Pretty simple. Don't include first zeros. ie: if it's zone 10, put 10... don't put in 010. Type it out like the title of a book. Doesn't have to be TOO long. 99 All this means is if it's zone 10, type out 1099. It's to tell what's the maximum room number of that zone...which would be 1099. How often (in real life minutes) should this place reset? What is the condition of the reset? 0 = Ignore Reset Time and never reset. 1 = Reset the zone as soon as it is deserted. 2 = Reset the zone no matter who is in it. * (Asterick) This is the "comment" key. If this is the first character on any line after the zone set up (the above stuff) and before the zone ending (the crap at the end), it will nullify anything on that line. For example: * This part is where I load monsters to kill idiots who ignored sign. There are 7 useful zone commands. They begin with a capitalized letter, and separated with one space, they are followed by numbers...how many and what they mean will be explained now... M Comment R Comment O Comment P Comment G Comment E Comment D Comment Ok, what the heck did all that mean?!? Let's first talk about since it's in all the commands. is short for Previous Check. It means...should the command refer to the command before it in order to determine if it should do something? Confusing? Just a little. All you have to do is remember, 1 is PLEASE CHECK, while 0 is DON'T CHECK! How do I use it? Well, let's say you want to load a mob. And you want to put a sword in its hand. Well, you definitely want to check if the mob was ever loaded! If the mob was never loaded, you'll be trying to put a sword in NOTHING! Wierd, huh? In this case, you'd make the for loading the mob as 0 "zero, not oh" and the for equipping a sword in its hand as 1. Understand now? If you don't, just ask Aladdin to look at your .zon file. You'll get used to it. The first command here shows you how to load up one mobile. was the Vnum of the mobile, was the maximum number which could exist, and was the Vnum of the room you wanted to stick it in. The comment is an optional way for you to make notes. For example: M 0 3000 3 3001 Load mob 3000 (max of 3 in existance) to room 3001 This command will only load 1 for now... everytime the zone gets reset again, it'll just check to see if there are less than 3 mobs of that vnum in the game. If there are less than 3, it will load one in the target room. If you want all 3 loaded at start up, you'll need to do this: M 0 3000 3 3001 Load all 3 mobs at once to room 3001 M 0 3000 3 3001 M 0 3000 3 3001 Now, who said coding was hard? Next, the R command shows you how to remove an object from a room. it will remove the object with the vnum from vnum room if it is still there. Pretty easy. The command O <- "Oh, not zero" is the OBJECT command. It loads an object into the room. is the vnum of the object you want to load. is the maximum number of that object that can exist at one time globally. Now, this doesn't check rent files! Also, if you want this item to be able to exist infinitely, like you want to load an object such as bread in a room, you would use -1 as the . Finally, is where you want to put it. Now, check this out...In all cases, if one of those objects already exist in the room, it will NEVER load another one. So, if you want 3 breads in the same room (loaded there by the zone reseter), then make 3 different breads with different vnums! It'll load the first bread, but never bread 2 or bread 3 unless they all have different vnums. P is the command to put something into a container. BE SURE IT'S A CONTAINER since you can force the zone resetter to put an object into a non-container. (ugh, imagine the mess that'll cause). is nothing new, it's the vnum of the object. is the vnum of the container and please load the container first! It'd even be a good idea to make it check the previous line by making equal to 1. Matter a fact, I request that you do that, else the mud will give errors when trying to put stuff into containers which don't exist! =) Now, let's talk about . It's the possibility of that object being put into the container at all! 100 is for always, 0 is for never. Any number in between is the percentage! EASY EASY EASY! O 0 1000 -1 3001 Load a bag "vnum 1000" (infinite in exist) to temple P 1 1001 70 1000 Put object 1001 into bag 70% G is the command to give an object to a mobile. Now, you see that there's the number, which is the vnum of the object, and the is the random chance of it happening...where's the part!?! Well, there is none. It's expecting that the line before this is the part where it loads the mob! So, you'll have to use here. M 0 3000 3 3001 Load Mob 3000 into temple. G 1 1000 50 Give Bag 50% I purposefully indented the G, E, and P comments 3 spaces. It makes my .zon files a lot easier to read. You'll see later. E is the command to equip. It's ALMOST the same as G, except you have to add a position number. The zone resetter is dumb, it doesn't know where you want the mobile to equip it's stuff! So, you have to tell it. Please, don't make your mobs wear stuff where they don't belong... A goblin looks silly wearing a sword on it's head. Here are the numbers for possible positions. * WEAR_LIGHT 0 * WEAR_FINGER_R 1 * WEAR_FINGER_L 2 * WEAR_NECK_1 3 * WEAR_NECK_2 4 * WEAR_BODY 5 * WEAR_HEAD 6 * WEAR_LEGS 7 * WEAR_FEET 8 * WEAR_HANDS 9 * WEAR_ARMS 10 * WEAR_SHIELD 11 * WEAR_ABOUT 12 * WEAR_WAIST 13 * WEAR_WRIST_R 14 * WEAR_WRIST_L 15 * WEAR_WIELD 16 * WEAR_WIELD_SEC 17 * WEAR_HOLD 18 Here's a little trick I use...let's say that object 5000 is an awesome sword and 5001 is a small crappy club. But I want to load the awesome sword only 10% of the time, and load the club all the rest! Do this: M 0 3000 3 3001 Load Mob 3000 to temple of midgaard E 1 5000 10 16 Equip awesome sword 10% E 1 5001 100 16 Else equip crappy club Yep, it checks to see if that position is already taken up. If it is, the equip command is ignored. Finally, D is the command to set doors back to their initial position whether it be opened, closed, locked, secret or whatever. The is the vnum of the room we're talking about...the is the direction. 0 North 1 East 2 South 3 West 4 Up 5 Down and the are as follow... 0 Open 1 Closed and Unlocked 2 Closed and Locked 3 Closed and Secret and Unlocked 4 Closed and Secret and Locked Always remember that these door instructions are for one side only! If you have a normal regular door, be sure to instruct the zone to perform the same case on the otherside too!!! Ok, and now to finish the file... Just put an Asterick * to put a space at the end...and do the ending strings which are: S #99999 $~ You're done!