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<h1><span class="section-number">10. </span>Creating things<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-things" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
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<p>We have already created some things - dragons for example. There are many different things to create
in Evennia though. In the last lesson we learned about typeclasses, the way to make objects persistent in the database.</p>
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<li><p>Firstly, you can call the class directly, and then <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.save()</span></code> it:</p>
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<p>This has the drawback of being two operations; you must also import the class and have to pass
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<li><p>Secondly you can use the Evennia creation helpers:</p>
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<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span> obj = evennia.create_object(SomeTypeClass, key=...)
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<p>This is the recommended way if you are trying to create things in Python. The first argument can either be
the class <em>or</em> the python-path to the typeclass, like <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&quot;path.to.SomeTypeClass&quot;</span></code>. It can also be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> in which
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are available on <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">evennia</span></code>, they are actually implemented in <a class="reference internal" href="../../../api/evennia.utils.create.html"><span class="doc std std-doc">evennia/utils/create.py</span></a>.</p>
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<li><p>Finally, you can create objects using an in-game command, such as</p>
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<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span> create/drop obj:path.to.SomeTypeClass
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<p>As a developer you are usually best off using the two other methods, but a command is usually the only way
to let regular players or builders without Python-access help build the game world.</p>
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<h2><span class="section-number">10.1. </span>Creating Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-objects" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<p>This is one of the most common creation-types. These are entities that inherits from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DefaultObject</span></code> at any distance.
They have an existence in the game world and includes rooms, characters, exits, weapons, flower pots and castles.</p>
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&gt; import evennia
&gt; rose = evennia.create_object(key=&quot;rose&quot;)
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<p>Since we didnt specify the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">typeclass</span></code> as the first argument, the default given by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.BASE_OBJECT_TYPECLASS</span></code>
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<h2><span class="section-number">10.2. </span>Creating Accounts<a class="headerlink" href="#creating-accounts" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<p>An <em>Account</em> is an out-of-character (OOC) entity, with no existence in the game world.
You can find the parent class for Accounts in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">typeclasses/accounts.py</span></code>.</p>
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