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Hey, have you ever wondered how triggering works in the pop world editor? well if you want to know i can show you how! Implanting Triggers allows the game to have/be more importance and also more fun. Without, populous will be a lot more boring.

Firstly I'm going to show you The Trigger.

1. The Trigger


The trigger is what makes the stoneheads give you spells and such ect. It what creates action neither us or the cpu tribes can do.

Here is a simple example of a setup for a stonehead.


The options included in the trigger is:

cell radius = the radius of the stonehead where the braves pray

Pray time = 450, which means the time that the followers have to pray.

Occurences = 1 This means that whatever happends, it will only happen once, e.g. getting the volcano spell and the stonehead shrinks after.

Inactive time = how long the stonehead's red bar will go down for.

Trigger Count = 6, it shows how many people have to pray at the stonehead for. so if you put 1 you only need 1 person.

Start Inactive - Your stonehead will not appear until it is triggered to.

Create Player Owned - The stonehead belongs to you, even when the other player has prayed it the reward shall go to the tribe who "owns" the stonehead.

Type - Shows what type of Trigger it is, So if it is Proximity it would be a regular stonehead But if you put something other then proximity it would be some other statue and has different requirements, ill show you the other basic one -

The shaman proximity has a different trigger type instead of a normal follower, it is turned into a obelisk, and is also best if you put 1 for the trigger count because there is only 1 shaman per tribe.


a link is a tool used to connect the effect or spell and the trigger. it can be used more then once, but does have a maximum. So it can link a volcano effect and a volcano spell have a effect on when you pray it E.g. Face off, volcano eurupts, filling the small holes down the strips of the entrance to the hill, and filling the hill suggesting that it was supposed to happen. the Link allows the trigger to take effect.


The Discovery box is used as rewards when the stonehead is prayed (or another condition). As you see there is 2 rows (3 when first is selected spell or building) and on the 4th row is where you can write how much mana (only used when you want to trigger mana (when triggering mana make sure it's something like 10000 because spells require alot of mana)).


E.G. i have chosen a spell, chosen level which means i can use it for the rest of this level. (NOTE: only select level or once because making it permanent causes it to turn into a Vault of Knowledge) and I've chosen Lightning.

thats the basics, hope you enjoyed this tutorial