Recent Changes

05/16

• Guilding from adventurer no longer resets race skills like transform back to 1.

05/15

• Threads moved between trackers and prayer rooms now show up in the destination forum.

05/14

• Approach now re-arms reliably after stepping away.
• GMCP group data now updates for charmies and during combat.

05/12

• Pit loot follows corpse tier rules for 10 minutes after decay, then opens.

05/11

• Clan and guild quest creation no longer stalls the world. Quest target picking is now precomputed and near-instant where it could freeze the game for ~100ms before.
• Quest reward CP scales with travel distance. Far-zone slay quests pay up to 2.5x base; find/give/get scale lower since they involve less risk per hop.
• Gauntlet zones (Winter, Desolation, Discord): non-slay quests blocked, slay quests gated to level 50+. Successful gauntlet slay pays 5x CP on top of the distance bonus, so a max-distance level 50 slay caps at 625 CP.
• Monkey-stance double kick: disruption now announces itself instead of applying silently.
• Drunk speech no longer breaks mob and object speech progs.
• Anoint weapon: damage noun no longer drops on wear-off. Deity-specific procs and bonuses fire reliably.

05/10

• Weapon procs (flaming, shocking, poison, etc) now fire on individual cooldowns instead of all at once.
• Items with a use cooldown now share that cooldown across every copy you carry. Holding three of the same item no longer lets you bypass the timer by rotating through them.

05/09

• Shattering blow can no longer trigger chakera or dragon strike, and can't be defended against
• Dragon stance no longer prints two wear-off messages when it ends
• PK transcripts are preserved when a mob lands the killing blow during a player fight, instead of being lost
• Group tells now reach members who are sleeping, meditating, or stunned
• Items browser: new rarity, weight, and spellforged filters. Filter rows now lay out evenly with consistent control heights, and dropdown checkboxes and tag chips no longer break the layout when the list is long
• Vellichor abilities balanced a little bit more

05/04

• Monthly rare purge fixed. It was missing two thirds of pfiles and abandoned accounts kept their rares forever. Now sweeps everyone, with 30-day and 60-day idle thresholds clearing the activity and newbie shields. Active and NOPURGE accounts unaffected

05/02

• Hometown bug fixed. Adding a new town earlier today bumped everyone's hometown one slot off. Affected players have been remapped
• Faeries and Kaddar can now roll as Rogues
• Speech rewrite. Tells, group tells, says, and yells now share one delivery path. Failed telepathic projections (no mana, no proficiency) are now silent across the board. Recipients see no text, GMCP captures nothing, replay tells records nothing, eavesdrop hears nothing, and mob speech triggers do not fire. Sender still sees the failure message
• Outgoing tells no longer echo back to the sender's GMCP. Naive triggers were treating the echo as if the recipient had just sent a tell. Recipient's incoming-tell packet is unchanged
• Foreign tongues now sound consistent. The same word in the same language always garbles the same way to listeners who don't speak it, so two non-speakers comparing what they heard will see identical text. Hearing a repeat enough times can let a player start picking up vocabulary on their own
• Language proficiency scales fairly. A 70% speaker now comes through roughly 70% clearly instead of the old ~35%. Two skilled parties can hold a real conversation in a shared tongue. Punctuation, capitalization, and short connector words ("I", "to", "of") pass through unchanged
• "note language <tongue>" tags a draft so the body reads as that language. Readers without enough proficiency see it garbled, and the language is surfaced in the note header and list view (or as "foreign" if they have zero proficiency). "note show" exposes the current draft's language
• Re-reading a tagged note can no longer be used to farm comprehension. Each reader sees a stable set of garbled words; improving the language is what reveals more on the next read
• Powerword Fear and Powerword Stun no longer demand a target to cast. Both are room-wide and always have been; the target requirement was a leftover from when only the casting syntax forced one

05/01

• Cabal rosters fixed. The monthly purge was silently dropping members during cleanup, leaving cabals appearing empty in stat and cabal info
• GMCP clients now receive a World.Moons package with each moon's phase index and phase name plus the eclipse, triad, and near-alignment flags. Updates push when a phase changes, not on every tick

04/30

• You can't create multiple corpses of yourself anymore
• Quitting with overlimit will now list rares you will lose

04/28

• Shield cleave's off-hand axe bonus now writes to the off-hand chance instead of the main-hand chance, and the minotaur racial extra on the off-hand now matches the main-hand size. Off-hand axe wielders were silently feeding their bonus to the main hand and minotaurs got double the racial extra they should have
• Headbutt shield penetration now scales with attacker's strength versus the defender's intelligence, same shape as the haymaker fix. The check used to invert at high STR, so a raging berserker had a worse chance to break through than a plain melee
• Loan offers from a Merchant now display a red warning that defaulting brings a Syndicate collector who does not negotiate. The same warning shows again when you list pending offers with 'loan show'
• Defaulting on a loan no longer changes who can attack you in PK. Level and exp ranges are the same as for everyone else
• A Syndicate killer of a defaulter clears the debt outright. No more partial gold seizure or lingering bounty after the kill
• Each Syndicate enforcer that hunts the same defaulter is tougher than the last, with a cap after several visits

04/27

• The seers who scry for obelisks and starstones now name the actual area where the relic stands instead of a random nearby area
• Charmed mobs no longer wander back to their spawn point while their master is out of the area. They hold position until the charm ends, and the original post-charm aggression behavior still kicks in once the bond breaks
• Custom affect shortlist now tracks gen-effect spells like firestorm. Adding 'affect 1 frs firestorm' now shows the live duration once firestorm is up
• Items that exclude your race or class no longer let you carry them past a soft message. Pickup, give, loot, and recover all zap the item to the room. Trying to wear one already in inventory zaps it the same way
• Veined stones picked up while Dyphrities is high now trigger their effect. The pickup and the seed paths use the same condition now

04/26

• Fixed a server crash that could trigger during cabal area updates and put the MUD into a restart loop

04/25

• Werebeast and vampire transform forms now keep their gear-derived hitroll and damroll. The form's own bonuses stack on top instead of replacing them, and reverting from the form restores the gear stats correctly

04/24

• PK fight share refuses to post when the sharer's own point of view was never recorded. Without this, the form silently fell back to the victim's transcript
• PK detail page: snipped sections you expand on the fight page now carry over to the share preview when you click Share to Forum, so the sections you wanted to keep visible end up in the post

04/23

• Fixed a stat-drift bug where hitroll and damroll could creep out of sync during long sessions with many weapon swaps or buff expirations. Totals are now recomputed from your current affects each time they're read, so the numbers on your score sheet always match what your gear and buffs actually provide
• Account character select now shows the last-played date next to each character, so you can see at a glance which characters have been idle longest
• Storm giants now gain a small skill boost while standing in an area during a lightning storm. More weather-linked race affects are on the way
• Lightning strikes and other weather hazards now skip players below level 10, so newbies aren't randomly zapped in the middle of a storm
• Item database redesign
• New %f prompt codes show ticks remaining on your aff list slots. %f1 through %f9 map to positions 1-9, %f0 maps to position 10. Empty or inactive slots show -, permanent affects show ~
• Two new prompt codes. %S shows your current position (std, sit, rst, slp, fgt, stn, inc, mor, dea). %j<n> shows the phase of moon n - %j1 Lysenties, %j2 Nercuros, %j3 Dyphrities - as a three-letter code (new, wax, Hwx, Gwx, FUL, Gwn, Hwn, wan), or - if the moon is dormant
• Items page: damage noun filter, hover-only copy button on raw identify, and the compare page now shows arrows between items pointing to the better value on each row

04/22

• Tick lag is fixed. Characters with 800+ items in their inventory no longer slow down the MUD. Saves now only rewrite the parts of a character that actually changed since last tick, instead of periodically rewriting every inventory, skill, and affect from scratch. Expect smoother command response from everyone, with the biggest improvement felt by characters hoarding a lot of gear
• New "tome search <term>" subcommand searches every tome in the Library by title, author, or body text and lists matches as subject#/tome# pairs so you can read the hits with the existing "tome <subject> <tome>" syntax. Useful for finding which tome covers a topic without paging through every subject. Search needs at least 2 characters and caps at 60 hits before suggesting you refine
• New score sheet now shows your Avatar level description at the bottom of the frame, matching the old score layout
• New "quit menu" (also "quit char" or "quit character") returns you to your account character select instead of disconnecting completely. Plain "quit" still disconnects as before. Requires your character to be linked to an account

