DragonRealms Updates (2024)

Changes to the game during the 2024 calendar year.

January

• Tuesday Tidings 202: Addition of 61 new Paladin titles.
• Tuesday Tidings 203: Update to HOME REMOVE so that generated vouchers include furniture details in the tap. Update to stat commands to include how many TDPs you currently have, for comparison to what you need in a single command.
• Tuesday Tidings 204: Addition of housing clerks to Shard.
• BOOST verb updated with BOOST BRIDGE {ON/OFF} toggle to always use bridges, instead of having to explicitly specify the numbers. Also fixed a few BOOST related bugs.
• Tuesday Tidings 205: New post office added in Shard.
• Update to Suspicion mechanics. Social Outrage still happens, but Suspicion now only accrues for Necromancers operating within city justice in Therengia, not the other provinces.
• Tuesday Tidings 206: New post office added in Hibarnhvidar.

February 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 207: Added a number of quality of life improvements to scroll stackers, along with having them check scroll difficulty when trying to add new scrolls.
• Tuesday Tidings 208: Addition of a PRACTICE option to COLLECT which does not generate items, as well as changes to the experience and roundtime calculations.
• Bug fix to potency calculations for Poison creation to check Alchemy rather than Mechanical Lore.
• Tuesday Tidings 209: New post office added in Aesry.
• Tuesday Tidings 210: New post office added in Fang Cove.
• Risen created by Necromancers can now perform some more actions from hiding, and use their creator's Stealth skill for checks.
• Release of Resection spell for Necromancers to cure disease and poison.

March 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 211: Addition of Researcher Trelmik offering tasks related to magma cobras in exchange for high level boxes.
• Tuesday Tidings 212: Addition of SkinKills and LootKills options to FLAGS, to automate skinning and looting on kills.
• Tuesday Tidings 213: New post office added to Therenborough.
• Tuesday Tidings 214: A number of new items added to the Museum of Imperial History in Throne City.

April 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 215: Addition of new housing clerks in Therenborough and Riverhaven.
• Tuesday Tidings 216: Addition of a new tier 12 artificing recipe for a new type of brazier.
• Tuesday Tidings 217: Addition of a new postal office in Leth Deriel.
• Tuesday Tidings 218: Release of the CREATEMAT verb in the Test instance, to generate crafting materials for test purposes. Currently only supports metals, but more to be added.
• Tuesday Tidings 219: Addition of TURN command for herb stackers to control the number of portions removed when taking herbs out. ASSESSing can also now be done while the stacker is worn, and a bug with TAKE was fixed.

May 2024

• New character images added to the game for Guildleaders Agonar, Ansprahv, Esuin, Gauthus, Kalag the Sly, Kalika, Kssarh, Salvur, and Verika.
• Tuesday Tidings 220: Addition of new rooms to the Riverhaven Market Plaza with additional player owned shops with a level requirement of 125+ to rent.
• Tuesday Tidings 221: Addition of a new postal office in Muspar'i.
• Update to the PLAYED verb to display a character's creation date.
• Update to the Trading Cards system to allow for alterations to create customized cards.
• Tuesday Tidings 222: Update to CREATEMAT to add leather and bone options to the materials that can be summoned in the Test Instance.
• Some increases to the number of available inventory slots.
• Also an update to increase the maximum inventory size from 500 items to 650 for paid accounts.
• Tuesday Tidings 223: Addition of bulk metal purchases to the Riverhaven forging society.

June 2024

• Safety check added to offering items for favor orbs. Items that are altered, bonded, registered, or valued over 1 platinum will be rejected.
• Tuesday Tidings 224: Start to implementing auto-disembark for a number of transport options, with a new TOGGLE setting. Initially applies to the ferries from Crossing to Leth Deriel and Crossing to Riverhaven.
• Tuesday Tidings 225: New post office added in Mer'Kresh.
• Release of Wild Magic as part of an ongoing event.
• Release of the Bonegrinder spell, currently available via Wild Magic.
• Updates to a number of Necromancer spells, as well as the release of the Call from Within, Book Burning, and Relight spells.
• Tuesday Tidings 226: Update to CREATEMAT to add cloth options to the materials that can be summoned in the Test Instance. Also changed summoned metals to produce smelted ingots, fixed a bug with generating coal, and updated CREATEMAT to place materials in your hands if possible, only dropping to feet when hands are full.
• Tuesday Tidings 227: More transports added to auto-disembark option in TOGGLE. Includes the ferries between Ain Ghazal and the Haalikshal Highway, and the gondola in Ilithi.

July 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 228: Added new skins to magma cobras, gale drakes, and hurricane drakes. Storm-scale leather and cobra-skin leather are designed to be more focused on elemental than physical protection.
• Tuesday Tidings 229: New post office added in Dirge.
• Update to multishot spells. Increase to damage dealt, can no longer specify a body part, minimum number of strikes from AoE multishot increased to 2, and Telekinetic Throw/Telekinetic Storm no longer have their accuracy impacted by range modifiers.
• New Paladin spell released: Sidasas Sedra. Metaspell for Smite Horde.
• Tuesday Tidings 230: Update to CREATEMAT to add stone and wood options.
• Update to Appraisal of creatures. Recognizes creature stats above 100, takes player stat buffs into account for comparison, and the CAREFUL option will now include Intelligence, Charisma, and Wisdom comparisons.
• Tuesday Tidings 231: More transports added to auto-disembark option in TOGGLE. The Kree'la (Riverhaven to Ratha), the Lybadel (Riverhaven to Aesry), and the Skirr'lolasu (Crossing to Ratha).
• Protection added to forges, crucibles, anvils, spinning wheels, looms, and braziers to prevent them from being cleaned off by anyone other than the crafter using them until a short timer expires. This timer is refreshed every time you perform a crafting action.
• Tuesday Tidings 232: New Trader themed rooms and shops added to Fayrin's Rest.

