DragonRealms Updates (2020)

Changes to the game during the 2020 calendar year.

January

• Breaking and Entering in Test.
• Foraging changes make it possible to forage most things outside of their natural habitat with an increased skillcheck.
• Estate holders can now sell gems and furs at night in Fang Cove.
• The Crossing monastery fields estate holder hunting grounds are updated to separate the various huntable creatures found there.
• URCHIN command and urchin Login Rewards system guides in Test.
• Harm Horde Cleric spell updated to respect TARGETING OPTIONS and default to engaged.
• Small quality of life update to the SIGN command for guilded Thieves.
• NAME command update to be usable outside of special character-creation areas. You can also now check if a name is already taken or not.
• House of the Revenant Fang 433 microtransaction event.
• ROLL and UNROLL commands updated for prayer mats and rugs to utilize the at feet slot.

February

• Regeneration Items can all now be registered.
• Losing your hands to injuries will now result in your held items dropping to your feet instead of the ground.
• Breaking and Entering goes live in all instances.
• Forge wands now include ingot cutters.
• RECALL cooldown timer for use is now real life time, instead of logged in time.
• Tuesday Tidings development strike team's first release.

10 new Extreme Shop items in The Fallen.

• Changes to locksmithing experience, discouraging the use of "pet boxes" that grossly outclass your skill level.

March

• Tuesday Tidings 2: Young wyverns Estate Holder expansion and spawn normalization.
• Tuesday Tidings 3: Umbral moth expansion in Forfedhdar.
• INVENTORY command updates:

1. INV SEARCH now has a "click-to-get" option in supported front-ends. That is, INV SEARCH RING will help find and get all of those rings you're carrying. Try it with different items, and if you run into trouble or aren't finding something, make sure you've OPENed your bags first.
2. INV SLOTS will now show a count of items at your feet.
3. INV ATFEET will show what's lying at your feet without needing to LOOK at yourself.

• Tuesday Tidings 4: Family vault services expanded to the carousels of Dirge, Leth Deriel and Therenborough.
• Circle of Sympathy Empath spell update:

1. The spell will now pulse more slowly, but there's no longer a limit to how much attunement a pulse can transfer. It should feel much more impactful overall.
2. The spell now requires shock-free empathy.

• Droughtman's Challenge 433 microtransaction event.
• Updates to the TEST command, adding options for your teleportation and financing needs in the Test Instance.
• Tuesday Tidings 5: New BADNAME command to flag potentially policy violating names for staff review.
• Lakyan's Tailored Goods and Repair in Fang Cove is now open day and night. (Lakyan's repairs both metal and nonmetal items.)
• Tuesday Tidings 6:

1. Junkyard mechanics were updated to include a few more verbs to help those of you who end up visiting it. APPRAISE, BREAK, COUNT, LOWER and UNTIE should now be usable.
2. Update to the FLAGS verb to toggle (yours and others') custom login/logout messages.

April

• The Spring Promotion 2020 events begin.
• Tuesday Tidings 7: New level 58-63 Tree Snake and Birdcatcher Spider hunting ground near Siksraja released.
• Tuesday Tidings 8: New level 185-188 Void black umbral moth hunting ground released in Forfedhdar.
• Tuesday Tidings 9: New base level 190 (spawns level 188-192) Elder Adan'f blademaster, Elder Adan'f sorcerer hunting ground expansion in Ilithi's Whistling Woods.

1. Elder Adan'f blademasters and sorcerers are now skinnable.
2. The Whistling Wood is now boreal.

• Tuesday Tidings 10: The Parfumerie Perfume and cologne shop joins the (real life) weekly rotating shops for Estate Holders in Fang Cove. Look for the stately white caravan west of the exit portal in Fang Cove.

1. Fang Cove's rotating shops are also reset to rotate on Tuesdays (although this will drift over time).

May

• Tuesday Tidings 11: Family vaults expanded to include locations in Shard, Fang Cove and Ratha.
• STEALING from players is now mechanically prohibited in all Repair Shops.
• Tuesday Tidings 12: HORK and GAG commands implemented.
• Tuesday Tidings 13: 85 new player homes added throughout Zoluren in Prime.
• Su Helmas: The Forbidden Temple 434 microtransaction event.
• Tuesday Tidings 14: Arthelun cabalist estate holder hunting ground expansion.

June

• Tuesday Tidings 15: Dira'ela Lloriena's Beauty Salon reopens in Leth Deriel, offering some limited (and basic) feature alteration options. All services are mundane in nature.
• Moon Mages: Changes to experience given for OBSERVE (or PEER TELESCOPE), and to the prediction pool bonus when using telescopes.
• STUDY command update for telescopes to show syntax and relative telescope quality.
• Paladins can now APPRAISE FOCUS for the conviction skill with functional Soulstone items.
• TEST EVALUATE command update allows access to a player-friendly version of the staff creature evaluation tool to test creatures in the test instance for Estimated creature level.
• Tuesday Tidings 16: Fang Cove has gains a new housing neighborhood, and the time requirement for Platinum's portals are lowered.
• Tuesday Tidings 17: Relative creature level 195-198 Shadowfrost moths Estate Holder hunting ground released in the Vela'tohr Woods in Forfedhdar.
• Tuesday Tidings 18:

1. Facial Hair RTs have been lowered considerably and there are now STUDY mechanics to explain verbs, tools, and more.
2. PUT command update with a new warning message when you try to put an item in/on/under/behind a container in the room that also matches to something you're wearing.

