Early Miscellaneous Updates

For those interested, here are some miscellaneous updates from early on in the development of the server. They are in no particular order.

World Map

-Added the town of Hvitorland to Dagger Isle.

-Small stakes Texas Hold’em table added to the tavern in Hvitorland.

-Replaced the Sea Market with a custom wharf/small town.

• Unable to mark runes in this location.

-Added a large castle to the north of Minoc.

-No reagents are used in the Minoc Castle sparring pit.

-An orc village was added to Fire Island, west of Hythloth. These orcs have an outpost on Dagger Isle as well.

-Added a large arena to the southwest of Britain.

Items

-Added gold doubloons, a new currency found in dungeons.

• Rare drop, rate increases with monsters' fame.
• Used on a vendor stone to purchase special items.

-All animals and monsters now have a chance to drop skill scrolls.

• Chance of increasing any skill by 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, or 1.0, depending on the color of the scroll.
• The higher the creature's fame, the better the chance of a scroll drop.
• Functions like a scroll of transcendence.

-Magical weapons and magic armor found in loot have names and properties in the style of pre-Age of Shadows items (e.g., accurate mace of force). The pre-AOS properties have been converted to their modern, equivalent properties.

-Magical clothing, magical jewelry, and wands are found in loot. Items from each of the categories use charges and are unable to be recharged.

• Magical clothing will apply the enchantment upon being equipped and, depending on the enchantment, consume charges over time.
• Wands function as maces and by double clicking them, you will cast the wand’s spell.
• Magical jewelry must be equipped. Double clicking it will cause its effect to happen instantly; there is no casting delay.

Crafting

-Quiver added to tailor crafting.

• Requires quiver parts, found on elf brigands.

-Added calthrops bag to the tinker traps crafting menu.

• Requires two iron ingots and two yellow scales to craft.
• When double clicked, calthrops are dropped where the player is standing.
• Upon stepping on the calthrops, a small amount of damage is dealt, and the player is forced to walk temporarily.

Misc

-Added lockpickable doors for thief specific game content.

• Doors automatically re-lock after 5 minutes.

-Quest NPCs have been gagged. Their names will appear yellow so they are recognizable, but they will not babble when you pass them.

-Implemented daily rares system.

• Items can simply be picked up by anyone.
• The items have several spawn locations and will change randomly.
• 16 objects have been added:

• Rocks, Buccaneer's Den
• Rock, Fire Island
• Fruit Basket, Yew
• Closed Barrel, Deceit
• 2 Candles, Covetous
• Hay, various stables
• Full Jars, Ocllo
• Logs, near carpenter or bowyer
• Arrows, bowyer
• Horse Dung, stables
• Stump, Yew
• Red Chest of Drawers, NPC housing
• Chest of Drawers, NPC housing
• Orfluer, near wilderness points of interest
• Scarecrow, near fields
• Bookcase, mage shops