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                     JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 21ST MARCH, 2016
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SUBJECT: Another update to the public dev branch and an improved Zinara zone
   DATE: Mon 21 Mar 20:57:00 GMT 2016

Yesturday was the vernal equinox and hence the first day of spring.

Not really caring what time of year it is I've continued working on WolfMUD.
In fact I've just pushed some updates to the public dev branch. Are they
exciting changes? Lets take a look...

I've updated the Zinara zone. Another 29 locations have been added as well as
a few more items and more narratives.  Some broken exit links have been fixed.

The loading and initialisation of zones now has it's own zones package. This
was mostly a clean up of the attr/setup.go code which has finally been
removed. Zone initialisation is now called from server/server.go instead of
comms/listener.go - it worked at the time, but listener.go was definitely the
wrong place for it.

Zone files can now have an initial zone record. In the case of Zinara zone:


     Ref: ZINARA
    Zone: City of Zinara
  Author: Andrew 'Diddymus' Rolfe

  This is the city of Zinara.
  %%


At the moment only the REF and ZONE fields are required. Any other fields are
currently ignored but can be used for informational purposes. In this case the
Author and free text description block are just informational at the moment.

The starting locations are actually random - now that I've remembered to seed
the default random source.

I think that's about it for this update. Still need to be able to link zones
together and guess I should be working on that next?

--
Diddymus


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