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January 11, 2021
- Fixed an issue with item special power upgrades over 11 (which
is the max available for upgrade)
January 10, 2021
- Quests updated to be a bit richer in terms of what they can do
January 8, 2021
- Fixed an issue where a charmed follower that rescued you sometimes
wouldn't let you rejoin the battle with them
- Your generation number for your lineage is tracked. After logging
in descendents, you'll see generation numbers populate on the
lineage command, character selection menu, and SCORE.
- After the 10th generation (that's 512 characters!), each descendent
can only create 1 bloodline
- Your mount's position will show on score after your position
and accurately reflect what the mount is doing (flying, swimming, etc.)
- Fixed an issue with mounts not wandering due to "stay sector"
limiting their ability to move due to rooms now supporting
multiple sector types
- Fixed an issue with some swimming mobs without legs not being
able to move (like fish)
- Updated messaging on BARGE to clarify when you are no longer standing
January 6, 2021
- Watch out. River Street in Midgaard just got longer. Directions to
the Underworld, Refinery, Southern Road, and Old School have
changed. There is also a new Clothing Store where the key shop was.
They key shop has moved to where the fence was and the fence has
moved west 1. Enjoy.
January 5, 2021
- Natural swimmers (fish, troglodytes, kappa demons, salamanders, etc.)
won't be penalized when swimming. Like combat swing rate is lower
and less effective in the water and swimming is slower than
walking. Swimmers won't have those penalties.
- Mead mana cost increased from 2 to 10
- Fixed CALLMOUNT and it also has a chance to succeed without delay
January 1, 2021
- Happy New Year!
Looking forward to another fun year at Kallisti. We're always
looking for fresh ideas and new ways to grow our favorite game.
This year, we're looking at an auto-quest system, bringing the
Wilderness back complete with random encounters, updates and
expansions to the item crafting system, the Champion class,
and other epic challenges for players of all types. If you've
got an idea, we'd love to hear it. If you'd like to build an
interesting new area, we'd love to see it - and don't forget
you earn nobility for becoming a contributor.
Have fun!
- FLY has been UPdated (pun intended, haha). Previously, there
were lots of confusing edge cases that have been resolved.
FLY automatically adjusts to show when you are actually flying
(including via spell, wings, objects, on a flying mount, etc.)
and the little 'f' on your prompt or group flags is an accurate
indicator. You won't be flying in crawlways, underwater, or
other places where it doesn't make sense. When you're mounted,
you'll see that your position is mounted rather than flying but
you're still flying if your mount is flying.
If you get tired of flying, you can LAND. You might want to
do that if someone is hurling tornados at you which does more
damage to flying opponents, for example. When you're tired of
not flying, you can FLY.
The FLY spell is now called FLYSPELL. That's going to be
annoying for some people, we know.
- Moving from one room to the next only checks the mobility
requirements of the new room. So if you're in deep water where
you can't swim and aren't flying and want to move to shallow
water where you can swim, well you can now.
- Message added when entering a CRAWLWAY with limited space
- Objects have special "action descriptions" that make them
funner and thematic. This has been broken for about 25 years
but is now working again.
- Fixed an issue with walkspeed and not present group members
- Fixed lots of issues with innate race abilities being lost
in situations where they gained those abilities by other means
- Fixed a bug at Slegge's resizing shop. Changing size, weight,
or curse status all have independent costs so if, for example,
you change the weight of an object, the cost to size or uncurse
don't change.
- Fixed issues with cotton/silk yarn not spawning
December 31, 2020
- Area name, room info, and exit info are no longer obscured in
private rooms (such as player houses)
- SENSE UNDEAD spell shows the specific undead race rather than
just "undead"
- MSDP_ROOM_EXITS will now reflect LOCKED (L) and CLOSED (C) status
- Holy Avenger weapon special heals better
December 27, 2020
- New skill FLYING DRAGON KICK for monks
- RETARGET and high rank DODGE are available at lower levels
for monks
RETARGET also allows retargeting whilst mounted and no delay
at higher ranks
- SPINKICK does an actual KICK skill to every foe in the room
rather than a normal attack
- WALKSPEED is a thing now. Characters walk at a speed primarily
determined by the sector they are in and moving to, but other things
affect speed of movement like flying, haste, sneaking, and objects
can add or subtract to your walkspeed. You can see your group's
walkspeed on FORMSTAT. You can see your own on SCORE. You can
walk faster with the RUN command but it costs extra stamina.
- You don't get a grouping xp bonus for NPC followers, only PC's
- The grouping xp bonus for PC's has increased (about 20%)
- The COMBAT command shows damage dice including barehand damage
when appropriate including monk gloves if applicable
- Fixed an issue with ARMY OF DARKNESS not giving skill rank bonuses
to members at low ranks
- SNOB and LEGENDBRAG socials added
- FUSEPORTS won't raise the rank requirement on armors
- Item crafting will generate better results on average for everything
- Crafted metal shields won't weigh quite so much and all crafted
shields can have fuseports
- AUTOGOLD is turned on for new players by default and LEVELSPLIT
defaults to off
- Charmed NPC's use damage dice based on barehand damage rules or
weapons they wield rather than uncharmed NPC damage
December 21, 2020
- You can improve crafted and randomly generated items at Slegge
as well as the Adventurer's Guild
December 19, 2020
- Fixed an issue in ARMORCRAFT and SHIELDCRAFT not giving object
extra perks for high quality/level crafting
December 17, 2020
- When changing the weight of items at the resizer shop (Slegge),
the AC value for armors will change appropriately. Similarly
for KALSTONES that modify item weights.
- Lights will show what color they are (this has no actual game
impact)
December 15, 2020
- KALSTONES will randomly generate on mobs
December 12, 2020
- Items can now be SOCKETED for PLUG type objects to fit into
- Items can also have PORTS to FUSE other objects (KALSTONES) into
HELP PORTS or HELP SOCKETS for more info
December 10, 2020
- Fixed an issue where dying wouldn't always break DEATHGRIP
December 5, 2020
- GLORY and WAIL OF THE BANSHEE skills check for valid victim
before charging mana and/or stamina so if you specify an
invalid victim, you won't be charged anything
- The North Pole zone with all of it's quests is now in.
Remember that collecting vouchers will give you prizes in the
new year depending on how many you have.
December 3, 2020
- Mobs with dispositions will use more spell/skill variations
- Fixed an issue with fire/acid resistance not working correctly
vs acidstorm and firestorm spells
- Fixed an issue where elemental resistance wasn't working correctly
vs some breath weapons (specifically fire, frost, acid, lightning)
- Fixed an issue with BANISH UNDEAD divine resistance not working
- You can cast MORTIFY and SHAPECHANGE by specifying a number (in
the order listed when casting the spell and not specifying anything)
rather than specifying the form name
- Wooly Mammoth SHAPECHANGE form can GORE with their tusks
- Vorpal effects can cut off horns which will make those victims
unable to GORE
- Losing a tail won't cause as much damage unless you are a dragon
or snake
- Mobs won't summon mounts so often but when they do, the mounts are
worth experience points when defeated
- Season shows on TIME command
- The directions to Surgaard/Alcazar have changed.
November 29, 2020
- Boats are fixed. You don't need to drop and pick it up
for it to work.
- Thanksgiving is over for another year. Thank you to everyone
who participated and thank you to Vajra for making such a
fun challenge.
November 24, 2020
- Thanksgiving is here! This year there are some new breeds of
turkey wandering the wilds. A pair of hunters have showed up,
tracking the birds. Rumor has it, there's some kind of god-like
tom turkey that prowls the wastes looking for people that kill its
fellows. It's mean and will kill on sight, beware!
November 21, 2020
- You can GRAB items (i.e. lights) whilst shapechanged
(similar to hold and wield)
- More situations with uncurable poison/blind fixed
- A magician has been doing some construction along the NE Road.
He bent space and found some more rolling hills for people to
travel through. Because of this the directions to the following
zones have changed: Asgaard, Barovia, Blackrock Hallow, Blackrock
Hills, Grimball, Catalaunian Fields, Castellum of Lasalle, Dragon
Realm, Rordak Kingdom, Girish, Mists, Moria, Mt Fredgehand,
Nedragaard Keep, Orc Encampment, Path of Power, Ravenloft, Ravlop,
Storm Vale, Tarusk, Valencia Nina, Winter, and Villagio Del
Centaur. Tread carefully.
