Release 0.5 (Alpha) news - Mage Online

0.5 (Released 2014-03-24)
- fixed secret illusion wall in arena
- changed area collision mesh to better support camera/jumping.
- visual fix to make sure other players do not disappear while jumping in dungeons
- updated PvP arena to be little more complex
- changed lightning system to support colored lights. (Foreman's lamp does have also bigger radius)
- changing shaders to support up to 8 light sources.
- added /object.remove command to remove chests and gates
- added new portal stone. they are sold for now at tutorial agent until we get recipes fixed for them.
- removed bind on equip from perfected weapons.
- added back chest containers item split/merge functionality.
- introducing limited access mines where you may only build walls at deeper levels.
- fixed crafting effects visual bug (text displays 0%)
- making creatures explore houses, climbing stairs to reach players
- you may only drop items 'privately' on your own property (claimed blocks)
- guild window: right click on build member starts direct chat: /tell member
- guild window: connected promote/demote/kick buttons to send messages to server.
- guild window: indicates online guild members (green background)
- guild window: kicked out members should be removed from other's guild roster, and their guild window should be cleared too.
- added teleport to pvp arena from collapsed mines.
- adding guild window (sort by clicking column headers - toggle asc/desc order) (name, rank, last online, level)
- adding support to track guild member "level / last seen" to database (server side)
- changed player status handling (server side)
- pets left behind longer than 5 minutes will disappear
- pets shall not attack automatically the low level creatures.
- harvesting shall give feedback on expected success. (bountiful, half depleted, almost depleted, depleted)
- new tank pets. they have double health, aggression, regeneration, and require no additional mana for damage and hate generation. They have no damage.
- adding new quest series for levels 20 to undead town.
- adding reinforced wall recipe to Herbert
- added new grave objects for burned out village
- fixed fishing skill update
- fixed pet skeleton despawn when master takes them to daylight.
- Found the memory corruption finally.
- Quest Indicators for NPCs
- adding Newb's heavy armor coloring for tier 1/2/3 sets. Thanks!
- Nightwalkers/daywalkers option for creatures. Certain quest related NPCs shall appear only during night/day time. Undead generally night time, etc.
- Orb of Fiery Focus damage type has been changed from Cold to Heat.
- changed the way how zone servers are spawned. they should start their new process space, instead forking from main's.
- fixed the broken mine walls.
- added reinforced wall type. it uses 16 rock bricks to build upon a simple dirt wall. This is a two sided wall type.
- move level 12-14 skeletons and zombies away from start location to undead town.
- added small pond to start area. there will be new NPC giving quests.
- added guild controls for mines (see construction tab)
- added new reinforced wall look
- craft music added
- trade scam /off
- quests for infused tools
- house quests rewamped
- infused wood axe added
- wood axe mesh remade
- new recipes added
- fire elemental will de-buff you now
- fixed zone spawn function
- infused items will get BindOnEquip flag
- main server entity handling has been refactored
- adjusted fishing/mining/woodcutting loot tables to have higher chance and yield. coal should be much better now!
- 12 new research-able recipes
- added guild access for chests/doors. /object.guild.on to allow guild members access to your items. /object.guild.off to revoke access.
- server wide top lists on different kind of statistics. See the signposts near the tutorial agent.
- new recipes and items, craft quests
- new look for infused pickaxe
- aligned wood axe and pickaxe in player hands, also fixed female animation.
- added new a recipe type, where only one of the maximum of 4 ingredients will be used up. (meshed bones recipe uses this first)
- new flowers been added to foraging tables. they will be used in alchemy potion making.
- carbon and steel making quests (adventuring level 10-12 required) offered by Boldon Shanks in collapsed mines (for now).
- infused pickaxe works faster on clay/terrain rocks
- mining specials should not be affected by skills (marble/treasure/veins)
- bind on equip item flags
- right click gear should auto equip items (not just weapons)
- removed forage/harvest/fishing/mining boost.
- fixed character generation bug.
- fixed mid-air item drops.
