MUSHclient plugins

This shows your current Aardwolf campaign objectives in a miniwindow. See this forum post for more details:

Miniwindow plugin - campaign tracker for Aardwolf

Implements a todo list and events list using a database

This plugin:

• Lets you add 'to do' items
• View outstanding 'to do' items, and ones already done
• Lets you mark items as done
• Add events
• View all or future events, or events in the next 14 days
• Modify or delete events

See description inside the plugin for more details.

If you have trouble getting it to work you may need to download:

• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 RTM (2.50.4403.12) (download 7.5 Mb)
• VBscript and Javascript version 5.6 (for Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4) (download 1.36 Mb)

For a more detailed discussion about problem-solving this plugin see the forum posting Calendar - todo list, events

This provides a "command-line" interface to the chat system.

You need MUSHclient version 3.37 or higher to use it.

This provides a "command-line" interface to the chat system.

You need MUSHclient version 3.72 or higher to use it.

For a detailed description of the chat system, including using this plugin, see The MUSHclient Chat System.

If you are using the default 'Lua sandbox' you will need to enable a couple of functions in the 'os' table for this to work ...

In MUSHclient's File menu -> Global Preferences -> Lua, find the line:

  os = nil        -- no operating system calls

and change it to:

  local old_date, old_locale = os.date, os.setlocale -- save
  os = {}  -- make empty table now
  os.date, os.setlocale = old_date, old_locale -- restore

This plugin displays a warning message in a box, obvious box. See this forum post for more details:

Plugin to show combat warnings in a big, obvious, box

This plugin makes it possible to slow the rate at which commands are sent to the MUD to 5 per second maximum, for MUDs that penalize you for entering commands too quickly.

It uses a plugin callback OnPluginSend to detect all commands sent to the MUD (whether from directly typing it, a speedwalk, or a scripted "send"), and places them into a queue.

A timer which fires every 0.2 seconds pulls the earliest command from the queue and sends it to the MUD. This effectively means that you send a maximum of 5 commands per second. See this forum post for more details:

Plugin to throttle commands to the MUD

Here is a fun plugin I wrote for Aardwolf.

When you type "consider" it simply colours the output in a way which indicates how much the mobs you are in the room with are to be feared. See this forum post for more details:

Aardwolf "consider" plugin

This shows the current rooms exits in a small miniwindow in the top left corner.This is useful, as the room description, telling you the current exits, may well scroll out of view as you chat with people, or fight mobs.

It illustrates the fundamentals of writing small miniwindow plugins, so you might be inspired to make something similar (eg. the name of the current mob you are fighting). See this forum post for more details:

Show current exits in a miniwindow

This plugin draws an "experience bar" at the bottom of your output window, directly above the command window. It uses a trigger to work out how much XP it will take you to level, and shows that graphically. See this forum post for more details:

Plugin to show an experience bar

Triggers and aliases, for the use in the realms of Achaea and Aetolia.

This is a list of all the aliases that my system uses through MUSHclient. There are alot of them, but don't worry, most you may never use, I tried to put the more important ones near the top and place them all in their groups.

For a detailed description of them, see forum posting with alias listing.

Author: Hathcock

Adds some MSP (MUD Sound Protocol) support to MUSHclient.

This is implemented by using a trigger to match on the !!SOUND commands used by MUDs to send MSP sounds.

Demonstrates accessing a database from a plugin in MUSHclient.

This plugin:

• Creates the database if required
• Creates the table if required
• Lets you add or delete records
• Lists records
• Executes any SQL statement
• Executes any SQL query
• Lets you change to any database
• Detects errors and displays them in white-on-red

Sometimes you find multiple blank lines in your MUD output, especially if you are omitting other lines from output. The simple plugin will omit all blank lines from your output window.

For this to work you need to go to the File menu -> Global Preferences -> General and make sure that "Regular expressions can match on an empty string" is checked. See this forum post for more details:

Plugin to omit blank lines

This plugin implements "smarter speedwalks". Rather than pumping out a lengthy speedwalk in one hit (as is the default for speedwalking), this plugin waits until you reach each room before moving onto the next one. This would be helpful for MUDs that limit the rate at which commands can be entered. See this forum post for more details:

Slow speedwalk plugin

This plugin provides a thesaurus for use inside MUSHclient. See this forum post for more details, and installation instructions:

Thesaurus plugin

You also need a thesaurus file, one can be downloaded from here (9.4 Mb):

Zipped Moby Thesaurus

For languages other than English you would need to provide your own thesaurus file. This file is simply a comma-delimited text file, where the first entry per line is the root word, and the other entries, in alphabetic order, are the synonyms.

This small plugin redirects trace output (from the Game menu -> Trace) to a notepad window, rather than the main output window.

This is particularly useful if you are debugging triggers which omit from output, as that will also omit the trace output from the output window. See this forum post for more details:

Redirect trace output to a notepad window

This small plugin redirects trace output (from the Game menu -> Trace) to a miniwindow (at the top right-hand corner of the output window), rather than into the text part of the main output window.

This is particularly useful if you are debugging triggers which omit from output, as that will also omit the trace output from the output window. See this forum post for more details:

Redirect trace output to a miniwindow

This plugin draws an activity bar as a miniwindow. Unlike the inbuilt activity bar, this one can handle more than 10 worlds at once. See this forum post for more details:

Plugin to show an activity bar in a miniwindow