Whether you're new to MUDding or are an old hand, aliases are extremely useful. "help alias" on the MUD can give you information on making your own aliases. They're rather easy to make once you get used to them. Here I offer a variety of the ones that I use on my own and that have been submitted.
To enter an alias in the game you'll need to use this syntax: "alias (what you want to refer to the alias as) (the actual alias)". When as alias has $*$ or $1$, $2$ etc, it's where you insert whatever you want the alias to act on or with. Such as with the first alias, "bee", you would type "bee bodyguard". The alias will kick in, get out the honey, then cast bees on the bodyguard.
As a warning however, sometimes aliases can interfere with normal syntax developing in borked lines of command for the game. If all of a sudden a certain syntax you have always used no longer works check your aliases to make sure they're not interfering.
Feel free to alter any of these as you like and if you have discovered any particular useful aliases that I don't have listed please send them in so I can add them to the list. You can see the aliases you already have through "alias" or for a shorter list "qalias".
| Name of Alias |
Actual Alias |
Alias in Action |
A quick addition to make things go a little faster is to use "identify <container> as component pouch". It will speed up the process of casting the spell as you don't have to get components from containers, they'll be used from the identified pouch automatically
| bee |
get (number of dollops you would like to throw) dollops of honey from (container);cast Mother Feelbright's Busy Bees on $*$ |
Get a specific number of dollops from a container and proceed to cast bees on the desired target. This can obviously be changed so you designate how much honey you want to throw along with which victim you wish to attack, however, this is certainly the easiest variant of it. |
| delude |
cast Delusions of Grandeur on $*$ |
Casts the delusions spell upon an item. |
| dry |
cast Mama Blackwing's Potent Preserver on $*$ |
Casts the drying spell on an item. |
| dubkey |
hold sleutel;weigh sleutel;judge sleutel;appraise sleutel;unhold sleutel;read sleutel |
This can most certainly be hacked apart at your liesure. But it's an example of an alias to help an item delude more quickly. |
| enchant |
cast Mother Twinter's Yarrow Enchantment on $*$ |
Enchants an item. |
| eyes |
cast Banishing of Prying Eyes on |
Performs anti-scry on someone, be sure not to use "eye" which is a command. |
| fogspil |
forget Hag's Blessing;forget Mother Twinter's Yarrow Enchantment;forget Granny Benedict's Bond of Loyalty;forget Biddy Amble's Bee Buzzer;forget Delusions of Grandeur |
If you often make tricks this comes in particularly handy. It's a convienent way to easily forget all of the spells in your head. Obviously, you can change which spells your forgetting or add ones in so the alias fills your needs |
| givetea |
ask nym to drop teabag;get $1$ bottles from teabag;ask nym to get teabag;give bottles to $2$ |
Gets a specific amount of bottles and hands them to a customer. |
| guard |
cast Grammer Scorbic's Household Guard on (household item) |
Casts guard on a household item of your choice. |
| lard |
get duck feather 1,eel from (container);cast Granny Lipintense's Layer of Lard on $*$;put eel in (container) |
Casts the lard spell. |
| mseeds |
get pellet 1;enchant pellet 1;get seed 1 from (container) 1;place seed 1 in pellet 1;put pellet 1 in (container2) 1 |
This is a simple alias to make smelly seeds. You'll need to be in the lean to and have the seeds in a container for this. |
| ns |
tell $*$ Sorry luv but I'm a mite busy at the moment. However, I can pass yer service request onto thee Hags club channel and if someone is available they will contact you. |
One of my personal favorites, this will deny service requests. |
| selltea |
ask bat to drop teabag;get $*$ bottles from teabag;ask bat to get teabag;open bottles;sell bottles |
I use this to get an alloted amount of bottles from a container and sell them to a player store. |
| starve |
ask nym to return feedbag;get apple 1 from feedbag;offer apple 1 to nym;score;score;score;score;put apple in feedbag;give feedbag to nym |
A very useful and easy alias to feed the starving bat. |
| unbond |
cast Nanny Revere's Traitorous Talisman on $*$ |
Casts traitorous talisman. |
| vine |
get seed 1 from hat;cast Gammer Shorga's Helpful Undergrowth on $*$ |
Obtains a smelly seed from an item and casts vines. |
| bow |
bow $*$ witchily |
A witchy bow. |
| cad |
condition all damaged |
This comes in very handy and allows you to see which of your items are damaged. |
| dangle |
dangle bob |
Comes in handy for divining bob testing. |
| fade |
fade into the foreground |
A simple alias for the fade command. |
| flyto |
fly to $*$ on broom |
Shortens the fly to syntax. |
| fuel |
fuel broom with 100 gp |
For faster fueling. |
| recall |
recall from broomstick |
Recall the saved locations on your broomstick. |
| sift |
sift through ashes |
For accurate tea testing. |
| unfade |
fade out of the foreground |
Come out of fading. |
