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February 01, 2012
January 27, 2012
Forum/Wiki Status
Our web hosting provider decided we were getting too much traffic and shut down the site without warning. I am attempting to resolve the issue but they have been less than helpful so far. More information when it is available.
Sorry about this.
Update: New server is up and running. It will take 24 hours for everyone to switch over.
June 03, 2011
Build 116
We recently released build 116 of Realm of the Mad God. The changes include:
- Replace pretty much every sound effect (sounds by Jordan Fehr)
- Make unnamed accounts use a random, default name
- Color "chosen" names in gold (so you can see who is "tellable")
- Limit account name dialog to 10 alphabetic characters
- Add outgoing tells to tell history
- Increase god reproduction density and firing range
- Add continuous monster regeneration in empty areas
- Animate mountain gods
- Add "unlocked by" message when incantation used
- Increase defense for all wine cellar creatures
- Add 10 healing and mana wines as wine cellar drops
- Add new, more efficient preloader
- Show maxed stats in gold
- Fix "You do not have a weapon equipped!"
- Make tells work clusterwide
- Add /server command
- Add Sandsman King and Desert Werewolf for previously empty lowland sand areas
- Add Shield Orc, Flamer and Construct monster groups, with all-new behaviors
- Add permanent pets
- Apply defense to class specials such as huntress trap
- Rearrange spawn area in Nexus a bit
- Fix "Deathmage hunt"
We're super excited about the new pets, which are available at the in-game store. Once you've bought a pet item, you shift-click it to summon the pet. The little guy will follow you around the nexus, realms and dungeons, and he will zone with you. A great feature of the new pets is that they are permanent -- the pet item is not consumed when you summon the pet, which means that you can store the item in your vault and summon the pet over and over with other characters on your account. If your character dies, the pet item will remain safe in the vault, ready for use with your next character. You can collect as many pets as you like, and switch between them at any time.
We plan to introduce new pets on an ongoing basis, so watch for them!
May 06, 2011
Build 115
Yesterday we pushed build 115 to the production servers. The changes since 114 include:
The new tiered gravestones act as memorials to fallen characters who have maxed out one or more of their stats by drinking stat increase potions. These are among the most difficult items to find.
This gravestone is for a character who had maxed 5 of the 6 stats. The new elite gravestones don't disappear after 60 seconds like the ordinary ones do; they last until Oryx's earthquake destroys the realm.
May 02, 2011
Oryx's Wine Cellar
Over a year ago, the players of Realm of the Mad God came up with the idea of Oryx's wine cellar. The idea gathered strength and became part of the game's lore, an in-joke among long-time players. But as Alex and I considered ways to make the Oryx encounter more challenging, we hit upon the idea of adding the wine cellar as a second level of his chamber. It took a long time but we finally launched it on the testing server the other day.
Upon defeating Oryx in his chamber, a portal to the wine cellar appears. But it is locked, and the only way to unlock it is to use a "wine cellar incantation," a new and very rare item dropped only by Sprite Gods, the toughest monsters in the Realm. Our intent is for there not to be enough incantations to open every wine cellar portal.
The wine cellar itself is a more difficult fight than the chamber that precedes it. The "Oryx" that was just defeated turns out to be a mere simulacrum, and the Oryx the players must face in the wine cellar has twice the health points and hits twice as hard. Likewise, his minions are twice as tough, with new attacks like a confusion-inducing boomerang and a trap toss. But the rewards are improved as well, with increased chances for big drops and entirely new tiers of weapons, armor and class ability items.
As with several of our recent additions, many of the wine cellar's graphics came from players using the pixel editor. Thank you!
April 26, 2011
Build 114.1 in Testing
We just posted build 114.1 to our testing server. New features include:
- New class: sorcerer (and scepters)
- Unique account names (phase 1)
- Wine cellar (get an "incantation" from a Sprite God to unlock the door)
- Cellar Oryx drops an extra tier of armor, weapons & ability items
- Realms now close for a few minutes before Oryx pops
- Minion count gone, it's just heroes you must kill to get to Oryx
- Lowlands difficulty nerfed a lot
- Lowlands bosses made larger with more hitpoints
- "Damaging" now does +50% damage and is on all pally seals
- Lowlands creatures are now animated
- Tiered gravestones (1, 2-19, 20 and six more depending on how many stats you maxed)
This build includes eighteen new animations for lowlands creatures, every single one created by Realm players using the pixel editor. Lots more animations have already been created, and we hope to get them incorporated soon. Thank you, everyone who helped with this.
