Auction:
It is possible to trade items and stackable items, with other players all over Calypso, via the auction, placed in a small number of cities.
There is a 1 PED fee to sell an item via the auction.

Armour:
Calypso is a hostile world where you may be subject to attack from creatures and players.
Armour will help you defeating creatures and players as they offer protection from various types of attack.

Amethera:
Amethera is the second, and one of the two habitable continents on Calypso. Amethera is also the continent where the land area battles are held. (Land grabs or LAB)

Ammunition:
All ranged weapons will require ammunition to work. This ammunition can be bought from the Trade terminal.

Amplifiers:
It is possible to add an amplifier to a large range of weapons, making them deal more damage.

Attachments:
You can add attachments to your ranged weapons and armor for improvement of their statistics.

Avatars:
Your avatar is your virtual character in Project-Entropia. When your avatar is created upon first login it can not be altered later.
You create your own avatar in never before seen detail.

Autorun:
If you are running great distances you may prefer to let your avatar run on its own. This is done either by double clicking in the sky while in "mouse pointer mode" or by setting a hotkey for autorun.

BLP weapons:
BLP weapons work by firing projectiles at the enemy.
BLP often requires higher maintenance, but they also deals more damage.

Blue prints:
All avatars can craft selected items provided they have the blue print for the item.
When crafting the avatar needs to stand infront of a Crafting machine and have the minerals the desired blue print needs.

Calypso:
Calypso is the planet where Project-Entropia was launched.
Rumours of new planets and continents are circulating.

Chatting:
To chat with other players you have two options.
Either you can press enter and type you message and press enter again. This will send out a message to all the people that can hear you.
The other option is to interact with a person and select "chat".

Crafting:
All avatars can craft selected items provided they have the blue print for the item.
The process of crafting an item requires a blueprint, minerals and a crafting machine.
The avatar select the blueprint he/she wishes to craft an item from. He/she then places the required minerals in the crafting machine.
The machine, depending on the players skill and quality rating on the blue print, will then make the item thus transferring the minerals into an actual usable item.

Crafting machine:
A crafting machine can be found in almost all major cities on Calypso. It is used for crafting items which can be used in Project-Entropia.

Creatures:
Calypso is inhabited by a number of hostile creatures of whom a large portion will attack you.
You can defend your self by using weapons.

Cities:
There are a number if cities formed all over Eudoria. Those cities will offer you protection with its gun turrets should a creature approach.
You can get from one city to another provided you have the teleporter information from the City you wishes to Teleport to.

Client loader:
The client loader is the gateway to Project-Entropia from the real world.
It will automatically update the game each time you enter the virtual universe.

Crash To Desktop:
This is commonly known as "CTD". It happens when you system gets out of synchronisation with the Project-Entropia server.

Deposit money:
If you wish to deposit money into the virtual universe it's made possible by the bank icon found in the bottom part of your screen when you log in. Press the bank icon (D) and follow the guide lines.
Note: In order to use the ingame deposit feature you much have activated you credit card, or verified your paynova wallet. ( www.paynova.com )

Economy:
The economy of the virtual universe is determined by the player. The Trade terminal automatically puts a price tag on all items so the player can see what the Trade terminal think the item is worth.
The Trade terminal will offer less than players are willing to pay though.
There are a number of ways to sell an item to another player, either by auction, participant run shops or direct trade with another player.

Eudoria:
Eudoria is the first, and one of the two habitable continents on Calypso.

Fast keys:
When you are inside the virtual universe there are the possibility to assign fast keys to your different items.
This is done by pressing "b" or clicking the "fast keys" icon.

Friend list:
Project-Entropia offers a friend list where you can communicate with your friends even though you aren’t within hearing range.
To access your friend list you must press "j" or clicking the "friends" icon.

Hangar:
There are several hangar placed all over Eudoria. They are owned by players and they each have a space ship inside.
Hangars can be bought from the players or the Auction if new hangars are built.

Help:
To access the ingame help panel press "h"

Houses:
Some buildings on Calypso are owned by participants and they have full control over those buildings.
Participants can set up shops on their property.

HUD:
The HUD or "Heads Up Display" shows important information about your avatar and interaction with other participants.

Hunting:
If you desire to hunt animals on calypso you need a weapon to kill it.
When you have killed an animal you get loot from it which can be sold.

Ingame help panel:
By pressing "h" ingame a help panel will emerge.

Ingame options:
When you are ingame there is a lot of custom settings which can be changed. To access the ingame options press "o".

Improve game performance:
Free as many resources as possible on your computer.
This include lowering the color depth to 16 bit.
Lowering resolution avatar textures and
Reduced visual effects.
Low resolution icons.
Turning off sound.

Interact with other participants:
To interact with other participants you must stand close and click on them with the right mouse button.

Justice:
Currently there are no police on Calypso.

