• Lasacul has been added north of Eldin Mountain
  - Set your recall point here if you want!
  - Comes with a morgue, level 50 equipment shop, and other goodies
• Magmoor Caverns have been added somewhere
  - Enter at your own risk!: Area is probably more dangerous than others in its range, be prepared to get burned
  - Discover secrets deep in the earth, Locate the Varia Suit
• A new sub-area is connected to Eldin Mountain
• A treasure diving reward in El Nido has been changed
• The Luon Trail quest runs more smoothly
• Flame Saber spell is accessible to Fire Knights
• Fluid Magic spell is accessible to Summoners
• Gold City weapons are more expensive
• Weakened items: gas mask and Archangel wings
• 'equipment' shows gear in a more logical order
• crash is much less likely to fail
• some potential bugs fixed with the Junction spells (thanks Kolem)
• you can now use commands as though you were still standing while riding a vehicle, including initiating combat
• crash works with all types of vehicles, and you can crash vehicles during a fight
• cooldown reduced for crashing your motorcycle
• Cavaliers get roadblock
• Cavaliers get indomitable
• zeal is somewhat stronger, especially at higher levels
• endure and Vaccinate are swapped between Templar and Cavalier
• Cavaliers get defend and disarm at slightly higher levels
• Courage costs less MP and Smite costs more MP
• pets no longer die when their master dies
• dismiss now works on followers outside your room
• Resurrected zombies will eventually rot away, becoming skeletons
• shuffled levels for Gather, Death Coil, Resurrect, Recharge, and Deliver
• reduced cost of Junction spells
• Sunstroke depletes movement each combat round in addition to when using commands
• the recall command will tell you if you can't recall from a room, even if your level is too high for recall
• Floating Discs can't carry as much weight as before (but as many items)

• stating players now shows number of incarnations (remorts)

• Angel Tower has been revised
• The Underworld is partially accessible
• Barrel Volcano is slightly easier to solve
• Fixed bugs with Scullda and Dr. Andonuts
• Weakened enemies: sentry robot
• Weakened items: Tornado Blade, Flail of Hope, thin-bladed skinning knife, Hawkeye Mask, silver ring studded with jade stone
• *Chimp Caverns* has been added east of Bequerel Mine
• DANGER: Watch out for Amazy Dayzees
• Added some new craft items: Shrike and Bequerel
• Strengthened items: wagon oil lamp, Great Potion
• Weakened items: Most Smash Stadium prizes
• warlord and gladiator display properly on the 'score' screen
• added several helpfiles for various item types
• removed bug, typo, font, and lots of other vestigal commands and code
• inflame ALWAYS works if cast on yourself
• the sleep spell has a message when it fails and can be re-cast on victims to keep them tranquilized
• the burn affect now shows as 'burn' not 'lava wave'
• Slow now gives more informative failure messages
• no racial skills are any longer remortable
• Wizen now restores a fraction of max MP
• Kundela helpfile changed to become more accurate
• Conjured Elementals will now only cast spells if the initial conjuration was charged. When casting, elementals drain MP from their owner.
• Sorcerers now get Wall Change
• Warlocks now get counterspell
• Jutsu costs more MP and Ninjas gain it at a higher level
• Shadow Step and Exit cost less MP
• fumes now causes fear instead of poisoning
• Ninjas now get incite

• added a new secret affect and spell
• stating players now shows number of incarnations (remorts)

