The harsh statistics show that generally only about 10 % of the Builders in all Muds ever get past their first 5 rooms, that less than 2 percent ever finish their first zone, and that less than 1 percent ever finish another zone after that.

The reason for this is twofold:

• It generally takes around 80-100 hours to finish a decent 100 room zone, and in 4D it probably takes even more, because of the many OLC additions we have for more depth in the zones.
• Few players realize how much work is involved in building when they first apply, and regrettably there are also those who are into it for the power that the OLC commands give.

Over the years over 300 people have come and gone in our Buildport, but only the ones that finished their zones really count as Builders.

4D has however been unusually lucky in having so many talented and productive Builders working for us. We’ve a slightly better statistic than the average, so 15% of the 300 finished a zone, in total 45 Builders so far. Many of them produced more than one zone, and several are still active building for us.

This page is dedicated to these true Builders, the zones they produced and the Awards they received.

INDEX

• Builder List
• Shared zones
• Updated older zones
• The Script experts
• List of all Builders in the Buildport

See also:

• The Builder of the Month Award
• The Builder of the Year Award

BUILDER LIST

Below is a list of the true Builders in 4D, with the zones they produced (The name after the slash is their main mortal):

• Alabastor: The Royal Forest
• Amber/Saxon: Victorian England
• Angel: Dragon Forest (later removed on request of the Builder)
• Belgarion/Garion: The Goblin Castle
• Crystal/Zaade: Township of Odessin, A Rip in Time
• Drake: Jurassic Park
• Dream/Gilthoniel: Reptilia
• Durgan/Drandur: Citadel of Thandar, Town of Ta-Beneth, The Orbiter, The Planet Whotvar, Whotvar II
• Echin/Lucrete: Arabian Desert
• Fallacy: Metropolis of the Elves
• Flyte: Android Factory
• Hugh: The Dirt Farm
• Ipkin/Zsijn: Troll Forest
• Kalliste: Legend
• Kalsan: Android Punk Concert
• Kalten: The Space Grid, The Corellian Sector, Earth Atmosphere
• Katriel/Seraphine: Echanted Lands, City of the Tulipek, Mount Kuromeru, Cosmo Canyon, The Space Mall
• Kelixa: Sanctuary Haze
• Kenneth: The Future Golf Course
• Keroac/Darkwolf: Little Italy, The Queltorian Sector
• Kvetch/Cati: Nightdragon Realms, Nightdragon Realms 2
• Ladyhawk: Dodge City
• Lanseril: Castle of Mirkheim
• Lonewolf/Blitz: The Newbie Arena, Dragon Island
• MaccabiTA: New Goznemia
• Malfeasor: Elven Forest
• Martin/Robin: Terramort
• Mireille/Kita: The Land of Punt
• Molly: Too many to list here (ca 50 zones in total)
• Moonstar: Osten Ard
• Mordecai/Soulstar: Midlands.
• Nave: Dry Gulch I
• Nicoli: Temple of the Damned
• Niketh: Ice Palace
• Palpatine: Star Wars, Future Space Port
• Slaanesh/Parker:: Necromunda
• Persuter: The Gold Mine
• Phantom/Wolfsbane: Ali Baba’s Cavern
• Remington: Dun Shivaar
• Sekhmet/Emory: The Lower Nile, Egyptian Desert, Temple of Hatshepsut
• Shartrance/Tamica: Mother Goose
• Shemaglig/Gilgamesh: Buffalo Bill’s Circus
• Snowbird: The PreHistoric Forest
• Solana /Ilana: Fort Sutter, Sutter’s Mines, California and Sacramento Trails, San Fransisco Harbour
• Sonya/Rayne: Quixotica, Jurassic Ocean, Dragon Caves, Dark Planet, The Game Grid, Season Quests, Quixotica 2
• Tanaea/Cali: Downunder, The Outback
• Wynter/Kristen: Mount Winter

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‘SHARED' ZONES:

A few of the zones are the work of two Builders. Either they shared the original work, or the original Builder left and someone else finished the zone afterwards.
Below is a list, with the name of the ‘main’ Builder first:

• Ladyhawk and Molly: Dodge City
• Nave and Molly: Dry Gulch II
• Kerouac and Annie: Little Italy
• Palpatine and Molly: Future Spaceport
• Lonewolf and Juno: The Newbie Arena
• Kalten and Molly: The Space Grids
• Mordecai and Molly: The Mine, The Ranch
• Katriel and Sonya: The Space Mall
• Alabastor and Crystal: The Royal Forest
• Sonya and Mireille: Quixotica II
• Molly and Diandra: The Colosseum

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UPDATED OLDER ZONES

The older zones are generally not up to our present standards, simply because we didn’t have all the extra options in OLC back then. Gradually we are updating these old zones, adding things like listen/smell/taste/feel descriptions, hidden portals and containers, climb/descend/jump objects, and at least one new Quest.
The updates are sometimes done by the original Builder, in which case they are not mentioned here. The Zones where an extensive update has been made by another Builder are listed below:

• Molly: Osten Ard, Ice Palace, Mount Winter, Dodge City, Necromunda, The Gold Mine
• Sonya: PreHistoric Forest, Elven Forest, Metropolis of the Elves, Dirt Farm, Legend, The Future Golf Course, New Goznemia
• Lonewolf: Temple of the Damned

