Arcane Chrysalis

The current version of PlaneShift, Arcane Chrysalis, was released in late 2009. 

Changelog

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.
  
  

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
  
  

Further Arcane Chrysalis Releases

• Release 0.5.2 (2010)
• Release 0.5.4 (2010)
• Release 0.5.5 (2010)
• Release 0.5.6 (2011)
• Release 0.5.7 (2011)
• Release 0.5.8 (2011)
• Release 0.5.9 (2012)
• Release 0.5.9.1 (2012)
• Release 0.5.9.2 (2012)
• Release 0.5.9.4 (2013)