04/21

• Rare items in your inventory are no longer stripped during a crash, server reboot, connection drop, or autosave. The only ways to lose excess rares are typing "quit" twice through the overlimit warning, or going idle long enough to be voided out. In either case the excess will fade away as you log off
• Seasonal temperature now cycles cleanly across the six-month year. Life, Nature, and Balance trend warm, while Chaos, Death, and Order trend cold, with Death coldest and Nature warmest. Transitions between months ease day by day instead of snapping at the boundary
• Anoint weapon now correctly applies the paladin's chosen deity. Purity, Compassion, Tranquility, Mystic, Guile, Greed, and Nature anoints had been silently falling through to the generic faith proc since last weekend; the wielder's deity's proc now fires as intended

04/19

• Hide and camouflage can now be used in any outdoor sector when the room is foggy, even if that sector would normally refuse the attempt. When the fog lifts, characters who were only concealed thanks to the fog step out of hiding automatically. Hiding in a sector that naturally supports the skill is unaffected
• New 'celsius' toggle converts the weather temperature in your prompt (the %w character) from Fahrenheit to Celsius. Type celsius to toggle; your setting persists across logins
• Weather now varies by climate region. The continent is divided into Temperate, Coastal (North and South), Desert, Tundra, and Mountain (North, South, and East) zones, and each zone runs its own pressure, sky, and precipitation loop. Casting control weather in one cluster no longer shifts the sky in geographically distant clusters of the same climate
• Control weather's per-cast magnitude now scales with the caster's level. A level 50 caster moves the sky meaningfully faster than a level 20 caster, while the brief cooldown between casts still prevents spamming
• Neutral characters can now apply directly to the Merchant subcabal. The Syndicate parent cabal continues to refuse neutral applications, but Merchant has always been open to them and the app command now routes to it correctly

04/18

• Undead NPCs no longer benefit from the player regen bonus for HP, mana, and movement
• GMCP clients no longer receive say channel events for sleeping characters
• GMCP Char.Worth now reports the character's current cabal (or "none" if uncabaled)
• Fixed destroyed rare items staying counted against their world limit until next reboot, which could leave mob drops stuck as echoes even after a slot had freed up
• Fixed disintegrate temporarily giving more max HP back than it took when the spell wore off
• Fixed armorcraft modifications corrupting item stats when a skill bonus and an AC bonus shared the same internal ID. This could cause AC to disappear and skill bonuses to inflate
• Fixed phantom spell wear-off messages (fear, dirt kick, rage) appearing after completing an armor or weapon modification

04/17

• New donations page at /donate with a live progress tracker for monthly server costs. Every Ko-fi donation logs automatically and appears on the page within a few minutes. Donations are anonymous.
• Donate link added to the site header on every page.

04/16

• Haymaker shield penetration now scales with attacker's strength versus the defender's intelligence

04/14

• GMCP chat channel now includes immortal and imp channels, marks tells and replies with sent/received direction, and honors language comprehension. Non-speakers of the language see the garbled text with language:"foreign" just like their terminal output
• Nearby-players are no longer emitted on the GMCP minimap so that client maps don't act as a passive radar. Use scan or where to locate other players, same as before
• Fixed mobs with assist-players flags attacking themselves when dirt-kicked or otherwise ambushed. They now correctly skip themselves when deciding whether to join an ally's fight
• Fixed Open Palm monks seeing a spurious "You have not empowered your offensive abilities!" message when storing chii or firing a bolt in defensive stance

04/13

• Fixed GMCP affects list showing songs under the wrong name (e.g. a bagatelle appearing as "control weather"). Songs now report the correct song name and are tagged as songs so client UIs can distinguish them from spells
• GMCP minimap data now includes per-room area, light level, room flags (shop/bank/trainer/healer/safe), door state, destination vnums, and visible players. Client minimaps can draw zone tints, room icons, and groupmate dots
• GMCP Char.Worth now reports cabal points and roleplay points alongside gold/exp/trains

04/12

• Fixed garbled warcry and yell text occasionally bleeding into unrelated messages
• Bug reports, typo reports, and tracker topics are now fully anonymous to non-immortals across forum index, topic lists, and topic views
• Open Palm monks can now store chii (and therefore fire bolts) while in defensive empowerment, completing the path's chii-in-defensive kit

04/09

• Fixed paladin flamestrike holy vulnerability bonus incorrectly applying to magic-vulnerable targets
• Paladins now get kick
• New paladin spell: anoint weapon
• Fixed database save performance issue causing lag spikes

04/07

• Paladin class improvements:
  • Goliath is now permanent and can be summoned indoors
  • Added axe and flail weapon skills
  • Lay on hands can now be used on yourself
  • Heroism now grants strength, saves, and immunity to fear and hysteria
  • Virtuous light AC bonus increased by 50%
  • Flamestrike damage significantly increased, now strikes holy vulnerability, and has a higher chance to blind evil targets
• Mounted combat improvements:
  • Mounted charge now bypasses counter
  • One-handed spear works with mounted charge (at reduced damage), allowing spear and shield
  • Being mounted on Goliath now halves lag from bash, bodyslam, grapple, and thrust
  • Push is half as likely to succeed against a mounted paladin
  • Thrust no longer dismounts paladins from Goliath
• More paladin changes to come soon
• Animate corpse limited to one zombie and cannot raise corpses above level 40
• Flurry of blades no longer throws on murder or when opponent flees
• Fixed bone spear showing duplicate combat echo to victim

04/05

• The Hollow Hunt has begun. Ancient stones have surfaced across the wilderness. Crack one open and see what fate has in store for you.

04/04

• Something stirs in Arcanus Mortis. The dead grow stronger.
• Chii bolt now has lag on miss.
• Rogue vanish now trains at the same rate as ninja.
• Fixed a crash caused by retaliatory damage during the blades spell.
• Tracker and typo report submissions no longer reveal the poster's name to other players.
• Viewing a forum topic now automatically clears its notification.
• Fixed PK log display snipping kill messages and post-kill text.

04/03

• Chii aura reworked.
• Chii surge damage now scales with the number of stored chii bolts.
• Flowing River redirect now only triggers on dodge, no longer on parry. Trigger rate reduced and now factors in dexterity and level difference.
• Fixed a bug where psionicist memorized spells were forgotten on quit.
• Fixed a display bug where stats could show as 00 on the score sheet when gear pushed a stat more than 9 points above its cap.
• Single newlines in forum posts and wiki pages now produce line breaks.

04/02

• All players can now view their own PK logs on the website.
• Shadows can no longer thrust.
• The web client now supports \; to escape semicolons, allowing players to create multi-command aliases in game.

04/01

• Fixed a bug where moderate undead characters had their corpse disintegrate on PvP death when killed by a hardcore player.
• Dragon stance cooldown no longer shows as "reserved" in affects.
• Dragon stance now tells you when the HP bonus is on cooldown.
• Flowing River redirect messages are now merged into the parry or dodge that triggers them, instead of showing as a separate line.

03/30

• Kaddar mana shield no longer has a cold exception, and kaddar can now touch cold and ice items.

03/28

• Fixed a bug where adventurers were not taking hunger or thirst damage.

03/27

• Dragon stance HP bonus now has a 12-hour cooldown, preventing repeated healing by cycling in and out of the stance.

03/25

• Kaddar no longer have a vulnerability to cold.
• Fixed a bug where quest sequences could fail on blinded players.
• Lich phylactery power now properly reduces attacker accuracy at high power levels, as originally intended.
• Lich phylactery threshold messages now trigger correctly whether the phylactery is held or carried in inventory.
• Liches no longer have biological organs. Death scenes reflect their undead nature.
• Monk path skills now improve through use: shattering blow, chii surge, redirect, and flowing defense.
• Rogue push now properly treats closed doors as obstructions, slamming the target into them instead of ignoring them.
• Failed pushes into walls and doors now have the rogue crash into the obstruction with appropriate feedback.

