Art, Chandlery & Player Housing
August 20, 2026 · Enael
More updates! I finally managed to close out the last of the crafting
system and can focus on new and more exciting things. This update is
pretty feature dense, so any unexpected behaviour being reported is
rewarded with QP as always.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed formatting and string issues with demonology relics.
- 81 food items updated with multi-serving portions.
- Corrected some rooms in chargen: broken color codes and updated text to reflect the backgrounds' changes.
- A double naming issue with using @ in emotes and rpechoes has been resolved.
- Fixed/removed the "Your exercise levels have improved" spam from RP.
- Fixed an issue with switching language if you're an imm.
- More QoL than bug fixing, but automatic punctuation has been added for poses, so intros after a period print with a capital letter at the start of a new sentence.
Admin Goodies
- New command for admins and builders:
rstat. Gives a breakdown of a room's flags, extra descs, and keywords of objects in the room. This had to be done specifically for an item where none of the keywords matched the short desc.
- Player housing agent now automatically attaches levies/taxes, immortals no longer have to worry about this kind of admin.
- Nuke command (Implementor level) added.
Features and Balancing
- Whittling removed and reworked into Woodworking, with 4 tiers of recipes up to rank 61. More will be added once the Aetherspire zone is built out.
- A new shop has been added that sells some crafting tools.
- Chop command added, to chop down trees in the Escard wilds so they can be turned into lumber for the new craft.
- New item type: desks that act as containers and are lockable.
- New handling for containers, allowing objects to be placed on tables and desks, printing to the room.
- Food items on tables and desks are exposed to the
break command, so you don't need to pick up a dish to break it.
- Appearance added to the game, scaling off charisma, whether you are dirty, covered in blood and gore, or wearing perfumes/makeup.
- You can now bathe in tubs, fountains, washbasins, rivers, and so on (
help bathe).
- Chandlery reworked with about 39 new recipes (
help chandlery).
- Subsystem for scented candles and perfume sticks added, printing their scent into room descriptions.
- Perfumes, scented soaps, and makeup added (
help dab).
- Art, a new craft, is in! Bookbinding, papercraft, painting, sculpting, glasswork, and ceramics.
- Herbs, plants, and fruit trees can now be planted in pots made by Artcraft, making them portable.
- New helpfile,
help progression, implemented to explore off-peak activities related to crafting.
- Automated player housing is in. No more waiting for imms to build your dream home. (You do still have to wait for housing plots to be assigned, but that will happen within a few days.)
help house updated.
- Added permanents to homes: items fixed to the room, such as forges, looms, and baths, all customizable by players in the player housing editor.