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PlaneShift Changelog

What's new in PlaneShift 0.6.3

Dec 27, 2014
  • Highlights:
  • Improved NPC dialogue. When speaking with NPCs, you now have the option to click the bubbles to define the reading speed.
  • Three new client skins with new art for buttons, menus, etc... : Flames, Legend, Classic.
  • Possibility to give a name to a sack in your inventory. This will greatly simplify the organization of your items!
  • Crafting Shields. Shield Making crafting has been redesigned, condensed to 4 books for less confusion, all the shields parts are now craftable. Two new special shields, made of blue-steel metal, are now available!
  • Crafting Bows: A good news for the archers and crafters, Bow Making is now available!
  • Crafting Axes & Swords: Axes and knives handles are now craftable.
  • Magic: 4 new spells are available for Crystal and Blue Way!
  • The Howling Well rework: a mystery lurks in the well shadows!
  • Two new bosses have been designed and deployed in the game! Challenging to fight and win.
  • Access The Bronze Doors with a pterosaur, through a quest.
  • For spell research, a better system message tells you if the failure is because of a non-existing spell.
  • Note for Mac users: we have changed the way we build the Mac client, so please give us feedback if you experience any issues.

New in PlaneShift 0.6.1 (Apr 15, 2014)

  • Main highlights:
  • Windows startup crash:One very nasty bug we had was just at client startup on Windows. An immediate crash which required you to launch the game multiple times before it was working. Finally this bug is fixed! Thanks to the Crystal Space team for the support.
  • Skill advancement: we're releasing one of the biggest changes in the gameplay of the last years: training a skill will now only happen through practice and there is no more the need for you to learn the theory from trainers. This means you'll be no longer required to go back and forth to the trainer to advance and you won't be required to spend Progression Points and money on it. Please note this is valid for Skills only (Blacksmithing, Sword, ...), but Stats (Agility, Intelligence, ...) continue to work as previously.
  • UI enhancements: Under Options>Interface>Shortcut Bar and Active Magic Window, you can find many new options to customize these two windows, in particular you can change the button size, text size, type of display and many other options. Check them all.
  • Art: Added three new skins which brings the total included in the client to five. Added item specific icons to display in the active magic window for items with magical (de)buffs, at the moment this does not include looted weapons but we hope to have support for that soon. Added/improved graphical effects for 10 spells. Added athanor mesh for alchemy. Added new warhammer and mace meshes. New spell icons. Merged some icons into a single file to improve performances.
  • Stability/Memory usage: We started to use a new static code analysis tool (Coverity). The tool revealed many problems, and the engine team fixed tons of memory leaks, pointer issues, variable initializations, numeric errors, memory bounds errors, and compiler warnings. This should improve stability of the client and lower memory leaks.
  • Natural Resources: Spawn locations of plants and plant parts have been reviewed and altered to improve visibility (some of them was spawning out of the map or in places unreachable by players). We also changed the difficulty levels required to harvest, some plants and metals will be easier to mine while other more precious will stay as hard as they are. The spawn times has been increased while still keeping it short enough so harvesting points will be easily identifiable, this was done to encourage use of harvest and mining.
  • Harvesting/Mining/Fishing: now the harvested/mined resources' qualities will be handed out with 5 step quality increase (e.g. 50, 55, 60, 65, ...). You can now harvest Treestem Wood and White Oak Wood! Find the right spot and type /harvest wood. Wood will be the main ingredient you need to craft bows and some wooden weapon parts.
  • Stamina: We revised the rules used to calculate stamina usage when casting spells and in combat.
  • Crafting: Due to a bug when two or more items were combined the output item's quality was equal to the highest quality item. Now the quality is generally averaged but favoring the mix of ingredients with the less quality difference. For example mixing a 200q and a 300q ingredient will result in a better quality than mixing a 50q and a 300q ingredient.
  • Sword Making: we have improved the consistency of many sword crafting techniques, especially for platinum steel swords (see bug tracker).
  • Bow Making: the data has been implemented but the crafting book will be available at the next settings update. So to craft your new bows you'll need to wait a bit, for now you will notice some new tools are available for purchase and some bows have changed their names to match the new dataset.
  • Previews:
  • Lockpicking: We added lockpicking as a new skill in game. We are working our way to make it fun and usable. Should be available shortly. You can use lockpicking to lock and unlock boxes. Locks have a strength which can be opened by equivalent skill rank.
  • New combat: You can see there are 5 new slots in the information window. Those represent the special attacks queue. The functionality is working already, but we need to add the special moves and the quests/trainers to provide those moves to you. At the moment you cannot use this function, but will be available in the future.
  • Other Enhancements and new features
  • Added a "/togglerun [run|walk]" user command. (feature req 5645)
  • Added /pet walk and /pet run commands.
  • Added GM /scale command. (will be used to generate larger/smaller monsters)
  • Added /loadShortcuts command.
  • Added /saveShortcuts client side command
  • Make storage and buy/sell windows look a bit different to distinguish them.
  • Set owner in psserver and npcclient so Charm spell and /pet follow work.
  • Disabled last used tab in the descriptions window when windows is opened for the 2nd time.
  • Make storage window resizable so descriptions can be read.
  • Make merchant window resizable so descriptions can be read.
  • Save Shortcut Edit window location.
  • Made Shortcut and ActiveMagic config load font options from all .ttfs found in ttf directory (instead of hard coding). Players can now use a custom font for those windows by dropping it in the correct dir and selecting.
  • Dynamically reload the active magic window when config changes.
  • Changed Active Magic bar to use images by default rather than text
  • Added scrollbar for SC bar
  • Allow money to be dropped into the world. (patch from Neeno)
  • Improved collision of NPCs with terrain (2d detection for partial move).
  • Fixes:
  • 6228 - Shift-Click-Split Broken
  • 6334 - Command /takestackall doesn't work on the Arena oven when targeting with mouse
  • 6273 - Mobs running in place
  • 6016 - Use CS AttachNew() instead of casting to csPtr
  • 6114 - There is a serious server memory leak with psItem.
  • 6116 - Memory leak when deleting gemContainer
  • 6120 - Memory leak in NetManager::Create()
  • 6122 - Memory leak of NpcDialogMenu objects
  • 6123 - Memory leak in CacheManager when loading craft messages
  • 6124 - Memory leak in psItemStats::ReadItemStats()
  • 6128 - psCharacter::SetActor() uses uninitialized gemActor::combat_stance
  • 6238 - Typos in help.xml
  • 6241 - New /equip behavior
  • 6235 - Chatbox Cursor Positioning by Click
  • 6251 - Fix mouse click that passed through the red X icon to function below window.
  • 5978 and 5655 by updating the open container views upon reception of inventory change by client.
  • 6274 - world containers clearing content when moving items in inventory
  • 6284 - Crash with badly written equip command
  • 5993 - Changed to use 2d distance for NPC movements when checking for reaching destination. When using 3d pos it sometimes happens that the end position was above ground and the npc would stay in one place and going back and forth
  • 4578 - Cleaned up pet code regarding timers.
  • 6295 - Fixed uninitialized values in combo box.
  • 6283 - Changed pawsWidget::SetMaskingImage to use 'GetOrAddPawsImage' so that if an image wasn't already loaded into the art cache it would be.
  • 6280 - Crash when when using GM command "/setskill me all" with skill window open
  • 6211 - Crafting containers linked to the world map with action locations are not guarding items correctly
  • 5693 - (at least the minimum change for now)
  • 6223 - where multiple icons and 'expired' icons are showing overlapped in the Active Magic window.
  • 5742 - Crash when opening containers
  • 6349 - /scale command bugs
  • 5933 - AoE spells ignore instance when detecting targets.
  • Fix stamina drain after dying by not scheduling a new psCombatAttackGameEvent if the player isn't in combat mode.
  • Fix /equip so it looks for the right stack count when searching for item(s) to equip.
  • Fixed scaled movement when NPC is controlled by NPCClient.
  • Fix usage for /guildpoints
  • Fixed infinite loop calling OnButtonPressed if npcdialog bubbles are not enabled.
  • Fixed crash if CacheManager::PreloadScripts() fails.
  • Fixed server crash where containers where moved from world to inventory.
  • Fixed several small issues related to item handling and containers.
  • Fixed condition where the game was not ending properly.
  • Fixed crashes on server if target character is invalid.
  • Fixed bug with button backgrounds by refactoring.
  • Fixed disabled config control for edit mode.
  • Fixed crash in admin manager with the /quest command when an NPC was targeted.
  • Fix sliding after death when mounted.
  • Fix a bug where the player logs out while polymorphed and takes control of random character when logging in.
  • Fix problem with displaying options->Interface->Pop-ups menu if options file not present.
  • Fix NULL pointer crash if exiting before netmanager is initialized.
  • Add buddy to database first. Error case was leaving buddy added to psBuddyManager.

