Commands

Crafts

• Fix: Fixes a weapon at a forge. GP cost: 35
• Repair: Repairs wood products at a cartyard or the like. GP cost: 35
• Leatherwork: Fixes leather clothing that can't be sewn or mended with a regular needle and thread. GP cost: 35?
• Mend (not the ritual): While it's not actually a command, it uses crafts.materials.needlework to use successfully. GP cost:

Faith

• Bestow: Bestows a ritual onto a rod, baton etc. See rod charging for more information. GP cost: 50 plus gp for ritual
• Consecrate: Consecrates an item to you deity. GP cost: 50
• Ritbury: This will have a different name for each deity (IE: Sek's is ensumpf). It effectively buries a corpse without affecting your align. GP cost: 50
• Pray: Sacrifices your guildpoints to your deity for their greater glory. GP cost: All or a certain percentage
• Scour: Removes rituals from a rod, baton etc. GP cost: 50

Fighting

• Bash: Uses a blunt weapon to bash your opponents brains in.
• Beat: Attempts to knock your opponents weapon aside and leave them at a disadvantage.
• Behead: Attempts to slice the head off your opponent with a large, heavy, sharp weapon.
• Berserk: Go mad and beat people up. You need at least 50 gp to berserk and it takes all of your fighting points. There is a temporary stat loss after berserking.
• Chop: Allows you to use an axe or other suitable weapon to chop into your opponent.
• Feint: Fakes your opponent out, leaving them wide open for attacks for a few seconds.
• Guard: Guards an exit against a certain person (or everyone if you so choose) from going that way.
• Hack: Uses an axe or heavy-sword type weapon to hack your opponent up.
• Pierce: Prepares to pierce your enemy with a weapon capable of piercing.
• Riposte: Turns a parry into a thrust.
• Slash: Allows you to slash an opponent using a small sword or dagger weapon.
• Stab: Prepares to stab an enemy with a piercing weapon.
• Warcry: Shouts a phrase of your choice, potentially causing your opponent to lose courage and therefore stats.

Other

• Judge: Judges how good a weapon is. You can compare weapons as well.
• Value: Values an item. You can also use it to value an item in different currencies.
• Vurdere: Same as judge, only it is for armour.

Covert

• Abscond: Allows you to sneak out of combat by dodging around your opponent and hiding, ambushing, or sneaking after you are out of the room.
• Ambush: Set an attack for someone. Once they walk into the room the attack is triggered.
• Backstab: Allows you to stealthily attack someone, leaving them shocked and confused for a time (lowered stats). Should the recipient of this attack have a high other.perception bonus, the attack will most likely fail and they will attack you.
• Case: Considers a person to see if it is possible to steal from them.
• Conceal: Conceals an item on you so others will have a hard time seeing it.
• Filch: Steals an item from someone.
• Hide: Hides you from sight. If someone has a high enough other.perception bonus, then they will probably be able to see you.
• Palm: Silently pick up an object off a corpse, the floor, or out of a scabbard or container.
• Peek: Allows you to stealthily look at someone, possibly without them knowing.
• Pick: Pick a lock on a door or container.
• Plant: Plant on object covertly on someone without there being a message.
• Probe: Gives you an idea of how difficult it will be to pick a lock and/or disable a trap.
• Rifle: Attempt to get an inventory of a container within a container.
• Scope: Scopes a shop out to see how easy it will be to shoplift from it.
• Shoplift: Steal an item from a shop. GP cost: 45
• Slip: Slip an object silently to a person or container.
• Snatch: Snatch an item from someone then run away.
• Sneak: Move along stealthily to avoid detection.
• Unconceal: Unconceals a concealed object.
• Unhide: Allows you to stealthily come out of hiding.

Magic

• Contemplate: Allows you to concentrate on a spell.
• Forget: Allows you to forget magic spells or squints.
• Octograve: Creates an octogram on the floor to help you focus.
• Recharge: Recharges a magical artifact. Some artifacts may explode so beware.
• Remember: Remember a spell from a spell book.
• Scribe: Place a spell onto paper. Try not to have too many scrolls together.
• Spellcheck: Check a spell to see if you can cast it.

