Greetings from everyone at Erion!

Over the course of the last month we have been working on a cooking system, a cooking academy, and a brand new house for cooking enthusiasts. These will be released a few weeks from now! Also coming soon is a new large Halloween area opening on October 1st, along with 8 new missions and a new fall event! One of our players has completed creating a Mudlet package with our MUSHclient soundpack, and we hope to make this available on our website this year.

Other notable changes we've made in the past few months are below.

Cooking

• New room sector: kitchen. Sounds added: kitchen ambience, and a song for the upcoming cooking area!
• New item type: honey. This is created when you strain honeycomb and will be used in cooking recipes.
• New item type: straw. Used for crafting stone ovens.
• Goats in the wild can now be milked just like cows. You can also add goats to your player home just like cows, and they have moods.

Crafting

• You can now specify how many of an item to craft when adding it to a blueprint.
• A furnace is a new craftable structure built in your player home, and a crucible is a separate craftable, portable vessel you bolt next to it. They're now used for smelting metal and melting gems in place of the fire pit and cauldron, because it just makes more sense :).
• New craftable container item worn in the belt accessory slot: a belt pouch.
• New craftable: stained glass window. The crafting process is loosely based on historical methods, though we used a heated knife to cut the glass rather than a dedicated glazing tool, to avoid adding another item players would need to carry around just for this one craft.
• New command: shovel. You can now shovel dung off of the ground and it will go directly into your crafting inventory.
• You no longer have to go to the beekeeper to strain honeycomb. You can do this in your inventory with a cloth. The beekeeper sells cloths, or you can craft them yourself.
• Added a craftable mortar and pestle.
• Added new daily challenges for making cement, lye, glass, and mixing paint.
• Craft and blueprint now list the tools and stations a recipe needs (anvil, kiln, firepit, water, and so on) alongside the materials. You can no longer start a craft until you have all the materials and tools needed.
• New skills: painting and advanced painting. A Study in Art mission grants the painting skill, and Patronizing an Artist mission grants advanced painting.
• For first-time crafters and cooks, the game will now give a hint about the command needed to carry out a step.

House Ranks & Points

The house rank perks are in!

Slayers

• Rank 2 - Slayer's Efficiency: 1% damage and damage cap increase per rank
• Rank 3 - Hunter's Spoils: 10% gold multiplier bonus
• Rank 4 - Trophy Collection: plus 1 gem and strand per boss kill
• Rank 5 - Slayer's Discipline: 15% experience and experience cap boost

Healers

• Rank 2 - Healer's Insight: +20 wisdom cap boost, adding +10 per rank up to +50 at rank 5
• Rank 3 - Healer's Focus: 15% mana reduction cap boost and 15% mana reduction
• Rank 4 - Sustained Thaumaturgy: 20% spell duration multiplier
• Rank 5 - High Communion: self-castable buff giving hit points, mana, hit point regen, and mana regen

Luminati

• Rank 2 - Lexical Sight: spell that increases your chance of finding scrabble tiles
• Rank 3 - Luminous Bounty: 15% quest point cap boost and 15% quest point multiplier
• Rank 4 - Luminatus spell, usable once every 20 hours, does not block potion usage
• Rank 5 - Scholarly Pursuit: 15% experience cap boost and 15% experience multiplier

Artisans

• Rank 2 - Bountiful Yield: 3% chance to generate an extra gem/strand when mining/gardening per rank, maxing out at +12% chance of getting an extra gem/strand
• Rank 3 - Perfect Polish: reduces your chance to smudge a gem while polishing, and eliminates it entirely once Advanced Polishing is mastered
• Rank 4 - Crafter's Bargain: 50% reduction in craftscape cost
• Rank 5 - Artisans Aptitude: doubles experience for crafting activities.

Alchemist

• Rank 2 - Alchemical Affinity: 3% chance to generate an extra alchemy ingredient when foraging for ingredients per rank, maxing at 12% chance for an extra ingredient
• Rank 3 - Potent Impact: 10% increased damage by hurled damaging potions, and 10% increased healing from hurled potions of heal/super heal, psionic energy, mana heal
• Rank 4 - Sustained Alchemy: 20% potion duration
• Rank 5 - Stable Mixture: improves overall chance to brew a potion successfully and reduces the explosion risk when stacking multiple healing spells
• New command: house rank. Shows your rank and total house points earned.
• We updated the output of the house info and house skill commands to be more screen reader friendly. If there are other commands that could use the same treatment, let us know and we'll be happy to update them too.

