Adding Friends

Friends are an important part of Seeker's Notes: Mysteries of Darkwood. Although it is possible to advance very far in game, completing all available Quests and gathering every item you need without Friends, you can advance faster with a little help from your Friends, and many would argue that interacting with their Friends is one of their favourite parts of the game.

There are a number of ways to Add Friends to your Game, using the Friends Window.

Accessing Friends Sections
The bottom of the Darkwood Town Map allows you to access many important areas of the game. There are 7 bubbles located at the bottom of the map, each of which opens up a different area.

The Friends icon (7) is the bubble on the right hand side of the map. Tapping on the Friends icon (7) will bring up three options in the form of three sub-bubbles. Tapping the Friends Icon a second time will hide the three sub-bubbles again. The Friends Window is accessed by pressing the sub-bubble with the image of two people (7B).

The Friends Window
The second sub-bubble (B) brings up the Friends Window. There are three tabs in the Friends Window:
 * Friends - lists your current friends
 * Invite - displays your friend code; allows you to enter the friend code of another player; allows you to add a friend through Facebook; and gives the option to invite 6 random players to be friends every 8 hours.
 * Waiting - displays players you have invited to become friends with but who have not accepted your invite yet and players who have invited you to become friends but are waiting for you to accept their invitation.

Current Friends - the 'Friends' tab
The 'Friends' tab is the default open tab when you open the Friends Window. Here your current Friends are listed. Each Friend's entry initially contains some basic information about the Friend but can be used to view more detailed information.

The Friend's name is listed at the top of their entry. Beneath this, in the centre of the box, the Friend's Game Level and Reputation Level is given. If the Friend has connected their game to a Facebook account, then the name of that Facebook account will be displayed above their Game level in a blue box.

The Friend's Avatar is displayed in the centre of the box, next to the Game and Reputation levels. Each Avatar shows the symbol for the Friend's Talent in the bottom left corner and a 'favourite star' slot in the top right corner. If the Friend is marked as a Favourite friend, the favourite star will be gold with a red background. If not, the star and background will both be grey. Tapping anywhere on the Avatar will bring up a detailed information box about that friend. This information box contains extra information about the player's game stats including how many Friends they have; how many Collections they have combined; how much Energy they currently have and how much their maximum Energy is; how many Quests they have completed and how many Puzzles they have won in total.

The Friend's Avatar in the information box also shows their Talent symbol and 'Favourite star', but here you can interact with them.

Tapping on the Talent symbol will bring up a description of what that Talent does. Tapping on the favourite star will activate it or de-activate it if it is already active. This will add that Friend to your Favourite list, which means that they will be listed at the start of your Friends list both in the Friends list window and in the list of Friends that appears at the bottom of the screen when you are visiting a friend. If multiple friends are listed as Favourites, then they will appear at the beginning of your Friends list in the order of their game level, from highest to lowest.

The main entry for the Friend in the Friends List contains two buttons - 'Hire' and 'Visit'. Pressing Hire will hire that Friend for the next play of a Location or a Puzzle game. This will give you the benefit of their Talent for one play. Their entry will be highlighted for the duration of the time they are hired. You can only Hire each friend once per day, after which the 'Hire' button will become an 'Energize' button. Pressing this will give you the option of paying with Rubies to enable another Hire of that friend (see Using Darkwood Town Map to Hire Friends section).

Hint: If you Hire a friend and then fail the next play of a Location or Puzzle, the Hire will not be used. You can get still the benefit of the Hire during your next attempt.

Pressing Visit will bring you to your friends Darkwood Town map. Here you will see their unlocked Locations and Puzzles as well as their Trophy levels. You may receive a daily bonus of extra experience points and coins for visiting some friends. The number of Friends you can receive a Daily Bonus for is equal to your current Reputation level. For each friend you visit, you will be able to help them a certain number of times by charging their Locations and Puzzles. By charging your Friend's Locations and Puzzles you will give them the benefit of your Talent for the next play of that Location or Puzzle (unless your charge is over-written by another of their friends visiting later). You cannot charge Trophies or Crafting Locations (Fortune Teller; Blacksmith; Inventor). For each Location of Puzzle you charge, you will receive a reputation point and some experience points, and coins. You may also receive a random Collection item. The number of charges you are allowed per friend is dependent on your current reputation level.

As you visit your Friend's map, the Townspeople and Monsters they have unlocked in their game will also be floating about their maps. You can interact with these Townspeople (to Trade for items) and Monsters (to banish for items) even if you have not unlocked them in your game yet. You will receive the reward if you Trade with a Friend's Towns-person or Banish a Friend's Monster. Each Trade or Banish will count as one of your charges for that friend for that day.

Inviting Friends - the 'Invite' Tab
The Second Tab in the Friends List is the Invite Tab. The top left box in the Invite tab, called 'Invitation Code' gives your Friend Code. You can give this to other people so that they can invite you to be friends in the game. This code is permanent and will not change. This code is also your unique user ID number, and is used to identify your game to the game servers and the game developers. You should quote this code when ever you are contacting the game's Support.

You can also invite other players from the Invite Tab. There are three ways to do this. You can add a Friend code supplied to you by another player by pressing 'Enter' in the top middle box 'Invitation from a friend'. A keyboard will come up allowing you to enter their code. If the code is correct, the player will be added to your Waiting tab until they accept or reject your invitation to become a friend. You can also post your code to Facebook by pressing 'Invite' in either the 'Invitation Code' box or the 'Facebook' box. This will allow you to request your Facebook friends to invite you in their games. The bottom three boxes contain random players generated for you to invite as friends. Then they will appear in your Waiting Tab and you will have the choice of accepting or rejecting their friend invitation. You are allowed to invite 6 random friends every 8 hours. You can view the random players detailed game information by tapping on their Avatars. You can also visit their Darkwood Town maps by pressing the 'Visit' button, but you will not be able to charge their boards while you visit them as you are not yet Friends with them. You can invite the random player to become game Friends by pressing the 'Add' button. They will then go to your Waiting Tab until they either accept or reject your invitation.

Note: all players are included in the pool that the Random list is generated from. This includes people who have stopped playing the game. If you do not get a response from a Random player you have invited, it is possible that they have simply stopped playing the game.

Accepting Friend Requests - the 'Waiting' tab
The Final tab in the Friends List Window is the Waiting Tab. The waiting tab is the Friends waiting room. This is where all players you invite to become friends go while you wait for them to either accept or reject your Friend invitation. You cannot interact with people you have invited while they are in your Waiting Tab. If they accept your invitation they will automatically be added to your Friends List the next time you connect to the game's servers. If they reject your invitation they will simply disappear from the Waiting Tab, you will not be notified. If someone else invites you to become game friends, they will also appear in your Friends list. However, in this case you will be the one with options to Accept or Reject. If you Accept the invitation, the Friend will automatically be added to your Friends list. If you Reject the invitation, the player will disappear from your Waiting Tab (and you from theirs). They will not be notified.

Adding Friends by Code
adding friends by code

Adding Friends Through Random Invite System
adding friends by invite system

Related

 * SN Home
 * Friends
 * Gifting Friends
 * Visiting Friends
 * Hiring Friends
 * Player Talents