Changes Log

The Cleft of Dimensions is constantly being updated, poked, prodded, and tweaked. To keep everyone informed of the various changes, the Immortals semi-regularly post Change Notes in-game. This page will copy those notes as well.

Change 3-22/3-23-2018

• Cure has a slightly lower rate of healing than before
• Cure's mana cost has been lowered from 10 to 8
• Charge will now function with Vitalize
• A few spells have been excluded from the Metronome list
• Ninjas can now hide better, generally, and even more so in dark rooms
• Ninjas now know when they have or have not become hidden.
• Ninjas now sneak more successfully in dark rooms or while hidden, even more so when both conditions are met
• Ninjas now know when they have or have not started sneaking
• New spell: Debilitate (WORK IN PROGRESS)
• Wording: 'Exotic' has replaced 'Magic' in a few areas
• The room affects, sandstorm and flurry, should not do damage if you're resistant to their respective elements.
• Alias max has been increased to 32.

For Builders:

• Added a move if check
  • mvchk 'if mvchk $i >= 50'
• Added object condition check
  • objcond 'if objcond >= 20'
• Added condition as an oset field
  • 'mob oset $o condition -20' Adjust current condition by -20
• Added brief mode check
  • isbrief 'if isbrief $n'
• Oset usage is now limited to the actor's inventory and in the current room the actor is standing in.
  • Note: If you need to get around this and manipulate an object in another mob/player inventory, use force and mforce.

Changes 3-8/3-10-2018

• Jumi and Matango now have independent, separate health regeneration rates that is not the 'Regen' affect (and thus no longer have the latter in constant effect).
• CON and WIS now add a slight regeneration bonus to HP and Mana, respectively. This is especially noticeable in conditions that are not ideal.
• 'Psyke Up' and 'Psyke Down' spells added, effects are equivalent to their 'Attack Up' and 'Attack Down' counterparts except that it influences Magroll instead of Damroll.
• BUILDERS: Please be careful with using Psyke Down for now, as negative Magroll will prevent both players and mobs from dealing ANY spell damage!
• 'Enchant Armor' no longer increases the target item's level by 1.
• Priests now receive slightly more mana when sacrificing gold coins.
• Choke and Powersurge now work with counterspell.
• Wisdom helps with failure to cast spells
• Magroll has been fleshed out for player usage and works as intended.
• Wall change can be charged to better penetrate saves.
• Enchant spell has been added, which combines both enchant armor and enchant weapon
• enchanting with the new enchant spell has slight chance to add -1 saves or +1 hitroll to armor or weapons, respectively.
• higher wisdom increases those odds even more.
• psyke down has been adjusted to be more likely to bypass saves.
• armor golems are no longer affected by slow naturally.
• various read out changes, most importantly, lockers and containers.

For builders:

• mob award exp works in flat value. Use 'mob award $n exp 1234 noscale'
• mob preitle is a command. for safety reasons, its usage is 'mob mforce $n mob pretitle self lolmypretitle ' to remove pretitles, just use {x.
• mobs currently are locked out of magroll.

Changes 3-2-2018

• Cynbel Sea is now linked!
• The following areas have been removed from the "areas" command list: Magmoor Caverns, River City, Zanarkand, Magitek Factory.
• MiniMedals have been added to: Gold City, Gobi's Valley, Frosty Forest, Tonoe, Jungle of Illusion, Goreomemu Swamp.
• Level locks have been removed from: Orbonne Monastery, Guardia Castle, Dr Wily's Lab, Leires.
• Item re-balances: Mana Spirit Statues, Mirror Shield, Silver Gauntlets.
• Mob re-balances: Myrkur Necromancer, Great Rabite, Mushroomized Parasect, Angel Tower Spectre.
• Pandora's Clothes in Truce are re-categorized as 'jewelry' type.
• You have more time to complete Norstein Bekkler's light game in Truce.

Changes 2-19-2018

• Stealing an item you can't carry no longer hecks up the item's location.
• gptoss' damage is now a natural logarithm instead of base10... look forward to dealing more damage with it!
• Fling shouldn't cast weapons into the void or other mobs' inventories.

Changes 1-26-2018

• Sunsnug Isle is now accessible
• Mist Cave is accessible as an expansion to Magicant
• Hu Lao Gate is now accessible
• An alternate unlockable path is available to get to the northern areas of Guardia.
• Non-Saturn Valley ATMs no longer require ATM cards.
• The potion seed pots (Crysta & Viorar) have been removed
• Effects have been added to the remaining existing potion seeds that enemies drop
• The speech in Lu Bu Feng Xian's delivery call is toned down
• The reward for collecting all the Chaos Emeralds is improved
• Asina on Joel Island more directly gives out quest initiation hints
• Bugfix where Moon Saber was not being rewarded

Changes 1-10-2018

• doubled the internal SPL_SPRD variable, which should reduce the variability of spell damage somewhat.
• those NPCs you thought were healers.... aren't anymore. see selan and company for uncursing and IDing stuff now.
• http://cod.mudmagic.com/who.php which conveniently updates whenever anyone who's not a staff member types 'who'.
• 'report skills' -- for ordering your pet reveal its innate combat skills.
• the 'cactus stool' made by a level 0 Mokuton no longer WORSENS regeneration.
• Frost Saber now has a chance to apply a short-duration Slow.
• Players and mobs warcry'ing at themselves have a better echo now.