• Judge: Judges how good a weapon is. You can compare weapons as well.
• Value: Values an item. You can also use it to value an item in different currencies.
• Vurdere: Same as judge, only it is for armour.

Covert

• Abscond: Allows you to sneak out of combat by dodging around your opponent and hiding, ambushing, or sneaking after you are out of the room.
• Ambush: Set an attack for someone. Once they walk into the room the attack is triggered.
• Backstab: Allows you to stealthily attack someone, leaving them shocked and confused for a time (lowered stats). Should the recipient of this attack have a high other.perception bonus, the attack will most likely fail and they will attack you.
• Case: Considers a person to see if it is possible to steal from them.
• Conceal: Conceals an item on you so others will have a hard time seeing it.
• Filch: Steals an item from someone.
• Hide: Hides you from sight. If someone has a high enough other.perception bonus, then they will probably be able to see you.
• Palm: Silently pick up an object off a corpse, the floor, or out of a scabbard or container.
• Peek: Allows you to stealthily look at someone, possibly without them knowing.
• Pick: Pick a lock on a door or container.
• Plant: Plant on object covertly on someone without there being a message.
• Probe: Gives you an idea of how difficult it will be to pick a lock and/or disable a trap.
• Rifle: Attempt to get an inventory of a container within a container.
• Scope: Scopes a shop out to see how easy it will be to shoplift from it.
• Shoplift: Steal an item from a shop. GP cost: 45
• Slip: Slip an object silently to a person or container.
• Snatch: Snatch an item from someone then run away.
• Sneak: Move along stealthily to avoid detection.
• Unconceal: Unconceals a concealed object.
• Unhide: Allows you to stealthily come out of hiding.

Magic

• Contemplate: Allows you to concentrate on a spell.
• Forget: Allows you to forget magic spells or squints.
• Octograve: Creates an octogram on the floor to help you focus.
• Recharge: Recharges a magical artifact. Some artifacts may explode so beware.
• Remember: Remember a spell from a spell book.
• Scribe: Place a spell onto paper. Try not to have too many scrolls together.
• Spellcheck: Check a spell to see if you can cast it.

Other Commands

Use 'help <command>' to find out more about these commands.

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A

• Accept - Accept a surrender from someone, or a sale from someone.
• Access - Adds IP addresses that your character can log in from (You can still log in from anywhere, but it helps prevent unauthorized access).
• Advance - Advance skills at a teacher for your guild.
• Age - Shows you the age of any character that exists on Discworld.
• Alias - Creates a short form for a command or set of commands.
• Allocate - Only useful if you're coming from the old combat-tree to the new one.
• Apply - Apply as a creator, liaison, playtester, or playerkiller.
• Appraise - Get the physical characteristics of an item.
• Arguments - Shows which arguments you know (For Debate)

B

• Birthdays - Shows who has a birthday today
• Brief - Controls what you see in brief or verbose mode
• Bright - Shows how bright things or places are
• Bug - Reports bugs to the creators.
• Bug_Replies - The system for dealing with replies to bug/idea/typo reports
• Bug_Reporting - Same thing as Bug_Replies
• Bugcheck - Guide for bugreporting.
• Bugs - Shows you your own bug reports.
• Bury - Buries objects of your choice.

C

• Calendar - Shows the dates on Discworld and how they relate to Roundworld time.
• Cap - Sets your capitalised name
• Cast - Casts a spell
• Chfn - Changes your finger information (Real Name, Birthday, Home Page, Email)
• Collect - Collect things like herbs and vegetables. Can also use gather.
• Colours - Set and review colours
• Cols - Sets the number of columns that show on the screen (columns is another way to say characters or text)
• Commands - Shows what skills/commands you know
• Comment - Report a comment, this is a bug that only stays in the database for a maximum of one month, no matter what.
• Components - Lists the components for a spell.
• Concentrate - Concentrates on a person during combat.
• Condition - Shows the condition of items
• Consider - Judges how much tougher/weaker an enemy is
• Converse - A multi-line say mode
• Convert - Converts measurement units
• Cost - Shows the cost to learn a skill at your guild teacher
• Count - Counts how many objects are present
• Countries - Shows the percentages of people logged in in different countries.
• Coverage - Shows you what parts of your body are protected by clothing and armour.
• Crawl - Get down on all fours and crawl around.
• Crouch - Makes you crouch

