If I recall @Jumpscare did something with Evennia that has a good crafting system. I didn’t roll a crafter on Silent Heaven when I did (Simon was a disgraced med student), but it looked super cool. Maybe that might be compatible?

I could pull out my crafting code and allow you all to shred it to bits.

I’m mired in to-dos, but remind me in about a week and I’ll look into it.

Alas, as is outlined in the old tutorial, Arxcode is maintained by the Arx folks and not by Evennia devs.

I wrote that tutorial as a service back then when it made sense (and it did indeed easily install at the time, promise!) … but at this point I don’t think ArxCode has kept up with Evennia development (it was using an old Evennia version already when it was created, it’s even still on Python2).

I’ll check in with Tehom if there are plans to update the tutorial (or Arxcode).

never look at people’s descs

Well, that’s just rude. We took the time to write the damn things.

All items need to be added via the admin panel on the website. So, players can’t really use it as something to craft without putting in a request for their cool item to be added

Very true, but that’s still a potentially viable option.

There’s all kinds of potential implementations here, from total honor system, to a +request driven inventory system, to a full-fledged crafting system. You could also do a hybrid, like extending simpleinventory or the existing desc plugin without going full-bore crafting code.

@bear_necessities said in Installing Arxcode?:

I play 99.5% through the portal, never look at people’s descs, and would have no idea if they had pretty colored clothes or not.

You can still see peoples’ descs on the portal, but I don’t know how many actually care to look.
(Though from my adesc, I’m not sure how many bother to look in-client either. YMMV.)

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

I never played Arx but I’m vaguely familiar with the system. The colors are supported, but if you wanted to restrict who could use them in a desc that would definitely require custom code. Or you could adopt the Simple Inventory plugin to track “crafted” items and do it on the honor system.

If nothing else, that is my fondest memory from the Lenosia scene at the end of the game. People just dumping their wardrobes on the ground and then others modeling clothes.

Except that time I made rainbows, I agree that was unreadable but Saya was insane so that was the point.

@Faraday I realized I never answered your question:

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

… and everyone was competing to make the most insane color scheme to make the text unreadable.

On Arx there was an inventory and wear system, where you would in came craft pieces of clothing and then wear them and they’d be displayed on your desc when someone looked at you. And you could color them with 256 ansi colors.

I’m just saying the tutorial fails to address a number of things, unfortunately, around versions.

It’s just geared more towards people who are already developers (especially Python), while Ares is geared towards people who are not developers at all. It’s a tradeoff of flexibility (Evennia can run pretty much anywhere, and let’s you build a lot more varied games) vs. simplicity (Ares is designed for a specific environment and is more of a pre-built LEGO castle rather than a pile of bricks).

I did not.

FWIW, I tried following that whole thing on DO twice, a few months apart, each time taking a few cracks at it, and I still never got it up. I’m not saying you can’t. I am baby. I’m just saying the tutorial fails to address a number of things, unfortunately, around versions.

It’s one of the things that makes Ares so fucking nice in comparison.

Ok.

I can do all that, as I can follow instructions pretty easily but also… holy fuck. I don’t know if in game crafting and pretty colors is worth that amount of work (to me).