New in PlaneShift 0.6.0 (Nov 23, 2013)

  • USER INTERFACE:
  • New Shortcut window. The quick spell bar has been combined with the shortcut bar. The new shortcut bar includes support for:
  • Icons in addition to text
  • Dragging of items from the spell book (the icon on the right) or inventory which will automatically generate use commands
  • Drag and drop of shortcuts to reorganise them (this option is toggled on/off with the lock icon)
  • Character specific shortcuts and key bindings. Now each char has its own set!
  • New active magic window. Whenever you have an active spell (buff or debuff) an icon will show in the active magic. Much more compact and user friendly than the old one. There are some known bugs in the bar, like the display of some icons may be duplicated.
  • Slight improvements to Quest book, guild window, chat window, options window.
  • "Basic chat" window removed to allow for setting of visible chat tabs without restarting the client.
  • Added ability to type in the chat window by just having the cursor over the chat window so you don't have to also click on it. This can be enabled in the advanced config chat window settings.
  • Added a new skin "Minimatuux", feedback is encouraged. You can select the new skin from the launcher.
  • GAMES AND MECHANISMS:
  • Added engine support for mechanisms. These allow developers to add items in the world, like giant boulders, which can be moved by players by pressing a button or moving a lever.
  • Added ability to "use" certain static objects in the world.
  • Enhanced mini game support.
  • MOVING OBJECTS:
  • Fixed support for 'sequences and triggers' to allow things like the wheels in the sewers to move again. This will allow in the future to add more interactive elements to the areas.
  • BIG BOSSES:
  • The game now supports scaling of characters, this will allow developers to create 'giant' or 'miniature' creatures from the current models. Hope to finally see some big bosses to fight!
  • ART:
  • Welcome the male Nolthrir! Complete with all standard animations, armour, robe, and some customization options.
  • Bracers now show for -all races-.
  • Icons now available for all bracers so you will no longer have a sack filled with pink rings.
  • The new "Ash brotherhood" lair.
  • A new map and a new creature, undisclosed at this time, will be available as part of an in game event very soon.
  • CRAFTING:
  • Many platinum-steel weapons have been made available for crafting (thanks to Tuathanach), you will find some of them are already available in the released crafting books (all common blades) while some (like axes and superior swords) will require new crafting books and will have to wait for a quest to introduce them.
  • All crafting, mining/harvesting and the Musical instruments now support the use of higher quality tools, in the future they will be available as quest rewards.
  • SPELLS:
  • 11 new spells added, some will require a new quest to introduce new glyphs not yet available. New spells include: spells able to morph the spellcaster, new low level direct damage spells for azure and brown way spells. A new spell able to "charm" weak monsters, this is experimental and will be the first of a new series of spells.
  • OTHERS:
  • Added a multiplayer minigame "Tic Tac Toe" in Kada'el tavern lower floor, right click on the right table to start playing with a friend.
  • CRASH REPORTING:
  • Added support for crash reporting to Linux and Window builds. Whenever your client crashes, it will send a report to us with the details, so it can be analyzed. We also have a server side component which lists the most frequent crashes, so we can focus on the high priority ones. Lots of thanks to Talad, Eredin and Jilare for getting this done.
  • ADDITIONAL CHANGES:
  • Settings:
  • Fixes to a number of in game books (bug #5338).
  • Fixed bug #5990 - The Dark Way block of the Hydlaa plaza fountain had a bad setting so you could not see the dialog needed to complete a quest.
  • Fixed bug #6145 - Fixed the description to hops
  • Additional Art changes:
  • Four new book colours have been created and you can buy from Jayose.
  • Icons for numerous plants which just had a sack have been created, this should make searching through your herbal supplies easier.
  • Many of the old textures, like those on the Dermorian male torso, and leather torso armour had tiny spots of transparency which meant you could see through the character. 49 old textures with this problem have been fixed (bug #3745).
  • You might find your paths blocked in certain caves now by giant boulders, look for the nearby mechanism to move it out the way.
  • Ride animation was missing for rogues. That has been added now so for events, GMs can play mounted rogues and it won't look weird.
  • Improved graphic for Electrouch spell
  • NPC/Monster:
  • Puppy protection: many NPC behaviours have been updated so newly created characters will not be attacked by relatively weak (but aggressive) NPCs able to kill them. Examples are Arangmas and Rogue. Monsters in the wilderness areas (like ulbernauts) are meant to be dangerous and will not have puppy protection.
  • Monster rebalancing: some monster armour skill didn't match their natural armour type (for example it was light instead of medium), this has been fixed.
  • Another tribe added (the Ash Brotherhood) and many improvements to the tribal recipes and behaviours of the tribes already released.
  • Rules bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug #5197 - We have greatly increased the number of platinum steel weapons you can craft.
  • Fixed bug #6167, #6202 - The Fear spell and other Dark Way spells will now work as designed.
  • Additional Engine changes:
  • An addition to the window for picking up custom numbers from a stack: it will now remember the last number you chose and not default to 1 each time.
