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Recharging magical item mobiles

Characters can get wands and staves recharge at places that are set up to recharge them. It works very much like repair shops, but for one field the difference. Make sure to read the lesson on setting up repairers first. Below is a sample mobile that recharges wands and the differences between repair and recharge is pointed out.

First make your mobile who will do the repairing.

#QQ24
wanda~
{70}Wanda~
{70}Wanda is showing a customer a wand here.~
She has very pointed features and her vivid red hair is a mass of unruly
curls.  Her body is rail thin, and her robes hang on them very loosely.
~
S 15 CLASS_WARRIOR RACE_HUMAN SEX_FEMALE POS_STANDING DEITY_NONE
ACT_SENTINEL|ACT_STAY_AREA|ACT_CITIZEN
>greet_prog 20~
sayto $n I can recharge your wands for a fee.
~
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Then make sure the repairer is in resets in the room they are supposed to be in. And then add the following to the #REPAIRS section of your area file. It is like the other lines in #REPAIRS but for one aspect.

23124 ITEM_TYPE_WAND ITEM_TYPE_NONE SUBSTANCE_WOOD
        100   SHOP_RECHARGE  5 23    ; Wanda

Our recharger can recharge wands that are made of wood. Note that the field that is normally 1 in repairers has been changed to SHOP_RECHARGE.