• Lelanol's Lair has been revised.
• Myrkur Mountains have been revised.
• Ortena and Panpipe Harvest Sprites have been boosted and weaked respectively. Harvest Sprite also are no longer naturally flying.
• Some things in El Nido are less profitable
• Thunder Saber is accessible to Wind-Knights
• The 'Daze' affect is now visible to players as a normal affect instead of an invisible counter.
• super shouldn't viciously murder the user anymore
• taunt increasingly tends to fail as it is used more consecutive times
• certain mob attacks should show their damage to players correctly
• Aurablast can be used with all weapon types
• Cactuar Island has been expanded
• Some backtracking is enabled in Final Weapon
• Melchior is more specific about what he wants
• Some new books are in Viorar's library
• Strengthened enemies: Cyber Peacock
• Weakened enemies: Storm Owl, Zero, fanged keese, Lizalfos, Stalfos
• Harvest Sprites have a chance to fail their attack, which will delay them for 1 round. Conch and Bagpipe sprites have fewer special attack variations.
• Stone Saber is accessible to Earth-Knights
• fights can be opened properly with Cadenza
• staffify should understand spells with multiword names. Make sure to enclose multiword spells in single quotes as if you were casting.
• NPCs using split in a group with 2 or more PCs shouldn't generate money out of thin air
• bug causing wonky effect durations (such as wildcasting blindness) fixed
• 'kill' without a parameter will autotarget
• mobs should no longer spontaneously resist things in the middle of fights
• areas list now has two columns
• %W can now be added to prompts to display daylight, rainfall, and wind conditions in a cryptic manner
• the weather command works indoors
• when HP Rain acts as an area spell due to wind, it always affects both friends and foes in the room
• Solarbeam does 25% damage and will not burn if it's not daytime but no longer cares about it being indoors or dark
• Tornado does 25% damage and will not confuse if it is not sufficiently windy
• Tornado is now Meteorologist-only (and presently inaccessible)
• Tranquility restores mana based on the mana costs of what it dispels
• Geomancers now learn Tranquility at level 28
• Sproutling's Overgrowth works in all sectors like regular Overgrowth
• 'commune rotate' shuffles communed sectors
• commune's syntax is more forgiving ('commune g' as good as 'commune get')
• Dust Storm more fully implemented (but still subject to change)
• Geomancers learn Time Warp at level 10
• Geomancers learn Gravity Well at level 23
• fixed output errors with Ink Blast and Mushroomize
• fleeing from being Afraid won't cause exp loss
• Boogie Fever copies stat modifications correctly
• Encore no longer doubles affect modifiers, only affect levels
• charmed PCs can no longer be ordered to quit or remort
• you can no longer steal unique items you already have
• Lunatic affects friends with good effects and foes with bad effects at night but causes random effects during the day
• Meteorologists instead of Terraformers get Rabite Rainstorm
• Meteorologists instead of Terraformers get Dust Storm
• Dust Storm relies on weather instead of sector
• Terraformers get Sandstorm, which now requires the sectors formerly used by Dust Storm
• Sandstorm and Flurry have damage capped at twice's the target's level/pulse
• Stormy Sky dispels Clear Sky and vice versa
• Gravity Well has extra suction power in air and void rooms
• Terraformers get terraform skill

• There are Daze and Burn spells which inflict Daze and Burn respectively.
• noremort flag added
• mob transfer and mob gtransfer now ignore room privacy settings
• if you ever wanted to make equipment that poisons you when you wear it, it can be done now

• settings can now be saved (default settings.set file is loaded on startup)
• width of primary window scales better with font changes
• all windows properly display the chosen font
• only fixed-width fonts can be selected (in theory)
• client doesn't invoke Ruby scripting anymore

• you count as floating while ultrajumping
• cure 2 weakened by 17%, but items with cure 2 strengthened to compensate
• sleep won't automatically fail on targets more than slightly above your level and has a slightly higher success rate
• 'empty ' is now a synonym for 'get all ' and 'pour out'
• for the get command, 'everything' is now a synonym for 'all'
• Tractor Beam removes floating status on its targets
• for the put and drop commands, 'everything' is now a synonym for 'all'
• Storm Owl and Czar Dragon are killable again
• XZone's abyss digests its inhabitants (meaning they'll eventually respawn)
• Change Sex lasts less time, can be mental
• resisted, and is reversible
• Shell, runic, and double should output every time they stop an attack
• Extension shows up on 'affects' again
• Analyze reveals affects (but without much detail)
• Overgrowth works in air and sea
• based rooms
• fill can optionally take a parameter (fill bottle fountain)
• for builders: the affected and shielded ifchecks now work on any affects (in other words, not just the ones you can set on mobs in medit)
• fixed crash issues with HP Rain, Quezacoatls Wrath
• beg social has been removed
• Esuna works on anyone rather than just those in your group
• wildcasting's drunkenness and poisoning effects are briefer
• Intimidate outputs to 3rd parties when cast
• Analyze doesn't reveal affects anymore (that was quick!)
• for builders: antidancer flag is in

