Vixen's Furcadian FAQ

I've been a longtime user on Furcadia, joining less than a month after it started. So I know a bit about Furcadia, and I've shared my knowledge with a great many of the newbies, and sometimes even the not-so-newbies. :) But I've noticed that there are some questions that just keep on coming up over and over again, and I've decided to put them all in this single list. Hopefully, some newbie may just learn some manners and interesting things by reading this. The official FAQ, made by Talzhemir, one of the creators of Furcadia (she did the artwork), can be found here.

What is there to do here?

Well, first and foremost, Furcadia is a social MUCK. Really, all there is to do is to chat, make friends, and other such things. You can create your own dreams, which can serve as guild halls (there are an astonishing number of guilds on Furcadia), play soccer and checkers, play with the 'bots, and all sorts of other things, if you use your imagination! More veteran furries have started delving into the innards of Furcadia, and begun experimenting with changing the portraits of the furries, and other type of things. Personally, I like to flirt, but hey, I'm a vixen; what do you expect? :)

So, can I fight?

Why, yes, you can. Use the colon (the : thing) to do actions. So if I type ":hits Monk upside the head!" everyone would see:
Vixen hits Monk upside the head!
Isn't that great combat? :) That's about all there is. There are several guilds, I think, that are devoted to Furcadian combat, such as the Duelists Guild, and several others. They can give you more details on combat. As of now, there are no hit points, weapons, strength, damage, and all that other stuff, and it is impossible to die. Furcadia is pretty peaceful. However, if you must fight someone, a few rules of manners apply:

-Please no fighting in Meovanni Village! Meovanni is the main map, where you start at. Take your quarrels to a dream, please. Don't disturb the peace.

-Power gaming is for weirdos who are probably young and have no idea what they're doing. In other words, play fair. Don't cast @Meganuke or something on someone for your first move. And if they say that they hit you, or you fail to block an attack, react appropriately. Don't just shrug off a knee to the groin, for you males out there. :)

Well, that sucks. When will real fighting get here?

As Felorin, the main programmer of Furcadia (aka Dr. Cat) so eloquently put it, "We don't know." They never know when anything will be done. He says that yes, combat might come to Furcadia, or it might not. If it does, it will only be in certain areas, and only voluntary (IE you can't go around slaughtering furries who just want to chat and make friends.) If you're really bloodthirsty and crave combat, I'd suggest visiting Battle.net or perhaps Westwood Chat or some Quake server, and get your killing kicks there.

How do I make the little cat smiley faces?

In Furcadia, most furries don't use :) to show that they smile. If you press Shift and -, you'll create a neat little kitty happy face, like this one here: However, you still have to make sad faces, unless you download a special patch that adds sad faces to Furcadia. However, only users of the patch can see the face.

I want to run another program, but I can't minimize Furcadia! What do I do?

Well, you can't minimize Furcadia, but if you use Alt-tab, or Control-Esc, or (if your keyboard has one) the Win95 button, you can switch between tasks.

How long has Furcadia been around?

I am not totally certain on this, but I believe Furcadia was discovered on December 23, 1996, by Felorin and Talzhemir. I personally came to the realm on January 23, 1997, so I've been around *almost* as long as Furcadia.

How do I sit down?

Scattered throughout Furcadia are little colored things. Those are pillows! Find one, and step onto it, and your character will automatically sit down. You can also sit on chairs. If you sit on a pillow, and press control-g, you will pick up the pillow. However, your furrie will remain sitting. If you want, you can move around then, and drop the pillow using control-g again, and you sit sit in the new spot.

I sometimes see a furry laying down. How do I do that?

This has been fixed, but if you do see a furry laying down, it's a glitch. The laying down furrie is actually the graphic for a dead one (see, I told you that they were working on combat!). And it seems to be a random thing, so it's hard to say when it will happen. In fact, in almost every case, even if you see a furrie that is laying down, not everyone else will see the same thing. It's a weird thing, but just leave it alone. :) Update: Felorin tells me that it is now a "feature," and that you can do it on command. In fact, all he needs to do is to program in the command!

