Build 5.10.3

CoffeeMud Version 5.10.3

Released Jan 1st, 2024

 *. CoffeeMud now officially requires jdk 1.8.  ATM, it will still compile in 1.6 tho.
 1. New Paladin skills: Unholy Strike, Chaos Rage, Paladin's Fear, Paladin's Corruption
 2. New Paladin skills: Incite Fight, Dark Hammer, Paladin's Wickedness, Crushing Aura
 3. New Paladin skills: Craft Unholy Reaver, Righteous Defense, Exploiting Aura
 4. Paladin's can now be Anti-Paladins if they maintain chaotic evil.
 5. New Items: CubicGate, GenGiftContainer, GenTent, GenStove, Spear (polearm)
 6. New Achievement stuff: Tattoo reward type, ENTITLED achieve type
 7. Tattoos like 'RACE_*" or "CHARCLASS_*" now open up otherwise skill-restricted options.
 8. Liege xp bonus can no longer be gained from non-combat or role-playing xp vassel gains.
 9. New CharStat XPADJPCT - for adding bonus % xp (or loss if negative)
10. Prop_NoPurge now supports an expiration date/timestamp
11. New StdMob type: CombatDummy, for testing.
12. New spells: Wizard's Mark, Suppress Aroma, Store Aromas
13. New prayers: Undeath Guard, Animate Shadow, Animate Limb
14. GOTITEM Achievement type now supports multiple item masks.
15. New standard races: Ghast, Ghoul, Ghost, Mummy, Spectre, Vampire, and Zombie
16. Undead race mixing now has its own special rules, which Prayer_Animate* will use
17. WaterCurrents messaging can now be customized.
18. Default days/month is now 24, default months/yr now 7.  Postmen retain mail for 40 months.
19. GenRaces now support multiple natural weapon choices, better reflecting StdRaces.
20. AFK status produced from the AFK command is now sticky until explicitly toggled.
21. Prop_RoomForSale now allows disabling the robbery laws on a property-by-property basis.
22. SAVE= rooms will properly rejuv before saving, Thin areas now allow property taxes
23. Prop_NoTeleport now supports redirection, and custom messages
24. Mirrors now act like LOOK SELF
25. STAT commands supports new POBJECT (player objects) arg.
26. New command: MEND, for invoking the proper common skill.  Mend spell renamed to Lesser Mend.
27. Gaoler can now wear leather.
28. Temporary skills now show up in the SKILLS/SPELLS/etc command as dark grey.
29. You can no longer cast speak or cast verbal spells unless you can breathe where you are.
30. ALIAS now supports a copy command.
31. New skill: Stoicism
32. Pregnant people now get food addictions, and Addictions can now include resource name
33. Amputation now works on corpses.
34. Prop_*Adjusters now support ambiance+- arguments.
35. New property: Prop_PropSetter, for potentially permanent object changes.
36. Rituals now support TIMEOUT, INCLUDE and ASSIST tasks for cooperative magic!
37. PROMPT now supports group size / max group members, and CONFIG/Attribute blocks
38. MG Journal browser now supports Journal Limit / pages.
39. Decoration now supports hiding items in plain sight/semi-hidden.
40. Quests can now suppress local laws while they are running. 
41. Prop_ClosedDayNight can now generate near-closing greetings.
42. MudChat now how syntax for adding marginal entries over the chat.dat entries.
43. Loyalty will report itself when the leader looks at the loyal follower.
45. EXAMINE/LONGLOOK at mobs will now show wear positions like EQ LONG
46. CATALOG now supports spawn caps, random (masked) room spawns, and mob spawns.
47. SERVEing another player now requires that their NOFOLLOW flag be off.
48. ACHIEVEMENTS command now always supports including awards in lists.
49. Channels now support SEARCH:
50. Subscribe now supports channels and their backlogs
51. Titles now support random selection lists.
52. Prop_UseEmoter* and Prop_Sounder support trigger mob masks now.
53. Generic Abilities can now be COPYed, and Standard ones badly. CREATE will now convert.
54. New standard races: GiantBear, GiantBoar, DireBear, DireBoar, DireCat
55. New skills: Racial Mount, Call Steed, Rope Tricks, Awe Mounts, Bronco Busting
56. The racial skill "Buck" will now invoke automatically for certain races of mobs
57. New skills: Set Polearm, Dismounting Blow, Herding, Shepherding, Long Reach
58. New skills: Soothe Mount, Tend Mount, Favored Mount 1...4, Forceback, Rearguard
59. New skills: Indoor Riding, Command Mount, Unwavering Mark, Graceful Dismount
60. New skills: Mount Taming, Mounted Tactics, Ridethrough, Vanguard, Mounted Retreat
61. New skills: Confident Vanity, Lassoing, Jousting, Rope Trip, Fierce Mount
62. (Power) LEVEL expertises now grant points to proficiency on all skills/spells/etc.
63. New skills: Holy Mount, Unholy Mount, Rope Disarm, Armored Vanity, Mounted Leap
64. TEAR/DESTROY can now be used to tear cloth into strips for bandaging or whatever
65. New skills: Companion Mount, Hold The Line, Faithful Mount, Break Mount, Caravan Tactics
66. New skills: Lucky Vanity, Sweeping Trip, Ride to the Rescue, Rope Dismount, Runover
67. Command FOLLOW can now be used with sailing ships and caravans.
68. New skills: Riding Fight, Hog Tie, Stable Mount, Caravan Commander, Planar Mount
69. New skills: Protected Mount, Trample, Combat Recall
70. New Achevement type: SCRIPTED, and new Scriptable command: MPACHIEVE
71. Layer info added to VIEW and slightly more apparently in LONGLOOK.
72. Conquest now requires dead mob lvl diff <= EXPRATEx2 (from ini file) HELP CONQUERABLE
73. GenTraps now support custom reset ticks for builder-set traps.
74. New common skills: Mycology, and Master Mycology. (Herbology now also Recipe Driven/Editable)
75. New poison: Sickening (for mushrooms that aren't rotten, but aren't good for you either).
76. Languages now support special 'say' verbs.  Std languages updated, especially animal-speaks.
77. Instanced areas can now be reset/flushed and timed-out from Scripts.  See Archons Guide.