Medievia - Do You Dare Enter?

zMUD Help for Medievia

To Begin

Download

and install zMud.

To Connect to Medievia

Select the Medievia character on the opening screen and click connect. Once the connection process has begun you will see the Medievia log on screen. Enter your character name, followed by your password. Zmud will then ask you if you wish to use the autologin feature. Personally I suggest saying yes here. Makes connecting faster and easier.

Now that you are connected you need to know how to do a few things. Everything you should need to know is in the help files, as with most windows program Alt+H will take you there.

Scripts, Triggers, Macros, Aliases etc are all within the help files but I'll give you a few examples of how to enter and use a small number of simple ones to give you the general idea. All items in "quotes" are only that way to help them stand out, when sending these commands to Medievia omit the quotes.

I highly suggest you read the help files concerned with the action you wish to perform using ZMud as they are clear, and really very easy to understand. Now onto the examples.

Now you are ready to play!

Triggers

Here are some useful triggers. Trigger is another name for action. Make sure you read HELP RULES on Medievia to see what rules we have for using triggers.

Some actions or triggers:

#action {You have been idle, and are pulled into a void.} {look}
#action {You are thirsty.} {drink water}
#action {You are hungry.} {eat food}
#action {You collapse, totally out of breath!} {stand}
#action {You fall down.} {stand}

Gags (these cause less fight spam to you)

You can gag certain things but just typing: "#gag {what you want to gag}"

#gag {%w dodges}
#gag {%w misses}
#gag {You dodge}
#gag {You parry}

Tabs

These are so you do not need to type the full name of something out. A long name, such as Ozymandias (one of the many gods that put hours and hours work in Medievia) can be hard to keep typing out. If you had a tabbed for Ozymandias, you could type: "ozy" then hit tab instead of enter and it fills in the rest.

#ta Ozymandias
#ta Gamina
#ta Enignon
#ta Metamorph

Aliases

What you can type to do certain functions.

#alias {cure} {get potion bag;q potion}
#alias {dw} {drink water}
#alias {ef} {get food bag;eat food;put all.food bag}
#alias {ch} {#chatall}

See the help files included in zMud for more information on triggers, aliases, Macros etc. More than one command can be done on any line and separated by a semi-colon. (;) Say, if you wanted to walk west then east very very quickly, you could type: "w;e" and hit enter. Semi-colon's(;) are used by zMud as a line seperator.

Other cute little things: Macros

Holding down Ctrl+k then hitting another key will let you assign, or change Marcos. Macros are single key commands that send to the Mud and result in action. For example I have my keypad set up to be used to move me around the game as you will if you use zMUD as it is a default setting.. Therefore it is set up as follows.

num8 = North
num6 = East
num2 = South
num4 = West
num9 = Up
num3 = Down
etc..

Macros are not limited to the keypad, all the function keys, F1, F2, F3 etc. can be used as well. The Alt & Ctrl keys can be used to triple the number of Macros you have in total, in example:

Ctrl+num5 = Look Around
Alt+num5 = Survey
etc...

See the help file for more information on building macros using all keys.

Calling players!!

You can chat with anyone else that uses ZMud or mudmaster provided both you and the other person are not firewalled. When you first start ZMud, the ZChat software will load automatically.

First thing you must do is determine each other's ip. You can type #SHOW %ip JUST like that to find your ip, then you can telepath/use another channel to tell someone your ip To call another person once you have their ip, type: "#call ipaddress" For the example above: #call 121.123.32.12 and hit enter. If you were able to connect to them, it will say # Connected.

If not, it will say that it failed. If it fails, have them try calling you. Sometimes you just can not get connected to another person. It will fail if you do not have the correct port number. Nearly everyone uses the default port. Rarely do people use other ports. But if I was on port 4444, you would have to type: #call 121.123.32.12 4444

Commands once you are connected with someone: (this is where the chatname shows to other people).

#chatall (message) (to chat to everyone)
#chat (name) (message) (to chat to just one person)
#chat (to show all the people on your chat)
#chat (number) (message) (to chat to just one person, the number coming from typing #chat first)

Using my example from alias above, all you would need to do is type "ch (message)" to send something to everyone because you set the alias to say #chatall already, so it makes it much easier to talk faster.

Other things to check out via the web or help files within ZMud itself, or the help files on Medievia:

Sounds
Events
MSP
Highlights
Colors
File transfers
Ping

Visit Kernighan's Script Page for some useful scripts written for zMUD.

Thanks to a former god Enignon for creating this page and to Zugg at www.zuggsoft.com for creating an excellent program and to all the people who assisted Enignon with this page. You know who you are.