The sorcerer is our thirteenth class, but only the second wand user (after priest). He wears robes and like every class he can also wear a ring. His ability item is a scepter which shoots chain lightning. The lightning bounces from target to target, hitting up to eight enemies in its most potent form, and the chained blasts can travel up to ten squares. Under the right circumstances it's possible to hit enemies from extreme distances.
April 15, 2011
Build 114
We just pushed build 114 to production. The changes since 113 are:
- Vaults: 8 slots for free, 500 realm gold for each extra chest
- New particle effects when bullets hit walls and trees
- 1.5 seconds of "no aggro" when teleporting
- Kill 10-second immunity/teleport exploit
- Players can move through single-space gaps in walls
- Animated enemies (sheep and pirate so far)
- Animation mode in pixel editor
- Phoenix Lord hero & pyre setpiece
- Tips (toggle these with 'Y')
- Eliminate 'who' on zone (you can still type /who)
- Make Nexus chat local to 15 squares
- /yell command for global chat in Nexus
- 15 or so new cloths, all from the pixel editor
- Fixes for bugs that were killing characters and deleting/copying items
One of the many things Alex did for this build was to work on some very old code to allow players to walk through skinny gaps in walls.
April 01, 2011
New Testing Build 113.1
Today Alex and I posted testing build 113.1 of Realm of the Mad God. The changes include:
- Purchasable vault space (1st 8 slots free; super cheap subsequent chests for testing purposes)
- Animated enemies (sheep and pirate so far)
- Phoenix Lord hero & pyre setpiece
- Tips
- Eliminate 'who' on zone (you can still type /who)
- Make Nexus chat local to 15 squares
- /yell command for global chat in Nexus
- Kill 10-second immunity/teleport exploit
- 15 or so new cloths, all from the pixel editor
The new Phoenix Lord hero was created largely by players in the Ideas Forum, like the Oasis Giant that we introduced last week.
The new vault feature is a private space where players can store items. There is a portal from the Nexus leading to the vault, which contains a bunch of chests. Each chest holds 8 items, and the first is available for free. Subsquent chests must be bought with Realm Gold.
We hope you'll try out the new build and tell us what you think of it.
March 28, 2011
Build 113
Today we released build 113 of Realm of the Mad God. The changelist is largely the same as our previous testing build, with a couple of new additions.
The Oasis Giant is a new quest boss who populates the previously-empty oases that were found here and there in sandy areas. The Oasis Giant was largely created by the users in Wild Shadow's Ideas Forum.
Purchasable cloths are the other new addition. They work like dyes, in that you buy them and they recolor your character. But the cloths are patterned, and the patterns were created by our users with the Pixel Editor.
Alex and I would like to give a big thank you to everyone who helped build these new features of the Realm!
March 18, 2011
Testing Build 112.3
We've recently posted some new stuff to http://testing.realmofthemadgod.com/. In a few days, if we're happy with it, we'll push it live to the main site. The changes:
- New class: trickster and prisms
- Minion-making monsters (Cube God, Oryx, ...) start with all minions already made
- Enforce range limit of 1 square on looting
- Soulbound bag contents invisible to non-owners
- Removed shield from priest graphic; knight gains shield as dyeable accessory
- 5 seconds of attack immunity in dungeons
- Beach creatures' shot cooldown doubled
- Eggs no longer soulbound
- New icons for cloaks, heavy armor, dungeon keys
- 'I' key toggles quest portraits
- Reduce knight max def to 40 from 50
- Increase assassin max att to 60 from 50
- Increase assassin max wis to 60 from 50
- Increase assassin wis per level to 1-2 from 0-2
- Reduce necro max att to 60 from 75
- Reduce necro max dex to 60 from 75
- Regrade pally seal durations from 5 at low tier to 10 at high tier (from 5-15)
- AOE damage fixed (reduced) for Lair Spectres and Pentaracts.
- Character facing is preserved on rotation
- Pentaracts now lob bombs at players
- RemoveNegativeConditions removed from top tier tome
- Tome healing and mana costs reduced
- Pentaracts, Cube Gods and Skull Shrines no longer permanently on minimap
- Quiver MP costs reduced 17-32%
Thanks for help us test Realm of the Mad God.
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