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Changelog

It has been some time since we’ve posted an update. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.

Notable Changes:

Updated to .NET Core 3.1
Releases now available!
Docker now available!
Added support for ARM64 (RPI4 4gb+ Ubuntu x64)

The ACE Wiki has been updated to include hosting instructions for windows, linux, and raspberry pi.

Gameplay

• Fixed issue with character creation skill bonuses
• Fixed bandits dual wielding bow + melee
• Fixed issue with SellPrice usage for AlternateCurrency
• Fixed AlternateCurrency minimum cost
• Fixed Black Thistle
• Fixed Antius Blackmoor statue
• Fixed copper / silver salvage
• Fixed salvage fail msg
• Fixed bug with marketplace recall
• Fixed corpses spawning frozen in mid-air
• Fixed issue with Quest stamp on pickup
• Fixed display bug for enchantment messages
• Fixed burning coals
• Fixed summon into wall issue
• Fixed no scrolls dropping when world precaching is enabled
• Fixed chest reset interval
• Fixed defense and attack bonuses for dual wielding
• Fixed some rare cases of invisible player bug
• Fixed pk logout bug
• Fixed underclothes getting AL
• Fixed monsters failing to navigate home
• Fixed launching projectiles at point-blank range through doors
• Fixed negative item magic spell resistance check
• Fixed a bug where fellowship leader drops under abnormal circumstances
• Fixed spell bar position save issue
• Fixed casting spells on self-wielded target
• Fixed missile bug + matron bug
• Fixed wave spam
• Fixed writability issue with opening “blank/empty” books
• Fixed mega shields (scaling issue)
• Fixed missing feedback when launching projectiles point-blank into environment
• Fixed lack of Shield AL assignment
• Fixed CS icon underlay color on initial application
• Fixed players sometimes invisible after teleport
• Fixed Defender spell
• Updated fellowship vital updates to send to clients w/ fellowship window open
• Updated Epic Slashing Ward
• Updated healing
• Updated healing movement fail range
• Updated resistance checks for hotspots and falling damage
• Updated Corpse permission conditions
• Updated no stamina use chance
• Updated melee/missile repeat cycle to sync more precisely to retail
• Updated Melee D Bonus for no wield wands from 5% to 10%
• Updated Lifestone usage to drain half of player’s current stamina
• Updated crafting messages
• Updated resist aug handling
• Updated casting negative item spells on items wielded by target
• Updated melee weapon tailoring to match the latest GDLE logic
• Added support for fastbuffing
• Added support to queue next pickup while previous pickup is in retraction state, as per retail
• Added jump looting per retail
• Added check to ensure npks can take falling damage when portal destination is aerial
• Added check to prevent actions while suicide is in progress
• Added check to prevent player-initiated dispels while pk timers active
• Added rare timestamping and counters
• Added Real-Time Rare chance modifier
• Added ping to clients at character select (mitigates Thwarglauncher closing the client)
• Added support for ‘lead missile targets’ character option
• Added preliminary support for fast missiles
• Added retail message for Enduring Enchantment
• Added support for more fellowship spell types
• Added support for fellowship spells from non-player sources
• Added support for ‘crafting chance of success dialog’ player option to regular recipes
• Added support for passive pets
• Added trinkets
• Added DefenseStanceMod
• Added support for taboo table during character creation
• Added missing swirlies to recall spells
• Added caster effects to portal tie and lifestone tie
• Added missing T4 Rares
• Added dot resistance on appraisal panel
• Added power bar reset on charge failed
• Added sticky distance check for melee repeat attacks
• Added support for cloak proc spells
• Added equipment ratings for DR / DRR / CD / CDR
• Added built-in damage bonus for some quest bows
• Added additional fellowship xp sharing logic from Mirror, Mirror
• Added AimLow/AimHigh animations for missile launchers
• Added support for IgnoreShield
• Added support for armor cleaving
• Added busy checks to melee / missile
• Added check to ensure melee target is alive before MoveTo
• Improved instant vital updates for targeted creature
• Improved swapping weapons while bow is reloading
• Improved combat stance swapping
• Improved loot gen
• Improved monster sticky melee
• Improved consistency for NPK falling damage
• Disabled creating characters with names of creatures in world
• Removed line of sight check for mob archers
• Updated crit ratings to work on combat pets
• Synced skill raise message up to retail
• Ensured life projectiles take natural resistances into account
• Ensured pk timer logout stops movement completely
• Enforce quest timers for Portal.QuestRestriction