D

• Debate - Challenge or accept a challenge to debate someone.
• Defend - Defend a person (only if you can parry the attack)
• Delete - Deletes your character (after 10 days)
• Deliver - Delivers a sermon (At a high altar)
• Describe - Sets your description
• Drag - Drags a corpse or item
• Draw - Draws a weapon from a scabbard
• Drink - Drink liquid from a container
• Dry - Dries you with a towel

E

• Ealias - Edit an alias with the line editor
• Earmuffs - Blocks certain events
• Eat - Eat some food
• Email - Sets your email address
• Emote - (You need to complete a quest to get this command) Sends some text to everyone in the same room.
• Equip - Equips one or all items that can be equipped
• Examine - Get an in depth look at an item

F

• Facing - Shows what direction you are currently facing
• Finger - Extra info on players
• Flip - Flips a coin
• Follow - Follows a person or NPC (if they let you)
• Friends - Lists your friends
• Frimble - Takes text and writes it back to you

G

• Gather - Gathers herbs or vegetables
• Get - Gets something from something, like the room you are in or a container
• Give - Give something to someone
• Glance - Returns a short description of someone or something
• Godmother - Requests help from your fairy godmother to bring you to a safe place. (Just say yes when she says something and think safe!)
• GP - Shows your Total guildpoints and how many can be used for commands in the various skill trees.

H

• Haunt - When dead, you can oooOOOOOoOooOoooOOoo at people.
• Health - Shows the health of things (As in: In good shape, not in good shape, in bad shape, in very bad shape)
• Help - Brings up a help file for a room or concept
• Helpers - Shows which players are newbiehelpers
• History - Command history
• Hnewbie - Prints the recent history of the newbie channel.
• Hnewbiehelpers - Prints the recent history of the newbiehelpers channel.
• Hold - Holds an item in your hand
• Hskills - Shows what skills have increased since your logon
• Hsoul - Shows your soul history
• Htell - Shows your tell history

I

• Idea - Idea a concept, item, etc. for the game
• Identify - Give a name to an item that it can be referred to as (Only by you and it loses it's identify if it is dropped.)
• Idle - Shows the idle time of a character who is logged on.
• Ignore - Blocks all direct contact from a player
• Import - Imports settings from a registered alt.
• Inform - Allows you to set what events you are informed of.
• Inventory - Shows your inventory

K

• Keep - Designates an object that shouldn't be sold.
• Kill - Start killing something.
• Killers - Lists the playerkillers currently logged on.
• Kneel - Change your positiong to kneeling.

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L

• Languages - Shows what languages you know.
• Learn - Learns a skill from yourself or another player.
• Liaisons - Shows what liaisons are currently logged on.
• Lie - Change your position to lying down.
• Locate - Locates an item by description or name.
• Lockout - Lock your character out for a certain amount of time.
• Look - Looks at the room you are in. Can be targetted.
• Lose - Lose someone who is following you. NOTE: Doesn't work with pursue.
• Lsay - Loudly say something.
• Lsayto - Loudly say something to someone.

M

• Mail - Check mail and mail players at a post office.
• Mailer - Information on commands that can be used in the mailrooms.
• Mailinfo - Shows a players mail number and if they can receive mail from you or not.
• Make - Make things from snow.
• Map - Shows a text map of your immediate surroundings.
• Math - Do arithmetic.
• MCCP - Shows whether you are connected to Discworld compressed or not (uncompressed players are a bigger strain on the MUD).
• Meditate - Change your position to meditating. NOTE: Meditating at a high altar will cause loss of rituals.
• Money - Shows the money you have on your person.
• Monitor - Monitors your HP, GP, and XP during combat.
• MXP - Changes the MXP settings.

N

• News - Shows new announcements.
• Nickname - Creates a short name for players, NPCs, etc.

O

• Offer - Offers an object for sale to another player.
• Options - Controls options for your character.

