FIXES: - Animal Form buff message was fixed - Arcane Emprowerment spell buff message was fixed - Arcane Emprowerment spell now will correctly works for summons: more hits and more dispel difficulty - Confidence, Evasion and Counter Attack no longer will disable current weapon ability on cast - Arcane Focus now will be deleted if player attempts to trade it - Removed useless check for second layer for fukiya - Fruit Bowl now can be successfully crafted - Taxidermy kit now correctly works with ML boards - Group Gump Elements now will have also closing block - Fixed bug with trasferring summons via Zoo Donation System ADDITIONS: - Publish 41: - Personal Attendants: - General Characteristics - Doesn’t engage in combat - Passable, so it can’t be used as a block/shield - Will not block line of sight, targeting, etc - Invulnerable - Attendants will have no backpack space (they are not extra inventory slots) - No pet slot usage - Only one Personal Attendant in use, anywhere, at a time - Contract cannot be stolen - Upon a player's death, the Personal Attendant will re-deed itself and go into the player's backpack - Anytime the character exits the world, the NPC will re-deed into the player’s backpack - NPCs will have a persistant name randomly chosen from a list on creation from the contract - Obtaining a Personal Attendant - Players will receive a token which, when double clicked, will present the player with a contract for a Personal Attendant - When this contract is used, the player will then select the type of Personal Attendant they want to place in the world - Types of Personal Attendants - Guide: - Helps players find services and merchants in towns: - List of locations for each town in the game - Player can select nearby shops/locations - List will dynamically populate based on the characters current location, and shopkeepers available in the city - Will lead the player to the specified location - When double-clicked, the Guide will: - If the player is not in a city, the Guide will tell the player they are not in a city - If the player is in a city, the Guide will present the player with a list of locations in the city - If the player disconnects when en route, the guide (like all NPC Attendants) will re deed to the backpack. The player will have to bring the guide out and select the destination again. - Fortune Teller: - Always Female - The Fortune Teller's functionality is accessed through the context menu - Tells your fortune via Tarot cards: - The player will ask the Fortune Teller a Question - The Fortune Teller places three cards on the table gump, representing the past, the question and the future. - The gump will contain three cards in a traditional layout - The cards will be selected randomly - There will be Inverted Cards chosen at random - The gump will also have a text area below each card that will display the card's meaning - The interpretation of the cards will be left to the players - Lucky Dealer: - The Lucky Dealer's functionality is accessed through the context menu - A gump will display the choices of dice to choose from: - Dice sets are d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, d100 (up to four) - You also choose the number of dice to be rolled - The Die Roll will be barked out by the Lucky Dealer, and will appear in the journal as well - Each die will have its roll displayed, separated by commas - Herald: - Herald can be placed in a player's house - Will greets people visiting your home - Can be placed in both public and private houses - Only the house owner may place a Herald - Conforms to any legal placement rules for a single tile object (on steps etc..) - If house if traded or demolished, Herald will re-deed to the players inventory (or bank if inventory is full) - When placed in the house the Herald will not re-deed when the player logs out or disconnects - When not placed in a house, the Herald will follow the player as any other attendant. - The Herald will make announcements periodically - The player will be able to set the Herald's messages by entering the greeting and announcement text in a gump - The gump will be accessed by using the Choose Messages option in the context menu. - The gump will contain two text entry fields marked In House Greeting and Herald’s Announcement. - Each text entry will be filtered through the Profanity filter before being validated for use. - If the text is not valid, the gump will return an appropriate error and ask the player to enter a new line of text - Publish 42: - Vet Rewards: - Red SoulStone as 1 year reward: works like green and blue ones - Player Maker Statues as 6 year reward: - This is a decoration for your house - Can be used to make a statue of yourself - The statue will mimic your appearance, including clothing, armor and weapons - You can choose among several poses for the statue - There are three statue makers - each uses a different type of material: - Bronze - Alabaster Marble - Jade - Each material will have a small selection of available hues - Statue will be mounted on a plinth - The plinth will have a plaque with the character's name and the date it was created - The statue is re-deedable, so you can change it as many times as you wish (e.g., new pose, new wearables, new character, new hue, etc. Everything but the material type.) - When re-deeded, you can choose to restore the previous statue. This lets you move statues after they are created. - Decorative Cannon as 7 year reward: - This is a decoration for your house - Can be rotated - Can be fired: - Will make a cannon firing sound - Will have a particle effect - When it runs out of charges, it can be recharged using a full keg of explosion potions. Lesser kegs give 5, regular give 10, and greater give 15 additional charges. - Weapon Engraving Tool as 8 year reward: - Used to engrave a single line of text onto a weapon - The engraved line of text is orange and appears below the item title - Initially has 10 uses - Uses a rare gem to engrave that must be replaced periodically: - Only highly skilled tinkerer's can replace the gem - NPC tinkerer's will replace the gem for a fee (you provide the gem) - Rideable Polar Bear as 9 year reward: - Non-ethereal, summonable mount (like The Charger of the Fallen) - All new rewards were added in reward system for correct years - Two house miniaddons were added for 1 year reward: Contest Winning Custom House Design and Contest 2004 winning house design - Added a BandageSelf and BandageSelected macro: server-side support - Added caps to stat regen rates for equipment. The new caps are: - Stamina Regeneration: 24 - HP Regeneration: 18 - Mana Regeneration: 18 - Mobile Animation Controlling System: - Allow to change animation of any mobile at any time even for moving objects - Animation has two parameters: - AnimationPose: usual animation id like salute, casting, fighting and etc - AnimationFrame: current frame of animation pose CHANGES: - Bowyers no longer will buy fletcher's tools according OSI - Leather Ninja Belt now has leather type for BOD system - Completely rewritten Elven Only property: now it will NOT be appeared on artifacts received from Peerless bosses - Peerless bosses now will have chance to give minor artifacts like named mini-bosses - SE dungeons now is a part of Tokuno, so loot items received in it will be SE-style - The Citadel dungeon marked as SE dungeon - Kaze Kemono now will have not only physical resistance lowering ability but energy resistance one too - Hiryu and Lesser Hiryu resistance lowering ability now will send to player correct messages - A lot of resistance lowering abilities formulas was updated - Added ended messages for most of resistance lowering abilities - Added maniacally laugh ability for Yomotsu Warrior, Elder and Priest - Publish 42: - Evasion now requires at least 50 weapon skill with the weapon currently being wielded - Removed the polymorph timer - Personal Attendants can no longer be affected by barding - Players will now receive a Book of Chivalry for creating a character with enough skill in Chivalry, or a Necromancer Spellbook and bag of necro reagents for selecting the Necromancy skill during character creation while using the advanced template selection - Players can no longer use the Horn of retreat from locations that normally don’t allow teleporting out of. Players may also now only use this item if they are in either Trammel or Malas. - Hit Life Leech and Hit Mana Leech are now scaled to the swing speed of the weapon - Hit Life Leech and Hit Mana Leech are now half as effective on ranged weapons as they are on melee weapons - Riding Swipe special move now has more correct freeze delay