Stendhal

Change Log

Stendhal 0.79
* changes for players
- fixed an issue which made Stendhal unplayable on Ubuntu 9.10 with nvidia drivers on Sun JDK.
- chat bar responds faster to typed letters on some systems
- fixed website: characters with the same name as creatures no longer get people killing those creatures listed
- change price of barbarian armor
- fixed graphics for balrog and killer bat corpse
* changes for admins
- new command /script -list
- new /script SetServerWelcome.class which will set a new login welcome message until the server is restarted
- fixed broken logging of source position for items moved around on the ground
- added $ignore and $spam supportanswer shortcuts, also changed the $abuse shortcut to $notsupport

Stendhal 0.78
* changes for players
- various map fixes
- added a note about logging on account creation
- destroy the old wedding ring, if another is added to the same slot with it and use up the energy of the new one
- renamed Stichard Rallman
- balrog and his corpse redrawn
- semos mine town revival weeks with outfits, tic tac toe, paper chase and susi
* changes for developer / hosters / admins
- replaced old forked map editor with the official one from http://mapeditor.org/
- fixed error message: object does not have slot !quests
- check existence of character to be jailed
- check that the player in /jail-command exists

Stendhal 0.77
- improvements to the test infrastructure, now including coverage reports and various statistics about code quality
- more corpses redrawn and new kinds added
- now all a player's money is shown in the hall of fame (including money in bank chests)
- Keep max 12 sheep in the semos pen simultaneously
- tomatoes use a grower
- don't let pets/sheep dying result in concurrent modification
- Make it possible to name pets back to their original name
- allow always using the animal type to rename a pet (even if it has a name already)
- give 20 xp for the Cherub in the starting zone so players don't get to level 4 instantly
- new items added to NPC buyers
- moved the chatlog to the main client window
- minimap and buddies are now a side panel
- added a way to clean the house portal cache
- tell support about /script DropPlayerItems
- fixed item log on drop of stackable items
- store content to database on closing a stored chest incase server does not shut gracefully
- automatically close stored chest when the zone it is in becomes empty of players
- wedding rings have a level ratio dependent cooling period
- you can divorce for a fee instead of xp loss, temporarily
- adventure island which is a bit like DM
- you get creatures but you get XP and items. It costs money and you must go alone
- if you lose a house key on death you're told which house it was for (so the owner can change locks if the key wasn't retrieved)
- buddy list is sorted alphabetically
- outside semos tavern is a better seating area

Stendhal 0.76
- ported to the latest release of marauroa, 3.0 which supports multi threaded database access
- support for OpenJDK IcedTea (thanks to omair)
- corpse images used are now specified in xml
- corpses redrawn and new kinds added

Stendhal 0.75.1
-Some indexed images causing problems with old Java versions changed to RGB
-Rented sign problem fixed

Stendhal 0.75
- the corpse of a raid creature can only be looted by player that the raid creature attacked
- min level for items which makes them less effective if player is less then min level for using item
- attacking items have slower rate to hit if user less than min level
- defending items have less defence if user less than min level
- for all items with min level the effect is bigger, the further user is from min level
- items display lifesteal and min level attributes in description
- a large memory hole fixed
- Jenny from the Mill sells flower seeds to plant on a patch in Semos Plains N
- added NPCs to website
* new artwork
- potions, antidotes, poisons
- black dragon, flying golden dragon
- skeletons, fallens of all kinds
* Admin
- support log available at http://stendhal.game-host.org
- player history available at http://stendhal.game-host.org/?id=content%2Fadmin%2Fplayerhistory&name=NAME&sublogin=Search
- new command /adminnote
- /gmhelp_script and /gmehlp_alter replaced by /gmhelp script and /gmhelp alter

