MushMS v83 - Useful Monster Book for everyone!
Monster Book Revamp
The Monster Book has always bothered me. It was a great idea that Nexon started, but it was implemented very poorly. I've played on many servers over the years and I've never seen one that made the Monster Book truly useful. Most servers ended up relying on commands like !whodrops and !whatdropsfrom instead.
Because of that, on MushMS I decided to do things differently and turn the Monster Book into what I believe it should have been from the beginning.
You can now:
- View all monster information regardless of Card Level (number of collected cards for that monster [0–5]).
- Search cards by Card Level [0–5].
- Search by item, displaying all monsters that drop the selected item along with their respective drop rates.
- Search by monster name, showing monsters that match the selected filter.
- Hovering over a monster card now displays the monster's name and level.
- The Basic Info tab now shows the monster's real HP/MP values directly from the game files.
- The Episode tab now displays the monster's level and stats directly from the game files.
- The Dropping tab now shows the correct drops from the database, including each item's drop rate according to the server's drop rate settings. Clicking an item will display other monsters that also drop it, along with their respective drop rates.
- The Found In tab now displays all maps where the selected monster spawns. Clicking the tab name will open the World Map with the corresponding map already highlighted through PIN navigation.
To make everything work properly, I also created cards for every monster that previously existed without one.
To help the MapleStory development community as well, I released this update in a MapleStory developers Discord, so I believe (and hope) that more servers will start using this improvement in the near future.
If you'd like to check out MushMS, we're currently in open beta. We reached a peak of 150 concurrent players during testing. The player count is lower now because most of the beta feedback cycle has already been completed, but the server remains online for anyone who wants to play while we continue releasing improvements and new features.
🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KMZ8wRpH5n
🔗 Website: https://www.mushms.com/
🔗You can also check out our server introduction post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mapleservers/comments/1u1csxn/mushms_new_global_v83_server_beta_june_13th_no_hp/