03/23

• Firbolg is now a playable race. A good aligned large race with a deep connection to the forests. They can be warriors, clerics, healers, paladins, rangers, druids, monks, battlemages, and bards.
• Firbolg are the only race that can walk the path of the druid as a force for good.
• Firbolg regenerate faster while in the forests.
• Firbolg battlemages cannot enlarge themselves.
• Chii aura damage has been increased.

03/22

• Monks have received a significant class rework.
• Monk hit rate has been improved to match paladins and rangers.
• All stance activations now succeed if you meet the requirements.
• Chii circulation and storage no longer fail randomly. Bolt firing is more reliable for trained monks.
• Empowerment switching between offensive and defensive is now instant with no cooldown.
• Monks now gain a passive damage bonus through training called inner focus, available at level 20.
• Offensive stances now influence chakra strike chance. Crane stance has the highest potential. Defensive stances can now land chakra strikes that apply lag but no extra damage.
• Buddha stance can now land chakra lag through protective shield.
• Horse stance counter hits can no longer be blocked, parried, or dodged.
• Non monks defend less effectively against monk hand to hand attacks.
• At level 35, monks may now choose one of three paths of mastery through the select command. Each path grants unique abilities at levels 35, 40, and 45, along with a new title at level 50.
• Sleep has been reworked across the board. All sleep effects now use a wake up curve where the chance to wake increases each tick. Different sources of sleep wear off at different rates.
• Rest in Peace can no longer be immediately reapplied after wearing off.
• Herbs now correctly display their spell level in the items lookup.
• Rogue assassin study now works as intended outside of combat, matching the ninja version.
• Quest display order no longer reverses on each login.
• Monk second hand parry rebalanced. Defensive mode now matches shield block rate. Offensive mode matches dual parry rate.

03/20

• Assassin rogues can now properly throw their shurikens.
• RP points for active play no longer accumulate while logged off.
• RP points for challenging kills (mob 5+ levels above you) now correctly reset their daily count, allowing up to 3 per day again after the first day.

03/18

• Fixed BUFFER size field overflow that caused an infinite loop when replay output exceeded 16KB

03/17

• Replay now shows the last 200 messages per channel instead of the entire history, fixing a freeze that could occur when replaying channels with thousands of stored messages.
• Fixed a crash caused by large outputs exceeding the memory allocator's size limit.
• Refactored class skill data into compact per-class lists, making it easier to add or modify classes in the future.
• Hunting mobs no longer search thousands of rooms across the world to find their target. Mobs that lose sight of prey in a different area will now track the scent and appear in the area after a short delay, then resume hunting locally.
• Area-bound mobs (sentinels, shopkeepers, etc.) will now give up the hunt if their target leaves the area instead of fruitlessly searching.
• Area-bound mobs now return to their post after giving up a chase instead of getting stranded where they lost the trail.
• These changes should significantly reduce server lag spikes caused by mob pathfinding.
• Overhauled the socket (gem) system to fix long-standing corruption issues. Searing might, weapon modification, enchanting, and blood vow no longer destroy or corrupt socketed gems. Existing characters with socketed items will be automatically migrated on login.

03/16

• Fixed potential crashes in the sign, draft, print, write, and forgery commands caused by unsafe string handling.
• Migrated disabled commands, socials, mud data, clans, cabals, and armies from flat files to SQLite for crash safety.

03/12

• Fixed the 'plant' command being unreachable because 'planttraps' shadowed it in the command table. Both commands now work.
• Reworked mechanist bomb system. Alchemical and shrapnel bombs now check the bomb's material against the target's vulnerabilities, the same way thrown knives and daggers do.
• Smoke bombs now properly check against saves before applying their effect, instead of landing automatically.
• Flash bombs reworked into an area effect. The flash hits all enemies in the room (not grouped allies), with a saving throw to resist.
• Bomb damage messages now display the correct bomb type instead of the generic "bomb" noun.
• Plant traps completely reworked. Mechanists can now sabotage a sleeping victim's equipment with six different trap types: trip wire (legs), slick shoes (feet), false teeth (face), flash oil (light), shredded straps (shield), and slippy grips (hands). Each trap triggers under specific conditions and has a unique effect. Detect traps reveals compromised items. Type 'planttraps' for details.
• Plant traps no longer comes pre-mastered when learned.

03/11

• Mobs now properly respect skill lag. Previously, a mob could trip you one round and then immediately bash you the next round because their skill cooldown was being cleared too quickly. Now mobs wait the same amount of time between skills that players do (about two rounds).
• Fixed sheath detection not working with double sheath. If you had a single weapon sheathed (for example, double sheathed from inventory), the game did not recognize you as having your weapons put away. This could cause issues with combat checks that look at whether your weapons are drawn or sheathed.
• Fixed a bug where looking at someone's equipment always showed the right sheath slot, even if the sheath type was supposed to be hidden.
• Fixed Tribunal members not seeing the "weapon is DRAWN" warning when looking at someone who had double sheathed a weapon. If you had any weapon stored in a sheath slot, the drawn weapon warning was suppressed even if you were still actively wielding another weapon.

03/10

• Re-casting malform weapon now provides more experience per cast, bringing leveling pace in line with inner peace for holy weapons.

03/09

• Rogue thac0 (hit accuracy) brought in line with thief and ninja.
• Halfling, duergar, gnome, and dwarf can now select the rogue class.
• Gnome mechanists craft superior traps that are harder to dodge, detect, and defuse than any other race.

03/08

• Fixed item search and comparison features on the website.
• Item comparison now correctly color-codes stats: green for better, red for worse. AC armor values show higher as better, and saving throws show lower as better.
• Fixed plant traps displaying broken damage messages due to a missing damage noun.

03/07

• The website has been redesigned with a cleaner layout, improved navigation, and a new sidebar for browsing forum categories.
• The landing page now shows a unified activity feed with recent forum posts, wiki edits, and bug reports at a glance.
• Added a help file browser to the website. You can now search and read all in-game help files from your browser.
• Added item comparison. Select two or more items from your characters and compare their stats side by side.
• Added a notification system. You now receive notifications for replies to your forum topics, mentions in posts, and other activity.
• Typing @ in a forum post now shows an autocomplete dropdown of matching player names for easy mentions.
• The bug report form now includes a character dropdown so your report is automatically tagged with the right character.
• Forum search results have been redesigned with a cleaner card layout.
• Working on PK transcripts. This should be available to the public soon.
• Fixed a bug where PK transcripts could be lost if a player quit before the bout timer fired.
• Fixed a bug where opponents could sometimes see each other's PK transcript POV.
• Malforms can now gain experience to Level 4, similar to crusader's Inner Calm, using the same ritual they used to create the malform in the first place.

03/06

• Fixed a bug where language you couldn't understand would appear as a single garbled word instead of separate garbled words matching the original sentence structure.
• Fixed partial language comprehension rounding so words are no longer lost to truncation at moderate skill levels.

03/04

• Rogue throw damage has been rebalanced. Rogues no longer add damroll to each thrown knife, and the maximum number of knives per throw has been reduced from 5 to 3.
• Flurry of Blades auto-throw has been toned down. Maximum knives per round reduced from 4 to 2, and damroll is no longer added per knife.
• Bug reports submitted in-game now properly post to the forum for all players with linked accounts, not just those who logged in through the account menu.

03/03

• Fixed a bug where renaming a player created a ghost copy of their old name in the database.
• Added 256-color auto-detection for MUD clients. Players using clients that support TTYPE negotiation (Mudlet, CMUD, MUSHclient, etc.) will automatically get the full 256-color experience. Clients that don't support TTYPE will be asked on connect whether they support 256-color.
• Added 'color 256' toggle to enable or disable 256-color mode in-game. When disabled, 256-color codes are mapped to the nearest basic 16-color equivalent, so the game is still playable on simpler clients without garbled output.
• The web client now automatically identifies as a 256-color terminal.

03/02

• Mobs now respect lag (wait state) the same way players do. After using bash, trip, kick, or dirt kick, mobs must wait for the cooldown before using another offensive ability.
• Enabled TCP_NODELAY on player connections to reduce network micro-lag.

03/01

• Forum posts now show an "OP" badge next to the topic creator's name.
• Added user avatars to forum posts and profile pages. Upload yours from your profile page or /settings/avatar.
• Master Questor title now transfers to the next highest online player when the current holder logs off, instead of persisting indefinitely.

