Up to Main Index Up to Journal for March, 2016 JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 21ST MARCH, 2016 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 Up to Main Index Up to Journal for March, 2016