Stendhal 0.74
- player karma affects what skills they lose on death
--max 20% for non ring wearers with negative karma, and 10% as before if player karma was 0. if they had positive karma they lose less
--Ring wearers lose max 2%, average 1% and less with positive karma
- new hybrid spider creature in nalwor drow tunnels
- new houses in ados, numbers 69 to 77
- tutorial event linking to stendhal rules
- find out content of Ignore list by typing /ignore (with no parameters)
- deathmatch: if occupied then challenging player is told who is inside so they can say yes/no about entering
- feedback to player given on successful buddy and sentence actions
- feedback messages about failure when trying to drop or displace items too far from current location, displacing an item without being next to it, dropping onto a collision, adding to full slots
- inform player who dropped item into a nearby corpse, incase the drop was not deliberate
- Sarzina suggests some ways to get karma
- Daily monster, daily item and weekly item quests give karma.
- Daily Item quest gives less XP than monster now, (as it gives more karma)
- max level players get a large karma reward from daily and weekly quests (as they cannot earn xp from it)
- in fighting, made the 'level difference to not need karma' be dependent on level instead of being a fixed 20 levels
- answer a riddle to leave hell, as another option instead of losing karma
- more creature descriptions
- new raid scripts added, and list raids which gives the names. existing scripts renamed to be all same format
*Admin*
- gag is adminlevel 200
- support and supportanswer messages coloured orange to make more visible
- supportanswer keywords which abbreviate longer replies
- postman sends new account messages and npc shout to a zone messages to support channel
*Bug fixes*
- PersonalChest removes its own turnlistener in onremoved(rpzone), fixing NPE when leaving vaults
- karma for large scales was never achieved due to a wrongly used log
- karma for canHit was factored out early by a cast to int
- adding buddies using right
-click fixed
- house tax problem fixed
- added missing logic to BringListOfItemsQuests
- monogenes shows map, ilisa shows picture, liliana shows outfits again
- don't allow pets or sheep in death match
- remove possibility of dropping or displacing items to places where they can't be retrieved (or where it would be v long walk to fetch them)
- minor map and graphical fixes
- unignore: check first, and if target not being ignored, tell player so.
- now getting points in dm for the final creature killed *behind the scenes*
- Conversationstates changed to enum
- reflection removed from stendhalQuestsystem
- QuestsXMLReader changed from singleton to just create one.
- Iquest.getName() abstract in Abstractquest. every quest knows its name now (not the descriptive one yet)
- moved a lot of tilesets to correct homes

Stendhal 0.73
- rare monsters that do not appear in DM or daily quests: pegasus and centaur
- lord durin, a high level boss in ados abandoned keep
- new npc condition and action for events with any kind of delay to be checked
- replace mountain orcs in -2 semos mines n e3 with chaos creatures
- added high level boss, gashadokuro, based on japanese legend
- new outfit lender in magic clothing boutique who lends costumes including slime and goblin face
- messaging areas to give atmospheric messages to players entering or leaving them
- semos community chest stored between server restarts
- min respawn time for creatures (10 seconds)
- NPCs will not buy items from a player killer at all
- NPCs will sell to a player killer but they charge 1.5 times the normal price
- doors into the oni palace now a level checking portal
- Thanatos says the new def of trophy helmet, and says if it is at max, as he changes it
- marked scrolls don't get player bound (old ones to be unbound)
- postman reports newly created account names to admin

*Bug fixes*
- bugfix to /alter, now doesn't reject a heal which takes hp over base hp, instead sets hp to full
- quoting #-characters
- fixed chat bubbles and changed appearance to be more bubbly
- fix feedback of buyer/seller npcs asked to transact large numbers of items
- wedding ring checks !visited and pet distance
- push action sends a feedback message to player if pushing is not allowed because of the time limit
- gagged players can use /support only once per minute
- levels 5 - 60 respawn time slightly increased
- placeat fixed so that doors do not shift player aside and algorithm is smarter

* Player houses*
- house doors remember lock number and expiry time
- house keys only open door if lock number and house number match
- player can look at house door to see owner and knock on it which sends message to players inside
- house keys show who owns the house
- chests which are accessible to everyone in the zone inside each house
- chests prefilled with a note and gifts for new house owners
- houses made no teleport In
- postman no longer used to remember which houses are bought
- house tax charged monthly, if unpaid for 6 months, house confiscated
- reselling houses is possible, regain 40% of value minus taxes owed
- changing locks feature
- can ask npc what houses are available
- many houses redecorated inside to use new tiles

Stendhal 0.72

*Features*
- dagobert creates personal vaults for players, so they can access semos bank slot without spies
- vaults contain a wastebin for disposing of items; other items left on ground get returned to player on leaving
- /me shows emotes
- /clear clears gamelog
- chatlog can be saved by right clicking on gamelog. it is saved in home/stendhal/gamelog.txt
- /info returns current server time
- Susi and her father living in a house in Ados
- special outfit lender Liliana in magic city
- creatures equip the items they have, and use the respective attack rate
- infantry gnome, archmage elf, dark elf knight, dark elf sacerdotist, black dragon and balrog attack at different rates from the default, and hit either harder or weaker accordingly
- rare monsters that do not appear in DM or daily quests. a big bad wolf and an unicorn added for now
- new item, red dragon cloak
- walkblocker squares coloured pink on minimap

