Major Updates Since 2001

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2020

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• 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.
  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.