Spellcast/Movement

• Fixed cast tick gap
• Fixed minor sync issue in TurnToHeading
• Fixed small movement gap
• Fixed some spellcast angle issues
• Fixed a gap in pk casting
• Fixed global velocity for jump broadcast
• Fixed combat stance and death gaps during pre-windup turn
• Fixed some combat state thrashing for food and healing kits
• Fixed attacking while airborne during pk battles
• Fixed untargeted spell projectiles hitting scrum drudge
• Fixed dormant spell projectiles
• Fixed spell projectile in dormant landblock bug
• Fixed spell projectiles sometimes jumping above target’s head on collision
• Fixed target velocity for non-tracking spells
• Fixed some player movement issues during pk spellcasting
• Updated casting start pos to match retail
• Updated LoS tests for recent changes to ProjectileTarget
• Updated physics rotation on EmoteManager.Turn
• Updated spell rotation
• Updated multi-projectile spells to be closer to retail / match client descriptions
• Updated ring projectile spawn position to match retail
• Added ‘spellcast_recoil_queue’ server option
• Improved peturbation formula
• Improved responsiveness of first turn after cast gesture
• Improved accuracy of ‘your movement has disrupted spellcasting / healing!’ distance check
• Improved target tracking for spell projectiles
• Improved collision detection for projectiles on players
• Improved spell projectile target height
• Improved spellcast_max_angle logic
• Improved pk logout stop movement
• Improved TurnTo during magic casting to allow for player manual control

Content

• Fixed gap in admin vision
• Fixed landblock instances content folder
• Fixed /import-sql filename munging
• Updated AwardSkillXP to optionally notify player as appropriate
• Added support for minimums in AwardLevelProportional*XP
• Added landblock instances to /clearcache content developer command
• Added quest support to import-json and import-sql
• Added landblock instance support to import-sql and import-json
• Added support for recipes to DeveloperContentCommands
• Added reguid support for json landblock conversion w/ relative guids
• Added support for landblock / recipe / quest to export-sql and export-json
• Added support for KillQuest processing
• Added /reload-landblock command
• Added /getinfo command to get basic weenie info
• Added minor QoL improvements for content dev
• Improved /createinst command for content dev
• Improved json landblock export
• Wired up adapter support for wieldedTreasure.json, region.json and encounters.json

Admin

• Updated console commands to start with “/” or “@”. Would previously respond with “Invalid Command” if the command started with a “/” or “@”.
• Updated boot command
• Added global chat toggling
• Added /dungeonname command
• Added /verify-armor-levels command
• Added /debugdamage support for all creatures
• Added /debugdamage for SpellProjectile
• Added /fellow-dist command
• Added cylinder distance to /dist command
• Added /removeitemspell command
• Added ability to exclude specific IPs from max session count
• Added support for account bans
• Added server option for real time rares
• Added server option ‘craft_exact_msg’
• Added server option to scale hollow damage in pvp battles
• Added server option for /pkl entry collision check, enabling door skipping glitch from retail
• Added server option for players to ‘long hold’ doors open for other players, as per retail
• Added support for PetDevice to /lootgen
• Added support for magic resist to /debugdamage
• Disabled account auto promotion when admin account is created via console