Help! I'm stuck in a dream and I want out!

Woah, calm down there. Just press control-s, and you'll be all right, and back in Meovanni Village.

How do I whisper?

It's pretty easy. Just type in a forward slash (/), then the furre's name, then the message. For instance, if wanted to whisper "Hi! What's up?" to Gar, I would type:
/gar Hi! What's up?
and then press enter. You only need to type in the first few letters of a furrie's name. So, if you wanted to whisper to Iryklathagra, and didn't want to wrestle with that entire name, you could just type:
/iry Hi! You have a long name! :)
One last thing: Whispers can be heard anywhere. That means that if you're in Theriopolis, and the furry you want to whisper to is in a dream in Allegria, you can still whisper. In fact, whispering is the easiest way to see if a certain friend of yours is on.

I want to whisper to Red Wine, but all of of my whispers go to Red Knight!

That probably means that you've been typing either
/red wine
OR you've been typing
/red
and it has been messing up. To enter a space in a furrie's name, you must use shift \. It will look like a space, but it will actually be a character. Therefore, to whisper to Red Wine, type:
/red|wine Hi! I finally whispered to the right furry!
The | thing being the result of shift and blackslash. Remember, if you press space, the Furcadian computer thinks that you've started your message, so if you've been typing
/red wine Hi! What's up?
Poor Red Knight has been getting messages that have been saying:
wine Hi! What's up?
Practice a bit at it, and you'll be whispering in no time.

How do I change my description? How do I change my colors? How do I get a new character?

There is a file residing in your Furcadia directory (c:\furcadia or whatever it is) called Furcadia.ini. Just edit this with notepad or any regular text editor. If you are aiming to change your description, find where it has your description, and cut it out, and enter in the new one. PLEASE be very careful what you delete out of it, because some of the characters and symbols are vital to the functioning of your .ini file.
If you want to change your colors, this is a bit more complex. Edit your furcadia.ini file, and write down the password that you made for your character's name. Remember, uppercase and lowercase DO count, so write it down exactly as you see it. Then, either rename your furcadia.ini file, or delete it. Restart Furcadia, and when you log in, it will prompt you to make a new character. Change the colors, and then when it prompts you, type in your old name, and the same password as before! Put in whatever you want as a description. There, now you have a new color scheme!
Furcadia does not keep track of how many characters you are making. Therefore, if you just rename furcadia.ini, you can make as many new characters if you want. But please, use some manners here. You will be VERY hard pressed to actually use 20 different characters. Don't suck up all the good names that you think you may want. Leave them open, and be nice. You'll most likely just stick to one character, and neglect the other 19 anyway.

Well, hey, you're a vixen! Wanna get together? I'm in the mood for a good yiff!

Come on. You have no idea how many people ask me. Remember your manners, you guys, and don't just go asking every single girl you see on Furcadia out. A great many of them are already engaged or married or have boyfriends or are otherwise involved with someone. Blatantly going up and asking some girl for a yiff is very rude, and will almost 100% of the time only ruin your reputation, brand you as a young teenager that is desperate, and result in your getting laughed at. If a female actually DOES say yes, it's probably a good sign that this girl is actually a male in RL, equally as desperate. So go easy on the propositioning. Not every vixen on Furcadia is for hire, you know. Oh, and there are already a ton of furries who have added "Looking for love" in their descriptions. Is that really necessary? Instead of using that, why not type in something that will show that you're interesting? And by that, I don't mean adding something like "I'm the God of ," or "I'm a muscle-bound hunk" or that kind of thing. Be original! (Sorry if I seem a bit po'ed on this topic, but it's really wearing hard on me)

Well, I think that is a good deal of all that I have been frequently asked. If there are any other questions that you have for Furcadia, please ask! I'm usually on-line, and willing to help. If no one on Furcadia can help you (which would be really amazing), then try e-mailing me at [email protected], and I'll see if I can help you out.