*Improvements*
- player level info added to character panel
- player atk and def displayed as base 'times' (weapon + 1) on character panel
- Deathmatch recruiter walks in safer (upper) part of swamp
- find out which heroes are in the deathmatch already by asking Thonatus, the recruiter
- increased spawn delay of creatures in DM by 5 sec
- decrease how long player is forced to wait after requesting bail
- increased the XP given for some of the low and mid level quests
- optimal distance for archer to attack from is 4. Less effective when farther or nearer and not all if distance > 7. Switches to melee at 0 distance.
- reduce the archer speeds else many left unkilled at zone boundaries
- fence around semos village w closer to house to be less obstructive
- some creatures in bad places for very new players moved
- arrows dropped more often
- some elves dropping food and potions
- cherries and apples heal faster
- Yorphin Baos (Fado) buys hell dagger
- all tables in fado and semos tavern walk blockers instead of collisions so items can be placed on them
- teleporting out of semos bank now possible, as in teleporting out of a few other areas which only had magic scrolls disallowed for stopping players teleporting in

*Bug fixes*
- /ban reason is no longer eaten on client side
- NPCShoutZone.java: messages are now also send to all supporters as stated in todo
- Snowballs.java: let NPC say when new snowballs could be needed
- Soup making exploit to boost karma now fixed
- Zara re-offers quest if player previously rejected
- security measures on nalwor jail removed so players can heal there
- sheep and pet only get hungrier when there are players in the same zone
- rose leigh says Bye directly after giving flower so other players can say hi
- dwarf golem moved to giant animal instead of giant human

*Misc*
- mossy rubble pic has been added to rock
- wood grower shows branch till picked
- Collisionmap is now backed by Bitset
- zones can be implemented by subclassing StendhalRPZone and specifying it in 'zones'.xml
- LoginDialog positions caret on name now

Stendhal 0.71
- chatlog stops automatic scroll on when not at bottom of text
- chatlog highlighted pink if the scroll was halted and there are unread messages
- tab-completion toggles through all online players in chat line
- attribute all players who kill in DM not just the DM starter
- fix a bug in heal which was confusing the DM assistant
- fix a bug in the calculation of DM score
- add npc to guide players to the rat city and help them avoid going wrong way
- leander buys cheese
- place a few creatures that were low level but only accessible by going past high level cretaures, in better places to aid mayor task
- fixed a bug with using balloons
- spots with black dragons decorated more
- prototype pirate creatures added
- consumption of meat, ham, soup, pizza and cheese sped up by about 1.5 x
- added some more creature descriptions
- pets at full weight (usually 100) get hungry slower - approximately 5 times slower
- add healer ability to charge dependent on level of player
- valo and ilisa healing dependent on charge (so all players can get healed in semos and ados)
- pk skull icon got glowing eyes
- semos mine town revival weeks celebrated - outfit lender + more
- jailreport is available to level 50 admins, and takes an optional player argument
Stendhal 0.70
- damage calculations place greater emphasis on weapon attack and level instead of mainly base skills (this means heavy weapons are now better against strong creatures than a dagger type)
- PVP only enabled for those of close enough level
- constant change/time unit for monster spawning, for same average respawn time but no memory effect
- minimap shows protected areas as pale green
- away and grumpy message added to player description on 'Look'
- no XP reward for killing a player
- player killers marked with an icon
- healers won't heal player killers (even if they want to pay)
- Io Flotto removes player killer icon
- tutorial event for first player kill
- using a balloon within 6 hours of using the last decreases the time on 7 kika to 5 mins
- using rainbow beans within 6 hours of using the last makes you sick
- although snowballs and vomit are missiles, they don't show stats now
- immortal sword redrawn
- poison prevents you from using double click to walk
- improved stats of : great sword, claymore, vampire sword, fire sword, golden orc sword
- reduced stats of: sword, katana, scimitar, elvish sword, twin swords
- extra semos chest in ados bank
- script for GM to run which corrects the slot of a player in DM so they can claim victory
- NPCShoutZone script for GM
- /ban command for GM
- invited guest cannot use invitation scroll to get to church unless the engaged player is online
- older invitation scrolls with a different format will not work now (magic lost)
- dresses corrected to fit female body better
- a new hair and some new GM outfits
- new players start with a random unisex outfit instead of nekked
- pet Look description tells how hungry it is
- pet Leave and Own refactored, fixed bugs
- NPCs say something when you 'attack' them
- client reports all killers of an entity
- Ognir now distinguishes between bound an unbound rings when fixing
- Wikipedian fixed for new wikipedia.org API
- some wooden furniture items redrawn
- admin inspect and admin destroy now work for contained items too.
- pushing creatures with an area > 4 is no longer possible