Technical

• Fixed monster stop-and-go bug after sticky
• Fixed issue with createinst in creating child objects
• Fixed minor off-by-1 numbers
• Fixed ethereal issue with DefaultOpen doors
• Fixed god/ungod failing on SkillAdvancementClass
• Fixed bug allowing a corrupt or malformed packet to crash the server when the fragment parser tries to read past the end of the data
• Fixed sidestep clamp
• Fixed ACE.Server.Network binaryReader.Align() function
• Fixed read issue with GetContentFolder
• Fixed issue with Recipe conversions
• Fixed gap in UpdateQuest emote
• Fixed EnchantmentManager Heartbeats
• Fixed ‘require_spell_comps’ for freshly loaded acclient
• Fixed possible gap for point-blank life projectile damage
• Fixed pressure plate generators w/ RegenInterval 0
• Fixed broadcast move to home
• Fixed monsters sliding around if they have already started a MoveTo before CreateObject is sent
• Fixed casting self spells while /attackable off
• Fixed acclient skipping over ethereal animation hooks for known doors that are opened > 96 distance
• Fixed sound on Switch weenie class
• Fixed AuditItemSpells for spell sets
• Fixed AllegianceManager/HouseManager mulit-thread corruption from database callback
• Fixed jump skill in god mode
• Fixed cliff slide, contact plane, and landblock transition bugs
• Fixed missed line for multi-projectile spell targets
• Fixed issue with VerifyUse
• Fixed some combat pet maneuvers
• Fixed colors for PFID_CUSTOM_LSCAPE_R8G8B8 type textures
• Updated AnimationPartChange DatLoader accessibility for ACViewer clothing
• Updated CheckUseRequirements for Portals
• Updated Surge of Affliction + ‘show_dot_messages’ for something more appropriate
• Updated legacy function for player melee skill
• Updated coded recipes for trinkets
• Updated hotspot cycle variance to use standard formula
• Updated house query
• Updated verify-armor-levels
• Updated Corpse messaging
• Updated LocalSignal emitting
• Updated MonsterAwareness
• Updated generators
• Updated homesick
• Updated GenerateNewFace
• Updated CreateDestroyItems to gracefully fail if it can’t find Success/Fail item in DB
• Updated default values for range and increment/decrement in EmoteManager
• Updated SpendLuminance to use HeroXP64
• Updated stance if /pkl is entered from combat mode
• Updated OnActivate for deep-linked object activation propagation
• Updated offline purge to clean up invalid allegiance data
• Updated fix-allegiances command
• Updated Doors to allow control via Open/Close Me emotes
• Updated broadcasting of icon underlay changes for all recipe mods
• Updated Fellowship messaging + better FellowPortalSending handling
• Added z-bump to scatter gen
• Added new adapter classes and models
• Added support for IgnoreMagicResist / Armor on creatures directly
• Added ‘Quest list is empty’ response to myquests
• Added Variance to Burden
• Added MutateBurden curve tables
• Added MutateFilter, armor burden mod
• Added sphere radius check when determining distance for mob aggro
• Added support for more sealed bags of salvage to RecipeManager_New
• Added handling to prevent server crashes
• Added support for lockpick mod, fixing lockpick sound broadcast
• Added support for mansion_min_rank 0
• Added support for abdomen armor to Monster_Inventory
• Added support for AiUseMagicDelay, synced up to retail
• Added support for PowerupTime for monster melee attacks
• Added support for caster weapons to Monster_Inventory
• Added function to automatically fix any ‘invisible’ equipped items
• Added null check to GetScrollWeenie
• Added non-default server option to broadcast spell projectiles as ethereal to clients
• Added find_cell_list debugging
• Added player.IsDead check to Gem use
• Added WoundedTaunt emoting
• Added upper cap to max spell range
• Added additional case for runrate_add_hooks
• Added ACE.Database.WorldDatabaseWithEntityCache class
• Added % loot counters that were missing. Changed Counters to Floats
• Added InqCollisionProfile null check
• Added preliminary support for PropertyInt.Unique
