Job
Added in June 2013, random Jobs are a form of repeatable daily quests that involves completing various singlular tasks such as slaying a beast, sourcing an item or delivering a package.
Timeout
Once a random job for a mob is completed it can not be completed again for 8 hours. Custom jobs are different in that they are non-repeatable.
Commands
- job find <type> shows mobs that might have jobs available
- job list list any jobs for the current mob
- job list <no> detail of specific job
- job accept <no> accept job
- show job shows number of jobs completed
Reward
one experience cap and a small amount of gold
Leaderboard
A new leaderboard, 16, was added to track which players have completed the most jobs.
Mobs with jobs
The following are examples of mobs that may have jobs. There are wide variety of mobs with jobs and the list is growing all the time, use the job find command to view the latest lists.
| mob | area | directions
(from area waypoint unless specified) |
|---|---|---|
| The master swordsmith | Daigaku-Tatami, the Oriental city | 4s e 2s 2w n |
| A wealthy smuggler | Daigaku-Tatami, the Oriental city | 4s 5e |
| Radcliff the curator | The City of Ralnoth | 7s 4e s |
| Salk Morian, the town alchemist | The City of Ralnoth | 7s 5e s |
| Sark the alchemist | The City of Elborat | 4e n |
| An aged warrior | The City of Hartmur | 4w 2n (directions from inside the east gate) |
| Belris the Alchemist | Kingdom City of Vandar | e 3s w n |
| Randyn the weaponsmith | Kingdom City of Vandar | e n w |
| Randris the armorer | Kingdom City of Vandar | e n e |
| Hadrius the fire wizard | The Fire Towers | n 2e 2d (open door s) 5s w (open door n) n (open door w) w |
| Xorn the herbalist | The Town of Zin | se e 2s |
| Balk | City of Airam | w |
| the dragon elf historian | The Wyvinian Stronghold | s d 4s u 4s 2d e |
| Nalom the librarian | City of Linholt | 3n w (directions from Inside the castle) |
| The alchemist Clarine | The City of Koralia's Heart | 3n 3w |
| Ross the weaponsmaster | The City of Koralia's Heart | 3n w n |
Help file
Feature changes
The following table summarizes some of the changes to this feature. Reference [1] for recent changes and [2] for historical changes.
| Date | Ref | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 09, 13 | 1738 | changed timeout from 18 hours to 8 hours |
| Jul 05, 13 | 1736 | Add achievements for jobs.
Add a 'jobs completed' leaderboard. Add 'show jobs'. |
| Jun 18, 13 | 1724 | initial support added |
Types
During 2015, the god and world builder, Shadowfax expanded the job code to include different jobs types. The command {{icode job find <type>}} can be used to list jobs of a particular type. The available job types are 'retrieval', 'hunter', 'delivery', 'priest', 'custom', or 'all'.
Retrieval
Involves finding and collecting various items for mob collectors e.g. rare spell components for alchemists. Items can be virtually anywhere and are sometimes difficult to find. To complete jobs it is helpful to have good knowledge of where various items load across the mud, as well as knowing scryer spells like locate object and farsee. These jobs are usually accepted from shopkeepers and the items they require will be of the particular type they sell e.g. herbs, spellcomps, books, weapons etc
Hunter
Involves slaying a particular beast.
Delivery
Involves delivering a package to a particular mob. The package will timeout and the job will fail if it is not delivered in time.
Priest
These type of jobs are accepted from the priests of a character's chosen god. The reward for completing this type of job is favor and an experience cap.
Custom
These are non-repeatable jobs created by actual builders rather than autogenerated by the jobs code. when first introduced, a number of quests, involving the retrieval of objects, were converted into custom jobs.