• Tuesday Tidings 19: Family vault locations added to Riverhaven, Aesry Surlaenis'a and Hibarnhvidar.

July

• Dragon Priest juggernaut bomb's disarm roundtime is now skill and stat based. It also trains some locksmithing now.
• The first Necromancer advanced State of Being, Redemption, released in Platinum.
• There is now a circle 10 requirement to become Redeemed.
• Anabasis spellbook spells announced.

1. Solace: Same as Protection from Evil, but against holy attacks and attackers.
2. Emuin's Candlelight [EMC]: Bonuses Evasion and staggers incoming damage over time.
3. Rite of Forbearance [ROF]: Cyclic spell with two effects that grow substantially more powerful the more forbidden spells you know.

1. Reduces the attunement cost of spellcasting but stops attunement regeneration.
2. Increases the integrity of outgoing offensive spells for barrier piercing purposes, beyond the normal cap, potentially allowing you to pierce any integrity barrier.

• Book Burning (planned)
• Ebon Blood of the Scorpion [EBOTS]: Metaspell with three Blood Magic effects.

1. Heighten Pain gains practically infinite duration but becomes limited to one target at a time. If a creature dies with it, the curse will jump to another creature in the room. (Relatedly, ASSESS will now show HP victims as "pained" for everyone, regardless of the metaspell.)
2. Siphon Vitality's vitality healing effect is replaced by a vitality shield that is more efficient per point of damage.
3. Blood Burst loses its bleeder requirement / vitality cost.

• Tuesday Tidings 20: Giant bear relative creature level 43-47 hunting ground released in the Journalai Route near rock trolls.
• Tuesday Tidings 21:

1. Shrapnel boxes have been updated to remove their PvP and mech abuse aspects. When such a box detonates, it will only harm the person who blew it; it will no longer lodge shards in others nearby. Additionally, the wounds were changed from external wounds to internal.
2. Anatomy charts and textbooks have been added as valid APPRAISE FOCUS targets for First Aid.
3. Tembeg's Armory in Crossing has three new metal masks (chain, scale, and plate).

• Drathrok's Duskruin 435 microtransaction event
• Tuesday Tidings 22: A new brush-choked pathway near Leth Deriel's NW gate, in the Northern Reaches of Bosque Deriel for premium Rangers at level 50+ leads to a nature-friendly clearing within the surrounding woods. A mix of cabins and tree-type homes are available to be claimed by those eligible.
• Creatures that are attacking other creatures will no longer count toward a hunting area's spawn population.

This means that combat pets like Guardian Spirit and Awaken Forest will not interfere with other players' hunting.

• BURGLE/Breaking and Entering updates:

1. You will now receive a message about why you're being arrested.
2. You can now be arrested for being too close to your inventory limit.

• Tuesday Tidings 23:

1. ATMOS verb has new options.
2. Group window is more reliable!

August

• Tuesday Tidings 24:

1. A new weapon shop, The Art of Attack, added into the rotation in Fang Cove.
2. The number of rotating shops in Fang Cove has increased. Now three shops will be open at a time (up from two).

• Tuesday Tidings 25: Relative creature level 63 (can spawn -2 to +2, range of 61-65) Onyx gargoyle magical construct hunting ground release in the Journalai Route.
• Tuesday Tidings 26: The Mer'Kresh, Muspar'i, and Boar Clan carousels have all had family vault services added.
• Free to play characters have a (30) thirty minute cooldown timer on use of the GIVE and SHARE COIN commands.
• Tuesday Tidings 27: Premium juvenile wyvern hunting ground expansion into a new valley on Wyvern Mountain in Ilithi.

September

• SNIPE attacks by Rangers and Thieves will now always show the attacker's name to the victim, similar to how the Vivisection spell functions. SNIPE is no longer subject to special PvP policy of its own, and all SNIPE bans have been lifted.
• Tuesday Tidings 28: Relative creature level 113 (spawns -2 to +2, so 111-115) bronze leucro hunting ground release in the Daelfa Seord'telgi area near Langenfirth.
• Flying carpets can be ROLLED and UNROLLED at your feet to prevent item loss. Carpets will now follow you around as long as you are in a room where getting on a mount is possible. If it can't follow you, it will go to the pet storage room until you can be followed, to prevent it getting deleted by the room unloading.
• Release of Response Rewards, a question and answer system, allowing GMs to award RPAs to attentive players who use the SUBMIT verb to answer questions. You can opt in or out of this feature with the FLAGS command.
• Tuesday Tidings 29:

1. HOME CATALOG NEARBY command option release to help you find unclaimed homes in neighborhoods near you.
2. URCHIN GUIDES expanded to include the URCHIN GUIDE HOME command to guide you to your own home. As with all urchin commands; requires being in a justice area, having an urchin guide contract, and being in the same province as your home.

