Game Window

Main part of Tibia screen is occupied by Game Window. This is area which the most of time you are looking at. All your adventures, talks with your friends, other players or NPCs, and also battles with creatures or other players are visible here.

When there is a night or you are in the underground caves, depending of the Ambient Light option in settings, you can also see a darkness or even completely black areas of the Game Window.

Messages
When playing Tibia you have to read many messages in the Game Window. You can distinguish type of one from the other by the color or position.



When apropriate option in settings is turned on, all players, NPCs or creatures have their name and/or HP amount (in form of short horizontal line) shown above their character. This can be also switched by Ctrl+N shortcut key (see description of shortcut keys further in this article). Color of this name and/or line is dependent of that how many HP has a given player or creature (NPCs cannot be attacked, thus they have always full HP) and is:


 * green - when there is at least 60% of maximal amount of HP (Hit Points),


 * yellow - when HP is between 30% and 60% of maximal HP amount,


 * red - when HP is less than 30% of maximal HP amount,


 * deep red, when HP is close to 0 (the player or creature is almost dying).

Messages that players or NPCs talk or yells to other are shown in yellow color near the person who said or yeld anything. Such messages also appear in Default channel in console under the Game Window.

Messages that players write to your character privately are shown in cyan color at the middle of the Game Window. Such messages also appear in Private Chat Channels in console under the Game Window.

Sounds that are produced by creatures and also players (when they are eating food or drinking) are shown in orange color near that creature or player.

When there is a player, item, creature or another object which you are looking at (see description of the commands further), the text describing that object is shown in green color at the middle of the Game Window.

Some events messages such as advances to next level or skill, and also some special game events (like raids of specific creatures on the towns) are shown in white color at the middle of the Game Window.

There are also some messages for your character to let you know what's going on ("Sorry, not possible", "First go upstairs", "You are poisoned" etc.) that are shown in white color at the bottom of the Game Window.

Sometimes it appears a special message from server or from Gamemaster who want to broadcast it to all players, then it's shown in red color at the middle of the Game Window.

Depending of settings these messages can also appear in the console under the Game Window.

Players or creatures can be shown in a square border (look at the picture below) of color:


 * orange - when you are attacking them;


 * green - when you are following them;


 * white - when you are holding a mouse pointer over its name in Battle Window;


 * black - when they are just attacking you.

Battles
When you encounter a creature or another player (on PvP world) - you can attack him. Then the both of them (you and that who was attacked) are fighting against the other. See description of the commands further in this article to know how to attack the creature or another player.



During the fight, if appropriate option in settings is turned on, it appears a number above creature or player who is getting a damage from the other. The number indicates how much HP is taken by a hit. And the color of this number indicates type of the damage:


 * red - when it's a Physical Damage (it appears a blood under creature or player, too),


 * green - when it's a Magical Damage of a poison,


 * orange - when it's a Magical Damage of a fire,


 * cyan - when it's a Magical Damage of an energy,


 * blue - when it's any type of damage, but a Druid or Sorcerer or Paladin who is being attacked, is protected by mana shield (it appears a blue circle on the player, too). This means, that hit takes his mana, not HP.

Additionally, when the player or creature is poisoned, it burns or is electrified, every few seconds it looses some amount of HP or mana (when turned mana shield) and for short time it appears a poison, fire or energy under it.

When a hit is succesfully blocked by a shield, it appears a "poof" (cloud) over the creature or player who was blocked. When a hit is missed, it's shown as yellow lines (Spark) over that creature or player.

After a creature or other player was killed, when the winner (in fact, all of them when there was more than one - the same goes for the summons) gets an experience points, it appears a white number above him.

Commands
Anytime when no dialog window is opened, you can perform some commands on visible objects in the Game Window. For example: you can Attack a creature or other player (on PvP world), Use an object (or Use with another object) or only Look at it, also Follow another player or Trade with him some items, Set outfit of your character and so on.



So, you can:


 * Look - see and read description and/or parameters of any object (also read blackboards at the walls or signs by the roads or in the caves, or grave signs in the graveyards);
 * Use - do a certain default action on an object (open the door, climb up on the ladder, eat the food, read the book or letter etc.);
 * Use with... - do a certain action on an object with another one (the mouse pointer turns into a gunsight and you must left click target object; examples: use key with door to unlock it, use rope with a rope point to climb up, use vial with water to fill);
 * Trade with... - do a Safe Trade with another player (the mouse pointer turns into a gunsight and you must left click target player);
 * Attack - begin the battle with a creature or player (on PvP world) - see section above about battles;
 * Stop Attack - stop attacking the creature or player;
 * Follow - walk automatically behind other player, NPC (or even creature), anywhere he goes;
 * Stop follow - stop following the player, NPC or creature;
 * Message to nick - send private message to this player (this can open a new channel in the console);
 * Ignore nick - don't see player's messages (ignore them);
 * Unignore nick - stop ignore player's messsages;
 * Invite to Party - invite another player to the party (see: Party to read about it and other available commands);
 * Set outfit - set external look of your character in Tibia (see also: Outfits);
 * Copy Name - copy the name of the player or creature into the clipboard.