- server side database cache has been refactored for character data
- added VendorSale for leather armors and crafted weapons
- added rusty iron key and chest.
- forced character data save
- fixed VendorSale flags for fished out items
- changed Crypt level limit to 35
- changed collision mesh for dropped furniture
- fixed iron sheets x5
- fixed reset health for returning monsters
- fixed male dead posture. his head will be dropped to ground.
- diagonal speed is limited to normal forward speed
- cannot change zone while in combat
- creatures stop attacking dead players
- added dead animation state
- jumping shouldn't cancel reduced speed
- poison resistance from food and poison protection from potions should stack now.
- adding potion recovery debuff
- adding cure poison potions and recipes
- adding poison resistance to cooking recipes
- adding poison protection potions
- fixed chat scrolling
- fixed achievement typo (Thanks Newb)
- fixed texture on Boots Of Fire Resistance and Tunic Of Fire Protection
- changed recipe study not to require a facility. (testing the idea from Newb)
- removed massive white hairclip (female model)
- added marble passage, wooden window, marble window (construction tab - they require tiles/planks only for now)
- items dropped to ground will show their amount
- fixed non-stackable items should not display garbled amount
- drop item checks (public mode is enforced in certain areas)
- electric discharge spells (arcane damage)
- collision mesh for passage walls
- tree branch loot table changes
- converted old blender mine objects to new blender version. this allows us adding new mine structures soon.
- glass recipes, flash
- furniture will be adjusted, for now some quick fixes.
- dungeon passage wooden tiles
- flawless work will double yield and halve progress, instead of completing recipe immediately.
- new ice bolt spells. These will cause cold damage.
- renamed some of the unique items
- 4 new unique items for Lava Elemental's loot-table (level 20 boss)
- changed mask of the berserker's icon
- drain spells drain for a minimum of 1 points on a successful hit.
- enabled flawless crafting. Checked once after recipe starts.
- fixed /dropsand to check permission tables
- added sort function to marketplace to show items added recently first. will be adding timeout feature that mails back weeks old items.
- changed cave entrance mesh. also relocated the one from lake side behind spider hill.
- added bulk charcoal recipe, changed charcoal recipes.
- added bulk wooden log to branches production recipe. find it at the furniture vendor.
- melee mitigation was removed, general absorbance was added instead. This attribute works on any type of incoming damage. (see additional post)
- adjusted creature's resistances, vulnerabilities and mitigation values
- changed water shader. terrain foliage doesn't get transparency errors on water anymore
- /reset.items will find and recover lost items.
- adding the missing health potions.
- adding Rare tag to specific treasure items.
- fixed Orb of Desert Sky's drain effect.
- added level up and dungeon music (Thanks David!)
- added new drain spells and mastery buffs
- fixed a nasty over indexing issue discovered today on test server
- added charcoal quest/recipes
- added forge flames
- added new visual effects, also rewrote the handlers to allow objects as emitters.
- implemented 11 new program instructions.
- added possibility to drop items to ground for others to pick them up. Hold the shift key while you drop to make them public.
- shifting walls will damage if you let them crush you. (also monsters if you get them stand there)
- fixed small issue with cash window
- added option to take specific amount of coins from your purse. right click the purse.
- added join team request popup
- added fill craft queue option for make/study/practice buttons. hold shift while clicking those buttons to activate fill option.
- added team loot printing and round-robin looting for teams
- added stamina potion for alchemy recipes.
- /s is server-wide chat (replacing /g global)
- /g is guild chat (used to be global chat)
- fixed no-xp mode
- adding /run to toggle run/walk mode
- fixing melee stance key activation. while in chat the F key is ignored to toggle stance.
- adding more guild control commands:
/guild.rename
/guild.kick
/guild.promote
/guild.demote
- added the following guild commands:
/guild.create
/guild.invite
/guild.leave
- added team invite button to friends panel
- enabled bronze and iron research, adjusted their levels.
- added chime to signal craft queue end.
- added small texts to progress bars.
- changed research panel. it was merged to craft queue. any old items placed earlier for research slot can be picked up from construction panel.