02/28

• Fixed long-standing cleave bug which leaned more on victims stats versus attackers stats.
• Player snapshots are now created on every quit and once every 24 hours for online players, restoring the safety net that was accidentally removed on Feb 21.

02/27

• Bug tracker and prayer room forums now have a "Mark All Read" button.
• Cleaned up legacy [BUG] prefixes from bug report titles.

02/26

• Rogue class now displays correctly on forum profiles instead of "Unknown"
• Deleting the last post in a forum thread now automatically removes the empty thread
• Moderators can now hide and unhide individual forum topics and posts
• The web client now keeps your MUD connection alive when your phone screen locks or your browser briefly disconnects. If you reconnect within 5 minutes, you pick up right where you left off with no lost output.
• Auto-reconnect: if the connection drops unexpectedly, the client will automatically try to reconnect with increasing delays.
• Added quick command buttons on mobile (N/S/E/W/U/D, look, inv, score, who, flee) for easier play without a keyboard.
• The web client can now be installed as an app on your phone via "Add to Home Screen" for a fullscreen standalone experience.
• Rogue weapon poisons no longer decay over time. Envenom and second strain coatings now only wear off through use in combat.
• Room vnum limit raised from 32K to 100K, giving builders much more room to work with.
• Fixed envenom refunding more mana than it cost when used on already-envenomed weapons.

02/25

• Toxin duration on darts has been significantly increased. Primary envenom now lasts reliably instead of sometimes wearing off after 1-2 rounds due to bad luck rolls. Lotus Scourge envenom lasts even longer. Second strain duration has been quadrupled.
• Mana cost for envenom and secondstrain reduced from 50 to 25 each (100 to 50 total for fully coated darts).
• Applying a second strain no longer breaks hiding or camouflage, matching envenom behavior.
• Admins can now generate one-time password reset links for players who have forgotten their passwords. Links expire after 24 hours and can be revoked from the admin dashboard.
• Fixed study strike not triggering in combat for rogues.

02/24

• Blowgun darts can now be partially blocked by projectile defenses (missile shield, shield lore, shield expert, iron curtain, bloodhaze, two-handed expertise, Quick Feet). Each defense has a 30% chance to negate the dart damage, but poison always gets through regardless.
• Reworked the stow command. You can now use 'stow all' to put away everything at once. Fixed several crash bugs related to saving and loading stow settings.
• Stow now works with assign labels, so you can target specific bags even when you have multiple copies. Use 'assign bag heals' then 'stow potions bag' and it remembers which bag you meant.
• Cleaned up the assign command. Labels are now displayed in grey instead of modifying the item's name keywords.

02/23

• Limited items on mobs now show an (Echo) tag and won't drop when killed if the item is over its world limit. Mobs still visually carry their full loadout so you know what they normally have.
• Fixed a long-standing issue where limited items stored in bags would slowly duplicate over time.
• Fixed item limit counts being massively inflated after repeated world shifts.
• The who list now displays immortals and mortals under themed section headers.
• Toxicologist poisons (lotus scourge, blackspore, nettle essence) can now be cured by cure poison, esuna, and antidote, though they are significantly harder to remove than normal poison.
• Esuna can now attempt to remove all toxicologist debuffs including second strain effects.
• Scouring serum doubles the difficulty of curing toxicologist poisons with cure poison and esuna.
• Toxicologists now learn the antidote skill at level 15.

02/22

• Items that are over their world limit now show a (Faded) tag when viewed on mobs or in rooms.
• Added 'olimit' immortal command to check which limited items are over their world count.
• Jutsu now works for rogue pugilists.
• Bomb making now works properly and can create all four bomb types: flash, smoke, alchemical, and shrapnel. Bomb throw lets you pick which type to throw.
• Replaced unicode characters in the login screen with ASCII for better client compatibility.
• GMCP no longer leaks room, map, or exit data when blinded by veil of darkness, forest mist, burrow, or rhapsody of delusion. Rhapsody now sends fake GMCP data to match its in-game illusion.
• Flurry of blades now applies a "riddled" debuff to targets, reducing their dodge chance by 3 per stack (up to 5 stacks). Stacks refresh on each hit and wear off after 2 ticks.
• Flurry of blades now improves with use.
• Rogues can now preserve herbs.
• Tolerance now prevents drug addiction from smoking herbs.
• Crash reports now include full stack traces in crash.txt for faster debugging.
• Fixed several crashes related to GMCP affect updates and push into death traps.
• GMCP affect list now correctly shows GEN-based effects (minister, gatestone, etc.) by name.
• Each rogue toxin (lotus scourge, blackspore, nettle essence) now shows unique flavor text when it poisons an enemy, instead of the generic "poison coursing through your veins" message.
• Improved secondary toxin landing messages.
• Dart bundles now say "darts left in this bundle" instead of "charges remaining" when examined.
• GMCP clients now receive structured data for affects, combat targets, group members, economy, world time, chat channels, and room contents.
• Web client now shows affects, combat target, group, chat, room contents, gold/tnl, and weather.
• Side panel split into map (top) and tabs for room, group, and chat (bottom).
• Affect pills deduplicate spells with multiple sub-affects (e.g. warcry).
• Combat target bar appears above the input during fights with name, condition, and HP gauge.
• Room name and time/weather shown below the map in the side panel.
• Smoke bomb rework: now strips detect hidden and detect invis spells from the target, letting rogues stay concealed after the blind wears off.
• Smoke bomb now defaults to your current enemy if no target is specified.
• A missed smoke bomb now aggros the target without launching a full attack.
• Backstab, prone strike, and assassinate now bypass predict, mantis stance, and Lucky Bastard if the target is blinded by a smoke bomb.
• Rogues now correctly use standard throw instead of the warrior throw.

02/21

• Fixed wide tables on the wiki overflowing the page — they now scroll horizontally instead.
• Item database now supports filtering by extra flags (magic, evil, socketable, epic, etc.).
• Item database now has an "Identify Search" field that searches across the full identify text.
• Item detail pages now show spellforged spell names and hidden affects (e.g. flying).
• Blowgun dart bundles now contain roughly double the darts (20-33 at max skill, up from 10-16).
• Darts crafted from limited/rare items now include the material name (e.g. "iron blowgun darts").
• Fixed stat/offline stat not finding newly-created characters after dcheck submission.
• Dcheck submission now saves the character immediately.
• Added 'dcheck' as a settable flag (set char <name> act2 dcheck).
• Fixed periodic lag spikes caused by database operations during autosave.
• Blackspore asphyxiation damage on expiry now correctly credits the toxicologist.
• Fixed forum usernames showing old character names instead of account names.
• Fixed a bug where characters could skip an attack round when initiating or joining combat.
• Character renames now preserve account links, pkill history, charnotes, and all other player data.
• Added 'account rename' command for immortals to rename accounts.
• Examining blowgun darts now shows applied toxins and second strains.
• Envenom no longer costs mana when used on an item that can't be envenomed.
• Fixed login sessions not persisting when switching between www and non-www URLs.

02/20

• Players can now submit bug reports from the website at /bugs/report
• New "My Bug Reports" page at /bugs lets players track their submitted bugs and see status updates
• Wiki admins can now move/rename pages (old URLs auto-redirect)
• Wiki admins can lock pages to prevent mortal edits
• Wiki admins can soft-delete and restore pages
• Fixed a bug where defenders could lose their first combat round after assisting in a previous fight.
• Fixed ninjas being unable to use 'poison' command after rogue class was introduced.
• Fixed a crash when looking at a character with a tarot affect while having detect magic.