for builders:

• mobs and objects no longer have a 'material'
• shopkeepers now *clone* objects when selling them, instead of making new ones.
  • this means infinite 'inventory' objects can be modified or restrung while still in the keeper's inventory, and the changes will now propagate to the bought copy.
• plus some other changes i probably forgot

-Benamas

Changes 12-30-2017

• Jutsu's lag time reduced from 20 to 12
• Fumes now applies Poison instead of Fear -- rev up those Leeches
• Ninjas get the Fear spell at level 45
• Merchants now get Firebreath instead of Heat Metal at level 50
• Gptoss is about half the cost to use but does the same damage
• Dual Wield now functions correctly/at all when you have 2x/3x-cut
• fixed that rogue . when paralyzed
• converting gold to silver in banks is now free (but who does this)
• 'report offense' shows magroll now

Changes 12-29-2017

• Magroll is now percentage-based: 1 magroll is now equivalent to 1% more damage when casting a spell that deals damage. Builders, keep this in mind going forward when/if adding Magroll to items! Healing is also slated to be affected by this as well, but is not yet.

Changes 12-27-2017

• "MAGROLL" is a thing now. It applies a flat damage bonus to most spells and damaging affects. There will be some exceptions (base Summoner spells), and there will be some instances where magroll has an exaggerated effect (multi- hit spells like Rainbow). Some builds will be better, some won't be affected, but none should take a nerf from this. Regardless, we're in uncharted territory!
• Characters receive a bonus to Magroll similar to how Strength affects Damroll in practice, this is going to be about... 5 magroll for most casters
• Builders can put Magroll on mobs and items (replaced previously nonfunctional bonus to saves vs paralysis?) -- use this sparingly, as you did damroll!!!
• Bleeding damage now caps at level*3 per round so megabosses don't drain dry for thousands of damage per round
• Enchant Weapon's effect with Damroll has been readjusted up to 15%. More tweaking possible pending smoothing out Magroll.

Changes 12-23-2017

• any potential mob with vnum 3708 will be able to attack now (weird stock bug)
• many abilities no longer penetrate the Shell affect
• 'rod' and 'event' type items will display their current cooldown time when Scan'd/examine'd
• enchanted weapons were having their damage bonus DOUBLED -- this has been corrected from 20% extra damroll per enchant to 10%
  • this seems like a nerf but check out the helpfile -- it was only SUPPOSED to be 5%
• giga drain's mp cost cut by 1/3
• vampires only regenerate 1hp/pulse while exposed to sunlight
• plus other changes I've forgotten!

Changes 6-15-2017

UPDATES:

• Pip will refresh his inventory every day even when players are away.
• Flameshe and the pumpkinhead butler will now not accept items (for now)
• Electrical barrier seems to be working correctly.
• Aisu's door is two-way.
• El Nido quest list fixed
• Vehicle loss in quest rooms: There isn't really a good solution that doesn't involve revamping how vehicles work.
• Kiki responds to Elazul when appropriate.
• The certain Gypsy Camp quest has the appropriate story prerequisites now.

Changes 6-04-2017

• added 'glance' command to show only room name, exits, and contents when 'brief' is on
• re-added 'exits' command -- beware of fake room names (re: mobprog trickery)
• re-added 'resistances' command -- shows a short version when 'brief' mode is on
• fixed a problem involving mobs with vampirism and the haunt affect which probably broke a bunch of other things too

for builders:

• new exit flag 'nomob'

for me:

• cleared various compile warnings
• prototype "who's online" webpage cod.mudmagic.com/who.htm -- for now, only updates when a staff member types 'who2'

--Ben

Changes 3-29-2016

Various other changes have went in, but here are the highlights:

• oset is finished off with using flag names (vs their numerical value) in the value(0-4) slots, where needed. (the imm command 'set obj' has been updated to do the same)
• "pet" has been added to the necromancers, to retrieve the corpse of all pets at once(that actually leave a corpse). Eg. necro pet
• Added affected2 if check eg. If affected2 focus
• Added fast affect2 flag (works like the fast vehicle flag)
• Added 'quicken spell' (applies fast)

Changes 1-20-2016

New mob commands:

  mset          - See 'help set' for details
  oset          - This isn't actually new but more has been added to it, see 'help set'
  mforce        - Allows players to execute mob commands without the use of an event item. (ie mob mforce $n mob cast fireball)
  mob face name - Mobs change their name tags

New Variables:

  $A            - Same as $o, without quotes around name tags
  $b            - Mob's remember target's race
  $B            - Mob's remember target's level
  These have been added to 'help variable' (Thanks Odwofi!)

Various Changes:

  Brief mode is (re?)enabled due to volume of requests lately
  Wildcasting has been changed to a toggle
  Wildcasting has been added to affects2
  Affects2 can be toggled with mob flag