November 18, 2020
- Players first! Please fill out this survey to help inform our
design decisions:
https://forms.gle/CZ3CzQW1mrZLY1286
If altruism just isn't your thing, we will give you 1 million
gold coins for your feedback. Just enter your account name at
the end of the survey. Thank you!
November 15, 2020
- Fixed a lot of issues with rounding errors in spells aand skills.
For example, HASTE gives you a Dexterity bonus of 1 + (casting level/100)
which meant you would always get a +1 bonus at any casting level
below 100. Now, you receive a second Dexterity bonus at casting
level 50 (i.e. 50 / 100 = 0.5 which rounds up to 1). This is
significant for all enchant item spells but also many other situations.
- If you make a save vs lightning breath damage, you will get an
indication on the damage message (like most other situations)
- Fixed a messaging problem with TERROR skill
- Fixed a confusing method about stop following a mob when you kill
the follower of that mob
November 9, 2020
- Fixed an isue with the blind affect sometimes not ever going away
- Fixed an issue with rare kill exp being applied incorrectly to
low level characters
November 2, 2020
- Potion crafting should make usable potions now and sell
for a better amount.
November 1, 2020
- Congratulations Pif for winning Hell night. Thank you to
everyone that showed up.
October 30, 2020
- After talking to a few players and myself we are going to have
hell night starting at 9pm Pacific time tonight and going until
9pm Pacific time the 31st. This might be way too long but we
can look at livening it up with random mobs and epic equipment
that you won't normally see. Ivy.
October 27, 2020
- Hell Night Poll: It is a tradition at Kallisti to hold a Hell Night
on Halloween. It's a night where pking is encouraged and points are
awarded for killing others or high level boss mobs. There are also
devils and demons that wander the world. As part of this we backup
the playerfiles and anything that happens on hell night is undone the
next day. Look at it as the oppotunity to explore or kill others without
any repercussions. The plan is to do hell night from about 4pm to 10pm
Pacific time this year. That being said, there are a large number of players
now that have children that do things on Halloween night. So, the poll
question is: What would you prefer, Hell Night on Friday the 30th or
should we continue with Saturday the 31st? Please let Ivy or Sammy
know your choice.
October 26, 2020
- An issue with mob aggressiveness has been fixed. Beware, mobs that are
aggressive may attack if they can see you!
October 19, 2020
- High level mobs will repop gold more quickly
- Shopkeepers will repop gold more quickly
- Shopkeeper item purchase prices will gradually decrease rather than
current steep decrease rate
- Gold cost to level past 74 is reduced
October 9, 2020
- Failed BONECRAFTING will have a rank based chance of not lowering
the item quality
- The annoying drunk has a high chance to drown if you lead him
onto moving water
- You can perform socials on Puff
October 1, 2020
- Fixed an issue with demonforms and gore not working
September 30, 2020
- ASSESS updated again to just show anyone fighting but not you
or anyone or anything in your group including your mount
The "->" shows who you are targetting and "<-" shows who is
targetting you and "><" indicates that you are targetting
one another.
September 26, 2020
- All those that lost maxstat metas due to a leveling bug have
had them restored. Check at the meta-sage and contact Ivy if
you think you are still missing any.
September 25, 2020
- You can RREPLAY on the GOSSIP channel to see the last 20 gossips
in reverse order
September 24, 2020
- GRIM WARD can be cast on "group" for convenience
- Fixed an issue with ASSESS to show followers and combatants correctly
- Dreadlords can learn SHIELD USE to rank 10
September 18, 2020
- DIVINE SHIELD will block to reduce damage regardless what alignment
you are fighting but it will still only bash opposing alignments.
If you aren't using a holy symbol +50 or are neutral aligned,
the COMBAT command will report DIVINE SHIELD at 0% for debugging.
- Logging on gaining levels reports gains correctly rather than
totals
- PARAGONS pay only 10% the normal gold cost to META
September 13, 2020
- Fixed an issue with DIVINE SHIELD bashing the Priest rather
than the victim (gah!). Also, Evil Priests using this spell
also get a bonus, just like Good ones do. It's only those
faithless Neutral Priests that can't figure out what they're into
that don't get a bonus.
- You can cast DEMONFORM specifying a rank number (i.e. deathform 3)
rather than spelling out the form to change into
- DEATHBOND works on people a bit lower level than you (still based
on rank though)
- DEATHGRIP doesn't autofail for high level mobs but instead has
a chance based on your level and your chance is reduced if the
target also knows how to deathgrip
- NETHERVOICE won't work if no foes are around
August 31, 2020
- The CALM spell will flush a mob's memory and current actions
August 29, 2020
- NEW ZONE: Island of Na'Kana has been discovered. See help for
directions and level restrictions.
- DEMONFORM massively updated to provide many new demon choices
to our lovely Demoniacs
- You can perform the COMBAT command on your mount and followers
- Your GAINLOG will report how many practice sessions you gained
- If you are given a skill via magical or natural means but your
class doesn't ordinarily have that skill or it does and you simply
haven't bothered to learn it, you can still wear +skillrank items
to improve that skill
- It's a little easier to make a save vs DEATHFOG choking gas extra
affects
- If you make a GOODBERRY and your hands are full, the berry will
go to the ground where you are standing
- Bards and Rangers can be in an ARMY OF DARKNESS (if they
are evil of course!)
- MSDP shows level of group members
- Surrounding objects will trigger special powers more frequently
- You can use the DEFENSE and OLDSCORE commands on your mount
and NPC followers, i.e. 'defense horse'
August 4, 2020
- Vampire bite attacks won't work if you or the vampire are
fighting from ranged combat distance
- You won't see autoparry on the TOGGLE list if you don't have
the PARRY skill. Similar for other auto combat skill toggles.
July 27, 2020
- Fixed an issue with spells getting re-applied after logging out
not applying all of their affects properly. Additionally,
some spells weren't applying their full effects properly until
logging out (like FEEBLEMIND) which is also fixed. Generally
speaking, this will make all spells with a qualitative element
(like fireshield does more damage at higher casting levels)
work more predictably and across logging out/in. This is
a fairly significant change.
- Fixed an issue with mob special attacks not working correctly
July 25, 2020
- MINE skill will provide raw gem ore sometimes in addition to
raw iron ore
- Fixed some issues with item crafting including MILLING, TANNING,
PAPERMAKING, and more
- Fixed a display issue with NOBLE showing points for level 100
characters twice
- The flag on who denoting clan membership is now invisible
July 23, 2020
- DEFINE command works again
July 21, 2020
- The fletcher, wand recharger, and repair shops will first look
at worn items to refill, recharge, or repair before looking at
inventory items. So you can "refill quiver" without having to
remove it first, for example.
July 12, 2020
- Two handed shields have a lower dexterity requirement in general
July 6, 2020
- Major adjustment to hero points per HMS for most classes generally
increasing the number of hero points for mana for classes that
rely on it heavily but there were other increases as well. Mages,
Priests, and Demoniacs will see the most dramatic improvements and
Monks and Bards to a lesser extent.
- ABJURE improved - lasts longer per casting
- DEATHGRIP makes fleeing a lot harder. Strength plays a role in
chances to break a deathgrip (for both the victim and the Dreadlord)
and if you know the skill, it's easier to break free. Also, if you
want to release someone from a deathgrip, just deathgrip them
again and you will release them if already deathgripping.
- Lots of skills can be done with sitting or resting now instead of
requiring you to stand such as FOCUS, HIDE, NOTRACE, and many more
including most of the item crafting proficiencies
- Doing group operations like "put all" will operate on account
owned objects rather than giving you an error
June 24, 2020
- At 0600 Central time June 25, 2020 we will be switching to a new
server. We should be down for about an hour while the last of
the switch takes place and the mud is brought back up. Once done
you should be able to connect like always. - Done! Some of you
might noticed an increase in speed. Thank you Coyote!
