Neat little things

[MeTekillot]

Neat.

[nauta]

Who was the sadistic bastard who gave inix the fucking "shell" keyword anyway? Shelled I understand, but shell?

It's really only one inix that has that, and that has been changed as of this morning.

It was fixed by closing Tuluk!  Zing!






(I know they grow in the wild and I know the inix seller will be in Tiny Tuluk.)

[Giled]

It was fixed by closing Tuluk!  Zing!


(I know they grow in the wild and I know the inix seller will be in Tiny Tuluk.)

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With a quick tug, you pick a brown-shelled inix from a heavily drooping lizard tree.


[Taven]

This is neat:

Also adding an emote to wearing something about the throat works a little differently than normal.

You have to do: "wear scarf (sweeping it around ^me shoulders) about throat"

[Taven]

Not necessarily neat, but probably helpful:

There was a change to room weight code calculations a few years back to better deal with such things (so that you can't actually put something down that would put you over the weight limit in a room).

This might help in understanding the problem with whatever room you are in:

• An empty container takes up the same amount of space that a full container might.  Your bags, while empty, could take up as much space as a full bag, so the code won't let you drop them.
• Furniture (things that you can put things "on") can modify the overall weight limits of a room upwards.
• A combination of the above can mean that removing things from a room may well reduce its overall total capacity and you still can't put things down anywhere.

Best practices:

use "key ." to find the items in the room.  Get rid of the things you don't need.  If you have gotten rid of everything you don't need and there is still the same problem, you still have the same problem:  too much stuff in the room.

You can thank packrats and hoarders of days gone by for this code.  

[Chettaman]

Not really a code ''trick''.
But did you know it's possible to attack people's mounts?

As a raider that could be a great roleplay tool. Kill the mount and then what do they do? Run? How far?... When they're tired you then force them to roleplay. If they have to be somewhere ooc they can either quit out OOC-like or you can quit for them. (kill them)

or just let them go. You could even give them your mount so they can get someplace safe.

[Synthesis]

Not really a code ''trick''.
But did you know it's possible to attack people's mounts?

As a raider that could be a great roleplay tool. Kill the mount and then what do they do? Run? How far?... When they're tired you then force them to roleplay. If they have to be somewhere ooc they can either quit out OOC-like or you can quit for them. (kill them)

or just let them go. You could even give them your mount so they can get someplace safe.

Fair warning:  most mounts will rip your head off and squeeze a fist-size ball of dung down your neck.

[original]

Not really a code ''trick''.
But did you know it's possible to attack people's mounts?

As a raider that could be a great roleplay tool. Kill the mount and then what do they do? Run? How far?... When they're tired you then force them to roleplay. If they have to be somewhere ooc they can either quit out OOC-like or you can quit for them. (kill them)

or just let them go. You could even give them your mount so they can get someplace safe.

Fair warning:  most mounts will rip your head off and squeeze a fist-size ball of dung down your neck.

As a side note, if they are out on a mount, they better have set some side aside to play. If I don't have a half hour to sit and play, I don't walk from 'Nak to 'Storm, a lot can happen in the waste (and usually does)

[CodeMaster]

Not necessarily a trick to do with Arm specifically, but if you have awk installed and keep your logs together in a plaintext directory:

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awk '/.* says, out of character:/{getline; print}' *.txt

will print out all the OOC your characters have ever heard.

Could also be useful for printing out everything you've heard a particular PC say (at least while unhooded).

[CodeMaster]

When you view your biography entries on the website, they are timestamped with both the OOC time and IC time that you started the entry (not the last time you edited it).

You can make sure your timestamps are accurate by creating your bios in a timely fashion.  Just drop a quick placeholder:


bio write Accepted into the Byn
~


and you can always change the title and contents at a later date.

[Majikal]

bio write Accepted into the Byn
~

I've been doing this for awhile and it's super handy for remembering ooc when your year in a clan is up or whatever.

Hella useful.

[nauta]

When you view your biography entries on the website, they are timestamped with both the OOC time and IC time that you started the entry (not the last time you edited it).

You can make sure your timestamps are accurate by creating your bios in a timely fashion.  Just drop a quick placeholder:


bio write Accepted into the Byn
~


and you can always change the title and contents at a later date.

Brilliant!  Except it's 'add' not 'write'.

[Beethoven]

The timestamp for your first bio entry is also a handy reference for your PC's IC birthday, if you are playing the kind of character who would be aware of his or her birthday!

[FantasyWriter]

I didn't know this, thanks!

[Taijan]

The timestamp for your first bio entry is also a handy reference for your PC's IC birthday, if you are playing the kind of character who would be aware of his or her birthday!

[CodeMaster]

Want to 'enter' that tunnel and don't feel like typing out tunnel?


en .


[Looks like your inventory's got to be empty for this one to work]

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

>shake person/object shakes the object or the person's hand.

[Majikal]

>shake person/object shakes the object or the person's hand.

And shake tent echoes to the people inside the tent.

Someone shakes the tent.

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

the search command will alert you if something has been buried in the room.

[Jihelu]

To search for buried items Forage artifacts will let ya do it.
I think
Pretty sure.
Happy treasure hunting.

[CodeMaster]

No i dont write bios after they are dead. I cant log so I dont rofl. But I did write the bios you can do while they are alive. I think I wrote a few.

You can write biography entries after a character has died if you do it from the website.

Log in to your account on armageddon.org, select "biographies" from the dropdown menu, and then choose your deceased character.  At the bottom of the list of biography entries will be a green "new entry" button.

I did not know this!

[Chettaman]

>Junk (without a target)
will junk the first item in your inventory.

[whitt]

>Junk (without a target)
will junk the first item in your inventory.

FYI Not so cool when it's your backpack and you don't notice.

[CodeMaster]

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> get hat shelf
You get a leather hat from the shoe shelf.

> get cap shelf
You get a silk cap from the shoe shelf.

> get helm shelf
You get a chitin helm from the shoe shelf.

> put . case
> put . case
> put . case
You put a chitin helm in the hat case.
You put a silk cap in the hat case.
You put a leather hat in the hat case.


[Akariel]

Change Tdesc can be shortened to just 'Tdesc' to start up the text editor. Who knew!