Basic Syntax

This section desribes the syntax needed for making maps and vaults. It does not say anything about principles of vault making; for this, see Introduction. For more technical aspects, including tests and portal vaults, refer to Advanced Vault Design. For even more advanced scripting features, see Lua Reference and Triggerables.

A vault definition consists of two main parts:

1. Header declarations - can describe properties of the vault; map glyphs to features, items, monsters; add Lua markers and run arbitrary Lua code
2. Map Glyphs - defines the layout using ASCII characters to represent features