June 17, 2020
- Stability improvements under the hood
June 16, 2020
- REPLY ignores delay
- DEEPDRAW can cause lost attacks, dismounting targets, and bash affect
at higher ranks
June 14, 2020
- POWER HEAL and FULL HEAL will sober recipients if drunk
- LORE will provide info on salves (and other rare consumables)
June 13, 2020
- Ancestor, if any, name shows on main menu character list
- Ranger mana regen increased a bit
- Monks get DODGE slightly earlier so that they can get rank 5
at level 75
May 24, 2020
- Fixed an issue where mob innate sanctuary, unholy aura, wraithform,
invisbility, and detect invisibility were artifically high
May 21, 2020
- If you're holding a spellbook and wielding a cast weapon, the more
powerful item is used when casting
- COMBAT command has a "Magic" section which will show precision spell
rate as well as cast speed and spell fail adjustments, if any
- You can pay to start your own arena battles at the Battlemaster
- Crafted holy/unholy/nature items are permanent and names accurately
reflect type of item created
- If you're wearing a boat... like a magical boat, just go with it...
it'll work same as boats in your inventory
- Druid and Templar barehand damage increases a little with level
(but not as much as Fighters, Rogues, or Monastics)
- Gaining level 100 allows all Legacy characters on your account to
QTRANSFER. There's a higher gold cost for legacy chars to QTRANSFER
(but not for a legacy level 100 character)
- Centaur are treated as humanoids for the logical purposes where it
would make sense (like aiding other humanoids, getting charmed, etc.)
- Doppelgangers with very low Wisdom or Intelligence won't be
inhibited from races with penalties in those stats
- Doppelgangers can change more than 4 sizes at once but the delay is
simply a little longer (but not as long as if you were to do it in
two stages)
- ALACRITY Wizard spell improved
- Charmed NPC followers can follow you into no-mob rooms
- Charmed followers have some of their special behaviors wiped (like
mobprogs, door manipulators, etc., not skills)
May 12, 2020
- When blocking with a shield that has a special power, it has a (good)
chance to trigger
- Fixed a bunch of double damage messages with item powers
- Fixed an issue with polymorph, demonform and other shapechanged
breath weapons that was incorrectly giving the victim a double reduction
in damage based on resistances
- LORE and IDENTIFY will show special powers on worn items like it
already does for armors
May 3, 2020
- Undead followers can swim and breath water, fear the swimming zombies!
- RANGED variabled added to MSDP to know if you are ranged or not
- If you have color toggled off, MSDP won't colorize the terrain field
May 2, 2020
- Lights will show how much longer they will last, i.e. (3 hours remaining)
Lights that are burned out give you a message when equipping them to remind
you that they won't work. Burned out lights won't heap with non burned
out lights of the same name in inventory.
- Polearms will protect you (a little) from BLADE BARRIER and GRIMWARD
similar to how it protects from ICESHIELD type effects
- Nullify (for removing an item ability) works for armors in the
Adventurer's Guild
- Fixed messaging issues with wearing things on hind foot/feet
- Issue with repetitive kill reducing experience fixed and messaging added
April 28, 2020
- Duration of blindness spell effect reduced
April 26, 2020
- Refinements to the MINIMAP
- INVISIBILITY TO UNDEAD can be trained to a higher rank and current
effective level shows up on DEFENSE command
April 25, 2020
- New option MINIMAP will show a small ascii map above the room
name when toggled on. "toggle minimap" to turn it on. New accounts
will have this on by default unless blind mode is selected.
HELP MINIMAP for more info. There's also a SURVEY command.
- BLOODLINES start with correct initial class skills
- CHARM PERSON shows cast level on PRACTICE command
- New stronger creatures have invaded the Underworld. Be careful!
April 13, 2020
- Gold will replenish on shopkeepers more quickly
April 11, 2020
- Trainers that teach the same skill twice (at a higher rank at higher
levels for example) is fixed
April 7, 2020
- CYCLOPS race option unlocked at Paragon level 52. Giant race now
requires Paragon level 53. See HELP CYCLOPS for more info.
- You'll see [ fatigued ] on attacks where whoever is attacking has
reduced damage due to low stamina
- When fighting from ranged distance in combat, if you are hidden
you will not automatically unhide when combat starts, instead you will
have a chance based on your HIDE rank to stay hidden. Similarly
for CAMOUFLAGE
- Fixed a bug in room lighting when you couldn't see things in the dark
even though you had a light
- Large penalty applied to ADVANCE on a ranged foe if you are currently
bashed, but you also get a big bonus to advance if your foe is bashed
April 4, 2020
- Easter zone is in until Easter
- When you LORE or high level IDENTIFY an item, it will often tell
you where the object comes from (quest objects, opaque zones, etc.
won't show where they are from, of course)
- Light sources on the ground will illuminate a room
- SENSE UNDEAD fixed and works to sense all undead lifeforms
- Fixed an issue with setting your pre-prompt character to nothing
- You cannot drop shards in house/clan vaults
- DISGUISE improvements
April 1, 2020
- Fixed an issue with meta costs displaying incorrectly when
shapechanged
- CURE will correctly cure decay affects from CREEPING DEATH
March 31, 2020
- JAZZHANDS social added
- Total mobs in areas complete should be calculating correctly
now. Good luck to everyone on your 100% goals. We are still
reviewing zones so not all zones are 100%able yet though.
March 27, 2020
- If you're missing a leg, you can still move if you are flying or
mounted. Similarly, if your mount is flying, they can still move
if missing legs.
March 25, 2020
- Priests and Magic Users get more hero points per mana point.
Prophets, Necromancers, and Wizards will see the biggest gains.
- Timepieces that are equipped will ding
- All crafted potions, scrolls, spellbooks, spellstaves, holy symbols
have reduced level restrictions
- SCORE shows correct exp values over 2billion
March 22, 2020
- Gold cost to gain levels reduced in general, most significantly
sub-level 60
- Gold cost to meta reduced below level 61
- Frailty has updated Baramon Ingrol.
- Watch out. The mapmakers have revised the paths to Roogna,
Leprechaun, Druidwell, and Lagoon.
March 15, 2020
- Explorers in Solvorfirth have discovered a door past the town well
into a den of trolls on the Fells of Skarpsky. Be careful when
wandering around the area. Those trolls are agressive.
- The centaurs in Villaggio Del Centaur have done some construction.
- Rumors abound of a new town north of Calidyrr. Be careful. There
are demons at night....
- Your title will no longer automatically set when gaining levels
(after level 3 for new characters on new accounts or level 1 for
all others)
March 12, 2020
- Fixed an issue with walking into clan houses
- ACIDSHIELD spell has appropriate messaging
- Rangers and Barbarians can learn the TRIP skill
March 11, 2020
- Mobs that haven't been killed in a while will build up additional
gold beyond their usual max
- Weapons set up for quickdraw will no longer give affect bonuses
since the item isn't actually worn
- CONSIDER for damage is a bit more reliable
March 6, 2020
- Changed how bloodline ancestor gains work. Ancestors will not gain
any HMS until the bloodline gets to level 50, at which point the
ancestor(s) will gain all 49 levels of HMS gains at once. Existing
bloodlines will gain a pro-rated amount based on current level.
- Fixed "Samurai Fury" weapons
- Fixed issue with weapon powers in general not triggering frequently
with high attack rates
- Purchasing race change from Human after level 1 costs more qpoints
than changing from other races due to natural human stat boost that
is preserved when Humans reroll
- RAGE won't always cause Barbarians to collapse after combat. Chances
to collapse are based on stamina. If you're above 80% stamina, you
won't collapse, below 20% you'll always collapse (same as before) and
anything in between will have a chance to collapse based on how
stamina depleted they are.
- The first time a mob loads, they have normal gold. The next time they
load, they start with a fraction and gradually build back up to full
gold. Lower level mobs build up faster than higher level mobs, but
it isn't too long. Meant to discourage camping out at a particular
mob and repeatedly killing it.
- Some new high level mounts have been scattered around the mud. A few
are even very large for those large sized classes.
March 3, 2020
- Neutral Templar can use either holy or unholy symbols and if wearing
both, the best one will be selected
- Fixed an issue with SHIELD USE blocking attacks and not working last update
- DOPPELGANGERS show up correclty on "noble races" if attained
March 1, 2020
- Alignment based classes will change alignment more slowly when
acting out of alignment (e.g. Paladins killing good aligned foes)
February 27, 2020
- If a DOPPELGANGER tries to shapeshift and can't for some reason,
they will not be charged stamina
- The people of the Callidyrr Village got tired of being closed in
so they broke open the north gate and found the old road out of
town. They hope to find new zones in the area in the future.
