Darkwood BBS Release Notes

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1.5.0 2020-09-18
Assorted bug fixes / minor enhancements

- Fix more rooms west of dismagi that randomly punted you to DTH for exit/entering
- Fix a few more monsters who dropped items that didn't stack/group in the room, but should.
- Update mant and quik to counter missing slow spells that are countered by sped. (Wizard sfog still has no counter)
- Fix ice storm scroll from ice sorc
- give 9th quest rewards the usage abilities implied by the textblocks that give them to players
- Fix Maestro and Wardancer in Lissom quest

1.4.1 2020-07-16
Beef up medal of endurance a bit as start of minor upgrades to WHs, 5th quest weapon viability

- Update all 5th quest weapons from Magic 5 to Magic 7.
- Minor improvement to medal of endurance

1.4.0 2020-07-15

- Fix temple area in southwest slums so that it is affected by cleanup
- Fix Crystal forest so cleanup happens there
- Delete 19781 rooms, accounting for over one third of the rooms database size
- add eyes of the creator to quest pawn shop
- Fix some shop names so their names are not misleading about where they are

1.3.2 2020-07-05

- Add some regen to Gleaming Caves so it might get occasional attention
- Reduce drop rates for stackable, no-slot items
- Introduce shops to sell unneeded 4th quest cloaks
- Introduce shops to sell unneeded 5th quest items

1.3.1 2020-06-23
Armor progression tweaks. Generally higher level armors should be better. Drops and customs should be better than purchases. Rare/challenging items can be better than higher level counterparts.

- Swap Dragonforge Scalemail and shimmering scalemail tunic AC/DR
- Reduce runed silver leggings AC to try to balance out the crazy +maxdamage.
- Improve scarlet doublet
- Update caster leather armor progression to be better than earlier models (for example, level 120 storebought gear was worse than 90)
- Added Darkwood Shield so Rgr isn't stuck with the same shield from level 40
- A few smaller changes

1.3.0.3 2020-06-22
Sell spot for undroppable junk

- Added Death Shroud to junkyard shop

1.3.0.2 2020-06-18
Monster spawn fixes

- Fix problem preventing high druid from spawning when time was up
- Fix problem preventing giant pulsating cocoon from spawning when time was up

1.3.0.1 2020-06-14
Tweaks to crypt

- Change exit south of mummy room to be normal instead of door
- Allow up to lvl 20 in crypt

1.3.0 2020-06-11
Crypt Quest

- Reintroduce crypt quest for classes #1-15
- Handle class changes in 1-15 (Cleric -> Necrolyte, Warlock -> Arborean)
- Create crypt quest for classes 16-25
- Substantial markup for level 10 quest items the easy way
- Training in crypt is optional - adventurer's guild still does 1-99
- Fix some problems with shimmering chainmail. It should now be more desirable than level 45 and less than level 75 chain sets.
- Fix Dragonscale Belt deleting at cleanup even though it lacked Delete@Cleanup flag.

1.2.4.2 2020-06-05

- Some bosses/monsters drop items with numbered uses, so over time these fill up all the item/hidden item slots in neighboring rooms and can cause items to poof upon player death in a room.
- Litter control: potions and containers delete at cleanup.
- Litter control: ice wizard doesn't drop frost sceptre.
- Make greater pressure points better than pressure points.
- Revert edits that removed backstab capability of some quest weapons.
- Change all 50 quest weapons to 0 weight because there is no way to be rid of them. Most were already 0, but a few were missed.

1.2.4.1 2020-05-23
MudBot Upgrades

- Change !abil to translate ability #s to ability names
- add !config for info on realm setup
- add !mme for mme link

1.2.4 2020-05-22
Fix broken Mudrev abilities and related exploits. (Thanks Syntax for info on where to hex edit)

- Update Dhelvanen Quest to persist after offline recoveries
- Update Spectral Knight Quest to persist after offline recoveries. Previously repeatable for another EXP reward.
- Update Faerie Queen Quest to persist after offline recoveries
- Update Lissom Overlord reward to persist after offline recoveries. This bug would likely have allowed this to be completed repeatedly, for stacking backstab bonuses on unpatched boards.

