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*The death_prog works before the moment of death of a mob, enabling a builder to take a variety of actions, from emotes of the dying mob to protecting the mob from death. As such, this prog needs to be used with care. | *The death_prog works before the moment of death of a mob, enabling a builder to take a variety of actions, from emotes of the dying mob to protecting the mob from death. As such, this prog needs to be used with care. | ||
**Transferring a character away from a mob using a death_prog will result in the character being penalized for fleeing a fight. | **Transferring a character away from a mob using a death_prog will result in the character being penalized for fleeing a fight. | ||
| + | *MPECHOAT and MPECHOAROUND are good ways to script things to prevent nuissance messages to other players (for example, a quest giver that talks to each person entering the room). | ||
| + | *VARIES is a useful command to provide alternative actions based on a criteria. | ||
| + | **The way it works is you do something like <MASK22 -RACE +DWARF>Stuff for Dwarves</MASK22> The 22 part can be anything, so long as the tag starts with MASK and you use something unique. Important though, you need to use html rules for any < or > characters .. so use & l t ; and & g t ; (no spaces) inside the mask itself.' | ||
===Notes=== | ===Notes=== | ||
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Revision as of 18:07, 24 November 2019
| CoffeeMUD |
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| =CoffeeMUD Builder Information= | |||
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| Basics | Praetor Player Support Commands Zapper Masks | Advanced | Races Classes Abilities Socials Scripting |
| Building | Behaviors Properties Areas Rooms Exits Items Mobs | Systems | Achievements Crafting Help Info Ships Planes of Existence Quests Triumphs |
CoffeeMUD has enormous flexibility outside of pre-built behaviors and properties with the Scriptable and ScriptableEverymob behaviors.
Contents
Official Scripting Docs
Articles on General Concepts
- Scripting Mobs - Making your Mobs come alive
Scripting Do's and Dont's
- Do not overtax your scripts for performing actions. A maximum of 25 actions may be taken by a given script per tick. This limit is there to prevent bad scripts from destroying the mud. If more than 25 actions are attempted and error will be thrown similar to:
- Scripting Error: ...script/UNK/SYS/Attempt to que more than 25 events.
- To fix a script taking too many actions, review the number of events the script is attempting to handle for a given item/mob/room, and see if it is possible that it is generating many of those message in rapid succession.
- The death_prog works before the moment of death of a mob, enabling a builder to take a variety of actions, from emotes of the dying mob to protecting the mob from death. As such, this prog needs to be used with care.
- Transferring a character away from a mob using a death_prog will result in the character being penalized for fleeing a fight.
- MPECHOAT and MPECHOAROUND are good ways to script things to prevent nuissance messages to other players (for example, a quest giver that talks to each person entering the room).
- VARIES is a useful command to provide alternative actions based on a criteria.
- The way it works is you do something like <MASK22 -RACE +DWARF>Stuff for Dwarves</MASK22> The 22 part can be anything, so long as the tag starts with MASK and you use something unique. Important though, you need to use html rules for any < or > characters .. so use & l t ; and & g t ; (no spaces) inside the mask itself.'
Notes
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