The Houses of Three Kingdoms

<houseedit help abandon>

Name: Abandon
Base Cost: 0
Syntax: abandon <house_id>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help adddoor>

Name: Adddoor
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: abandon adddoor <direction> <direction back>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'. If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate
west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help adddooralias>

Name: Adddooralias
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: adddooralias <direction> <alias name>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'. If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help addexit>

Name: Addexit
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: addexit <direction> <room_name>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases

showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals

hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help addexitalias>

Name: Addexitalias
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: addexitalias <alias> <exit>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help additem>

Name: Additem
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: additem <id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help additemid>

Name: Additemid
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: additem <old_id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help addowner>

Name: Addowner
Base Cost: 200000
Syntax: addowner <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help addportal>

Name: Addportal
Base Cost: 50000
Syntax: addportal <portal_name> <direction>

A portal allows transportation between your house and the outside world. The following portals are currently available:

Arundin
Bank
Chaos
Crafting
Fantasy
Guild
Gypsy
Login
Morgue
Newbie
Office
Pound
Pub
Resid
Science
Shop
Smithy

Anyone may leave by a portal from anywhere in your house. Owners may enter the house from any location a portal is connected (e.g. a portal to Chaos will allow all owners to enter the house from the Chaos entrance). Note that entering a Guild portal will only bring a player to their guild if it is in town. Otherwise, it will bring them to the Reception Hall.

<dir> is the command that you want people to use to enter the portal. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or a unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

Note: Portal exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi characters or the @ symbol.

The following edit commands affect portals:
addportal <portal> <dir> - adds an exit going <dir> and ending through the portal <portal>
removeexit <direction> - removes a portal with an exit-name <direction>
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the portal <old> to <new>. This does not affect where portals lead, just changes what the exit is called.
showexit <direction> - makes the portal appear in "obvious exits"
hideexit <direction> - makes the portal hidden from "obvious exits"

See Also: exits

<houseedit help addresponse>

Name: Addresponse
Base Cost: 0
Syntax: addresponse <note id> <response>

After a review has been completed on your house, the reviewer comments can be found using the following commands. Comments are problems or suggestions concerning your house and must be fixed before receiving a promotion.

The following commands affect comments:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else

See Also: review

<houseedit help addroom>

Name: Addroom
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: addroom <room_name>

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help addspecial>

Name: Addspecial
Base Cost: varies, run command for costs.
Syntax: addspecial <special_name>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help addthing>

Name: Addthing
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: addthing <id> : <short description>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help addthingid>

Name: Addthingid
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: addthingid <existing_id> : <new_id>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help ansi>

Name: House Helpfile Ansi
Base Cost:
Syntax: setcolor house<#> <color>

Houses gives you the ability to modify the colors of ansi that are displayed in the helpfiles. To see ansi in the files you need to set each of the following variables: house1, house2, house3, and house4. If you already have these variables this file will have color in it.

setcolor house1 <color>
setcolor house2 <color>
setcolor house3 <color>
setcolor house4 <color>

Viable color names can be found in help ansi and ansi colors.

See Also: help setcolor, help ansi, ansi colors

<houseedit help boxes>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help cloneitem>

Name: Cloneitem
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: cloneitem <room> <id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help clonething>

Name: Clonething
Base Cost: 200
Syntax: clonething <room> <id>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words. description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help closecomment>

Name: Closecomment
Base Cost: 0
Syntax: closecomment <comment id>

After a review has been completed on your house, the reviewer comments can be found using the following commands. Comments are problems or suggestions concerning your house and must be fixed before receiving a promotion.

The following commands affect comments:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else

See Also: review

<houseedit help colossalbox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help comments>

After a review has been completed on your house, the reviewer comments can be found using the following commands. Comments are problems or suggestions concerning your house and must be fixed before receiving a promotion.

The following commands affect comments:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else

See Also: review

<houseedit help doors>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'.
If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate
west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help edititem>

Name: Edititem
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: edititem <id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help editlong>

Name: Editlong
Base Cost: 100
Syntax:editlong

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help editor>

BASICS
The house editor takes some getting used to. When you're getting started you might want to print out the BASICS section of this help file and use it for reference.

