Default value
List of contained objects.
Except in the case of areas, this list is always restricted to objs and mobs (ie movable objects). Only direct contents are listed. Items inside of a bag object, for example, would not show up in the mob’s contents list.
The contents of areas are a little different. The turfs contained in the area are in the list along with any objs or mobs directly contained by those turfs.
If a movable atom uses the bound vars to change its physical size, or step_x or step_y to change its position, it may cover more than one turf. In that case, those turfs’ contents won’t just contain anything directly in them, but also any atoms overhanging them. I.e., if a turf is in a mob’s locs list, then the mob is in that turf’s contents list. (See locs for more information.)
Note
Looping through all of the atoms, or even just turfs, in a particular area actually loops through every turf in the world. E.g.,
for(var/turf/T in area). The engine will check each turf to see if it belongs to that area, and then includes the turf and/or its contents in the results depending on what the loop is looking for. This also applies to any situation where you might grab area.contents as a list, e.g.area.contents.Copy(). Therefore in a large world, it’s advisable not to loop through area contents at all.