Chat

The chat system lets you talk to other players in real-time. There are two channels: local (visible only to players in your current zone, free) and global (visible to all players everywhere, costs 10 gold per message). The split is intentional — local chat is for casual conversation and zone-specific coordination, global chat is for important announcements and cross-zone recruitment.

This page documents how chat works.

The two channels

Channel	Reach	Cost	Use case
Local	Players in your current zone only	Free	Casual chat, zone-specific questions, find a PvP partner in your zone
Global	All players everywhere	10 gold per message	Recruitment, trade offers, important announcements, asking for help

You can switch between channels in the chat UI. Each channel has its own message stream; messages from one channel don’t appear in the other.

Local chat

Local chat is visible only to players in your current zone. If you’re in zone 0 (Yomi Town), only other players in zone 0 see your local messages. If you travel to zone 5, you join zone 5’s local chat and leave zone 0’s.

Local chat is free. There’s no cost per message, no rate limit (beyond a basic anti-spam cooldown). It’s the primary way to socialise in the game — most casual conversation happens in local chat, particularly in Yomi Town (which has the most players).

Local chat is the right channel for:

Casual conversation with players in your zone.
Zone-specific questions (“Anyone know what drops in zone 4?”).
Finding a PvP partner in your zone.
Coordinating trades with players in your zone.

Global chat

Global chat is visible to all players everywhere, regardless of zone. It costs 10 gold per message, which is deducted from your gold balance when you send the message. If you don’t have 10 gold, the message is rejected.

The 10g cost is intentional — it keeps global chat spam-free. Most global chat messages are:

PvP challenges (“Lvl 20 Samurai looking for PvP, 100g bet”).
Trade offers (“Selling Muramasa Blade, 1500g or best offer”).
Help requests (“How do I beat the Tengu boss?”).
Important announcements (“Quest chain completed, thanks to everyone who helped”).

If you’re tempted to use global chat for casual conversation, don’t — it’ll cost you 10g per message, and the community will resent you for filling global with chatter. Use local chat instead.

Message rules

All chat messages are subject to these rules:

Maximum length: 200 characters. Longer messages are truncated.
HTML is stripped. You can’t embed links, images, or formatting. Plain text only.
Profanity filter. (Not currently implemented — planned for a future patch.)
Spam protection. If you send messages too rapidly, you’ll be rate-limited.

These rules are enforced server-side, so there’s no way to bypass them with client mods.

Player names in chat

Every chat message shows the sender’s character name (not their account username). The name is clickable — clicking it opens the player’s public profile, from which you can send a friend request, PvP challenge, or trade request.

Character names are not unique — multiple players can have the same name. If you click a name in chat and it’s ambiguous, the lookup resolves to the most recently-created character with that name. This can lead to confusion if multiple players have the same name in the same zone — be sure to verify you’re interacting with the right person before sending gold or items.

The chat UI

The chat panel is in the bottom-right of the game UI (configurable). It shows:

Channel tabs (Local / Global) — click to switch.
Message stream — the most recent 50 messages, scrolling.
Message input — type your message and press Enter to send.
Online players list — players currently in your zone (for local) or globally (for global). Click a name to open their profile.

The chat panel can be minimised if you want to focus on combat. New messages in the minimised panel produce a small notification badge.

Chat etiquette

A few community conventions:

Don’t spam. Sending the same message 5 times in a row is annoying. Once is enough.
Don’t use global for casual chatter. It costs 10g per message, and it fills the channel for everyone. Use local instead.
Be patient with questions. New players ask a lot of questions. Answer them politely, or ignore them — don’t flame.
Don’t beg for gold. It’s pathetic.
Don’t advertise external sites. No Discord invites, no YouTube links, no Twitch streams. The chat is for the game, not for self-promotion.