Tuesday Tidings

A voluntary development strike team composed of GameMasters Zadraes, Koror, Ulerith, Cordulia, and Haros. Their goal is to push out regular small updates each week, usually on Tuesdays.

GM Tullie was an founding member of this team, but has stepped back to focus on some other awesome projects for a while.

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• Tuesday Tidings (2020): #1 - #45
• Tuesday Tidings (2021): #46 - #97

2022

January 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 98: Scavenger trolls lurking around the abandoned Gorbesh fort near Dirge will no longer steal player weapons. Instead, they absolutely will take (destroy) any coins, gems or treasure boxes they find left lying about. Additionally, the spawn settings for some of the creatures around Dirge (madmen, ghouls and the scavenger trolls) were tweaked to be a bit better and more consistent.
• Tuesday Tidings 99: AUTOLOOT mechs were updated to try and stack ammo as its placed into a lootsack/pouch/etc. Stacked ammo should only count as a single item against an autoloot container's limit. To support this, the previously mentioned updates to ammo weights when stacked are a part of this release as well.
• Tuesday Tidings 100: Release of the Taffelberry Faire, a small yearly (automated) festival in Arthe Dale to celebrate the harvest and the Holy Week of Glythtide.
• Tuesday Tidings 101: The Abandoned Farmhouse near Steelclaw Clan now has a spooky house to explore, and it's full of frostcrones!

February 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 102: Over 50 new spots for lumberjacking and 9 more spots for mining added across parts of Forfedhdar and Ilithi.
• Tuesday Tidings 103:

1. REGISTER CHECK FULL added to get a full inventory listing, and show what's registered and what's not.
2. INV SLOTS FULL now includes a counter of how many items you're wearing per inventory slot, for easier at-a-glance consumption.

• Tuesday Tidings 104: Urchin runners can be used to REGISTER items remotely.
• Tuesday Tidings 105: A notice has been posted in the Crossing Traders' Guild tracking the Ilaya Taipa merchant barges.

March 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 106: Discovery of Gale Drake lair behind a roadblock near Pivilho Volcano on Ratha.
• Tuesday Tidings 107: Release of gigantic lachmates, found along a newly descovered path between Leth and the Gondola. These are constructs. There's a standard area with level 80 +/- 2 (78-82) variants, and an estate holder area with level 84 +/- 2 (82-86) variants.
• Tuesday Tidings 108: Moon Mages with Shadow Servants will now be able to get a full listing of the contents (in vault book list format) by casting Piercing Gaze on their shadow servant.
• Tuesday Tidings 109: Near Fayrin's Rest a House of the Silk Strings compound (the Kiora'ylen Storehouse) was unearthed, containing Empath-friendly construct hunting. Within the storehouse, there are 4 distinct spawn areas with the 3 new creatures (+variants): snippets (18, +/-1), sylphs (27, +/-1), greater sylphs (42, +/-2), normal windbags (42, +/-2) and greater/elder windbags (50, +/-2).
• Tuesday Tidings 110: New permanent shop in Inner Hibarnhvidar -- Many Sign of Many Savage -- with signs, stones and more to help mark an area (for events or whatnot). The area markers are designed to be left in a spot, will automatically clean up after X days, and have some degree of janitor protection (no guarantees).

April 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 111: Release of hurricane drakes (creature level 175), now found on the upper cliffs of the Pivilho volcano on Ratha.
• Tuesday Tidings 112: Zand's Exotic Pets in Fang Cove has expanded their inventory, and now sells feline house pets.
• Tuesday Tidings 113:
  1. The roundtime for READing spell scrolls now reduces based on Arcana skill.
  2. DROPing an alteration scroll (which deletes the alteration request and destroys the scroll) now requires a confirmation step.
• Tuesday Tidings 114: Personal forges are now available to rent in the Crossing Forging Society.

May 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 115: The ASSESS verb has been updated for Wrayth with an auto-refresh and more!
• Tuesday Tidings 116: Introduction of fearsome magma cobras (level 187-193), an extremely dangerous creature in an extremely dangerous area on the Pivilho Volcano of Ratha.
• Tuesday Tidings 117: A new forging society has been established in Aesry! It has six rooms of crafting areas, the usual supplies, and two sets of rent-a-forge options for your crafting pleasure.
• Tuesday Tidings 118: A new enchanting society has been established on Ratha! It has all of the usual supply shops and four workrooms. Additionally, some missing tools were added to the Muspar'i Enchanting Society.
• Tuesday Tidings 119: You can now set defaults for the LOOT command.

June 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 120: SPELL verb updated to offer a new, column-formatted output (via SPELL ALTERNATE). A corresponding option was added to the TOGGLE verb to make it the default, if so inclined.
• Tuesday Tidings 121: Adjustments to the Adan'f in the ice caves near Shard. The Adan'f spirit dancers now spawn at 81-85 (versus 83 previously), and some of their older code was tweaked. Joining them are adept mages and adept warriors, spawning at 79-81 and bringing them more in line with the dancers. Spawning mechanics were also adjusted.
• Tuesday Tidings 122: Reorganization of the Gwenalion Fens hunting area near Langenfirth.
• Tuesday Tidings 123: There are now rent-a-forges in Hib and Haven.

