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DemonicDarkwraith -> Game Log (11/18/2025 15:12:52)
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Game Log
Access Point: Click the Scroll on the lower-right section of the main UI, ';' Keyboard Control
Requirements: None
Release Date: October 8th, 2021
General Mechanics
The Game Log shows information on what happens in-game and in battles, including damage/healing, buffs and debuffs, in-game notifications and more.
When the Game Log is open, in-game notifications will be suppressed, and instead added to the Log.
The ; (semicolon) can be used to hide or show the Game Log.
The ' (apostrophe) key can be used to toggle the log between System and Battle logs.- System Log is signified by the white color while Battle Log is signified by the red color.
To scroll through previous log messages, you can put your mouse cursor over the log window and scroll using the mouse wheel.
If the External Log is not selected, the Game Log will appear in the top left corner.
The Game Log has a limit of 150,000 characters.
System and Battle Logs
The System Log shows information on what happens in-game such as notifications and more.
- The System Log will show only the quest, pop-up notifications, and more.
- Quest entered: Entered quest: <x>
- Quest complete: Completed quest: <x>
- System Log will start at default and will have a unique message: 'Welcome to DragonFable! -<engine version #>-'.
The Battle Log shows information during battles and more.
- The Battle Log will show only the turn count, skills used, damage/healing, damage type, player's equipment, Bonus, and Crit.
- The turn count is shown before any message ([#]:).
- Skill used: <Player/Pet/Guest> used skill: <x>; trinkets and On-Demand weapon specials are treated as skills and are exclusive to the player.
- Health and Mana Potions: <x> drinks a <Health/Mana> potion; this is exclusive to the player and guests.
- Pet and Guest skip: <Pet/Guest> skips a turn.
- Direct damage landed or glanced: <x> <critically> hits/glances <y> for <#> <element> <damage type> damage with <#> Bonus and <#> Crit (to MP).
- Direct damage missed: <x> misses <y> with a <damage type> attack with <#> Bonus.
- DoT damage to <HP/MP>: <x> takes <y> <element> (MP) damage from <DoT effect>.
- Monster healed from direct damage: <x> heals <y> with -<#> <element> damage.
- HP/MP recovery: <x> recovers <y> <HP/MP>.
- HP/MP recovery from HoT effects: <x> recovers <y> <HP/MP> from <HoT effect>.
- Healed for 0 HP: <x>s HP was adjusted.; this occurs on attacks/effects that sets player/target's HP or adjusted heals that ignore Health/All Resists.
- HP/MP damage taken from effects: <x> takes <y> damage (to MP).
- Equipment swap: <x> equipped <y> to the <Weapon/Back/Finger/Head/Neck/Waist/Wrist/Pet> slot; <Weapon/Back/Finger/Head/Neck/Waist/Wrist/Pet> signifies the order of weapon, cape/wings, ring, helm, belt, bracer, and pet slots respectively.
- Player/pet/guest/monster affected by a stun effect: <x> is <not> immobilized by <Stun effect>. <Rolled (y) against (z) Immobility resist.>; roll to resist the stun is exclusive to the player.
- Player/guest/monster defeated: <x> defeated <y>.
In both System and Battle Logs, it will show buffs/debuffs as well as the battle against a monster.
- Beginning of a battle: Battle against <monster> begins.
- Effect applied: <effect> applied to <x>.
- Effect expired/purged: <effect> fades from <x>.
- Monster(s) defeated: Battle won.
- Player flees: <Player> fled the battle.
- Player defeated: Battle lost.
External Log
If the External Log was toggled from the Options Interface, the Game Log will appear side by side or pop out from the game's window instead of the top left corner.
External Log is scrollable, selectable (for copy/paste), and also responds to keybinds.
External Log has a button to clear the Game Log.
Other information
The Game Log shows information on what happens in-game and in battles; more information can be found in the October 8th, 2021 Design Notes.
Turn numbers were added to the Battle Log on October 15th, 2021.
Healing for 0 HP message was turned to HP was adjusted on March 3rd, 2023.
The Battle Log was updated to show damage type, Bonus, and Crit on June 23rd, 2023.
Potion, Trinket, and Pet and Guests turn skips were added to the Battle Log on November 24th, 2023.
Roll to resist the stun effect was added to the Battle Log on February 14th, 2025.
The following changes were implemented on November 14th, 2025:
- The Game Log was updated to be always available.
- The External Log was introduced.
- The Game Log was updated from 75,000 to 150,000 characters.
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