Alter Aeon Recent Changes and Additions

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---- Feb 09, 25 [3271]
From Valront:
Brag/show cost will now be slightly more informative for levels with
microlevels. (Eggweard)
Fixed long standing bug that caused hiding spots to become exposed in certain
circumstances when mobs left a room despite the player being darkened.

The resilience warpaint will now protect against  the effects of fatigue
and exhaustion. (Thank you Draak for helping me clean that up, and Eggweard
for the idea)

Group leaders will be given a more specific message when players would be
left behind due to being over encumbered, shadow bound, rooted, or melee
fighting. Retreat will also tell you if a player was left behind due to
shadow bind or entangle.

From Draak:
Some changes to blindness code. Still air now provides some protection
from debris-based blindness such as dust devil and dirt throwing.
Some adjustments to leathercraft, including leathercrafted items will
have slightly lower ac to make more room, and some tweaks armor.

---- Feb 02, 25 [3269]
From Draak:
Hopefully fixed a rare bug where a player fighting a ranged mob(s)
can die twice!
Bunch of little fiddly stuff with crafting. In particular, leathercrafted
cloaks should be armor while tailored cloaks should be clothing again.
The 'score' command now shows all the debuffs.
Cleaned up the drunk task interface a bit. (Hood)

---- Jan 26, 25 [3267]
From Draak:
Crafted cloaks should now be type ARMOR again.
Wild Hunt mobs should no longer appear in group areas.

From Brak:
Remove the superfluous sending of 'ok' strings from get/put commands.
Fix bug which was sending position change notifies for disabled leaderboards.

From Valront:
Added brag/show woodcount and mineralcount.

---- Jan 20, 25 [3265]
From Valront:
You can now brag to elder tell. (Eggweard)
Bottling should now be filtered by spam extreme.(Eggweard)
You can now set nodeathsend to prevent your deaths from being sent to other 
players feeds. (Rhorae)

Adjusted spam filtering for Death and Decay, it should now provide some
feedback to the caster when spam filters are on. Also removed spam
filtering for when Death and Decay ends, and added a bit more color
too. (Eggweard)

From Draak:
New tailored item: leg warmers.
Added brag/show "url". (Shryth)
Tweaks to Wild Hunt level calculations, to try to catch people that are
being excluded.

Slight rebalancing for certain natural attacks:
bite now does pointed and blunt damage
beak now does edged and blunt damage
claw now does edged and pointed damage

---- Jan 15, 25 [3264]
From Draak:
Fixed a bug with the Wild Hunt.

---- Jan 12, 25 [3262]
From Draak:
The 'event show' command will display information about certain recurring
events that you've participated in. Unfortunately it is not retroactive,
but it will fill in over time.

---- Jan 07, 25 [3261]
From Draak:
Fixed a bug with throwing at mobs with interactive programs.
Tailoring now checks for other actions (such as lifetap) earlier in its
process to prevent failure after subtracting gold. (Mink)

---- Jan 05, 25 [3258]
From Brak:
The keyword 'rwood' will now be added to rare wood providing the gatherer
has adequate  knowledge of woodcraft.

From Draak:
Lots of behind the scene event code. We have something new in store for the
anniversary event.

---- Dec 25, 24 [3257]
From Brak:
The '-count' and '-weight' search switches can now be used together to
provide a weight total and item count summary.

From Draak:
Some twiddling with the craft command so it can parse things like
'katana blade' properly.
New calculation for figuring out armor on crafted items. This should
clear up issues with ac on crafted tower shields.

Some natural language handling added to the brew parser. You should be
able to use a statement like 'brew a potion from this root crystal and
ashes'.

---- Dec 15, 24 [3255]
From Draak:
Killing camels and lycanthropes that are too low level for Hump Day
and Thirsty Thursday tasks will now send an FYI message.
Jobs that require talking to mobs should now work correctly again.
Forge list weapon is more consistent about weapon chains.
Fixed a long-standing bug with the control command showing 0 control
available per class when you have no minions. (Ryland)
Minor fixes to the crafting parsers.

Some crafted weapons have been rebalanced. Southern-style weapons
will typically have higher dierolls, but less hitroll and damroll.
You should be able to make heavier two-handed weapons in most cases.

---- Dec 01, 24 [3254]
From Brak:
New eqset keep and unkeep commands to toggle keep flags on entire eqsets.
Show/brag control now includes the control point total.
Add a free eqset to the list of possible christmas advent calendar gifts.

From Draak:
Shortid should now show if an item is a FOCUS.
Four new druidic totems: yeti, raven, viper, dolphin
Fixed an issue with renaming certain pieces of leathercrafted equipment.
Lapidary orbs will be made with the HELD wear location again.
Attempt to add more naturalist input to the tailoring parser.

The craft command can now accept two words for an object's name,
for example:

craft a pair of work gloves from the skin

---- Nov 24, 24 [3253]
From Draak:
Fixed parsing with crafting commands to properly accept level arguments.
The craft command should work with leathercraft derived skills now.
Thanks to Rhorae for the detailed bug reports that helped me address
these issues.
Fixed a bug with assembling armor.

