and take less hits.

This is the armor suit for you if you like dodging:

Greaves
Leather pants
Leather armor
Iron helm
Steel shield
Unicorn medallion

This gives no defense penalties and the unicorn med and steel shield raise your defense a +11. If you take a sword, it will probably also raise your defense by a bit. I usually take a tit short for cyclops and it gives me another +2 defense for a +13 total.

Minimizing damage.

If you're fighting a monster for hunting that is still strong for you, you might want to reduce the damage to the lowest you can.

This is the suggested armor for this case:

Platemail
Greaves
Cuisses
Steel shield
Moon medallion
Iron helm

This set of armor gives you an armor value of 17/24 reducing your damage by a big number already.

Info on hitting and your dealt damage.

If fighting monsters or PKing you probably like to do a decent amount of damage or just start off by hitting it already.

Swords: Swords increase accuracy and damage, also increase the chance of scoring a critical hit. Next to that they also add to your defenses. It is suggested your use swords for a high accuracy and hit rate.

Axes: The highest damage dealt in EL (not counting magic weapons) is dealt by axes. Their damage reaches great heights and makes them a weapon to be afraid of. HOWEVER they do not increase accuracy. It is very hard to hit someone using axes, but they score nice hits which make up for the lower hit rate. Also watch out for the little defense penalty they give you. Suggest you use a moon med for the accuracy if you're wielding an axe.

Hammers: Like the axes, these weapons deal great damage. But it is highly suggested you use another weapon then an axe. Their damage may be high BUT they also decrease your defense, accuracy and critical to hit/damage. If you use them, a moon med for the accuracy is suggested and a steel shield to make up for the defense penalty.

Staffs: A nice weapon, gives you an increase in accuracy, defense and critical to hit, but lowers your critical to damage rate. They are also the only 2-handed weapon in the game. This does disallow you to carry a shield with you, thus making you easier hit by the monster/player you're fighting. Suggest you take a unicorn medallion with this weapon to make up for not wearing a shield.

Armor affecting your hit rate.

Always take a close look at your armor before taking it along, I have checked the plate items, most do not affect your hit rate but the platemail will decrease your accuracy and critical to hit. Chains also decrease your accuracy by 1 and your critical to hit by 1. Steel shields decrease your accuracy and critical to hit by 2, as do the iron shields.

Some more tips:

Mirror cloaks are the worst for training, they take away 10% of your attack exp and are expensive losses when they break.

Steel chains have the same armor value as degraded platemail/titanium chain. We suggest you sell whatever titanium chain you got and get some steel chains, because even when not degraded the difference is small.

Announcement: A character for sale

An Eternal Lands player, whose identity shall not be disclosed, wants to sell an Eternal Lands character that was used mainly for harvesting.

The character would be exchanged for ingame GC (around 1ook gc).

The character has read a lot on harvesting...

If you want more info, email me at elcheats (at) yahoo.com, and I'll put you in touch with the seller. Your identities shall by no means be revealed (not by me, at least).

The new vial seller

We all know Harvy is a most despicable NPC, always asking for quartz and money in exchange for his short-lived vials.

Now getting vials is less of a pain in the ass.

The new vial seller is in Melinis (C2) 250 125. 5gc for each vial!

Keywords: Eternal Lands, MMORPG,vials,harvy,potions

Skills Schools

Schools have been implemented in Eternal Lands, so that now they give double experience when practising inside them. The disadvantage is that you'll get no item, and certainly the food cost is maintained.

This is a list I've tried to gather with most of the schools. There might be mistakes to it. Please correct them and/or contribute new ones, by sending me an email to elcheatsyahoo.com or leaving a comment.

Let's go:

General Skills School: GLACMOR

Desert pines - Alchemy School~26,113

- WHITESTONE - - Alchemy School - 705,568

PORTLAND Manu/Potion School - 272,263 (corrected: 96 105. Thanx, contributor!)