1.2.3.2 03/19/16
old mudrev tweak

- Change Tunic of Trickery from Leather to Chain and adjust AC accordingly

1.2.3.1 03/16/16
old mudrev hotfix

- Add Gypsy textblock for 5th good reward

1.2.3 03/08/16
Small tweaks after go-live

- Add Gypsys to chain shields
- Add Rgr to silk shields
- Place Sunburst Wrist-guard in a shop
- Adjust some drops that should have been 10% down from 100%

1.2.2 02/20/16
Finish Ninth Alignment Quest

- story for all aligns
- single use items to help with the big bads during the quest
- new reward items

1.2.1 02/19/16
Ninth Alignment Quest, contd

- Mechanics of 9th Evil and Good (no story)
- begin to write story text

1.2.0 02/18/16
Ninth Alignment Quest

- Created conversation mobs
- Mechanics of 9th Neutral (no story)

1.1.1 02/16/16
Fix stupid level restricts on exits

- from 20 more rooms

1.1.0 02/14/16
Prep for open

- modify help files for racial stat updates
- modify temple noise to point to mudinfo page
- modify help files (release, etc) to point to mudinfo page
- move from ansi 'on' to 'Ask' to hopefully combat situations where megamud overrides the 'on' setting.

1.0.4 02/10/16
Eighth Alignment Quest, wrap-up

- clean up story text a bit
- write reward item descriptions
- tweak quest help file

1.0.3 02/09/16
Eighth Alignment Quest, contd

- story text for 8th Neutral quest

1.0.2 02/08/16
Eighth Alignment Quest, contd

- story text for 8th Evil quest

1.0.1.1 02/07/16
Neut/Evil quest fixes

- Fix textblock overflows

1.0.1 02/07/16
Eighth Alignment Quest, contd

- Mechanics (Textblocks, spells, items, monsters) for 8th neutral and evil (no story text)

1.0.0.1 02/06/16
Good quest fixes

- Fix textblock overflows
- Change recall destination from TS to Portal Room

1.0.0 02/06/16
Eighth Alignment Quest

- Implement 8th alignment quest for Good
- add classOK on some armor sets for consistency with the rest of the progression
- remove 5th quest flags from Enigma Master
- remove missing/broken spells from a few mudrev mobs

0.3.3 02/03/16
Spell stacking usability. (Please let me know if you find other timed duration spell message conflicts)

- resolve spell message conflicts (tige/jagr,smit/gsmi,mshi/shld)
- remove blade of antimagi from shop

0.3.2 02/02/16
More variety for WHs, give Bardly magic a little love

- ensure all markup rates are above 100%
- charm increase across all races
- beef up obsidian scale
- add/tweak high end witchy weapon options
- tweak some bard spell durations
- add final staff for maestro to match the other M3s
- tweak duration of a few item uses

0.3.1 02/01/16
Shop fixes/upgrades, tweak some spells

- add missing classes to Superstealth quest
- remove mudrev quest items from being for sale at shops (dragonscale belt, firestone pendant, onyx bracelet, etc). Now they are sell-to-the-shop only.
- increase shop stock from 3 to 99
- remove bogus shops from non-existent towns, etc (for clearer MME browsing)
- reduce vicar healing rain level to 120 to equalize distance between priest3 room heals
- neuter ether death so players aren't wiped out if they happen to walk to jorah while room attacking

0.3.0 02/01/16
Fix remaining mudrev exploits and bugs. Slight increase of regen and drop rates. Create/place some items to fill gaps in existing progressions.

- remove cheater items from shops (god blade, holder item, etc)
- remove archer from numerous non-arrow weapons
- any drop on a monster with timed regen is now at least 10%
- increase drop rate on low-level monsters with timed regen (now often greater than 10%)
- reduce any regen times over a day to 24 hours or less
- reduce regen time of many quest-related bosses even if they were already <24 hours
- create arlysian arrow
- beef up dismagi rings
- placed black wyvernhide armor (only tunic was in game)

0.2.4 01/31/16
Fix remaining problems in level 185 gear

- Make Ethereal Silk Robes available for custom
- Review all other level 185 customs

0.2.3 01/31/16
Implement Epic's upgrades, cont

- Merged EpicRev's textblocks

0.2.2 01/30/16
Implement Epic's upgrades, cont

- Merged EpicRev's spell dats
- Merged EpicRev's monster dats
- Merged EpicRev's race dats
- Merged EpicRev's shops dats
- Merged EpicRev's room dats

