Difference between revisions of "Dictionary"

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Various abbreviations used on Die2Nite.

AoN - All or Nothing All or Nothing

AP - Action Points

AS - Autosearch / Autoscavenge, Architect's Study Architect's Study, or Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids

Beam - Patchwork Beam Patchwork Beam

BED - Broken Electronic Device Broken Electronic Device

BIA/BiA - Brothers in Arms, a hero skill

BP - Blueprint

BRD - Can mean either Pocket Vibrator or Giant BRD Giant BRD.

Cata - Catapult Catapult

Coa / Coal - Coalition

CP - either mean Control Points or Construction Points

D2N - Die2Nite

Dev / Deva - Devastator Devastator

DO - Defense/Defensive Object. See Defence.

DTD / D2D - (From) Dusk Till Dawn, an external map

DV - Die Verdammten, the German version of Die2Nite

EC - Electronic component Electronic component

ED - Early Death

EM - External map

EWB - Exploding Water Bomb Exploding Water Bomb

FDTD - From Dusk Till Dawn, an external map

FPF - Flatpacked Furniture Flatpacked Furniture

Full escort - Escort mode with "Don't allow my escort to take me further away from the town" unchecked and "Allow the objects in my rucksack to be viewed and used" checked.

HC - Hardcore Hardcore

HR - either Heroic Return or Heroic Rescue

Iron - Wrought Iron Wrought Iron

Jerry - Full Jerrycan Full Jerrycan

LMS - Last Man Standing Last Man Standing

Logs - Usually means Rotting Log Rotting Log, but may be used to mean Quality Log Quality Log. Use your best judgment.

Meta - a group of 8 coalitions (40 coalition members) organize themselves to join together in the same town. It is not a in-game feature. People just get together outside of the game, using external chats to organize this play.

MJ - Meta jump, the process of one coalition of the meta joining together in the same town.. See Meta.

MHJ - Mega Hardcore Jump, the whole process of all coalitions joining together in the same hardcore town. See Meta for meta jump. See [[town] for hardcore town.

MMJ - Mega Meta Jump, the whole process of all coalitions joining together in the same town. See Meta.

MT - MotionTwin (the developer of Die2Nite)

N&B / NB - Handful of nuts and bolts Handful of nuts and bolts

OO - Oval Office (external tool)

OP - Used on the forums. It means "original post(er)" (the first post(er) in the thread), or "overpowered".

OPS - Old Police Station, a ruin

Perm - Any building or item that provides permanent defense for the town, for example: Great Pit, Screaming Saws or Mattress Mattress

Pharmas - Pharmaceutical Products Pharmaceutical Products

PP - Pharmaceutical Products Pharmaceutical Products

Scrap/Scraps - Scrap Metal Scrap Metal (Can also be more general and mean both Scrap Metal Scrap Metal and Rotting Log Rotting Log; as in "I'm going out 1 AP to collect scraps.")

SP - Soul Points

Temp - Any building or item that provides temporary defense, for example: Bomb Factory, Rubbish Heap or Torch Torch

Twin - Twinoid 500mg Twinoid 500mg

UCB - Unshaped Concrete Blocks Unshaped Concrete Blocks

WB - The World Beyond or Water Bomb Water Bomb

WF - World Forums

WPT - Water Purifying Tablets Water Purifying Tablets

Zeds/Z's/Zomb's - Zombies

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• BOTS - Battle of the Sexes, a community-organized event in Season 5
• COTT - Clash of the Titans, a community-organized event in Season 4