February 25, 2020
- CHAIN LIGHTNING has a message and is more effective at higher cast
levels
- Class is denoted when logging in (unless anonymous is set)
- When a PARAGON dies, the level and class are noted on death message
- You will correctly get noble point credit for a DOPPELGANGER race
to level 50
- Skill/Spell failure modifier is displayed on your personal skills list
rather than having to look at your class skills list
- Fixed an issue with noble calculation when you have a BOT player
as the last player on an account. Also with how base classes are
counted (base classes have their own award rather than being counted
toward the other specialized class total)
- Fixed a bug preventing worn items that aren't armor and have special
abilities (like mana drain, etc.) from working
- If you repeatedly kill the same thing (30+ times within the last 100
kills), exp for those repetitive kills starts reducing a bit. You
can see your last 100 kills with the LASTKILLS command.
- Followers can't use skills of classes they aren't even if you give
them gear that boosts those skills
February 17, 2020
- KICK skill delay is reduced for people with 4 or more legs
- Centaur can't (accidentally) learn RIDE
- Fixed an error in POWER HEAL resulting in reduced healing at casting
levels above 50
- Fixed an issue with some teleport levers not transporting ungrouped
solo players
- Doppelgangers can see when someone else is a Doppelganger on WHOIS
February 11, 2020
- Fixed a display issue with NOBLE command and point values for some rooms
February 8, 2020
- Fixed a major issue with SHIELD USE not actually reducing damage taken
when blocking attacks. Also, defensive combat style increases shield
blocking a tad based on rank of shield use.
- Higher ranks of SHAPECHANGE do not require more than rank 1 in HAWK EYES
February 1, 2020
- New option in ADVENTURERS GUILD to "unenhance" items which will provide
a full quest point redemption to remove a special power
- Fixed an issue with high level bless spell not adding damroll
- Improvements to HUNT
- Fixed sounds on some channels to generate on receive as well as send
January 30, 2020
- Fixed a bug preventing weapons with firestorm or icestorm and some
other specials from working for most characters
(i.e. Mahn-Tor's great axe of fire)
- FRACTURE can be cast on self to dispel STONESKIN
- Fixed an issue with ROOM TOSS failing way more than it should
- ACIDSHIELD spell added for Wizards
- Mobs that have vulnerabilities won't use skills or spells that exploit
those vulnerabilities. E.g. if a mob is vulnerable to "divine" damage
won't have things like SMITE or HOLY WORD or something vulnerable to
aquatic damage won't have TSUNAMI, etc.
- You can wear any shield, floating, surrounding, badge, or light while
fighting or shapechanged
- Bots can't give HOMAGE, increase the max level on your account, gain
qpoints from quests, can't QTRANSFER, nor do they contribute to the noble
points of your account or HMS ancestors receive. Their meta gold costs
are also higher than non-bots.
- Updated Zone "Paths of Power" to include current classes instead of mage,
warrior, thief, and cleric and to use skills/spells that the classes
can do
January 19, 2020
- Improvements to QUICKDRAW:
- A successful EVADE switches weapons if your quickdraw is ranged
and your main weapon isn't
- When wearing a ranged weapon, you automatically turn on RANGED (unless
you can't for logical reasons). Same when switching to a non-ranged
weapon, you'll switch out of RANGED if you were in it.
- If you turn on RANGED and you wield a non-ranged weapon and your
quickdraw is a ranged weapon, you'll QUICKDRAW immediately
- Armor specials will trigger more frequently
- Drow can see secret exits like Elves and Half-elves can. Chance to
see a secret exit increases if you are both one of the above races and
also a rogue. Assassins have the highest chance to see secret exits
but Bards and Demoniacs can also see them now. Just not quite as well.
The AWARENESS skill increases chances further when activated.
- Changed how mobs decide to wear gear (no change to charmed mobs)
- grip aliases to deathgrip
- Equip your followers at your own risk. We will no longer reimburse for
lost follower equipment.
January 14, 2020
- Whips fall into the same category as polearms for fireshield type
protection damage reduction (see Jan 12 update)
- Fixed an issue with BLIND FIGHTING and not working as well as intended
January 12, 2020
- SNAPSHOT has an "aoe" option to hit every foe in the room at rank 5
- FORAGE doesn't fill you up so you can eat foraged food multiple times
- Rangers can learn HAWK EYES and TWO HANDED weapons to a higher rank
- When equipping a two handed shield, you get a more specific message
and for clarity in EQUIP: < shield (2h) >
- Disarming a one handed weapon is a little harder based on strength
of wielder
- When using a polearm or lance and fighting a foe that has blade barrior
or fire/ice/shockshield you'll typically only take 50% damage from the
shield (higher chance for half damage based on your dexterity). When it
works you'll see [ polearm ] next to the incoming damage message
- SHIELD USE and DIVINE SHIELD now block attacks fully rather than partially
and trigger much more frequently. You will see the deflection messages
only if "brief combat" is turned off (similar to parry, dodge, etc.)
- New combat option, QUICKDRAW, will let you set up a weapon to use in case
your wielded weapon is disarmed, destroyed, or otherwise lost, then you will
automatically switch to your quickdraw weapon. You will also automatically
switch if you are using a ranged weapon and your opponent advances on you.
To set up a quickdraw weapon type "wear quickdraw" and to force
a manual switch you can simply use the QUICKDRAW command. This is free for
all now but will almost certainly cost a pratice session (proficiency) in
the future. Mages and Priests cannot quickdraw.
- Fixed an issue with the KNOCK spell alias when specifying both door name
and direction
- Fixed an issue in Jungle rooms where the leader hacks their way through
and followers without hacking ability can't follow
January 5, 2020
- Fixed an issue with mob fight triggers firing way too frequently
- Fixed an issue with vorpal head sever and not insta-killing for most races
January 2, 2020
- You can use two handed shields now (with no weapons). Shields that
require two hands are rare and powerful. You also get bonuses
to BASH, DEFEND, and shield block success rates with these mighty
shields.
- Bot zones are only for people with their botter on. As a refresh:
There is now a BOTTER flag that a player can set for an automated character at
high levels. Some zones are not accessible to BOTS and players caught botting
without the flag enabled (when they are high enough level to have enabled it)
will be punished according to the RULES. Bots do not get experience bonuses for
outlaw, grouping, hardcore mode, or long rent times. Bots also are not eligible
for top10 lists
December 30, 2019
- Twohanded weapon specialization returns for Fighters and Templar
- Fixed an issue with MSDP and group names
- If you cast a "group" version of a spell and aren't grouped, you
won't be charged mana
- Mana and stamina draining ranged weapon abilities will show how much
drained
December 23, 2019
- A lot of new QUESTS have been added
Please note that the 360 weapon is only for the holiday season and
will go poof after the new year.
- The ASSESS command has been updated and there's a new combat option
called "autoassess" that runs an assess at the end of each round and
will show opponent hp and stamina percentages as well as nasty affects
like curse, blind, etc. You can see mana as well if you have the
MANASEER skill by learning it or from gear
- Fixed an issue preventing missile weapons from not trigging special
abilities (like bash bow, etc.)
- When polymorphed (shapechange, mortify, demonform, etc.), you can wear
surround, orbit, light, and shield (in addition to wield/held objects)
- You can renew shapechange duration by casting the spell to change
into your current form again
- Frequency of weapon abilities upon identify/lore shows correctly
now. Previously a lot of assumptions were made about the average
conditions you'd be fighting under and it tried to display something
reasonable. Now there is less randomness based on fight conditions
and the chance of triggering is primarily driven by the item power,
your relevant weapon rank, weather or not you or your victim are
cursed, and your luck (in that order). Two handed weapons still have
a 20% increased chance of triggering.
