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Created page with "{| class="wikitable" !Usage !Actual meaning |- |'''Quest progress and cross-quest memory''' |Records facts, choices, milestones, or counters that dialogue and other quests can check. Conditions can test whether a variable exists, matches a particular value, or falls within a numerical range. Dialogue and scripts can set or remove these records. |- |'''Permission to enter restricted areas''' |Remembers access granted through quests. Examples include the '''Black Flame Tem..."
 
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|'''Quest progress and cross-quest memory'''
|'''Quest progress and cross-quest memory'''
|Records facts, choices, milestones, or counters that dialogue and other quests can check. Conditions can test whether a variable exists, matches a particular value, or falls within a numerical range. Dialogue and scripts can set or remove these records.
|Records facts, choices, milestones, or counters that dialogue and other quests can check. Conditions can test whether a variable exists, matches a particular value, or falls within a numerical range. Dialogue and scripts can set or remove these records.
Remembers access granted through quests. Examples include the '''Hydlaa winch.''' Records discoveries made during an active quest. Credit for defeating a tribe — '''<code><tribe_name>_vanquished</code>'''
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|'''Permission to enter restricted areas'''
|'''scale: Permanent character size'''
|Remembers access granted through quests. Examples include the '''Black Flame Temple''', '''Hydlaa winch''', '''spirit house''', '''Mansion Beyond'''—including temporary access—'''Lennston’s location''', and permission to '''see Gibbsite'''. Entrances check these values before allowing access.
|Applies an individual size multiplier on top of the character’s racial scale. For example, <code>1.5</code> means 50% larger and <code>0.5</code> means half size. Administrators can save or reset this size adjustment.
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|'''Quest exploration triggers'''
|'''ghost: character gets the ghost shader'''
|Records discoveries made during an active quest. One concrete example checks whether the character is supposed to explore, then records that they '''found the entrance to the old mine'''.
|A ghost shader is applied to the character.
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|'''Permanent character size — <code>scale</code>'''
|Applies an individual size multiplier on top of the character’s racial scale. For example, <code>1.5</code> means 50% larger and <code>0.5</code> means half size. Administrators can save or reset this size adjustment.
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|'''Magic, poison, and disease resistance'''
|'''Magic, poison, and disease resistance'''
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|'''Temporary resistance and other numerical bonuses'''
|'''Temporary resistance and other numerical bonuses'''
|Spells and effects can temporarily modify the numerical value of a character variable, including resistances. Calculations see the modified value, and the character’s modifier summary displays these bonuses. These temporary adjustments use the same runtime system but do '''not inherently become permanent table values'''.
|Spells and effects can temporarily modify the numerical value of a character variable, including resistances. Calculations see the modified value, and the character’s modifier summary displays these bonuses. These temporary adjustments use the same runtime system but do '''not inherently become permanent table values'''.
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|'''Pet energy — <code>pet_energy</code>'''
|Persists a pet’s current energy. Summoning consumes energy, eating restores it, and low energy triggers food-seeking or requests for food. It is also displayed in the pet interface. The maximum is calculated separately from the pet’s evolution/size.
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|'''Credit for defeating a tribe — <code><tribe_name>_vanquished</code>'''
|When the tribe loses its last building, participating players receive this variable. Its value is the number of buildings destroyed during that defeat, allowing quests or rewards to recognize the victory and potentially scale rewards.
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There are also two pet-related entries worth distinguishing from active functionality:
There are also two pet-related entries worth distinguishing from active functionality:
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|'''Pet energy — <code>pet_energy</code>'''
|Persists a pet’s current energy. Summoning consumes energy, eating restores it, and low energy triggers food-seeking or requests for food. It is also displayed in the pet interface. The maximum is calculated separately from the pet’s evolution/size.
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|<code>pet_happiness</code>
|<code>pet_happiness</code>

Latest revision as of 20:43, 31 October 2026

Usage Actual meaning
Quest progress and cross-quest memory Records facts, choices, milestones, or counters that dialogue and other quests can check. Conditions can test whether a variable exists, matches a particular value, or falls within a numerical range. Dialogue and scripts can set or remove these records.

Remembers access granted through quests. Examples include the Hydlaa winch. Records discoveries made during an active quest. Credit for defeating a tribe — <tribe_name>_vanquished

scale: Permanent character size Applies an individual size multiplier on top of the character’s racial scale. For example, 1.5 means 50% larger and 0.5 means half size. Administrators can save or reset this size adjustment.
ghost: character gets the ghost shader A ghost shader is applied to the character.
Magic, poison, and disease resistance Stores resistance to Azure, Blue, Brown, Crystal, Dark, and Red Way, plus Poison and Disease. Damage scripts use these values to reduce the relevant damage. The inspected formulas use max(0, 1 − resistance / 200): a value of 100 halves damage; 200 prevents that damage.
Temporary resistance and other numerical bonuses Spells and effects can temporarily modify the numerical value of a character variable, including resistances. Calculations see the modified value, and the character’s modifier summary displays these bonuses. These temporary adjustments use the same runtime system but do not inherently become permanent table values.

There are also two pet-related entries worth distinguishing from active functionality:

Variable Current meaning/status
Pet energy — pet_energy Persists a pet’s current energy. Summoning consumes energy, eating restores it, and low energy triggers food-seeking or requests for food. It is also displayed in the pet interface. The maximum is calculated separately from the pet’s evolution/size.
pet_happiness The pet interface reads it, but then explicitly overrides happiness to 100. Stored happiness currently has no effect on that display.
pet_lastfed Existing database rows contain timestamps for the last feeding. I found no reader or writer in the current source, so it appears to be leftover data rather than an active mechanic.
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