Realm Domination/Action Bar and Bag

The HUD's Action Bar and Bag let you see your flags and choose siege and planting actions. The Realm display shows the region's capture bar while you play.

Action Bar and Bag layout

The HUD's settings button opens a menu with Settings and Action bar. Choose Settings for your HUD options. Choose Action bar to show or hide the Action Bar, Bag, and Realm display.

The Action Bar has twelve shortcut slots, arranged in two rows of six. The Bag button sits at the left end, the movement handle at the right end, and the Realm display above the bar. The Bag opens above its button with twelve cells, arranged three across and four down, plus page arrows.

The number of cells or shortcuts is not your flag allowance. All your flags share one stack, with a carrying limit of six.

Open and close the Action Bar

1. Click the HUD's settings button.
2. Choose Action bar.
3. Choose Action bar again when you want to hide it.

Closing the bar also hides the Bag and Realm display. The bar remembers its open or closed choice, its position, and its assigned shortcuts. The Bag starts closed when you return.

Closing the bar does not leave Realm Domination. You can still count in a battle with the display hidden. Use Take part on the website to opt out.

Move the Action Bar

1. Press and hold the movement handle at the right end of the bar.
2. Drag the bar to a comfortable position.
3. Release the mouse button.

The Bag and Realm display move with it. The position is saved. If the handle is outside the visible screen area, move the main HUD into view using its usual movement control so you can reach the bar, then place the bar where you want it.

Open and browse the Bag

1. Open the Action Bar.
2. Click the Bag button at its left end.
3. Click a flag stack to open its actions.
4. Click the Bag button again to close the Bag.

The flag stack shows how many flags you carry. Page arrows report the selected page in chat, such as Next page: 1/1. If there is only one page, an arrow does not create another page or another flag stack.

Use the flag dialog

Click a flag in the Bag to open a dialog headed Flag ×N, where N is your number of flags.

Button	What it does
Lay Siege	Begins a siege against an enemy-controlled region. You must carry a flag, but starting the siege spends none.
Use	Plants a flag when the region and your character allow it. A successful plant spends one flag.
Assign	Lets you put a flag shortcut on an Action Bar slot.
Close	Closes the flag dialog and the Bag.

Lay Siege and Use appear only when available at your current location. If you are sitting, flying, or off the ground, the dialog can say Stand on the ground first. After landing, allow the HUD to update and reopen the dialog if necessary. A dialog closes automatically after 30 seconds.

Browsing the Bag, assigning a shortcut, and moving the bar do not spend flags.

Assign and clear a shortcut

1. Open the Bag and click your flag.
2. Choose Assign.
3. Click the Action Bar slot where you want the shortcut.
4. Later, click that slot to open the flag dialog directly.

From an assigned slot, the dialog can offer Lay Siege, Use, Clear, and Close. Choose Clear to remove that shortcut. Your flags remain in the Bag. Close from a shortcut closes only the dialog.

A shortcut points to your existing flag stack. Assigning several shortcuts does not create more flags. Shortcuts are saved and can remain assigned when your flag balance reaches zero, ready for when you earn more.

If you click a shortcut just after arriving in a region, the dialog may wait until the region information has loaded.

Read the Realm display

The top line names your current region. The next line describes its state, team, and bar. Some team names are shortened to fit; click the display to read fuller information in chat.

Display label	Meaning
Unclaimed	No team owns the region. An eligible player can plant a flag to begin a claim.
Controlled	A team owns the region. The percentage shows that owner's control, even if the bar is damaged or at zero.
Under siege	The owner's bar is being fought over without a planted flag. The owner cannot lose the region from this alone.
Under attack	A flag has been planted against the owner. The display names the owner and the flag's team.
Contested	The percentage now shows the flag team's claim. If the region already has an owner, Held by names that owner until the claim reaches 100%.
Protected	The owner has temporary Realm capture protection. Ordinary combat rules still apply.

For example, Under attack · Defending team · 40% · Flag: Attacking team shows the defender's remaining control. Later, Contested · Attacking team · 12% · Held by Defending team shows the attacker's growing claim. The defending team still owns the region at that point.

Click the Realm display to print fuller status in chat, including protection time when applicable, whether a flag is ready to plant, and how many flags you carry.

Influence and availability messages

An orange line can explain why you are not influencing the bar.

Message	What to do
Your influence fades · touch the ground	Return to a supporting surface and stay on foot.
Your influence returns…	Give the HUD a few seconds to confirm that you are ready again.
Too swift · your influence scatters	Return to ordinary walking or running speed.
Sanctuary · your influence sleeps	You are on Systemland or in a safe zone. Move outside the sanctuary or safe zone to participate.

Other messages can include Join Realm to play, Cannot capture right now, Capture unavailable here, Realm paused, Realm unavailable, or Realm access suspended. Read these alongside the region state: a Controlled or Unclaimed label does not override a restriction on taking part.

An unclaimed safe location may show Claimed by The Darkness. This is a sanctuary message, not an opposing team you can defeat.

Loading region… is normal briefly after arrival. Reconnecting to Realm… means you should wait for an updated display before trying to plant. Realm display unavailable means the HUD cannot currently show usable Realm information; check again after it reconnects.

Chat notices and attack alerts

Local Realm notices tell you about events such as Siege begun, Flag planted, Flag ready to plant, Flag broken, Region captured, and Protection ended. Read the current display as well as the chat history; an earlier notice may describe a state that has since changed.

When an enemy plants a flag in territory your team owns, opted-in teammates with reachable working HUDs receive an attack alert, including teammates elsewhere. It names the planter and includes a clickable region map link. Laying siege without planting does not send this team alert.

The alert can also play a sound that only you hear. Change your own Attack alert sound setting under My campaign → Settings on the website. Turning it off keeps the chat alert. Your HUD's usual alert-sounds option does not control this Realm sound, and your choice does not change anyone else's sound.

Continue with Flags, Capturing and Defending, or the Website Guide.