Build 5.10.3 Release 01/01/2024
*. CoffeeMud now officially requires jdk 1.8. ATM, it will still compile in 1.6 tho.
- New Paladin skills: Unholy Strike, Chaos Rage, Paladin's Fear, Paladin's Corruption
- New Paladin skills: Incite Fight, Dark Hammer, Paladin's Wickedness, Crushing Aura
- New Paladin skills: Craft Unholy Reaver, Righteous Defense, Exploiting Aura
- Paladin's can now be Anti-Paladins if they maintain chaotic evil.
- New Items: CubicGate, GenGiftContainer, GenTent, GenStove, Spear (polearm)
- New Achievement stuff: Tattoo reward type, ENTITLED achieve type
- Tattoos like 'RACE_" or "CHARCLASS_" now open up otherwise skill-restricted options.
- Liege xp bonus can no longer be gained from non-combat or role-playing xp vassel gains.
- New CharStat XPADJPCT - for adding bonus % xp (or loss if negative)
- Prop_NoPurge now supports an expiration date/timestamp
- New StdMob type: CombatDummy, for testing.
- New spells: Wizard's Mark, Suppress Aroma, Store Aromas
- New prayers: Undeath Guard, Animate Shadow, Animate Limb
- GOTITEM Achievement type now supports multiple item masks.
- New standard races: Ghast, Ghoul, Ghost, Mummy, Spectre, Vampire, and Zombie
- Undead race mixing now has its own special rules, which Prayer_Animate* will use
- WaterCurrents messaging can now be customized.
- Default days/month is now 24, default months/yr now 7. Postmen retain mail for 40 months.
- GenRaces now support multiple natural weapon choices, better reflecting StdRaces.
- AFK status produced from the AFK command is now sticky until explicitly toggled.
- Prop_RoomForSale now allows disabling the robbery laws on a property-by-property basis.
- SAVE= rooms will properly rejuv before saving, Thin areas now allow property taxes
- Prop_NoTeleport now supports redirection, and custom messages
- Mirrors now act like LOOK SELF
- STAT commands supports new POBJECT (player objects) arg.
- New command: MEND, for invoking the proper common skill. Mend spell renamed to Lesser Mend.
- Gaoler can now wear leather.
- Temporary skills now show up in the SKILLS/SPELLS/etc command as dark grey.
- You can no longer cast speak or cast verbal spells unless you can breathe where you are.
- ALIAS now supports a copy command.
- New skill: Stoicism
- Pregnant people now get food addictions, and Addictions can now include resource name
- Amputation now works on corpses.
- Prop_*Adjusters now support ambiance+- arguments.
- New property: Prop_PropSetter, for potentially permanent object changes.
- Rituals now support TIMEOUT, INCLUDE and ASSIST tasks for cooperative magic!
- PROMPT now supports group size / max group members, and CONFIG/Attribute blocks
- MG Journal browser now supports Journal Limit / pages.
- Decoration now supports hiding items in plain sight/semi-hidden.
- Quests can now suppress local laws while they are running.
- Prop_ClosedDayNight can now generate near-closing greetings.
- MudChat now how syntax for adding marginal entries over the chat.dat entries.
- Loyalty will report itself when the leader looks at the loyal follower.
- EXAMINE/LONGLOOK at mobs will now show wear positions like EQ LONG
- CATALOG now supports spawn caps, random (masked) room spawns, and mob spawns.
- SERVEing another player now requires that their NOFOLLOW flag be off.
- ACHIEVEMENTS command now always supports including awards in lists.
- Channels now support SEARCH:
- Subscribe now supports channels and their backlogs
- Titles now support random selection lists.
- Prop_UseEmoter* and Prop_Sounder support trigger mob masks now.
- Generic Abilities can now be COPYed, and Standard ones badly. CREATE will now convert.
- New standard races: GiantBear, GiantBoar, DireBear, DireBoar, DireCat
- New skills: Racial Mount, Call Steed, Rope Tricks, Awe Mounts, Bronco Busting
- The racial skill "Buck" will now invoke automatically for certain races of mobs
- New skills: Set Polearm, Dismounting Blow, Herding, Shepherding, Long Reach
- New skills: Soothe Mount, Tend Mount, Favored Mount 1...4, Forceback, Rearguard
- New skills: Indoor Riding, Command Mount, Unwavering Mark, Graceful Dismount
- New skills: Mount Taming, Mounted Tactics, Ridethrough, Vanguard, Mounted Retreat
- New skills: Confident Vanity, Lassoing, Jousting, Rope Trip, Fierce Mount
- (Power) LEVEL expertises now grant points to proficiency on all skills/spells/etc.
- New skills: Holy Mount, Unholy Mount, Rope Disarm, Armored Vanity, Mounted Leap
- TEAR/DESTROY can now be used to tear cloth into strips for bandaging or whatever
- New skills: Companion Mount, Hold The Line, Faithful Mount, Break Mount, Caravan Tactics
- New skills: Lucky Vanity, Sweeping Trip, Ride to the Rescue, Rope Dismount, Runover
- Command FOLLOW can now be used with sailing ships and caravans.
- New skills: Riding Fight, Hog Tie, Stable Mount, Caravan Commander, Planar Mount
- New skills: Protected Mount, Trample, Combat Recall
- New Achevement type: SCRIPTED, and new Scriptable command: MPACHIEVE
- Layer info added to VIEW and slightly more apparently in LONGLOOK.
- Conquest now requires dead mob lvl diff <= EXPRATEx2 (from ini file) HELP CONQUERABLE
- GenTraps now support custom reset ticks for builder-set traps.
- New common skills: Mycology, and Master Mycology. (Herbology now also Recipe Driven/Editable)
- New poison: Sickening (for mushrooms that aren't rotten, but aren't good for you either).
- Languages now support special 'say' verbs. Std languages updated, especially animal-speaks.
- Instanced areas can now be reset/flushed and timed-out from Scripts. See Archons Guide.