Server: Remove .stomach thing type attribute, derive from .lifepoints.

[plomrogue] / SERVER_COMMANDS

diff --git a/SERVER_COMMANDS b/SERVER_COMMANDS
index a39cf7242d15fae0df3e79e6d1f1f021652bf474..3036c0478471262732bcc93a1ddfbc4fc46f665e 100644 (file)
--- a/SERVER_COMMANDS
+++ b/SERVER_COMMANDS
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ In any case, from then on, further commands are read in from ./server/in. New
 commands must be appended to the file – which is what the client does. All
 commands from ./server/in except meta commands are also written to ./record.
 
-At the end of each turn, ./savefile is written – with a list of all god commands
-necessary to recreate the current world state.
+Every fifteen seconds, if any turns have passed, ./savefile is written – with a
+list of all god commands necessary to recreate the current world state. On each
+world state change, ./server/worldstate is updated and a message "WORLD_UPDATED"
+written to ./server/out.
 
 Replay mode
 -----------
@@ -51,6 +53,12 @@ Write "PONG" line to ./server/out file.
 QUIT
 Shut down server.
 
+THINGS_HERE [0 to 255] [0 to 255]
+If world exists, write line-by-line list of things visible or in memory at y
+position of first argument, x position of second argument of map into
+./server/out file, enclosed by two lines "THINGS_HERE START" and
+"THINGS_HERE END".
+
 Player commands
 ---------------
 
@@ -95,7 +103,8 @@ MAKE_WORLD [0 to 4294967296]
 Set map seed and randomness seed to argument. Remove all things. (Re-)generate
 map. Add to map things specified in thing types table in quantity defined there
 by START_NUMBER command, with first thing (of thing ID of 0) of type defined as
-player type by PLAYER_TYPE command. Set world turn to 1. Activate world.
+player type by PLAYER_TYPE command. Set world turn to 1. Activate world. Answer
+with 'NEW_WORLD' message in ./server/out file.
 
 MAP_LENGTH [1 to 256]
 Deactivate world. Remove ./server/worldstate file. Remove all things. Remove
@@ -105,8 +114,8 @@ WORLD_ACTIVE [0 to 255]
 Set world activity state to argument. If 0, remove ./server/worldstate file.
 Else, if world was so far inactive, a map exists, at least one "wait" thing
 action is defined, and a thing of ID 0 (= a player character) that is not part
-of any other thing's inventory, (re-)build all animate things' fields of view and
-activate world. (Initial value: 0.)
+of any other thing's inventory, (re-)build all animate things' fields of view,
+and activate world. (Initial value: 0.)
 
 TA_ID [0 to 255]
 Select thing action to manipulate by argument as ID. If argument is 0, change it
@@ -156,6 +165,9 @@ performing the action) value to argument.
 T_LIFEPOINTS [0 to 255]
 Set selected thing's lifepoints to argument.
 
+T_SATIATION [-32768 to 32767]
+Set selected thing's satiation score. 
+
 T_CARRIES [0 to 255]
 Add thing of ID in argument to inventory of selected thing, if said thing is
 available for carrying and not the selected thing.
@@ -164,6 +176,10 @@ T_MEMMAP [0 to 255] [string]
 Set part of selected thing's memory of the game map to string argument: the line
 of the argument's number.
 
+T_MEMDEPTHMAP [0 to 255] [string]
+Set part of selected thing's game map memory depth map to string argument: the
+line of the argument's number.
+
 T_MEMTHING [0 to 255] [0 to 255] [0 to 255]
 Add to selected thing's memory of things on map thing of ID of first argument,
 y position of second argument and x position of third argument.
@@ -174,9 +190,9 @@ change it to the lowest unused thing type ID. If thing type of ID does not exist
 yet, create it with default name "(none)", corpse ID equal to the new thing
 type's ID, and remaining thing type attributes to 0.
 
-TT_CONSUMABLE [0-255]
+TT_CONSUMABLE [0-65535]
 Set selected thing type's consumability value to argument – the number of
-lifepoints earned by consuming/using things of that type.
+.satiation score points earned by consuming/using things of that type.
 
 TT_START_NUMBER [0-255]
 Set selected thing type's number of things of type to spawn on successful
@@ -184,7 +200,14 @@ MAKE_WORLD command to argument.
 
 TT_LIFEPOINTS [0-255]
 Set selected thing type's initial lifepoints value to argument. Things of 0
-lifepoints are considered inanimate, otherwise animate.
+lifepoints are considered inanimate, otherwise animate. This value also sets the
+degree to which the selected type's things suffer from under- or over-satiation:
+If 0, not at all. Else, it defines a stomach size value of 32767 divided by it.
+Each turn a thing of the given tpe may then suffer a lifepoint decrement to the
+change of the rounded down quotient of its satiation score's absolute value by
+its stomach size value, then again divided by the latter. (This means that the
+change is always zero when the absolute value of the satiation score is lower
+than the stomach size value.)
 
 TT_SYMBOL [char]
 Set to argument symbol by which things of the selected type are represented on