When you first go to edit a description you will be put into the editor. You can tell you're in the editor because your prompt change to ':'.

The editor has two modes:
insert - has a prompt of '*'. This mode allows you to type in text that will appear in your description.

command - has a prompt of ':'. This mode allows you to enter commands to modify your text. Each command is entered on its own line

There are 6 commands you absolutely must know to use the editor:

'.' - When you enter a period on its own line in insert mode it will return you to command mode (not really a command, but you still have to know it)
'a' - An 'a' on its own line in command mode will enter insert mode.
'x' - Saves your work and quits
'Q' - Aborts your work and quits
'1,$p' - shows the text currently in the long
'1,$d' - deletes all text currently in the long
'h' - shows basic help on editor commands

There are two more that could be very, very useful:
'1,$s/$/ /' - puts a space at the end of every line (see the next one)
'1,$j' - joins all the current text into a single line.

Depending on your editor either the second of these or the first two in sequence will allow you to format your text using whatever line length your editor uses and have the house code reformat it to standard 75 character mud lines. Note that this will destroy any paragraph boundaries you created.

One other important thing to mention about the editor is that you're much better off editing your mud descriptions in a standard text editor (like Wordpad) than a full blown Word Processor (like Word) because the latter will insert format characters that make no sense on the mud.

INTERMEDIATE
What? You're still reading?

Honestly, there are only 34 ed commands, of which one is help and 6 deal with saving to other files and can't be used in the house environment. So with only 27 commands you should be a master in no time.

Most commands accept a prefix indicating which lines to operate on. You may have noticed a lot of the sequence '1,

<houseedit help editplan>

Name: Editplan
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: editplan

After working hard to create a house that you are proud to let others see you may want to request that a house admin review your house.

Houses that meet particular requirements are awarded ranks. Aside from the prestige of owning more than just a simple hovel, owners of ranked houses are also awarded titles and discounts. Titles and discounts vary depending on the rank the house has earned and are tied to a particular house. For example if you own two houses: a hovel and a castle you are given a discount of 25% on costs in your Castle ranked house and a discount of 0% on costs in your Hovel ranked house. Titles are displayed on 'house who' and correspond with your highest ranked house. To see a complete list of ranks, requirements and the benefits received at each rank please read 'houseedit help ranks'.

Note: Discounts do not count toward specials.

Additionally, houses that have earned ranks are given a plan that appears when someone uses the 'houselist #' function. Plans should be used to describe your house so that others may want to ask for an invite and wander through.

Reviews are requested by posting on the House Review Board located east of the main housing office. If you would like a review please post the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your house id #
3. The rank you are trying to earn for that particular house

Once a review has been completed, you will be notified by the housing admin that did the review. Throughout the review, comments will have been made on your house. These comments include typos, grammatical errors, suggestions for improvement, and overall impressions. You access these comments using the showcomments function (see houseedit help comments for more informaton about using this function). Each comment includes the rank that may be earned after all comments are approved. Once you have finished fixing any problems found in the review please post on the review board that you are ready to have your house re-reviewed.

The following commands affect reviews:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else
editplan - opens an editor to describe your house

See Also: ranks, comments, editplan

<houseedit help editthing>

Name: Editthing
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: editthing <id>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help exitaliases>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help exits>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help hideexit>

Name: Hideexit
Base Cost: 2000
Syntax: hideexit <direction>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help hideowner>

Name: Hideowner
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: hideowner <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help hugebox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help invite>

Name: Invite
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: invite <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help items>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words. Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat. The following edit commands affect items: additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id> additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old> removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room. See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help keys>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help largebox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help main>

The 'houseedit' command is used for modifying your house.
House Edit topics available:
abandon
adddoor
adddooralias
addexit
addexitalias
additem
additemid
addowner
addportal
addresponse
addroom
addspecial
addthing
addthingid
ansi
boxes
cloneitem
clonething
closecomment
colossalbox
comments
doors
edititem
editlong
editor
editplan
editthing
exitaliases
exits
hideexit
hideowner
hugebox
invite
items
keys
largebox
main
mediumbox
portals
ranks
removedoor
removedooralias
removeexit
removeexitalias
removeitem
removeitemid
removeroom
removespecial
removething
removethingid
review
reviews
rooms
setdoorname
setentrance
setexitname
sethousename
setroomname
setshort
setthingshort
share
showcomments
showexit
showowner
smallbox
specials
things
tinybox
transferhouse
unshare
upgradespecial

