Accounts and world wipes question

[LadyAth]

Okay, when I started with my test shard I knew VERY little about RunUO, spawning, static items, etc. Since then I have learned quite a bit (but yes still a long way to go).

However, I am not quite happy with my shard and would like to wipe all mobiles and items. Only problem is that I have some people that have been testing things for me on my shard who would like to keep their existing chars and their stats. Is there a way to do this or do I kill my save directory and just recreate all those characters?

Or is there a way to do a mass wipe of all mobiles and items?

[WarFist]

hmmm....i thikn the characters a saved seperate from the rest of the files in the saves folder.....you might be able to get rid of the other stuff but leave them in by not deleting that specific file

[Bahamut-Zero]

Originally Posted by WarFist

hmmm....i thikn the characters a saved seperate from the rest of the files in the saves folder.....you might be able to get rid of the other stuff but leave them in by not deleting that specific file

Before you do this, take a backup copy of your files, which you're planning to delete. Just in case to confirm that if you loose important stuff, you can put them back to get it working again..

[WarFist]

yes i agree, making backups is a good idea

[LadyAth]

I have tried to copy just the accounts.xml file but that does not work. It wants the items and multis as well...any other ideas?

[Zippy]

If you delete just Saves/Items, that will delete all items and multi in the world.
Then [go 0 0 0 and do a [wipenpcs, then [go 6144 4096 0, and target the second corner and you will wipe every npc.

[Static Loader]

If you remove your items file it does removed there backpacks no? Im sure ive done this before...

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Static Loader

If you remove your items file it does removed there backpacks no? Im sure ive done this before...

I don't think it does. That would sort of defeat the purpose of having different files for different functions :-)

Hopes he is right about that...

[Kendrel]

I used the wipe command on mine and it worked great for getting rid of the doors on town buildings and stuff too... Running a non-standard map, so it worked well for me once I went to Fel and Tram and did the same in both... But if you want the doors, then I suggest taking the files out of a fresh server download and saving your accounts file.
CLEAN server with old accounts file means no characters, but at least their accounts will be there.

[LadyAth]

I have played around with this and so far not found a satisfactory way. Doing a [WipeNPC deletes the NPCs but I still had spawn points (which was the problem). I made all my vendors/banker/towncrier invulnerable and no longer need a spawner (YAY) for each. Deleting all the items ends up with a naked char and a TON of server startup errors.

In the end I decided to note down all the skills of the created characters and their accounts, wipe my saves dir and start all over again. I will just have to recreate the characters manually *sighs* Fortunately I have only allowed a few testers on my shard-in-the-making at this time.

[Zippy]

You could write a script to only delete the items you want....

Like:

ArrayList list = new ArraList();
foreach ( Item i in World.Items.Values )
{
if ( i is Spawner )
list.Add(i);
}

foreach ( Item i in list )
i.Delete();