Targets

Every hostile creature in the room, with its status, in one list you can click to target — instead of re-reading the room description while something is hitting you.

What it’s for

Mid-fight the room description is the worst place to find a target. It scrolled away three messages ago, it lists things you can’t meaningfully hit next to the thing still swinging at you, and it buries “stunned” inside a sentence.

The targets window is the short version: hostile creatures only, one per line, each with its active statuses as short tags like [stu,prn]. Click one and you target it. Boss-tier and challenging creatures come in their own colors, so the dangerous one in a pile of six is obvious before you swing.

Set it up

Common setups

A narrow combat strip beside the text

Add the window, send it to the Right Bar, and drag it down to about twelve rows. Right-click ▸ Status position ▸ Before the name, so every row starts with its tags and the status column lines up down the left edge.

You’ll see: [stu] a mud hog stacked over [stu,prn] a mud hog, scannable in one glance without reading the names.

Colors that pick the dangerous one out of a crowd

Right-click ▸ Global target settings… to jump to Settings ▸ Targets. Set Boss Color to something loud (#ff5555 ships as the default) and Challenging Color to a warmer #ffaa55. Save.

You’ll see: in a room of six creatures, the two the game flagged as boss-tier render red and the challenging one amber, while ordinary creatures stay in your normal text color.

Proof the filter is working

Right-click a targets window and tick Show filtered appendage count. Fight a sorcerer, or anything else that summons grasping limbs from the ground.

You’ll see: Appendages: 3 centered on the bottom border while the list itself stays clean — three unkillable limbs hidden, and you can tell they were hidden rather than missed.

Tips & gotchas

⚠️ A creature is only listed once the game has sent a <crtrStatus> snapshot marking it hostile. Until that arrives its hostility is unknown, and unknown creatures are excluded on purpose. A brand-new arrival can take a beat to appear, and a shopkeeper standing next to you never will. An empty list in a room full of prose is usually this, not a broken window.

⚠️ The targets click sends target in the GUI and TUI, but opens the verb menu on the phone. Same list, two different results from the same gesture.

⚠️ The TUI puts a live count in the title (Targets [03]); the GUI does not. The GUI window keeps whatever title you gave it.

Grasping appendages are filtered, and kraken tentacles are not. Spells like a sorcerer’s Grasp of the Dead (709) summon limbs that erupt from the ground and attack you. They’re targetable but can’t be damaged, so listing them is pure clutter — arms, claws, limbs, pincers, tentacles, and palpi are dropped from the list. The four kraken tentacle variants (amaranthine, ghostly, grizzled, ancient) are real creatures you can kill, so they stay. Nothing you configure changes that pair of rules.

The appendage count is a count of hostile appendages. A limb that never got a hostile snapshot isn’t counted, so the footer can read lower than the number actually flailing at you.

Dead creatures leave the list entirely. There is no dimmed corpse row here — that’s the Players window’s behavior. A creature that dies stops being listed.

A status without an abbreviation falls back to its first three characters. stunned is mapped to stu out of the box; an unmapped awake renders [awa]. Statuses of three characters or fewer pass through whole. Add your own pairs in Settings ▸ Targets ▸ Status abbreviations.

Several statuses show at once only when the game sends the structured feed. [stu,prn] comes from <crtrStatus>. When the client is falling back to reading the room text, one status is the most it can know.

truncation_mode = "noun" is not an always-on shortener. It swaps the full name for the bare noun only when a creature has a status and the name plus its tags would overflow the window. Widen the window and full names come back.

Global settings are global. Settings ▸ Targets changes colors, truncation, excluded nouns, and abbreviations for every targets window and the players window too. Only the two options in the right-click menu are per-window.

See also

• Players — who else is here, and the [ded] styling for corpses
• Items — the non-creature half of the same room feed
• Room Window — the prose these lists are extracted from
• Hotbars — buttons that light up on creature and vitals conditions
• Build a hunting layout — placing targets in a combat screen

[[windows]]
name = "targets"
widget_type = "targets"
title = "Targets"
row = 3
col = 92
rows = 12
cols = 28
show_border = true
show_body_part_count = true
status_position = "start"

[target_list]
status_position = "end"
truncation_mode = "noun"
excluded_nouns = ["arm", "coal"]
boss_color = "#ff5555"
challenging_color = "#ffaa55"
dead_color = "#888888"

[target_list.status_abbrev]
stunned = "stu"
frozen = "frz"
dead = "ded"
prone = "prn"