02/19

• Toxicologist poison fix: envenom now supports 9 named poison types across 3 categories (Immunotoxins, Biotoxins, Neurotoxins).
• New 'secondstrain' command for toxicologists to apply a secondary poison coating to blowgun darts.
• Each poison type has unique combat effects: damage-over-time variants, resistance stripping, mana drain, movement penalties, and more.
• Blowgun hit chance now properly uses the blowgun skill.
• GMCP room names no longer contain raw color codes — clients receive clean text.
• Fixed code blocks from old forum posts not converting properly during migration.
• Forum login now correctly matches accounts even when character names differ from forum usernames.
• Added 'forumadmin link' command for immortals to link orphaned forum accounts to MUD accounts.
• The website now shows live MUD status — online/offline indicator, player count, and uptime in the navbar and landing page.
• Fixed skills sharing a name prefix (e.g. "plant" and "plant traps") not being usable or practicable in tandem.
• Fixed Master Questor title sometimes going to the wrong player after login.
• Fixed a bug where dying would delete your character from the database instead of saving correctly
• Fixed corpses and junk objects accumulating on the ground across reboots
• Restructured forum categories: Community, Player Tools, and Immortal Only sections
• Added anonymous Shoutouts forum — all posts appear as "Anonymous", immortals can see real authors
• Bug reports are now private until marked Fixed or Closed — only the author and immortals can see unfixed bugs
• Announcements forum is now read-only for players (immortal-only posting)
• Rewrote forum migration tool to import directly from the old forum database
• Improved HTML-to-Markdown conversion for migrated posts
• Fixed strangle being completely unusable for all classes due to an internal numbering conflict.
• Fixed strangle displaying "!strangle!" in combat miss messages.
• Deleted and permadeath characters are now properly removed from the database.
• Fingering a graveyard character no longer re-saves them into the active player database.
• Fixed bounty markers ($) not appearing in the who list for Syndicate members.
• Fixed items inside bags disappearing after reboot while their weight remained.
• Fixed rogue path skill grants: mechanists no longer receive throw, assassins no longer receive blindness dust (they have smoke bomb instead).
• Mechanists now properly receive the traps skill when selecting their path.
• Grapple is now exclusive to the pugilist path instead of being available to all rogues.
• Dirt kicking is now granted at path selection for mechanist, pugilist, and toxicologist only.

02/18

• Merchant 'sale' command now shows item type, wear slot, and numbered items in a paged display.
• New 'inspect <merchant> <#>' command lets you identify a merchant's for-sale items before buying.
• Merchant shops are now browsable at loan offices even when the merchant is offline.
• At a loan office, 'inspect' with no arguments shows a directory of all merchants with items for sale.
• Fixed a bulletin exploit that could crash the game.
• Rogue is now a playable class! Thief and ninja can no longer be selected for new characters. Existing thieves and ninjas can continue playing as normal.
• Rogues now have a full title progression from level 1-50, with path-specific titles at level 50 for pugilist, rogue assassin, mechanist, and toxicologist.
• Fixed character deletion not actually removing the character from the database — deleted characters could previously log back in.
• Fixed necromancer title on level-up using the wrong title function.
• Pets and charmed followers now attack immediately when joining combat instead of waiting a round.
• Fixed player files from the old server causing errors on login (SSpicked array size mismatch and Pkill entries).
• Fixed the garble spell/PLR_GARBLE flag not scrambling speech.
• Fixed language comprehension being harder than intended (double-rolled check).
• Fixed Comprehend Languages spell not properly boosting language improvement chance.
• Fixed yelling and group tells improving the speaker's language skill instead of the listener's.
• Every language now has a distinct sound when you can't understand it.
• GMCP map now correctly handles exits that lead to non-adjacent rooms (self-loops, overlapping areas, randomized exits). These exits show as small arrow indicators instead of drawing corridors into empty space.
• Web client no longer auto-reconnects on disconnect. A "Connect" button appears instead, letting you reconnect when ready.
• The web minimap now shows ghosted rooms on floors above and below your current floor, plus small up/down arrow indicators on rooms with vertical exits.
• The worldmap detail view now supports multi-floor areas with floor navigation buttons and keyboard shortcuts (arrow up/down). Adjacent floors appear as ghosted tiles.
• The 'replay clear' command is back! Use 'replay clear <channel>' to clear your replay buffer for any channel (tells, group, says, cabal, clan, faction, new, imm, imp).

02/17

• Added a browser-based MUD client at /play — connect and play directly from the website with no client download required.
• The client features a full terminal emulator with color support, command history, and a vitals bar showing HP, Mana, and Move.
• The web client now features a resizable minimap panel on the right side, showing terrain and exits as you explore.
• Fixed password input being visible when typing in the web client.
• Fixed room names showing raw color codes in the web client vitals bar.
• Removed color from the [Exits: ...] line in room descriptions.
• The web client now has a dedicated input box, so typed commands no longer disappear when the game sends output. Supports word wrap, command history, and auto-grows for long commands.
• Forum and wiki posts now support mudlog blocks — paste MUD output in a code fence and it auto-colorizes damage, prompts, exits, communication, and more.
• Mudlog blocks now auto-colorize healing, experience, group, object interaction, and spell incantation lines for better log readability.
• Item database now supports area filtering, sortable columns (click headers), and class/race restriction filters.
• Added an interactive world map page at /map on the website.
• Explore the full world of Aabahran as a colored ASCII atlas.
• Click any area name to zoom into a detailed terrain view of that area.

02/15

• Added a searchable item database to the website — browse and search all game items by name, type, level, wear slot, and affects.

02/14

• Fixed award system bugs: awards now save immediately instead of waiting for autosave, skill awards are now recorded in your award history, and award list pagination works correctly for all characters.
• Awarding 0 RP for a history now properly marks it as reviewed.
• Weather now mechanically affects the world — rain, snow, and storms create muddy, icy, foggy, blizzard, and sandstorm conditions in outdoor rooms based on sector type and temperature.
• Muddy and icy ground increases movement cost and makes you easier to trip. Ice and sandstorms make parrying harder. Blizzards, sandstorms, mud, and ice all reduce dodge effectiveness.
• Fog and blizzards provide cover for sneaking, hiding, and camouflage.
• Scan range is reduced during fog, blizzards, and sandstorms.
• Lightning may strike players in exposed areas (fields, hills, mountains, water) during thunderstorms.
• Weather conditions are visible when you look at a room, and you'll see messages when conditions change.
• Balance point system now covers all equippable items (jewelry, clothing, treasure, etc.), not just weapons/armor/sockets.
• The 'obalance' list now aligns columns correctly for items with colored names.
• The 'obalance <vnum>' breakdown now shows the item name in the header.
• Fixed a bug where spellforge scoring could incorrectly trigger on items with no real spellforge spell.
• Fixed balance system not seeing affects loaded from area files (hitroll, damroll, skills, etc. were silently ignored).
• Positive skill bonuses (parry, dodge, etc.) are now scored by the balance system.
• Fixed prog-based transfer commands (e.g. pulling a rope) sometimes grabbing the wrong mob from across the MUD instead of the intended player. The local room is now checked first.
• Fixed Master Questor announcements sometimes showing a garbled/wrong player name when no eligible questor was found.
• The spawn fragment ability now properly removes your shield before equipping the split blade, preventing a dual-wield + shield conflict.
• Fixed a bug where grouping with a Hero or Adventurer leader would prevent other group members from picking up rare items.
• Fixed a bug where murder/kill could grant a double combat round (~8% chance per command). Autoassist also no longer double-rounds on the initiating tick.
• Renown weapon disarm now actually drops the weapon to the ground instead of giving it right back to the victim.
• Fixed a crash caused by the cabal promotion system loading offline players with corrupted stats due to a database column ordering bug
• Added item balance point system to OLC. Builders now see a real-time point breakdown when editing weapons, armor, and sockets. Non-Creator builders are blocked from saving over-budget items. Use 'obalance' to audit all existing objects for balance violations.
• Edges system overhaul: edges are now data-driven and loaded from the game database, making it easier to add and balance edges going forward
• Rebalanced edge costs — most edges now cost 20-40 RP (down from 50-150), and level requirements have been lowered across the board
• Added 12 new edges for casters, healers, rogues, and general utility: Spell Mastery, Efficient Channeling, Arcane Reservoir, Spell Penetration, Compassionate Touch, Divine Favor, Martyr's Resolve, Shadow Step, Lucky Strike, Merchant's Eye, Veteran Explorer, and Endurance
• New RP income sources: earn +1 RP every 2 hours of active play, +1 RP on first login each day, and +1 RP for killing mobs 5+ levels above you (up to 3 per day)

02/13

• Added web forum with Dockerized deployment, Invision migration, bug tracker, and prayer room
• Forum now supports character switching — post as any of your alts
• User profile pages show all characters on an account and recent posts
• New in-game 'forumlink' command generates a one-time code to log into the forum
• Room descriptions no longer display in a specific color (reverted to default)
• Helps and tomes now stored in a separate game database that ships with the code, so game content is preserved across server updates.