  • Improvements to developer quest parser to aid in quest development.
  • Added a limit to the number of 'stacks' you can have in a storage category to prevent the max capacity from being passed resulting in not being able to access those items.
  • Fixed "/pet summon N" , so that it will summon the same pet regardless of the order the pets where added to your char.
  • Return a more useful error message for /pet command if mounted.
  • Additional improvement to the crafting books for enchanting to correct "With higher crystal way]]Enchant...." & related bugs
  • Re-written Help file to go with remade tutorial, and updated with new commands.
  • Lots of fixes to slot and container handling, should improve most problems people encounter.
  • Fixed a bug where if an item was in a container in slot >=16, and you were storing, you could see it in the list but you couldn't store it.
  • Engine bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug #1213 - This fix will mean that books with commas in the name will show correctly while trading the book.
  • Fixed bug #2097 - This will allow players to select the icon of a reward from the quest reward window, not just the text.
  • Fixed bug #2551 - As part of the new shortcut window you will be able to pickup and drop shortcuts to reorder them.
  • Fixed bug #3794 - This will fix the bug which appears if you have a pet summoned and another is created you end up with one you can't command. Now if you have a pet summoned it is dismissed before the new one is created.
  • Fixed bug #4641, #5839 - The Chat window has been slightly adjusted to improve its look.
  • Fixed bug #5218 - Shortcuts now use the new /emote command.
  • Fixed bug #5665 - This adds improvements to pet commands, to let you command a pet by name. They new use the following command format /pet action pet name/number example "/pet summon jonny" "/pet stay jonny"
  • Fixed bug #5695 - This fixes a bug where you did not get an error message when you tried to research magic with no glyphs in the research slots. Now you get an error message, this should make research easier to work out.
  • Fixed bug #5731 - This fix stops a crash where if you tried to force training a faction when you open the training window, as factions can not be trained, the client crashed.
  • Fixed bug #5825 - The active magic window will now have one list, use spell icons for spells, and has a too bar icon for quick show/hide
  • Fixed bug #5894 - This should mean that all magic enchanting crafting books display the instructions correctly
  • Fixed bug #5899 - This fixes the missing feature where you could only change pages with clicking on the next/previous buttons in books. Now you can use mouse scroll, key scrolls on; Up/Down, Left/Right, PgUp/PgDown, and End/Home. This allows for much easier changing of pages in creative and crafting books.
  • Fixed bug #5910 - Both a mount and unmount icon have been added to the interaction menu with mounts. This makes getting on and off much easier.
  • Fixed bug #5964 - Removed reference to "being frozen by a GM" so spells which use the same code as the GM command do not make it look like you were frozen by a GM.
  • Fixed bug #5965 - Previously if you had an NPC selected as it went invisible you could still train/trade with it. This fix means this should no longer be the case.
  • Fixed bug #5968 - This fix has added a /brightness command and will preserve setting through restart, to allow for easier control of custom brightness levels.
  • Fixed bug #6003 - This will fix instances where category names changed to lower case. This also messed up the order they displayed in the merchant/storage windows. All category names will now say in their correct case and order.
  • Fixed bug #6021 - This fix should mean the /equip command will not pick items already equipped.
  • Fixed bug #6023 - The Default 'no quest message' should now be correct.
  • Fixed bug #6075 - This fixes the bug with items not displaying properly in containers. The frequent complaint was with glyph sacks as it became impossible to see where all your glyphs were. Now all containers are displaying their contents correctly.
  • Fixed bug #6079 - Currently when you see a 'loading screen' appear in game, in order for your character to move again you have to jump or press forward again. You will no longer have to as movement is automatically continued once the load screen closes after loading has finished.
  • Fixed bug #6112 - Due to a mistake in the script some items were assigned an "unidentified" flag when they were crafted despite them not needing it. The mistake in the script has been corrected.
  • Fixed bug #6156 - Settings Devs occasionally got reports from player that a 's or ' at the end of an NPCs name was missing. We now have the ability add them and for them to be displayed properly in both the NPC tab and in the quest dialog window.
  • Partial fix for bug 6192 - This fix will allow NPCs to react properly to things such as spell scripts, which in turn means spells such as fear and darkness will work as intended.
  • Fixed bug #6210 - Some players might remember when they were given or looted items they vanished, this is now fixed so items will not go missing due to this bug any more.
  • Other fixed bugs:
  • Fixed memory leaks in bugs, 6048, 6051, 6052, 6054, 6058, 6074, 6086, 6088, 6093, 6089, 6115, 6125, 6121.
  • Fixed bug #6053 - Eliminate false error messages about empty text documents
  • Fixed bug #6072 - pawsInventoryWindow::UpdateFromContainer() test is wrong
  • Fixed bug #6073 - pawsContainerDescWindow::GetSlot() returns the wrong slot
  • Fixed bug #6077 - GetPSMouseMods() doesn't get modifiers correctly
  • Fixed bug #6169 - Fix container ID for wooden bowl contents.
  • Fixed bug #6173 - Interface>Advanced-Chat>'Lose focus on send' option broken?
  • Fixed bug #6178 - Remove redundant and confusing definitions for ANY_BULK_SLOT and ANY_EMPTY_BULK_SLOT.

