Races(Builder)
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This page is intended for the discussion of HOW to build a race, not a listing of the races themselves (which should be available in the player RACES page).
Contents
Racial Fields
Meta Data
Race ID
This field is the codebase unique name for the race. It should not include spaces.
Name
This is the player-friendly name for the race and may include spaces and hyphens.
Racial Category
This is the racial grouping of the race.
- To create a new Racial Category; Edit a race from the command line, and change their racial category to: NEW NewRaceCatName.
Availability
This determines who can all become a member of that race. Fantasy/Heroic/Technical settings mean starting players in a mud with that type of setting may become that race. A "Skills Only" setting means that it is not available to a starting player of that type of setting, but may be accessed via specific skills (like polymorph).
Disabled Flags
This is a set of flags that can be applied to a race to prevent certain affects.
- CLASSLESS - Race cannot benefit from a class
- LEVELLESS - Race does not benefit from levels
- EXPLESS - Race cannot earn experience
- CHARMLESS - Race cannot be charmed
- CHILDLESS - Race cannot produce offspring
- INFATIGUEABLE - Race does not get sleepy
Never Create Corpse
This flag, when checked true, will result in no corpse for the given race. This is ideal for spirits and other non-corporeal creatures.
Rideable Player
This flag, when checked true, will allow other races to MOUNT this player. Weight restrictions may apply for mounting.
Physical Characteristics
Base Weight
This is the minimum weight of an adult member of the race.
Weight Variance
This is a number between 0 and the max value that will be added to the base weight to determine the MOB's actual weight.
Base Male Height
This is the base height of an adult male in your MUD's measurement system. We generally consider this to be inches, but it could just as easily be centimeters or geberdomins. It is generally measured from ground to highest point on the MOB, but it could be measured as a length for certain races, if desired.
Base Female Height
This is the base height of an adult female in your MUD's measurement system. We generally consider this to be inches, but it could just as easily be centimeters or geberdomins.
Height Variance
This is a number between 0 and the max value that will be added to the base height to determine the MOB's actual height.
Breathables
This is a list of material types that the race can breath, with AIR and WATER being the most common types of atmospheres breathable. Note: excluding air from the list will mean the creature will suffocate in normal rooms.
Body Parts
This field denotes the number and type of body parts available for amputation, body piercing, or making called strikes on.
- Antennea
- Eye - At least one is required for normal sight. Creatures with no eyes are considered blind. Each pair (2) of eyes provides 1 EYES wear location.
- Ear - At least one is required to hear. Creatures with no ears are considered deaf. Each pair (2) of ears provides 1 EARS wear location.
- Head - Each head provides one HEAD wear location.
- Neck - Each neck provides one NECK wear location.
- Arm - Each pair (2) of arms enables one ARMS wear location (shoulders/sleeves). Required for the WEAR command.
- Hand - Required for manipulating items, including GET and OPEN commands. Each Hand provides 1 WRIST location and 1 FINGER location (either RIGHT or LEFT). Each pair (2) of hands provides one HANDS wear location. The first hand provides a WIELD location, while all subsequent hands provide a HELD location.
- Torso - Each torso provides 1 TORSO wear location.
- Leg - Each pair (2) of legs provides one LEGS wear location.
- Foot - Each pair (2) of feet provides one FEET wear location.
- Nose - NOT required to use the SNIFF command.
- Gill -
- Mouth - Required to eat, drink and talk. Each mouth provides one MOUTH wear location.
- Waist - Each waist provides one WAIST wear location.
- Tail
- Wing - Required for the Winged Flying ability.
Unwearable Locs
Not all body parts are tied to wear locations (Anetennea, tails, nose, gills and wings, for example). Not all wear locations are tied to a body part (BODY, FLOATING NEARBY, and BACK). Races may have further restrictions on which body parts may actually be equipped with items, which can further be overriden with Prop_WearOverride.
Resources
This is a listing of items generated when the race's body is butchered. In general, these items should be some sort of resource, like GenFoodResource, GenLiquidResource or GenResource, used for crafting. This may be a subset of body parts, meat/flesh, bones, blood, hair, organs or other components.
Stats and Abilities
XP Adjustment
PhysStat Adjustments
CharStat Adjustments
CharStat Settings
CharState Adjustments
Starting CharState Adj
Racial Abilities
Cultural Abilities
Racial Effects
Racial Immunities
Aging Chart
Ambiance
Leave Text
This is the text shown to other viewers when the race leaves a room in the form of:
- MOBNAME -leave text- DIRECTION.
Arrive Text
This is the text shown to other viewers when the race leaves a room in the form of:
- MOBNAME -arrive text- from the DIRECTION.
Health Race
The name of a standard race which will be used as a source of health descriptions during combat. In short, enter here the name of a race that looks the most like the one you are creating. If you are creating a generic race on top of an existing standard one, you will need to use the fully qualified class name of the form: com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.<racename> in order to access the standard version.
Event Race
The name of a standard race which will be used as a source of special race-specific java-coded events, such as the way Chickens lay eggs. Leaving this blank is the usual correct answer. If you are creating a generic race on top of an existing standard one, you will need to use the fully qualified class name of the form: com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.<racename>in order to access the standard version
Outfit
Natural Weapon
Weapons Race
The name of a standard race which will be used as a source of random racial unarmed weapons. Enter here the name of a race that looks the most like the one you are creating. If you are create a generic race on top of an existing standard one, you will need to use the fully qualified class name of the form: com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.<racename> in order to access the standard version.
Help Entry
Notes
- Dont give races a shapeshift-type ability as a RACIAL ability. Once they shapeshift to a new race, they will lose the ability to shapeshift.
- Crossbred races will receive the 4 four abilities from its two parent races.
- Setting a racial/cultural ability to level 0 will make the cost to use that ability not decrease as the race levels (to be verified).