On the website
The chat sits open at the bottom of every page of this website, over whatever you read; its bar minimises it and opens it again. Drag the bar up to undock it, then move it anywhere and resize it from its corner; drop it at the bottom edge to dock it again. It stays where you left it.
When you open it, the chat asks first: Log in with your Project Lage account (it comes with an alpha invite) to chat with your name, badges and friends list, or Post as guest to chat as Guest and four digits: guests can talk in the open channels and whisper, but have no friends list or badges. It is the same chat as in the game: you talk with players on the website and in their games alike.
Each channel you are in has its own tab, next to All, Whispers and System; a number on a tab counts new lines. All keeps to real talk: friends coming online or entering a game show only under System. + joins a channel and the × on a tab leaves it. Click a name to whisper, add a friend, see who it is, squelch or report. Type / and the matching commands show; Tab completes commands and names, ↑ brings back what you sent.
The buttons above the chat open who is online, your friends list (add, order, notes, a message to every online friend), your badges, every command and your chat look: text size, times, badges, friend notices, compact lines, a sound on whispers and the colour of each kind of line. The look is kept in your browser.
In the game
Sign in in the launcher and the chat is on. Press Enter like for the game's own chat and type a command: /c hello says hello in your chat channel, /w Name hi whispers, /f add Name adds a friend. Text without a / stays the game's own chat with the players in your game. New lines show at the bottom left and fade; Ctrl + C keeps the last lines on screen.
In testing The new in-game look (badges in front of names, tabs, /opt, /j and the other new commands typed in the game) is being tested.
Channels
Everyone is in Project Lage. Trade and Help are always open to join, and /j with any other name opens your own channel; it closes when the last player leaves. You can be in 5 channels besides Project Lage. Your friends list holds 50 players; like on Battle.net you see where a friend is once they added you back.
Commands
Talk
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/w <name> <text> | Whisper to one player. Only the two of you see it. Also /whisper, /m, /msg, /tell. |
/r <text> | Reply to the last player who whispered you. Also /reply. |
/rw <text> | Whisper again to the last player you whispered. |
/c <text> | Say something in your chat channel (Project Lage unless you joined another). Also /say. |
/me <action> | Say what you do, written as an action: /me waves. Also /emote. |
/away [message] | Mark yourself away; whispers get your message back. Again to come back. |
/dnd [message] | Do not disturb: refuse whispers with your message. Again to turn it off. |
Channels
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/j <channel> | Join a channel and talk there. Trade and Help are always open; any other name opens a new one. Also /join, /channel. |
/leave [channel] | Leave the channel you talk in, or the one you name, and go back to Project Lage. Also /part. |
/channels | The open channels and how many players are in each. Also /list. |
/who [channel] | Who is online in your channel, or the one you name. Also /users. |
/whois <name> | Is a player online, their badges, and where they are if they're your friend. Also /where, /whereis, /profile. |
/whoami | Your account, channel and badges. |
Friends
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/f l | Your friends list, numbered, with where each friend is and your notes. Also /f list, /f, /friends. |
/f add <name> | Add a player to your friends list. You see each other once they add you back. Also /f a. |
/f remove <name> | Remove a player from your friends list. Also /f r, /f rem, /f del. |
/f m <text> | Whisper every friend who is online at once. Also /f msg. |
/f m1 <text> | Whisper the friend at that place on your list: /f m1 the first, /f m2 the second. Also /f w1. |
/f note <name> [note] | A note beside a friend that only you see; no note clears it. Also /f n. |
/f promote <name> | Move a friend one place up your list (so /f m1 reaches them). Also /f p. |
/f demote <name> | Move a friend one place down your list. Also /f d. |
Safety
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/squelch <name> | Hide everything a player writes, for you only. They are not told. Also /ignore, /mute. |
/unsquelch <name> | Show a squelched player's messages again. Also /unignore, /unmute. |
/report <name> [reason] | Send a player's recent chat lines to the admins with your reason. |
Badges
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/badges | Your badges, what each one says, and every badge there is. |
/badge <badge> [badge] | Pick the badges you wear next to your name (up to 2); /badge none or /badge auto. Also /wear. |
Your chat
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/opt [setting] [value] | Change how the chat looks: size, place, colours, background, times, fading. /opt alone lists them. Also /options, /chatopt. |
/tab [name] | Show one tab: All, Chat, Whispers, Friends or System. Ctrl + Tab cycles them. |
/history | Show or hide the chat history with its tabs in game, like Ctrl + C. |
/clear | Clear the chat on your screen. Nothing is deleted for anyone else. Also /cls. |
More
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/gift [softcore|hardcore] | In a ladder game: collect items the admins handed out into this character's inventory. With characters in both leagues, say which one this character plays in. |
/time | The server's time (UTC). |
/help [command] | This list, or what one command does. Also /?, /commands. |
Badges
Badges show in front of your name in the website chat and on the ladder page. You wear up to 2 of yours: pick them in the chat's Badges panel or with /badge, see them with /badges.
| Badge | It says | How to get it | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Owner | “I made this world. Welcome to it.” | Runs Project Lage. |
 | Admin | “Keeper of the ladder.” | A Project Lage admin. |
 | First Tester | “We are the Number One here.” | One of the first two players who ever tested Project Lage. |
 | Alpha Tester | “I was here when no one knew it.” | Played Project Lage during the alpha. |
Your chat in the game
In testing The in-game chat looks the way you set it, kept on your PC. /opt lists your settings and /opt reset brings back the standard look.
| Setting | What it changes |
|---|---|
/opt size 50-250 | Text size, % of the game's. |
/opt x 0-90 | Left edge, % of the screen. |
/opt y 10-100 | Newest line, % down the screen. |
/opt width 15-95 | Wrap width, % of the screen. |
/opt lines 1-30 | New lines shown. |
/opt history 5-60 | Lines in the history (Ctrl + C). |
/opt fade 0-600 | Seconds a line stays, 0 = until pushed out. |
/opt background 0-90 | % darkness behind new lines. |
/opt times on|off | A time before each line. |
/opt badges on|off | Badges next to names. |
/opt friends on|off | Friends coming and going. |
/opt shadow on|off | A shadow under the text. |
/opt colour whisper blue | The colour of channel, whisper, notice, info, error, emote, name or time lines: a word (red, green, blue, gold, purple...) or a hex colour like 8cd973. |
/tab Whispers | Show one tab: All, Chat, Whispers, Friends and System. Ctrl + Tab shows the next. |
/clear | Empty the chat on your screen. |