New in PlaneShift 0.5.9.11 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Art:
  • New read book layout with two facing pages, including new art
  • New icons for crafting books
  • New gawert monster added
  • Created some new spells effects
  • Effect added on Specialized Staves: Blue, Dark, Brown, Red
  • Redone Azure Spells casting time
  • fixed many spells which lacked effects (Cleanse, Lesser Plague, Mind Paralysation, Minor Earthquake)
  • Rules:
  • With this big rules release we greatly improved many NPC attack behaviour, now NPCs are able to:
  • check their health condition and decide how to behave (heal, flee) based on that
  • use special attacks (stun, poison and MORE!) like originally designed by the settings team
  • use spellcasting abilities to defend and attack or even heal themselves
  • many spells will now trigger specific NPC behaviours (like fleeing when subject to Fear spell)
  • assess the player strengths (physical, magical, or both) and decide which attack stance to use
  • fixed many NPCs paths in hydlaa (just to name a few: Mirra, Nalri, Rolara, Axomir, Loren, ...), some path may still require some fix.
  • Update for Crafters:
  • the cooking books have been reworked and divided into 3 different categories: the "Art of Baking" (to bake bread and cookies), "Meet and Stews" and the "Pastry Chef Book" (to prepare all kind of sweets)
  • a whole new cooking book to cook fish: "Dishes with Fishes" (many thanks to Rheos for designing it)
  • new alchemy antidotes have been added to neutralise many poisons and disease effects
  • new effects for food: beware eating too much will lead to an indigestion and finally the Kran are be able to eat ores, metals and crystal powders!
  • Combat: armor quality damage reduction factor was too high compared to the weapons quality factor, their refactoring should balance PvP combat once more. We expect your feedback and testing.
  • Body Development: it is now possible to gain practice points in body development. The skill is now fully usable in game.
  • Mining/Harvesting/Fishing practice points and experience update: now those skills will reward a similar amount of practice/experience like all the other crafting skills; the time spent performing the action, the skill required to perform the action and the player skill are all considered in the calculation.
  • Spells updates:
  • 3 new spells are now available in game for brown way: Tower Armour, Armoured Skin and Stone Warp
  • fixed many spells system messages (spelling errors and added some messages)
  • fixed spells which did not account for magic resistance yet
  • spell saving throws compare caster and target's relative way skill
  • Tribes:
  • we have released 2 Gobbles tribes in the bdroad1 map, one aggressive and one more peaceful. Beware the Aggressive are hungry and angry!
  • Settings
  • Cooking redo:
  • Along with the rules changes to cook books, the quests to award these books have been redone to reflect the recipes in each, including some new quests.
  • The cooking chain has been reordered and dialog added to direct you from quest to quest.
  • As a result, ALL COOK QUESTS PROGRESS HAS BEEN WIPED (except Mirra's quests, which are their own branch in the chain), beginning with Introduction to the Food Association with Jomed. This is a good chance for newbies and cooking experts alike to go through the chain and provide feedback and suggestions. The old cook books have been wiped so you'll have to reacquire the new versions.
  • Trainers and merchants have been adjusted to reflect the changes.
  • Though small, Jomed's kitchen is now functional. While it doesn't have the room for a full array of equipment, the existing art (grill, stove, table) now have action locations to make them usable. Pots, bowls, etc. have been added along with an oven.
  • A few additional items have been added in other places as well, like Reffitia's kitchen and Archilaya's area.
  • For some quests where you give NPCs food, their responses may vary depending on quality. (e.g., submit a dish for Reffitia for your apprenticeship that is below a certain quality and she may reject it and have you make it again...give her a high quality dish and she will be very impressed).
  • Other Quests/Quest features:
  • Harnquist expands his palette (again): Though not directly in the cooking chain, the Harnquist is Hungry quest has now been expanded to include many many more options. As you increase your cooking and baking skill together, the options for what he asks from you will change and get more complex. This means you will be able to make him dishes according to your skill level. The higher your skills are the more you are asked to do, and the better the rewards for feeding him are. This is something for all you cooks.
  • We have introduced a method to make players wait between steps, when an NPC says 'come back later' in some of the newest quests you will actually have to wait. We are testing this out to see how well it fits and for playability, the periods you have to wait are not long and you are given a system message with exactly how long you have to wait and it will also appear as a buff in your active magic window.
  • A number of small option changes have made it into a number of current quests which reward glyphs to make them easier to acquire.
  • A few new quests have been added which will give more cultural information about the nolthrir.
  • Additional quests have been added to allow obtaining an early important blue way glyph easier (pay close attention to what NPCs say to you for you might miss the quest otherwise).
  • Books:
  • Continuing out efforts to expand the released setting, two new ingame books added, check out the libraries and taverns to see what books are available.
  • KA (Knowledge area), these are what NPCs respond to when you ask them something, like 'about you' in the free text box or use '/tellnpc about you'
  • General clean up of KAs and removal of unused or empty ones.
  • Added KAs for alchemy in Hydlaa and Ojaveda.
  • General improvements to many NPC responses based on requests on forum threads, winch doors and npc info for winch, expanded Gugrontid KAs.
  • Ferryd now has proximity KAs for information about training and should address you by rank as you progress up in Red Way Ranks.
  • We have added KAs to all the guards in Hydlaa so they can enforce banishment once it is ready to be used by GMs.
  • NPCs:
  • Descriptions for many of the NPCs and NPC types have been replaced with more descriptive versions (75 at last count).
  • Some positions should be fixed, like Edrich standing on/in his window.
  • Incorrect traits, like enkidukai clan colours, have be corrected.
  • Descriptions and held items should match more closely for a few NPCs now.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • continual fixes and improvements to settings, currently at least 26 reported bugs listed as 'Fixed pending release' will make it onto the production server. At least as many other minor fixes reported to settings for quests will also make it onto the production server. Please keep telling us about every little thing you guys find which is wrong.
  • Subsequent art updates

New in PlaneShift 0.5.9.2 (Feb 27, 2013)

  • Setting:
  • Many quest scripts were improved to simplify their maintenance by developers
  • Many new quest script commands were put into use to improve quests and quest progression
  • The quality of items received in quest can now range up to Q300 and not just the default Q50
  • All problems caused by miss-triggering of quest steps were fixed
  • Some repeatable quests were improved to vary slightly from time to time when you start them
  • The magic quest series were brought inline with the settings involved with them
  • A total of 13 new settings lore books were released, now totaling 75
  • Added new items sold by merchants (like carpets, furniture and containers)
  • Rules:
  • Fixed bug on weapon modifiers calculation. Now multiple modifiers are stacked properly
  • Added ability to identify rare/magical weapons (it requires a spell)
  • Added a new spell to identify items
  • Improved the comparison mechanisms used to evaluate the opponent in combat
  • Added a "use" icon to the containers UI, this will avoid crafter to left click on the container mesh to trigger the transformation
  • Added capability for NPCs to run scripts and for scripts to fire NPC perceptions. This will allow to develop a better and more interesting AI
  • Added GM command for NPC in-game debugging
  • Improved NPC tribes perception and reactions (this is another step toward the release of tribes in game in the next months)
  • Engine:
  • Greatly improved the stability of the client (it may still crash at startup, in this case, just launch it again)
  • The window to discuss with NPCs is now always in the background, making it much easier to use
  • Fixed scaling of monster models. Finally you will see them in the proper size and not default one
  • Enabled creature sound system (first version). It will allow to have specific sounds for monster actions
  • Updates to the navigation system for monster movement
  • Art/Sounds:
  • Updates to spell effects
  • Added effects to many crafting items (i.e. Alchemy stove, Enchanters)
  • Improved sounds in guildhouses
  • Updated effects on magical staves
  • Known bugs:
  • A black bar may appear at the top of the window when running windowed mode. Lower the resolution from the launcher to fix it. We will publish a fix in the next days.