Stendhal 0.69
- 7 kikareukin clouds added
- archangel and dark archangel, new creatures
- corrected xp of golden death
- path between kirdneh and fado
- added -Dstendhal.quest.regex analog to -Dstendhal.zone.regex to speed up restart while developing.
- fado battle arena for raids - clear space and divided levels
- hedges, waterfall and vegetable growers redrawn
- spinach, salad, all mushrooms and all herbs now using vegetable grower
- can *destroy blood and corpse now, (but ths is not clean) and blocked *destroy of portal
- the *destroy message tells admin exactly what they destroyed
- *destroyed creatures don't drop items
- cleaned up /inspect of a player
- made sally give time remaining to campfire test and reworked parts
- AmazonPrincess uses 'new' ChatAction way
- in battle karma isn't used when the level difference is enough that no luck is needed
- pet is starving message re-introduced
- 'use' only seen on items which are useable
- item guard creatures like the thing can check if a quest is active before dropping item
- extend ketteh wehoh npc and move her to new player start area
- rats are stupid cowards
- new help command /gmhelp_script
- mithril cloak quest, started with Ida
- creatures added to an empty platform in hell including new creature devil monk
- push checks if entity to be pushed is stood on an item
- katinka accepts abandoned pets, who are rehomed in the pet sanctuary
- pets can eat from passive entity respawn points
- items which are not placed by a player now expire correctly
- lorenz and xoderos given improved response coverage for their quests
- player is no longer told 'you can't consume any more', but eat too much and you choke or choke to death
- eating, poisoned, choking and combat icons moved up 8 pixels so they don't overhang entity's feet
- red combat square made slightly smaller so that it is not outside the entity area (which casued map trouble)
- -D switch available if you want your eating/poisoned/choking icons drawn on top most layer
- on death player is told what items their corpse contains

Stendhal 0.68.1
- sentence can be set for website
- new raid scripts
- map fixes
- north of ados is a bazaar
- ados mountains have some trees and new houses
- baby dragon not eating bug fixed
- balrog home in semos mines w2 redecorated
- all tiles of unknown origin now redrawn
- 'can drop items from bag even when closed' bug fixed
- honeymoon logic for just married couples is smarter
- townhall redecorated
- all east-west doors have much better look and feel
- client bug Freeze on rapid Login button uses now fixed
- ados coastline is complete
- unused classes in client removed
- some shop selling/buying bugs fixed
- character panel shows atk_xp and def_xp needed till next level up instead of total atk_xp/def_xp

Stendhal 0.68
- pizza is edible and can be made at the wofol bakery
- ados tavern got a makeover and new staff
- name your pet with /name
- assassins tunnel from assassins HQ to ados castle
- new creatures which drop new items in assassins tunnel
- dragon lair in assassins tunnel
- ados castle gardens in correct place now
- -1 semos mines zones (mtn dwarf areas) decorated
- tiled:
 - fixed tiled's source code so the the tiled/src directory can be added to the Eclipse project configuration
 - added tiled as target to build.xml (targets "compile_tiled" and "tiled_run")
 - Java 1.5 fixes to eliminate compiler warnings
 - you can launch tiled directly from Eclipse or using ANT
 - updated tiled.jar
- ANT targets "rendermaps" and "updatemaps" now use the new tiled code
- new gfx for soup, wine, beer
- fado priest heals, jynath charges a bit more for healing
- mithril nuggets can now be cast into mithril bars
- mithril shields can now be forged
- entwives have be discovered in ados mountains
- gnomes have built a village west of semos
- meat market added to ados
- hotdog stand added to athor
- magic theater barmaid added - typical movie watching goodies
- buyer added to gnome village - various goods
- buyer added to assassin HQ lobby - various goods
- archery buyer added to Nalwor Inn basement
- armor buyer added to Kirdneh market area
- fish market added to Kirdneh market area
- cloak buyer added to central Amazon area
- odds and ends buyer added to -3 abandoned keep
- veggie and herb buyer added to assassin HQ cellar
- scrolls now available by bartering with gardener lady in kalavan
- milk now available from semos farm
- honey now available from beekeeper in fado forest