Building
Extremely wip, thanks to Kvetch for the guides
Room editing
So, I created my own room building guide, hopefully to help new builders as they stumble their way through building on 4D. I'm always glad to help, but I'm not always around, so here you go!
This is what you will see when you first redit a room:
-- Room number : [4400] Room zone: [44] 1) Name : An unfinished room 2) Description : You are in an unfinished room. 3) Room flags : NOBITS 4) Sector type : Inside 5) Exit north : -1 - Nowhere 6) Exit east : -1 - Nowhere 7) Exit south : -1 - Nowhere 8) Exit west : -1 - Nowhere 9) Exit up : -1 - Nowhere A) Exit down : -1 - Nowhere B) Descriptions : Extra C) Descriptions : night description Not Set. E) Descriptions : Look under F) Descriptions : Look behind G) Descriptions : Look above H) Smell : You smell nothing interesting. I) Listen : You hear nothing interesting. J) Mine : Num: -1 Level: -1 Tool: None R) Descriptions : Quests flagged - NOT SET S) Script : Not Set. Q) Quit
Now we will change these one by one and show you how to do it.
-- Room number : [4400] Room zone: [44]
The room number and room zone can not be changed. This is the room you are editing and the zone it is in – hopefully your zone.
1) Name : An unfinished room
Let’s change the name of the room. This is what will be at the top of the screen when someone walks into that room. This should be something like the name of the street they are on, what’s most obvious in the hallway they’re in or the special thing about the room they are in. Room 4400 is one of the rooms that’s around the path of the Dragon
Master’s fort (zone 44). So, we’ll change this to:
1) Name : Dragon Fort Northern Wall
This tells us exactly where it is in the Dragon Fort zone.
2) Description :
You are in an unfinished room.
This is the actual description of the room. As you see, it starts out with “You are in an unfinished room.” Well, we want to make the room finished. This is where you show the players what they see in their immediate surroundings – whether it be a room or outside area. Remember that small details can be added later. So, you can describe that there is a pine tree here and later go into descriptions of a knot in the tree if you wish – the knot in the tree does not have to be supplied here. If you’re going to make a pine tree object though, you don’t need to describe it in the room description as it will load as an extra object. For our example room, there isn’t much too it as it’s just a path around the Dragon Fort so, we’ll put in this:
The dirt path created by adventurers like you tramping around the outer wall of the fort continues to the east and west. The wall itself is devoid of any hand or foot holds making it impossible to scale for humans, animals or even plant life. Not that there is any plant life around here to speak of as its all been worn away.
Always use /f when you’re finished with your description. This will format it to the screen without the indent (Molly doesn’t like the indent).
3) Room flags : NOBITS
This is where you get to make your room special by adding flags to it. Is it dark so you need a light source or infravision to see in it? Is it a deathtrap so anyone entering automatically falls to their death? The choices of roomflags in 4D are many and make sure you choose the right one for your room. Here are the choices:
1) DARK 2) DEATH 3) !MOB 4) INDOORS 5) PEACEFUL 6) SOUNDPROOF 7) !TRACK 8) !MAGIC 9) TUNNEL 10) PRIVATE 11) GODROOM 12) HOUSE 13) HCRSH 14) ATRIUM 15) OLC 16) * 17) VEHICLE 18) !RECALL 19) ARENA 20) GOOD 21) EVIL 22) HP 23) MANA 24) MOVE 25) ROLEPLAY 26) !TELEPORT IN 27) !TELEPORT OUT 28) !SUMMON IN 29) !SUMMON OUT 30) WILDERNESS 31) !VIEW 32) DO_NOT_USE 33) GOLD DEPOSIT 34) SILVER DEPOSIT 35) COPPER DEPOSIT 36) IRON DEPOSIT 37) ANTIMONY DEPOSIT 38) CHROMIUM DEPOSIT 39) QUARRY 40) COAL MINE 41) SPRING 42) PASTURE 43) DRAGONPORT 44) TIN DEPOSIT 45) PLASTONIUM DEPOSIT 46) BURNING
The path around Dragon Fort has nothing special to it, so we made no changes.
