ForlornMUD

Tidied up the code a little, still working on it, working on the formatting, handling edge cases, all of the stuff I neglected before I’m working on right now. It’s coming together nicely, I’m also gonna start adding color.

Someone should’ve told me sooner that all I had to do was put all the files in the same package to make Go recognize them as one… Clever and convenient, I love Go. No imports required is very nice. Well regardless, this short devlog is just to show you guys the image attached.
My exam papers look twice as red.

Hello! Finally managed to get merchants working. Unbeknownst to the past me when I wrote the last devlog, there were quite a few problems with the merchants logic. But its okay because well, I fixed them all! Added a list <merchantname> command that lists the stock and details of the merchant (Still working on the buy and sell commands). Below is a peak. A rather short devlog because I’m in a hurry. Ciao!! Oh and, v0.0.6 soon!

I was trying to implement shops (merchants), and while doing so, I realized I should probably refactor the entirety of item behavior (I’m in pain.)… This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: Item templates. Basically, before, every item was unique, every item could have its own stats (although that can still be achieved, just with a little more pain), name, et cetera. But now, each item is created from a predefined preset. This allows the process of adding new items and spawning items in general to be easier. In the future I’ll add customisability to the template itself while making a new item so that unique items or items with varying stats can be created as well. This just felt like a wise design choice… Though, having to refactor half the database schema and the entirety of the codebase is… Not… Healthy… Please help. I’m gonna return to hell. Talk to you guys after I’m out of it.
I don’t even know where to begin. Send help.

Added a stats system! Players have stats now and they directly effect the course of battles. Equippable items now provide boosts to stats as well. The system itself is pretty robust so its easy to add new items, and make them provide any kind of buff. We’re almost at 900 lines of code, I’m tired of squinting. I like the pain. Uhhh, this update added a new database table too, there’s still a few bugs I’m working on fixing. I don’t know what else to say, so byebye!

Hola. Added types to items, to make them equippable, consumable, et cetera. Items can now be equipped, consumables, and other types coming soon! In other news, I added coins which you can get from killing mobs, and also killing and looting other players (assuming the player in question has coins). With equippable items and coins added, shops/merchants aren’t far away. Every player now also has maxHp, which is pretty basic functionality. As more and more of the core systems are cemented down, I’ll start to add the more basic and concrete stuff. I don’t know why I wrote that in building terms but you get the idea. Three new commands: equip <item>, unequip <slot>, equipped, where the first two are obvious, and equipped allows you to view a list of all slots, with their equipped items. This marks TWENTY hours working on this project, in a span of just FOUR days! Though, now that I think about it, an average of five hours per day is not all that. Welp, back to tinkering I go. Ciao peeps!

Bug. Big bug. Since the last devlog, there’s a situation where when PvP combat is initiated, only the player that initiated deals damage. Which is, obviously… Not how PvP works… And, I can’t figure out how to fix it. Going insane. I’m gonna beat my coffee mug. Domestic violence? Uhhh, I’m gonna do my best and well, f*ck around and find out, till I fix it. Ciao.

The tick system is implemented. Had to learn about mutexes because like I mentioned in the previous devlog, one data structure kept being accessed by multiple things at the same time, causing races. Mutexes prevent exactly that. Now, I’m restructuring the data a little better. Previously, the items were owned by rooms, even if the player was supposed to have them. The items were part of a room, and the player could only see them in the inventory if it was in the room. Which is weird. Obviously not how inventory works. Now the world owns the items, and the rooms, players only share the item IDs. I’m a little worried about the optimization, but eh, I’m sure it’ll be better than Cyberpunk 2077 on launch day… Right? Well, I’m gonna get back to squinting. Ciao.
I’m gonna require more powerful glasses after this because my workspace looks like this currently. This is painful.

v0.0.3 IS HERE!
I conquered SQL. That was fun, looking forward to more. Even if just a little, I learnt how to use SQL, which is a win to me. Also added actual authentication, with the database. Next, its time to move on to actually implementing the game, the world system, movement, interaction with the world, et cetera. Cya!
Special mention: My coffee cup.