Build 5.9.9 Release 12/18/2019

• Minor database change: CMQUESID in CMQUESTS, CMRCID in CMGRAC, CMPKEY in CMPDAT enlarged. Mostly optional.
• New prayers: empower unholy weapon, morph unholy weapon, faithful hellhound, discipline
• New prayers: remove inhibitions, preserve knowledge
• Prop_OpenCommand and Prop_CloseCommand have expanded arguments.
• Room-based Gathering skills now decrease yield with repeated spams of the same room.
• WHO list will now sort archons to the top. WHO Account will sort by account name.
• Monthly TOP reports will, at the end of the month, now be saved in DBFS dir /resources/reports
• MUD Clients that only support 16 colors, can have 256-color ansi codes translated to 16. See HELP ANSI.
• ANSI-256 color codes are now all in /resources/skills/colors.txt
• Shopkeeper VIEW on an ability will give it's help entry.
• New command: WORTH, mostly for legacy mud support.
• New RPAWARDS: EMOTE-x and CHANNEL. See coffeemud.ini file for more information
• Lacquering/Dyeing now support 256 colors and REMOVE, recipes updated and re-formatted.
• Wish now has a one rl-day cool-down.
• Siplet now supports ANSI-256
• New Scriptable command: MPCASTEXT, MPLINK, MPUNLINK, and MPPUT
• New MOB class: GenRideableUndead, with Raise Undead support in prayers.
• New internal property: ExtraData, for attaching random data to specific objects.
• New common skills: Master Dyeing, Master Lacquering, Improved Teaching
• Players >= last player level no longer gain experience above a 2% over cap.
• New disease: Color Blindness. All Canine-related races now have it.
• MANACOMPOUND system expanded to support multiple rules, masks, and ability cooldowns
• New PROMPT variable to list your skills on cooldown/mana compounding.
• New command: SUBSCRIBE, for getting notifications about journal posts
• New INI entries: MAXITEMSWORN, to limit total items worn, and MAXWEARPERLOC to limit replicated parts
• Combat stats now recorded for players at each level. STAT COMBAT will give a limited view.
• Banker ability to hold items and make loans can be disabled on a per-mob basis. See GenBanker in Archon's Guide.
• New property: Prop_LimitedEquip, for limiting the number of times a specific item can be equipped
• New Scriptable triggers: putting_prog, speak_prog
• New locales for Sailing Ship prototyping: ShipDeck, ShipLightGunDeck, ShipHold, ShipMagazine, ShipQuarter, etc.
• New Aggressive behaviors option: NOGANG.. to prevent aggro mobs from ganging up on players
• CONFIG now has HELP, and also supports new player PRIVACY flag.
• New Command Line builder tool: TEMPLATE -- for saving your favorite kinds of things.
• New languages: PigLatin (for Archons), and Pirate (which the Pirate class now gets instead of thieves cant)
• New common skill/property: BookLoaning, similar to merchant, but for loaning instead of buying.
• FileManager in MUDGrinder now has file rename/move feature.
• New property: Prop_LimitedContents, for limiting the number of items of a type in a container or room
• Massive number of new shipwrighting recipes.
• Factions now support SINK and SUNK faction events, Achievements now support SINKSHIP type.
• Alterer nerf: Wish is now level 60, and new spell: Limited Wish, gained at 30.
• Channels now support ACCOUNTLOGINS and ACCOUNTLOGOFFS for those using the account system.
• Where command now supports new MQL syntax, see AHELP WHERE (and RandomAreas guide) for more info
• Prayer Deaths Door moved to Healer 25, self-cast only. New Prayer: Protection from Death, in its place at 19.
• Quest Maker Wizard now supports reward items, and will reselect quest givers
• New property: Prop_RoomRedirect, and the MODIFY command now supports modify room <roomid> syntax.
• New Scriptable functions: ITEMCOUNT, CANHEAR, CANSEE, QUESTAREA, EXPERTISE
• New Archon command: ASYNC, for running long commands in the background.
• New questmaker templates: normal_capture2, normal_capture3, normal_capture4, normal_collect3, normal_collect4
• The GENERATE command can now generate random quests. See the RandomAreas doc for more info.
• New Behavior: RandomQuests for areas or mobs.
• More new questmaker templates: normal_killer2, normal_escort1, normal_escort2, normal_mystery1, normal_mystery2
• New DEBUG options: SCRIPTVARS and SCRIPTTRACE
• Yet more questmaker templates: *_delivery3, competitive_protect1, competitive_protect2
• Prop_Unsellable has new arguments
• New command: NOSELL -- for marking items unsellable
• New Spell: Shoddy Aura
• GenAbility now supports both a quiet and public skill effect, and an uninvoke message
• AS command now supports PORT argument for multi-host muds.
• Barbarians now get a max dex bonus when going shirtless. I love this. ;)
• New skills: Monkey Grip
• New chants: Uplift
• Forum Journals now support forum Categories
• MUDGrinder statistics report now has Social and Command reports
• Achievement triggers now support commands, for what that's worth.
• Can now jump overboard from a ship.