v1.3.1

There are 4 new things this update: a new city, auto attacking, changes to buffs/effects and the addition of runes

New city (Medio)

The new city is called Medio, it was technically already in the game, although unreachable.
Medio is not done yet, so there is not much to do yet there.

Auto attacking

There is now a new basic skill called 'attack'. you can use it to start auto attacking a target. this is a huge change to how combat works, because you now won't have to spam "punch mike" anymore.
Each weapon has its own command it uses for auto attacking. 'slash' for slashing weapons, 'stab' for piercing, 'whack' for blunt and 'magic bolt' for magic weapons. Ranged weapons don't have an auto attack,
and will default to 'punch'. Stab is slightly faster and all auto attacks' speed scale with AGI
There is a new area with NPC and a quest in smalltown to learn new players how fighting works.
Hopefully this will help new players have more fun with the game and make the game more accessible for all.

Buffs/effects

This update changes how buffs and effects work in the background. Commands that gave buffs have changed in their scaling and there is new content that give buffs.
You will also be able to see which effects you and your party members currently have with little icons, if you hover over them you can also see how long they'll last.

Runes

Also new in this update are runes. It is a new mechanic for magic wielders. Runes are consumable items that amplify your magic in various ways!
They're are created with mana and you need a magic weapon to cast them. It is useful to craft them outside of battle with leftover mana, so you can use them in battle later!
A crafted rune has a certain grade, small, medium or great. With better qualities respectively. Chances of crafting better runes scale with your SKL stat.
Recipes for runes are hidden across the chatventures world. There are only 3 now, but more will follow

and more…

I fixed a lot of small stuff and did some balancing. A noticable change is how xp multipliers work for parties.
In short the xp multiplier is now always positive (base mult went up from x0.3 -> x1.0) and works only for party members that are alive and in the same area

Full changelog v1.3.1

new

- new command 'attack': start attacking a target
- new area: training grounds
- new NPC: Boyan the Trainer
- new quest: fighting basics
- new area: stone circle
- itemtype: runes
- new command: runecraft
- new command: runecast
- new rune: manarune, instantly restores mana
- new rune: starrune, gives health and mana regen to the user
- new rune: thunderrune, deals great damage instantly to a random target, damage scales with int
- new command: 'rage', become enraged for 1 minute, learnt at 80 STR
- new status effect: enraged, damage dealt is doubled but damage taken is tripled
- new status effect: hasted, increases your auto attack speed
- new status effects: mana regen, health regen, various stats increased/decreased effects, etc.
- new status effect: sick, can't eat/drink while sick and slowly deplete mana
- new command 'rejuvenate', gives mana and health regen to a target. part of 'Tome of the Cleric' skills.
- new command: 'get pumped', melee damage up with 50% for 30 seconds, learnt at 50 STR
- new command: 'fortify' get defense up and hp regen for 60 seconds, learnt at 30 DEF and 30 CON
- new command: 'hasten' hastes a players, increasing their auto attack speed. part of 'Tome of the Cleric' skills.
- new command: 'hyperspeed', for 15 seconds haste you base attack with 100%, evasion up 50%
- new offhand item: wrist watch, used to check the in-game time (rare drop from the casino)
- being in bigtown sewers now makes you 'sick'
- new hat: face mask, prevents you from getting 'sick' (sold by martha in the bigtown general store)
- new item: reset scroll, resets your stats, can only be used once (rare drop from the casino)
- new area: dark dark forest
- new enemy: gloom flea
- new enemy: gloom flea soldier
- new weapon: trinity bow, hasa unique command 'trishot' (shoots 3 arrows), rare drop from ice dragon
- new area: dancing dunes
- hair dye items
- new area: cash cash casino
- new area: oasis
- new area: medio bank
- new area: medio city gate
- new area: medio square
- new area: medio bakery
- new item: ancient compass
- new item: boombox

