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I just added a snippet to the walker to have it use bixes over longer (>10 rooms in length) paths, which should make stuff like hopping between elemental planes much faster, as well as making it way less painful to start a specific path while being far from that area. However, the mapper must still be able to establish a foot path between the two points or it won't even consider moving to that room in the first place. I might look into chopping further into the demonwalker code to improve that functionality in the future, but it depends on how and when inspiration strikes for the problem. I figured out an okay way to do it, and once it has exhausted all rooms you can reach by normal walking, it'll then try to use bixes to reach any other rooms to which normal paths failed. 

Having had the chance to use Llani's basher, I can only say this thing is positively lovely and amazing. thanks for making it happen

Xenthos said:

"This package also includes a genrunner, so it can automatically bash and influence full areas. I am not responsible if you use afk bash and get punished for it. What you do with my system is entirely on you."

Do you at least have a check in it to move on if someone else is already in the room when you walk in?

It does now! Woo, new features!

hmm. hmm. The walker can take a table of roomIDs to walk, that's how the predefined paths are setup (bl.paths.icewynd, etc) so you could create them programmatically. 

function mungeAreas(...)
  local at = getAreaTable()
  local areas = {...}
  local result = {}
  for _,area in ipairs(areas) do
    if type(area) ~= "number" then
      area = at[area]
    end
    if area then
      for _,room in pairs(getAreaRooms(area)) do
        result[#result + 1] = room
      end
    end
  end
  return result
end

function allElementalPlanes()
  return mungeAreas(
    "Elemental Plane of Air",
    "Elemental Plane of Earth, Catacombs",
    "Elemental Plane of Earth, Mountains",
    "Elemental Plane of Fire",
    "Elemental Plane of Water, Dream Lake",
    "Elemental Plane of Water, Mystic River",
    "Elemental Plane of Water, Starry Sea"
  )
end

bl.paths.fullelemental = allElementalPlanes()

in a script below Bloom would allow you to use 'bloom run fullelemental' to run all those areas.  You can get a printout of all the area names using the lua alias, `lua getAreaTable()` 

I have not tested this works with bloom, but I used something like this with the walker before, it should work.

ETA: strictly speaking the allElementalPlanes() function isn't necessary, you could just use the mungeAreas all there, but I foresee making several and I think if it were me I'd want to make a function for each, and then at the bottom just have

bl.paths.fullelemental = allElementalPlanes()
bl.paths.fullkephera = allKephHives()
-- etc

in a big group at the bottom.

I also can't guarantee this will work if they switch to a better walker solution than mine