How to play URU in DI Shard for dummies

[Annabelle]

Hi everyone,

now that you are a proud member of the DI shard (DI), you want to play the game and what is everyone's reference or maybe 95% of us : MOULa.

I won't get you all the details here it would be too long and not interesting : I will keep it as clear and simple as I can possibly do (that will be hard )

Entry point :

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MOULa : Relto so you can grab your KI as fast as you want and you already own your Relto book so you can grab the 3 Yeesha pages in the Cleft (D’ni-Ritalgamin).
DI : D’ni-Ritalgamin so you don't own your Relto book but there are 3 Yeesha pages to take with one very important for the remaining of the game.

How to work around this matter :

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After linking to your Relto go grab your KI in Gahreesen, then ask a neighbors of the shard to be invite in his or her D’ni-Ritalgamin and go get your Yeesha pages there. The steal function like the reward clothing doesnt work with Yeesha pages hopefully.

Seret :

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One of the first hood discovered when explorers came into the Cavern, not available in MOULa.

Kirel and Guilds' Pubs :

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In DI all the Guilds' Pubs are available at start and Kirel is named Guilds' Neighborhood. You will also find a POTS' version of Kirel named DRC's Neighborhood.

POTS quest, Ahnonay and Er'cana :

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You can do here the POTS quest completely like you did it in POTS but there is something special in here :
Ahnonay's Cathedral (POTS and MOULa) is Ahnonay and it is a public instance
Ahnonay (POTS and MOULa) doesn't exist...all the Spheres are separate but you still need to do exactly as in POTS and they are public instance, might be good to tell others that you are about to do Ahnonay so they won't interfere with you, quabs and cristals aren't there at all. The Clothes in this "Ahnonay" follow the POTS settings.
Er'cana is a personal age. You will find the reward of MOULa at the exact location as you should already know. The clothes there follow the POTS settings.
The Watcher's Pub of MOULa is named Great Tree Pub in here.
The Watcher's Pub of POTS is named The Watcher's Guild in here.
For the reward of MOULa for Ahnonay search in the right version of the Pub.

GZCM Marker Quests :

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It follows POTS version so you must get ** markers then ** markers then ** more markers (you just have to modify the "**" by the right numbers )

D'ni-K'veer :

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You will have 2 versions of K'veer here but not like MOULa where there are 2 instances of the same age.
POTS version of it : after triggering something in an other age, you will follow the POTS finale.
MOULa version of it : you will need to look for it in the Kahlo's Pub.

Sparklies :

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In MOULa, they are all available but one and they are present all the time
In DI, they are all available, yes you read this right, all like in 12 of them, but…there is a but
They appear only in their selected month so if you want the June’s one, well…wait until June 1st to grab it. In standalone version, there are few ways to work around this matter and have them in a flash of a time, but in DI Shard, it is under the control of Diafero, our admin.

The Pods (added by Diafero)

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The four pods from MOUL can be visited as usually from the city, but they are not instanced - there is just one global Negilahn and so on. Midst the four MOUL POD Books, there also is a book to Todelmer, an age from Myst V which contains a pod very similar to the ones seen in MOUL. You need to convert the Myst V ages to visit that age.

That’s it with the major differences between the 2 versions. There are other differences that I can think of but there are not major issues and you won’t maybe never notice them so no point to tell you at this time.

Good exploration on DI Shard.

[diafero]

Thanks a lot for writing this up, Annabelle! I hope it will be helpful for those players that joined only during MOUL[a].

One note though: The way you are supposed to get the Yeesha pages in the Cleft is to finish the first journey, and get your own Cleft
It might also be worth noting that while Minkata and Jalak are instances, the Pods are global ages and shared for everyone.

[Annabelle]

See : the pods difference, that is something I didnt know. There is too many versions to be able to know everything

MOULa is different from URU : CC which is different from URU : CC running with the Drizzle hack which is different from a shard like DI running UU which is different from UU running as standalone which is different from URU : ABM.

I don't have 7 installs of the same game on my PC, I just have 7 different games

BTW, Diafero, I know that we should be good explorers and do all the Hand's Journey first before going back to D'ni-Ritalgamin...but that is so much fun to break rules once in a while and I was in real hurry, August 31st, no time to waste to try getting the August's Sparkly which was to be found in ******* (censored by Annabelle ).

Annabelle is thinking looking at the blue sky through the window of her office : "If only the Shard admin would enable the 12 sparklies at the same time, that would be SOOO awesome!!!"

[diafero]

Indeed, I already have a hard time keeping the differences between standard CC, CC+Drizzle+Offline KI and MOUL in my head. Which is why I pointed out another difference people might be interested in
The DI installation should however be very, very similar to a CC+Drizzle+Offline KI.

If only the Shard admin would enable the 12 sparklies at the same time, that would be SOOO awesome!!!

I don't want to spoil you the fun of having something new to look for each month
It's a bit like flymode... sometimes it's good to have it, but sometimes it's also good not to have it.

[diafero]

I made this posting a sticky because I expect many users not to have used an Alcugs Shard before... Annabelle, would you mind if I added more items occurring to your first post?

[Annabelle]

Oh no please go ahead...I'm glad to have it stick now. Would be great to have "How to cheat by Annabelle" sticks as well Kidding

[Annabelle]

The feather quest in DI

The feather quest was made as a tribute to old Dos text games like Zork. In those games, the player had only a black screen and he had to input line of texts like : "open mailbox" "read letter" and so on in order to complete those adventure games.

In URU we can do a little funny quest which has no goal more than owning feathers in our pocket and been able to know which feather we own.

There are two command lines involve in this quest : /get feather and /look in pocket.

The start of it :

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Eder Gira

What to do to be able to start it :

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You must have placed the 3 crates in their right locations in order to be able to start picking up feathers

How many feathers can we get :

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13 in grand total

Where feathers are to be found? :

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7 in Eder Gira, 1 in Eder Delin, 1 in Dereno, 1 in Payiferen, 1 in Er'cana, 1 in Jalak Dador and 1 in Ahnonay

In which order we have to pick them? :

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see previous spoiler and be smart enough

Oh ok...but there is one that doesn't exist? I'm pretty sure I have gotten this one in MOULa in that particular age, now in DI, I can't, why is that? :

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I can tell you that I own 13 feathers like all my avvies in MOULa. If I say to look in an age, let say Er'cana...where you have to go? In Er'cana...so always go in the "right" age. Ok let me be very helpful : In DI, there are slight differences in Ages' names so be very attentive enough said

[nathan2055]

Have you tried using the Camp Bravo linking book as a workaround for the Cleft pages?

[Inugami_Eishin]

Okay,I've not finished POTS before,so I don't know the solutions of the puzzles.
I went to Ahnonay and noticed that the crabs are gone.I also see something's up with them from the post above.
Also,I recall that there was a door behind the large sphere you could roll up in Watcher's Sanctuary.I'm not sure but I remember trying to get over that sphere desperately.

Can somebody explain what's going on without spoiling?
Thanks

[diafero]

I disabled the Quabs as they don't work properly with several people in that age.
The rest should work as expected?