26th July 2010
Have you noticed the graceful round tower in Semos Mountains and wondered what goes on in that lofty spire? The guardian of the tower, Zekiel, has prepared a quest for you - complete the Wizards Circle and access will be granted.
Perhaps the sorceress Sarzina visited the Wizards Circle, for she has a new power also; she can enable you to visualise your karma: good, or bad, at any time.
The magic from that round tower is overspilling into the world, and your imagination. What was square has become circular - when you visualise attacks, you'll now see circles. Your hearing may be more advanced, with strains of music, bells, and other sounds now audible that you could not hear before.
You'll find heightened awareness of the world around you, for example pathways will be more clearly marked and you can more readily access your inventory, or any help you need. If you keep your eyes and ears open, you'll discover many more magical little changes in the world.
25th July 2010
Marauroa 3.8.1 is released. Marauroa 3.8.1 is mostly a bug fix release, with some additional work around characters. For full details please see marauroa's changelog.
27th June 2010
Farmers like Karl have learnt a more efficient sowing technique. Each small patch of grain in the fields is planted closer together, so it will slow you down when you walk over that patch, but you can walk more easily between grain rows than before. After you harvested all your grain, you'd take it to Jenny to be milled. Do you sometimes forget that you left an order with her, or for how much? Well, now you can use /listproducers to be reminded of all your orders you placed with Jenny and other workers who cast, make and bake for you. You may use that to remember to collect some sandwiches you made with Leander, for Phalk. The dwarf guardian is hungry at his station in Semos mines and would appreciate some food and drink.
Stendhal 0.85 has some changes you'll notice as you start the client, too. There is a new wooden panel theme and now it is used for all the parts of the Stendhal client including the buttons on the first screen. When you login to your account you'll notice a dialog with your character, you need to click on that to login. If you have more than one account, you can merge them, so that when you login you can choose between your characters. Please read http://stendhalgame.org/wiki/Stendhal_Account_Merging for more details. This is optional, it does not affect gameplay, and you can still play more than one character at the same time.
26th June 2010
Marauroa 3.8 is released! Marauroa 3.8 adds version compatibility between client and server of different protocol versions. There are two kinds of extensions to the protocol: details in the character list, and maps attributes. Performance is also optimised, with asynchronous login, and 'baking' of RPClasses. Full details are at http://stendhalgame.org/wiki/Marauroa_3.8, and you can also refer to marauroa's changelog.
2nd June 2010
Are you an obsessive hoarder of rare items? Do you pay high sums for a durin axe (just because it is rare) or camp hours to win a nihonto? Balduin is just like you. If, and only if, you've completed every other quest to collect special items, he'll challenge you to find one more... but don't bother asking your friends what he challenged them with, your quest could well be different.
Despot Halb Errvl has been sitting alone in the Mithrilbourgh Throne Room for too long. He's become really paranoid about rival armies, and is asking for help killing hundreds of enemies. He doesn't care where you find them, so long as you kill as many as possible. Others who ask for your help in for example cleaning a cellar of spiders, really will check now that you killed spiders from their cellar and not just any old spider. They realised that we've been deceiving them a little in the past with our proof of kills!
The pizza baker Leander is now more responsible: he sends his employees only to locations that he is confident they can survive in. But the food situation at Ados Wild Life Refuge has got worse: they are now in need of weekly supplies. Katinka will ask you to bring food they need for the animals in the zoo, and to thank you Dr. Feelgood will heal your pets and sheep and might sell you some cheap medicine. If you are not interested in feeding the animals to get cheap potions you can still buy them elsewhere. There is Carmen in Semos, and in Fado is Sarzina, who joined the potion market, selling mega potions.
Last but not least the user interface was improved so that status icons for being away or eating are also displayed in the side panel. Flying arrows are now visible in the world, and if you'd like supplies of these to experiment with you can buy them from Mrotho and Diehelm Brui. Missiles are effective too, and early experimentation has shown that fire shuriken work somewhat better than snowballs...
