Assets are archetypes, treasures, artifacts, in short anything except maps and regions.

They reside in the arch project.

The server can run directly using this arch project, or it may pack everything in consolidated files.

The following files are recognized as assets.

Name	Packed to	Meaning
*.arc	crossfire.arc	archetype definition
*.trs	crossfire.trs	treasure definition
*.face	crossfire.face	face and animation definition
*.png (if the name conforms to the expected format)	crossfire.tar	image displayed by the client
image_info	image_info	faceset definition
messages	messages	general messages found in readable items
*.formulea and formulae	formulae	crafting recipes
*.artifact and artifact	artifact	artifacts
*.quests	crossfire.quests	quest definition

The packing process is handled by the server binary itself, through the -pack-assets option.

Note that if you have packed assets, then you don't need the arch directory under the installation directory.

Packing assets makes for a faster server start and easier distribution, but makes it harder to contribute back changes – one would need to figure the original split file names.

Todo:

link to relevant documentation.

Add file extension to the relevant places also.