New in PlaneShift 0.5.9 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Art:
  • Updated laanx temple geometry and textures
  • Performance improvements to hydlaa plaza
  • Updated hydlaa jayose with new houses and other new art
  • Updated tutorial area with new houses
  • Updated hydlaa winch with new houses and added bump maps
  • Added new magic staff items, three for each magic Way!
  • Updated the lighting and skybox of all levels to have a more realistic day/night effect
  • Changed the speed of walk and run to be more realistic, and allow better animations
  • Added blending of walk/run to smooth the transitions
  • Fixed trasparency problem on all outdoor maps (terrain)
  • Added harnquist shop's interior
  • Added grass to all outdoor/terrain maps (experimental)
  • Engine - graphics:
  • Added support for GLSL shaders. This should improve compatibility with intel graphic cards but could give problems with old drivers so: update your drivers!
  • Added the first iteration of a new NPCUI for npc interactions
  • Fixed some issues with pictures in help windows and books (they should start to appear soon)
  • Added a lock/unlock function to the quickspell bar (you can enable the bar with "/show quickspell"
  • Fixed texture loading order on character which fixes problems with klyros/enkidukai skin colour being wrong and disappearing armor
  • Engine - rules:
  • Overhauled the music rules support to work by limiting the amount of notes instead of making them wrong. Additionally several problems regarding musical instruments have been fixed.
  • Added information about quality when a new item is created through crafting
  • Engine - Artificial Intelligence:
  • Merged gsoc2011 work on tribes and expanded from there by adding several functionalities to NPC which should start to show in the next months, making them more immersive and able to act as tribes.
  • (for devs) several improvements to functionalities to handle npc paths in order to allow an easier change of them directly from the client
  • Added support to the npcclient to handle spell casting
  • Added several perceptions and scripting options in the npcclient to allow to check for more conditions and act appropriately
  • (for gm/dev) added suppport for /percept to trigger perceptions on NPC and additional information about the NPC status in /info
  • Engine - Infrastructure:
  • From now on clients will just authenticate with sha256 passwords (if you cannot login you can restore the password from the registration page or input your password from scratch in a 0.5.8.1 client and get in-game, then try logging back in 10 minutes later
  • Desura clients now will ship with the updater functionalities disabled, you can still enable them by changing the pslaunch.cfg (Update.Enable option) but we suggest to use the desura client update functionalities.
  • Now the linux client will run again old older distributions (GLIBC 2.7), additionally several libraries have been updated.
  • Improvements to the updater which should be more stable after this release.
  • (for dev) added support to restart the npcclient directly from an admin client /quitnpcclient
  • Added a button in pslaunch to allow easy deletion of the shadercache
  • Fixed a bug which could show the server as unreachable after logging out (for example after deleting a character)
  • Engine - general:
  • Added some command line commands to set character descriptions (/setdesc , /setoocdec , /loaddesc , /loadoocdesc )
  • (for devs) mathscripts and paths can now be reloaded from the database at runtime allowing an easier development, and restart-less fixes. (/reload path, /reload mathscript)
  • (for devs) added support for buff-able variables on a character
  • (for devs) several places are now more script-able: when damage is applied to a character, when a new item is created from crafting, etc. Additionally several ways to change things regarding items and inventory have been added to scripting support.
  • (for gm) fixed a crash when using names of offline entities as target.
  • (for gm) now it's possible to see mana in the detail windows of characters.
  • Fixed dangling alliance/guild data being kept in the db even if they were effectively not existent any more.
  • (for devs) Allow multiple crafting patterns to be within one book.
  • Removed book xml being printed to stdout when opened.
  • (for devs) Added support for restrains in the loot item modifiers (black/white list and no check mode support)
  • Fixed crash when using label on target function.
  • (for skinners/dev) It's now possible to show and hide windows with pawsscripting using WindowName:Show()/:Hide()
  • Fixes on the quality options in pslaunch not being set correctly sometimes
  • Languages are now sorted by name in pslaunch and don't show duplicates anymore
  • Fixed error shown when opening books written by others
  • Fixed take and stack all on action location items
  • Fixed selection of skins with dots in the filename
  • Fixed issues in dictionary handling with the spellchecker
  • Engine from crystalspace:
  • Several fixes in shader management including crash fixes.
  • fixed support to recent openal libraries (which have now been used)
  • Setting:
  • updated many NPCs to have all base dialogue triggers (like greetings, how are you, tell me about you, goodbye, ...)
  • Updated the cooking quest chain to allow earlier access to basic cooking books and more logical quest progression.
  • Continued improvements and bug fixes to current quests.
  • Audio:
  • New 15 minute ambient music for Hydlaa Plaza, Magic Shop
  • New Battle Env Sounds
  • Fixed water sound on Bronze Doors Fortress

New in PlaneShift 0.5.8 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Art:
  • The main section of hydlaa has been remade! We remodeled all the houses to look better, and we updated all the textures to be higher resolution. You should see a big difference compared to the tutorial.
  • Thanks to his popularity, Harnquist's shack has been replaced with a new larger blacksmith building. Looks like he is having good business!
  • Some of the wall textures in Hydlaa have been updated to higher resolution.
  • The Laanx temple has been remade, with higher detail. We still don't like too much the textures applied, and we are going to improve that soon.
  • Hydlaa main now has bump mapping applied for more realistic surfaces.
  • Improved the position of the musical instruments when wielded by adding a rotation. This is still not optimal, and will require an engine change to fix it completely (planned).
  • Many new spells effects including: Healing Rain, Rinse, Icy Ground, Mephitic Haze, Water Barrier, Icy Blast, Phantasmal Voice, Hand of Doom, Mind Drain.
  • Updated enviromental sounds of : Tutorial Map, Laanx Temple, Tavern de Kadel, Sewers, BlackFlame temple, Ojaveda Road, Gugrontid, Hydlaa Arena, Death Realm, Magic Shop, Hydlaa Winch, all 3 caves levels.
  • Added sounds for musical instruments: lira, lure, drums.
  • Improved icons for natural resources, like ores (gold, iron, ...).
  • New Features:
  • Added the ability to play musical instruments. You can actually compose a musical score in game and then play it with your musical instrument skills. Try to play with other people, and create a band for special events!
  • Merged a new, heavily refactored and improved, sound system which is now entirely plugin based (adds a dummy soundmanager and a normal soundmanager)
  • Added support for pictures in setting books and help pages
  • Added support to individually enable/disable each tab of the chat window from the options panel.
  • Made the spell checking based on hunspell a plugin too and made it configurable on supported platforms (linux/macosx). Additionally it can now spell check more text fields in game
  • GM events: It's now possible to change the npc AI plan at runtime on the npcclient
  • GM events: Improved support for morphing, which now actually changes the race and not only the mesh. This way also the speed of the actor might be affect from it.
  • GM events: /impersonate now supports triggering an animation
  • GM events: Expanded area commands to support a whole sector and regular expressions for name based search (area:type:map:mapname/here)
  • GM events: Added a new flag which allows certain items to have the "no pickup" setting only applicable for GMs. This will allow easier setup of events.
  • Added support to lock/unlock the quickspell bar
  • Added a /version command to print the client version
  • Added mute and freeze script support (could be used for spells later on)
  • Fixed quest menu not being shown when items are given
  • Fixed problems from attempts to add invalid buddies in the buddy list
  • Fixed alliance text ending up in main even if disabled
  • Fixed truncated map names in map list shown through admin manager
  • Added support to spawn creative items from /item instead of having to use an npc to do it
  • Added support to show entity labels only when an entity is targeted
  • Fixed gm/dev login when the server is full
  • Improved the quest menu to avoid to cut out parts of entries
  • Started migration to sha256 for password storage. md5 is still used for client login, sha256 is already used for npcclients login.
  • Fixed combat music continuing to be played after combat is ended
  • Added warnings on group join in case the group is under a group challenge (see the wedding assassination problem)
  • About 15 others fixes and improvements on the server side
  • Setting and background:
  • Published the prize quest for the guild quest contest: "Right on the mine"
  • Roleplay info: enhanced the race pages with background information, history, culture, religion, main characters, architecture, ...
  • History of the world: added new major events in the planeshift time line.
  • Major change: Xacha removed and merged with the lemurs
  • Major change: Diaboli removed from playable races
  • Major change: Stonebreaker and Hammerwielder became two clans of one race: the Stonehammers
  • Update: Magic way quests have been polished
  • Update: Guards chain quest have been polished
  • Update: Science chain quest have been polished
  • General fixing: 43 quest bugs fixed confirmed from bug tracker reports
  • Rules:
  • Added musical instrument skill, added trainers and rules on how to progress. The more skill you have the less errors will be done while playing.
  • Installer:
  • Added OpenAL (sound) installer to the standard PlaneShift installer on Windows to ensure all clients have the right dlls.

