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JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 27TH FEBRUARY, 2022
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SUBJECT: WolfMUD v0.0.19-beta.4 released
DATE: Sun 27 Feb 16:26:59 GMT 2022
The forth beta snapshot is now available for download[1]. This beta has been
focused on getting the initial combat mechanics and housekeeping in place. As
a result players and mobiles now have health and health regeneration. A new
HIT command has been added to test out the mechanics, and have a bit of fun.
If you venture into the caves south of Zinara there are a few new mobiles you
can try out the HIT command on. You can also HIT your fellow players…
As I’ve said before, this is not full blown combat yet — it adds a little fun
and allows the mechanics to be tested.
Main highlights from the release notes:
IMPORTANT FILE CHANGES
Configuration file changes:
- The Quota section has dropped Quota.Timeout and now uses Quota.Slots
- The Debug section has a new Debug.Quota
Server owners should check their data/config.wrj configuration files, details
of the new fields can be found in docs/configuration-file.txt
Zone and player file changes:
- The Health record now uses AFTER/JITTER instead of FREQUENCY to bring it
in line with other events.
- The Health record now uses RESTORE instead of REGENERATES.
Player files will be automatically upgraded. Details on the Health field can
be found in docs/zone-files.txt
Added
- New Thing.logEvent helper added. Updated documented Debug.Events flag in
docs/configuration-file.txt as the events logged have changed from queued,
cancelled or delivered to scheduled, suspended, cancelled or delivered.
- Event logging added for Thing Schedule/Suspend/Cancel events.
- Per IP address quotas are now implemented. These are configured via the
Quota.Slots and Quota.Window configuration settings in the data/config.wrj
file. The Quota.Timeout setting is no longer used. The documentation in
docs/configuration-file.txt has been updated.
- A new Debug.Quota setting has been added to data/config.wrj to write quota
debugging information to the server log. For details see Debug.Quota in the
data/config.wrj documentation.
- The #DEBUG command with MEMPROF, CPUPROF and PANIC sub-commands is now
implemented. The configuration Debug.AllowDebug needs to be set to true in
data/config.wrj to enable the #DEBUG command.
- New state.subparseFor method to allow commands to perform sub-commands for
an alternative actor.
- New Health attribute added for players and NPCs. Existing player files will
be upgraded when the player next logs in. Updated docs/zone-files.txt to
document new Health field.
- Health events, via a new $HEALTH command, have been added for players and
NPCs to regenerate Health.
- The build/newAcct script now creates accounts with HEALTH defined.
- New state.build method to construct dynamic prompts.
- New core.createCorpse function to create corpses of killed players/NPCs.
- New HIT command for testing Health, Health regeneration and a bit of fun.
- The matcher now has an ANY modifier to pick a random match for commands.
- Added #LDUMP command to write the dump output of a Thing to the server log.
- Imps and fungus slug mobiles added to the caves zone zones/zinara_caves.wrj
Changed
- The Thing Schedule, Cancel and Suspend methods are now wrappers to new
schedule, cancel and suspend methods to enable event logging.
- The state.Prompt method now takes fmt.Printf like parameters.
- All messages sent to a specific player are now flagged priority.
- In data/zones/zinara.wrj the frog, rabbit, mouse and cat have been updated
with a Health field. A 'HIT ANY PLAYER' action has been added to the frog
and rabbit.
- In data/zones/zinara.wrj 'the barkeep' is now 'a barkeep'.
- The bots now have "HIT ANY CREATURE" and "HIT ANY PLAYER" actions.
- The mailbox now stores the maphash of the last message seen instead of the
whole string of the message.
- Improved messages for TAKE/GET responses when used on players and NPCs.
- Allow leading '+' to be omitted from bound qualifiers in zone files.
- Updated actions in data/zones/zinara.wrj that target players to use ANY
modifier to target a random player.
- White-space clean-up in data/zones/zinara_caves.wrj
- Tidy up Debug flag section in docs/configuration-file.txt
Fixed
- The Thing.Event entry for an event is cleaned up if the event is cancelled.
- Server now enforces the Server.MaxPlayers configuration setting and will
turn away players if the server is full.
- The server now honours the Server.LogClient setting. If set to false, the
default, the client's IP address will not be logged. Instead the client IP
address will be replaced with '???'. For example:
[#UID-6] connection from: ???:35848
[#UID-6] client error: read tcp 127.0.0.1:4001->???:35848: i/o timeout
[#UID-6] disconnect from: ???:35848
- In docs/configuration-file.txt note that Server.Host may be left blank to
cause the server to listen on all available interfaces.
- The #GOTO/#TELEPORT command has been fixed.
- The mailbox.Suffix method no longer panics if the mailbox is invalid.
- A data race has been fixed when a player quits and is disposed of.
- The COMBAT veto is now handled by the Thing.Unmarshal and Thing.Marshal
methods.
- The Thing.Schedule method now handles stale events when they fire.
- The build/newAcct script now creates accounts with a BODY defined.
- The Thing.Junk and Thing.Free methods now cancel in-flight events.
- Minor grammar fix in zone-files.txt documentation.
- Fixed confusion of players and NPC/Player flags not working properly.
- Fixed TAKE/PUT command messages when used on a player.
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Diddymus
[1] Download area: ../../../downloads/
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