Major Updates
2020[edit]
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July
- Permalight spec updated, some now have additional stats/effects.
- Beginning of level rearrangements for areas. Areas near hometowns will be appropriate for early levels
(areas will now be 90% a small level range, 10% will be lvl 50) - IMPROVED RECUPERATION and BOUNTIFUL BENEFITS era abilities added.
- CALENDAR command added.
- New herbs and brews/amulets added that can only be obtained from farming.
June
- STATEMENT and INQUIRY can now be used from anywhere.
- CONFIG COMBINEDSCORE added.
- Major updates to WARCRY, HEADBUTT, and BLINDSIDE.
- High constitution grants additional HP and HP REGEN.
- RECUPERATION skill added.
- Mysterious Island area installed.
- FREEDOM FROM THIRST and FREEDOM FROM HUNGER era abilities added.
May
- Morrigan's Maze area installed.
- XP calculation for mobs over level 50 reworked.
- Druid skills now look anywhere in your inventory for herbs (in bags and BUNDLEs).
- RELOAD command now looks for ammo anywhere in your inventory.
- Basic skill teachers added to each hometown.
- HOTZONE and SHOWXPINFO command added.
- Greater Trueform spell added.
April
- FARMING tradeskill added.
- BUNDLE command added.
- GUNS and BOWS overhauled. They can be wielded for fight round damage and do more damage overall.
- HEROIC RESCUE replaced with HRESCUE.
March
- WATCH command added.
February
- Medieval Camelot area installed.
- Ancient Egypt expanded by a couple of rooms.
- HP/MA/MV are all calculated the same way for every character. This means you can figure out your max hp based on your stats.
2019[edit]
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September
- Medieval Flanders area installed.
August
- CROSSPLAY changes.
- Characters on accounts are friends. Can use housing, shops, take items, etc..
- ACCOUNT BANK feature added.
- SHIELD slot updated.
July
- "Perma Booth" installed in the OOC cellar.
- REMORTING system added. REGENERATION system revised.
- PETITION and VISITED commands added.
- Wu Chen's area updated. Ancient India expansion, Naraka, installed.
- Stats can go negative. All skills have a min requirement in every stat of at least 1.
June
- New ways to address objects by keywords.
- FIST FIGHTING, FIRST AID, FIELD SURGERY, and NIGHTVISION updated.
- SKILL TIMERS and GROUP CHANT added.
- ENQUEUE, PAUSE, and JOURNAL commands added.
- Ancient Arabian Dreams (Irem) installed.
May
- New QUEUE command added.
- RESURRECTION can now be cast on a corpse if the corpse's player holds a death shroud.
- SOULBOUND items added. Death shroud is one of these.
- Player-Unique items added. Only carry one at a time.
- ANATOMY, BACKSTAB, and VIVIFICATION updated.
- You can now shoot underwater.
- Spell failure chance updated.
April
- East Side of Medieval Pirates' Den updated.
- MEDITATE stat requirement reduced.
March
- Protection from fire no longer needs to be cast twice.
February
- DEATH penalty changed for characters under level 50.
- FACTIONS and XP TRANSFER command added.
- Medieval Japan expansion installed.
- Ancient Svartalfheim expansion installed.
- Ancient Seven Heavens installed.
January
- Industrial Abilene expansion installed.
2018[edit]
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December
- Added COMMUNITY XP routes to HERODOTUS.
October
- Added GROUP XP routes to HERODOTUS.
September
- Added the following ROGUE SKILLS:
- ASSAIL, DEADLY PRECISION, EVASION, FLASHING BLADES, MARK TARGET, PRECISION STRIKE, and VANISH.
August
- Added TRIAGE skill. SNEAK, HIDE, MAKE STAFF, and INNATE DEFENSE updated.
- Added QUERY FULL command.
- WEIGHT can now be in 100ths of Kg rather than 1Kg increments.
For Example: Bandages are now 0.02kg. Bandage rolls are 0.75kg.
July
- Updated BALANCE and TWO HANDED weapons. MITIGATION CAP introduced.
- CURE CRITICAL changed. Weapon WEIGHT functionality replaced with SPEED FACTOR.
- WEIGHT now only decides how heavy an item is, not how fast it attacks or its MAX DAMAGE.
- Weapon damage types are no longer necessarily bound to weapon proficiency.
Example: A BLADED weapon can now use DEXTERITY as its weapon proficiency stat.
April
- Industrial Abilene, Kansas installed.
- Industrial WWII North Africa updated.
February
- Industrial King Solomon's Mines installed.
- BATTLE TRAINING now available to all hometowns.
- MELEE MITIGATION player stat added.
January
- HEROIC GEAR added.
2017[edit]
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December
- DUAL WIELD and ARCANE MASTERY skills added.
- SPELL DAMROLL, SPELL CRITICAL, and MANA REDUCTION player stats added.
- METEOR and RAZE DEAD spells added.
November
- Herb and potion rent reduced.
- Protection from Evil properly implemented.
- Bloodroot, Rosemary, Santolina, Lavender, Thuja, and Ginseng added with brew effects.
- POWDER and MAKE OIL skills added. AUGMENT and SCAN updated.
- Align restrictions removed from FLAVOR, FOUL, and PURIFY.
- All herbs that poultice now create a cure light poultice. Previous effects have been moved to MAKE OIL.
August
- XP calculations re-worked, New Fight Skills: RIPOSTE, HEROIC
RESCUE, RALLY, FEINT, CHARGE and BASTION. - Updated Fight Skills: BASH, ELBOW, TOPPLE, SUCKERPUNCH and BLINDSIDE.
