Player Handbook

Getting started

Install details live on the Download page. This path is the short version so you can get in-game and come back here for systems.

• AV / Defender: Official downloads may trip heuristics (unsigned / packed clients). Download only from this site; exclude your game folder before first launch. Full AV notes are on Download.
• SmartScreen: Normal for private-server installers. Steps + screenshots are on the Download page.
• Maple Island: A tutorial guide bot is available on channels 1-4.
• No pay-to-win: Null.Team does not sell real-money items and does not take donations for NX, cosmetics, or advantage.

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NX Cash Shop & cosmetics

From v0.14a, cosmetics live in the in-game NX Cash Shop. There is no real-money cash shop and no donations — NX and cosmetics are earned in-game only.

Opening the shop

• Press the status-bar SHOP button to open the over-field Cash Shop window (cosmetics catalog).
• Buy listed cosmetics with NX Credit.
• Gumii remains the town hub for Maple Leaf Shop, warps, Nimble, Key Binder, inventory expand, and Update Notes — not the cosmetics catalog.

How you earn NX

• Cosmic NX cards can drop from monsters; picking them up grants NX Credit.
• Confirm live drop feel and shop stock in-game and via Gumii Update Notes.

NX loot boxes

• Exotic Pet Surprise Box — equal-weight roll of exotic pets. Full list and odds below.
• Cash Shop Surprise — random equipable cash cosmetic. Searchable pool below.

Damage Skins

From v0.16a, customize how your damage numbers look. Skins you unlock are saved on your character and can be switched anytime.

Opening the picker

• Type !damageskin in chat, or
• Use the reusable Cash item Damage Skin Selector from Cash inventory.

Buying & applying

• The picker shows the meso shop catalog and the skins you already own.
• Shop skins cost mesos (default 10,000,000 mesos each). Duplicate artwork is filtered so each look appears once.
• Apply any owned skin from the picker. Your active skin is saved with the character.

Town Damage Skin Boxes

• Town Gachapon can drop a Damage Skin Box for that town.
• Double-click the box from Use to unlock one skin from that town’s exclusive pool (skins the meso shop does not sell).
• If you already own every skin in that box’s pool, the box tells you and is not consumed.
• Towns with boxes: Henesys, Ellinia, Perion, Kerning City, Sleepywood, Mushroom Shrine, Showa Spa, Ludibrium, New Leaf City, El Nath, and Nautilus Harbor.

Exotic Pet Surprise Box

Buy Exotic Pet Surprise Box in the NX Cash Shop, then double-click it from Cash inventory. You receive one random exotic pet.

Cash Shop Surprise

Buy Cash Shop Surprise in the NX Cash Shop, then open it from Cash inventory. You receive one random filler cash cosmetic. Popular looks (transparent set, classic wings, couple/friendship rings, and anything listed at 4000+ NX) stay in SHOP or town gachapon.

SoloMapling: the living world

SoloMapling is the artificial-player framework under Null.Team. It fills Maple World with autonomous characters that look, move, chat, shop, grind, party, and play minigames like real players, so the server never feels empty.

What it is (and isn't)

• What it is: Real in-server characters driven by state machines. Other clients see the same spawn, move, chat, and shop packets they would for humans.
• What it isn't: Fake nameplates or client-only decorations. Bots occupy maps, claim footholds, run Hired Merchants / player shops, and can join your party flow.
• Why it exists: Classic private servers often feel deserted. SoloMapling recreates the social density of busy Maple, towns, Free Market, training fields, even with few real players online.

How the world feels

• Towns: Ambient crowds in major cities (Henesys, Ellinia, Perion, Kerning, Sleepywood, Orbis, El Nath, plus expanded regions such as NLC, Leafre, Mu Lung, Zipangu, Shanghai, and more). Bots loiter, chat, sit chairs, wander, and run jump quests.
• Free Market: Bot Hired Merchants and player shops with procedural inventories and region-aware pricing. You can browse and buy like a normal FM.
• Training fields: Grinders pick maps by level band, use class-aware combat (flash jump, teleport, AoE, kiting), and spread across spots instead of stacking on one ledge.
• Population breathing: Grinder count tracks a fraction of real MapleStory's live Steam player count (about 1/8 of that number as the server target). Busy real-game hours feel busier; quiet hours thinner. Low-level maps stay denser; higher-level maps thin out.
• Channels: Live Scania runs 4 channels. Bots weight toward ch1-3; Free Market and Maple Island prefer channel 1; channel 4 stays quieter.

