ACEmulator / ACE:
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Notable Changes:

• Updated physics system to calculate accurate water depth
• Fixed various bugs in the physics and animation subsystems
• Fixed a bug with players and monsters sliding along the edge of cliff
• Added dungeon landblock detection system
• Improved monster movement: turning, walking, and running speeds from the MotionTable / animation subsystem
• Improved projectile physics. Projectiles should hit targets much more consistently now
• Added instant updates to the monster health bars
• Updated the monster aggro / tolerance system
• Added TargetManager for server tracking of monster attack targets
• Added UI Window/Saving
• Refactoring and improvements to the magic system code
• Added criticals and bonus damage to War magic, as per the ‘Atonement’ update
• Added mana stone usage system
• Fixed various bugs with monsters crossing between landblock and cell boundaries. Monsters should be able to chase the player through dungeons and indoor areas more consistently
• Added monster movement debug commands
• Fixed a bug with some dungeons having black screens on portal entry
• Fixed Enchantment registry duration and redirection of Aura spells
• Added spell layering to the Enchantment registry
• Added QuestManager saving and loading to the database
• Further integration of the EventManager into EmoteManager
• Enchantments applied to armor affecting armor stats now display correctly
• Wielded weapon debuffs are now taken into consideration
• Added magic item persistence tracking
• Added PortalSending and PortalSummon functionality
• Allow for non-players casting gateways
• Improved vital regeneration formulas / ticking
• Improved healing formulas
• Added player stance and enchantments to vital regeneration (regeneration/rejuvenation/mana renewal)
• Added basic stamina usage on evasion / jumping
• Improved vital regeneration, stamina usage

ACEmulator / ACE:
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Notable Changes:

• Monster movement transitioning to full physics-based movement system
• Physics system integrated with projectiles
• Fixed a bug with scenery collisions in some landblocks
• Added landblock unloading system
• Improved networking code for multiplayer servers
• Added player and NPC-activated switches and pressure plates
• Allegiance system has been added
• Fellowship system improvements
• Updated gems to use the latest spellcasting system
• Added shield combat
• Fixed a bug giving wielded objects to NPCs
• Updated friends list for Entity Framework
• Fixed Undead player characters equipping armor/clothing
• Fixed specialized skill calculations
• Updated appraisal system for all objects
• Added player corpse system
  – Players now drop the appropriate items
• Added looting permissions for player and monster corpse
• Added robust configuration system, server settings stored in database
  – Added property for XP/Luminance multiplier
  – Added vitae penalty settings to database configuration
  – Welcome message/MOTD is now configurable from the database.

ACEmulator / ACE:
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Notable Changes:

• Monster AI:
  • Added monster movement. Creatures have awakened and become aware of nearby players, and run towards their attack targets
  • Added monster melee combat. Creatures will now perform their various melee attacks against characters, with appropriate damage calculated
  • Added monster spell casting. Monsters can now utilize their entire arsenal of spells from their spellbook, with appropriate probabilities
  • Added monster ranged combat. Monsters will now perform ranged attacks if they have a bow or crossbow equipped
• War magic updates: adjustments to bolt, streak, and arc projectiles to closer match the live servers
• Item enchantment improvements: equipped items cast the appropriate spells on the player
• Added mana conversion: mana usage is calculated according to caster’s Mana Conversion skill
• Added magic defense checks for casting harmful spells
• Fixed routing for in-game messages given by magic and portal spells.
• Added emotes to Emote Manager:
  • NPCs now accept items according to their emote lists, and will award players with the appropriate quest items in return
  • Implemented On-Use Emotes for NPCs. When interacting with a Quest NPC, they will now respond with actions.
• Added salvaging!
• Added lockpicking for locked doors and chests. Debug commands added to automatically unlock items and bypass skill check
• Added hotspots. Wells and pools revitalize the players, with damaging acid pools
• Added spell traps
• Internal database structure improvements
• SurfaceTexture parser added to DatLoaderAdded
• Added @addallspells command for dev testing – quickly add every spell in the game to your spellbook

ACEmulator / ACE-World-16PY:
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Notable Changes:

• Added monster-wielded weapons and death treasures

ACEmulator / aclogview:
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Notable Changes:

• Cleaned up some memory leaks

ACEmulator / ACE:
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Notable Changes

• Physics engine tested and completed. Future changes to Physics will now be based on getting it to work correctly with all the objects in the world and their interactions, as well as refinements and improvements over time to make the engine work faster and smarter.
• Basic melee and bow/xbow combat added.
• Damage scaling: armor, resistance, per-body part
• Skill checks: weapon attacks, defense, healing, magic skill
• Initial work with Healkits added in.
• EmoteManager system added for world events. Add emotes to objects, initial implementation includes idle animations and local cast.
• Vitae added, but players can’t die yet.
• First pass at tiered, mutated and randomized loot added.
• Crafting framework added and basic crafting operations now supported.
• Monster pain / death sounds, splatter effects
• 1-9 shortcut keys added
• Spellcasting improvements:
  • Added enchantment registry for tracking all spells
  • Item enchantments: blood drinker, swift killer, heart seeker, defender, impenetrability, banes
  • Life magic buffs/debuffs: armor, resistances, vulns
  • Creature enchantment buffs/debuffs
  • War magic spells: bolts, streaks, arcs

ON DECK/IN DEVELOPMENT:

• AI for Creatures!

ACEmulator / ACE-World-16PY:
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Notable Changes:

• Latest release of world database: 16PY v0.0.13 – 3 days ago.
• Spells added to database. This gives us information on what the spells do.
• Quests added to database. This gives us the flag information for quest timers and repeat limits.
• Events added to the database. This allows for quests on a global scale to function correctly such as Aerlinthe and the Queen quests. It also enables timed and configurable events like Fireworks at the statues or turning on the Thistledown monument.
• Housing Portal destinations added to database. These are the portals for Villas and Mansions.
• Encounter generators (Random monsters not in dungeons) added to the database. 35,000 landblocks gained at least one generator of random encounters!
• Crafting added to database. This adds the ability for over 20k different interactions between objects, such as making atlan weapons, or focus stones, fletching, cooking and much more!

ACEmulator / aclogview:
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ACEmulator / ACE:
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Notable Changes:

• Entity Framework Core 2.0 implemented. ACEmulator is now faster, stronger, better than ever!
• The physics implementation is well under way, portal collisions are now working and all world objects have had their physics properties enabled to begin coding and debugging physics interactions between world objects.
• All weenies containing a CreateList have had their lists populated to begin implementing and testing trophy loot and vendor interactions.
•  Mob corpses are now generated upon creature death (currently /smite only) and contain trophy loot.
• Dungeon spawns sent properly so you can explore your favorite dungeon to see all of the spawns inside correctly and for eventual combat and proper interaction.
• Fixes for generators so more things show up in the world.
• Started work on Spellcasting/Magic framework with PoC coding.

ACEmulator / ACE-World-16PY:
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Notable Changes:

• Latest release of world database: 16PY v0.0.7 – 8 days ago.
• Weenies now 100% exported from GDL Cache.
• Converted database to Entity Framework Core 2.0 based schema.

ACEmulator / aclogview:
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Notable Changes:

• Latest release of ACLogView: aclogview – ACE.1.0.18 – 13 days ago.
• Significant improvements of viewing property update messages.