build.ron

The build menu: barricades and what they take. Read by the game’s rules: a change here changes how the game plays, and a world remembers the content it was made with.

File: assets/data/build.ron

About this file

The build menu: what a survivor can build, and on what. Schema: zombye_sim::build::BuildDef (validated on load against items.ron; unknown fields are refused). All builds and numbers are our own. Shift+B opens the build menu; a door or window’s right-click menu has its builds too.

  id           lowercase letters, digits and _ (saves, tools and Intent::Build name builds by it)
  name         what it's called in the build menu and in notes
  description  a line for the build menu
  category     the build menu's section: Barricades (more to come: walls, floors, furniture, upgrades)
  on           what it goes on: Window (shut, open or broken) or Door (shut or broken)
  secs         seconds each piece takes (Handiwork makes it faster, as crafting)
  inputs       [(item: "id", count: n)]: used up by each piece (whole items, carried or held)
  tools        [Item("id")] or [Tag("tag")]: needed to hand, kept
  hp           hit points of each piece against zombies battering it (a shut door has 40, glass 6; a zombie does about 1 every 1.6 s)
  max          pieces it stacks up to on one window or door
  noise        metres putting a piece up is heard; break_noise, a piece battered down
  xp           Handiwork XP for each piece
  remove       taking a piece down again: secs, tools, what each piece gives back (returns), noise

Fields

The file is a list of BuildDef, each in round brackets.

One thing a survivor can build. Seconds of play; counts of whole items; ours.

Field	Type	What it is
id	String
name	String	What it’s called in the build menu and in notes (“Board up a window”).
description	String	A line for the build menu.
category	BuildCategory
on	BuildOn
secs	f32	Seconds a piece takes (Handiwork makes it faster, as crafting).
inputs	Vec<RecipeItem>	Used up by each piece.
tools	Vec<Tool>	Needed to hand, kept.
hp	f32	Hit points of each piece, against zombies battering it.
max	u8	Pieces it stacks up to (planks on one window).
noise	f32	How far putting a piece up is heard (metres).
break_noise	f32	How far a piece battered down is heard.
xp	f32	Handiwork XP for each piece.
remove	RemoveDef

BuildCategory

Which part of the build menu a build is listed in.

Value	What it means
Barricades	Boarding up windows and doors.

BuildOn

What a build is put on.

Value	What it means
Window	A ground-floor window, shut, open or broken.
Door	A ground-floor door, shut or broken (an open one is shut first).

RecipeItem

Some of one item a recipe takes or makes.

Field	Type	What it is
item	String	An item id (items.ron).
count	u16

Tool

Something a recipe needs to hand but doesn’t use up.

Value	What it means
Item(String)	This item (an id in items.ron).
Tag(String)	Any item with this tag (cuts, fire, …).

RemoveDef

How a build comes down again, a piece at a time.

Field	Type	What it is
secs	f32
tools	Vec<Tool>
returns	Vec<RecipeItem>	What each piece taken down gives back.
noise	f32	How far it’s heard (metres).

As shipped

2 entries. Columns are the fields short enough for a table; the rest are in the file below.

id	name	break_noise	category	hp	max	noise	on	secs	tools	xp
“board_window”	“Board up a window”	30	“Barricades”	60	4	22	“Window”	5	[Tag(“hammers”)]	4
“board_door”	“Board up a door”	30	“Barricades”	60	5	22	“Door”	6	[Tag(“hammers”)]	4

The file

The whole file as shipped

// The build menu: what a survivor can build, and on what. Schema: zombye_sim::build::BuildDef
// (validated on load against items.ron; unknown fields are refused). All builds and numbers are
// our own. Shift+B opens the build menu; a door or window's right-click menu has its builds too.
//
//   id           lowercase letters, digits and _ (saves, tools and Intent::Build name builds by it)
//   name         what it's called in the build menu and in notes
//   description  a line for the build menu
//   category     the build menu's section: Barricades (more to come: walls, floors, furniture, upgrades)
//   on           what it goes on: Window (shut, open or broken) or Door (shut or broken)
//   secs         seconds each piece takes (Handiwork makes it faster, as crafting)
//   inputs       [(item: "id", count: n)]: used up by each piece (whole items, carried or held)
//   tools        [Item("id")] or [Tag("tag")]: needed to hand, kept
//   hp           hit points of each piece against zombies battering it (a shut door has 40, glass 6; a zombie does about 1 every 1.6 s)
//   max          pieces it stacks up to on one window or door
//   noise        metres putting a piece up is heard; break_noise, a piece battered down
//   xp           Handiwork XP for each piece
//   remove       taking a piece down again: secs, tools, what each piece gives back (returns), noise
[
    // ---- Barricades -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // A plank nailed across a window from the side you stand on. Each one is a door's worth of
    // battering less than a door, four of them a good deal more; the window stays a window under
    // them (glass and all) when the last one goes.
    (id: "board_window", name: "Board up a window",
        description: "Nail a plank across the window. Up to four; zombies batter them down one by one.",
        category: Barricades, on: Window, secs: 5.0,
        inputs: [(item: "wooden_plank"), (item: "nail", count: 4)], tools: [Tag("hammers")],
        hp: 60.0, max: 4, noise: 22.0, break_noise: 30.0, xp: 4.0,
        remove: (secs: 4.0, tools: [Tag("pries")], returns: [(item: "wooden_plank")], noise: 12.0)),
    // The same across a shut or broken door: more planks for the bigger opening.
    (id: "board_door", name: "Board up a door",
        description: "Nail a plank across the door. Up to five; the door still has to be battered through once they're down.",
        category: Barricades, on: Door, secs: 6.0,
        inputs: [(item: "wooden_plank"), (item: "nail", count: 4)], tools: [Tag("hammers")],
        hp: 60.0, max: 5, noise: 22.0, break_noise: 30.0, xp: 4.0,
        remove: (secs: 5.0, tools: [Tag("pries")], returns: [(item: "wooden_plank")], noise: 12.0)),
]