fixes

- fixed upgraded gatorblades fasely saying they also do piercing damage
- fixed gatorblade's effect not working with different slashing moves
- fixed slughammer's effect not working with different moves
- fixed blunt arrows and jagged arrows not switching types
- fixed a bug where shopkeepers will drop an item on the floor if you try to buy it while your inventory is full
- fixed a rare issue where players would get stuck in ??? area
- fixed a bug where xp item would stack xp multiplier on party members
- fixed a bug where the game thought you didnt own an item if it was equipped before the server got restarted
- fixed a bug where you could have more party members than 6
- fixed a bug where you could equip a quest item or consumable

changes / balancing

- party xp distribution is completely overhauled. you now get an xp multiplier for every alive party member in the same area times the party xp multiplier
for example, say your party has a 1.1x xp multiplier and you are with 2 others in the same area. each kill will give all of you a multiplier of 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.1 = 1.331
the base multiplier is changed to x1.0 (up from x0.3) you can find the full table below
- 'autopunch' cannot be learnt anymore
- 'motivate' now costs 100 mana (up from 40) and duration is 30 minutes (up from 10)
- 'grace' duration is 30 seconds (up from 10)
- 'protect' duration is 30 seconds (up from 10)
- changed scaling for motivate, grace and protect
- block now defends 50% of incoming damage (down from 80%)
- block duration to 5 seconds (up from 3)
- changed scaling for 'concentrate' and raised base duration to 10 seconds (up from 3), duration scaling increased by a lot
- 'counter' now deals 500% dex damage instead of the original damage
- 'counter' mana cost is now 5 mana (down from 10)
- 'counter' now blocks 50% damage (down from 100%)
- 'swing weapon' is now learned at 60 STR 25 SKL (from just 60 STR)
- 'magic bolt' base damage lowered to 10 (from 15)
- 'ignite' increased bade damage to 20 (from 1)
- you now need to have a shield equipped to use 'stand ground'
- bow commands have their base damage slightly raised
- teleport now has a max mana cost of 100 mana
- guard hp up from 1000 -> 3000
- changed calculation for enemy levels, this changes some of the xp from certain enemies as well
- moved canivorous worms enemy spawn to Dancing Dunes (from Arid Wasteland)
- new NPC Josiah at Bigtown plaza with a new quest that will help you get to the new city

misc.

- you can now equip/unequip upgraded versions of items with out typing the upgrade text e.g. 'equip strawhat' instead of 'equip reinforced strawhat'
- you can now unequip items by stating their type e.g. 'unequip armor'
- 'go to' now also works if you spell the place wrong (note: this doesn't work for teleport)

New party XP distribution table

Party level 1 : x1.01 per member, x1.020 at max capacity (2)
Party level 2 : x1.02 per member, x1.061 at max capacity (3)
Party level 3 : x1.03 per member, x1.093 at max capacity (3)
Party level 4 : x1.04 per member, x1.170 at max capacity (4)
Party level 5 : x1.05 per member, x1.226 at max capacity (4)
Party level 6 : x1.06 per member, x1.262 at max capacity (4)
Party level 7 : x1.07 per member, x1.403 at max capacity (5)
Party level 8 : x1.08 per member, x1.470 at max capacity (5)
Party level 9 : x1.09 per member, x1.539 at max capacity (5)
Party level 10 : x1.1 per member, x1.772 at max capacity (5)
Party level 11 : x1.11 per member, x1.870 at max capacity (6)
Party level 12 : x1.12 per member, x1.974 at max capacity (6)
Party level 13 : x1.13 per member, x2.082 at max capacity (6)
Party level 14 : x1.14 per member, x2.195 at max capacity (6)
Party level 15 : x1.15 per member, x2.313 at max capacity (6)
Party level 16 : x1.16 per member, x2.436 at max capacity (6)
Party level 17 : x1.17 per member, x2.565 at max capacity (6)
Party level 18 : x1.18 per member, x2.700 at max capacity (6)
Party level 19 : x1.19 per member, x2.840 at max capacity (6)
Party level 20 : x1.2 per member, x2.990 at max capacity (6)