How to interact

Related commands & entry points

Rival system

A Rival is a persistent personal training partner tied to your character, not a random field grinder. They pick a job line, advance at classic thresholds, kit up as they grow, travel with real movement, and race you toward the next milestone.

How it works

• Owner list: Rivals are granted by staff. If you don't have one yet, ask on Discord, !rival will tell you if you aren't on the list yet.
• Login-gated life: Your rival spawns when you are online, on your channel, and despawns (after saving) when you log out. Their "play time" tracks yours.
• Channel sync: Change channel and they migrate with you (save -> despawn -> respawn + restore).
• Persistence: Name, level, EXP, job line, gender, map, meso, and look are saved. Restarts keep progress.
• Independent play: They grind level-appropriate maps and travel town ↔ field like any grinder.
• ~5-7 hour sync: Periodically, if you are grinding a level-appropriate map, your rival may warp in and train with you.

Pace, catch-up, and chill

Job & gear growth

• Persistent job line (Explorer branches) chosen once and saved.
• Advances at classic thresholds (mages 1st job at 8; others at 10; then 30 / 70 / 120 style progression).
• Beginners live the Maple Island -> boat -> instructor arc when starting with a low-level owner.
• Gear re-decorates on each advancement and about every 10 levels so they visibly kit up.
• Town chill uses level bands (e.g. early Henesys -> Kerning -> Perion -> Orbis -> El Nath -> Ludibrium, etc.).

Social flavour

• Opening their menu may trigger a rare greeting (warmer / more often for the owner).
• Idle mutters while a real player can see them (throttled; some lines can reference the owner).
• Voice is a chill long-time Mapler / sparring buddy, not a deity persona.
• Rival dialogue is a dedicated pack and does not leak into ordinary grinders.

Commands (owners)

Prefix ! or @. Alias: !god (legacy name for the same command).

Player commands

All player commands work with both ! and @ (example: !bank / @bank). Type !help in-game for your full list.

Shopping & currency

Inventory & selling

Info & utilities

Chat, AP & quality of life

Class / job notes vs stock v83

Null.Team keeps the classic Explorer / Cygnus / Aran job structure of v83-era Maple. There is no separate published per-skill balance sheet. Below is what matters for players day to day.

Progression & rebirth

• Cygnus & Aran starter guides: Stock-style guides are still granted.
• Rebirth paths: After level 200 + required items, rebirth as Beginner (Explorer), Noblesse (Cygnus), or Legend (Aran). Max 3 rebirths. Must be fully job-advanced before talking to the rebirth NPC. Prior-life skills can be rebound via the rebirth keybind NPC flow.

For skill-by-skill questions versus GMS v83, ask Discord or check Gumii's notes, a dedicated class guide may come later.

Custom systems & QoL

Everything below is custom or heavily modified versus a blank stock v83 install.

Gumii (NPC hub)

• Find Gumii in town for Maple Leaf Shop, warps, Jump Quests, Key Binder, Nimble, inventory expand, and Update Notes.
• Status-bar SHOP opens the NX Cash Shop cosmetics window (not Gumii's menu). See NX Cash Shop & cosmetics.
• Info: Server Information and Update Notes (current patch v0.16a).
• Town helpers: Cotton Warper (boss / Grandis / Arcane River warps with rebirth gates), Jump Quests, Key Binder, Nimble (forge / refine), Expand Inventory (Maple Leaves for extra slots).
• News Stand in town shows the same Update Notes as Gumii.

Rates & economy

• Always confirm live values with !rates / !check: events can change them temporarily.
• See NX Cash Shop & cosmetics for SHOP and NX Credit.
• Quicksell pays ~70% of merchant buy price; buyback charges that same amount.
• Town Gachapon pools include scrolls, equips, and cosmetics by rarity.