- If you don't have a spellbook high enough to cast a spell, you can
still cast the spell but with reduced effectiveness as if you tried
casting and didn't have a spellbook at all
- A more complete set of buff and nasty affects show up when looking
at mobs in rooms and also on your prompt
- The limit when depositing large sums of money in a bank that's located
in a clan hall is increased
- MSDP shows Hero Points To Next Level (HERO_POINTS_TNL)
- K3.0 characters are denoted correctly on the character selection screen
- Fixed an issue with CURSE not penalizing chances to hit in combat
correctly (it's affect was almost insignificant)
- EARTHQUAKEs causing avalanches do 25% more damage
December 11, 2019
- Xendorian Outpost updated
December 10, 2019
- Fixed an issue with kill mob quests not triggering completion
someetimes
- There is no longer a delay when completing non-repeatable quests
December 9, 2019
- Quests can have pre-requisite quests now that must be completed
prior to initiating
- Mobs that have tail attacks, gore, razor claws, and wing bash won't
use those attacks if you vorpal off the appropriate body part
- Iceshield/Shockshield will set correctly on mobs where appropriate
(rather than fireshield)
December 7, 2019
- Hanskan Desoy Mines updated
December 3, 2019
- North Pole updated
- If you're on a quest to kill something and anyone in your group
kills the target and you're grouped and present for the kill, then
that will trigger quest completion for you
- CONSIDER has more fidelity when used on foes close to your level
- Added support for room heal for HMS
- Fixed an issue with MCCP v2 support when sending IAC IAC
December 1, 2019
- Rooms that cause pulse damage over time show a message
- Fixed an issue with STONE BLAST and TORNADO not able to start
combat correctly
November 30, 2019
- VALRAVN ravens are higher level now (based on level of foe and
your casting level)
- You can buy a Stablehand in your stables to increase the number of
mounts stored by 1. Stablemaster now increases the total number of
mounts storable by 4 instead of 3.
- Messaging when trying to do things in houses that you can't do are
clearer in terms of who the primary owner is.
November 29, 2019
- Fixed a bunch of issues with spells based on sectors (outside,
underwater, etc.) and confusing messaging or incorrect behavior
and added new sectors for "Planar" (i.e. Astral Plane) and
"Space" (i.e. The Galaxy)
- DIRS command provides handy directions to common Midgaard
destinations with "dirs guild", "dirs donation", "dirs bank",
dirs "prayerroom", and "dirs adventurersguild"
- Unspecialized Priests get "armor use" to rank 3
- If you want to see fellow group member arrival messages when
walking, you can "toggle grouparrival" to turn that on
- Village of Sithicus updated
November 27, 2019
- You can use "noble race" and "noble class" to see which races and
classes you've gotten to level 50 on your account
- Fixed an issue with mounts getting killing blows in the middle of
attacking multiple times while having a stacked command to attack
another foe of the same name causing a crash
- Fixed an issue with certain customized mobs not using skills
they were assigned
- Zones Tellurian Discordia, Archipelago, and Dark Cathedral of Stark updated
November 25, 2019
- Ranger heropoint calculation is biased a little more toward stamina
and a little less toward mana
November 23, 2019
- Familiars don't count toward follower limits
November 21, 2019
- Pardon our dust. Things might have gotten a bit unstable. I put
in 7 new low level quests today and 2 the 16th. They aren't in the
help yet. There are at least 14 more in the works that I hope to
get in before Thanksgiving. Ivy.
- Atoll, Lasalle, Archipelago, Kralll, Path of Power, and Trein have
all been updated.
November 20, 2019
- Fixed an issue preventing centaur from wearing a mix of onefoot and
both feet items on their four feet.
November 19, 2019
- Alcazar and Le-Rot-Slavor Lair updated
- The Scout shows up on "replay rp"
- Fixed a bug in legacy items and Valkyrie minimum levels
November 18, 2019
- Gossip channel is recorded indefinitely
- The "areas complete" command is accurate for certain complicated zones
where it wasn't previously
- Slowed drunk speech rate
- When it's dark, INFRAVISION doesn't let you see things that don't generate
heat, like ghosts and skeletons, unless you also have SENSE UNDEAD
- Barrow Mounds has been changed to a level 30 to 50 area. Please be careful.
November 10, 2019
- Bards can play instruments in rooms (such as pianos) if they aren't
holding an instrument. Messages for bard songs are also clearer
showing when a bard is "singing" vs "playing" a song and which instrument
they are using (if any).
- Rommena Countryside updated
- Facepalm social added
November 6, 2019
- Higher bonuses to critical hits from objects are possible now
- You must have the skill in order to receive a benefit from gear
that increases rank in the skill "critical hits" - but you don't need
the skill to get a benefit from objects that simply apply "+CriticalHit"
- If you are impaired (cursed, drunk, etc.), then your critical hit chance
is lowered but if your target is impaired (cursed, paralyzed, etc.) then
chances are higher
November 4, 2019
- The speed (frequently) of flow rooms is decreased
November 1, 2019
- Flow rooms show messages for objects or people drifting in and out
- Also, there are many more flow room types now, like gusting wind
mudslides, avalanches, and magical vortexes
- If you are really large size then you will sometimes resist drifting
in water (based on your size and the strength of the flow)
- You can resist being blown by wind based on your fly skill which
is either the spell level of fly cast on you or your level if innate
vs the strength of the wind
- If you aren't flying, you can take damage from some flow types such
as avalanches and rockslides based on your dexterity to avoid
- Flow speeds, strength, and direction can be random by design
- FLY can be cast on others at rank 2
- Fixed a bug where you could be "flying" underwater
- Fixed a crash with PROBE
- WRATH skill correctly only targets people you are fighting or
are fighting you rather than everyone in the room like other area
attack skills (this is by design)
- You get a message when using an area attack skill and there is
no valid targets (nobody in room or nobody fighting you in case of WRATH)
- Fixed LORE for material hunting in many zones
- Fixed an issue with large zones and completion percentages on
"areas complete"
- When SANCTUARY or UNHOLY AURA are cast to cancel the opposing spell,
a message is given
- You cannot scoop up water from the ocean and drink it, only fresh water
rivers
- Removed a lot more formatting text, especially from character creation,
when blind mode is turned on
- Turning on blind mode will not automatically turn on sounds because you
might not have sounds installed yet
- Blind mode with prompt off still shows mount spell wear-off messages
October 31, 2019
- Halloween Hell Night - Open PK!
October 21, 2019
- IGNORE also suppresses titles and group names of people in your
ignore list
October 18, 2019
- Kallisti now supports any Unicode-8 characters (and some beyond that)
- IGNORE command redone and now supports the option to ignore multiple
people at the same time as well as the option to ignore channels or
tells only (or both) and works on specific people or entire accounts and
can also be modified when your ignore target is offline
- Changed how equipment is damaged. Hopefully fewer lights will scrap
- You should be able to rename your bins without them becoming over
heavy after reboot (exploding bins problem)
- Werewolves of a class without natural weapons should now be able
to bite
- Increased the probability of the landshark appearing
October 13, 2019
- Fixed AREAS COMPLETE command to accurately show your progress toward
completing areas (visiting almost all rooms and defeating almost all mobs)
- Fixed a major issue with saving throws that made fortitude saves normally
fail when you had a chance to have both a reflex or mental and a fortitude
save option and the fortitude save should have been easier to make
- Precision spell indicator shows uniquely from "critical hit" in the damage
message
October 8, 2019
- Directions to the Tombs of the Damned have been updated.
October 3, 2019
- Directions to the Secluded Lagoon have been updated due to the
disconnection of part of Rommena from the Dragon Realm. DIRS will
no longer take new players through that path when going to
Shakespeare.
September 30, 2019
- NEW CLASS: Valkyrie (subclass of Fighter) with new skills:
Mead (creates a horn of mead to drink)
Wrath (area attack)
Odin's mark (use exp to mark a warrior mob then get extra exp when it is killed)
Valhalla (safe recall spot where you can go as well as the last killed marked mob)
Bifrost (make a rainbow bridge to waypoints you set)
Farsight (see people in remote places)
Valravn (call a raven follower to help you)
Valmeyjar (death maiden that scares mobs and increases attack speed)
Wio Faerstice (heal)
Herfjotur (hamper mobs by lowering their stamina and causing them to lose attacks)
- Valkyrie are unlocked with a noble Lord title AND a level 51 PARAGON.
- NEW RACE: Doppelganger. Doppelgangers can change into any other humanoid race
after killing that race and they get the physical benefits of the new race (like
bonus/penalties to str, dex, con). They also get the DISGUISE skill for free
since that's kind of their jam. When shapeshifting, they regenerate limbs
similar to salamanders. You can unlock this race with a level 58 PARAGON.
- When regenerating limbs from polymorph salamander and doppelganger, you'll
regenerate arms before hands and legs before feet
- When identifying items, if you can see all class minimum levels, you'll see them
organized by superclass instead of the strange order they've currently been
displayed. You can see minimum levels for all classes on any character on your
account after you attain Lord nobility title. You won't see VALKYRIE minimum
level unless you have a valkyrie on your account.