New in PlaneShift 0.5.7 (Jun 7, 2011)

  • Added more realistic textures (normal maps) to the following levels: Ojaveda, Hydlaa Arena, the three cave levels, the blackflame temple, the death realm, gugrontid guildhouse, law guildhouse, simple guildhouse, jayose library, laanx temple, laanx temple dungeon, hydlaa sewers, hydlaa tavern. The result should be more detailed and nice looking surfaces.
  • A new guildhouse is now available for ojaveda in enkidukai style!
  • Hydlaa arena has been improved for allowing better NPC movements, hopefully this will fix some odd behaviours during combat.
  • We are continuing to add new wizard robes to complete the set, this time we added nolthrir female and klyros male robes.
  • Added trophies to be used as prizes in tournaments
  • Added animations for crafting, hammering (already released in minor update)
  • Many updates to sounds and spells. All casting effects have better graphic, performance optimisation for lot of spells.
  • Almost redone all dark and red way spell effects
  • Containers window has been improved with a "take all" button
  • Various fixes to NPC AI and behaviours
  • The loot functionality on the server has been expanded to allow better balancing in future
  • Several fixes on the interface and removal of few crashes
  • It's now possible to change tooltips appearance
  • /mount is now a toogle command
  • Emote commands are now accessible from /emote emotename and can be hidden from the main domain of commands
  • On screen messages can be disabled
  • Improved sorting in some windows, it's now possible to change attack stance by defining going up or down in level of stance
  • Fixed empathy, it should work again
  • GMs can now edit books of others
  • Many updates and fixes to quests and factions
  • Expanded MyPlane to have list of current online players and link to their profile

New in PlaneShift 0.5.6 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • GUI:
  • A huge amount of fixes and improvements to the windowing system (paws) and mouselook management
  • Improvements to weather support and fixed the option to disable weather in pslaunch.
  • Fixed some issues in the char selection/creation screens which could lead to bad graphics or crashes
  • Several fixes/optimizations/improvements to shaders and lights management.
  • First version (BETA!) of the HotBar/quickspell bar (you can open it by typing /show quickspell and remove it with /show quickspell off ) which allows you to drag and drop spells or items in the quickbar, then click on the icons to cast the spell or use the item
  • fixed a display issue which could show skills to be completely practically trained even if it wasn't so.
  • added a simple animation to pterosaur transportation load screens
  • Optimizations:
  • major rewrite of several parts of the background loader, which now should be more stable and faster.
  • several optimizations, leak fixes and crash fixes
  • Quests and Factions:
  • Major rework of the quests! In the past the quests were most likely one off and with little purpose. We decided to radically change the concept by creating chained series of quests with a purpose and where possible a story. So we looked at the quests we have in game and started to tie them together.
  • After char creation a friend's letter is now guiding you to the major NPCs, which will explain the associations and factions present in Hydlaa. Players can start to follow those trails and learn more about the associations/factions. This is the foundation of a complex social system based on jobs and affiliations that we continue to develop to create a more immersive roleplay experience.
  • Many new quests were added, and many reworked, reaching a grand total of 320 quests!! In particular a whole new set of Magic quests is present, allowing access to bracers, robes and wands items in the different Ways of magic! (for graphics associated to those items, see the art section)
  • Art:
  • New Amdeneir tavern! Thanks Nikodemus and zweitholou for building it!
  • Added new female ynnwn wizard robe!
  • Made available all bracers through Way quests
  • Fixed many sounds for game areas, including gugrontid and the road to bronze doors
  • several improvements to sound management (including a startup crash when the sound system failed to init)
  • Improved sounds and graphical effects of many spells, including: crystal aura, invigoration, life infusion, relaxing sleep, flaming weapon, flame spire, and many more. Work is still under going to progressively improve/fix all of them.
  • Improved hydlaa grass, sky and trees
  • For GMs/Devs:
  • expanded the scripting system in several ways for example quests can now use scripts also to give specific items, factions and money depending on variables passed to them allowing faster balancement changes in them. Additionally in mathscripts it's now possible to output messages.
  • Additional scripts used in crafting, which were before hardcoded in the sources, where now converted to math scripts. Making it easier for rules developers to change them.
  • complete rewrite of the adminmanager allowing a more generic targeting system and sane interface to gm and developers, also awarding anything to players uses a single functionality shared also in the manager of the events. expanded also killnpc to allow loading of new npc and runscript to allow more scripts to be run through it.
  • several expansions and expansions to npcclient to allow npc to do things not possible before like sitting, do emotes, teleport...
  • Others:
  • pets will now follow automatically
  • added support to define what type of chats should be logged, in which file and with what prepended brackets (check chat - logs)
  • added support for a spell checker within the chat input using hunspell. It's disabled by default and it requires to be enabled by hand for now, and the dictionaries added in a dict folder inside your ps data folder. This feature is considered experimental and unstable (and could be not available on all platforms yet)
  • removed forceful removal in operating systems different than windows of the code which allowed the hardware mouse to be used