• The SUBMIT command now works while traversing Ranger trails. As a result of this update, system level commands also work on Ranger trails now.

Examples of system level commands: OOC information verbs such as FIND, WHO, RPA, INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH, STAMINA, EXPERIENCE, etc.

• Redeemed Necromancers are now able to obtain a religious affiliation title ("of <Immortal>") from a Cleric communing with Truffenyi. If the Redeemed status is then lost, the title will be removed as well.
• Tuesday Tidings 30: Serene Surfaces player home table furniture shop opens in Shard's South Bridge.
• Fantasy Excursions: Taisidon Mystery 435 microtransaction event.
• New gems released during Taisidon Mystery 435: tidal bloodstone, iceblink peridot, fire whirl ruby, and cosmic zircon.
• Tuesday Tidings 31: PREMIUM 6, which lists the various premium hunting areas around the game, has been updated to a new format using the new mechs.
• Bronze leucros are now SKINNABLE.
• End of the preview period for the Imbue spell.
• Tuesday Tidings 32:

1. Two new TOGGLEs have been added to provide numeric values, in APPRAISE messages as well as mana levels via PERCEIVE.
2. The base armor hindrance rankings have been expanded to 15 visible values, up from 8. The stats of items did NOT change; this is a cosmetic change to provide more granularity when comparing items.

October

• Tuesday Tidings 33: Scavenger giants (Relative creature level 185) introduced in the dense brambles beyond Crossing's north gate. The existing area has been revamped and includes some Premium hunting options.
• Tuesday Tidings 34:

1. The debt listing in the INFO and WEALTH verbs now includes a reminder about URCHIN runners to remotely pay your debts.
2. The PAY verb has been updated with a PAY ALL option for debt offices.
3. The TEST verb was updated to give you potency crystals and infuser stones to assist in testing items that use them.

• Treasure maps now only point to places that have been visited by player characters before.
• Tuesday Tidings 35: Breaking and Entering system loot additions in the bedroom.
• Tuesday Tidings 36: Aesry Surlaenis'a stairs and climbing barriers get a rework to account for Athletics skill.

CLIMBING roundtime/travel time can be reduced to 1 second with skill.

Fatigue cost during climbing on Aesry is reduced with skill.

November

• Andreshlew rises and Hollow Eve Festival 436 begins.
• Release of new Hollow Eve materials: Kelpzyte, Coralite, Asarenjan, Gloomglass, Suirite, Taigo, Zuzaret, Seasilk, Turtleplait, Ayabere, and Voilyne.
• Tuesday Tidings 37: TOGGLE command updates:

TOGGLE ATTRIBUTES adds support for numeric ratings for Luck. Future updates will apply to other INFO command attributes.

Picking and Disarming trapped boxes will now reflect numerical ratings for difficulty tied to TOGGLE APPRAISAL when using IDENTIFY.

• Sleeping Dragon Corn Maze 436 microtransaction event.
• Tuesday Tidings 38: Four new LTBs -- a fluff bonder, an armor bonder, and empty wallets (stackers) for potency crystals and infuser stones added to the Squat Bungalow in Fang Cove.
• Tuesday Tidings 39: Changes to the special drop attack from adult and bone wyverns. It now uses the core utility to handle the damage applied instead of custom handling, and should now be less punishing.
• Tuesday Tidings 40: Zoluren housing expansion, with the addition of Steelpine Circle in Knife Clan. 24 new lower class rural homes added.

December

• Tuesday Tidings 41: New (amphibian-themed) pet shop, Zand's Exotic Pets, added to the rotation in Fang Cove.
• Tuesday Tidings 42: Expansion of the existing TOGGLE APPRAISAL setting to cover use of COMPARE on weapons, shields, and armor.
• Glyph of Warding rewrite.
• Updates to the Paladin spell Vessel of Salvation.

1. The caster is no longer penalized for drawing vitality out of their own vessel.
2. The vessel can be TURNed to set it follow the Paladin around rather than remain in the room where it was cast.

• Messaging tweaks to Dazzle spell.
• Tuesday Tidings 43: Return of forest bandits (estimated level of 36-44) to Ilaya Taipa.
• Alfar (Guardian Spirits) flagged as holy creatures.
• Living spider cloaks (such as the spidersilk cloaks sold at the Corn Maze) can now be worn by any guild.
• Tuesday Tidings 44: The elsralael (58) + crocodile (27-28) hunting area outside Shard's south gate has been split up so that the two creatures don't overlap. Their individual spawn rates were increased. Nearby rock trolls should overall have a better spawn experience.
• Platinum preview of new Enlightened Geometry metaspell, Ripplegate Theory.
• Tuesday Tidings 45: New furniture shop, Rustic Roots, released in Hibarnhvidar (outer). Features tables utilizing mikkhalbamar and other materials common to the western regions.