How players find each other, send friend requests, see who's online, and block players.

Friends & Blocking

The friends list is how players keep track of each other: who's online, which map they're on, and a quick way to whisper them. The same system holds each player's block list.

This is a fixed engine system. It works in every world without any setup, and there are no per-world numbers to tune. Your controls are the feature flag and how the panel looks.

Where to author it#

What	Where
Turn the whole system on or off	World → Features → Friends. See Feature Flags
Hide or re-skin the panel that holds the Friends tab	Settings → UI / HUD → Panels → Social / Friends. See UI & HUD Editor
Preset or lock the player's social settings	Settings → UI / HUD → Panels → Settings, Gameplay tab. See In-Game Settings Panel

How players use it#

Open Fellowship → Friends.
Type at least two letters of a character's name in the search box. The search matches the start of names, shows up to 10 characters, and includes players who are offline.
Pick a name to send a friend request.
If the other player is online, they get an invite card and a chat line saying who asked. They accept or decline from the card or from the Pending tab.
Once they accept, each player shows up on the other's list.

The Friends tab#

Section	What it shows
Friends	Online friends first, each with the name of the map they're on, then offline friends. Each row has Whisper, Remove and Block
Pending	Friend requests waiting for this player's answer
Blocked	Everyone this player has blocked, with the block type and an Unblock button

When a friend logs in or out, everyone who has them as a friend gets a chat line ("… is now online" or "… went offline"), and the dot beside their name changes.

Removing a friend removes the friendship on both lists.

Blocking#

A player picks the block type from a friend's Block menu:

Block type	What it actually does
Soft block	Ends any friendship between you and puts the player on your Blocked list. They can still send you requests and whisper you
Full block	Everything a soft block does. On top of that, their whispers to you are silently dropped (they see no error), and their friend requests are refused with "Unable to send friend request"

Neither block type hides the blocked player's lines in Say, Zone, Global, Party or Guild chat. Neither stops them inviting you to a party or trade, or duelling you.

Player settings that affect friends#

These live in the player's Settings → Gameplay → Social. You can hide them, lock them or change where they start from the Settings panel editor.

Setting	What it does
Hide whispers from strangers	Stops whispers from people who aren't friends, guildmates or party members appearing in chat. This only filters what the player sees: the whisper is still delivered
Auto-decline party & trade invites	Automatically declines every incoming invite card, including friend requests, guild and alliance invites

Limits#

Rule	Value
Friends per player	No cap
Search	At least 2 characters, prefix match, at most 10 results, never includes yourself
Invite card on screen	Disappears after 5 minutes. The request itself stays pending
Adding yourself	Refused
Duplicate request	Refused with "Friend request already pending"
Request to a character that doesn't exist	Refused with "Player not found."

Gotchas#

Three ways to send a request. The search box in Fellowship → Friends, Add Friend on a player's right-click menu, and Add Friend on a name in the chat log all do the same thing.
Only the player who received a request can accept it. The sender sees nothing to accept. Adding someone who has already sent you a request accepts theirs.
Offline players get the request at their next login. It is saved on the server, and its invite card appears when they log in. The card disappears after 5 minutes, but the request stays in their Pending list until they answer it.
The Whisper button picks the recipient. It switches chat to the Whisper channel addressed to that friend, so the player just types the message. See Chat.
Removing a friend never lifts a block. If the other player has blocked you, their block stays.
Turning Friends off removes the Friends tab. The server then refuses every friend, search and block action. Whispers keep working, because they belong to chat, not to this system.
The social panel disappears entirely only when Parties, Friends and Guilds are all off.