| File | What it is |
|---|---|
lord.ini | Game options (see Game options (lord.ini)). |
player.bin | The players. |
state.bin | The game state: the day, Violet's and Seth's marriages, … |
lognow.lrd, logold.lrd | Today's and yesterday's daily news. |
mail*.lrd | Mail. |
bar.lrd, darkbar.lrd, garden.lrd, dirt.lrd | What players wrote in the bar, the Dark Cloak, the garden, and the dirt. |
scores.lrd | Scores. |
nodeon.* | Who is on (SafeNode). |
*.lock | File locks while the game runs. |
error.log | Errors from the game and its IGMs. |
weapon.bin, armour.bin, trainers.bin, lenemy.bin, dragon.bin | Optional overrides written by lordcfg's table editors (lord.js reads the same files). |
lordtxt.lrd, *.lrd, mlooks.txt, flooks.txt | Text and screens. |
LORDTXT.DAT | LORD 4.06's screens, used first when present. |
ladyevnt.dat | The installed LADY events. |
lady.log | With -debug. |
Internally the files keep their lord.js names; on DOS they are mapped to the LORD 4.06 names, so LORD 4.06's own files are used.
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
PLAYER.DAT | Players (the 236-byte LORD 4.06 records IGMs read). |
LORDFPX.DAT | The parts of each player PLAYER.DAT has no room for (same record numbers). |
LORDFPS.DAT | Game state (days, Violet's and Seth's marriages, …). |
LORDFPM.DAT | The game day MAINT.BAT last ran. |
MAIL<n>.DAT | Mail. |
LOGNOW.TXT, LOGOLD.TXT | Today's and yesterday's news. |
TIME.DAT | The game day. |
LASTHERO.DAT | The latest hero. |
MARRAGE.DAT | Violet's husband (record number, -1 for none). |
BAR.TXT, DIRT.TXT, GARDEN.TXT | What players wrote. |
GOODSAY.DAT, BADSAY.DAT, NORMSAY.DAT, DSTART, START1-START5 | LORD 4.06's text. |
3RDPARTY.DAT | In-Game Modules (Other Places). |
NODE<n>.DAT | Node set-up. |
MAINT.BAT | Run once a day after the daily maintenance. |
RESUME.<node> | While a player is in an IGM. |
A LORD 4.06 player is picked up from PLAYER.DAT the first time they play. LORD 4.06's PLAYEXT.DAT, PLAYEXT2.DAT and LORD.DAT are not used.
Back up the whole game directory. Copies taken while players are on can catch a file being written.