From Shadowfax:
New dclient music tracks for Dreahul, Ironheart, Pellam, the Dunn Hurr
and sundry other areas.

---- Nov 23, 24 [3251]
From Draak:
The pick lock daily task will now work with doors. Previously there
was an omission so it only worked with objects.
Impale can now properly strike mortally wounded targest that are not
stunned. (Judas)
Clean-up for warpaint strings.
You can now relabel brewed, bottled poisons, if you know the brew
poison skill. (Naul)
Horned helmets should have reduced armor so damroll can manifest on
them again. (Eggweard)

The bonecraft, lapidary, leathercraft, metallurgy and woodcraft can
now accept more natural language for creating new objects, for instance,
you can type:

leathercraft a pair of combatboots from this skin

You can still specify 'create' or 'new' for object names that might
conflict with other subparser commands.

Note that typos in these commands will 'fall off the end' into the
creation parser. So if you type accidently type 'forge lsit weapons',
the command will let you know that 'lsit' is not something you can
craft.

The craft command can now be used to create new bonecrafted,
lapidary, leathercrafted, metallurgy or woodcrafted items. The
The format is 'craft <item name> <resource>'. It will accept
more natural language as well, for example:

craft a goblet from this oak

---- Nov 10, 24 [3250]
From Draak:
Several new daily tasks added to the rotation.
Bleeding and flaming should be much less likely to restart combat if you
flee and sneak back into the room. (Dex)
Attacks that knock targets down have a more pronounced crippling effect.

Added hints to some jobs regarding keywords for system objects like caught
fish, gathered wood, butchered meat, etc. These will only show up for
players that are level 15 and under.

You can now jump. This will have some effects on a few combat skills such
as kicking and stomping, while others cannot be done while jumping. It
takes extra movement, and you can lose your balance if you are not
careful. See 'help jump' for more information.
Skill help pages will show if they can be done while jumping.
NOTE: Jumping is somewhat experimental, and there are probably
some weird things not accounted for.

---- Nov 03, 24 [3247]
From Draak:
Fixed up the metallurgy checks to increase accuracy. (Loxias)
Room strings for call lightning will now be filtered by spam extreme. (Kliro)
Dominate animal no longer works on polymorphed toads.
Fixed rare but very dangerous bug that allowed mobs to recall into the
wrong instance.

---- Oct 26, 24 [3244]
From Draak:
You can use the brew command to search potion recipes that you have
submitted using the 'mine' keyword, 'brew help' for more information.
Small lapidary craft string clean-ups.
Boomerangs can now be bonecrafted again.

From Brak:
Player shops are now automatically set to be permanently lit. (Morpheus)

---- Oct 12, 24 [3241]
From Brak:
Add more help text for 'credit buy clanrankstrings' so it is more clear
that you need to contact Dentin for approval. (Morpheus)
Add extra check for 'credit buy clanname' so you can see how it your
change will appear on the 'where' command before you purchase. (Morpheus)

From Draak:
Fixed an issue with knapped objects and handles.
You should be able to assemble hatchets and meteor hammers now.
Fixed a bug with cry of victory and daze/stun, and tightened up cripple and
bleeding checks. You can now see if mobs are crippled by looking at them.

New object type: INSTRUMENT. You may see certain objects be changed to
this new type, and they will show an additional information on identify
such as STRINGED or PERCUSSION.

---- Oct 06, 24 [3239]
From Draak:
Minor clean-ups with bleed/cripple.
If you sleep long enough to be sharp, bleeding, daze/stun and crippling
will automatically clear. Note this does not apply to nausea or hypothermia.
You will automatically regain your balance when you sleep, as the act of
laying down balances you.
Fixed issue with forged arrowheads and ammo not being made in batches.
New stone knapped item: celt.

Level limits added to daily task entries. This will make it so certain
tasks will not be given to players below a certain level, in addition
to any other restrictions they may have.

New waypoint option, 'waypoint where'. This functions like waypoint with
no arguments, except it adds a directional indicator to the end of the
lines. (Melcor)

---- Sep 28, 24 [3237]
From Draak:
Stone knapping has been converted over the template system. Two new
knapped objects have been added, as well: macuahuitl and handaxe.
Forged handaxes are now hatchets, because biface is a lame name for
a cool stone-aged tool.
Strings for fly changed to remove references to the ground, since you
might be floating in the ocean or standing on a magic cloud. (Maltora)
Composition SARD changed to SARDIUS to avoid conflicts with SARDONYX.
You can substitute leather straps for grips when assembling forged weapons.
Claw gauntlets should now have proper stats.
Fixed a display bug with woodcraft assembled weapons.
Addressed an issue with woodcraft check and bundles of sticks. (Zelda)

---- Sep 22, 24 [3234]
From Draak:
Lower level crafted weapons now have internal limits on their
dierolls, to prevent making ones that can't be improved upon.
You can now add medallions to lapidary necklaces.
Misc small fixes with arrowheads and the adding thereof.
Some sanitizing to job requests in regards to objects with high weights.

The 'woodcraft list woods', 'tailor list fabric' and 'lapidary list
minerals' commands can now be searched by composition. For example,
'woodcraft list woods oak' will display the entry for oak, provided
you have found it before.


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