• Added handling for multiple attack sequences sent by acclient
• Added support to clean up house guest lists for deleted players
• Added more TestNoQuality support in EmoteManager
• Added multiplier to LumAugItemManaUsage to match client values
• Added support for SpellFlags.NotIndoor / SpellFlags.NotOutdoor
• Added time limit to Portal Space
• Added Support for SpellFlags.IgnoresManaConversion
• Added/Adjusted some emote handling
• Added support for inferred %tqm and %tqc in EmoteManager
• Added NumProjectiles verification
• Added support for application startup from outside the directory
• Added HasDungeon criteria to landblock (check if landblock is a dungeon with no traversable overworld)
• Added more verbose retransmit logging
• Added database logging
• Added LootFactory Jewelry Simulator
• Improved AuditItemSpells
• Improved logging for scatter threshold z
• Improved house root guid
• Improved ShardDatabaseWithCaching Locking
• Improved ring projectiles spawns for spells with even # of projectiles
• Improved efficiency for large allegiances
• Improved startup time and memory consumption
• Improved the TakeItems message
• Improved ‘Rolling Ball of Death’ handling
• Improved Build/Version tracking
• Improved AppVeyor build pipeline
• Refactored food
• Refactored Jewelry
• Refactored Missile LootFactory
• Refactored Melee LootFactory
• Refactored appraisals
• Switched ACE.Server over to the new ACE.Entity.Models.Weenie model
• Tied monster aggro distance to VisualAwarenessRange
• Set AppraisalLongDescDecoration on missile weapons
• Separated CreateItem from MutateItem in loot generator, wiring up full support for /lootgen
• Destroy projectiles on collision
• Do not send Structure in Appraisal reply for TinkeringMaterial CraftTools
• Disallow [re]entry into world if shutdown is in progress
• Bumped up Healing_MaxMove for pks a small amount, based on player feedback
• IsJumping consistency across pks and npks
• Server broadcast motions back to self client
• Cleaned up Server.Entity.Spell
• Verify TimeSync
• Exposed content folder in containers
• Converted ShardDatabase/WorldObjects biota from the ACE.Database model to the new ACE.Entity model
• Prevent create/ci from using specialized weenie types
• Prevent ninja looting chests
• Prevent vendor service spam / cast animation desync
• Prevent monster initial snap forward when they start moving
• Synced thrown weapons re-appearance time for monsters up to retail
• Synced movement params (stop completely, distance to object) up between client and server slightly better w/ defaults
• Synced bouncy housing barriers with server physics
• Synced critical frequency for existing ice tachis
• Synced up rotation on MoveToState
• Synced get_ending_frame with acclient
• Synced Player_Death network broadcasts up to retail
• Synced up emotes for scream and newenemy
• Ensured floating point values are retained for IgnoreMagicArmorScaled RL
• Ensured pktypes are calling the correct MoveTo function
• Ensured same PKType for healing other targets, and beneficial spells
• Ensured gems used directly by player are not resisted
• Ensured spell projectiles remain inactive if collided on world entry
• Ensured sync between ace and physics motion state for magic casting
• Suppress TakeItems output when player has 0 items
• Use DefaultOpen / DefaultLocked properties from DB for Doors
• Enforced CheckUseRequirements on portal ties and summons
• Enabled post-windup turn for pve
• Normalized some attuned / bonded logic
• Broadcast windup motions as actions, as per retail
• Normalized defaults for InqQuestSolves to match other emotes
• Matched TakeItems stackSize default value up to other emotes
• Added DDD_InterrogationResponse to check clients connecting for up-to-date dat files and display a warning upon login
• Added ‘show_dat_warning’ command to display warning to clients upon login.

Wired up automatic database updates

• Support automatic database patching
• Support automatic updating of world database to latest release
• Support automatic re-application of world database customization