Loot timing & combat feel

• Mob loot appears after a short fixed delay synced to death animation (~450 ms).
• Mesos drop from the global drop table (HP-scaled), including from visible bot kills.
• Spell Trace drops and is pickable for StarForce upgrades.
• Cosmic NX cards can drop from monsters and grant NX on pickup (see Cash Shop).
• Quest items do not litter the ground from bot kills.

Banking, storage & inventory

• !bank: meso vault.
• !bp / Adventurer's Bag: infinity Use/ETC/Setup storage.
• !backpack on: auto-route loot into the bag when tabs are full.
• !qs / !bb: quicksell and buyback.
• Character autosave about every 60 seconds while online; logout still saves immediately.

StarForce

• Open with !starforce / !sf (or related NPC flows).
• Enhancement costs mesos and/or Spell Trace. Exact star tables may change, check the UI and Discord.

Rebirth

• Talk to the rebirth NPC when ready.
• Requirements: level 200, fully advanced job, and the rebirth item for your current count (items differ for 0->1, 1->2, 2->3).
• Choose Explorer / Cygnus / Aran path on rebirth. Cap: 3 rebirths.
• Equip unlock tiers tied to rebirth count (stats / level / fame gates, see in-game when they apply).
• Rebirth skill keybind NPC lets you bind skills from previous lives.

Client QoL

• Ladder / rope climb at 3x stock speed.
• Custom boot loading image instead of blank white/black.
• SHOP opens the NX Cash Shop cosmetics window; Gumii handles town services.

Full-featured v83 content

Null.Team includes working party quests and expeditions, guild/alliance, marriage, Maker, party search, omok/match cards, storage arrange, pet evolutions, fishing, and many quest patches. See Monster Book, Expeditions, and Combat & grinding feel for the big customs.

Combat & grinding feel

Small systems that change how day-to-day play feels. Current as of v0.16a.

Pets, potions & stats

• Pet loot: Pets can keep picking up loot while you move and attack — your controls should not freeze.
• Potions: You can use potions while attacking and while picking up your own loot without getting interrupted.
• AP / SP: Rapid clicks to assign ability and skill points apply without an extra artificial delay.

Owl, FM search & drop lookup

• Owl of Minerva includes Chaos Scrolls and Clean Slates in its searchable list.
• Free Market search can find player shops that are selling those scrolls.
• !whodrops / !wd lists monsters that drop an item and shows drop chance % on each line.

Mesos on the ground

• Mesos you drop from inventory last about 5 minutes for Bandits / Shadowers.
• Other jobs’ inventory meso drops last about 3 minutes.

Timed cash shops & chalkboards

• Miu Miu’s Travel Store and Chalkboard come in timed versions (1-day / 7-day).
• Timed copies are reusable until they expire, then they stop working.
• Multi-packs (for example x5) still consume one use each time you open them.
• Store Remote refuses stores that have already expired.

GM map buffs

• When a GM buffs the map, Shadow Partner applies to every job on the map (not only thieves).
• Those GM buffs last about 60 minutes.

Gachapon rewards

Each town gachapon has its own reward list. Every ticket first rolls a rarity, then picks one item evenly from that rarity’s list for the town you used (including a few shared rewards every town can roll).

Monster Book & Ring

Monster Book progress is account-wide, and completing cards powers a special ring.

• Shared book: Cards collected on one character appear on every other character on that account.
• Monster Book Ring: new characters start with it equipped. Do not Quicksell it (!qs blocks selling it from equip).
• Tiers: When a card hits max level, your account’s book tier advances and the ring gains stats. Relogging reapplies those bonuses.
• Older characters: If you are missing the ring, ask a GM once, or make a new character on the same account to share the book.

Expeditions & leaderboard

Boss expeditions and clear tracking are restored for classic and endgame content.

• !elb opens the Expedition Leaderboard (daily and weekly clear rankings).
• !weekly shows your weekly boss attempt status.
• Endgame expedition / event entries include Lucid, Will, Verus Hilla, Magnus, Cygnus, Hard Lotus, Von Leon, Krexel, and related content, alongside classic bosses (Zakum, Horntail, Pink Bean, etc.).
• Use Gumii's Cotton Warper for many boss / region warps (some destinations need rebirths).