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Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory, posted on Sun Oct 27 16:57:11 2024
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
The mailer is now more informative about what's actually happening when you (a) save a message from one folder to another, and (b) answer its questions about whether you'd like to save your messages to the "received" folder and/or delete the messages marked for deletion.

Note: quitting the mailer may get spammier in the short term if you have previously misunderstood how things work and hence ended up with all the things in your inbox being also duplicated in your "received" folder. Hopefully t...

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Worth The Weight, posted on Tue Oct 22 23:16:22 2024
Posted by: Kadath
Category: General
A few fixes and adjustments have been made since the launch of the new Hedge Wizards' area in Skund Forest. Depending if/when you visited, you may not have experienced the 'before' version of these changes, but for the sake of those early birds who ran into a few oddities, here are the most relevant changes:

Skund Hedge Wizard Outpost:

- The teleport circle on the lower floor now transports your followers when you use it to move

- The misty archways inside the giant tree are better at kee...

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Mushclient Users: Please Clean Your IP Cache!, posted on Wed Sep 18 08:06:56 2024
Posted by: Pit
Category: General
Hello all,

If you are using Mushclient and find yourself unable to connect to Discworld later today, we advise that you go to File => World properties, where you may find a button "refresh cached IP", which you should press!

Explanation: the MUD is always reachable on discworld.starturtle.net, but to deal with network issues, we sometimes have to change which IP this address points to.

Unfortunately, some MUD clients -- of which Mushclient is the commonly used one -- cache the IP you have conne...

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Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill, posted on Wed Aug 21 16:11:17 2024
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
The klein bottle cosies sold in the Creel Springs magic shop now come in a range of colours (including one super-rare). The plain ones are still available for those who prefer them.

A bug has been fixed that was preventing anyone from getting the best result for the earring in the well-chewed metalworking book.

The soul formerly known as "eskimo" is now known as "hongi".

Inspired by the popularity of lettuce-eating tortoises, the geese from the Slippery Hollow pet stall will now accept gifts ...

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Disconnection Detection, posted on Sat Aug 10 13:21:27 2024
Posted by: Pit
Category: General
Hello all,

We are aware that there is a problem where players repeatedly get disconnected, and are discussing solutions with the ISP.

For the time being, we have implemented some functionality to protect players from dying in combat when a disconnect is detected by marking them as unconscious. This code is still in beta, and therefore may still have some flaws, but we are rolling it out now because we hope that it will help you.

If you would rather not have this code apply to you, please cont...

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Now, Turning To Reason, And Its Just Sweetness, posted on Tue Jul 2 11:30:32 2024
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
This blog post is mainly about stat items, but while I'm here:

Erected tents now show up on terrain maps, and people/corpses inside tents can now be located with the relevant rituals.

On to the stat items!

The effects of stacking stat items are no longer dependent on the order in which you equip the items. For positive stat effects, the final effect should now be the best boost that was possible with the old calculation. Moreover, the bless ritual will no longer interfere with equipped stat ...

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Connecting Securely, posted on Sun Jun 23 08:27:43 2024
Posted by: Fran
Category: General and Web
The mud now supports secure connections both when playing from the browser with DecafMUD or using a third party client[1].

To connect with a third party client use host discworld.starturtle.net and port 4245.

Fran.

[1] If the client supports secure connections. Check your client's documentation for support and instructions to enable this feature.

Germane Riposte, posted on Wed Jun 12 14:49:46 2024
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
Various bugs in the hunter's pack have been fixed. It should now no longer prevent you from slipping things into it while closed, and it should no longer give the wrong failure message when you try to put something into it that doesn't fit.

Ranged inhumes now take account of the damage types available on the weapon. Specifically, they no longer assume pierce damage unless the weapon can actually inflict that type of damage.

Poison lab equipment will now give a special message at the end of th...

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Nominative Redeterminism, posted on Fri Apr 26 19:00:44 2024
Posted by: Guildenstern
Category: General
Several things were getting confused about their names and plurals. Specifically:

* Fluffy ribbon chokers are now properly jewellery.

* When you have more than one tachibo, they are now two (or more) tachibo, rather than being tachiboes. You can refer to them as tachibo, tachibos, or tachiboes.

* Dead chickens, ducks, and eels can now be properly referred to as "corpses".

In addition, you can now buy newspaper boxes from your spulluf, if you have or can summon a spulluf. If you can't, ignore th...

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Experimental Outbreak!!!!!, posted on Mon Apr 1 10:39:31 2024
Posted by: Pit
Category: General
In an unexpected and totally unforeseeable turn of events, the Bes Pelargic wizards guild reports an unfortunate accident with the results of a scientific experiment breaking free.

"I've never seen anything like this! The catastrophe needs to be contained as soon as possible! We need everyone's help!" according to the junior spokesperson to the guild.

Everyone interested in helping out is asked to report to Professor Shrub in the courtyard. He was not open for commentary when our reporters asked...

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