Major Updates

2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

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June

• Expanded MAKE AMULET options.

2013

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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

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December

• PR Mansion installed.

July

• Custom Chant types added.

2009

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.