4) Sector type : Inside
There are plenty of types of sectors including air (need to be able to fly), space (need a space suit), or even the benign forest or inside. The default is inside. Here is the list of choices you will come across:
0) Inside 1) City 2) Field 3) Forest 4) Hills 5) Mountains 6) Water (Swim) 7) Water (No Swim) 8) Underwater 9) Air 10) Desert 11) Space 12) Road 13) Entrance 14) Atmosphere 15) Sun 16) Black Hole 17) Vehicle(coded) 18) Swamp 19) Reef 20) Tundra 21) Snow 22) Ice 23) Prairie 24) Badlands 25) Rail
Since the outside path of the fort is, well, outside, then the first two don’t work (Inside or City), it’s not in water, so any of those don’t work. The best I could come up with at this point of time was “Field” so we’ll enter that.
4) Sector type : Field
5) Exit north : -1 - Nowhere
6) Exit east : -1 - Nowhere
7) Exit south : -1 - Nowhere
8) Exit west : -1 - Nowhere
9) Exit up : -1 - Nowhere
A) Exit down : -1 - Nowhere
Entries 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A are all exits so we’ll handle them together. I mentioned in the description that the path around the fort continues to the east and west so, I don’t have to worry about 5, 7, 9, A, but I do have to fill in 6 and 8. When you first open up the exit number, you get this table:
1) Exit to : -1 - Nowhere
2) Description :-
<NONE>
3) Door name : <NONE>
4) Key : 0
5) Door flags : No door
6) Purge exit.
Like the main room, this too has to be filled out as much as you need to. First is the exit to – this is the room vnum that the exit goes to. For example, the east exit of the room we’ve been working on goes to room number 4497, so we end up with this:
1) Exit to : 4497 - DragonFort Northern Wall
But, that’s not the only part that *has* to be filled out. The second step is filling out a description of what someone sees if they look in that direction. It is useful at this time to look at the room description of the room this exit goes to – what would the players see that could be important. In room 4497 – which really is just a continuation of the path around the dragon fort, except that it’s a corner and there is a large rock out from that corner which is peculiar, so I’ll mention it here as the player should be able to see it. So, we end up with something like this.
2) Description :-
The path continues around the fort and you can see a rock in the distance. Usually, you’re told not to use the word “you” in descriptions, but that can easily be broken here as you *know* the player is looking in that direction so you can refer to them as you. This is what *you* see when *you* look there.
There is no door, keys or door flags for this room so we don’t need to use those. But, in case you need those, you do it this way:
3) Door name : <NONE>
This is the name of your door – for example if you wanted a secret door with the name trap door, you’d put it here, but know that this name is only one word. So you will never be able to open the trap door, but you can open the trap or the door, but the first word is the word it will use when the player opens it. So if you put in trap door and the player opens door, the player will see that s/he opens the trap.
4) Key : 0
This is the vnum of the object you have created to be the key for this door. It can seriously be anything and doesn’t even need to look like a key.
5) Door flags : No door
When you open up this choice, you get these options:
0) No door
1) Closeable door
2) Pickproof
No door is the default that you use when there is no door, just open hallway, open space, etc – but, if you had that you wouldn’t be using this choice. Closeable door is what you would choose if you want the door to be able to open and close – whether it has a lock or not doesn’t matter. Pickproof is if you want it so thieves can not pick the lock on the door, otherwise, they won’t have to find that key you made. Use this sparingly though as picking lock can be one of the useful skills for thieves. A pickproof door should only be in front of very important things like people or objects that shouldn’t be ran into unless they have the key first.
6) Purge exit.
Purge exit is used if you realize the mistake that the western exit was supposed to be to the north. This gets rid of the everything you’ve done in the exit choice.
B) Descriptions : Extra
This is where you put in your extra descriptions (as many as you want) to fill out what the room looks like. This is where you’d put that knot in the tree we discussed earlier (provided you didn’t actually make the tree an object). If I hadn’t had a specific idea for the magical outer wall of the Dragon Fort, I may have used this for someone looking at the wall and let them know that there were hand or foot holds there. I still could, just in case someone looked at the wall to make sure. Or maybe it’s just on the surface that it looks like it doesn’t have hand and foot holds and if you actually look at the wall, you see cracks where you may be able to climb up the wall…
C) Descriptions : night description
Not Set.
Night descriptions are something new to 4D and have been used rarely. These are best used when the lighting would make the room look quite different than it would in the daytime. For example, you have a forest. In the daytime the forest is bright and cheery with squirrels and rabbits hoping around, but at night, once the sun sets, that same forest – even though it doesn’t actually change – could look quite dark and sinister. It’s all in the lighting.
