Reference: Accounts (Folder Index)

Purpose

Contains all account files. This folder is empty on a fresh install.

Every account will create and manage its own file. The file name uses the corresponding Account ID (00000001.txt, 00000002.txt, and so on)

To see which Account IDs belong to which username, see the Dynamic/AccountList.txt file.

Account File Format

Crude INI format. Lines are mostly considered as key=value pairs, but also tokenized with commas (,) as parameter breaks.
Comment character: semicolon (;)
Has section headers.

Section Tags

See further below for more precise information on the data formats used by each section.

[ENTRY]	Begins a new account entry (originally accounts were all saved to a single file, so some of this coding is legacy stuff).
[END]	Closes an account. Not necessary.
[CHARACTERCACHE]	Begins a cache section with basic character information. This is for display purposes only within the character selection screen. It has no effect on the character in game.

[ENTRY] : General Section

ID	Integer	The Account ID. Must be unique to all character files.
Name	String	Username. Required when logging in. Must be unique. Must not exceed 48 characters.
Auth	String	Hashed password. Required when logging in.
RegKey	String	The registration key that was used to create the account. Must not exceed 35 characters. Must be longer than 1 character.
RecoveryKeys	String	Additional information to recover an account if the account's data has been obscured prior to publishing the userdata. It follows a format of: key=value&key=value Presently regkey is the only recognized key. The value will be a salted MD5 hash of the original registration key used to activate the account.
SuspendTime	Unsigned Long	Server time, in seconds, that the account was suspended (banned). This is based on the operating system's epoch.
SuspendDuration	Unsigned Long	Total duration, in seconds, that must pass before the suspension is cleared.
Characters	Integer (list)	A list of comma separated integers. Each value represents the CreatureDef ID of the character that is linked to the account. Technically it is possible for multiple accounts to share a character, if the IDs are manually edited. Be aware that crashes or data corruption could occur if both accounts are logged into the same character at the same time.
Permissions	String (list)	A list of comma separated strings. Each string represents a permission. See the Account Permissions file for details. This property can appear on multiple lines. The allowed permission set will be merged. For human readability, the server limits output of 5 permissions per line when autosaving.
GroveName	String	The grove name assigned to this account.
Build	Integer (x5)	A list of 5 integers, separated by commas. ZoneDefID,X1,Y1,X2,Y2 This enables grove build permission in given ZoneDef ID, using the scenery tile coordinates of (X1,Y1) to (X2,Y2), inclusive. Note that scenery tile width can very between zones. See the ZoneDef PageSize property. Each line has one build permission. Use multiple lines for more permissions.
Pref	String	Account-based preferences. The effect of these are client-side only. The client uses them for certain settings.
Bank	Integer (list)	Not used. Originally intended for shared vaults between characters on the account.

[CHARACTERCACHE] : Cached Character Data

This section stores the information that is visible in the character select screen. Name, class, level, appearance.

This is for display purposes only within the character selection screen. It has no effect on the character in game.

The stats present here (level, profession, display_name, appearance, eq_appearance) all correspond to equally named stats in the Character Stat Set.

The information in the cache is updated when a player logs out. If the character file is changed or replaced, the old character will be displayed in the character selection screen. When they log in, everything will be appropriate to the actual character file.

If a cache entry does not exist at all, it is fetched from the character file itself.

[CHARACTERCACHE]	N/A	Begins the Character Cache section.
[CACHEENTRY]	N/A	Begins a Cache Entry subsection. Each character in the selection list has its own section, one after the other.
creatureDefID	Integer	The CreatureDef ID of the character.
level	Integer	Character level.
profession	Integer	Character class.
display_name	String	Character name.
appearance	String	Character appearance.
eq_appearance	String	Character equipment appearance.
[/CACHEENTRY]	N/A	Ends a Cache Entry subsection entry.
[/CHARACTERCACHE]	N/A	Ends the Character Cache section.