A game is presently in the pre-alpha stage of development, at version Zero.Ternary, codenamed Crystal Blue. A 1st version, Cipher.Single, was codenamed Atomic Blue & a next version, Zero.Two, was codenamed Molecular Blue. Molecular Blue was super feature limited, however drew the total of players because of its close-closely knit community. A Molecular Blue server was close down in December 16, 2004. A todays version, Crystal Blue, was freed to the public as an open beta in December 24, 2004. A next version, Nought.Foursome, is codenamed Steel Blue.

PlaneShift is placed within the mammoth stalactite known as Yliakum, divided into eight levels, of which the moo deuce come flooded. Life therein stalactite is conceivable because the vast crystal, known as A Sky-blue Sun, draws weak from either a surface of the planet. PlaneShift presently has Eleven playable races that all develop their have country of origin & characteristics. Outside of Yliakum come a Stone Labyrinths & across these that you could access potentially other areas, such as a subsidence which a stalactite hangs. Around Crystal Blue, single the city Hydlaa & a a portion of the city Ojaveda come accessible.

Yliakum
Yliakum occurs as elephantine stalactite in which the MMORPG Planeshift takes place.

Location

Yliakum is an underground globe. the dweller, a mixture of different races, also call for it a "City of the Azure Sun", on to a immense crystal that gives a city its weak & the diapers the land by using life-vitalizing energy. Yliakum is placed hundreds to thousands of meters under the surface within the brobdingnagian excavated stalactite, hanging down within a cave so huge that it can contain any kingdom of the surface. For this cause these are structured inside grades - rather Dante's Inferno - and each grade is smaller than the former. There are eight grades, or even levels. Them greatest levels come above a point in which a stalactite connects to the roof of the cave.

a Bronze Doors, placed along a perimeter of a foremost level, access the Stone Labyrinths, a complex of each natural & unreal caves when ancient when the town itself. These are sure as shooting that occasionally of the babies lead to web pages similar to Yliakum & potentially to the surface, however nonentity ever come back to report such the discovery. A Stone Labyrinths come one of a sources of food and resources for the city.

Several different underground streams, lakes, & wells throughout spring from either either a bulwarks of a 1st & 2nd levels, a select few of which were formed from period immemorial, and join together at the bottom of the stalactite, in which it form water that submerges them lower levels. Somehow a water supply gets out, since Yliakum hasn't been flooded once in recorded history. A flow of a lakes varies when days goes by, & the level of the flow of any stream changes accordingly. Occasionally a fmoo of any stream level is then low that nearly half of a seventh level is revealed, however more days a level is and so high it most reaches the edge of the sixth level. the springs on text supply a constant source of swallowing water system for Yliakum.

A seventh & eighth levels, two commonly submerged, persons a Nolthrir, an Elven race who keep close at hand been attending a seaweed for thousands of years. By having a influence of period & a Crystal, a Nolthrir evolved into an amphibious species, which enabled them to remain under a lake for yearn periods of period. When centuries of crossbreeding, a seaweeds develop been grown sustaining such skill per Nolthrir that it boast favorite qualities. A few one varieties come utilized when food, when others come tanned and woven to make clothing. However others keep around medicinal properties, but virtually all of the seaweed is dried & utilized when fodder for Pterosaurs, Megaras, & oxen bred on the foremost level.

Races

Simply ii races come native to a huge cavern: a Kran created by Talad & the Lemur created by Laanx. Totally more races come said to use arrived from either magical portals connected to more worlds.

Dweller of Yliakum hunt not only a animals for their edible meat and warm furs, but likewise scavenge for fungi, molds, and saprotrophs inside the Stone Labyrinths. These plants are found just inside a Labyrinths, since no more suitable environments for them, & their alterative & helpful properties come worthful to the population. Such as everthing stores, there are too supplementary pernicious & aggressive creatures living on this button too from either both of the quaternary natural kingdoms. Hunters & gatherers must keep an eye retired for these predators, world health organization produce an obstacle for victims world health organization venture in the less restricted & additional unsafe tunnels of the Stone Labyrinths. When universally within situ of danger, outstanding sources of wealth come good wait in these caves for someone clever sufficiency to call for & profits from either the babies.

Several different races people the world of Yliakum. Players may buy to produce a character sustaining one of these races, whenever the model has been implemented.

Humans Xacha Ylians Elves Nolthrir Dermorians Dwarves Kin Stonebreaker Kin Hammerwielder Others Lemurs Kran Diaboli Enkidukai Klyros Ynnwns

The Azure Sun

A Crystal that will bring weak to Yliakum is an tremendous raw gemstone of purest transparency and correspondent to the sapphire that hangs from a roof of the stalactite's internal cave.

Known as the Cerulean Sun by people races that however remember a surface, it emits a radiation that is more towards infrared if compared to a weak of the sun, however is suitable for photosynthesis & survival of many brute, vegetables, and mineral metal money. This radiation decays by having squared progression with a few feet away. At a seventh level a radiation is upright plenty to penetrate a mass of a flow of any stream sequentially to weak it, when you took a foremost level these are & so heavy that it allows rattling crops and the breeding of smashing cattle, which provide milk and meat.

To a groovy rue of the man of science, radiation from either either the Crystal keeps the babies from researching as well touching. Applying logic & good sense, man of science concluded that nigher than 12 steps from either a Crystal, a radiation dissociates matter, sometimes possibly giving random chain reactions that could be super unsafe. Yet, since a Crystal is such a right source of each sort of magic in the city, a select few fool may dare for as well close & chance the dangers.