- When using the SKILLS command outside of a guild to list the skills you've
learned, they will appear in alphabetized order.
- DETECT POISON is fixed and provides more information. It is a "cantrip" and
costs a practice session to learn (rather than a skill point).
- New channel added, "veterans". If you have a K3, K4, or K45 character on your
account, you'll gain access to this channel (for all characters on your account)
upon logging in a character from any of those eras.
- Races and classes with +1 skill bonuses (like edged weapons for dwarves and
fighters) will get a +1 rank (cumulative) to those skills. That means Dwarven
Fighters start with rank 2 in edged weapons for example, ditto for Elven Fighters
and ranged weapons.
- Dwarven priests get a bonus to edged weapons (like they do for all other classes)
rather than blunt since they can use axes
- Purchasing a race change at the Adventurer's Guild correctly removes all former race
abilities and adds all new race abilities immediately
- CENTAUR, WEREWOLVES, and MINOTAUR have tails now. And if you are missing your
tail (maybe it got severed?), you'll see a message in AFFECTS
- PIXIES will see a message in AFFECTS if they are missing their wings
- Fixed a bug when riding mounts that wander and the rider not following
- There is now a BOTTER flag that a player can set for an automated character at
high levels. Some zones are not accessible to BOTS and players caught botting
without the flag enabled (when they are high enough level to have enabled it)
will be punished according to the RULES. Bots do not get experience bonuses for
outlaw, grouping, hardcore mode, or long rent times. Bots also are not eligible
for top10 lists.
- Cost to REGRESS skills displays correctly
- SPIRITUAL GUARDIAN and DIVINE SHIELD frequency improved
- NPC followers will not have a chance to take the rare qpoint drop award in a group
- Character creation has been streamlined with improved defaults, instructions, and
colors to make the process easier for new players
- If you have a character above level 10 on your account, you can view DEATHLOG even on
characters below level 10 - this is mainly useful for PARAGONS who have recently died
- You gain a PRACTICE SESSION at level 2 and get another at level 5 and then start
getting them at the prior pace at level 11. This is mainly to learn low level
proficiencies SWIM and CLIMB.
- Leveling announcements include the class of the character
- You no longer need an unholy symbol for low level skill Dreadlord GLARE
- Fixed an issue with +rank to passive combat skills (like parry, dodge, etc) that you
haven't learned to at least rank 1 that were causing redundant "unlearned" messages
- Vampires are less lick spammy
- brief combat will hide messages for blocks, parry, dodge, etc.
- You should fail less on crafting
- Some MSDP output updates and fixes
September 8, 2019
- Added clantalk and ctalk commands for cchat.
- Clan bins should load and be constructable now. Funds for the
bins come from the character and not from the clan funds.
- If a mob was attacked by a high level character it can not
be attacked by a sufficiently lower level char after.
- Couple of position fixes
- Charm fail attacking reduced.
- Characters on menu list should page now.
August 31, 2019
- Renew life and mage heal are more stable in the amount healed.
- Reduced the amount that vampires lick
- Gave a message for meditate if you have never practiced it.
- Scan east will now work
- Toned down bash a little
- Fixed some MSDP variables to be cleared when appropriate
- Fixed quests to display when you are on a quest
- Reduced the chance of breaking out in a combo
- Made bins page
- Fixed position for meditate
August 6, 2019
- Set up bell to play in clan rooms
- Corrected some hero point veriations related to dropped mage spells
- Fixed character delete from account that removed players from clan
July 22, 2019
- Bards who learn haggle should now succeed more often at it.
- Fixed a problem with donating to the void if you have a house.
July 13, 2019
- Shopkeepers will have a bit more gold and regain it a bit faster
now.
- Recall to clan house is fixed.
June 22, 2019
- If you go below 0 hp during combat and regenerate above 0 in the
same combat round, you won't be incapacitated seeing stars.
June 10, 2019
- Explorers have discovered a new hunting ground off the Midgaard
River. The area is intended for levels 30 to 60 so be careful.
May 26, 2019
- Cleaned up MSDP group output and includes additional info
- If you amp an item with quest points and it's already bound to
an account as owner, it will maintain the account ownership status
- City rooms provide ambient light at night so within a city you'll
still have basic vision even when it's dark outside
May 23, 2019
- Halladar's Keep updated
May 14, 2019
- Stamina regen increased greatly when you're really low in stamina
- Minimum stamina required to flee reduced to 3
- The EVADE skill uses less stamina (about 1/3 less)
- FLEEing executes an automatic BREAKOUT command prior to fleeing
- If you're struck and seeing stars, you will still have a chance
to flee
- Villaggio Del Centaur updated
- Catalaunian Fields updated
May 12, 2019
- Death threshold is negative Constitution rather than negative
level. Toughness bonus of 10 per rank still applies. Example,
if you have a a Constitution of 22 and rank 2 in Toughness then
you will die once you have less than -42 hitpoints. You'll be
incapacitated below zero hitpoints as always. The minimum
threshold for death is still -15hp.
- Fix for VISCERA DRAIN sometimes not working
- Fixed an issue with buying "maxrank" on skills that have two names
where the first name is an abbreviation for a different skill
(i.e. "death fog" where "death" is an abbreviation for "deathstroke")
- Fixed an issue when using ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP on a mount with a rider
that causes the rider to attack you and the befriended animal to
help it's former rider rather than who cast friendship on them
- Fixed a bug where a charmed Bard NPC could sleep friendly PC's
- Werewolves can HUNT outside at night even if they haven't learned
the hunt skill
- Mines of Moria updated
May 2, 2019
- You can sort your characters in the character activation screen
by level, race, class, or era
- You can customize your prompt further by changing the pre and post
prompt indicator. i.e. display prepromptchar :
New accounts created in blind mode will have their pre and post
prompt indicators set to nothing
- Your mob quest target will be indicated with 'quest target'
- Life drain weapon ability shows how much drained and if you are
over max hp, it won't reset you to max
- Fixed an issue where mobs would try to aid your mount
- If you can't RIDE, you can't unboard a mount in a player stables
- Infrastructure for an autoquest system is in and in beta-testing
right now. More to come!
April 26, 2019
- When race changing away from werewolf and in werewolf form, then
it is handled correctly (shapechanges you back to human first)
- Mob werewolves can be charmed
- If you're deaf and someone SAYs something and you can see them, then
you'll get a message that they are talking.
April 19, 2019
- Two crash fixes
- Fixed an issue with level 95+ characters area affect spells and
skills not working in some situations
- New house CONSTRUCT options:
Sanctum - this is where the owner enters their own house
Private - only the owner can walk in private house rooms
Stablemaster - lets you store 3 more mounts in your stables
- The City of Midgaard has declared itself a Sanctuary City so the
law enforcer hunting outlaws won't attack people in the city limits
April 15, 2019
- Size does a better job of resisting bash and charge
- Centaur get CHARGE bonuses (more damage vs unmounted foes,
increased chance of bashing target, etc.) as if they were mounted
- More CONSTRUCT options will reimburse you and remove the option
(setrecall, camp, room flags such as peaceful, dark, etc.)
- You can CONSTRUCT "OwnerRoom" to make any room in a player house
only accessible by the house's primary owner
April 11, 2019
- Added damage indicators and fixed messaging on armor special abilities
April 10, 2019
- If you haven't logged in for three days or more, you will receive an
experience bonus (up to a maximum of 10% if you haven't logged in for
100 days). This only applies if you RENT out of the game. The bonus
slowly fades away as you play or immediately resets to 0 if you log out.
- You can CONSTRUCT an Inn in your player house which allows you to
RENT from your house to gain the above benefit. It also gives you
noble points.
- Further reorganized EQUIPMENT display to be more logical starting
with head and working your way down to feet with weapons and held
items below hands.
- Turning off mount prompt display will also turn off mount messages
when they alert you to spell wear-off messages.
- You can STEAL abandoned mounts. But it makes you a PTHIEF.
- When casting spells on a group, you'll get an abbreviated output:
"You cast sanctuary on your group."
instead of individual messages for each member you cast on - unless
there is an error, in which case you'll still get the message.
Members also see the single group message but also see their own
target message when they receive the spell.