You can move your character by left clicking into selected position in Game Window, if it is a floor, ground, grass etc. Your character then try to automatically find the best (shortest and fastest) way for him and then will try to go, unless there is no way.

You can also move items and push creatures (however not all can be pushed) or players (see: Wrestling) by pressing left mouse button on them in Game Window, then dragging a mouse pointer (it turns into a gunsight) to the target position, and finally releasing mouse button. Items can be moved into your inventory or into containers that you have open (windows on the right of the Game Window), eg. into your backpack or into a box which stands on the floor.

When you are moving items that are stackable (eg. food, money, worms etc.), after release mouse button at target position Move Objects dialog window appears, where you can select how many pieces of that item you want to move. Moreover, you can quickly move (without displaying Move Objects dialog window) one or all pieces at a time of that item when during dragging it you are holding a key:
 * Shift - for one piece,
 * Ctrl - for all pieces.

Depending of Tibia Classic Control option in settings there are two ways to perform of commands listed above.

Tibia Classic Control: on
You can right click on the object (eg. item, door, ladder etc.) to Use it or, if that clicked object is a creature or player (on PvP world), to Attack him. This is quite fast method to perform actions, however it may lead to expensive mistakes (eg. when you accidentally attack another player on PvP world, who is much better skilled than you).

You can click both left and right mouse buttons on any object to Look at this.

When you press and hold Ctrl key and during it you click on any object with any mouse button - a context menu shows up, which contains all needed commands of that clicked object. This is needed, for example to perform Safe Trade or change your outfit.

Tibia Classic Control: off
You can right click in the Game Window and then a context menu shows up, which contains all needed commands of that clicked object.

However, it's not always too comfortable to use context menus (eg. when many creatures attack you). Because of this you can perform some of these commands on the given object by pressing and holding one of keys that are listed below during left click of this object in the Game Window:


 * Shift + left click - to Look at this object,
 * Ctrl + left click - to Use this object,
 * Alt + left click - to Attack object (creature or player).

Actions in game

 * Left arrow, Right arrow, Up arrow or Down arrow - to step your character to the (respectively): West, East, North or South. Of course, moving of your character is possible only when no obstacles or walls are on its way.


 * Num 1 ... Num 9 (on the numpad part of keyboard, except Num 5) - (only when NumLock keyboard mode if off - that is, when the NumLock light is off!) to step your character in all possible eight directions. Notice that it can be possible to move your character diagonally with keyboard. However, diagonal move isn't faster than horizontal or vertical - after diagonal move your character must wait some time.


 * Ctrl+Left arrow, Ctrl+Right arrow, Ctrl+Up arrow or Ctrl+Down arrow - to turn (but not step) your character to the (respectively): West, East, North or South. For example, it's useful for talking to other player, when there is many of them around you and also for performing directional spells (such as Fire Wave).


 * Esc - stop any action (walking, attacking or following) that currently is performed by you.


 * F1 ... F12, Ctrl+F1 ... Ctrl+F12 or Shift+F1 ... Shift+F12 - to perform Use or Use with... command on something or to tell something (even instant spells) that was earlier preset by you in Hotkey Options dialog window; see: Hotkeys.

Other shortcuts

 * Ctrl+B - to switch on or off Battle window on the right of the Game Window.
 * Ctrl+F - to switch display of Tibia client on fullscreen or in window.
 * Ctrl+G - to relog to another character on your account.
 * Ctrl+H - to show the client help. Mouse pointer turns to magnifying glass and you can put it over any element of the Tibia client screen and read description of it.
 * Ctrl+I - to open Edit Ignore List and White List dialog window.
 * Ctrl+K - to open Hotkey Options dialog window (see: hotkeys).
 * Ctrl+L - to log out from the game. You cannot log out during or immediately after the battle.
 * Ctrl+N - to periodically switch what above players, NPCs and creatures has to be displayed:
 * name and HP,
 * nothing,
 * only HP.
 * Ctrl+O - to open New Channel dialog window (see: console or channels).
 * Ctrl+P - to switch on or off VIP window on the right of the Game Window.
 * Ctrl+Q - to log out from the game (see also: Ctrl+L).
 * Ctrl+R - to open Report Rule Violation dialog window (see: console).
 * Ctrl+S - to switch on or off Skills window on the right of the Game Window.
 * Ctrl+W - to clear messages (one by one, as they appears in the Game Window), eg. when someone spams or floods it with long long text.
 * Ctrl+Z - to open bug report dialog window (only for tutors).