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Basic Objects the Old Way

Phantasmal originally did its creation and editing of new objects with a command-line syntax for setting all the individual fields. Phantasmal has started the sea-change to the newer, easier way but it can still be a good idea to know the old syntax. The new way may not have the to-die-for absolute latest feature you're looking for, or you may just find the old one more convenient for minor edits.

Go ahead and type "@new_room #2". It doesn't have to be room number 2, but this example will assume you cleared a bunch of stuff out. If you didn't, pick a free number other than two, or just type "@new_room" and let the MUD assign you a new room in whatever zone you're currently standing in.

So let's make it more interesting. Type "@stat #2" which will show you some things about your room. It probably looks pretty generic at this point. Mine looks like this:

> @stat #2
Location:  (none)
Descriptions (enUS)
Brief:
  'a room'
Glance:
  'a room'
Look:
  'You see a room here.'
Examine:
  (defaults to Look desc)
Nouns (enUS): 
Adjectives (enUS): 

Contains objects [0]: 
Contains 0 mobiles.

Registered with MAPD as a room.

That means it's nowhere, it contains nothing, its descriptions are quite generic, it has no nouns or adjectives. And what's "enUS"?

Patience, grasshopper. Type "@goto #2" You'll show up in your room. For me, it looks like this:

> @goto #2
You teleport to a room.
a room
You see a room here.
*****

Exits: 

Now type "@set_brief #2 my boudoir". And then type "look" You'll notice the room's name changed. You can also type "@stat #2" to see the same change.

Type "@set_look #2". You'll see something like this:

> @set_look #2
Locale is US english
Enter text at the prompt.  Enter ~ on a line by itself to end.
 >

Type several lines of description for your room. Then, after hitting return on the last one, go ahead and type a tilde (~) and hit return. That should finish off the description, which you're now stuck with until next time you change it. In addition to @set_brief and @set_look, there's @set_glance and @set_examine. I highly recommend their @help files.

Okay, so now you can give an object a basic description. Fair enough. What else can you do with it? Well, you can move it around. Go ahead and move it to wherever you're standing -- type "@move #2 here", which will teleport it to be inside whatever room you're standing in. You can also teleport it somewhere else -- for instance "@move #2 #0" will move it into The Void. You can teleport there ("@goto #0") to make sure it arrived okay.

You can also add nouns and adjectives to it, but we'll cover that in the section on portables. If you haven't had a look at the build help yet by typing "@help builder" I highly recommend it.

You can also read some more tutorials.