Missions, Errands, & Events

• New mission command: mission reminder <vnum>. This sets a reminder for any repeatable mission, and you'll be notified when it's ready to be done again.
• Healers errand: Hielach in the Healers House fountain courtyard now offers a healing errand. Stricken patients are scattered along the highways within your level range, each with a different ailment. Travel out and heal them using the heal or psionic energy spells, the salve or mend skills, a potion carrying one of those spells, or crafted bandages.
• New level 30 mission: one of the inhabitants of Monster Park never wanted to leave, even as the park fell into ruin around her, but now with the fountain dried up and no explanation in sight, she's running out of reasons to stay. A gruff dwarf fisherman at the nearby pond is having troubles of his own. Something has fouled the water, driven off the fish, and left the pond noticeably shallower than it used to be. Getting to the bottom of it will require a fishing line, a willingness to go places most people would rather not, and a fairly strong stomach.
• New cooperative Monday event: Demon Invasion. Every Monday, portals tear open across the highways of Erion, and demons start pouring through. The army of light holds the line, but they can't do it without you. This is a cooperative event, and here's the twist: it can't be won by fighters alone, and it can't be won by crafters alone. Warriors, siege engineers, saboteurs, and even dedicated pacifists all have a role to play, and the invasion can't be won solo. You'll have to hold the highways together.

Combat & Spells

• To make the warmth spell more useful, it can now cancel hypothermia and makes you immune to it as well. Targets immune to cold are now unaffected by hypothermia.
• Added new battle spam option: debuff. When this is enabled, it shortens debuff messages.
• The old battlespam shorten toggle is now two separate options: battlespam shortennumbers (the original number-based lines) and battlespam shortenwords, which describes shortened damage with words instead (tickle, wound, maul, etc). Both require battlespam condensed to also be on.

Miscellaneous

• All forms of quests and crafting now persist through copyovers.
• Added who toggle (<option>) so you can customize which flags you want to see on the who screen if things feel cluttered.
• Added a notification for when your chicks hatch and you're not in the same room.
• New bunny type: diamond! These are quite rare but give a good amount of faith points. These bunnies are only visible to those who follow a god.
• You can now trade 3 worker bees for 1 queen, with a fun new sound for trading.
• We've made improvements to how the game distributes its workload. This should result in smoother gameplay and less lag between commands.
• Deleted the Hillock Hills handbook and migrated the information that was in it into the guide command. Thanks to Aura for the feedback on the newbie area, we went through and added more hints!

Thanks for checking out our updates! We look forward to releasing our cooking system and new Halloween events very soon!

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Hey from everyone at Erion MUD! We have been hard at work this month and are excited to share some fun updates:

* The grand finale of Erion's 21st anniversary is here: Pinata Palooza! Every 20 minutes, a pinata will appear in an area in or below your level range. Can you spot it before it disappears? Break the pinata and you will be rewarded with three goodies plus a collectible card of the god it represents! Turn over five of the same god's card, or one of each god's card, to earn special rewards!

* We are excited to introduce a new goddess to our faith system: Velkara, Goddess of Justice and Mercy. Alongside her arrival, Kextra and Aelyn have created a new area, Temple Veritas, designed for players level 55. Within the temple you will find Velkara's high priestesses and high priests, who offer pilgrimages as well as two new missions, including one for those seeking to join her faith.

* 10 divine skills and spells have been added for the followers of Velkara!

* The Velkara specific pilgrimage centers around liberating captives and arresting an offender.

* Arresting mobs now rewards 5000 experience, to be in line with liberation.

* Introducing house errands! House errands are special tasks offered by your house representative that challenge you in ways unique to your house's identity. The size of the errand determines how many challenges you must complete before earning your reward.

* The first errand available is the Luminati errand, given by Suriel. Jigsaw puzzle pieces bearing individual letters are scattered across a highway within your level range. Collect them all, work out the word they form, and return to Suriel to solve the riddle.

* The Artisans errand is a crafting and delivery task given by Coralyn. A list of items must be crafted and delivered to shopkeepers across the world, each item requiring a specific type and level of craftsmanship.