E) Descriptions : Look under
F) Descriptions : Look behind
G) Descriptions : Look above
E, F, and G are all like B, except you are looking under, behind, or above the object. So, let’s say we had that pine tree, using E, I could have the player look under the tree and find something (there is a rabbit burrow in the ground) and that may tell them that they should look in the burrow and maybe they’ll find something. These are used for good places to hide things.
H) Smell :
You smell nothing interesting.
This is the smell that is in the room. All rooms have some particular smell or other whether it creates it itself (like a kitchen baking items) or whether it’s a strong smell coming from another room (you smell the sweet smell of cookies coming from the west), either way, again you can use *you* because if they type this, you know they are actually smelling for something. This could also be used to go into detail about a smell you have touched on briefly in the room description. For example if you’d said there was a sweet smell in the air, if they typed smell then you could detail about the aroma of cookies coming from the west. This is one of the extra items that Molly wants filled out for a complete zone.
I) Listen :
You hear nothing interesting.
Like smell, but the player is listening for some clues. Again, every room has a sound whether it’s created in the room, or by things close to the room. Be careful using this to let players know there is a mob nearby as that mob could have been killed. Again, you can use *you* in this as the player is actively listening for sounds. And you can use it to describe a sound in detail that you briefly touched on in the room description. For example, in the room description maybe they heard some birds squawking , in the listen description they could be squawking from the west – or maybe they’re squawking over a kill in the same room. Hrm… maybe that kill can be a clue – or harbor something inside its belly that the birds were squawking over. They do like shiny things.
J) Mine : Num: -1 Level: -1 Tool: None
I’ve never used this myself and taking a look at it really doesn’t explain it.
R) Descriptions : Quests flagged - NOT SET
This is a new option so that people can now have rooms changed on whether a person has completed a certain quest or not. For example if you have a forest that is evil until the player kills the evil queen then you use this for the description of the good forest once the queen is killed. Please note that now two people in the same room may be looking at different descriptions – one that’s killed the queen with the good description and one that has not, with the bad description. Let’s look at our choices here:
1) Quest Type: 0
This is the type of quest – whether it affects a player or the whole zone. Let’s look at the options:
1) Zone wide quest flag
2) Player only quest flag
A zone wide quest flag would affect the whole zone once the quest is completed. Let’s say to complete a quest, someone has to blow up a dam. They do so and the affect is that the area is flooded. Everyone who then comes into the area sees the area as flooded – because the quest had been done. The Player only quest flag only affects the player – as stated above in the example of the evil forest/evil queen. The one player will see the room differently than the other, because they’ve completed the quest and the other hasn’t.
2) Quest Keywords:
<NONE>
This is the flag that the player has from completing the quest.
3) Room Description:
<NONE>
This is the description the player (or the room if zone quest) will have if they’ve completed the quest.
4) Goto next quest description: <NOT SET>
As you can see, there can be many different descriptions for a multi-layered quest. Say that they have one description for before the quest starts – say, building a death star – their quest is to get product to Build the death star, they succeed in getting metal for the outside (new description as the death star starts being put together). Next quest, get some weapons to make the death star have teeth, they finish that and get a new description as the weapons are being put on, etc, etc, until the final quest and the death star is finished.
S) Script : Not Set.
This is for the scripts set on the room. Each script is its own vnum.
Q) Quit
Erm… obviously when you’re done editing your room.
Object editing
I did this for Rooms so thought I should continue for objects. Careful, this is a very long post. Basically I'm breaking down every step it takes to make an object starting right after you type in oedit #
1) Namelist :
These are the words that can activate the object. For example: pile hay – for a pile of hay. That way the player can look at pile or hay to get the description for the pile of hay.
2) S-Desc :
This is the description that is use when the object is being used. For example let’s use that pile of hay. If someone gives it to someone else, you want them to give “a pile of hay” not “pile hay” so the S-Desc would be “a pile of hay”. Do not capitalize the first word or else it will come out: player A gives A pile of hay to player B. You’d rather have Player A gives a pile of hay to player B.
3) L-Desc :-
This is the description of the object as it’s lying in a room. Using our pile of hay for example: A pile of hay lies here. You don’t have to go so basic, but you should always use the main words that are in your namelist. We could say: A pile of hay lies upon the loft. But if I did that, I’d probably have the loft as an extra description or an object or part of the namelist of this object.
4) A-Desc :-
This is the description that’s given as the object is used. And I never use this choice.