New in PlaneShift 0.5.5 (Dec 15, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Characters turn transparent while sneaking to simulate the fact they are hidden. We are testing this new option, and we plan to use it also for spells or other situations
  • Added "pterosaur services" for travelling between cities. There is one beastmaster in each major town which rents pterosaurs for travel
  • Made shields functional. They are now part of the combat calculation, and allow real blocking of hits
  • Improved the way NPCs chase an opponent by using generated paths (navmeshes) for navigation. This is a major improvement to combat and allows them to walk around obstacles
  • Weather has been known to be cause of crashes on certain hardware, mainly intel chips and to slow down gameplay. It's now possible to disable weather effects from pslaunch! Be sure to enable it and test if it works for you before giving up on it!
  • Added improved snow effect. Snow now shows on ground! Start humming a Christmas song :)
  • Added the new Klyros city Amdeneir! It's actually one quarter of the city, which is located to the "left" of hydlaa, for now reacheable only by pterosaur travel
  • Added animations for attacking with bows on all characters
  • Added a new progress bar for crafting
  • Fixes and updates:
  • Changed item dropping and allowed arbitary rotations in all directions. This will allow better customization of guildhouses and events! To rotate, you have to hold the right mouse button and drag the mouse, or do the same by pressing shift
  • Removed the gossip channel from the Main tab in the chat window. The Main tab is supposed to be In Character and the gossip channel was polluting too much the text. Be sure to clear your old settings, or the gossip will stay there
  • Fixed rain
  • The view window of an armor now shows its stats
  • The view window of containers now shows the weight
  • Ability to disable active magic window notification
  • Removed need to specify a resource for dig/harvest/fish
  • There is a new auto-refusal option for marriage proposals in options
  • Failing to cast a spell may have a negative effect now
  • Support for automatic execution of commands upon logging in
  • Configurable tab completion. You can now speficy a set of additional words to be used in the autocompletion in the chat window
  • Improved the way the server handles randomized and creative items (saving memory)
  • Alliance channel may be added to main now as well
  • Sort item categories by name in merchant/storage windows
  • Added few new idle animations to stonebreaker female and ynnwn female

New in PlaneShift 0.5.4 (Jun 15, 2010)

  • Art:
  • An very nice expansion of Ojaveda has been added: Dsar Kore. Many thanks to Xoel for building this new area!! With this addition the enkidukai will finally have enough place to live and prosper. There also be new space for guildhouses.
  • Completely new user interface for the character creation, much more readable and usable! A new login screen as well on the same theme.
  • First implementation of wizard robes! For now it's only available to NPCs, see Levrus, but soon will be available to players as well.
  • Introduction in game of bracers! They are not only new items, but they are also visible when you char wears them. We are adding now quests which will provide the bracers to you.
  • The male and female enkidukai heads have been improved by adding more polygons.
  • The hairs of all characters have been changed to avoid having a plastic look
  • Water reflections! Added in few places as test, allows the water surfaces to reflect the environment. Still need some improvement to look more realistic.
  • Engine:
  • Ability to support maps with image backgrounds. To be used as maps of major cities, given to new players.
  • New soundmanager, which allows us to have monsters emit sounds! Thanks to Agy for the hard work on this.
  • Implementation of ranged weapons. They are fully functional now!
  • Expansion of the tribes system! The NPCs are getting smarter, and are now aware of being part of a larger tribe. They can call for help if attacked, and they can expand. This feature is still under testing, but will be largely used in the future to make our world more interactive.
  • Music:
  • More sounds and more music added to the game

New in PlaneShift 0.5.3 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • First overall increase of average damage for almost all spells. Some have been bumped more then others.
  • The K-factor (the little slider on your status window) now actually does something useful. Increasing it will increase overall damage but it will also increase mana usage, spell cast time and the chance that the spell fails. Experiment until you find the *right* value.
  • A bug was fixed which caused spell casting time to go to zero. Now spell casting times are always reasonable. Also it is now no longer possible to cast spells while running.
  • Some ranges for stronger spells have been reduced to balance them with their increased power.

New in PlaneShift 0.5.2.1 (Feb 24, 2010)

  • New art and updater changes.

New in PlaneShift 0.5.2 (Feb 22, 2010)

  • Art:
  • Added nolthrir female plate armor
  • Added ylian male hair variations
  • Added many new monsters variations
  • Added drifters and rivnaks as mounts
  • Many fixes to icons and items
  • Engine:
  • ITEM STORAGE!! You can now ask certain NPCs to store your items. You can enable this function by the proper NPCs. /storage Jirosh, Taemian, Harnquist, and Gardr (thanks weltall).
  • UTF8 (Unicode) support for any input box (this means you can write with most languages) and characters like àùèò and the german ones are supported now.
  • Additional updates to translations
  • Implemented texture change in meshes when dropping/equipping or when dropped on ground. It's possible to add different textures on the same item by doing changes in the server database data.
  • Fixed crashes caused by not entirely loaded items.
  • Added additional information for gm in info and bugs with offline support.
  • Fixed basic cloth armor for mobs and npcs to be set per race/type correctly.
  • The updater now uses curl for downloading updates and should be more reliable than before.
  • Damaging spell will be stopped on yield when dueling.
  • Added an /fps command which will show the current fps. This should help with bugtracker entries giving better feedback.
  • Improved performance of in game windows which should improve performance on slow computer when training.
  • Now the quest and event button don't switch anymore.
  • Made checkboxes of pslaunch bigger to be easier to click.
  • Now it's possible to check easily progress on the updater with a progress bar.
  • The updater will fetch the update mirror from the server in place of giving precedence on the local list. should improve download speed of updates.
  • Now it's possible to have single named pets and mounts fixing PS#3721 - pet name adds "familiar"
  • Now it's possible to use storage and merchants even when overweight exhausted or while sitting.
  • Fixed wrong basic ctrl setting in windows and Linux clients it seems the macosx only ctrl setup got in place of lctrl.
  • Fixed a bug which didn't allow some quest paths to be executed if not a gm or dev character (e.g. two paths assigning the same quest).
  • Fixed movement dead lock without re-log if you stop before being exhaust but end up exhaust anymore.
  • Various fixes to text-boxes and scrollbars.
  • Added an eta in pslaunch while updating.
  • Allow to mine and fish with the tool in any hand
  • Allow to get messages about login/logoff of people in the other guilds of the alliance.
  • Settings:
  • Added quest for rivnak and drifter (mounts) acquisition.
  • Many quests are fixed and more fixing continues.
  • Npc re-factor phase one is done and phase two is ongoing. Phase one included the addition of new NPCs and an overall balancing/redistribution of about 320 NPCs in game. About 150 are still missing the refactor.
  • Music:
  • Added 3 tracks in game
  • Improved sounds in nearly all levels, by adding new ones and repositioning old ones.

