Starting Quests.md

How to start a Quest:

You can start quests with several different ways. What to use mainly depends on how you want your quests to start and how many you have.
Simply using ActionStartQuest in any Trigger or Quest Actions works fine and may be the easiest solution for a single Quest.
But when you have multiple Quests that either should be chosen randomly or even a Questline that should start one after the other, it will save alot of work and headaches to use QuestPools and if you want also QuestLines.

ActionStartQuest:

Basic usage:

Open p-t.xml and search for <Name>ActionStartQuest</Name> to see valid content of this action and some descriptions.

Example:
(In Triggers it is called TriggerActions/Item/TriggerAction, while on some other locations it is Actions/Item/Action instead, compare with vanilla if you are unsure what to use)

  <Item>
    <TriggerAction>
      <Template>ActionStartQuest</Template>
      <Values>
        <Action />
        <ActionStartQuest>
          <Quest>150621</Quest>
          <QuestSession>180023</QuestSession>
        </ActionStartQuest>
      </Values>
    </TriggerAction>
  </Item>

This action will start the Quest 150621 in Old World session 180023.
QuestSession p-t.xml description:

The session where this quest should be started or a region(= list of sessions) where a session is randomly chosen from if the player entered that session already

Hardcoding the session like this is always the easiest way to define the session the quest should start.

Important Note:
Starting a Quest with ActionStartQuest does ignore many things Quests can have defined, especially it does ignore the PreConditionList of a Quest! If you want to use all features from Quests, you maybe better should use a QuestPool.

Advanced Usage:

TODO evlt auch Interhit UseCurrentSession GetQuestSessionFromArea usw eingehen.
SubQuests die automatisch durch ConditionQuestSubQuest gestartet werden.

QuestPools:

See also Creating QuestPools