Husbandry, Tattoos & the Field Book · Changelog

Husbandry 6 changes

Husbandry is a new skill: you keep hens, ducks, geese, sheep, goats, pigs, cows and bees. Anyone can learn it from the livestock dealer in the new Livestock Market, east of the Farmer's Friend Stables in Escard. You do not need to be in the Merchants' guild. See help husbandry.
A house or shop can now have up to 2 farm buildings in one outdoor room: a coop, a pen, a sty, hives or a barn. Buy them with permanent add in the house editor. A barn has a room of its own, which you go into with enter barn. See help house fixtures.
The livestock dealer sells each animal as a tally. Claim it at your farm with husbandry claim, or give it away, sell it in a player shop or sell it back to the dealer.
Feed and tend your animals, breed them, and collect eggs, milk, wool, honeycomb and beeswax. You can churn milk into butter, make cheese, and slaughter an animal to butcher and skin it. See help farm animals.
Hens, ducks and geese go into their coop at night and when it rains or snows, and come out into the yard on fair days. look in coop shows the birds and their eggs. Type close coop to keep the birds where they are.
Farm animals come in several colours. You can pick one out by its colour, as in look black.

Tattoos 3 changes

Runesmiths can now tattoo you with ink they make. Other people see the tattoo when they look at you, unless something you wear covers it. A tattoo fades 30 days after it is finished. See help tattoo.
Runesmithing has ten new ink recipes, from iron ink at rank 10 to diamond ink at rank 56. See help inks.
Halvard the toolwright sells tattooing needles.

The Field Book 2 changes

The Whitaker General Store in Escard sells a naturalist's field book. It has 89 entries for animals, fish, herbs, wild food and stones. You fill in an entry by finding the thing, finding it again and putting it to use. Each part you fill in earns experience. See help fieldbook.
Type observe <animal> to watch an animal for your field book. When an entry is finished, the book shows a sketch beside it.

Combat 4 changes

You can now pool up to a rank and a half of a combat skill in one fight.
In a fight, the time left on spells and other effects on you stops counting down. Each round that ends takes 5 minutes off them instead. See help combat.
In a fight, poison hurts you once at the end of each round, instead of every 45 seconds.
A creature knocked out in a fight gets back up once its knockout wears off, if no fight is going on in the room.

Crafts 3 changes

Anyone with a hatchet can chop trees for logs. You no longer need woodworking. See help woodworking.
The leathercraft bracer recipes now make two bracers, one for each wrist.
Weaving has 15 new recipes for the home: cushions, pillows, blankets, curtains, a rug, quilts, sheets, a tablecloth, napkins and wall hangings. At every rank from 1 to 73 there is now a weaving recipe that still raises your skill. See weave list.

Metallurgy 2 changes

The metallurgy workings Edge, Mirror, Perch, Harden, Second Skin, Steady and Iron Will now last one minute for each rank in their school. Still and Drop last two minutes for each rank. None lasts less than 30 minutes. metallurgy <school> shows how long each lasts.
If your rank is too low for a metallurgy working, the message now says which rank you need, such as "You need rank 22 in Shaping to use edge." The metallurgy helps are reworded.

Sorcery 1 change

Many spells you cast to help someone now last longer.

Other Changes 3 changes

New helps for the Escard Wilds, the Aetherspire Forest and Mount Caelahad. help geography lists them.
You can bathe and drink at the Heron Pool and at other ponds, streams and riverbanks in the wilds and in Escard. See help bathe.
If no roleplay income was paid for more than one week, the message now says how many weeks.

Bugs 20 fixes

When you bathe without soap, the bathing lines no longer say you wash with soap. You need to hold a bar of soap to wash with it. See help bathe.
A research lesson now has its flat 4 in 100 chance to fail only on its first test. A skilled reader loses about one easy lesson in 25. See help research.
You can bathe on a beach now, as in the sea.
On an escort, the guild's clerk now waits up to a minute for miners still walking in behind you, and counts every miner who arrives. See help mission.
A fault in Treading Hooves is fixed.
Only a guild's leaders can use withdraw <amount> <coin> guild now. If anyone else tries, nothing is taken from their own account.
Your thoughts (think) no longer slur when you are drunk.
In a spar, once you attack for real you can use mattack, even while the other fighter still pulls their blows.
In a fight, metallurgy mend and splint now take an emote, as attack does.
You can draw and sheathe your weapons in the dark.
The Isleguard training yard is lit at night.
The message that a craft cannot go higher outside its guild no longer shows when you log in. You see it the first time you practise the craft after logging in.
The sunrise is no longer announced twice each morning.
With the pool reserve off, you no longer gain ranks you have no experience to pay for. What you have pooled is kept until you have the experience to spend.
Metallurgy pulse now works once a round, after you have acted in it.
The rp count in your prompt now counts people in public rooms who have rp turned off, as whererp does.
In house customize, extra add now takes every word you type as the extra's keywords. Adding an extra with keywords already in use is refused.
While you are inside another body, score shows its stats on the same 1 to 100 scale as your own.
When you walk through a passage between the rooms of a house, the game now says that you enter it, and the people in the next room see you arrive.
Entering a gateway whose far room is missing no longer crashes the game.

Admin Goodies 6 for staff

Community projects are filled in an editor now. project create opens a new draft in it, and project edit <#> opens an existing one. The editor shows every field, and anything still missing before the project can open is in red. project delete <#> removes a draft or a closed project. The full list is in help project.
The creature editor (possess edit) and possess show are framed like the other editors now. Long lines wrap inside the frame.
husbandry staff lists every farm building, with its room, owner, feed, rank and animals. husbandry staff drop <#> removes a building, its object in the yard and its animals. Use it for a building marked IDLE, which is left when the room no longer belongs to a house or shop.
Rooms 5700 to 5759 are the barn rooms. The game hands them out when someone builds a barn, so do not build in them.
tattoo list <person> shows someone's tattoos in full, and tattoo clear <person> <place|all> removes them. With holylight on, you also see covered tattoos when you look at someone, marked (covered).
fieldbook all lists every field book entry. fieldbook preview <entry> shows an entry as if it were finished, with its sketch. fieldbook clear wipes your own notes. The entries are in area/fieldbook.dat and the sketches in area/fieldbook_art.dat.