5) Type :
This is the list of things this item can be. The list is quite extensive and is as follows:
0) UNDEFINED 1) light 2) scroll 3) wand 4) staff 5) weapon 6) <NOT USED> 7) <NOT USED>  treasure 9) armor 10) potion 11) worn 12) other 13) trash 14) trap 15) container 16) note 17) liquid container 18) key 19) food 20) money 21) pen 22) boat 23) fountain 24) throw 25) grenade 26) bow 27) sling 28) crossbow 29) bolt 30) arrow 31) rock 32) vehicle 33) vehicle control 34) vehicle exit 35) vehicle window 36) room portal 37) gun 38) ammo 39) wings 40) spacesuit 41) aqualung 42) climbable 43) level 1 poison 44) level 2 poison 45) level 3 poison 46) level 4 poison 47) level 1 antidote 48) level 2 antidote 49) level 3 antidote 50) descendable 51) bush portal 52) water portal 53) hole portal 54) meat 55) nugget 56) metal detector 57) tree 58) bark 59) anvil 60) hammer 61) grindstone 62) oil 63) ore 64) axe 65) gem cluster 66) element 67) shovel 68) wood 69) machine 70) pickaxe 71) nut 72) skin 73) furniture 74) portal hurdle 75) thermal protection 76) radio 77) minor focus 78) major focus 79) lightsaber hilt 80) zone flag 81) locker 82) garotte 83) vial 84) bankbook 85) spacebike 86) vehicle2
6) Extra flags :
Again, an extensive list on what flags can be put on the object:
1) glowing 2) humming 3) unrentable 4) undonateable 5) anti-invisible 6) invisible 7) magic  cursed 9) blessed 10) anti-good 11) anti-evil 12) anti-neutral 13) anti-mage 14) anti-priest 15) anti-thief 16) anti-warrior 17) unsellable 18) anti-faun 19) anti-centaur 20) anti-elf 21) anti-dwarf 22) Live Grenade 23) anti-indian 24) anti-gringo 25) anti-martian 26) anti-spacewolf 27) anti-hunter 28) anti-ranger 29) anti-gypsy 30) anti-esper 31) melt-on-drop 32) (buried) 33) player corpse 34) mob corpse 35) artifact 36) unique 37) unlocateable 38) hidden 39) poison type 1 40) poison type 2 41) poison type 3 42) poison type 4 43) edible 44) skinable 45) anti-disarm 46) anti-male 47) anti-female 48) contraceptive 49) <UNUSED> 50) <UNUSED> 51) tinkered 52) randomized 53) enhanced 54) modified 55) lightsaber 56) two-handed 57) <UNUSED> 58) <UNUSED> 59) life-stealing 60) mana-stealing 61) move-stealing 62) undisplayed 63) extracting-(CODE) 64) shiftable 65) key-rent
7) Wear flags :
Where you want the player to be able to wear an item (if it’s a wearable/wieldable item). This will automatically start out with TAKE flagged so if you want it to be an item in the room that isn’t takeable you have to take the flag off. Any item that has just TAKE on it, can be picked up by any player just as long as they don’t max out on weight. Please note that certain areas are only for Clan items.
1) TAKE 2) FINGER 3) NECK 4) BODY 5) HEAD 6) LEGS 7) FEET  HANDS 9) ARMS 10) SHIELD 11) ABOUT 12) WAIST 13) WRIST 14) WIELD 15) HOLD 16) FACE 17) EYES 18) HIPS 19) EAR 20) ANKLE 21) HORNS 22) ANTENNA 23) TAIL 24) FOCUS 25) SHOULDER 26) CREST 27) THIGH 28) KNEE 29) FLOATING 
8)Weight :
The weight of an item. There is nothing that weighs less than 1.
9) Cost :
This would be the cost of the item if it was sold in a store.
A) Cost/Day :
This would be the cost per day for the player to keep the item. Most items have 0 cost. B) Timer : -1
This would be how long the item exists in mud time after it is picked up. Usually only used on major items or season items. Most items would have a timer of -1 which is indefinite.
C) Values : 0 0 0 0 0 0
The C values change depending on the TYPE of item it is.
D) Menu ---> : Applies
This is any bonuses or negatives you want to apply to the item. When you first enter this screen you will see this:
1) None. 2) None. 3) None. 4) None. 5) None. 6) None.
