TorilMUD News

150 Hour Uptime + Double XP!

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:50:17 -0400

Last week’s crash bug fixing bonanza has resulted in a near-record uptime of 150 hours and still going. To celebrate the US Memorial Day and our newfound stability, I’m happy to announce a Double XP day starting now and ending tonight at midnight, EST.

Have fun, and happy leveling!

New Zone: The Tower of Kenjin

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:58:28 -0400

Somewhere in the southern Calimshan desert a mystery unfolds. Rumors spread like wildfires about an enormous ebon crystal tower (which not a soul can remember ever seeing, or hearing about for that matter) rising high into the skies, yet casting no shadow. Foreigners have been seen exploring the desert, all seeking to discover the mystery of The Tower of Kenjin.

Crash bugs fixed!

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:56:12 -0400

Several crash bugs have been fixed. These bugs are the primary reason why the MUD has been crashing lately, so expect some improved stability as a result of these fixes.

Thanks to Silvanus and Gruumsh for pinpointing these issues!

Area Fixes

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:44:08 -0400

Today’s update addresses some open area issues:

Fortress of the Dragon Cult: Dracolich downgraded, items upgraded.
&cLa fine &ccmithril &cLshield embedded with &crspikes&N’s proc has been fixed, AC bumped.
That ugly bag of tentacles has been upgraded, the quest clarified
Darktree: knight’s chess piece has been fixed, ancient brownie will now return the correct bracelet.
Derro Pit: mage earring’s AC fixed.
Entrance to Fire Giant Lair now permanently fixed, along with more minor fixes.

New Zone: The Elemental Plane of Water

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:09:03 -0400

Here’s the full news entry. Have fun exploring the new zone!

Water Plane: A new zone has been added!
Water Plane: Related zones have been tweaked, which exactly is for you to find out!
Help File Overhaul: Stage 2 complete
Rainbow Curtain update: XP changed tobe more quest-based than kill-based
Rainbow Curtain update: Brain reward changed
Herd Chasm: Web blocking fixed
Triterium Guildhall update
Illithid food item added to Ixarkon shop, price increased for goblin dust
Comarian Mines clover quest fixed
Ghore xp qst is now aggro to goodraces
Lord Piergeiron’s avenger poofs on death again
Star-void quiver is identify-able again
Finn’s gear is no longer so ridiculously valuable
Matriarch quest item is no longer norent
Balalaika keywords fixed
Faang typos fixed
Darktree typos fixed
Hyssk typos fixed

Nine New Zones Added

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:03:34 -0500

Nine new zones from the former Homeland MUD have been converted and added to the mud. Look for them in the credits, and here’s a taste of what’s in store:

King Horgar Steelshadow the Fourth has closed the city of Gracklstugh to outsiders, but has finally, after being pressured by merchant guilds for the better part of a year, agreed to allow passage around the city walls to the wild tunnels of the Underdark that lie due west of the city gates. With the trade routes open, the fiendish minotaurs that roam the Labyrinth once again have a steady supply of food.
Denizens of the Underdark have reported many sightings of extra-planar beings, native to the Plane of Fire deep underground.
Rumors spread throughout the Northdark about a temple dedicated to the Elder Eye, and the riches contained within, unfortunately for adventurers, those rumors usually finish with ‘… and they were never heard from again.’, but there is always an exception, isn’t there?
Patrolmen from Phlan have reported increased activity ranging from ogres to dragons, all hailing from the mountains to the north.
Strange travelers have been seen in the astral plane, whether they mean good or bad tidings for the casual travelers remains to be seen.

Thanksgiving Weekend Multiplay

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:20:28 -0500

In addition to today’s double XP rewards we will also be extending the festivities with a multiplay weekend. See you there!

Multiplay begins Friday at 6pm EST and ends the following Sunday at 10pm EST.

Thanksgiving Double XP!

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:12:28 -0500

Tired of turkey? Log on to Toril and get double the XP for the holiday! See you there!