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THE SCRIPT EXPERTS

Scripting is probably the most important tool in building. Not only do the scripts make a zone come to life, they are also essential to setting up challenging and cheat-proof quests. .There are scripts in all the zones of 4D, but they have developed over the years, so the ones in the newest zones are a lot more complex and advanced than our first stumbling attempts.
Scripting has always been a big feature in 4D, and our scripts generally hold an unusually high standard. This is mostly due to the efforts of a handful of people who have developed the scripts from the first staggering efforts to amazing complexity, and showedt others how to use them:

• Kalten, who taught us all to make mob_progs back when we ran in Mythran Code, and then started the development of the DG_scripts in 4D when we switched to Circle code.
• Tanaea/Cali, who was the first to use more advanced scripts to add atmosphere and challenges in the zone Quests.
• Molly, who has probably done more scripts than any other Builder in 4D, and who put together the examples in the Advanced Scripts file.
• Mordecai/Soulstar, who revolutionized scripting in 4D, who showed us how to do things with scripts that nobody even thought was possible, and who also has made several contributions to the DG-scripts code.
• Molzilla/Thotter who carried on what Mordecai started, who’s produced some astonishing scripts, and who is always helpful to those that need an extra hand with complicated scripts.
• Fizban, who became a script expert in The Builder Academy, and who has shared his knowledge in 4D, lending a hand in many of the scripts in most of the newer zones in 4D, and fixing a lot of issues in the old ones.

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LIST OF ALL BUILDERS IN THE BUILDPORT

Below is a list of all the people who built for 4D up to the server crash in November 2007, around 300 in total. Some more recent names might be missing due to the crash.
(The highlighted ones are the ones that finished one or more zones:)

Ablast Abraxas Abraham Acererak Aeirman Ahriman Alabastor Aliazo Alucaurd Amber Anaria Andiros Angel Anitra Annie Anubis Apollo Aragon Ardamis Ariadne Artemis Artovil Asetha Asmodeus Atlas AzRa Bane Barret Barizin Bartolomew Basil Bedrock Belaur Belgarion/Garion Benis Biteme Bluedragon Bou Brass Brian Briseis Briza Broly Brona Carnie Carrie Cassie Casy Chalista Chronos Clive Coldag Coondason Cornan Crow Crystal/Zaade Cyflar DarkFyre Darkseed Deadpool Demetrius Desperado Diandra/Brutusia Dilbert Disparil Drake Dream/Gilthonie Dude Dulan Durnik Durgan Echin/Lucrete Eldoran Elenar Erdrick Eriq Erreon Esper Evilynn Exodus Faldo Fallacy Feldar Ferell Fenix Fharron Firethorn Fizban Flyte Foggy Fonck Frashie Freak Frieza FyreByrd Galin Garion Gauntlet Genevieve Gismo Giz Gobo Goku
Gryph Gryphon Hamoct Hanger Hangman Hansel Hero Hetfield Huey Hugh Illdaenne Illmuri Incabolous Inque Io Ipkin/Zjijn Jacob Jadon Jainar Janelle Janos Javert Jee John Jonas Juno Jutus Kailar Kalliste Kalsan Kaos Karma Karth Katriel/Seraphin Kayin Kelixa Kenneth Kenny Keroac/DarkWolf Klank Kruthor Kvetch/Cati Ladyhawk Lain Lanseril Lavyn Lazer Lazuras Lestat Levis Liam Liathia Lionheart Litta Lobyro Logan Lonewolf/Blitz LordVader Lost LostSoul Lothorius Lucan Luister MaccabiTA Macros Magar Magnus Magus Mala Malfeasor Martin/Robin Materi Memnoch Minnie Mireille/Kita Moiraine Molly MonkeyChicken Moonstar Monzoo Mordecai/Soulstar Moonstar Mordrid Morgeth Motaro Mrfuzzy MrWho Muse Nark Natalya Nave Nevur Nez Nelliphite Nicoli Niketh Nimbus Noccy Nuke Omega Omen Once Packbell Pagan Palpatine Pandora Peace Persuter Phalkin Phantom/Wolfsbane Plato Poleris QuiGon Qu Raistlin Rasa Ray Remington Reltuk Robert Ryan Saed Sailor Sandalfon Sauron Seagull Sekhmet/Emory Sen Sephiroth Shadow Shartrance/Tamica Shayol Sheisa Shocker Shiva Shemaglig/Gilgamesh Slaanesh/Parker Snakeboy Snare Sneaks Snowbird Solana/Ilana Sonya/Rayne Soulslayer Spencer Starfox Stile Suki Sunshine Syrinx Tanaea/Cali Tanis Tannim Tarrant Tasslehoff Teklord Terax Tess Thanatos Tharenos Thotter Tibor Timmo Tocharaeh Travis Trevlyn Trojal Tynian Tyriax Tyro Vae Vestrial Vilanor Vlad Vokaz Wallace Wanda Weavis WickEdAngel Widower Wiitigo Winter Wolfman Womberly Wynter/Kristen Xacatecas Xanuth Xar Xavier XenoCide Yitshak Xithor Zarquon Zalian Zenathos
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See also:

• The Builder of the Month Award
• The Builder of the Year Award