Travel (.go2)

Type where you want to be and put your hands back on the keyboard — .go2 bank walks you there, waiting out roundtime and standing you up on the way.

What it’s for

Crossing town is a dozen movement commands you already know, typed in the right order, with a stand in the middle because something knocked you down. It is not hard. It is tedious, and you do it forty times a session.

.go2 does the walking. Name a destination — a room id, a tag like bank, a name you saved, or plain text to search for — and the client paths there over the map database and walks it, waiting out roundtime, standing you up, and pausing while you are stunned or webbed. Press Esc and it stops.

This is VellumFE’s own engine, not a wrapper. It runs without Lich, which is why it works on the phone. If you are on Lich, you can hand the hard cases back to ;go2.

Set it up

Common setups

Save the places you actually go

Stand somewhere you return to constantly and save it:

.go2 save home
.go2 save shop 8966

The first saves the room you are standing in; the second saves an explicit id. Afterwards .go2 home walks you there from anywhere, and .go2 saved lists everything you have saved. .go2 back returns to wherever your last trip started.

You’ll see: [go2] saved 'home' -> room 8966 (travel there with .go2 home), and from then on .go2 home is a one-line trip from any town.

Find the nearest shop without knowing its name

Run .go2 targets anywhere. It prints tagged destinations reachable from where you stand, nearest first, with an ETA on each.

You’ll see: a list like .go2 furrier -> room 1247 (0:22) — copy the line, run it, and you are walking. This is the fastest way to orient in a town you don’t know.

Tips & gotchas

⚠️ .go2 targets and .go2 saved are different lists. targets is the map’s directory of tagged destinations near you (banks, shops, guilds). saved is your named rooms from .go2 save.

⚠️ Paid travel is opt-in, and off by default. Ferries, portmasters, urchin guides, and Chronomage day passes are all supported, but each has its own switch in Settings ▸ Travel. With them off, routes that need them are excluded from pathing rather than attempted — so a trip may report no route where Lich’s ;go2 would have paid its way through.

Destinations are tried in a fixed order, and the first match wins: back, then a room id, then a u-prefixed uid, then your saved names, then a map tag, then a text search of titles and descriptions. That is why saving a target named for a tag shadows the tag — the client refuses names that would shadow a room id or back for the same reason.

There are more destination words than the usage line shows. .go2 guild and .go2 guild shop route to your profession’s guild, which needs your profession known — run INFO once if it reports the profession is unknown. .go2 locker and .go2 public locker find the nearest locker you can use. .go2 goback is an alias for .go2 back.

Ambiguous text gives you a pick list, not a guess. .go2 town square with several matches prints the candidates with their ids so you can rerun with an exact one.

Failures name their cause. [go2] your current room hasn't resolved against the mapdb yet is the common one — run .room to see how your room matched. Others are direct: room {id} is not in the mapdb, you're already here..., and map database not loaded - configure it in Settings > Map.

A trip that goes wrong re-paths instead of stranding you. Ending up somewhere unexpected — fleeing, being teleported, walking by hand mid-trip — re-paths from where you actually are. A move that keeps failing gets that edge disabled for the session and the route recomputed. Dying aborts the trip.

One automation drives at a time. Starting a trip while something else is running (a .foreach batch, for instance) reports [go2] {that} is driving - .stop to cancel it first. .stop cancels whatever is running; .go2 stop cancels a trip specifically.

Map clicks can be handed to Lich instead. Turn Native Map Clicks off and clicking a room sends ;go2 <id> to Lich rather than walking natively. Separately, Lich ;go2 Fallback hands off to Lich only when native travel hits an edge it cannot cross. Both need a Lich connection — a direct connection has no Lich to hand off to.

Some regions scramble movement, so their map edges are meaningless to walk. These are declared as mazes and the engine uses a per-maze strategy instead. The shipped example is the Mist Harbor Ranger Guild jungle approach, where each character has a personal route revealed by an NPC — the walker asks automatically, captures the answer, and reuses it on every later trip.

See also

• Map — the picture behind click-to-travel, and where map data comes from
• Compass — one room’s exits, for the step you are taking by hand
• Room Window — the room prose and its exits as text
• Travel & Day Passes — how routes are planned, what paid edges cost, and how day passes are bought and spent

[go2]
native_map_clicks = true
use_portmasters = false
get_silvers = false
use_day_pass = false
day_pass_sack = ""