02/12

• Added fprompt command: set a separate prompt that displays during combat (e.g. 'fprompt <%hhp %mm> ' — use 'fprompt off' to clear)
• Fixed phantom spaces in prompts from OLC and immortal-only tokens
• Wizi/Incog indicators now display in dim grey with proper color support
• Added minimap feature - type 'minimap' to toggle a colored map alongside your room description when you look. Use 'minimap left', 'minimap right' to set position, and 'minimap small', 'minimap normal', 'minimap large' to set size. Setting persists across logins.
• Loan defaults now track the owed amount — defaulting no longer wipes your debt
• Defaulters are blocked from taking new loans until existing debt is repaid
• You can now repay a defaulted loan at any loan office (repay <amount|all> confirm)
• Dying with a defaulted loan causes gold to be seized toward your debt
• Bounties on loan defaulters now automatically renew if they expire
• The Syndicate may send enforcers after defaulters — they'll rough you up, take your gold (with a surcharge), and destroy some of your belongings
• Upgraded password hashing from DES to SHA-256 with random salts. Existing passwords will be automatically upgraded on next login.
• Passwords longer than 8 characters now work correctly.
• New login greeting with 256-color mountain artwork and live server status.
• Account-based login system — log in with your account name, then select or create characters.
• Build server now auto-reboots when the main server updates code.

02/11

• Player data migrated to a modern database for more reliable saves.
• Help files, tomes, notes, communication logs, and pkill records moved to database.
• Bans, loans, challenges, bounties, and pacts moved to database.
• Ground objects now persist across reboots.
• GMCP support for MUD clients that use structured game data.
• 256-color support with terrain-tinted room names.
• MXP support with clickable exits and character names.
• Score sheet now shows AC effectiveness % and caster level adjustments.
• New 'port' command for immortals to view pending code changes with colorized diffs.
• New 'colorlist' command for immortals to preview the 256-color palette.
• New vnum subcommands for builders: search by damage type, noun, and spellforge.
• OLC now supports multi-race and multi-class restrictions on objects.
• Fixed a crash in crestore and a double-free in the HTML exporter.
• Multiple buffer overflows fixed for improved stability.

02/09

• Server codebase modernized for current compilers, resolving all compiler warnings.

02/08

• You can no longer push while unpracticed.
• Ninjas can strangle once more.
• Troll regen has been adjusted.
  • Racial regen no longer stacks with normal regen; the higher value will be granted.
  • Racial regen is no longer affected by position but is still affected by poison, plague, etc.
• Circle of Protection will no longer default to black when you typo a color.
• Typo fixes; they never end.
• Undead regen down to 1.75x from 2x.
• Alignment fixes when guilding from adventurers.
• Exile can no longer be used on mobs.
• Trolls have lost 1 point of DEX and 2 points of CON. (23, 15, 17, 19, 23)
• Evil and blessed items when viewed under detect evil and good respectively will show color.

08/13

• Game now saves on ticks for more consistent data persistence.

03/16

• Typo fixes.
• Halflings traded magic resist for resistance to both holy and negative.
• Vorpal will now correctly save vs acid instead of poison.

03/08

• Spawn Blade will no longer fragment for large+ creatures while holding a shield or held item.

02/22

• You will no longer counter if you have not practiced it.

02/07

• Typos fixed.

12/31

• Fixed color bleed on score for traps.

12/05

• Caps set on mana, move and hit gain from equipment and effects. (+100)
• Paladins can now group with people and mobs while under heroism.
• Wood elf allergy fixed when picking up iron items.

11/07

• Spells cast against shield lore when wearing a shield no longer reduce level by 3.

11/06

• Warmaster pills/herbs now cast their curatives at level - 5, down from level - 3
• Lore will now display item information like identify when at 100% prof, down from 101%.

11/01

• Typos fixes
• Hitroll will now calculate properly (3:1 diminishing returns) if you have more than 50.

10/13

• Frost giants can be DKs as intended.
• Imms not in cabals can now do raids.
• Artificer perk works for dark-knights in Tribunal now.
• Typo fixes.
• Forced sleep effects (sleep, ecstasy, etc) will now have a chance to save and end the effect every tick.
  • This is experimental at this stage, so expect things to be tweaked as time goes on. The goal is to remove self-poison as a means of prevention.
• Dark Knights and Crusaders now have a 250 tick (about 2 hours) timer before they can feed off the same person twice in a row.
• Warmaster challenges for promotion severely reduced.
• Feral fury reduced from -50 initial application to a max of -70, down to -30 inital to max of -50.
• Kaddar can no longer use faerie fire or faerie fog like their good cousins.
• Typo fixes.
• Pious crusaders have an increased chance (+5%) to succeed their chants.
• Heroes can once again be awarded RP.
• Detonate and absorb have two rounds of lag associated with them.
• Non-necromancers with stone golems can no longer purchase pets. Non-necros can still summon a golem if they have fewer than 4 pets.
• Votes that have not been voted on at the end of their life will auto-pass instead of a 50/50 chance to pass/fail.
• Typo fixes.
• The blademaster guild has allowed halflings to rejoin their ranks.
• Removed halfling bonus to damage when using swords and daggers.
• Illithids can now leech sear from battlemages.
• You no longer need to go through detailed creation to choose a perk.
• Crusader modifications can no longer set armors and weapons above level 60.
• Fixed merchant purchase bug. (You were able to purchase scrolls below level and not weapons/armor; should be the other way around.)
• Lore over 100% proficiency works as identify.
• Adventurers can train hit points, mana and movement properly now, and reset to 1 train on choosing a guild.
• Characters will not be subject to rare purges the month they create their character.
• Descriptions are no longer required. However, a 10% bonus to XP will be given if you send one in, even if you have a dcheck pending.
  • Description dragons will only be considered for those who conform to the guidelines in HELP DESCRIPTION.
• Typo fixes
• Imm command shuffle
• Fixed an issue where mobs casting path of deceit crash the MUD.
• Sanctuary of Genesis maps of Malebrim and Val Miran will now load on new characters.
• Typo fixes
• Can purchase anything from merchants at any level except for scrolls, wands, staves and pets.
• If you commit a crime in a lawful area without a member of Tribunal logged in and are seen, you will flagged as wanted.
• All even CON and INT will raise hit point and mana floor by 1 respectively instead of odd CON/INT above 15.
• Fixed an issue with armies not allowing you to patrol the max you can control.
• Check anatomy will properly penalize only vs mobs instead of everyone.
• Alcoholic perk no longer gives bonus reduction to damage if you're drunk vs without the perk.
• Barbarians can use staves, wands and scrolls once more if their class allows.
• Bug fix with rare purge.
• Double kick in monkey stance will give a different return.
• Duplicate titles changed, notably psionicist 25. Others changed to better distinguish between class levels.
• Truesight, forms and stance can be done while grouped.

12/11

• Typo fixes.
• Monkey stance will improve monkey stance when landing chakeras instead of dragon.
• Repeatable guild quests give roughly half the rewards as before.
• Spell costs and mana modifiers will calculate correctly now.

12/01

• Added wear locations to examine.

11/30

• Reverted accidental allowance of trolls to be Dark Knights.
• Milk will not fill you up as much as previous. Happy drinking.

11/29

• Ogres have had an overhaul.
  • 24, 15, 15, 17, 23.
  • bash, bodyslam, mace and flail automastery.
  • resistance to bashing damage.
  • vulnerable to pierce.
  • Ignore chakera reduced to 25%.
  • Lost bonus damage with magic weapons.
  • +5 to +9 hp/level
  • Chance to ignore damage
  • Large
  • Anatomy category: giant
  • Treated as one size category larger for purposes of bash/bodyslam/etc lag.
    • Stacks with warriors and berserkers wearing shields but not shield lore.
  • Classes: Berserker, cleric (and by proxy, shaman and healer), ranger and warrior.
• New race: Trolls.
  • 23, 15, 17, 20, 25
  • Neutral or evil alignment
  • Neutral or chaotic ethos
  • Large
  • Anatomy category: beast
  • Fast healing and regeneration automastery.
  • Vulnerable to acid
  • Resistant to poison and disease.
  • Bonus healing per tick
    • Below 90% health, (max hp - current hp) / (10 - level / 10)
  • Increased base regen for all positions except sleeping.
  • Classes: berserker, monk (does not gain +1 size from dragon), shaman and warrior. Necromancer TBD.
• Airia can be claimed by avains as a hometown once more.
• Can roll a frost giant from character creation.
• Spellforged items cap granted spells at level 50.

