Money

He dives around in it like a porpoise.

Due to a combination of international agreement and happy coincidence, most currency in the Cleft of Dimensions is identical in size, composition, and weight. Prices of items are generally consistent across the whole planet; an apple is worth about 30 silver on every continent.

Types of Currency

While they may have been minted in different places at different time, nearly all coins fall into one of the following denominations:

In the game, prices in shops are in silver coins. The standardized coins have roughly standardized weights & values, as follows:.

• Silver Coins are about 400 to the pound (approx. 1.13 grams, a tiny coin less than half the mass of a US penny).
• Gold Coins are about 100 to the pound and worth 100 silver apiece. (approx. 4.53 grams, a little lighter than a US nickel but probably more like the size of a dime due to density).

If it helps you wrap your head around it, there are fluctuating exchange rates and variable levels of purity that are being simplified, here.

Money as Objects

The Money object type can exist on the ground and also briefly when money is given to a mob or player.

When a player or mob 'drop's gold or silver, a Money object is created on the ground with appropriate item values and weight. Since you can't drop gold and silver simultaneously, one of the values will always be zero.

Once a player or mob 'get's the money item, it gets abstracted into their gold and silver counts and ceases to exist as a distinct object.

Builders can create money objects with a mixture of gold and silver, and with oddball weights or names. If a player tries to 'get' a pile of 50000 gold and 50000 silver that weighs 0 pounds, they will in fact pick it up successfully.

Banking

• For more information, see the main article at Bank.

Every player has a global bank account which they can deposit gold and silver into. It's extremely convenient that every single bank in the Cleft is in cahoots.

Priests

The Priest class can 'sacrifice' piles of money on the ground to recover mana at a rate of 1 gold/100 silver per 2 MP restored.

Other classes that sacrifice money will simply destroy it with no other affect.

Mobprogs

When a player 'give's gold or silver to a mobile, the money briefly turns into an object. This allows a mobprog with the GIVE or BRIBE triggers to examine it, determine its value, and act accordingly.

This sample mobprog, on a 'GIVE all' trigger, will cause the mob to keep anything over 3 gold or 300 silver, give back any less, and ignore any other objects.

if objtype $o money
  if objval0 $o > 300
  or objval1 $o > 3
    say Thanks for your contribution!
  else
    give $o $n
    say You'll have to give more than that.
  endif
endif

In the case of mobprogs with BRIBE triggers, the trigger will only run the prog if the item is money, and its value, in silver, is equal to or greater the trigger's argument. In the unusual case of money objects that contain both silver (v0) and gold (v1), only the silver amount will matter!

Item Values

• [v0] Silver: Number of silver coins
• [v1] Gold: Number of gold coins