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.

Changes 8-2-2014

• fixed a bug with Drain.
• 'Mysterious' flag now also hides weapon damage from Scan/examine/info.
• 'key' type items properly disappear on lag-induced logouts.
• 'mob cast' now accepts 'all' as a target -- weirdly.
• new item flag 'noecho' - suppresses 'soandso uses suchandsuch' etc on usable items (replaces now-unused ITEM_RUNIC).
• Wizen now works correctly from wands if you don't actually have the Wizen skill.
• so do Tranquility and Abomination.
• Death Coil heals more when Charged like it's supposed to.
• helpfiles added for Doom Reverb, Sonic Boom, Vitriol, Firebreath, Gastro Acid, Influenza, Skylight, Rippler, saikyo-ryu.

• new skills:
  • Rippler: swap status affects with target, always works on self or groupmates
  • Influenza: long-duration status affect that cuts regen and even prevents sleeping
  • saikyo-ryu style: expand Taunt repertoire and execute mana-damaging specials

Changes 6-1-2013

• Non-elemental Wizards now conjure acoustic elementals instead of eclipse elementals.
• Lockers now available for use in Truce and Viorar banks, and for purchase in player housing.
• Faron Woods is now linked north of Zigolis Swamp!

For Builders:

• New spells: Doom Reverb, Sonic Boom, Vitriol, Firebreath, Gastro Acid, Influenza, Skylight, Grease( Influenza and Grease are castable but have no effect yet).
• New affect flag AFF_INFLUENZA replaces AFF_SLEEP -- will cause regen-damaging debuffs but doesn't do that yet.
• Races list is prettier when remorting.
• Fixed a few typoes in spell echos.
• Enchant Weapon no longer strips affects from weapons.

-Ben

Changes 5-4-2013

• Final Weapon now has no weather at all (always 0/0 sky/wind).
• 'Report Defense' now shows saves.
• No more buggy double output on prompt option %O

For Builders:

• new mob act2 flag ACT_SHOPKEEPITEMS -- shopkeeper won't discard bought items from inventory over time.
• new area exflag noweather -- entire area is disconnected from weather grid, always has 0/0 weather, weather command fails.
• mobs can have Saves set per template - the ACT_MAGE flag still drops an extra -5 on top of this though.
• new mobprog command 'mob hit' -- mob executes an additional melee attack.
• replaced many many instances of 'mob goto self/mob kill $n' with 'mob hit $n'.
• Perma-haste on no longer raises mobs' Dexterity stat.
• Perma-Protect Good/Evil no longer improves a mob's saves by -1 each.

--Ben

Changes 5-1-2013

• Midas Glow creates coins of caster level (the better to use for Fulgor Burst.)
• Nochk artifice items can no longer raise the artifice skill.
• - You can send/receive tells while asleep.

For Builders:

• Immortals don't always automatically have 100% in every skill anymore.
• new item extra flag 'decaying' -- item loses 1 condition per minute, then disintegrates (replaces defunct 'hadtimer' flag).

--Ben

Changes 4-14-2013

• Wizards now receive the Detect Magic spell at level 10.
• Conjure Elemental now makes followers, not pets:

• you can have more than one elemental.
• you can have a pet AND an elemental.

• 'if vuln' check always returned false -- now works correctly:

• Phendrana's boss now works right.
• Katarina's Granbull is now nastier to fight (as intended).

• 'wandify' command added (uses staffify skill).
• 'mob petify' now respects group size and charmie limits.
• the Slow affect no longer penalizes HP and MP regen (but still penalizes MV regen).
• Hylian Fencing helpfile amended -- it works when OPPONENT parries (code was correct).

--Ben

Area Changes 3-16-2013

• Mt. Nibelheim has been revised.
• A new line of pets are in and accessible.
• Some junk has been scattered across the Cleft.
• A new raid boss has been added.
• Forde has a new minor quest for people level 30+.
• Brigantes' questlist has been cleaned up.

--Age

Changes 2-13-2013

• it is no longer possible to exceed carrying capacity via money.
• gold and silver have 1/4th the weight.
• autosplit is now permanently on, and splitting text is simplified.
• offensive (kill imp) and defensive (cast barrier imp) actions preferentially target valid enemies and groupmates, respectively.
• 'echomagic' skill added, which Sorcerers get at level 40.
• only innateless Sorcerers get Tractor Beam, which replaces Halo.
• surecasting's level reduced to 30.
• saves vs. Beguile ignores target's level.
• audiences no longer shrink when skills of incorrect mood are used.
• 'karma' skill added (for future use by Surgeons?).
• fixed bug where closed containers couldn't be picked up from the ground.
• healing spells show restored health to 3rd parties.
• players can now idle out of password input, MOTD, & character creation.
• fixed an issue where pets could login without their masters.
• 'affects' has simpler output for "locationless" affects (e.g. regen, risk).
• syntax such as 'sit down' and 'lie down on bed' work.

For Builders:

• fixed an issue where all "flag" ifchecks returned true if flag not found.
• $y now returns mob's full name in quotes (like all other name variables).

--MTS