July 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 124: There's now an /SC option for RUMMAGE to search your containers for scrolls.
• Tuesday Tidings 125: Two new sorting options (including a custom one!) added to deed registers.
• Tuesday Tidings 126: Release of Crauyarin Scuttlers, a clvl 100 construct. They are not planar life, use magic, and have a few unique interactions with various Lunar spells. Additionally, the Trader spell Enrichment now grants a large damage bonus to the next Crystal Dart cast, after which the bonus will recharge over a minute as long as Enrichment is up.
• Tuesday Tidings 127: Rework of the Adder's Coil in P5. Now split into two different "zones", with the maiden's tresses in one area and a slightly amped-up variety of them - matron's tresses - in the other zone. Maiden tresses will remain at level 31, with the matron version at level 35.

August 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 128: Out near Boar Clan, head-splitters and tuskies have been separated into their own areas. Tuskies also got some modernization tweaks, to be more in line with modern creature design.
• Tuesday Tidings 129: Two updates to MAMAS shops.
  1. Two new locations: Fang Cove and Therenborough!
  2. There are two new weighing options, both designed to answer the question, "Where is all this burden coming from?" You can ASK {CLERK} ABOUT WEIGHT to get an ordered list of your 25 heaviest items, or you can ASK {CLERK} ABOUT TOTAL to get a report of your entire inventory ordered by weight.
• Tuesday Tidings 130: Ten (10) new climbables have been added to Ratha, allowing adventurers with suitable athleticism to scale the cliffs and tunnels of Ratha to go from one tier to any other!
• Tuesday Tidings 131: Secondary sigils added to all enchanting society supply shops. Additionally, being hidden or invisible no longer bars you from attempting to PERCEIVE SIGILs. Instead, it will reveal you as you make the attempt. (If you are using pulsing invisibility, this will not prevent the next pulse from concealing you.)
• Tuesday Tidings 132: rework of the Blighted Tangle in P5, splitting the area into three distinct "zones". The rotting deadwood dryads (36) are in the north part, the sickly blightwater nyads (39) are in the southwestern section, and the new decaying blightwater nyads (41) are in the southeastern section.

September 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 133: Estate Holders (Premium) can now pay a fee to upgrade (or downgrade) their home's class designation. If you want to change your lowerclass hut in the Middens into an upperclass manor, well now you may be able to do just that!
• Tuesday Tidings 134: Magical feat trainers can apply fees to your debt instead of requiring coin on hand. Additionally, a new trainer (Unshoba) is now wandering around Shard!
• Tuesday Tidings 135: Four new BONUS events have been added into the pool for staff to use from time-to-time. New options include bonus (general) experience, bonus crafting experience, bonus payouts from work orders, and bonus crafting prestige.
• Tuesday Tidings 136: Release of the newest construct, the clay slayer. Located near Siksraja, these guys are a variant of the other clay creations in the area, though are significantly tougher, at clvl 125 +/- 2.

October 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 137: Two more rent a forges - this time it's Shard and Fang Cove!
• Tuesday Tidings 138:
  1. The trader plaza boards now have an ANALYZE option to list shops alphabetically.
  2. There's a new TOGGLE so you can hide your tattoo from others.
• Tuesday Tidings 139: New LIFT verb to help you better manage the items at your feet.
• Tuesday Tidings 140: Introduction of a yearly crafting reset. Once per year (assuming no recent warnings) a crafting trainer will, for 100 platinum Kronars, wipe all career, hobby and technique choices in one go.

November 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 141: Expanded P2's Noladet Ala, where a weaker version of the clay slayers roam (clvl 100).
• Tuesday Tidings 142: Two more rent a forges - this time it's Muspar'i and Mer'Kresh!
• Tuesday Tidings 143: A new Bulk Materials section to the Crossing Forging Society with some larger ingots! Be sure to train your strength, because some of this is HEAVY!
• Tuesday Tidings 144: The CRAFT command got support for a column view (similar to another recent release), which is configurable via TOGGLE. Additionally, asking crafting trainers about disciplines or techniques will give you clickable links to LEARN the techniques.
• Tuesday Tidings 145: Bigger metal quantities have been added to the Shard and Fang Cove forging societies!

December 2022

• Tuesday Tidings 146: Release of the toughest variant of clay slayers yet (clvl 150 +/- 2), filling out more of the construct hunting ladder.
• Tuesday Tidings 147: Hibarnhvidar gets love this week with a new outfitting society in Inner Hib in the Upper Cavern - look for a staircase going upwards.
• Tuesday Tidings 148: Part one of a total refresh of Iprilu's Emporium, the Crossing Paladin shop.
• Tuesday Tidings 149: You can now upgrade an existing crafting hobby into a career, provided you have a slot to do so. No special command, just the normal ASK of the NPC trainer.

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