* The Slayers house errand is a hunting task given by Gono. A group of dangerous creatures has been spotted on a highway within your level range, led by a powerful boss. You must travel to that highway and slay all of the creatures including their leader.

* The Alchemists errand is a brewing and delivery task given by Bremund. A list of potions must be brewed and delivered to shopkeepers across the world, each order requiring a specific recipe that you have already unlocked.

* The Newbies errand is an exam of 100 randomized questions given by Keyqua. A series of multiple choice questions about the game are presented one at a time, each with four possible answers. Use 'errand solve <a/b/c/d>' to submit your answer. Each correct answer earns house points and brings you closer to completing the exam. Your progress is saved between sessions, so you can work through the exam at your own pace. Once you have answered all questions correctly, you will receive a bonus reward!

* Added both a new overall and seasonal leaderboard for completing errands.

* Player vs. player combat has never been a strong fit for Erion. We have made the decision to remove player killing entirely, making Erion a fully PvE experience.

* New account-wide toggle 'xterm'. Enable this to see 256 colors. The command 'color xterm' will show you all available colors and the codes to use them.

* Psionicist spells are now unaffected by the silence spell.

* All bosses now have the ability to struggle out of grapple, vine bind, and root.

* Simplified the paint mixing process. Now you type 'mix <color> paint (<amount>)', for example 'mix purple paint' to create purple paint.

* The home request command has been changed to 'home build <direction>', and location approval is no longer needed. It will immediately create a home in the direction desired.

* Added areas and missions to the website under the 'World' menu. The missions page allows you to sort by area or by level.

https://www.erionmud.com/areas.php

https://www.erionmud.com/missions.php

* New craftable: milk bottles. Fill them with milk from a milk pail or a fountain of milk. To be used in a new mission!

* New weekly challenge: release 40 chicks into the wild!

* New level 1 mission in Nokova Island given by Beyla for crafters. New level 1 pacifist mission available from Shrond in Hillock Hills. New level 25 mission given by Cartre in Luminati House Hall.

Thanks for checking out our updates!

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Erion turns 21 this year, marking 21 years since its founding in 2005, and the first anniversary events are now live. Festival of Balloons launched today and will run for another 4 days! Colorful balloons have appeared across the world and can be found while foraging, fishing, or drifting through your area. Popping them grants rewards.

* New sound effects have been added for finding and popping balloons.

* Multiple balloon types exist, including special variants.

* A new balloon appears roughly every 30 minutes.

* New achievement for popping every balloon color.

* New item flag: Keepsake. These items cannot be restrung and can be bolted to player home rooms.

Pinata Palooza is our second anniversary event which will take place towards the end of the month! A pinata will appear in an area within or below your level range at intervals and players who find and break it will receive rewards.

Rewards include:

* Three random goodies

* A collectible card representing the god associated with the pinata

Card collection rewards:

* Collect five of the same god's card, or

* Collect one card from each god

* Trade sets in for special rewards

Additional updates:

* New mission for Merchant's Marketplace, written by Darkbuilder: Violet Crime.

* New mission for Wayside Farm mission, written by Aelyn: Raising a New Flock.

* A list of pacifist activities that reward experience and other currencies has been added to guide page 27.

* Death Guard and Feign Death now function for permadeath characters.

* The Spy subclass Copycat skill can now copy subclass skills, increasing its effectiveness over the temporary version.

* The Sniper ambush skill can now shoot long distance and the damage has been boosted.

* New craftable: cotton bandages treated with tannin. Apply these to yourself or others for some hp/mana healing and a temporary hp/mana regeneration boost.

* The race stat command has been updated to support sorting by multiple stats instead of just one. You can now enter more than one stat, such as 'race stat int wis' or 'race stat dex con', and the results will be sorted by the combined total of those stats. The same functionality has been added to the website's stat sorter.

* The struggle skill can now be used to struggle out of a vine bind.

* The friends list will now show a player's account id so you can send friends a tell using the account id which will route the tell to whichever character they are currently online with.

* The command "farm eggs" will now tell you the location of your eggs and any hatched chicks. Also added a new reminder "eggs" which is an account wide toggle that will remind you where your eggs/chicks are.

* Mobs that are being grappled can no longer teleport you away.

Thanks for checking out our updates and Happy Erion anniversary!

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