0.2.1 01/29/16
Implement Epic's upgrades

- Merged EpicRev's class dats
- Merged EpicRev's item dats

0.2.0 01/29/16
Implement Mudrev

- Loaded Mudrev dats based on Silicon's edits dated 9/25/2010

0.1.0 01/29/16
Initial launch

- Deployed stock realm

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1.2.0 02/18/16
Ninth Alignment Quest

- Created conversation mobs
- Mechanics of 9th Neutral (no story)

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.2.1 02/19/16
Ninth Alignment Quest, contd

- Mechanics of 9th Evil and Good (no story)
- begin to write story text

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.2.2 02/20/16
Finish Ninth Alignment Quest

- story for all aligns
- single use items to help with the big bads during the quest
- new reward items

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.2.3 03/08/16
Small tweaks after go-live

- Add Gypsys to chain shields
- Add Rgr to silk shields
- Place Sunburst Wrist-guard in a shop
- Adjust some drops that should have been 10% down from 100%

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.2.4 2020-05-22
Fix broken Mudrev abilities and related exploits.

- Update Dhelvanen Quest to persist after offline recoveries
- Update Spectral Knight Quest to persist after offline recoveries. Previously repeatable for another EXP reward.
- Update Faerie Queen Quest to persist after offline recoveries
- Update Lissom Overlord reward to persist after offline recoveries. This bug would likely have allowed this to be completed repeatedly, for stacking backstab bonuses on unpatched boards.

1.2.3.2 03/19/16
old mudrev tweak

- Change Tunic of Trickery from Leather to Chain and adjust AC accordingly

1.2.3.1 03/16/16
old mudrev hotfix

- Add Gypsy textblock for 5th good reward

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.2.4.2 2020-06-05

- Some bosses/monsters drop items with numbered uses, so over time these fill up all the item/hidden item slots in neighboring rooms and can cause items to poof upon player death in a room.
- Litter control: potions and containers delete at cleanup.
- Litter control: ice wizard doesn't drop frost sceptre.
- Make greater pressure points better than pressure points.
- Revert edits that removed backstab capability of some quest weapons.
- Change all 50 quest weapons to 0 weight because there is no way to be rid of them. Most were already 0, but a few were missed.

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.3.0 2020-06-11
Crypt Quest

- Reintroduce crypt quest for classes #1-15
- Handle class changes in 1-15 (Cleric -> Necrolyte, Warlock -> Arborean)
- Create crypt quest for classes 16-25
- Substantial markup for level 10 quest items the easy way
- Training in crypt is optional - adventurer's guild still does 1-99
- Fix some problems with shimmering chainmail. It should now be more desirable than level 45 and less than level 75 chain sets.
- Fix Dragonscale Belt deleting at cleanup even though it lacked Delete@Cleanup flag.


The MME is updated.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B67qCx ... EB02A-Z-TQ

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.3.1 2020-06-23
Armor progression tweaks. Generally higher level armors should be better. Drops and customs should be better than purchases. Rare/challenging items can be better than higher level counterparts.

- Swap Dragonforge Scalemail and shimmering scalemail tunic AC/DR
- Reduce runed silver leggings AC to try to balance out the crazy +maxdamage.
- Improve scarlet doublet
- Update caster leather armor progression to be better than earlier models (for example, level 120 storebought gear was worse than 90)
- Added Darkwood Shield so Rgr isn't stuck with the same shield from level 40
- A few smaller changes

1.3.0.3 2020-06-22
Sell spot for undroppable junk

- Added Death Shroud to junkyard shop

1.3.0.2 2020-06-18
Monster spawn fixes

- Fix problem preventing high druid from spawning when time was up
- Fix problem preventing giant pulsating cocoon from spawning when time was up

1.3.0.1 2020-06-14
Tweaks to crypt

- Change exit south of mummy room to be normal instead of door
- Allow up to lvl 20 in crypt

The existing MME link is updated.

[DarkwoodBBS]

1.4.0 2020-07-15

- Fix temple area in southwest slums so that it is affected by cleanup
- Fix Crystal forest so cleanup happens there
- Delete 19781 rooms, accounting for over one third of the rooms database size
- add eyes of the creator to quest pawn shop
- Fix some shop names so their names are not misleading about where they are

1.3.2 2020-07-05

- Add some regen to Gleaming Caves so it might get occasional attention
- Reduce drop rates for stackable, no-slot items
- Introduce shops to sell unneeded 4th quest cloaks
- Introduce shops to sell unneeded 5th quest items

The existing MME link is updated.