<houseedit help mediumbox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help portals>

A portal allows transportation between your house and the outside world. The following portals are currently available:

Arundin
Bank
Chaos
Crafting
Fantasy
Guild
Gypsy
Login
Morgue
Newbie
Office
Pound
Pub
Resid
Science
Shop
Smithy

Anyone may leave by a portal from anywhere in your house. Owners may enter the house from any location a portal is connected (e.g. a portal to Chaos will allow all owners to enter the house from the Chaos entrance). Note that entering a Guild portal will only bring a player to their guild if it is in town. Otherwise, it will bring them to the Reception Hall.

<dir> is the command that you want people to use to enter the portal. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or a unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

Note: Portal exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi characters or the @ symbol.

The following edit commands affect portals:
addportal <portal> <dir> - adds an exit going <dir> and ending through the portal <portal>
removeexit <direction> - removes a portal with an exit-name <direction>
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the portal <old> to <new>. This does not affect where portals lead, just changes what the exit is called.
showexit <direction> - makes the portal appear in "obvious exits"
hideexit <direction> - makes the portal hidden from "obvious exits"

See Also: exits

<houseedit help ranks>

RANK: Castle
REQUIREMENTS:
 - 50+ rooms
 - Meet all requirements for Designer status BENEFITS:
 Title: Architect
 Discount: 25%
 Misc: house plan

RANK: Palace
REQUIREMENTS:
 - 30+ rooms
 - Advanced area theme
 - Full, in-depth, thematic descriptions, items for all nouns
 - Things and doors where warranted
 - At least one storage box (any size)
BENEFITS:
 Title: Decorator
 Discount: 20%
 Misc: house plan

RANK: Estate
REQUIREMENTS:
 - 20+ rooms
 - Basic area-like theme
 - Decent descriptions, items for all nouns
 - Things and doors where warranted
BENEFITS:
 Title: Designer
 Discount: 15%
 Misc: house plan

RANK: Mansion
REQUIREMENTS:
 - 10+ rooms
 - Simple house theme
 - Room descriptions along with items for every noun
BENEFITS:
 Title: Craftsman
 Discount: 10%
 Misc: house plan

RANK: House
REQUIREMENTS:
 - 10+ rooms
 - Simple house theme
 - Room descriptions along with items for 'most' nouns
BENEFITS:
 Title: carpenter
 Discount: 5%
 Misc: house plan

RANK: Hovel
REQUIREMENTS:
 - Basic unedited house BENEFITS:
none

Note: Discounts do not apply to specials

See Also: review, comments, editplan

<houseedit help removedoor>

Name: Removedoor
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: removedoor <direction>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'.
If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate
west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help removedooralias>

Name: Removedooralias
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: removedooralias <direction> <alias name>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'. If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate
west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help removeexit>

Name: Removeexit
Base Cost: 250
Syntax: removeexit <direction>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help removeexitalias>

Name: Removeexitalias
Base Cost: 50
Syntax: removeexitalias <direction>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help removeitem>

Name: Removeitem
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: removeitem <id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help removeitemid>

Name: Removeitemid
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: removeitemid <old_id>

Items allow you to describe things about a room. Almost anything you look at in the room is an item. The two exceptions are specials and things. Items may have multiple ids which allow a user to see the text associated with an item. An id may be one or more words.

Note that you may add the same id to more than one item. If this happens then which item resolves to that id is undefined, but will remain the same while the room is loaded. This means if you have two items with the id cat and you look at cat, then houseedit removeitemid cat will remove the id from the item cat that you just looked at but leave the other item cat.

The following edit commands affect items:
additem <id> - adds a new item with the initial id <id> to this room and opens an editor for inputing the description
removeitem <id> - removes the item <id> from this room
edititem <id> - opens an editor for editing the description of the item with id <id>
additemid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the item with id <old>
removeitemid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated item
cloneitem <room> <id> - Takes the item in room <room> with id <id> and copies the item (including the description and all ids) to this room.

