DarkDIRE News

A large and merry man wearing all red with white trim walks up to you and says, "Merry Yuletide! Let this lead your way."

He hands you a fancy staff and quickly departs.

Type this code in the chat bar to claim a staff haunted with the holiday spirit.

"-ClaimCode MerryChristmas"

These codes are available only for a limited time. The code is case sensitive so type carefully and make sure you have room in your inventory. Internet connection required when using a claim code.

Fixed a bug that may cause the player to earn crime for no reason.
Added a Add Fame and Add Crime to Administrator Commands.

Version 1.80 has been released further expanding the Dominion Blade series. Most of these changes are from player requested features:

*There seems to be some elite snobbery growing in DarkDIRE. Now every character will have a reputation level. If a character goes into an area higher than their reputation, they will be refused service by merchants and guards will aggressively try to remove them. Improve your reputation by changing classes, not being in combat mode, wearing fancy clothes, cleaning yourself up, and increasing your fame by finishing quests. Theses are the reputation levels: Vagrant(0), Commoner(100), Upper Class/Citizen(250), Noble(500), Elite Noble (1000+).

*Some merchants have decided that players should not stay in their stores after they close. They will now throw out the player and lock their doors when they close. The store will reopen in the morning (and after the NPC Spawns.)

*Ships can now be boarded and used to sail the world. Defeat the ship's captain and take the ship key to take control of a ship. They can also be converted into airships, but this will require a balloon, airship steam engine, water tank, and airship furnace to be installed on the ship. (This feature added from player's feedback)

*Merchants are now selling packs for horses. Once a pack is placed on your horse, it will be able to carry a large number of items. The horse must be in the "mount slot" in your inventory. Horses cannot wear packs and armor at the same time. (This feature added from player's feedback)

*Vault deposit screen will scroll your inventory if you select items on the edge of the screen allowing you to reach all of your items. (This feature added from player's feedback)

*The people of DarkDIRE decided it would make more sense if sleeves were attached to shirts and jackets. The sleeve slots are now designed for underlayers instead.

*Added a new quest type "Leave Item at Location" for future content expansions.

*Wand of Digging can now be rarely found in dungeons. They do both magical and physical siege damage to buildings. Requires wizardry or sorcery, depending on the particular wand.

*If a player dies in a perma-death zone, another player can take the body part that the dead player drops to a healing store in a non perma-death area and have that player resurrected the next time they log in. (This feature added from player's feedback)

*BUG FIX: Using stair cases will no longer randomly return the player back to the previous level.

Version 1.70 has been released expanding The Dominion Blade series with many changes and new features (many of them from player feedback). And more updates are in the works even as this version goes live.

• Added new monsters: Giant Floating Eyeballs, and Floating Eyeballs. Also these monsters will always be a good target to hit with a dominion blade.
  
• Added new monsters: Non Giant versions of Snakes, scorpions, and spiders.
  
• Added racial powers for some monsters: Dragons will now have dragons breath (AOE Cloud). Snakes, scorpions, and spiders will each have a unique poison power. Eyeballs have a stun power.
  
• Lowered casting time progression: Spells/Powers will now hit 1 second cast at for level 10 spells at 300% skill instead of 450% skill.
  
• Spell Balancing: "All-Skill" Spell Buff Rank 10 was +5 is now +20.
  
• Spell Balancing: "Single Skill" Spell Bonus Rank 10 was + 10 is now +30.
  
• Item Effect Balancing: Jewelry Base Stat Bonus was +5 is now + 10.
  
• Casting buffs on items now only requires the spell to be cast on one item for full effect.
  
• Wielding a dominion blade will now allow you to rarely increase your dominion even when you have not achieved immortality.
  
• All Elementalist's AOE spell is now targetable, and they now have a 5th power "Cloud AOEs" that require action points to cast.
  
• More improvements on how server handles NPC spawning and AI.
  
• New "fancy" clothing for all nations.
  
• All trees (except cave roots) will now sway in the wind. Some trees had to be redrawn. (Tree sway only if the wind is blowing. This changes randomly at midnight. Admins can now use "-AdministratorCommand 14:2" or "-AC 14:2" in chat to make the wind blow immediately if it isn't)
  
• Removed some of the extra text when building a new world.
  
• Anda will now give you a lamp if you pick dungeon in her first quest.
  
• Added "DarkDIRE" name to startup screen and rearranged some text there.
  
• Added information to character sheet: Explains young characters receive a decrease in stats until they reach 17 years of age.
  
• Added description on lowering which stat will raise another in training screen.
  
• Fixed a rare bug with "display.cfg" having garbage data.
  
• Wisp dust particles will now properly appear around wisp trees and not desert trees.
  
• Notice flags will now always display in red when it is a debuff.
  
• Merchants now will randomly sale satchels (new item) and backpacks.
  
• Chat from quest conversations will now also appear as chat bubbles.
  
• Admin map updated with crafting boss NPCs.
  
• Doors on walls running north and should should now line up with the walls of the building.
  
• Added give gift feature allowing you to give gifts to other characters/NPCs.
  
• NPCs now know how to use healing potions.
  
• Healing magics words can be used with wizardry/sorcery if you have the healing skill.
  
• When "Protect Premade Cities" is on, NPCs will respawn slower but will reset immediately when player number reaches zero.
  
• NPCs caster's casting level will now properly match their rank.
  
• BUG FIX: Screen setup will now reset when changing characters.
  
• Sailing ships will now appear at least once on every northern shore, per player feedback.
  
• Added crafting satchels to hold crafting and world building items, per player feedback.
  
• New neutral nation safe mode when changing areas or logging in, per player feedback.
  
• Corrected several grammar mistakes, per player feedback.
  
• Fixed bug causing characters weapons disappearing when moving, per player feedback.
  
• Added buttons to the store selling screen to allow scrolling through your inventory, per player feedback.
  
• Stores will now auto junk ruined items that it buys, per player feedback.
  
• Added a "Sell All Ruined Items" button in the selling screen, per player feedback.
  
• Added a "Take All Items From Ground" in the looting screen, per player feedback.
  
• Edit the "server.cfg" file for these new settings (all from player feedback):
  
  1. Overworld Permadeath?
     
  2. Dungeon Permadeath?
     
  3. Universal PVE to allow PVE players to buff each other even when enemies...
     
• New black colored heavy armor for the Dark Clan (For future content but may spawn on random dark clan warriors)
  
• New epic sword and scabbard, "Honor of the Lady" templar sword and scabbard. (For future content)
  
• New world objects that will buff an item when dropped on it. (For future content)
  
• New "Tunnel" world objects. (For future content)
  
• Items on the ground can be "For Sale" in a store close to the object (for future content).
  
• Administrator World Building mode improvements. (For creating future content)
  

Version 1.60 has been released with the following updates:

• A notice flag will now notify players of new buffs, new debuffs, expired buffs, expired debuffs, group chat and tells. This can be turned off in the display settings if you choose.
  
• New hirable NPCs will occasionally spawn close to hireling boards.
  
• Chat bubbles will now appear over characters when they speak. This can be turned off in the display settings if you choose.
  
• Character names can be randomly generated if the player wishes during character creation.
  
• A new type of magic gem have been found in the world that will increase a character's dominion magic and fill wizardry and sorcery bars. These will rarely spawn in chests.
  
• Click the world on the Administer world building screen to build faster.
  
• Added a remove world object button on Administrators world building screen.
  
• The correct biome will now be displayed across a kingdom's border.
  
• Union Port will now be part of the sea coast and not inside it to prepare for future updates on this city.