A Crystal draws its weak from either a surface & so Yliakum is subjected to days of "day" and "night". Notwithstanding, possibly when asleep, these are non all dark. A level of the flow of any stream, which rises & lessens within an extremely uniform manner, measures hours. a wide b& of the metallic Orichalc was fictive the part of the sixth wall and was utilized non simply because these are the simply metal that doesn't deteriorate whatsoever, but as well because underwater flora can't settle down inside it. A list of the captain hicks periods that divide for each one of the tetrad seasons are carved on this band, and references all about a periods is engraved above a level reports.

A year is subdivided into four seasons merely because of a ethnic heritage of a humans from either the surface & the observation of the cyclic phenomena of vegetable incubation. When you took a twenty-xxiv periods of a month, the Crystal's sky-blue weak varies marginally, helping to reinforce a different periods.

Waste Disposal

Ducts that stand been dug call at the rock come utilized to dispose of human waste. Big rubbish & bodies are just thrown into just about vertical and apparently endless wells. Cypher seems to care a lot about in which all of this junk eventually terminates higher, since a stalactite theory is only devised by occasionally Xacha man of science & has non been proven eventually. Dead bodies come eliminated a equivalent way. Though discarding dead around such the cauterise fashion would seem like shocking, neither of the deuce independent faiths at Yliakum requires particular care nor reverence to the dead. To the humans on text, the immune system is just the non-functional apparatus or an empty shell by owning there is no soul. Nevertheless, nothing is ever thrown into a flow of any stream. A law forbids this disposal method non lone away from courtesy to a Nolthrirs, however likewise to protect the seaweed people. Polluting a lake is one of the couple of crimes punished using death.

The Death Realm

Nothing great deal is known all about this dark l&, however legend tells that these are the bottomless chasm by using stone walk high in everyone's thoughts and that you fall into it when you lose your systems life. Non several use returned from either it, however a select few tell of a portal that opens into the dwelling globe.

Creatures

Yliakum is populated by several animals that may be fought for loot & own household budget.

Carkarass: a unknown flying animal residing in the Dying Realm. Nothing lot is known just about this animal, however these are comparatively convenient to defeat. Clacker: a big insect-insectlike animal uncovered primarily in the Arena & the dungeon. Consumer: The ugly monster uncovered inside area of the Ojadeva road, it is quite fierce & own suck mouths good of acutely dentition. Gobble: The funky animal dwelling deep within sewers. These mechanical man animals use at times dark gray-grayish-green skin & hike in everthing-fours. Grendol: Seen in the dungeon. It looks prefer the jumbo zombie & an air of demise surrounds it; These are difficult to put to death & offers less or even there are no loot. Rat: Found inside sewers, virtually all one outsized gnawer come an easily obliterate for beginners. Their hides & eyes develop a few value within Yliakum, thus numerous try to pawn the children to tradesman for promptly money. There are deuce types of rats: the elementary 1 eyed rat, & the robust rat. Robust rats come tremendously additional hard for an untrained adventurer to destroy. Rogue: Found inside virtually all stores as much as Hydlaa's sewers, a neighboring Arena, Ojaveda, & in roads frequented by traveler. Scallywag come dressed inside dark article of clothing & might carry the weapon. It come all told levels, occasionally come easy slawithin when others are supplementary furious in battle. Tefusang: Discovered nigh plains in ojaveda road. Tefusangs come big animals that come harder to obliterate however their dentition come of dandy value & may be sold permanently total of trias. Trepor: Appearing rather the gargantuan ill-shapen insect, these stupid animals come universally thirsty & come quite deadly. Obtained around a field in the Ojadeva road & stronger ones noticed in the arena, it is typically the target of higher-level characters. Their hearts come quite worthful. Ulbernaut: A virtually all right animal within Crystal Blue, this abomination was built for killing. With Two arms two tapering into fatal points, it potty put to death virtually all players around one attack & near universally take a sizable class action of humans to obliterate. Even so, killing the two is super rewarding when it drop dependable loot & offer the very big total of own household budget.

Screenshots
Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_1.jpg|An Enkidukai mining for gold in the outdoors. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_2.jpg|The Magic Shop in the outdoors: an expensive place to find high quality magic. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_3.jpg|Spell casting against the Tefusang in the arena. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_4.jpg|Fighting the Clacker in the arena: which are actually supplementary fatal than it pop up. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_5.png|A Kran searching at a Hydlaa Plaza. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_6.png|Looking at a crowd next to Harnquist's shop. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_7.png|The exit from either Demise Realm. Image:PlaneShift_screenshot_8.png|Standing inside a rooftop in Hydlaa, seeking towards the Plaza.

Open source development

A code of a game is open source under the GNU General Public License.

a nontextual matter & system come licensed under a customized license, a PlaneShift License, that protects nontextual matter from either modification & redistribution to keep the singularity of the setting. This license forbids redistributiin & using the content for benefit, & likewise using the stake content on an unofficial server.

PlaneShift developers & contented contributors must as well assign a right of first publication of their act to Atomic Blue, primarily to help protect a task as a whole. When this policy is working, it has likewise drawn occasionally criticism from either previous developers & contributors.

Planeshift utilizes a Crystal Space game engine and the Crystal Entity Layer.