Coding

General

Coding is unlocked by gaining the Simple Coding skill. Coding requires 1 Energy per recipe used.

Successful coding gives one of at least two messages. One of these may correlate with discovering a new recipe.

You slave away at your computer, carefully combining, testing, and refining code:

You created:

You piece the code together and tweak it until it finally starts working:

You created:

Ingredients

See Coding Ingredients

Recipes

There are a large variety of coding recipes available - looking at the Coding Ingredients page above or Recipes by ID is the most comprehensive way to see all of them.

Here are some basics to get started:

+	Crash Script	Command Script	Search Script	Filtering Script
Networking Functions	Remote Crash Script	Remote Command Script	Remote Indexer	Network Defender
Spectrum Transmission Functions	Spectrum Crash Script	Spectrum Command Script	Spectrum Downloader	—
Secured Transmission Functions	—	Secure Command Script	Secured Indexer	Secured Filter

+	Novos System Updates	Novos Functionality Updates
Networking Functions	Security Interface	Functionality Interface
Remote Crash Script	Updated Crash Script	—
Remote Command Script	—	Experimental Command Script
Remote Indexer	—	Experimental Indexer
Network Defender	Updated Defender	—

You can also learn the Handscripting to help make the base scripts out of code snippets.

Before the Novos revamp, there were the following recipes; most of these ingredients are no longer available:

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(some things missing here - see Recipes by ID for a more complete list)

• Advanced Interpreter - Upgrade a normal Language Interpreter with Optimizing Code to handle more advanced programs
• Blackthorn Alpha† - Integrate an Updating Firewall with Blackthorn v6
• Blackthorn v6† - Let a Security Updater do its job on Blackthorn v5
• Chaotic Firewall - Add the element of chance to a Software Firewall using some Fractal Code
• Chaotic Tester - Add chaos to a Vulnerability Tester using some Fractal Code
• Cleaned Data - Disinfect a Viral Mass with an Antiviral Patch
• Code Injector - Implement your Vulnerability Database with a File Interface
• Crystal Blackthorn† - Weave Crystal Tester software into Blackthorn v6
• Crystal Tester†? - Feed a Vulnerability Tester through some Orderly Code
• Daily Tester† - Continually update your Vulnerability Tester with a Security Updater
• Data Scrubber*†?¹ - Widen the scope of a Code Injector with a Quick Scan and a Deep File Scan
• Deep File Scan - Expand your File Scan to use a Vulnerability Database
• Defensive Jammer† - Turn a Network Jammer to defensive purposes with an Updating Firewall.
• Depth Charge† - Grant your Code Injector further access with a Deep File Scan.
• Eavesdropping Tools - Connect your Network Interpreter with a Vulnerability Database
• Fast D - Soup up your Decompiler with some Optimizing Code
• File Scan - Update a File Interface with an Automation Routine
• Fractal Cheat - Inject some Fractal Code into Optimizing Code
• Fractal Loop - Run some Fractal Code through an Automation Routine
• Fractal Tester - Join a Fractal Loop to a Chaotic Tester
• Intrusive Jammer† - Extend the reach of your Network Jammer within systems with a Code Injector
• Intrusive Search - Create a Target Search utilizing a Vulnerability Database
• Midgard Blackthorn† - Further expand a Blackthorn v6 using Midgard Internal Code
• Midgard Protector† - Complete a Midgard Protection Suite with Midgard Internal Code
• Midgard Shrieker† - Twist a Network Jammer with some Midgard Internal Code
• Midgard Tester† - Affix some Midgard Internal Code to a Vulnerability Tester
• Network Jammer - Restrict traffic with a Network Interpreter and a Software Firewall
• Network Scan† - Improve your Eavesdropping Tools with some Quick Scan software
• Optimized Targeter† - Do your best to apply some Optimizing Code to a Targeting Algorithm
• Optimizing Code - Supplement an Automation Routine with a Math Subroutine
• Protein Hijacker† - Feed a Protein Reader through a Code Injector
• Protein Loop - Set an Automation Routine to examine the Protein Database
• Protein Receiver - Set a Protein Loop to search with a Network Interpreter
• Protein Reader - Expand a Protein Loop with a File Interface
• Quick Scan - Punch up a File Scan with some Optimizing Code
• Security Updater - Run a set of Security Patches through an Automation Routine
• Shining Barrier†? - Reinforce a Software Firewall with Orderly Code
• Sloppy Decompiler - Corrupt a Decompiler with some Fractal Code
• Software Firewall - Implement some Security Patches with Networking Code
• Target Search - Create a basic search with two sections of Networking Code
• The Tar Pit*†?² - Tune a Software Firewall with a Vulnerability Database
• Thorough Decompiler - Improve your Decompiler by adding a File Scan
• Unsettling Loop†? - Twist a Fractal Loop with another layer of Fractal Code
• Updating Firewall - Automate your Software Firewall with a Security Updater
• Vulnerability Database - Correlate the data from two sets of Security Patches
• Vulnerability Tester - Implement your Vulnerability Database with some Networking Code

* Not kept over beta resets.
† Requires an advanced interpreter

Footnotes

1. Learn from browsing hidden files at a software company.

2. Learn from browsing hidden files at a software company.