That is for the 6 stats you want to apply bonus/negs to. Right now there are none. When you hit 1 for the first state to apply, you enter this screen:
0) Nothing 1) Strength 2) Dexterity 3) Intelligence 4) Wisdom 5) Constitution 6) Charisma 7) Health-regen  Move-regen 9) Age 10) Weight 11) Height 12) Maxmana 13) Maxhit 14) Maxmove 15) Mana-regen 16) Experience 17) Armor 18) Hitroll 19) Damroll 20) Paralyze Defence 21) Rod Defence 22) Petrify Defence 23) Breath Defence 24) Spell Defence 25) Race 26) Speed 27) Coolness 28) Tunnel-Speed 29) Tunnel-Bonus 30) Tunnel-Stealth 31) Tunnel-Protection
So you choose which of those stats you want to apply a bonus/neg to. Once you choose one, you get the basic prompt of: Modifier : which is where you would enter your number bonus (1) or negative (-1). Please follow Molly’s guidelines for appropriate bonus and negatives and the cost values of such at this link: http://4dimensions.org/node/4DEquipguide
E) Menu ---> : Extra Desc
This is where you can actually describe the item itself and anything about the item that someone would find interesting and want to look at farther. The first screen you see is this:
1) Keyword: <NONE>
Like the namelist of the object itself, your keyword is the word used to look at the object. For our pile of hay, you would again use pile hay as the keywords
2) Description:
This is the actually description of the keyword item. For our pile of hay example, I have this: This pile of hay has been sitting here for a long time. So long, it's hard to say it's really a pile, but it isn't flat onto the ground. 3) Goto next description: <Not set> This is in case I have something else I want to describe about this object. Like maybe I’d said there was a green leaf in the pile of hay. Well then I’d go to the next description and start all over with the keywords green leaf and enter that description
0) Quit
This is for once you’re done with all of your extra descriptions.
F) Innate :
Innates are any skill/spell in the game that the object gives to the player that holds/wields it. They player will always have that ability until they no longer hold/wield the object. This is a very intense list and because of the strength of the abilities, you need to have an IMP set it:
0) UNDEFINED 1) armor 2) teleport 3) bless 4) blindness 5) burning hands 6) call lightning 7) charm  chill touch 9) clone 10) colour spray 11) control weather 12) create food 13) create water 14) cure blind 15) cure critic 16) cure light 17) curse 18) detect alignment 19) detect invisibility 20) detect magic 21) detect poison 22) dispel evil 23) earthquake 24) enchant weapon 25) energy drain 26) fireball 27) harm 28) heal 29) invisibility 30) lightning bolt 31) locate object 32) magic missile 33) poison 34) protection from evil 35) remove curse 36) sanctuary 37) shocking grasp 38) sleep 39) strength 40) summon 41) suffocate 42) word of recall 43) antidote 1 44) sense life 45) animate dead 46) dispel good 47) group armor 48) group heal 49) group recall 50) infravision 51) waterwalk 52) gate 53) minor identify 54) remove alignment 55) locate person 56) poison 2 57) poison 3 58) poison 4 59) antidote 2 60) antidote 3 61) evil eye 62) absolve 63) chain lightning 64) recharge 65) meteor shower 66) stoneskin 67) steelskin 68) hold person 69) paralyze 70) holy word 71) holy shout 72) haste 73) shield 74) group shield 75) acid arrow 76) flame arrow 77) cone of cold 78) knock 79) protection from fire 80) protection from cold 81) earth elemental 82) water elemental 83) air elemental 84) fire elemental 85) fire shield 86) life transfer 87) mana transfer 88) protection from good 89) mind fire 90) mind electricity 91) mind water 92) mind ice 93) ice shield 94) thorn shield 95) mana shield 96) mirror shield 97) holy shield 98) static shield 99) fortify mind 100) fortify body 101) sweet dreams 102) divine mind 103) numb mind 104) slowness 105) flight 106) battle rage 107) embue armor 108) magic bubble 109) psi panic 110) nightmare 111) vitalize 112) dispel sanctuary 113) forsee 114) mana blast 115) confuse 116) corrupt armor 117) weaken 118) soulsmash 119) demonshriek 120) lifesuck 121) burning skull 122) heart squeeze 123) facemelt 124) electric blast 125) inferno 126) water to wine 127) midas touch 128) polymorph 129) darkness 131) backstab 132) bash 133) hide 134) kick 135) pick lock 136) flank 137) rescue 138) sneak 139) steal 140) track 141) mount 142) riding 143) tame 144) snare 145) throw 146) bow 147) sling 148) crossbow 149) dual 150) encircle 151) blackjack 152) advanced melee 153) firearm 154) push 155) scan 156) brew 157) scribe 158) tinker 159) poison weapon 160) retreat 161) filet 162) disarm 163) forage 164) trap aware 165) parry 166) mounted combat 167) trample 168) joust 169) grapple 170) drunk 171) hand-to-hand 172) melee 173) master melee 174) hamstring 175) short blade 176) dodge 177) phase 178) charge 179) grip 180) face 181) focus 182) martial arts 183) slip 184) manipulate 185) holy strength 186) berserk 187) meditate 188) woodsing 189) hyperactivity 190) true strike 191) strangle 192) fortify 193) manifest 194) scalp 195) brace 196) behead 197) bladedance 198) longarm 199) cleave 200) smash 201) identify 202) fire breath 203) gas breath 204) frost breath 205) acid breath 206) lightning breath 207) burn 208) freeze 209) acid 210) resist fire 211) resist cold 212) resist electricity 213) wall of fire 214) wall of force 215) dispel bubble 216) slit 217) thrust 218) bleed 219) embowel 293) Silenced 294) Imm Freeze 295) Malactation 299) OUTCAST
G) Smell Desc :
This is what the object smells like: ie: it smells like moldy hay.