- changed effect on Rhubarb Cake.
- added new monster type - animated sword. they can be found in craft dungeon beyond the closed gates for level ranges 6-8.
- fixed music and sound effect fading issues, also increased music buffer count for slower PCs.
- added program agent that supports all simple statements and conditions
- added program compiler, parser, lexer
- added object program load/unload window. this will be extended later on.
- added program editor to craft window
- added programmable objects
- added program items
- added description to ingredients to help finding their forage/harvest/mining locations
- fixed the weird sound issues
- added recipe and quest chain for building your first house. you will need to be level 15 to get some of the final quests.
- fixed quest updater to check all your quests.
- added proper zoning indicator. It is more verbose now, so you won't get bored waiting
- added audio settings to logon panel, as usual remember to save them. combat settings are not in use yet.
- added permission based doors to houses. after building your house, you may add door to it.
- added player town plots. houses can be built on those designated places.
- added music player and several ambient musics to testing
- added tooltip for derived skills on character sheet.
- added new mana/stamina/health drain and conversion skills.
- added Orb skill. They are pretty hard to acquire, usually rare boss drops - but well worth the trouble
- added flint + recipes to build explosion charges for mining and destroying things like creature spawns.
- added possibility to destroy creature spawns in mines. see guide section for details.
- added proper player strafe controller.
- added description to NPC nametags
- added fishing!
- several bugs been fixed, thanks to Boxpipe/Slanteye and others in the group!
- male jump animation has been updated, it looks less weird now
- fixed some client side logon issues
- window color scheme has been changed. there is new border for windows now.
- fixed music and sound effect fading issues, also increased music buffer count for slower PCs.
- added program agent that supports all simple statements and conditions
- added program compiler, parser, lexer
- added object program load/unload window. this will be extended later on.
- added program editor to craft window
- added programmable objects
- added program items
- added description to ingredients to help finding their forage/harvest/mining locations
- fixed the weird sound issues
- added recipe and quest chain for building your first house. you will need to be level 15 to get some of the final quests.
- fixed quest updater to check all your quests.
- added proper zoning indicator. It is more verbose now, so you won't get bored waiting Smile
- added audio settings to logon panel, as usual remember to save them. combat settings are not in use yet.
- added permission based doors to houses. after building your house, you may add door to it.
- added player town plots. houses can be built on those designated places.
- added music player and several ambient musics to testing
- added tooltip for derived skills on character sheet.
- added new mana/stamina/health drain and conversion skills.
- added Orb skill. They are pretty hard to acquire, usually rare boss drops - but well worth the trouble Smile
- added flint + recipes to build explosion charges for mining and destroying things like creature spawns.
- added possibility to destroy creature spawns in mines. see guide section for details.
- added proper player strafe controller.
- added description to NPC nametags
- added fishing!
- several bugs been fixed, thanks to Boxpipe/Slanteye and others in the group!
- male jump animation has been updated, it looks less weird now Smile
- fixed some client side logon issues
- window color scheme has been changed. there is new border for windows now.
- Trees grow in 6 stages to reach their maximum height. Harvesting a fully grown tree yields more resource than in earlier stages.
- Trees will fall to ground after cutting them, then after looting they disappear and reappear in smallest form.
- Added sound system using OpenAL libraries. It supports positional 3D, 2D and ambient background effects. 0.5 schedule probably will change due to audio challenges.
- Walking/Running sounds
- Spell casting sound
- Swimming sounds
- Forage sounds
- Mining sounds
- Sword/Dagger sounds
- Static object sounds (protals, dipping water, shrines, ...)
- Creature attack sounds (spider effects only so far)
- Environmental ambient sound effects (desert/plains/hills/cave/dungeon/lakes) They also suggest forage area type.
- Research has been added. Now you can discover new recipes by researching your items. Try researching Fine Bronze Dagger once you learn its recipe.
- Changed the way UI window frames work. They should highlight on mouse over events.
- Tooltips on items resize to displayed content.
- UI window themes been added. They are not selectable yet.