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title: "BUILDING BUILD"
description: "Some not-so-obvious things about OLC:"
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Some not-so-obvious things about [OLC](/help/wizhelp/olc/):

[REDIT](/help/wizhelp/redit-sedit-oedit-medit-zedit-tedit/): Room flags: REGEN_ROOM .. PCs (and mobs) rege mana/HPs faster in this
			room.
		   BFR  .. Bad for recall, recall doesn't work here.
                   [NEUTRAL](/help/info/alignment-good-evil-neutral/) .. can't die here. PCs get sent back to the temple
	                  instead. As such, entry to these rooms (or the rooms
                          themselves), should be ![MOB](/help/info/mob-mobile-npc-mobs/)
		   PEACEFUL .. violence and violent magic isn't allowed here.
		   ATRIUM, *, and HCRSH ..  do not use
		   PRIVATE .. Only two people allowed here. If more try to
			enter, they get the following message:
			" A private conversation is going on in that room"
		   TUNNEL ..  Only one person allowed here. If more try to
			enter, they get the following message:
		        "There's no room for you there!"
 		   BFS, *, ATRIUM, HCRSH, [HOUSE](/help/commands/house/), and **: do not use
	See Also: [HELP](/help/commands/help/) [FLOW](/help/wizhelp/flow-room-flow-room-flow-north-flowing/)

As of 2.2, Sector types only affect movement rate.

The sectors: Earth, Air, Water, Fire are for use in the elemental planes.

[OEDIT](/help/wizhelp/redit-sedit-oedit-medit-zedit-tedit/):  When making a liquid container, the first alias-name should be the
name of the liquid initially in the container (unless it's empty, of course).
The second name should be the item.. only 2 names should be used.
Example: water skin   OR     beer bottle
Cost, vs. cost-per-day: The cost is the value of the item. This should not
exceed 10000. Cost-per-day is the number used to calculate wether or not
the item will load. In most cases, assign cost-per-day = cost. If cost per
day is > 10000, the difference is the % chance the item will have to load.
Example:
  item: a loaf o bread    cost:5 cost-per-day:10100 (loads 100% of the time)
  item: a dagger of blood cost:8500 cost-per-day:8500 (approx 10% of the time)
  item: a helm of greed   cost:300  cost-per-day:10050 (loads 50% of the time)

To be able to backstab with an item, it must be type "pierce". Clerics can not
use slashing weapons, even if they don't have a ![CLERIC](/help/info/cleric-clerics/) flag on them.

[HELP](/help/commands/help/) [NAMED](/help/wizhelp/named/)
[HELP](/help/commands/help/) [ACTION](/help/wizhelp/action-a-desc/)

[MEDIT](/help/wizhelp/redit-sedit-oedit-medit-zedit-tedit/):  Setting the LEVEL (choice 6) puts defaults into the other blanks, so
set the mobs level first, then the other slots, else they will get over-
written.
When setting a mob with flag 21 (RNDLD-ZONE), use zedit to load him anywhere
in your zone. The RNDLD-ZONE flag will cause his location to actually be a
random room in the zone. It won't load in GODROOM, PRIVATE, ![MOB](/help/info/mob-mobile-npc-mobs/), or [DEATH](/help/info/die-death-condie/)
rooms.
Noise is the message sent to rooms surrounding the mob every once in a
	while... An example for a dragon might be:
	"You hear the sound of great wings rustling."
	or perhaps:
	"A cloud of noxious gas wafts into the room."
See [HELP](/help/commands/help/) [NOISE](/help/wizhelp/noise/)

  AWARE (flag 5) mobs can't be backstabbed. AGGR24 (flag 20) makes the mob
aggressive to PCs level [24](/help/info/attitude-attitudes-24-atti/) and above. AGGR24 mobs speak before attacking, and
sometimes gossip when they have killed. A mob flagged AGGR24 and AGGR(flag 6)
will attack other mobs that are 3+ levels below him, but only when fully
healed.  [HUNTER](/database#mob-7910)(flag 19) mobs will hunt through !mob rooms, and a hunting mob
ignores their own [SENTINEL](/database#mob-19510)(flag 2) assignment.

  If you add "carve_meat", "carve_rabbit", "carve_fish", or "carve_bird" to a
mob's namelist, they will become carveable.

[SEDIT](/help/wizhelp/redit-sedit-oedit-medit-zedit-tedit/): Sell rate should be lower than buy rate. Using the Rooms menu(choice R)
then adding a new sell room (choice A)  with the vnum of 1 will make a mob
sell anywhere.. good for making wandering shopkeepers.

[ZEDIT](/help/wizhelp/redit-sedit-oedit-medit-zedit-tedit/): If you use an item/mob created in another zone, post it on the board so
Serapis or Oddity can up the max_exist for the entire world.
About max-exist: since %load controls objects loading, set the max_exist for
eq loading on a mob to 999, unless it an extremely powerful item or an artifact.
Set the max_exist for eq loading directly into a room (like ATMs) to 1.

CAUTION: Items given to shopkeeper's are affected by %load. If you want a
shopkeeper to ALWAYS have a certain item (like, for example, the baker to have
bread), make the item's cost-per-day 10100.

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