How do I ______? The beta guide to Balrum.

[Mark Rushow]

@Chris Chen is correct that is how you complete the feed the pigs quest.
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Bows work the same as spells you can only have one ranged ability toggled on at once. Some times it is necessary to toggle off the previous ability first before you can toggle on the new one. In order to use the bow you must have arrows equipped. If you run out of arrows the game does not tell you.
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Hunger and thirst are weird. When you drink it make you hungry and when you eat it makes you thirsty. Even if you are hungry you can still be full! This gets real difficult to manage especially with no "how full am I" meter. It is a bit of a guessing game to get both your thirst and hunger satiated. There is a food I ate once that actually just ended up making my hunger meter go down! lol. (antifood) the easiest thing to do is just Save and Load. Your hunger and thirst will be full.
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Upon Loading all experience gained is lost. There is no leveling yet!
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While crafting if you are smelting anything the little torch icon next to the wood tray must be toggled on to begin the smelting process. It is on a timer. Once your ore is a glowing bar it is on a timer and will cool in just a few seconds to not glowing. All the other ores I've come across thus far can be reheated to glowing again just fine. But if you reheat the iron bars to glowing they turn into glowing spotted Iron bars and can not be used for anything that requires plain iron bars or plain glowing iron bars. Put buckets of water in the barrel and it changes to blue color. This is for putting your hot smelted ores into to cool quickly but it does evaporate the buckets of water.
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Traps I was able to just place them on the ground similar to how you build your house.
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Good to know the bees quest isn't completable yet.
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There is an icon in the lower left of your action bar it is your torch icon. This is the dame icon used in crafting station nest to the wood tray. If there is a flame you are burning a torch if there isn't a flame it is supposed to be a stick and you are not burning them. There will be a glow about you more noticeable at night but you will not actually carry anything. If your torch is lit you are using them up. So make sure you don't waste them during the day.
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The empty space next to your torch icon in the action bar is your turn based combat timer. When you are in combat it will briefly show and hour glass flip over to signal a move has been made. As far as I know that is all it does.
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It should be re-worded that right click is ranged attack that is toggled on (not just spell).
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If an action is toggled on there is a slight glow to the icon. You can only have one melee and one ranged action toggled on at once. You can toggle them all off so as to not accidentally attack the pigs for example.
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Stealing: Only a couple of NPCs will give chase if they catch you stealing from curtian containers in their house. This is not fully implemented yet. If they aren't in the house they don't see you and you don't get caught. I'm not sure if they are standing just out side the door looking in. They will give chase and try to kill you.
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Lockpicking: dunno yet but I have broke a few picks trying. I think it may be combination based.
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'F' key will zoom in. Pretty much useless.
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split stack: Hold shift when left-clicking (may be a right-click) an item stack to bring up a window enter in how many you wish to hold.
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'E' key takes all.
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Put this at the top of your list:
If you get a game crash click the 'send debug.txt' icon from the Launcher window.
Any bugs you notice e-mail to Balcony Team at: info@balconyteam.com or at: balcony.softworks@gmail.com. Which they prefer I do not know they just say to e-mail them with bug reports and explain how to replicate the bug if you can.
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"Balrum needs the java runtime environment to run. (minimum JRE version is 7)
You can download the java runtime environment (JRE) from oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/j...33155.html

If the above link does not work simply visit:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/j...38363.html
and press the JRE 8 or the JRE 7 download button and select your platform.

After installing the java runtime environment a restart is recommended.

Now that you have java installed on your machine you can run the Launcher.jar by double clicking it. Press the Launch button and Balrum will start to load. The first startup will take a little more time because the engine is creating the needed caches.

If the Launcher.jar does not work you can try to run Balrum with the following files:
On OSX: start_osx.command
On Windows: start_win.bat
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Saving!

Select an empty save slot. While highlighted you must type a save file name. Then click Save. Load works after a save is created. You must rename the save every time you wish to create a new save. You can keep the name same but it must be typed before selecting save.
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Rest Icon

Located at the bottom right of the screen (looks like a camp fire):
Build a camp fire,
Make a tent,
or Place a torch.

You can also rest in your own bed at Grandpa's and pass time.
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"We updated the beta to version 002. If the window title says 002 than you have the newest version. If it displays Balrum_v0.0.85_beta instead of Balrum v0.0.85_beta_002 than you have an old version so please re-download the game. This is an important update so please make sure you have the 002 version." ~Balcony Team

Just re-download the game files from the same link that was e-mailed to you and launch it from the new files for the update. The in-game updater is not used for 'this' update!
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right-click an item from a container to have it automatically drop into your inventory.
or
left-click-hold to drag it manually.

Inventory auto sorts categories. Dragging items over will automatically bring up the proper category for the item to be dropped into.
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some food items that can be consumed as food or potion will actually go into other categories they are mainly associated with. Just because some items are not in potions or food tabs in inventory doesn't mean they can't be consumed.
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So far as i know Coal can not be burned or used as a fuel even though it technically is a fuel. And it can not be smelted though it is an ore and it can be placed in the furnace with other ores.
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You must hurry when crafting if you need glowing bars. They cool very quickly. Don't try to do too much at once else you must re-heat the bar. 'Iron bar' when re-heated becomes 'glowing spotted iron bar' and 'spotted iron bar' when cooled. It is unusable for anything requiring just 'glowing iron bar' or 'iron bar'.

An entire stack of ore all smelts at the same time. Be sure to split the stack and only smelt what you can use at once if you require 'glowing'.