New in PlaneShift 0.4.03 (Dec 3, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • Support for single-player minigames.
  • Minigames now report feedback to the watchers when moves are made.
  • Minigames can now have various boards (White, Black: Plain, Checked)
  • You can now change the colour of Text, Lines and Curves in Sketches.
  • You now enter a special NPC Camera Mode when talking to NPCs.
  • New /drop command. You can drop items, money and specify "all" to drop all items of the same kind.
  • You can specify "noguard" to /drop commands to drop items unguarded.
  • You can use /guard on/off on items to guard/unguard them.
  • You may now need a certain skill (and rank) for picking up items.
  • You can now optionally be notified on guildmember login/out.
  • Art:
  • New additions to the Winch map.
  • A new leather armour for Nolthrir females.
  • A new relighted version of the Akkaio map, because of some problems players had with the road to Ojaveda.
  • New icons for the Sketch Window.
  • A better rotating wheel in the sewers.
  • Fixed many spell effects to work on all supported operating systems.
  • Settings
  • Huge number of Settings related bugs closed. Many thanks to Rizin!
  • Changes That Have Been Made.
  • Engine:
  • PlaneShift now uses the latest version of the 1.4 branch of the Crystal Space 3D Engine.
  • Renamed the updater function CheckIntegrity to --repair.
  • Improved server threading.
  • Various other work.
  • Commands:
  • /show_gm -> /show gm
  • /show_active_magic -> /show activemagic
  • /petition_manage > /managepetitions
  • /advisor_list -> /advisor list
  • /advisormode -> /advisor on/off
  • /list_advice_requests -> /advisor requests
  • /advisormode listsessions -> /advisor sessions
  • /advisor -> /help
  • /petition_list -> /show petition
  • /target_context -> /targetcontext
  • /who will now filter for more than one word ("/who game master")
  • Chat:
  • All chat types, except chat going to the Main and System tabs, have brackets like [Guild] or [Tell] in the chat logs.
  • Option to display those brackets in-game as well.
  • Options to mix text colours, so for example the colour of whatever chat action you're using is mixed with your own default "my chat" colour.
  • The colour of your own sent chat is configurable.
  • Configurable NPC chat colour.
  • "X tells group: y" -> "X says: y"
  • "Guildchat from x: y" -> "X says: y"
  • "Auction from X: y" -> "X auctions: y"
  • The usage of /me, /my and the usage of those actions within other actions (like /shout or /auction) is now consistent through chatbubbles, chatwindow and logs.
  • GMs and Devs:
  • GMs vs. Items:
  • GMs can now use /modify to change the transient(disappears after some time when dropped) flag of an item.
  • You can now make items unpickable using /modify.
  • Added /target_name for GM1 and higher to report the names of all targeted items.
  • Using the :area: syntax on a command pops up a window asking if you want to continue.
  • :Area: (apply command to all entities within area) syntax now available for GM2 and up.
  • If you want to pickup non-pickable items with :area:, specify pickupall.
  • GMs can now use /unstackable to (dis)allow stacking of items.
  • GMs can now teleport items though instances.
  • GM2 and up can become guardians of all items, whether guarded or not.
  • GMs vs. Players:
  • /setskill now shows to the GM and the player what skills where changed and from what value to what value.
  • With /setskill you can use the addition "-1" to get the base skills of a player.
  • GMs can now use /quest on offline players.
  • GMs can now unassign themselves from petitions.
  • GMs can now enable or disable quests with /disablequest.
  • /marriageinfo now also works on offline players.
  • You can now teleport players to another instance by adding "there" to the teleport command.
  • If you give a stack to a player with /giveitem, it will show the amount given.
  • You can now award unlimited experience instead of max 100 PP as before.
  • GMs vs. NPCs:
  • You can now teleport to an NPC by only specifying the first name.
  • You can now use /killnpc with PIDs again.
  • NPCs can now be teleported while NPCclient is active again.
  • Devs can use /updaterespawn again to change the spawning location of NPCs and across instances.
  • GMs vs. Various Stuff:
  • GM3 can now morph themselves, but not others.
  • When you morph yourself, your description will also be updated to reflect the race.
  • Many admin commands standardized to work with the default command syntaxes which can be found in help.xml
  • Various:
  • Removing a player from a guild now shows who removed the player.
  • You can now access the Bag window by using a key, default "v".
  • Dying in the Death Realm will no longer reset mana to 100%.
  • Made the modding of various windows easier.
  • Locking of chests now more secure.
  • You can use the # symbol in shortcuts to make comments.
  • You can no longer select a gender as Kran.
  • You will no longer be able to hit NPCs like rats "on the helm".
  • Now bad words filtering is also applied to advice sessions.
  • Instead of /add_ignore and /remove_ignore you now have the plain /ignore command, which toggles ignore status.
  • If you add "add" or "remove" to the /ignore command, it will force that operation. Same behaviour for /buddy.
  • Specifying no name will open up the ignore window.
  • Bugs That Have Been Fixed:
  • Characters' hair will have colour again!
  • Now you won't get invalid pets anymore if you created one when NPCclient was offline.
  • Opening crates/chests does not crash the server anymore.
  • Mana is now properly calculated when under the death penalty.
  • Stamina no longer drops when standing still.
  • Casting spells while running no longer increases stamina.
  • Fixed a bug where weapons would degrade a lot if you repaired them.
  • Fixed the annoying "Map not found!" bug.
  • NPCs will no longer keep rotating/sliding after they've been killed.
  • Fixed a bug where players could end up in instance 0 after a relog even if they were in another before.
  • Fixed a bug where your new position in the world wasn't saved after teleporting or being teleported.
  • Fixed a bug where you wouldn't be able to trade after you challenged someone who then logged off.
  • Fixed players crashing out of the game due to GMs morphing with active effects (like magic).
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't add items to a container even if the guardian was far away.
  • Fixed an exploit where you could regenerate stamina while crafting.
  • Fixed a bug where an NPC wouldn't respond to certain questions.
  • Fixed garbled movement after using /loot.
  • Your tells will not appear in the chatbubble of the person you're sending them to anymore.
  • Fixed bogus * * being added to /me actions used in /shout or /auction.
  • Fixed the frames-per-second cap to actually work. This has some side-effects though, see new bugs Wink
  • Many other bugs fixed Smiley

New in PlaneShift 0.4.01 (Jul 1, 2008)

  • Customizable Chatbubbles (alignment, text colour, etc)
  • Maps can be named, just like books.
  • An Identification Skill is now needed to view the quality of items.
  • Disabled the introduction system until a better thought-out system is available.
  • Support for fires, including campfires and torches. Art:
  • New torch item with smoke and fire effects.
  • A cosy campfire, don't burn yourself!
  • The female version of the Nolthrir race is available!
  • Find the odd Riverling. Surprisingly, it's a creature found near rivers.
  • Discover the deary Kormi. (I heard they taste good, but you didn't get that from me.)
  • An additional interior for guild halls
  • Many updates to existing maps for improved quality and athmosphere.
  • More maps use the lighter2 system for shadows and lighting now
  • New new icons for all armours.
  • Many new crafting icons.
  • A few new boxes for keeping your jewellery in.
  • Some new rings to put in those handy jewellery boxes!
  • Some new fruits and pies.
  • A few new sacks, for keeping those fruits and pies.
  • Empty potion bottle. Good for containing air in case you need it.
  • Another barrel. Nice for keeping around large quantities of beer.
  • Systemic increases to all quest rewards.
  • All named NPCs now have one quest a piece.
  • Many other changes and improvements