Hiding & Stealth

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This page covers staying unseen: Hiding to vanish, Stealth to move while hidden, Detecting Hidden and Tracking to find others, and what gives you away. Combat use of escaping is in Combat basics → Fleeing.

Hiding — vanishing on the spot

To hide:

Stand still (you cannot hide while moving — that needs Stealth).
Activate the Hiding skill (open your skill list and use Hiding, or use a hide hotkey/macro).
On success you become invisible to other players and most creatures: “You have hidden yourself well.”; on failure: “You can’t seem to hide here.”

Your success chance scales with your Hiding skill — higher skill hides more reliably and in riskier situations (near enemies). Standing still and being away from observers helps; some clients/contexts add modifiers (unverified specifics).

While hidden you do not appear on screen to others and are skipped by many auto-targeting attacks — until something reveals you (see below).

Stealth — moving while hidden

Plain Hiding drops the moment you take a step. Stealth lets you move without breaking your hidden state:

To stealth:

Hide first (you must already be hidden to begin stealthing).
Move one tile at a time; the Stealth skill is checked on each step.

You can stealth a limited number of steps before you must re-check or risk being revealed; the number of safe steps scales with your Stealth skill (higher skill = more steps). Exact step counts are unverified — see Stealth.
Stealthing is generally slower than open running and works best unarmored or in light armor (heavy armor penalizes stealth — unverified specifics).
A failed Stealth check reveals you; re-hide and continue.

Detecting Hidden — revealing others

Detecting Hidden finds nearby hidden players and creatures.

To detect:

Use the Detecting Hidden skill.
Target an area/spot you suspect a hidden character is in.
On success any hidden target within range is revealed.

Higher Detecting Hidden vs the hider’s Hiding/Stealth determines whether you find them. This is the active counter to stealthers — guards, anti-thieves, and PvPers train it.

Tracking — finding creatures and players

Tracking locates nearby mobiles even if they are not in view.

To track:

Use the Tracking skill.
Choose a category (animals, monsters, humanoids/people, etc.) from the menu.
You get a list/arrow toward the nearest matching targets within range.

Higher Tracking shows targets at greater range and can help reveal or at least locate stealthers (Tracking can detect the presence/direction of hidden movers — combine with Detecting Hidden to pin them down). Useful for hunting, scouting, and catching thieves.

What reveals you

You lose your hidden state when you:

Attack or take a hostile action.
Cast a spell (casting reveals you — RevealingAction).
Use a bandage or many skills/items (the bandage code calls RevealingAction on use — see Healing).
Take damage / are hit.
Are adjacent to certain creatures or stand too close for too long (proximity reveal — unverified specifics).
Are caught by Detecting Hidden or a Reveal spell (Magery 6th circle), which forcibly unhides everyone in an area.

In short: acting reveals you. Hiding/Stealth is for moving and observing, not for acting while invisible.

Uses for hiding and stealth

Escaping — break line of sight, then Hide to drop pursuers and recover or Recall away.
Scouting — Stealth into a dungeon or PvP zone to spot enemies, count numbers, and find loot without being seen.
Thief play — Stealing and Snooping pair with Hiding/Stealth to lift items and slip away; see Notoriety & PvP for the criminal flags this triggers.
Assassin play — Stealth into position, open with a strong hit or a Ninjitsu move; note attacking immediately reveals you.