Chat Guide: Commands

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In the examples below, substitute your own text for message, player name or channel. Enter the command in the box at the bottom of the chat screen where normal messages are typed. If you have trouble learning chat commands, you may want to enable your Right Click Menu in your account menu.

/? or /help 

Usage: /?

• Displays a list of helpful chat commands.

/em or /me 

Usage: /em message

• Emotes the message so that it appears in italics in chat. Players use this to signify they are performing an action.
  • Example: /me says hello to chat

/msg or /whisper or /w or /tell 

Usage: /msg player_name message

• Sends a private message. This is also known as a "blue message." You may use either a player's name or a player's numeric ID to send a pm. When sending to a player name, be sure to use an underscore _ in place of any spaces in the player name.
  
  • Example: Sending a private message saying "hi!" to Mr Skullhead: /msg Mr_Skullhead hi!
• When you try to pm people who have you on their ignore list, the result is "That player has you on his or her ignore list."

/reply or /r 

Usage: /r message

• Replies to your last private message. Be careful to check your chat pane to make sure the message is going to the right location. Due to lag, /reply occasionally goes to unintended recipients; the /last command described below may assist you.

/last 

Usage: /last

• Shows your last 10 received private messages. These expire after a period of time.

/conv or /v 

Usage: /v message

• Sends a private message to the last person you sent a pm. The /lastsent command described below is helpful for this.

/lastsent 

Usage: /lastsent

• Shows your last 10 sent private messages. These also expire after a period of time.

/who 

Usage: /who channel

• Displays who is in the channel. If no channel is specified, then your current channel is used. You may only use the shortcut /w for your current channel; /w is also used as a shortcut for /msg. Players in light grey are listening to the channel, players in blue are on your contact list, and players in light blue are contacts who are listening to the channel. You may change your default colors in the account menu.

/whois 

Usage: /whois player name

• Displays information on a person, such as player name, playerID, level, class, and active chat channels. Unlike /msg, you do not need to substitute the underscore _ for spaces in this chat command. You may use either a player's name or a player's ID with this command.

/friend 

Usage: /friend player name

• Adds or removes a player from your contact list. Your account menu provides an option for you to be notified when friends log on.
• When attempting to put yourself on your contacts list from the chat you get this message: "It's good to like yourself, but putting yourself on your contact list is kind of Narcissistic, don't you think?"

/friends or /f or /romans or /countrymen 

Usage: /friends

• Displays a list of all people in your contact list who are currently signed on.

/clannies 

Usage: /clannies

• Displays a list of all people in your clan who are currently signed on.

/ignore or /baleet 

Usage: /baleet player name

• Adds or removes a player from your ignore list. A person on your ignore list may not send you a message or kmail. You have the option of limiting access to your mall store to block people you have baleeted. The term baleeted comes from Homestarrunner.com. When attempting to baleet yourself, you get the message, "You can't ignore yourself, no matter how hard you try."

/channels 

Usage: /channels

• Shows channels that are available for you to listen or chat in.

/channel or /c 

Usage: /channel channel

• Leaves your current chat channel and enters the channel you specified. Compare this with the /switch command described below.

/switch or /s 

Usage: /switch channel

• Switches to the specified channel while continuing to listen to the channel you just exited.

/listen or /l 

Usage: /listen channel

• Toggles listening to a channel. All messages from this channel appear after a pretext saying [channel]. The color of the channel name can be changed in the account menu. You may also toggle whether you want your current channel to show a [channel] pretext in the account menu. To stop listening to a channel, simply type /listen channel to toggle it off.
• Just typing /listen or /l without channel, lists the channels you are listening to and your current channel in bold.

/channel 

Usage: /channel message

• Sends a message to the specified channel. You may follow the /channel command with a message, macro or emote.
  • Example: Typing "/trade I am buying Yummy Tummy beans" will send your message "I am buying Yummy Tummy beans" to the trade channel.

/macro 

Usage: /macro 1 (message)

• Sets a macro (1-20) to a value. You may also edit your macros in the account menu. The '$$' may be used to designate where the message goes into the macro. If no '$$' is in the macro, the message is appended.
  

Macros are a way to use the same message multiple times without having to retype it. They can be edited in your account menu. For example, if you have your /1 macro as "Hi, my name is Bob", then you can type /1 into the chat bar and it will enter the phrase "Hi, my name is Bob".

• • Example: /macro 1 /me holds up a $$ sign.
    
  • Example: /macro 2 /trade I am buying
  • Example: /macro 3 /msg chatbot Are there clovers today?

/[1-20] 

Usage: /1 optional message

• Executes macro 1-20. Examples:

Using the same macros as the above example, typing "/1 No Huggling" would produce the message, "/me holds up a No Huggling sign."

Typing "/2 Yummy Tummy beans" would send /c trade the message, "I am buying Yummy Tummy beans"

Typing "/3" would send a private message to chatbot asking about the status of clovers.

/notes 

Usage: /notes text

• Adds a line to the bottom of the notes section of your Quest Log.

>> or (# )

Usage: >>playerID

• Posts a link to the specified player's profile in chat. An alternative form is (#playerID).

/clear or /cls 

Usage: /clear

• Clears the chat pane. (Will not work in macros)

/mark 

Usage: /mark

• Adds a horizontal line and a timestamp into chat. (Will not work in macros)

/exit 

Usage: /exit

• Exits chat, placing the "Announcements" back into the chat pane.

/updates 

Usage: /updates

• Will display the lastest "Announcements" from the KoL front page in chat, without the need to exit chat.

/redeem 

Usage: /redeem code

• Awards a special item given a special code. Special items include KoL Con 3-D Glasses, styrofoam peanuts, and a superhero mask.
• Typing an incorrect code generates a green message stating "Invalid code.".
• Trying codes rapidly after receiving the "Invalid code" message generates a green message stating "Not so fast.", most likely to prevent brute force from earning players items.
• On 22 July 2006, at approximately 22:55 Pacific Daylight Time, Xenophobe issued the following system message in chat:

• In general, we'd prefer if you didn't trade for redeem codes. However, if you do, know that there's no secure way to trade for them, and you can be scammed, and we won't have your back.

/idleoff 

Usage: /idleoff

• Disables the 15 minute chat timeout.
• Exiting chat re-enables the idle timer.

/outfit 

Usage: /outfit [name or ID of a normal outfit]

• This will equip a normal outfit by name or ID number or custom outfit by name. You can use a partial name, and it'll try to figure out which outfit you mean.

/outfit 

Usage: /outfit c: [ID of a custom outfit]

• This will equip one of your custom outfits by number rather than name.