Morcraven Marsh Potion School - 186,161

TG MAGIC SCHOOL See map

Zyrilik's School of Magic - NARALIK

TIRNYM Magic School~33.92

TRASSIAN -cave- 118 183 - Dragonai Fighting School --Ancient Draegoni School of Fighting, Trassian Caves - 669, 403 and 690, 401

Arius Teleporter to Magic School ~ 180,60
- North Door ~Magic School Garden 86,275

Glacmor crafting school 261,218

Keywords: Schools location, Eternal Lands, MMORPG, games, online games, skills, levelling

Harvesters Heaven

A contributor tells us about a very interesting spot for harvesting:

Harvesters Heaven contains many harvesting items. You could stay in there forever making ME's and there is fruits and veggies to.

1. Go to Zirakinbar.
2. Go inside Azaghal Castle (warning! there are monsters inside)
3. Walk to the very back and walk through the second black arch
4. Use the sword in the gargs hand and you enter the throne room.
5. Go through the portal in the back of the throne room
6. Walk through the place with lava and go in the teleportal

To Exit
1. Go through the teleportal
2. Exit with the door.

Thanks a lot for sharing this with us, contributor!

Keywords: Hot spots, Magic Essence, alchemy, harvesting, Eternal LAnds, MMORPG, zirakinbar

Secret Place list -3

Dear readers,

due to more contributions I've been receiving, I want to offer a 3rd list of Secret Places you can find in Eternal Lands.

Related links:

• Secret Place list, 1
• Secret Place list, 2
• Get to C2 (Irillion)
• Get to Roanof
  
• Grahm's village shop maze solved

Here we go:

Get to Dra Syn (in Trassian) without Teleport to Range:
When you are in Trassian, go to 185 168. Then use all the bricks on the second row from the bottom of that wall you are standing next to. One of them will take you to a cave. you'll have to follow a stone path, until you get to the point where the path divides. Then take the east way. Walk next to the table and chairs to the east of where you are, then go northeast until you get to a cave entrance. Get into it. Now get to the coordinates 660 690, and get into the teleporter you'll be standing next to. You'll appear in Dra Syn. Mind you! There are Yetis there.


Trassian Library (Fast Read)
To get to the Trassian library you need to get to Dra Syn first, by Teleporting to Range or following the instructions above. Once in Dra Syn, go to 38 97 and click the Tri Caves entrance in front of you. Go east across the arch, and then take the south path. Exit through that cave into the Knights Hall. Follow the 'mystical' blue path until you come to a junction. Take the east route; it will lead you to another cave entrance. When you enter this cave you will be in the Great Library of the Draegoni. Now just keep walking east until you come to some long tables. If you sit at one of these tables you will read 5 times faster.

Desert Pines Fast Reading Area
Please refer to Secret Place list nº2

Isla Prima Fast Regeneration Spot
On IP there is a fast regeneration mud mound at 20,130.

Bethel Fast Regeneration Spot
Fast regeneration area at 13,122.

Secret Veggie Harvesting in WS
On WS theres a fireplace at 268,434. You will see pillars and a lantern/green leave. Zoom in and you'll be able to harvest vegetables there.

Did you find these hints useful? Do not hesitate to comment, or email me! Thanx for contributing.

Grahm's Village Maze solution!

I'm sure you already know that there's a magic room, to which you can access through Grahm's Village Magic shop, in Whitestone (WS).

Let me remind you where it is:

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--WS, Grahms Village magic shop. Behind counter, on a shelf, two books lie. Use the black book and you'll get to a secret room.

Source: Secret Place list, part 1.

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Tired of trying to get to the end of that absurd maze? Just follow this key:

And the thumbnail:

Keywords:Eternal Lands, MMORPG, online games, Magic Shop, Whitestone, WS, secret area, maze s0lved.

The Roanof Isle mistery disclosed

Entrance: 220 339 in Tarsengaard-

Take a pickaxe with you. You'll be in front of a tree in the water. Use your pickaxe with the tree ("use with" icon).

Once in Roanof, you'll see a boar, a spider, emeralds (336 330) and fruit (282 352).

Fruit is necessary to get out of Roanof.

Exit: 334 304 - click with fruit on the tree in the water ("use with" icon".

For the anonymous contributor who sent me this,

Keywords: Eternal Lands, how to get to Roanof, Roanoff island, the way to Roanof, secret places, MMORPG.

Related Links:
-Secret Place list
-Secret Place list 2
-Get to C2 now