How to improve potion consumption:

So you've been over to the discord channel for AdventureLand, and you've read through all of the guides on the #Welcome page. Lots of information there, but you still might be stuck as to how you can start improving on the default code you've been given?

Well, you're not alone. In this guide I'm going to try guide you through the steps you can take to delve into the AdventureLand code and then start to build up a few of our own functions.

Finding the use_hp_or_mp() Function:

So at some point, you'll have looked through the guide on Steam and read the following:

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'improve potion consumption' you say? OK...

And then you've gone back to the game screen and clicked the CODE button in the top-right of the screen. At the top of the default javascript code, you'll see the following:

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So - how do we interrogate this "The use_hp_or_mp()" code and discover how to optimise it?

Well, there's a handy guide provided on reddit, which shows how we can use Developer Tools to find and view the javascript files that power the game.

BUT, there is a catch. For some reason (at the time of writing), the runner_functions.js file wasn't viewable in Developer Tools. Fortunately, however, the creater of the game has made the file available on his github.

I downloaded the file and opened it in VS Code. Use ctrl+f to find use_hp_or_mp, and... bingo:

Deciphering the use_hp_or_mp() Function:

So let's work out what's going on with that function. First of all, let's looking at the variables and other terms that appear:

• safeties - ctrl+f of this variable will lead us to a comment that explains the reason for this: "// Prevents common delay based issues that cause many requests to be sent to the server in a burst that triggers the server to disconnect the character"
• msssince - This appear to mean 'miliseconds since' - ie, mssince(last_potion) means 'how many miliseconds have elapsed since a potion was last used. I can't find where this is defined though?
• last_potion - a few lines down, we can see a variable: "var last_potion=new Date(0);", which simply records the point in time that the last potion was used.
• character.ping - at the top of the runner_functions.js file, we can see "var character={...". The comments provided tell us that 'character' is an object. The easiest way to view this object is in the adventure.land/docs. Here, we can see that character.ping = 64.5, // average round-trip between character and server in milliseconds
• parent.next_skill.use_hp - to find out about this item, I went to Developer Tools (I'm using Chrome. You may need to do some digging to find out how to do this in Firefox or Steam), then clicked the Sources tab. From there, press ctrl+shift+f and search "use_hp". A result is returned, which can be right-clicked in order to navigate to the source file - ie, 'functions.js'. Make sure you change the format to 'pretty-print' by clicking the curly-braces button, which looks a bit like this: [{}]. ** ctrl+f "use_hp" to see the following:

I personally couln't make head-nor-tail of this, so I consulted the clever people over at the Discord channel:

Need to work out what all this 'parent' stuff means

(Keeping this here to remind me how to do collapsible markdown)

Ignore me

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