Character Physics

Attributes

Hitpoints

Maximum HP = 18 at level 6
Respawns when HP=0, or by leaving the map, or by issuing respawn command.
Respawning restores HP to maximum. You can restore 3 HP to your health via eating 'Chicken' available from Home section of the shop.
Hostile NPCs do 0..12 HP damage per hit. No armor.

Strength

Can not do damage without a weapon equipped.
Weapons do 1-10 HP damage per hit and can hit multiple enemies at once.

Inventory

Inventory holds 250 items.
Items can not be unintentionally lost (by dying, for example).

Gold

Characters carry gold and plat(inum).
There is a gold timer for the amount of gold collected per 45 minute cycle.

Shop

The shop interface is always available.

Movement

Note: details are based on in-game experiments and may be imprecise.

Walking

Speeds in x and y directions are independent, meaning that they are not adjusted for diagonal movement.
Horizontal speed is not affected by climbing, falling, or attacking.

Speed depends on the material being walked on:

approx. 5.5 spans per second normally
2x normal on road blocks
1/2 normal on sand blocks

Climbing and Falling

Characters can walk over physical obstacles of 8 pixels, but not 10 pixels.
They can walk while falling.
Descent speed while falling is 3/4 of walking speed.

Crossing gaps

Player characters do not begin falling until completely past any supporting ground.
This means that they fall at a different distance from the edge depending on which direction they go, because they are 12 pixels wide in the X direction but practically flat in the Y direction.

This together with the fall:walk speed ratio and maximum climbable height tells us how high the character can land after "fall-walking" across a gap.

Where "gap" is the number of cells:

Direction of travel		Relative Maximum Landing Height (pixels)
Y	north/south	8 - ( gap x 12 )
X	east/west	17 - ( gap x 12 )

Obstruction

Characters can not move through solid obstacles.

Player character hitbox and hotspot.

The character graphic is on the front face of the hitbox.

The main body shape is fixed relative to the hitbox, while arms and feet vary.

The horizontal offset is the same regardless of the character's direction, not flipped.

The hotspot is where the character's location matches the world pixel coordinates.

Character hitbox dimensions (pixels)
Height	Width	Depth
6	12	1

Special case: They can climb through a diagonal join walking north or south, but not reliably. This behaviour is not confirmed as a permanent feature and might be 'fixed' in future.