ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

1. Are daggers and knifes the same? I mean are daggers fall under knife mastery generic?
2. How to use potion of saving life? Just keeping it i inventory doesn't resurrect.
3. How to use pickaxe ?
4. where can I find comprehensive spoilerless documentation? (like answer to question 1.-3.) Or there is no suppose to be?
5. UI mouse problem(15b): In G levelup menu I was unable to move menus entries up/down if it's a border entry (near top or bottom of the window) move mouse above/below windowdo nothing, have to use keys.
6. Wish: remove mana resurgency rune from hybrid fighters(arcane sw/shadowblade etc) and give them slow mana regen instead. Resurgency rune is both too strong and annoying micromangement. It add nothing to gameplay.
7. Why some critters tiled and some alphanumeric? Is the game in the process of tiling?
8. Is the items on the ground remain forever or they will disappear eventually?

1.) Yes
2.) Try drinking it and see what happens
3.) Wield it into your tool slot and then use it
4.) I think there will be, at this point there is not...you can check the wiki though but not sure it's been updated for the beta 14 changes
5.) -
6.) Grab another rune/insurgency and replace the one you have
7.) Game is still beta, more tiles are being added with every release
8.) They will disappear eventually and that time is different for dungeons and towns I believe.

For #8, in older releases, the towns could be used as nonvolatile storage -- items dropped on the ground in a town would remain there forever. However, this changed recently (beta 14 or 15, I think). Items dropped in a town will disappear now.

The only permanent storage currently in the game besides your inventory are vaults. Any vault, in any dungeon, I believe, although I'd tend to favor the ones that had a locked door, just in case.