Creation

This document can be considered a "cheat sheet" to be read in conjuction with the ToastStunt Programmer's Manual.

Quickstart: Creating your First Object

@create $thing named "Bowl of Spaghetti"
@describe bowl as "Yummy yummy sketti"
@add-alias "sketti" to bowl
give sketti to vilmibm

Then, once you're sick of it...

@recycle bowl

Quickstart: Creating Rooms

Check help @dig. The in-game documentation does a better job at explaining this than I can.

Note that any registered account can create rooms that hang out in the void of nothingness. In order to link your room to an existing room, you need to either:

Obtain permission from the other room's owner
- Convince them to run @add-exit and @add-entrance to your entrances/exits
Link to a publicly linkable room (Such as the Grassy Plains).

To make your room publicly linkable, you can change the permissions on the entrances/exits properties:

;set_property_info(#DATABASE_ID, "entrances", {#131, "rwc"})
;set_property_info(#DATABASE_ID, "exits", {#131, "rwc"})

Quickstart: Integrating with tilde.town

Typically, the use of exec and curl is restricted to wizard accounts. But we all love each other here!

Check help $tilde_utils.

exec's "executables" directory is /home/moo/executables. Ask in #moo if you'd like something added there.

How to Reverse Engineer Objects

A great way to learn is to look at other objects around the MOO.

@show can print out an object in detail, including properties (Provided you have permission.)
@find can find objects, properties, verbs.
@list can print out verbs.

Eg, to print out the source code for the who command, you can use:

> @find :who
The verb :who is on   rbiv(#131)--ANSI PC(#100)
> @list #100:who

Example Objects

The Orb of Seeing

Demonstrates how to get information about the players that interact with objects.

@create $thing named "Orb of Seeing"
@verb orb:description tnt

@program orb:description
return {
    "The "+this.name+" sees many things!",
    "Viewer name: "+player.name,
    "Item owner: "+this.owner.name
};
.

George

Everyone's favorite sleepy lad.

Shows some more advanced concepts. Defines a custom verb, "awaken", such that one may "awaken george".

@create $thing named "George"
@property george.awakened_time 0
@property george.time_awake 20
@verb george:description this none this rxd
@verb george:awaken this none none rxd

@program george:awaken
if ((time() - this.awakened_time) > this.time_awake)
    player:tell("W H A M M U ! You awaken George!");
    player.location:announce("W H A M M U ! "+player.name+" awakens George!");
    this.awakened_time = time();
else
    player:tell("George is already awake.");
endif
.

@program george:description
if ((time() - this.awakened_time) > this.time_awake)
    return "He appears to be sleeping. Hopefully nobody AWAKENS him.";
else
    return "George is awake and unfathomably powerful.";
endif
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