See Also: things, specials

<houseedit help removeroom>

Name: Removeroom
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: removeroom <room_name>

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help removespecial>

Name: Removespecial
Base Cost: 2500
Syntax: removespecial <special_name>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help removething>

Name: Removething
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: removething <id>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help removethingid>

Name: Removethingid
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: removethingid <existing_id>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help review>

After working hard to create a house that you are proud to let others see you may want to request that a house admin review your house.

Houses that meet particular requirements are awarded ranks. Aside from the prestige of owning more than just a simple hovel, owners of ranked houses are also awarded titles and discounts. Titles and discounts vary depending on the rank the house has earned and are tied to a particular house. For example if you own two houses: a hovel and a castle you are given a discount of 25% on costs in your Castle ranked house and a discount of 0% on costs in your Hovel ranked house. Titles are displayed on 'house who' and correspond with your highest ranked house. To see a complete list of ranks, requirements and the benefits received at each rank please read 'houseedit help ranks'.

Note: Discounts do not count toward specials.

Additionally, houses that have earned ranks are given a plan that appears when someone uses the 'houselist #' function. Plans should be used to describe your house so that others may want to ask for an invite and wander through.

Reviews are requested by posting on the House Review Board located east of the main housing office. If you would like a review please post the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your house id #
3. The rank you are trying to earn for that particular house

Once a review has been completed, you will be notified by the housing admin that did the review. Throughout the review, comments will have been made on your house. These comments include typos, grammatical errors, suggestions for improvement, and overall impressions. You access these comments using the showcomments function (see houseedit help comments for more informaton about using this function). Each comment includes the rank that may be earned after all comments are approved. Once you have finished fixing any problems found in the review please post on the review board that you are ready to have your house re-reviewed.

The following commands affect reviews:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else
editplan - opens an editor to describe your house

See Also: ranks, comments, editplan

<houseedit help reviews>

After working hard to create a house that you are proud to let others see you may want to request that a house admin review your house.

Houses that meet particular requirements are awarded ranks. Aside from the prestige of owning more than just a simple hovel, owners of ranked houses are also awarded titles and discounts. Titles and discounts vary depending on the rank the house has earned and are tied to a particular house. For example if you own two houses: a hovel and a castle you are given a discount of 25% on costs in your Castle ranked house and a discount of 0% on costs in your Hovel ranked house. Titles are displayed on 'house who' and correspond with your highest ranked house. To see a complete list of ranks, requirements and the benefits received at each rank please read 'houseedit help ranks'.

Note: Discounts do not count toward specials.

Additionally, houses that have earned ranks are given a plan that appears when someone uses the 'houselist #' function. Plans should be used to describe your house so that others may want to ask for an invite and wander through.

Reviews are requested by posting on the House Review Board located east of the main housing office. If you would like a review please post the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your house id #
3. The rank you are trying to earn for that particular house

Once a review has been completed, you will be notified by the housing admin that did the review. Throughout the review, comments will have been made on your house. These comments include typos, grammatical errors, suggestions for improvement, and overall impressions. You access these comments using the showcomments function (see houseedit help comments for more informaton about using this function). Each comment includes the rank that may be earned after all comments are approved. Once you have finished fixing any problems found in the review please post on the review board that you are ready to have your house re-reviewed.

The following commands affect reviews:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else
editplan - opens an editor to describe your house

See Also: ranks, comments, editplan

<houseedit help rooms>

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help setdoorname>

Name: Setdoorname
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: setdoorname <direction> <new_name>

Doors allow you to close off part of your house (and cut down on drafts) They may have one name, but multiple aliases. The doors may be referred to by name or alias (as in "open door") but the name is what gets printed when a user commits an action (as in "Ouch! You slam into a closed door.") The name affects both sides of the door but an alias affects only one side.

As an example lets say you have two rooms, 'bar' and 'den' with an exit leading 'west' from 'bar' to 'den' and 'east' from 'den' to 'bar'.
If you commit the following sequence:

houseedit gotoroom bar
houseedit adddoor west east
houseedit setdoorname west gate
houseedit adddooralias west blue gate
west
houseedit adddooralias east red gate

At this point a visitor could close the 'gate' from either 'bar' or 'den', the 'blue gate' from 'bar', or the 'red gate' from 'den'. If they tried to walk through the door while closed they would get the message "Ouch! You slam into a closed gate."