Halloween Double XP

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:17:55 -0400

All experience gains are doubled in celebration of the Halloween weekend. Come join us and level up a new character!

Autocomplete and bugfixes

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:05:41 -0400

The following items have been released to the MUD:

Autocomplete:

The MUD will now autocomplete player names in the same room as you. For example, you can now type rescue pidi and it will match on Pidibeple if he’s in the same room as you.

Powers:

Power spells will now maintain the target they were cast on up until the spell is complete. For example, you won’t lose spells when being rescued or when you cast on 2.mob and then 1. leaves the room.
Creeping doom now displays a message every wave.
Rot now displays a message on every wave.
Rot damage increased significantly.
Vitality displays a success message to the caster.
Area spells will now include blind mobs in the radius.

General:

Liches no longer show show up on infravision.
Orcs can wear Ceremonial Rat-Cult Robes again
Half-Orc battlechanters can now practice in Baldur’s Gate.

Bugfixes

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:01:09 -0400

The following items have been released today:

Furious assault can now be used while mounted
The power version of spells can now be cast while mounted, just like old spells.
Creeping Doom and Rot powers will now automatically target the next available aggressive mob if the original targeted mob dies before the spell is over.
Globe power duration is now modified by specialization.
Several crash bugs fixed.

Double XP!

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:12:54 -0400

All experience gain is doubled for this weekend, starting now!

Have fun everyone!

Unity is Live

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:49:00 -0400

The Unity update has been released. Here’s a quick look at the changes, but please scroll down and read the previous news entries for more detailed information.

Gameplay:

All racial grouping and spell casting restrictions have been lifted.
Dayblind has been replaced with a reflexive Daylight Adaptation power for all Underdark races. This power will allow them to see during the day in exchange for a hit roll penalty. This penalty is gone by level 20.
Half-Orcs have been added as a new PC race. They can be any class except Psionicists.
Vision code has been overhauled and restored to its previous state.
Mountain Dwarves and Grey Elves have been ranemd Shield Dwarves and Moon Elves, respectively.
Trolls’ in-combat regeneration rate has been restored to what it was prior to this January, when it was accidentally downgraded.

Zones:

Iceplane: Cryonax’s greaves fixed.
Magma: Drakes are bigger now.
Troll King: Horde shield fixed.

Help files:

Added “help size”
Added all Half-Orc help files

Zone Updates

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:32:49 -0400

Dreadmist: Dragging at entry portal bug fixed. Puppet staff enabled.
Ixarkon Prison: Neothelid, faerzress, and dweomer-defender procs revised.
Finder’s: QST dialogue clarified.
Terrissek: QST item is now takeable/giveable.
Fire Plane: A few new things added!
Hulburg: Slime whip proc fixed and reenabled.

Zone Updates

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:56:19 -0400

Dragonspear Castle:

New and deadly foes have been spotted deep within the bowels of the castle.
The mechanics and items of this zone have been tweaked along with a collection of general fixes.

Dreadmist:

Belladonna potion fixed.
Some enemies have learned fearsome new powers.
Other minor fixes and tweaks.

Unity

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:08:00 -0400

Unity
noun

the state of being one; oneness.

a whole or totality as combining all its parts into one.

the state or fact of being united or combined into one, as of the parts of a whole; unification.

The next major game update to Toril is codenamed Unity, and here’s what’s it’s all about.

Racial Unification

All races and classes can group together freely in Unity. NPCs will respond to good and evil races in the same manner, and equipment can still be restricted to either side, but all characters are welcome to group with whomever they choose.

While role-play and theme are very important to us at TorilMUD we’ve decided that it is time to break the artificial barrier of the Race wars. Just as in tabletop D&D, your character is your character and you can now role play them as you see fit. All player characters are by definition extraordinary individuals who may find themselves in extraordinary situations that wouldn’t be appropriate for normal people. We hope everyone will enjoy this opportunity to forge your character’s own path.

