# Intro to states

States are written in lua. A state is atomic and is in charge of creating interactible content in the "overworld".

This means a state is in charge of:

• state rendering (mainly in chat)
• offering conditional actions (and action logic)
• blocking user movement

Most logic is handled in the :Render callback.

In your lua file you can create a new state with the following syntax:

StateBuilder("my_state")
    :Render(
        function(renderer, context) 
            -- add your render logic here
        end
    )
    :Build()

State Builder Docs