Anyone may open or close doors and owners may lock or unlock them.

The following commands affect doors:
adddoor <dir> <dir back> - creates a new door leading 'dir' from here and 'dir back' back to here
removedoor <dir> - removes the door headed 'dir' (from both sides)
setdoorname <dir> <name> - renames the door headed 'dir' to 'name'
adddooralias <dir> <alias> - adds a new alias 'alias' to the door headed 'dir'
removedooralias <dir> <alias> - removes the alias 'alias' from the door headed 'dir'

See Also: exits, portals

<houseedit help setentrance>

Name: Setentrance
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: setentrance

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help setexitname>

Name: Setexitname
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: setexitname <old_name> <new_name>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help sethousename>

Name: Sethousename
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: sethousename <name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help setroomname>

Name: Setroomname
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: setroomname <name>

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help setshort>

Name: Setshort
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: setshort <text>

Rooms are, obviously, the things you walk through in your house.

Rooms have three parts:
name - This is never shown to visitors to your house, but it is how you refer to your house in all edit code (such as exit destinations). The room name must be a single word.
short - This is seen when anyone in the room glances
long - this is seen when anyone in the room looks.

The following commands affect rooms:
addroom <name> - adds a new room <room>, you must then add an exit
removeroom <name> - removes the room named <name> from your house
setroomname <name> - changes the name of the current room to <name>
setshort <short> - sets the short of the current room to <short>
editlong - opens an editor to change the long of the current room.

See Also: items, things, exits, doors, specials

<houseedit help setthingshort>

Name: Setthingshort
Base Cost: 100
Syntax: setthingshort <existing_id> : <short_description>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help share>

Name: Share
Base Cost: 100000
Syntax: share <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help showcomments>

Name: Showcomments
Base Cost: 0
Syntax: showcomments # | [house] [short] [unapproved|all] [rank:<maxrank>] [status:<status>] [type:<type>]

After a review has been completed on your house, the reviewer comments can be found using the following commands. Comments are problems or suggestions concerning your house and must be fixed before receiving a promotion.

The following commands affect comments:
showcomments <unapproved|all|#|> - shows comments for the current room.
- with no option shows all comments with status OPEN
- with the option "unapproved" shows comments that have not been approved by the house admin
- with the option "all" shows all comments, even approved
- with a number shows all responses to that particular comment
addresponse <#> <response> - file a response to comment #. This can either be how you fixed it or why the comment was wrong.
closecomment <#> - mark comment <#> as closed, either because you met it or because your comment indicates why you did something else

See Also: review

<houseedit help showexit>

Name: Showexit
Base Cost: 1000
Syntax: showexit <direction>

Exits, obviously, are ways to get from one room to another. Available rooms to add exits too are listed in houseinfo.

<direction> is the command that you want people to use to exit the room. It can be an "ordinary exit" such as north, south, east, west, or an unusual exit (wander, escape, jump, etc.) limited only by your imagination.

It is also possible to alias the exit name so that other words can be used to send the user out an exisiting exit.

Note: There are some caveats to exit aliases:
- exitaliases may alias exits or portals
- exitaliases are always hidden
- exits with exitaliases may not be removed
- exits with exitaliases may be renamed
- If a door is on an exit then the same door affects all aliases to that door.
- If door commands are run on an exitalias they will automatically affect the exit to which the alias points

Note: Room exits are limited to one word and cannot contain ansi commands or the @ character.

The following commands affect exits:
addexit <direction> <name> - adds an exit going in <direction> and ending in the room named <name>
addexitalias <alias> <exit> - adds an alias named <alias> to the exit going <exit>
removeexitalias <direction> - removes an alias named <direction>
removeexit <direction> - removes an exit named <direction> also removes portals
setexitname <old> <new> - renames the exit <old> to <new> also renames portals and exitaliases
showexit <direction> - makes the exit appear in "obvious exits" also affects portals
hideexit <direction> - makes the exit hidden from "obvious exits" also affects portals

<houseedit help showowner>

Name: Showowner
Base Cost: 500
Syntax: showowner <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help smallbox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help specials>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help things>

Things are objects which sit in the room. They are seen in the room's contents just like items (equipment, etc) that have been dropped.