H) Taste Desc :
This is what the object tastes like, should someone try to taste it: ie: No way you're tasting that. Well, ok, it tastes like moldy hay.
I) Feel Desc :
This is what the object feels like: ie: It feels as if it's been in the elements for quite a while. And by elements we do mean rain, sun, rain, etc.
- Please note that you can put in more details in smell/taste/feel to hide clues to your quest or to your zone.*
J) Material : base-material
This is the base material that the object is made out of. This is not used very often, but can be useful if you want your item to be made out of something specific. The list of materials we have are:
1) glass 2) iron 3) gold 4) silver 5) copper 6) zinc 7) cromium  tungsten 9) carbon 10) coal 11) basalt 12) silica 13) diamond 14) plastic 15) tin 16) leather 17) hair 18) wool 19) wood 20) magic-wood
M) Min Level : 0
This is the minimum level someone has to be to use that object. As far as I know this isn’t usually used and off the top of my head can’t think of an object that uses it.
S) Script : Not Set.
This is so you can put scripts on your objects so they can do special things.
Q) Quit
For when you are done.
Mob editing
-- Mob Number: [30108] 1) Sex: male 2) Alias: mob unfinished 3) S-Desc: the unfinished mob 4) L-Desc:- An unfinished mob stands here. 5) D-Desc:- It looks unfinished. 6) Level: [ 0], 7) Alignment: [ 0] 8) Hitroll: [ 0], 9) Damroll: [ 0] A) NumDamDice: [ 1], B) SizeDamDice: [ 1] C) Num HP Dice: [ 0], D) Size HP Dice: [ 0], E) HP Bonus: [ 0] F) Armor Class: [ 100], G) Exp: [ 0], H) Gold: [ 0] I) Position : Standing J) Default : Standing K) Attack : hit L) NPC Flags : ISNPC M) AFF Flags : NOBITS N) Segments : Not set X) Training List : Not Set R) Mob Race : Humanoid V) Mob Class : Normal T) Tier : 0 O) Subskill : UNUSED U) Charisma : 11 W) Skin Vnum : -1 S) Script : Not Set. Y) Owner : (null) P) Arrive : (null) Z) Leave : (null) Q) Quit
KVETCH POST START
I can't find any specific guides on these. I think I asked Molly a while back (we're talking years here) and I believe I got some answers, though where those answers have disappeared to, who knows. I also know I pestered Horus about something and will post his answer here to help out everyone possible.
My main questions concern the NPC flags. The ones I know, I'll fill out. The ones I don't, I'll put question marks (??) and a note by it and hopefully someone can answer.
