DragonRealms Updates (2025)

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Changes to the game during the 2025 calendar year.

January 2025

Fun-Day Fridays 21: The FLAGS command now has an option to toggle on ShowRoomID. This will let players see underlying room IDs, though it is still a work in progress. For now any rooms with special mechanics attached to them are excluded, but more will be evaluated over time for addition to the list.^[1]
Tuesday Tidings 255: Release of an Outfitting Society on Aesry. ^[2]
Fun-Day Fridays 22: Opening of a new shop in the House of the Silver Star in Shard.^[3]
Tuesday Tidings 256: Update to home status tracking logic to give people a reminder nudge if there are player houses on their account that have not been visited in the last 365 days.^[4]
Fun-Day Fridays 23: Addition of new animated items to fight in Tref Dinta south of Leth Deriel.^[5]
Tuesday Tidings 257: More giant bear hunting space near rock trolls!^[6]
Fun-Day Fridays 24: The disheveled architect has been added to the squat bungalow to sell customizable home blueprints to estate holders for 250 LTBs.^[7]
Tuesday Tidings 258: Crafting instructions now show how many uses they have remaining when they are READ. Also, in the Test instance, they will convert to have unlimited uses when someone uses READ or STUDY on them, as well as clearing any bond on them.^[8]
Fun-Day Fridays 25: Release of the Sorrow spell for Moon Mages.^[9]

Tuesday Tidings 259: Update to TEND to allow tending multiple wounds/lodged objects at once, depending on skill. Options to try to tend as many EXTERNAL, INTERNAL, or OBJECTS as possible, with stacked roundtime and experience.^[10]
Fun-Day Fridays 26: Added HEALTH TOGGLE, which allows seeing numeric percentages for health, spirit, and fatigue from HEALTH, as well as in combat messaging. ^[11]
Tuesday Tidings 260: Addition of the SUGGEST verb, with MOUNT as the first option. Used to suggest portals that don't work properly with horses, for GMs to review.^[12]
Fun-Day Fridays 27: New breaking & entering loot added to the armory and workroom.^[13]
Tuesday Tidings 261: Four new rooms added to the hunting area for onyx gargoyles.^[14]
Fun-Day Fridays 28: Update to inventory at Ocan's Bait and Tackle in Fang Cove. Bait, hooks, and lines are now in wearable containers, with lines and hooks of the same size consolidated into a single container.^[15]
Tuesday Tidings 262: Update to CREATEMAT in the Test Instance to allow the creation of wands that summon crafting equipment. Unlimited use, 1 minute cooldown, and all tools have 99 quality/potency and last for three hours. ^[16]
Fun-Day Fridays 29: Introduction of new high level (180) creature near El'bain's Stop in Therengia, the thornkin. ^[17]

Tuesday Tidings 263: Added a new CIRCLE option to the EXP command, which shows skills needed for your next circle, as if asking a guildleader about it.^[18]
Fun-Day Fridays 30: Addition of the FUME roleplaying verb. ^[19]
Tuesday Tidings 264: Update to ShowRoomID flag option to show the room ID in more types of rooms. ^[20]
Fun-Day Fridays 31: Addition of the BOOP roleplaying verb. ^[21]
Tuesday Tidings 265: Added rentable private rooms to the remaining crafting halls in Shard that did not have them.^[22]
Fun-Day Fridays 32: Dokt has retired from his work as a healer, and opened up a new store in Knife Clan. ^[23]
Tuesday Tidings 266: Updates to the skeleton gift from Hollow Eve, to make it better function with modern systems.^[24]
Fun-Day Fridays 33: The LANGUAGE command has been updated to allow speaking Common with accents, based on race and citizenship. ^[25]

Tuesday Tidings 267: The barges from Riverhaven to Langenfirth and Throne City have been added to the list for TOGGLE DISEMBARK.^[26]
Fun-Day Fridays 34: The rest of the guild renown scrolls have been updated to use the new system, where they will reset annually and have some tweaked criteria. ^[27]
Tuesday Tidings 268: A number of book-type items with different mechanics have been standardized so that turning them to contents, index, beginning, or start will work on all of them to turn to the first page of the book.^[28]
Fun-Day Fridays 35: Updates to Embrace of the Vela'Tohr. Plants show how damaged they are in the active spell window, show what room they are in for Empath PERCing, and corpses can be healed by someone pointing the plant at them.^[29]
Tuesday Tidings 269: Addition of an Engineering Society to Mer'Kresh.^[30]
Fun-Day Fridays 36: Release of the new Advanced Combat Maneuver, RUSH. With a shield held in your left hand, allows you to jump to melee and perform a shield slam.^[31]
Release of a lockpick shop on Ratha. ^[32]