MUD Creator Tutorial
From Kiwiarena
This is a basic tutorial for Creators.
First off the most important thing you can do is to NOT PANIC if something of yours does not work. Just either copy the code and post it on the forums requesting for it to be looked over, OR staying in your room and telling Silverware if he is on.
Next thing don't just type S by itself in a room without a South bound Exit, This will be interpreted as Shutdown and will kill the MUD.
Editing Your Home
Ok so your a Creator now but this doesn't mean that you instantly know how to do everything. Your character might have just become an immortal but you still think as a mortal.
First off you are in the area of God-Like powers, but remember there are People who have more power than you still, and a thunderbolt to the groin hurts a Creator just as much a mortal.
The first thing you should do is find your home.
Type Home and you will teleport to your personal workspace.
Now go 1E and you will meet a Fighter type Zap Fighter to get a grip on your most fun command. INSTA-GIB. This is handy to know right? Think of all the Orc's you could put down with this. Well your job in this world is no longer as pitiful as slaying the neighborhood Orc. You are a Creator and should dedicate your powers to Creation not to Good or Evil. This is not to say don't kill something now and again. And this is not to say that you are not aloud to create another character for either your Orc Slaying or your Creatorism.
Ok go back to the main room. Lets add a room to the North of here for a bedroom.
Type: create room north bedroom
This command tells the MUD that you want to make a room with an exit from here to there north of this room and you want it to be called bedroom.c
But it will come up with one of two errors.
ERROR 1 : You need to have your Creators Staff
With Error 1 just type: Clone secure/obj/Staff
ERROR 2 : This needs to be edited by hand.
With Error 2 this is a bummer. BUT there is a way around slogging through all those lines of code if you don't know what your looking for.
Just type: modify here setnomodify 0
This changes the rooms flag of No Modifications aloud to Modifications aloud. This still means that only the owner of the room and the Root Admin can edit this room but you can now do so using this system.
Next retype: create room north bedroom
And a new room will appear magically to the north of here. It will be a clone of this room with the Title if Copy of workroom.c
Ok this also means you have your Privacy Shield on but we will get to that later.
First we want to change the rooms Title and Description.
Type: modify here setshort My Bedroom
This tells the game to modify the short name of this room to 'My Bedroom'
Then we want to describe this room.
Type: modify here setlong This room is pretty Bland.
This modifys the description to 'This room is pretty Bland'
Ok so we can change the look of our room but what about the smell or the sounds?
first smell
Type: modify here setsmell
It will say:
Please enter the first key element for this mapping:
Type: default
this will set the default smell of the room when you type 'smell' this will come up
Type: .
this will stop adding the things you can smell that will give you the smell that will follow
Type: You can smell something in this room.
This is the smell which you can smell.
so if we had instead done
Toilet
Loo
Long Drop
.
You don't really want to smell whats down there...
it would show
You don't really want to smell whats down there...
when you went to smell any of :
Toilet
Loo
Long Drop
this will help with the additem and the addlisten
these use the same principle but refer to Sounds or objects which cannot be picked up or seen in the menu.
