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Notable Changes:

• Added thrown weapons for players and monsters
• Added atlatls for players and monsters
• Added monster wielded weapons
• Implemented monster inventory / weapon switching
• Monster projectiles are now dodgeable
• Added pre-MoA skill conversion to wielded item requirements
• Added enchantments that directly modify vitals / secondary attributes
• Added weapon offense bonuses
• Fixed the appraisal fields for ammunition
• Added DamageMod for missile launchers
• Adding max broadcast range for some chat emotes (Act)
• Adding proper object spawning / initial placement system
• Adding monster combat maneuvers / special attacks
• Added support for Volley spells
• Added support for untargeted war spells
• Added max spell range support for ring spells
• Updated magic casting range checks to match retail servers / client
• Added war spell projectiles: rings, walls, and blast spells
• Improved system for players giving items to other players
• Refactored PK checks for magic system
• Added support for linking to portals
• Added dual wield combat
• Added weapon swapping between hands
• Added player stamina usage on melee / missile attack
• Refactored the death system
• Improved player exhaustion system. Both players and monsters now receive attack and defense penalties when stamina = 0
• Added attribute mod to monster damage. Some monsters now deal significantly more damage, so beware!
• Updated shield effective angle to match retail
• Updated Life Magic code to properly utilize the DamageHistory for tracking damage through harm/drain/heals
• Refactored spell resistance to common method for all creatures (players / monsters)
• Spell level now determined by Scarab instead of PowerLevel, as per retail servers and client
• Added support for weapon bonuses: Melee Defense, Mana Conversion, Biting Strike, Crushing Blow, Resistance Cleaving, Elemental Damage modifier for casters, and Slayer bonuses

• Threading improvement for WorldManager
• ActionChain AddDelaySeconds cleanup
• Added ShardDbContext caching system
• Improved /buff Player command with auras, imp, and banes
• Added /fellowbuff command
• EnchantmentRegistry improvements
• Added a system for finding the correct cell when spawning new items
• Migrate Character tables over to new caching / threading model
• Shard Biota & Threading Model Rework
• Added database performance tests
• Fixing PhysicsDesc bitflags – monsters are now recognized by vtank
• Improved network resiliency, recovery from socket exceptions
• Complete rewrite of player visibility / broadcast system
• Refactored generators
• Improved SQL writers w/ additional comments
• Significantly improved GetBiota performance from the shard by using flags to indicate populated collections.
• Also added Parallel.ForEach support for Shard GetPlayerBiotas.
• Adding dungeon position adjustments system. This fixes dungeons where cells have been relocated since PY16 (ie. Burial Temple, North Glenden Prison, and Nuhmudira’s Dungeon)
• Adding physics entity caching system. This provides massive improvements with reduced memory usage, especially over the course of a lifetime for long-running servers.
  Shard schema changed to remove foreign key link between Character and Biota.
• This also significantly changes the relationship of Session/Player/Character objects.
• Change from .NET Core 2.0 to .NET Core 2.1. This requires .NET Core 2.1 x64 SDK.
• Major schema refactoring + changes for World and Shard.
• New PY16 format required
• Refactored PhysicsState
• Added Damage History system to track damage and healing sources for corpse looting rights
• Fixed a bug with monster transitions between some landblocks
• Fixed a bug with Admin and Sentinel players in the PK targeting system
• Fixed a bug where portaling could keep the player at original location
• Fixed a bug with player not appearing as pink bubbles on login/portal
• Fixed a bug with monsters running away from players
• Fixed a bug with AmmoType not being enumerated as Flags
• Fixed a bug with generators not respawning items
• Fixed a bug with generators not spawning items in containers
• Fixed a bug with generators spawning the wrong items
• Fixed a bug where players/monsters were granted Melee Defense bonus for missile attacks
• Fixed a bug where player death was removing enchantments on the client only
• Fixed a bug where a player autoattack could occur after death
• Fixed a bug where attributes could be debuffed below 10
• Fixed a bug with casting spells on items wielded by other players and creatures
• Fixed a bug with MaxVital calculation with vitae