LAB:
Land area battle (Land grab) Battle for pieces of land on the continent Amethera.

Lag:
Lag is a combination of a number of elements.
Those elements consist, amongst others, of:
Your connection to the Internet.
Your graphics card.
Your hard disk.
Your CPU.

When lag occurs it is usually occurring like this:

Your client enters a highly populated area.
The server will then send a large amount of data to your system, which tells your system how to draw all the non-static models.
This stress your CPU, graphics card and hard disk causing lag. Another reason for lag is when your system has to draw a lot of static models.For instance when you walk in a forest the system is stressed due to the vast amount of models it has to present.

Laser sights:
If you add one or two laser sights to your weapon you will increase your skill by a certain percentage thus boosting your chances of a successful usage of the equipment.

Laser weapons:
The laser weapons are using laser to kill the enemy. They have a low maintenance cost but doesn’t deal as much damage as BLP weapons.

Lot deed:
You can own a part of the land on Calypso. If you own any land you will have a lot deed to prove it. On you land you can set up a shop.

Loot:
Loot is the items dead creatures offers to the player who kills the creature.
If any city gun turret kill the creature there is no loot on the creature.

Map:
By pressing "m" ingame a map of your current continent will emerge.

Melee weapons:
Melee weapons doesn’t require ammunition but they have a very high maintenance price.

Mining:
When you mine for minerals you need a detectonator, an excavator and a number of seismic bombs.All the equipment for mining can be bought in the Trade Terminal.

MindArk AB:
The creators of the virtual universe.

mIRC:
There is a fan based Project-Entropia IRC channel on PEChat network.
Connect to irc.pechat.net:6667 and enter #Project-Entropia
There you will find other participants, game developers and this site's admin. 

NPC:
"Non player controlled" or "Non playing character". Such as the auctioneer and technichian.

Octacon:
The octagon is a boxing ring, found in selected cities, where players can fight each other without fearing that creatures will interfere.

Orange juice:
Orange juice is slang for a newcommer. As a newcommer you are wearing an orange jump suite, hence the name Orange Juice or OJ.

Project Entropia Dollars:
Project-Entropia uses its own currency called Project-Entropia Dollars (PED).
With PED's you can pay for everything inside Project-Entropia.

Player versus Player:
There are several places on calypso where players can harm each other.
Those zones are marked with a red circle on the map.

PED
PED or Project-Entropia Dollars is the currency in Project-Entropia. 10 PED equals 1 UDS.

PED Card
The PED Card is your virtual credit card.

Quality rating:
Each blueprint has a quality rating. This is a representation of your chances of success in crafting this item.

Radar
In the Heads up display or HUD there is a radar placed at the far right hand side.
The red dots are alive animals, the green dots are humans, the blue dots are dead animals, the yellow dots are team members and the white dots are dead humans.

Repair terminal:
When an item is used it will wear down. By placing the item in the Repair Terminal and repairing it the item will work better.

Rewival terminal:
When you die in Project-Entropia you must use a rewival terminal to rewive your self. This is done by clicking with the right mouse button on the rewival terminal.

Server maintenance:
Project-Entropia is a massive game where all the participants are forming the world in a real-time environment.
This means that items dropped will stay on the ground until picked up, creatures will interact with players and enormous amounts of data has to be processed by the servers.All of this has to be stored in a database, which if just a single error occurs can get corrupt.The server maintenance is there to update small parts of the code that runs Project-Entropia and repair any part of the database which might not be running at max capacity.

Scopes:
You can add a scope to you range weapon to get a better view of creatures far away

Skills:
Skills represent your ability to use an item. The higher skill you have, the better your chances are of using the item efficiently.

Shop:
A participant can own a shop, provided the participant owns a lot deed to place the shop on.

Society:
A society is a group of people who work together towards a common goal.

Space ship:
If you own a hangar you have a space ship, which will be used to explore new planets.

Stackable items:
Stackable items are: animal hides, animal bones, ammo, minerals, paint and money.

Storage:
In each large city there are a storage unit where u can store items you don’t use.

Tools:
There are a number of tools available to the participants.
Those include Scanners, Mining Tools and Tailoring tools.

Trade:
To earn money in Project-Entropia you can sell items to other players.
This is done by opening a trade with the player. Another possibility is to sell the item via the Auction.

Trade Terminal:
The Trade Terminal (TT) is the system store. Here you can buy the basic equipment and sell items to the system.

VU:
Version update.

Weapons:
An essential part for surviving on Calypso is the ability to fight for your life should a creature attack you. By owning a weapon you can fight for your life.
There are several different kinds of weapons. Finding the weapon that suits you best can be hard and you need to understand the different weapon systems.

Withdraw money:
You have the possibility to withdraw money from Project-Entropia. This is done by clicking the bank icon in the bottom of the screen.

Zoom:
To use a scope you must zoom. This is done by rolling the mouse wheel or using Page up and Page down.