11/19

• Path of Deceit works properly against mobs now.
• Potions quaffed in battle are checked vs dex rather than int once again.
• Fleshed out spell tables.
• Smoking herbs while gagged has a drawback.

11/15

• Typo fixes.
• AC checks fixed.
• hit/mana/move gain checked properly now.
• Progs can set perks.
• Char_gen case fix.
• Enchant armor glow/bless modifier fixed.
• Dancing blade can no longer dance staves.
• Paladins have been training extensively with spears and have disseminated the knowledge through their ranks.

11/07

• Rare hours reduced.
• Elf and drow blademasters lost stat increase.
• Wood-elves get same critical bonuses as elves and drow.
• Wood-elves are allowed into the Tower of the Mind's Eye.
• Lucky perk fluctuation bonus cut in half - should result in +2 luck over average instead of +5.
• Shield warrior's +10 changed from Save vs Spell to Save vs Affliction.
• Mana shield no longer covers Kaddar vuln.
• Bonus damage for half-drow and half-elf reverberate and demon's fireballs fixed.
• Stone giant mundane bonus increased to be similar to fire/frost giants.
• More typos fixed.
• Bless arms adds dark and evil to shields if evil

11/06

• Typo fixes.

02/19

• call void simplification which might've caused odd bleed-overs with do_yell
• mana calcs checking con stats changed (now it checks int for mana gain)

02/08

• added additional checks to make sure brandish affects entire group.
• rewrote bad logic with PERK_ARTIFICER which caused it never to work when brandishing staves.
• removed affect to outfit_armies to caster which served no purpose but an odd, annoying echo.

01/31

• shield bash can actually miss, now. (erroneous increase in dmg by 10 showed only grazes in some cases)

01/29

• doomsinger interaction with thrust has had a message directed at the user now, too.

01/28

• shield thrust (shield bash edge) changes:
  • chance lowered from 44% chance to 28% chance.
  • combat actions will now trigger like for any other lag move.
• added chance for disrupt against blademasters and predict - it will not land at 100% accuracy any longer.
• wood-elf now masters sneak, since its an inherent skill.

01/25

• feral automasteries updated since they can now be monks.
• updated combat actions vs lag moves with armored rush
  • these are checks for steel wall, thorns, bone wall, etc.
  • these will be updated for other skills once additional checks are added to prevent post-death double deaths.

01/17

• added blademaster, cleric, and necro to kaddar selection.
• added bard, battlemage, blademaster, invoker, ninja and thief to wood-elf selection.
• brought kaddar more in-line with faeries (lag resistances and mana gain)
  • current kaddar (only one!) had their mana updated to reflect this.
• kaddar immunity fixed - read as only a resistance before.

01/12

• visual for 'cabal promotion' fixed to align with actual promo hours, along with other promotion visuals.
• opened thief and ninja classes again.
  • this is not a permanent change.

01/11

• newbie chat is now available to all.

11/20

• sense evil and heightened senses shouldn't be able to see immortals on where anymore.
• dump will no longer continue dumping into containers that are too small.
• %W now displays the kind of weather in your area if you're outdoors.
  • those with low ping may notice some lag if this is in your prompt.

11/16

• added weather temp to prompt - %w (subject to var change).
  • will be adding weather string later.
• kaddar/wood-elf vuln fixes.

11/09

• good_thresh and evil_thresh lowered and increased a point; this should allow a lot of skills to actually work correctly.
• in addition to the above, holy_water has been made to follow this same trend.
• pious fix, and new message if pious perk kicks in.

11/07

• wood elves and kaddar shouldn't trample around loudly anymore.
• kaddar and faeries are now playable again.

08/26

• wood elves gain mastery in camouflage and blind fighting.
• fixed pronoun in request_none.
• master questor **shouldn't** display weird names anymore when character's quit.
• crusaders can no longer modify spellforged items.
• removed more checks for IS_MODERATE in rare purging.
• wood elves had one more stat point than they should have had, and it's been removed.

08/23

• removed werebeast monk as a selectable combination.
• removed elf druid as a selectable combination.
• wood-elves introduced.
• embrace echoes use proper pronouns now.
• affects 'full' will not echo affected by line twice anymore.
• fixed bug where liches phylacteries would not properly update on death.
• liches can no longer consume items which they currently wear.
• feral fury attacks now count in monk calculations.
• werebeast benefits from fourth_attack if learned.

08/22

• opened up the following races to druid:
  • stone giant
  • elf
  • slith
• opened up the following races to monk:
  • elf
  • feral
  • werebeast
• opened up the following races to warrior:
  • werebeast
• opened up the following races to cleric:
  • slith
• opened up the following races to ranger:
  • slith
  • minotaur
• opened up the following races to blademaster:
  • human
• moderates no longer lose their newbie chat when leveling up.

08/20

• stone giants now get 10% damage bonus when using mundane weapons (with mundane nouns).
• adventurers can use gain convert.
• moderates no longer have a rare limit.

08/03

• revert quote removals; this had nothing to do with them. sticky space fix soon.
• fixed issue with telepathy and thsull language.

07/07

• until quotes can be escaped safely, they will be removed from histories just like they are in descriptions.

06/30

• mystic tattoo fix with deity_lookup.

06/12

• better formula for cabal promotions and negative hour requirements fixed.

06/08

• auto promote to trusted, and quicker promotion times introduced.

05/16

• transfer 'all' mob program fix.

03/15

• move_gain mods on armor not affecting actual move_gain has been fixed.
• added NPC checks to a couple more COMM_NOYELL bit sets.

03/12

• allowed triggers on socketable objects and containers.

03/10

• isolate spell will now be able to isolate charm-immune mobs which are ironically charmed.
• insect swarm bug fix.

03/04

• prevent bits and skills from contradicting each other in affect_modify.

03/01

• consider now correctly shows if a mob's anatomy is 'mob' instead of unique.
• consider now correctly shows restrung PC races.
• rangers will now also be maxstat when creating a new character.

02/23

• rolling has been removed. all stats are maxed now on creation.
• quest psi and quest crusader functions no longer lower stats, and now only provide 1 train.
• quest lich function no longer lower stats, and now only provide 1 train.

02/22

• mana leak's check to land has been updated.
• mana leak is no longer 300% of your gain taken away.
• increased necromancer signature spells landing chances with soul tap.

02/21

• warmaster wep_dam check should be mostly similar with one_hit now, with caps and ac checks.
• critical strike 'spleen' will now show a drained message to the victim.
• paf_string fix for string_from_affect with a sanity check to prevent odd crashes.
• brittleness can't have a negative duration anymore.
• several skills and spells using number_range within UMAX, UMIN, and URANGE are typed now, and work correctly.
• ninjas and thieves can no longer be chosen at creation in preparation for overhaul.
• outfit now works until level 16.

02/12

• you can't dump rares into another bag anymore.
• appending a string now shows color code and doesn't parse it.

02/04

• fixed service teach for cabal vendors to recognize granted and selected skills.
• description command will no longer 'clear' your description, unless you specify 'desc clear'.
• bug fix with rselect immortal command.

02/02

• fixed a scribe move command for leaders + Immortals

01/29

• fixed a bad behead echo

01/27

• checks to prevent elders and immortals from allowing themselves into their own cabal have been added to prevent crashes.

01/26

• bug where half of the playerbase has spider summoning has been fixed (this includes double spider summon)
• mana leak providing a net gain if affected by other negative increases has been fixed.
• newbie chat added to replay.
• spider summoning correctly makes the spiders' leader the character casting the spell.
• spells list now correctly shows +proficiency to spells provided by equipment.
• boulder throw is now a level 5 skill.

01/23

• rselect can clear specific selectable skills now.
  • this should allow, in the future, the possibility to skip selections and come back to them later.
• flamestrike will not 'save twice', anymore. Initial damage is taken into effect with the fire_effect.

01/21

• fixed the following spells where saves would reduce the damage to the next victim, until 0 (if there were enough vics)
  • chorus of anguish
  • thunder storm
  • ice storm
  • four seasons
  • call lightning
  • meteor swarm
  • tsunami
  • iceball
  • call void
• fixed flamestrike in that the initial target would not receive less damage on successful save.
• fixed a lot of indentation.

