STAGE · Your first town
Reading a town
Draft — Draft: checked against the game source, not yet read through end to endAvailable from the startUse the town map and building signs to find services, then account for opening hours and the online rules at night.
This page is further along your path. Read ahead if you’re curious; you can return when you reach this stage.
Find a building
Use the town map to orient yourself, then follow the marked doors in the street. A building's name identifies its kind of service: an Armorer repairs and sells armor (shops and prices), a Weapon Smith handles weapons, and a General Store carries general goods. A Bank or guild hall is a distinct service building, not a shop counter.
If you do not know where a service is, ask a towns-person with Where is. People may point you in a direction or mark a known building on your map. See talking to people.
Hours and entry
In the classic schedule, shops and public buildings have different hours. DFO Online relieves shops, guild halls, banks, libraries and palaces of their classic closing hours. You can use those services at night without waiting for morning. Temples and taverns are open at all hours under their own schedule; houses are not public services, and faction houses may require membership.
Online city gates do not close at night. This removes the old need to wait outside a walled city until morning, but curfew laws can still matter in places where an edict is active. See the law.
Common mistakes
Waiting outside a city gate for morning. Online city gates stay open, so a night spent waiting costs a game day of events, couriers and quest timers; walk in and use the relieved services.
Assuming every door follows the relieved hours. Houses, faction houses and some temples keep their own entry rules; forcing the wrong door can bring the watch rather than a service (the law). Cost: time, or a crime.
Searching a large town by eye. A towns-person's Where is answer can mark the building on your map (talking to people); walking every quarter first can take the whole session.
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Sources & checked facts
src/world/buildingNames.js:BUILDING_TYPES, building labelssrc/ui/town/townSheet.js,src/ui/town/townQuarters.js: town map and quarterssrc/systems/buildingLocks.js:buildingHoursState,onlineReliefBuilding,buildingIsUnlockedsrc/world/city/cityGate.js:updateCityGateResearch:
handbook/research/T1.md(building kinds and hours)