There are three parts to a thing:
short - how it appears when you look at the room
ids - the words or phrases you can look at to see its long description. An id can be multiple words.
description - how it looks when you look at it

You may have more than one thing in a room with the same id. You may also have items with the same ids as things. If two items and two things all have the id 'foo', then the first item can be referenced with 'foo', the second item cannot be accessed at all, the first thing can be referenced with 'foo 1' and the second thing can be referenced with 'foo 2'.

The following commands affect things:
addthing <id> : <short> - adds a new thing with the initial id <id> to this room and short <short> and opens an editor for inputing the description
removething <id> - removes the thing <id> from this room
editthing <id> - edits the description of the thing with id <id> and opens an editor for editing the description
addthingid <old> : <new> - adds an additional id to the thing with id <old>
removethingid <id> - removes the id <id> from its associated thing
setthingshort <id> : <short> - changes the short of the thing with id <id> to <short>
clonething <room> <id> - Takes the thing in room <room> with id <id> and copies the thing (including the description, short, and all ids) to this room.

See Also: items

<houseedit help tinybox>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special

<houseedit help transferhouse>

Name: Transferhouse
Base Cost: 100000
Syntax: transferhouse <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help unshare>

Name: Unshare
Base Cost: 50000
Syntax: unshare <house id> <player name>

There are two types of keys: owner keys and guest keys. Guests may enter your house from the residence area in Pinnacle, visit all areas of your house, use your boxes, and exit from your portals. Owners may additionally enter via portals, lock and unlock doors and boxes, ban items from boxes, and make changes to the house.

You may also give out also invites, which aren't really keys, just the ability to visit the house once. Unlike keys, invites must be given to a person who is currently logged on, used within the same login they are given. Invites give roughly the same abilities as guest keys.

Anyone who has a key must get a keyring from Antonio in the housing office to be able to access your house.

You are also able to set the name of your house to something other than "Dunroamin" using the sethousename command. This name will be displayed in houselist for all players to see. Standard mud ansi can be used in this command (@ansicolor:housename@).

If you want to sell your house to a different player you can do this using the transferhouse command. This will remove you as an owner and set <new player> as the owner.

Note: Transferhouse command has two caveats. The first is that there can be only one owner when the command is executed. The second is that the command causes the initial owner to abandon the property and makes <player> as the sole owner.

The following commands affect keys:
addowner <house #> <player> - make <player> an owner of <house #>
hideowner <house #> <player> - make <player> hidden from houselist
showowner <house #> <player> - make <player> shown on houselist
abandon <house #> - gives up ownership of <house #>
transferhouse <house #> <player> - transfers ownership of <house #> to <player>. Only works with one current owner.
share <house #> <player> - give guest keys for <house #> to <player>
unshare <house #> <player> - take guest keys for <house #> from <player>
invite <house #> <player> - send a one time invitation to <player>
setentrance - makes the current room where guests go when they enter your house.
sethousename <name> - sets the name your house is listed as in houselist.

<houseedit help upgradespecial>

Name: Upgradespecial
Base Cost: 0
Syntax: upgradespecial <special_name>

Specials are interactive objects in the room. The most common type of special is the box, but there are other types.

Boxes allow you to store stuff, generally for an entire boot. There are 6 sizes of boxes you can buy, and you can upgrade between them for the difference in cost between the upgraded box and the one you already have.

tinybox - holds 25 items - 300,000 coins
smallbox - holds 50 items - 550,000 coins
mediumbox - holds 100 items - 1,025,000 coins
largebox - holds 200 items - 2,000,000 coins
hugebox - holds 400 items - 4,500,000 coins
colossalbox - holds 800 items - 9,000,000 coins

Other types of specials are games and novelty items. To view the other available specials type houseedit addspecial when you are in a house room.

The following commands affect specials:
addspecial <type> - adds a new special to the room
removespecial <type> - removes a special from the room
upgradespecial <type> - given an upgradable special in the room, changes it to the next level of that special