Flags and Other Settings

Area Flags

Flag	Settable	Effect
changed	no	Used to mark that anything in the area has been changed. asave changed looks for this.
added	no	Used to mark newly added zones.
no_map	yes	Prevents showing the minimap.
dark	yes	Not currently used.
testport	yes
no_recall	yes	Prevents recall, maybe other teleportation magics?
no_rooms	yes	Don’t save rooms for this zone.
newbie	yes?	Reduce damage to players by 75%.
no_get_random	yes	Prevents get_random_* from targeting anything in this zone. Mostly for questing.
no_fading	yes	Prevents use of ‘fade’ in the zone.
blueprint	yes?	Area is used to hold blueprint rooms. Prevents vlinks to zone.
locked	yes	Area cannot be entered by normal means. Also works as no_get_random.

AreaWho Flags

These change how your location shows up on the ‘who’ list.

AreaWho	Display
blank
abyss	Abyss
aerial	Sky
arena	Arena
at_sea	At Sea
battle	Battle
castle	Castle
cavern	Cavern
chat	Rift
church	Church
cult	Cult
dungeon	Dungn
eden	Eden
forest	Forest
fort	Fort
home	Home
immortal	Cosmos
inn	Inn
isle	Isle
jungle	Jungle
keep	Keep
limbo	Limbo
mountain	Mount
netherworld	Nether
on_ship	Ship
outpost	Outpst
palace	Palace
pg	PoA
planar	Planar
pyramid	Pyramd
ruins	Ruins
swamp	Swamp
temple	Temple
tomb	Tomb
tower	Tower
towne	Towne
tundra	Tundra
undersea	Ocean
village	Villa
volcano	Vulcan
wilderness	Wilder
instance	Instce*
duty	Duty

PlaceType Flag

Nowhere            Wilderness         First Continent    Second Continent   
Third Continent    Fourth Continent   Island             Other Plane        
Abyss              Eden               Netherworld        

PlaceType is used in a few different ways.

• Being in “Nowhere” or “Other Plane” prevent issuing or recieving arena challenges.
• Scrying will only find objects on “First Continent,” “Second Continent,” “Third Continent,” “Fourth Continent,” “Island,” or “Wilderness.”
• Trying to gohall from “Nowhere,” “Other Plane,” “Island,” or a wilderness zone is always considered cross-zone.
• Trying to gocall from a different continent than the location of your church hall is considered cross-zone.
• Used in many places to determine if areas are within the same ‘region’ of the wilds.
• The spell “earth walk” cannot be used in “Nowhere” or “Other Plane.”
• Sages can currently only identify items from “First Continent,” “Second Continent,” “Island” placetypes, and the Undersea zone specifically.
• Gate cannot target “Nowhere” or “Other Plane” zones.
• In code, “First Continent” is used to check if ‘IN_SERALIA’ and “Second Continent” for ‘IN_ATHEMIA.’
• Place types can be used to filter the ‘alist’ command to only show areas of a given placetype.
• Invasions can only happen on First/Second/Third/Fourth continent.