April 9, 2019
- Fixed RECOMMEND for other wear locations
- Fixed an issue with ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP not renewing when cast on group
- Fixed Centaur bash protection
- If you CAMP or RENT for more than 24 hours then your character will be
fully healed when you return.
- Fixed a bug with resurrecting dead mounts in private stables
- Lost attacks get cleared at the end of combat
- You can CONSTRUCT a "public" flag for any house in your room. Public
rooms allow any stranger to enter. You'll need an "entry" room to
allow strangers to visit your player house/city.
April 6, 2019
- The order in which EQ is displayed is different. I know this might
be annoying for some, but it's laid out in a more logical order now.
Arms lead to wrists, lead to hands, lead to fingers rather than it
all being a random jumble of locations. Sorry in advance to those
that have trouble adjusting to the new ordering.
- CENTAUR class implemented as a PARAGON reward
- AFFECTS command is brief now. To see all the details like before,
type "affects detail"
- When clan affiliated characters gain levels, anyone on the INFO
channel will see it (not just fellow clan members).
- WHERE and MSDP indicate "other" players present in the zone which
doesn't include anyone with whom you are currently grouped
- To help reduce spammage, when groups walk in and out of rooms,
you won't see every individual member's entry/exit message. You'll
see "Loki's group (4 members) arrives from the west."
Same if you're in the group moving, you'll just get one message
indicating which way the leader moved rather than every member's
departure and arrival messages. You'll still see individual group
members come and go if they move independently though.
- When you follow someone, you'll see which direction you go.
- The group SUBLEADER feature is back. Group leaders can nominate
subleaders of the group that can move everyone around as if they
were the leader. Note, the exp bonus for leaders is turned off
when a subleader exists in the group.
- If mounts are missing feet and legs, they won't be ridable
- Mounts can walk through snow/arctic rooms but they'll just consume
more stamina and be a little sluggish
- Fixed a bug where you wouldn't see failure messages when trying
to wear objects with unmet dexterity requirements (i.e. monk gloves)
- Emperors can wear an additional ring (total 3) and Legends a third
neckwear item
- You cannot start a PARAGON character until you have a level 50
character on the account already
- MSDP_GROUP contains member class info
- BLIND FIGHTING increases effectiveness of advancing on or
evading on foes you can't see
- Noble titles: your account/house determines your highest attainable
noble title for each character on your account. Your actual title
is determined by each character's own hero points.
- Fixed a bug where you could increase skills even when failing due
to low stamina
- Four legged animals are harder to bash, trip, sweep, and shihonage
- Ptam doesn't cast Satiate anymore
March 31, 2019
- Paragon corpses will get the correct amount of gold upon death
- You can CONSTRUCT bank and regen rooms again in the same room
to remove them and get a refund. Same for vaultrooms but they have to be
empty.
- Are you interested in helping test? If you are, mudmail Ivy your
email address and she can add you to the new testing email list.
- The WHERE command shows True or False if other players are in the
zone you are currently in regardless if you can see them or not. It
only indicates there is 1 or more other players in the zone other than
yourself. Similarly, msdp variable PC_IN_ZONE indicates the same.
- More text is suppressed when BRIEFCOMBAT is turned on
- You cannot be affected by iceshield, fireshield, and/or shockshield
at the same time
- REGRESS will indicate your Paragon bonus when you estimate rather than
only when you buy
- You can use "mount report" during combat
March 29, 2019
- Some options in the Adventurer's Guild cost less gold
- ABJURE has a higher success rate based on casting level
March 28, 2019
- If the mud crashes, you will re-enter the game at Midgaard Temple
rather than where you were when the mud crashed
- You can purchase "unmaxrank" at the Adventurer's Guild to get the quest
points back for a "maxrank" purchase that you've changed your mind about
- Fixed the disappearing Baker mystery and other mysteriously missing mobs
- K40 characters get to enjoy the not eating Paragon reward
- Fixed an issue with drowning immediately upon losing aqualung. Now you
will swiftly (but not immediately) lose hp to give you time to react.
- You cannot buy more than two vaults per manor
- Wither, Chill Touch, Call of Dis (on a failed save, not vs undead),
Death Fog, Disease, Gust of Wind, Shrieking Souls, and Creeping Death
drain stamina from the victim based on cast level
- Deadcry, Nervestrike, Vitals Punch, Deathstroke, Wail of the Banshee,
Quivering Palm, Hamsring will drain some stamina based on skill rank
- POWER HEAL and SPIRIT OF BUSHIDO replenish stamina
- FEEBLEMIND drains mana the first time it is cast on someone
- Attack speed bonus to SHAPECHANGE and MORTIFY forms increased
March 26, 2019
- Broken vaults have been fixed and restored. If you're missing a vault,
contact Sammy
March 24, 2019
- The Law Enforcer won't attack you if he can't see you
March 17, 2019
- HOMAGE and PRESTIGE implented. You will gain HOMAGE points on your
account based on your highest level above 50 and bonus homage for
PARAGON levels. You can give homage to other players and check how
much you have with the HOMAGE command.
- PRESTIGE will show up on the NOBLE command and shows how much HOMAGE
you have received from other players. This counts toward your total
noble points.
- Fixed targeting failure messages when you are blind and trying to
autojoin group members you can't see
- If you kill something with WITHER and aren't fighting them, you'll
still get the exp if you're in the same room when they die
- Fixed the gnome keysmith shop in Midgaard
- You can't sell previously donated items (but house or clan donated
items are still ok to sell)
- You can CONSTRUCT a donation room in your player house. This is the
room your items will go to when you "donate - house." You also
get some noble points for adding this feature.
- In order to avoid confusion, "vaults" (the storage item like chests
and trunks) are renamed to "case" so that it isn't the same name as
"vault rooms" that save contents through reboots
- Perishable items won't show in shops anymore
- You can charm a higher total levels of followers with CHARM MONSTER
- HOUSE command display simplified a bit
March 15, 2019
- Gold increased on wealthy mobs including giants, dwarves, dragons
kender, duergars, and boss mobs in areas
March 14, 2019
- Fixed crash bug with player shops
- If you lost any house contents recently, please contact an Immortal
for a restore
March 13, 2019
- Race shows up on whois30
March 12, 2019
- You can buy two MAXRANK options with no paragon level requirement
at the Adventurer's Guild
- K4.x characters can buy the Giant race at the Adventurer's Guild
(since they could be Giants in prior eras)
- You can WHOIS some really basic info for Kallisti 3.0 characters
with WHOIS30. Not sure we will provide a converter for that era or not
- Fixed "group" targeting for spells (i.e. 'sanc group' will cast
sanc on all group members. It also works with rank to cast at
a different rank than your max: 'sanc group 3' will cast at rank 3)
- You not get an occasional message when casting without a book or symbol
to let you know cast level is reduced
- SHOPS command added to show a list of player run shops you can VISIT
- You get more nobility points for PARAGON levels
- Clearing your HOUSELOG will create an entry in the house log so you
know the date it was reset
- Help files added for PROBE, TAX, and MAXRANK
March 9, 2019
- The attack steal prevention for high level characters killing mobs
that lower levels have already been fighting plays by the same
rules as grouping so that levels cap at 75 which means that after
level 55, there won't be any kill steal prevention by that mechanism
- WARCRY will replace existing affect if it's better than existing
March 7, 2019
- You can now purchase SHOPS, STABLES, THRONE ROOMS, POSTERN, and
ENTRY rooms in player houses.
Stables - has options to save, resurrect, and heal your mounts
Throne Room - you can PROBE zones to get info (like how many
denizens are there) and TAX to raise money
Shops - you can OFFER (or RETRACT) items for sale to anyone
Entry - where people can visit that aren't on your guest list
kinda works well when combined with a shop
Postern - where you and your guests will enter
- NOBLE command added to show your points toward nobility
- Fixed a bug in fighter mobs that made them always bash when
fighting casters more powerful than themselves
- Being cursed will allow you to recite scrolls about 20% of the time
(rather than 0%)
- You can purchase MaxRank in the Adventurer's Guild to increase
skill ranks over the max trainable at your guild
- Heartseeker special weapon ability shows up on LORE
- Stamina costs lowered on a few skills and songs
- Fixed a bug in summoning followers with spells and sometimes them
not following you
February 27, 2019
- If you are mounted, your mount will switch to and from ranged combat
as you do. This should make using ranged combat on a mount more reliable.