01/20

• paladin mounted charge has a chance to bypass counter.
• mobs will not activate final parting.
• mass hysteria from Powerword Fear should now apply correct bonuses for drow.
• discord divine intervention will now summon demonfrost in the event that the caster is vulnerable to fire.

01/19

• boulder throw and spider summoning should be kept after guild is chosen for adventurer's now.

01/17

• transfer 'all' fix for object transfers.

01/11

• prepend fix for 'a_an' to fix memory overflow error.

01/10

• fixed held item USE progs from triggering twice.
• kinesis spells will no longer continue after a challenge ends.
• werebadgers now correctly have only +1 to max strength.
• thunderstorm will no longer 'Spark arcs' on an Immortal's person.
• fixed some lag checks with tackle.
• auto_shield_bash updated
  • damage increase by weight is more linear (and better at higher weight) and doesn't decrease as before after a certain threshold.
  • added several chance checks for affects. utility vs damage.
• trees and mineral veins are now seeded like starstone, and are more abundant.
• added additional false check for fourth attack where it'd sometimes fire after an auto_shield_bash.

01/08

• giving away a sharpened weapon now causes its enchantments to disappear.
• dodge now gains a better chance to work versus opponents with less dexterity than you.

01/06

• null pointers to warcry strings due to odd bleed over.
• shield bash changes:
  • silence is not guaranteed; the higher the chance roll, the higher the chance you'll land silence. (lower weight = better.)
  • auto shield bash chance now correctly scales depending on weight of shield.
• third attack for adventurer remorts specifically to bards will now retain proficiency.
• game crashing bug fixed.

01/05

• rewrote wizlist functions.

01/03

• ch to vic in insect_swarm call which caused user of insect_swarm to be extracted instead of vic.
• werebeast must revert before using 'guild' while an adventurer now.

12/30

• removed mentions of Erana in the code.
• added check to prevent auto_shield_bash from killing victims.
• captures will now strip rage from vic and/or ch if affected by it.
• changed operators on chance with blanket of darkness spell.

12/23

• OLC updates for projectiles.
• captures counting toward living weapons for tribunal crusaders and dark-knights increased.
• dark-knights receive a small bonus while fighting 'antithesis' opponents (crusaders or avatars).
• level restriction removed * details in HELP ADVENTURER.
• lowered bonuses for edges Stalwart of Faith, Unshaken Believer, and Strong of Flesh.
  • edge Unshaken Believer's cost lowered from 100 to 50 rp points.
• the perk ARTIFICER now helps with crusader and dark-knight living weapon leveling as originally intended.
• shield bash no longer can automatically lag; you have to type 'shieldbash' to have a chance to lag.
• greed tattoo recipients don't pay any fees, and always get the best discounts.
• fixed werebeast weapon inheritance to check before transform, not after.

12/16

• frost giant seasonal race added.

12/02

• ensure church members get hours when inducted in middle of month.

11/19

• ensure random triggers do not fire if area is empty for old_style progs.

11/14

• pugil fix.
• gnome's lose their vulnerability to mental.
• storm giants can now choose paladin as a class at creation.
• fire giants can now choose dark-knight as a class at creation.

10/23

• you can zap yourself with a wand as a ghost now as long as the spell is classified as beneficial.
• socket affects are no longer duplicated when blood vow (or any other object affect) expires.
• circle of protection 'red' and 'blue' now give vulnerabilities and resistances as originally intended.
• ice shield and fire shield (in all cases) will no longer cover vulnerabilities if they exist.
• badger werepower now shows the victim if they've been disrupted when used.

10/17

• chaos blades for duergar can no longer be liquid.
• army strength so close to home has been reduced slightly * further away reduced slightly as well.

10/16

• discord divine intervention no longer covers cold vulnerability.
• crusader weapon restrings shouldn't remove spiked or barbed capabilities anymore.
• restring command updated slightly to be *slightly* more pushy with what you need to type to confirm a restring.
• sanity/crash checks added to progs which tend to fire too often or when they're not supposed to.

10/14

• added aqua_lung affect and spell water breathing.
  • ROOM_UNDERWATER updated; specifics not yet confirmed and not in game at this time.
• cleaned up spell_warcry to prevent bleeding variables.

10/09

• added mpcabal command for mob progs.
• cleaned up OLC to show old_style object spell casting.
• updated security for several build commands.
• updated EDGE_STRONGLEGS to be in line with EDGE_RESTFUL and EDGE_STRONGMIND
• room colors are now dynamic and up to the builder to change.
• hard coded cabal settings removed for votes.

10/08

• footwork is working correctly again. this was broken since ninja pugil was introduced.
• if you fall asleep due to asphyxiation, insomnia is now stripped from you.
• some code cleanup and spacing.
• you can no longer subsitute zapping an object for an area spell with a wand.
• fixed some reset safety checks to prevent build crashes.
• items above level 30 now have a level limit; if the item is
  • level 30, and is not within 10 levels of your current level, you will be zapped by the item.
  • this change was made in an effort to prevent level 50 adventurers remorting with level 50 non-rare gear and stomping everyone at level 30 (or before) while going for a quest race. You know this would and will happen.
  • open to suggestions; there are still some items that need to be lowered in level in relation to the mobs that hold them. bare with us, and report them as you come by them. If you have a level 50 item that you killed off a level 40 mob, and you're level 30, for instance, we'll need to look into the level of the item in proportion to the level of the mob you killed.
• adventurers can now level to 50.
  • they will not have a limit, still, but if an adventurer is caught abusing no-pk they will be made to choose a class, or their PK protection will be removed.
• correctly count items while dumping into bags.
• spell level check fixed for casting during the day.
• dumping bags into other bags correctly calculates weight and number of items now.
• you can no longer stack weight above your carry weight to gain a significant advantage against certain lag moves.
• bug crashing fix with rare purge.
• bug crashing fix with imm_assassinate.
• various typos fixed throughout the code.
• song rest in peace will correctly remove insomnia from victim, and not self.
• added message to eye of nature watcher spell to victim.
• immortal renames now send a penalty automatically.
• immortal renames now re-owner all of your owner-only equipment to your new name.
• immortal pets no longer appear 'charmed' to others.
• fire shield and ice shield are no longer separately calculated for incoming damage resistances.
  • when using ice shield, you gain an ice vuln, but resist fire. when using fire shield, you gain a fire vuln, but resist cold.
• final parting using the wrong comparison when checking for class fixed * this should fire correctly now, all the time.
• critical strike lag for diaphragm and solar plexus fixed.
• various typos fixed.
• piercing_note won't break burnproof armor anymore.
• echoed voices off_echo and off_around added.
• new mud school introduced and code changes to reflect.
• other misc updates for upcoming additions.
• award fix when character name wildcard matches an NPC.
• mind thrust no longer shows '!mind thrust!' when it wears off.
• use do_home instead of recall spell while in NEWBIE_ONLY areas.
• bug fix for mounts that may no longer exist (for any reason) crashing the mud.
• fixed dancing blade socket bug which allowed multiple sockets.
• fixed an embrace check for song suledin nadas.
• other socket checks fixed.
• further lowered song save chance due to reports.
• fixed improper level check with 'echoed voices' song.
• further reduced save checks for songs due to spelllvl fix causing songs to be less effective than intended.
• added additional check to prevent stacked majestic_solo_effect.
• majestic_solo_effect is now classified as a BREATH spell, not MENTAL spell.
• changed service from gitlab to gitea.
• added smash_noeq to kill double quotes in descriptions, histories, and other string_append mods to prevent crashes.
• added additional checks to master questor updates, and displays when characters are gone to prevent weird characters.
• song 'rest in peace' will now save correctly against SPELL_BREATH, rather than SPELL_OTHER.
• bards thac0 lowered by 2.
• songs now factor in more svsspell due to the decrease in thac0, meaning songs should be easier to save against.
• fixed a bug where wands were able to damage after death, if victim was zapped at the right time.
• moved the check to dispel calm in spell 'unholy strength' so that simply casting it would not remove calm.
• added bepor.are to list of bad_areas that quest givers should not send players to.
• removed several player names that received additional written code for superb RP.