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home » builders » builder's lessons » room flags and room sector

Room flags and room sector

The room flags and room sector type are set in the line of six values after the room description, before the exit information. Room Flags describe specific attributes of the room, and your room can have more than one flag. The room can only have one sector type.

In the example below pay particular attention to the line of 6 values after the actual room description and the room description's tilda. Note that our sample room is still a no exit room. Exits will be covered in other room lessons.

#QQ00
A gate to a walled forest~
{70}A stone gateway in the middle of a stone wall is here.  Over the
top of the wall can be seen the green of tall trees.  To the east
is the hustle and bustle of the ever busy streets of Waterdeep,
but from over the wall can be heard the sounds of birds.
~
0 ROOM_NO_MOB|ROOM_DARK SECT_CITY 0 0 0
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Lets look in detail at the line of six values after the room description:

• Value0 - The first value of 0 refers to a now defunct field no longer used by the game so just put a 0 in. You cant ommit it altogther as the game will crash. You need to have a 0 in there as a place marker. The coders may in time decide to use that field again for something new that they might code.
• Value1 -The next value refers to the actual room flags. A room can have more than one room flag and it can even have none. If it has none just put in a 0. This particular room is dark so for those races without infrared vision, will need to have a light to see what is in the room. It is also flagged no mob. This will prevent mobiles from wandering in and out of the room. See the below table for the possible room flags for your room. A room can have more than one room flag.M/li>
• Value2 - The next value refers to the rooms sector type. This refers to the type of terrain the room is and affects how a character moves through that room. Some sectors require special capabilities for a character to move through it (ie to swim or fly). See the Sectors table below for a list of the allowable sectors. A room can have only one sector type.
• Value3 - When a PC enters this room, after the delay time set with this value the PC is teleported out of the room to the vnum set in Value4. The room must have the ROOM_TELEPORT flag set on it for this aspect of the room code to work.
• Value4 - This is the vnum that the PC is teleported to after the delay set with Value3.
• Value5 - This is known as the tunnel value. This can determine how many characters can fit into the room. The solitary and private flags will set the numbers to 1 and 2 respectively, but if you want a different amount of PC's allowed in a room, then you may set this value.

ROOM FLAGS LIST

SECTORS LIST

Shown as: value character if seen on world map (numeric value) description