1) SPEC (?? You know, I never use this and have no idea what it is) 2) SENTINEL - this means that 1) the mob will stay where it loads or 2) if it's following someone it will not wander 3) SCAVENGER - It picks EVERYTHING it can up off the ground. Good for those sweepers. 4) ISNPC - every mob IS an NPC so this should be on every mob - btw: what happens if you don't put this on a mob? 5) AWARE (?? - not quite sure what this flag is for or when to use it) 6) AGGR - this mob would be aggro to everyone. 7) STAY-ZONE - This mob obviously will not leave it's zone (?? does this mean it cannot be charmed to leave its zone?) 8) WIMPY - mob is a wimp, will flee once it hits a certain amount of hp (?? does anyone know the exact amount of hp?) 9) AGGR_EVIL - mob is aggro to anyone with alignment between -1000 and -350 (considered evil) 10) AGGR_GOOD - mob is aggro to anyone with alignment between 350 and 1000 (considered good) 11) AGGR_NEUTRAL - mob is aggro to anyone with alignment between -350 and 350 (considered neutral) 12) MEMORY (?? I think this is that the mob remembers the player that attacked it - but is it only the last and am I right at all about that?) 13) HELPER - mob helps the person/mob in the room that is the closest in alignment to it (yes, this means there are ways around this if you want a mob to help a specific mob in the room you better script it) 14) !CHARM - mob can not be charmed 15) !SUMMN - mob can not be summoned 16) !SLEEP - mob can not be put to sleep (?? does this include sweetdreams?) 17) !BASH - mob can not be bashed 18) !BLIND - this mob can not be blinded 19) MOUNTABLE - mob can be mounted (get your mind outta the gutters!) and rode as a mount 20) !PUSH - mob can not be pushed 21) REMOVE-THIS-FLAG - I'm just assuming this is a "do not use" flag so don't put it on any mob. 22) !SHOOT - mob can not be shot (?? does this include ranged spells AND bows/guns?) 23) !POISON - mob can not be poisoned 24) EDIBLE (?? I'm guessing that you would be able to eat the mob, but what exactly would that do?) 25) SKINABLE - mob can be skinned (if you use this you must have a skin object made that the player would get if they skinned the mob - yes, anyone CAN use the skill skin). 26) UNUSED - empty for future use? 27) UNUSED - empty for future use? 28) UNDEAD - Mob is undead (?? there is also a mob:class undead - how do these relate?) 29) !FREEZE - Mob can not be frozen 30) CAN_MATE - Mob can mate (and produce baby mobs). Last I knew, was not implemented yet so do not use. 31) NOTDEADYET (?? REally? why put this on a living mob?) 32) POISONS 1 - I'm assuming that mob has the ability to poison using poison1 (like small snakes) 33) POISONS 2 - I'm assuming that mob has the ability to poison using poison2 (like larger snakes) 34) AIR -(???) 35) WATER - (???) 36) FIRE - (???) 37) EARTH -(???) 38) HERD (???) 39) SWIMS - the mob swims (assume this is needed for those mobs in water like fish?) 40) WIZINVIS - the mob is wizinvis which means no-one will see it other than immorts - though if they react to a trigger or anything, players can find out about them. 41) STAY_SECTOR - mob stays in the sector type it loads in (this is actually stronger than a !mob room. Mobs can actually flee into !mob rooms but will not flee into different sector rooms (if I remember something Mord said correctly)) 42) HEALER - Mob is a healer (what exactly does this mean? Are there specific spells it casts? Is it like the healer in the 4D Inn where you can pay to have it cast certain spells? Is there any way to change the spells the healer mob casts - and the cost of them?) 43) POSTMASTER - mob is a postmaster - like Barts dog east of recall 44) QUESTMOB - (??? - really not sure when to use this or if there is any special meaning behind it. I don't put questmob on my mobs that have quests. Should I be?)
Other things of note:
Mob Class:
0) Normal - I assume there is nothing special about this mob and it will do no special attacks 1) Undead - mob is undead - certain things do not affect it (will be listed at the end of this) 2) Caster - mob casts spells (what spells and is there any reason to really use this? Anything in the code to back up using this? You still seem to need to use dg_cast to actually cast a spell - at least that was my experiance when I tried to use this.) 3) Fighter - mob is a fighter class (?? He can do fighter type skills? but I've had class fighters do rogue type skills as well) 4) Rogue - mob is a rogue (?? but seems to be able to do some fighter type skills) 5) Animal - mob is an animal (?? - nope, other than the fact it's not humanoid I don't know why to place this on an animal instead of normal)
Undead mobs are not affected by:
soul smash, demon shreak, burning skull, heart squeeze, facemelt
I dont' know if this means under mob class (which is what I'd asked the person that looked it up) or choice #28 in the NPC flags. Or if you need both to have a real undead.
I'd like to have a real "how to build mobs" guidelines, but can't do it without answers. Thanks to all that read this.
Kvetch