August 2024

• Winners announced for 2024 Elanthia's Regional Ingredients Lore Contest.
• Tuesday Tidings 233: New post office added in Rossman's Landing.
• Tuesday Tidings 234: Update to CREATEMAT to add sigil options.
• Announcement of the new Fun-Day Fridays initiative.
• Fun-Day Fridays 1: Addition of SUPPORT and NONGROUP target options for offensive AOE spells.
• Tuesday Tidings 235: Added PRACTICE ASSESS MEMORY for Bards to check their mojo. Also updated spell forgetting mechanics in Throne City to allow forgetting spells more frequently, in exchange for an increased plat cost.
• Fun-Day Fridays 2: Release of 50 new colors of dyes. The new colors are also now available to be used on weapon and armor flares.
• Tuesday Tidings 236: Added support for Bardic Screams to the auto-skinning/auto-looting functions.
• Fun-Day Fridays 3: Add new Estate Holder housing area called Two Rivers Boarding House.

September 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 237: New post office added in Jeihrem's Barrow.
• Fun-Day Fridays 4: Addition of new exits to Rock Trolls and Forest Geni that can be used if you're unable to pass the checks to get out, at the expense of roundtime.
• Tuesday Tidings 238: Addition of consumable items used in crafting to CREATEMAT.
• Fun-Day Fridays 5: New shops added to Shard's Crystal Plaza for circle 150+ Traders.
• Tuesday Tidings 239: Introduction of Remedies instructions for making alyssum tea, along with the ability to forage purple alyssum blossom, pink alyssum blossom, and white alyssum blossom to make it.
• Fun-Day Fridays 6: Added the ability to learn new languages. LANGUAGE now shows how many languages you can learn, and Polyglot Yulna can teach you them.
• Tuesday Tidings 240: Increased the timer before you get removed from vaults, and removed the time for re-entering a registration booth, if there's no one else waiting.
• Fun-Day Fridays 7: Added a new housing area near Leth Deriel with a number of tree-type homes.

October 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 241: New post office added in Langenfirth.
• Fun-Day Fridays 8: Instructions added to the Crossing Forging Society for characters with custom maker marks to recreate their mark with a different material.
• Tuesday Tidings 242: Update to CREATEMAT to add thread and herb options to the materials that can be summoned in the Test Instance.
• Fun-Day Fridays 9: New possible results added to Fishing in large rivers and the Reshal Sea.
• Tuesday Tidings 243: BOOST TRAVEL now provides a portal option for Hara'jaal, and CHEW now always shows the flavor messaging when eating food.
• Fun-Day Fridays 10: Addition of the new shop Dabrush Brawn in Inner Hibarnhvidar. Sells blunt weapons that perform better for Dwarves, along with some weapon straps.
• Tuesday Tidings 244: Addition of some ondjai housing for Bards on Aesry.
• Announcement that GM Avaari has cleared training.
• Fun-Day Fridays 11: A new level 185 creature in Ratha, cinderwing harpies.
• Tuesday Tidings 245: Addition of a new Necromancer-only housing area with tree houses in the Forest of Night.

November 2024

• Fun-Day Fridays 12: Customers with a Platinum tier account now get some of those benefits in the Prime instance.
• Tuesday Tidings 246: Added ability to study holy weapons to see how many charges they have, and made it easier for alterers to work with them. Added holy icon support for the Prydaen trinity of Eu-Demrris-Tenemlor, the Alaudian (Gorbesh) pantheon, and the Gnomish gods.
• Fun-Day Fridays 13: Significant rework of the Gilen Otso Steppes hunting areas in Ilithi. Splitting creatures up, reorganizing them, and changing area exits to keep them from mixing.
• Tuesday Tidings 247: Urchin runners can now be used to UNREGISTER items, with the same rules as using them to REGISTER items.
• Fun-Day Fridays 14: The Thief Bonus is no longer tied to the Urban rating of the room the Thief is in, but is now completely derived from Confidence.
• Tuesday Tidings 248: A few updates from the suggestions channel on Discord. Player made fires now have additional janitor protection, remedies now give a final pulse message when done healing, and BURGLE RECALL now checks for any group members who are still on cooldown from burgling.
• Fun-Day Fridays 15: Addition of the Why So Blue shop in Fang Cove.
• Tuesday Tidings 249: A new hunting ground west of Shard, with a new, tougher, variant of grass eels. Look for a path before reaching the area with the pards/arzumos/etc.
• Fun-Day Fridays 16: Implemention of the SERVICE command, for the listing of services characters can provide.

December 2024

• Tuesday Tidings 250: Update to various rooms around the world to remove quotation marks from room names, to prevent issues with the XML being sent to game clients.
• Fun-Day Fridays 17: Ranger companion Update: won't die, just a whistle cooldown.