February 25, 2019
- Fixed a bug where if you disconnected after dying, the next time
you connected, you'd enter the room where you died instead of
Midgaard temple
- New skill for Dreadlords - ARMY OF DARKNESS - enabled and shows
on COMBAT and GWHO when in effect
- HP, MANA, and STAMINA commands can be used while you are delayed
- MSDP has variables for opponent stamina
- Two crash bugs fixed
February 21, 2019
- You aren't guaranteed to break out of a combo if you do the next move
in the combo sequence. Chances to break out are based on your rank in
"combination attacks." Also, higher luck makes it easier to luckily
break out of combos.
- Many of the room messages on weapon powers are suppressed to only show
to the user and victim to reduce group combat spam
February 20, 2019
- SCAN updated to same default behavior as before. You can also SCAN a
direction (i.e. scan north) or you can "scan here" to just look in the
current room or you can "scan all" to see all dirs plus your current room
- Fixed a major bug with mob stamina and rate of attacks - as mobs run
out of stamina, their attack rates will dwindle
- GLANCE will show you approximate stamina for a target
- You can DISPLAY OPPONENTSTAMINA to show opponent stamina level on prompt
- Experience to next level goes away from your prompt during combat
(to save space)
- Stamina regenerates faster at really low values
- The stamina cost for bards to play songs when they are out of mana is
significantly reduced and mana cost to play shows on PRACTICE/SKILLS
- If you call or summon a mount, then drop link and reconnect, your
mount will remember who you are and still be bonded to you which
should also deal with issues where your mount steals kills after you
reconnect
- Mounts will more reliably rest, sleep, and stand when you do
- CHARGE does extra damage when mounted
- DIVINE SHIELD works better and has a chance to knock foes down
- CHILL TOUCH saps strength and causes lost attacks at casting level 10
- VISCERA DRAIN benefits the caster as well as groupmates
- Fixed an issue with INTERVENTION causing it to not work most of the time
and fixed the sound trigger [Lilmike / Tux]
- You can purchase additional rooms in your house, up to 12 max
- The HOUSE command will show you all the rooms in your house
- You can purchase an "altar room" in your house which functions
like a prayer room, except cheaper
- More house options coming soon
- When you loot a player corpse for money, you won't autosplit
- You can clanchat (CC) while delayed
- Fixed MSDP GROUP variables [ lilmike ]
- "dirs 0" will send you straight to Mudschool
- HP, MANA, and STAMINA commands added to just show you those values
You can also do "mana percent" to show it as a percent
- Beginner spellbooks (and most other spellbooks) don't cost as much
- Time to idle/void has been extended
- There is a different message when attempting a skill when no target
is specified and you aren't in combat vs specifying a target name
that isn't present
- Fixed a bug where Barbarians would get 0 mana when meta'ing mana
- Werewolves won't force change with the moon after level 50 if you've
forced a change already
- THUMBSUP and THUMBSDOWN socials added
- Magic resistant creatures won't resist quite so much
February 9, 2019
- New Adventurer's Guild options for quest points. You can augment
Monk Gloves punch bonus and increase the frequency of their attacks.
- Monk Glove punch bonus is more effective.
- The frequency of weapon specials (including ranged weapons, monk gloves,
and musical instruments) shows up on LORE and with ESTIMATE so you
know the effects of enhancement.
- SCAN will also scan your current room and you can specify a direction
if you only want to "scan north" for example.
- VISCERA DRAIN reworked. It will only work on evil aligned group
members and splits based on level rather than equal for all recipients.
It also gives more hitpoints than before and you get bonus drain
gains for specific races like trolls, dragons, pixies, immortals,
giants, and werewolves. Expect another tweak to this spell in the near
future.
- ENERGY DRAIN, VAMPIRIC DRAIN, and VISCERA DRAIN all show you how much
hms is gained.
- The circus ticket taker won't dismount you when taking your ticket.
- Fixed an issue with blue weapon naming in rare cases creating garbage
names.
- Two crash bugs fixed.
February 4, 2019
- DISARM has a higher chance of disarming the target weapon to ground
at higher ranks (but items "insured" with qpoints or amplified or
special procs added will still always go to inventory)
- A bunch of additional sounds added
- Fixed an issue with DEATHSTROKE, DEATHKNELL, SMITE, and DRAGONSTRIKE
that wouldn't actually kill the target when target was near dead
- MSDP "group" is an array
February 1, 2019
- 5 hit or more combos set full bash (on butt) rather than partial bash (knees)
- Combos will delay the victim longer based on the length of the combo and/or
the rank of the attacker
January 30, 2019
- Shopkeepers will regenerate more gold than previously and a little more quickly
- There is a new shop in town. The Grunting Boar Stables have added a shop
for mount equipment.
January 29, 2019
- Clan leaders can use the CONSTRUCT command in clan halls
- The CLANSTATS command shows titles for the clan
- Fixed a rare case where CURE wouldn't cure POISON
January 24, 2019
- Clans are available again. If you have 5 unique players, you can start one.
January 22, 2019
- You can optinally specify a lower rank when casting a spell by entering the
rank number at the end of your cast command. Example: 'barkskin bruiser 2'
would cast barkskin on Bruiser as if you had rank 2 instead of your current
max rank
- SYPHON delay when cast outside combat is shorter, when cast during
combat it's longer
- Meta gold costs reduced above level 50
- WRAITHFORM is a little more effective vs bash type skills
- Two handed weapons will trigger special abilities more often
- HASTE spell increases attack speed more dramatically and also adds to reflex
saving throw
- SLOW, ENTANGLE, BLOODLUST, and FEEBLEMIND all have a more dramatic effect
on attack speed
- Duration of STATIC FIELD is longer (and based on casting level)
- Experience division based on level is capped at 75. A group member that
is level 98 will get the same share as someone that is level 75 (but more
than someone that is less than level 75).
- PC corpes will take a lot longer to decay
- VAMPIRIC DRAIN, ENERGY DRAIN, BIND SOUL, SACRIFICE spells cannot be cast
on player corpses unless you are Outlaw
- Help updated for shops and repair shops
January 16, 2019
- Slowed swallow rate down and avoidance is based on dexterity
- Mindblown social added
January 15, 2019
- If you have less than 10% stamina, you'll regen stamina twice as fast until
you get above 10%
January 14, 2019
- HOME command works in the Wizard Astral Lounge
- New sounds added for CREEPING DEATH, SUMMON MOUNT, CALL MOUNT, and gnome
and kender death [ Tux ]
- Fixed a bug with object ownership and casting spells like FOULBLADE, BLESS,
INVISBILITY, etc. on items that were owned by your account.
January 9, 2019
- New proficiency area is in and includes training. Follow directions
to the Refinery or use the new portal from Wasat.
January 8, 2019
- You have a better chance to GRAPPLE mobs higher than level 70. You
have a chance to grapple mobs above level 80. Your chance to grapple
a foe is reduced a bit by how well they know the skill grapple.
- DEFEND uses your stamina correctly (instead of the person you're defending!)
- Werewolves can change at will at level 50+, but when changing manually it
uses stamina. The command to change is WEREWOLF.
- Shapechange spell shows what form you are in on AFFECTS
January 5, 2019
- MORTIFY Lich form will allow for more undead follower levels
- Harvesting and refining materials has a higher chance of success and
food items when refined will have a chance of providing HMS when eaten
- Identify and LORE work on material forges and smelters to let you know
their quality and what materials they operate on
- Crafted items will have better condition to start with
- Scribed scrolls and books, and brewed potions have a higher cast level
(based on person creating the items and quality of the materials used)
- Crafted holy symbols with phylactery work correctly
January 2, 2019
- Fixed issues with object ownership. If you purchase "mediate size" or
insurance for an item, then the item will be owned by your account so any
character on your account can use the item. If you purchase anything else,
the item will be owned by the specific character that purchased it.
- You need RIDE rank 3 to ride flying mounts
- DISGUISE updated to allow you to mimic the name of an NPC of your same race
- "display all" won't turn on "display percent"
- Timepiece affect added to allow certain timekeeping objects to alert you
on ticks if there is no bell within earshot. Timepieces must be in inventory
- MORTIFY forms changed to be more themeatic with undead rather that demonic.
Ghoul replaces hellspawn and Wight replaces demon. Lich improved.
- Damage dice on DEATHKNELL improved
- Fixed issue with RESISTANCE spell when specifying fire resistance
