Coming Soon: Dungeons!

We will soon be including dungeon information in the data feeds.  Some of this will appear in the feeds in tomorrow's game update.  However, we found some issues that will not be live until the next update, which will be on Thursday.  I would recommend that you not rely on this data until Thursday.

This data will appear in two new elements:

First will be the dungeon_list.  This will be similar to the house_list, providing a list of the dungeons created by the character.

<dungeon_list>    <dungeon id="6467174824018947072" name="Dungeon Name 1" published="0" type="Crushbone Keep 1"/>    <dungeon id="6467174824018947073" name="Dungeon Name 2" published="0" type="Lair of Scale 3"/>    <dungeon id="6467174824018947074" name="Dungeon Name 3" published="0" type="Chardok 01"/></dungeon_list>

There will also be a dungeon_item_list, which will contain the items that the character can use within the Dungeon Maker tool.

<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"><dungeon_item_list>    <dungeon_item id="399301099"/>    <dungeon_item id="2412141712"/>    <dungeon_item id="2474787494"/>    <dungeon_item id="3372759704"/></dungeon_item_list>

Code:

<dungeon_item_list>    <dungeon_item>399301099</dungeon_item>    <dungeon_item>2412141712</dungeon_item>    <dungeon_item>2474787494</dungeon_item>    <dungeon_item>3372759704</dungeon_item></dungeon_item_list>

 

In JSON, this will be a simple array:

Code:

"dungeon_item_list": [399301099, 2412141712, 2474787494, 3372759704]

These items will be in the items collection, referenced by a new attribute on those items: dungeon_item_id<span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">.  This attribute will not be populated until Thursday.  

We will be providing a c:resolve for these items soon after they are reliably in the feed.

We are told that images will be provided for dungeons as well...no ETA yet on when they will be available.

-dan

 

Woot + 1 <img src="/station/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />

What is integer size for ids?  64 bits still?  Those numbers are getting close to the 2^63 size...

 

They should be of type "long long int" (64 bit).

If you look at the feed after this morning's update, you will see something called dm_item_list.  On Thursday, this will be the dungeon_item_list and will have the format I described previously.  It will also contain the id for the appropriate item (today's does not).  I hope to also have the c:resolve ready on Thursday as well.

-dan

 

I see the dm_item_list you mention, but it does include an item_id.  Looking that item up though results in no such item.

Do you mean the item_id is bogus today?

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">

Code:

 dm_item_list: - {item_id: 1266362962} dungeon_list: [] 

 

Correct.  It is the wrong ID.  It will be fixed on Thursday.  It will also be id (instead of item_id) to be consistent.  This (corrected) id will be resolvable to the item collection.

-dan

 

btw, if it's just containing a reference to the item, is there any reason this isn't more like the spell_list and just an array of items?  Or is that how it is to be presented in json with the new change?

 

Yes, it should look like this in JSON:

"dungeon_item_list": [    {        "id": 399301099    },     {        "id": 2412141712    },    {        "id": 2474787494   },    {        "id": 3372759704   }]

-dan

 

I like this a lot its going to help me with my Dungeon Maker website more than expected.

 

OK, then the spell_list and dungeon_item_list are both listing just IDs, but both do it differently.  Any chance to normalize them to both list the items as a simple array of ids, or both as a hash with a single id field?

--Quicktiger

 

Change it to be an array.  The IDs are unsigned 32bit ints.

The IDs are acutally item IDs but they are IDs to the placable dungeon item which is never discovered and therefore never shows up.  Those aren't what you want anyway, what you want is the unlocker item.  So after the next update Dungeon Item Unlocker Items will have a dungeon_item_id which will then link to this ID.  Does that make sense?

<span><dungeon_item_list>
<span><dungeon_item><span >399301099<span></dungeon_item>
<span><dungeon_item><span >2412141712<span></dungeon_item>
<span><dungeon_item><span >2474787494<span></dungeon_item>
<span><dungeon_item><span >3372759704<span></dungeon_item>

<span></dungeon_item_list>

 

Yeppers, makes perfect sense.  <img src="/station/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" />

I think a strong recomendation would be to treat them as 64-bit integers though.  If they are going to be item IDs anyway, they may be 32-bit bit many other IDs are certanly not.  I've made the decision that unless it appears to be a small, simple counter (language id, faction id, etc) I assume it's 64-bit.

 

...and if you like your data JSON-flavored, this should come across like the spell_list (as Quicktiger suggested)...

"dungeon_item_list": [399301099, 2412141712, 2474787494, 3372759704]

-dan

 

Awesome.  Will that go out in today's update?  Is there a fixed time for these periodic updates to your cluster?

 

It will be in tomorrow (Thursday, 16 Feb) as part of the game update.  We will follow that up with a minor update to our system to clean up the old data and to add the c:resolve.

-dan

 

Is this (or did this) going out today or did it get pushed back a little? 

No hurry or anything, just want to know if I should bother to keep checking for it today. 

Thanks!

 

It was supposed to go out this morning....checking........

-dan

 

The unlocked DM items are in the character feed as of today.

 

We didn't hotfix this morning.  Current plan is for a hotfix friday.

 

what is the dm_item_list in the character data then?

 

That went in Tuesday.  It's changing with the next hotfix.