• Rabite Forest has been expanded
• Cave of Waterfalls has been revised
• Kakkara Sandship runs twice a day now
• Loftarasa Mountains have been revised
• Mt Nibelhiem now connects to Loftarasa Mountains
• Nibel wolves are more difficult
• Skitty's Heal Bell costs more MP now
• Solarbeam should be able to do damage in bad weather
• Tornado should be able to do damage in good weather
• The top cave of Lofty Mountains is accessible.
• The road south of Truce now goes through Guardia Fields instead of alongside it.
• Hinata Inn has been closed for a while but we forgot to tell you.
• Translucent Scrolls are cheaper.
• Elazul in Kett's Rooms will follow you through closed doors if you pass through them.
• Boss Starky's attack and defense power has been reduced.
• A few more stores buy back item types that they sell.
• Zombie Archers and Dainslaifs have been weakened
• Howlers have been strengthened
• The following qspells are accessible: Crusader Saber, Matango Breakdancing, Moogle Capoeira, Favours*, Rainbow, Recharge, Sakura, Restore Movement, Psycho Saber, Moon Saber
• Eldin Mountain has been added north of Lorien Highlands
• Lelanol's Lair will be sporadically closed for revisions.
• Mykur Mountains will be sporadically closed for revisions.
• Angel Tower will be sporadically closed for revisions.
• VIPs should have an easier time returning to Grate Guy's Casino.

• Geomancers can now use the 'survey' command.
• Ninjas' Exit spell is now functional.
• Monsters in the Cave of Waterfalls fight a little more fiercely.
• The 'practice' display now sorts skills by level.
• The 'spells' display now shows the amount of lag that spell causes when you cast it
• There are some new parts in Rabite Forest, it looks like
• Players trying to recall without a recall room will go ahead and recall to Truce instead of just getting the useless 'You are completely lost.' message.
• The 'skills' list now reveals lag info on skills, and sorts skills by level.
• The 'peek' skill is now a seperate command, rather than triggering during a normal 'look'.
• The consider command now gives more verbose errors when used incorrectly
• occasional double messages when winning blackjack
• remorting any Junction spell gets you disjunction for free, like styles
• leech seed now shows how much HP it leeches, won't heal for more damage than it did, and gives proper credit if it kills the target
• the White Wind spell now works very differently from its previous 'mass angel whisper' version
• sunstroke's calculations are different and for builders:
• Magitek Factory has been reverted and has jango's descs again now
• Fixed some typos
• Frost Veil works
• Previously. blinded players got a severe penalty to Dodge. Now, mobs get this penalty too.
• Blinded mobs can be backstabbed successfully
• 'nosummon' will prevent Deliver
• 'survey' and 'stat room' reveal MORE info on room affects now

From December 25 through January 1, all players will receive XP-And-A-Half (that's 50% bonus experience points) on everything they do. Been putting off gaining some levels? Christmas vacation is the time to do it!

Also, Geomancers are now selectable at character creation.
Please post any bugs to Immortal or on the forums or on the wiki.

Special thanks to Coeurl, who wook the time to review McNeil Woods and reveal its biggest problems for me to fix (mob balance). She has helped us help everyone! If you would like to participate in reviewing areas, see http://cod.wikkii.com/wiki/Area_of_the_Month