Vision

Dayblind has been removed and replace with an innate power called Daylight Adaptation. This power will allow all Underdark races to see normally in the sunlight, though they will incur a hit roll penalty in the lower levels for this. Eventually, that penalty goes away and high level Underdark characters will see during the day with no penalties.

In addition to the dayblind changes, the vision code has been overhauled and restored to work the way it did before the last round of changes. Normal, undead, and infravision should all function the way you expect again.

Half-Orcs

To celebrate the unification of the races, we’ve added a brand new player race called Half-Orcs. Here are some pertinent details:

Hometown in Baldur’s Gate
Can be any class except Psionicist
Small boosts to Strength and Agility
Small penalties to Intelligence and Wisdom
Innate power: Furious Assault
Can wear both evilrace and goodrace gear.

Balance

Obviously, this change has the potential to introduce major balance issues between the newly unified races. Rather than trying to preemptively guess what those problems may be we’ve opted to take a wait-and-see approach. We’ll make changes as needed, and will strive to make those as low impact as possible. Any potential changes in the future along those lines will be communicated clearly and in advance as well.

When?!?

We’re currently targeting the first weekend of October to release this update. If you have any questions please feel free to comment on this post or start a thread on the forums.

New Zone: The Dread Mist

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:13:37 -0400

The Dread Mist zone has been added to the MUD. This zone is open to levels 1 through 50 and features new quests and high level adventures. Come check it out!

Power Fixes

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:35:28 -0400

The following Powers tickets have been fixed:

#237 - Minute meteors / magic missile share alias ‘mm’
#234 - Mage flame can now target others
#232 - Divine Power now grants its bonus attack
#231 - Dragonscales no longer works on immaterial targets
#230 - Powers can now be cast on self in single-file rooms

Click the link below to see more details on these tickets or to see what else has been flagged for the next version.

Lighthouse: Powers 1.1.8

Colors!

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:01:00 -0400

Toril now has support for the XTerm 256 color protocol. This means that those of you on supported clients can now see a whole range of new ANSI colors, just as soon as we add some to existing zones and items.

Note: If your client is NOT supported or you keep the color toggle off, the MUD will automatically choose the closest matching old color. In other words, you can keep playing with any client you like, you just won’t get to see the new colors if your client isn’t supported.

Supported clients include:

CMUD
Tinyfugue
TinTin++
Apple Terminal (OSX Lion only)
Putty
TinTin++

See here for more details.

To turn on the new colors, you must toggle “colors” from inside the game. You can test to see if your client supports the colors by using the new “color” command, which will display something similar to the screenshot below if you have support for the extended colors. If you have any questions please feel free to leave comments on this post.

Power Radius updated

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:30:00 -0400

Power Radii previously had a hard limit on how many targets they could effect. The Huge radius, for instance, was limited to 8 targets. Now, each radius size can hit a percentage of targets in the room but is guaranteed to hit at least minimum number. This means that power area spells can now hit many more targets in a large fight setting. For reference here’s the radius sizes with associated percentages and minimums:

Radius: Small Min: 2 Pct: 25%
Radius: Medium Min: 4 Pct: 33%
Radius: Large Min: 6 Pct: 50%
Radius: Huge Min: 8 Pct: 75%

Example: Inferno has a Huge radius, so it can hit up to 8 mobs or 75% of the aggressive mobs in the room. If you’re fighting 10 giants, you can hit a max of 8 (since 75% is only 7 mobs), but if you’re fighting 20 you can now hit up to 15 (as 15 is 75% of 20).

Note: To get the maximum radius for your area spell, you’ll want to target it at a mob in the middle of the room list so that he radius expands outwards from them into the other targets. Casting it with no target means it radiates outwards from yourself, so unless you’re in the middle of the room list you won’t be getting full effectiveness.

In other Power news:

Rot now activates the first wave immediately
Doom no longer works on wraithforms
Magic missile fires the right number of missiles again