July
- Ys Installed
- New/Updated Spells: SHIMMERING PORTAL, EMPATHY, EVIL THOUGHTS,
LIGHTNING BOLT, BLOOD BOIL, GUARDIAN ANGEL, VENGEANCE
2014[edit]
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June
- Expanded MAKE AMULET options.
2013[edit]
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February
- Bone Pit installed.
- BIO command added.
- Added additional Era Abilities, Innate Climbing, Innate Reload and Herbal Attunement.
- Added additional Chant types.
2011[edit]
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December
- PR Mansion installed.
July
- Custom Chant types added.
2009[edit]
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December
- Industrial Philippines installed.
October
- Submoods added for Moods System- Talk, walk, social.
August
- PKOK Pkilling system removed in favor of PKE and Duel.
July
- Automated Auction Queue feature added.
April
- Twitter compatibility added.
March
- Mapping commands added.
- Cartopgraphy and Georgraphy skills added.
- Expie nominations channel added.
February
- Disarm Trap and set Trap merged into Trapping.
- Tan and Skin skills merged into Tannery.
2008[edit]
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November
- Fist fighting enabled.
- Svartalfheim installed.
August
- Clan timer added.
July
- Group duels added. PKE changes added.
February
- New spell FORTIFICATION.
- New familiars added.
- Citizenship quests added.
- Newbie section of website installed.
- Ancient Rome installed. /
- Multiple PKE characters began.
- Changes to weapon quality.
- Legend Heroes started.
2007[edit]
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September
- Industrial Egypt installed.
June
- Revolutionary Russia installed.
March
- New spells BRAINPOWER, EPIPHANY, QUICKEYE, AURA of NIMBLENESS, AURA of HEALTH.
February
- Acounts system added.
- Automated Auction system reinstalled.
- RESURRECT spell added.
- DTs changed to no longer eat eq.
- Corpse timer changes.
- New website design unveiled.
- Medieval Japan installed.
- New title screen introduced.
2006[edit]
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September
- Duel system installed.
June
- ANSI color code expansion added. MXP integrated.
March
- Silk Road installed.
- New spell SPECTRAL GUARDIAN.
- Emotes code added to the MUSE channel.
February
- Dartmoor installed.
- ERA EXPERIENCE implemented.
- ALIASES implemented.
- Group code rewrite.
- HIGHLIGHTING implemented.
- San Francisco updated to HOMETOWN status.
- New skills PISTOLWHIP and TWOGUN added.
2005[edit]
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November
- New PK damage reduction code implemented.
October
- New spell FAMILIAR.
- Shadowlands Expansion added.
September
- Tartarus installed.
July
- New regeneration spells REVIVIFICATION, REJUVENATION, REGENERATION, PERSPICUITY,
LUCIDITY, REFRESHMENT, STONE OF RENEWAL, STONE OF RECUPERATION. - New command FIGHTMODE.
- New command REMOVEAFFECT.
- New command ASSIST.
- Status shows spell duration.
June
- Boards and notes code rewritten.
- MALAISE spell added.
- ENTANGLE command added to HERBLORE skill.
- Level req changes for First Aid, Basic/Advanced/Expert weapon skills.
- Begging changed to a command.
- QUEST JOURNALS added.
May
- New overrent model.
April
- New config option GROUPPC.
February
- LegendMUD Discussion Forum opened.
- Clan mailing lists added.
- Update for Kleinstadt and Ancient Tyre.
- New skill SET TRAP.
- New spell MANA CHARGE.
- Ability to reload areas without reboot added.
2004[edit]
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November
- Ancient Carthage installed.
October
- Dante's Inferno installed.
September
- Ticks now fixed length. Affects no longer expire on tick
boundaries. Mobs heal throughout the tick like players do. - New group command: MAKELEADER.
August
- New Klein-only skill: BATTLE TRAINING.
- New resistance and susceptibility system.
- New fastcommands config.
- GROUP ALL functionality added.
- Configurable chant messages.
July
- New skills: INNATE DEFENSE, BLINDFIGHTING AND WEAPON MASTERY.
- Level bonus for AC removed.
- Configurable and sharable prompts and group reports.
- New command: SHOWGROUP.
April
- New material types for objects added.
February
- Spell/skill affects persistent over renting.
- Move/fight lag fixed.
- DISGUISE skill added.
- DRESS WOUND skill functional.
- INJECT skill, medical tools, and drugs added.
- DTs eat strings and owned items and cost experience for destroying someone else's item.
- Kleinstadt update/expansion installed.
2003[edit]
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September
- HITROLL and DAMROLL now gradual stats.
- SKIM command added.
May
- New Skills: COURAGE, VALOR, IRONWILL.
- Low spirit penalty added.
- PKE turned back alongside PKOK.
- CLANTIMER command for pk clans.
April
- New Skills: BLINDSIDE, RETREAT, SUCKERPUNCH, TOPPLE, WRESTLING.
- INSPIRE Liman only.
- DIP replaced by TAINT.
March
- Non-Mech or mobile-drawn vehicles reintroduced
February
- Skill Combine Containers added.
2002[edit]
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November
- SKIN skill added.
September
- Update installed to Hospitaller Malta.
- Q&A Channel added.
- Combat moods can be configured separately.
August
- Moods with Actions
July
- Updates installed to Alaska, Tudor England, Paris Opera.
June
- Updates installed to Nazca, India, Aztecs, French/Indian War
- Elementals updated.
April
- New positions added
- new REDEEM options added.
March
- TITHE clan command added.
February
- More complex weather/daylight system
- CONTROL WEATHER, CHAIN LIGHTNING, WALL OF WINDS, and EVAPORATE spells added
January
- CATALOG command added for housing.