P

• Palette - Display a palette of MXP colours.
• Password - Change your password.
• Perform - Performs a ritual from memory or from a rod.
• Permit - Permit someone to take things from your corpse.
• Play - Plays rock-paper-scissors with another player.
• Position - Change or view your position.
• Protect - Take a lot of damage for whoever you're protecting.
• Pursue - Chases players or NPC's.
• Put - Put an item in or on another item.

Q

• Qalias - Quick summary of your aliases.
• Queue - Shows commands that you have queued.
• Quit - Leaves the game.
• Quote - Random Terry Pratchett quote.
• Qwho - Quick summary of who is online.

R

• Rate - Converts money between currencies.
• Read - Read something.
• Rearrange - Rearranges your stats. You only get one rearrange, so think carefully.
• Recover - Recover something that has been buried.
• Refer - Background information about a player.
• Refresh - Totally restarts your character.
• Register - Registers an alt/alts.
• Reject - Reject a surrender.
• Relationship - Sets up a relationship with someone. One or both people need a surname, if only one has one then the other one takes on the surname as well.
• Remote - Echoes text to a specific person without anyone else seeing. Unless you want them to.
• Remove - Removes an item you are wearing.
• Repeat - Repeats a command.
• Resize - Sends your terminal's window size to Discworld
• Restart - Restarts your heartbeat.
• Review - Quick overview of setable options.
• Rituals - Lists what rituals are in your memory.
• Rot13 - Transforms text with the rot13 algorithm.
• Rotx - Transform text in a rot13 manner, but by specifying your own number instead.
• Rows - Sets the number of rows on your screen.

S

• Save - Saves your current status to Disc.
• Say - Say something to the people in the room.
• Sayto - Say something to someone specific.
• Score - Shows your current score.
• Search - Searches the room in the hope of finding something valuable and/or interesting and/or useful.
• Sermons - List of currently known sermons.
• Sheathe - Sheathes a weapon in the appropriate scabbard.
• Shields - Shows your arcane protection.
• Shout - Shout a message to all players within a certain distance from you.
• Show - Shows an item to another character.
• Signature - A way of finishing off mail and board posts.
• Sit - Change your position to sitting.
• Speak - Change the language you are speaking/writing in.
• Spells - Shows the spells currently in your memory.
• Splash - Splash someone in the room with you (there has to be water of course).
• Stand - Change your position to standing.
• Start - Set your starting position.
• Stop - Stops whatever commands, fights, rituals, spells are being performed.
• Su - Switches to another character.
• Surrender - Surrender to your opponent.
• Syntax - Shows the patterns available for a certain command.

T

• Tactics - Change your combat options.
• Take - Get an item from the room, or a container, corpse, etc.
• Talker - Control your talker options.
• Taste - Allows you to taste food/drink.
• Teach - Teach skills to yourself or another player. Can also teach yourself from another player if they have autoteaching on.
• Tell - Send a private message to another player(s).
• Temperature - Shows your current temperature and what affects it.
• Term - Set your terminal type.
• Throw - Throw something at someone.
• Time - Shows your local time and the time of other places around the world.
• Title - Sets your playertitle.
• Turn - Turn a page of a book.
• Typo - Report a typo in an object on the MUD.

U

• Unfollow - Stop following a character.
• Unhold - Stop holding an item.
• Unidentify - Remove the identify from an item.
• Unkeep - Stop keeping an item, so you can sell it or give it to someone.
• Unprotect - Stop protecting whoever you're protecting.
• Unquest - Unsets a quest done before Thu Apr 13 23:47:33 2006 (London).

V

• Verbose - Verbose mode control (Verbose has longer descriptions).

W

• Watch - Make an effort to become more alert to your surroundings.
• Wear - Wear an item of clothing or armour.
• Weigh - Weigh an item.
• Wet - Show how wet things are.
• When - Shows when a player last logged off or how long they've been online.
• Whisper - Whisper something to someone.
• Who - Shows a list of who is online (Minus creators)
• Whoami - Shows you the full name and titles of who you are logged in as.
• Whois - Shows the full name and title of another player.
• Wimpy - Sets your wimpy (At what percentage of HP you will run away at).
• Withdraw - Withdraw an offer of sale to someone.

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