Recent Updates

Patch notes for tonite's reboot

**⚡ The Void is now a buff hub** Beneficial buffs and item-summon spells cast in the Void are instant and cost 25% less mana. Pop in, buff up, restock, and get back out fast.

**✨ Smarter auto-buff (buffs)**

• No more wasted casts — buffs now casts only the best version of each buff instead of stacking Minor → Lesser → Greater over itself.
• **buffs block <name>** — tell it to permanently skip a buff you don't want (e.g. buffs block clarity). buffs unblock <name> to undo, buffs block to see your list. It's saved to your character.
• **buff stop** — stop a buff run early.
• **cast stop** — interrupt whatever you're currently casting.

**🔍 Identify is improved** Casting Identify actually works now, and it tells you more: how many recipes a tradeskill container can make, and which quest NPCs want an item as a hand-in.

**🎭 Illusions in the room** An illusioned player now shows in the room as who they appear to be — e.g. "Void the Drakkin" instead of just "Void."

**🪙 Digging** Digging up treasure now has a chance to also turn up a small radiant shard.

**🧹 Fixes & polish**

• Spell messages now reach as far as the spell does, instead of only your exact spot.
• Buffs and heals can only be cast on yourself, other players, and pets — no more accidentally healing an enemy that shares a name with your target.
• Cleaned up a few clunky spell messages (fizzles and "buff bar full" now read properly).

Patch tonite - might add more to this list:

Repaired tradeskill recipe matching, including stacked components and Spider/Spiderling Silk recipes. Corrected low-level NPC coin handling and grouped coin rewards. Repaired boat routes, added automatic run boat to <zone> landmarks, distinct vessel names, return trips, and nearby arrival announcements. Added concise leveling and boat guides and corrected Ton Twostring’s quest response.

Chanter pets work now.

If you're not familar with enchanter pets they are limited. they can't do much but assist you in combat.

8. run has a few new options: run target, run next (next closest)

Updates! (reboot later tonite)

1. Redid the creation/rebirth process to flow better, show full zone names, show full deity names 2. Tons of re-work to the tutorial. Please give it a try! Absor can now buff you 'say help' which makes the starter spiders quite easy 3. both 'inventory' and a merchant's 'list' have been improved for brief (screen reader) mode 4. weight removed from the left column of inventory 5. more effort to remove disciplines that can't be achieved from 'spells' and 'disciplines'. some of them were achieved from AAs which arent in-game yet 6. improved merchant 'list' output with colorization 7. some default filters added to merchant list like list armor, list weapon, list ammo

Couple small updates with this morning's reboot...

1. Player to player trade is enabled. It tests well for me, LMK if it needs any work. It's very similar to EQ in-game trade where both sides have to accept the deal. 2. disciplines added as a synonym to activate. 3. 'disciplines' now works like 'spells', but for discs.

remember commands can be abbreviated so you can just type discs or whatever.

Forgot something that was added!

New command: click

Clicks any clickble item. Tomes, books, scrolls, items all can be activated with click.

**Tiny update tonite**

 Berserker's Corroded Axe discipline now properly summons a stack of 20 axes.

This fixes any other spells that summon stacks of items too. I'm sure there's at least one more!

Some updates!

**Combat**

Special attacks like kick now hit for sane amounts (they were badly over-tuned). Spell crits actually double your damage now, instead of just saying "crit blasted" and doing nothing.

**New buffs command (BETA, feedback needed!)**

Smart-casts your best missing buffs. buffs me buffs yourself; also buffs <target>, buffs pet, buffs group, buffs instant. Just typing buffs reports what you can cast and which buffs you could still scribe — it won't cast anything. Casts your core buffs (stats/AC/HP/haste/movement) by default; resists and situational stuff (invis, vision, etc.) are opt-in via buffs resist / buffs extra / buffs all.

**spells command**

Filter by category: spells resist, spells situational, spells movement.

Disciplines (Throw Stone, Heroic Leap, etc.) no longer clutter the list.

**Casting on pets**

You can heal/buff your pet from a room away (within the spell's range) — cast renew elements at elemental works now. Pet spells automatically land on the right pet for that spell (e.g. your magician pet).

**Auto-loot**

Looting ammo you already use tops up your ammo slot (or quiver) instead of dumping it in your loot bag. auto loot still has to be configured correctly.

**Help files**

Updated effects, spells, and buffs help; added race descriptions (looks, temperament, home city) to help races.

TUNE NIGHT!

Attack (offense) rating was 'fixed', resulting in more attack for all classes, improving melee damage. Monks and beastlord hand 2 hand was rolled back slightly, but still improved thanks to this new calc.

Thanks Metzlix for the testing leading to this.

Few updates..

kill now targets and starts attacking in one command (works like kill <name> or kill #). equip <item> <slot> — choose the slot for multi-slot items (e.g. equip partisan back). Disciplines no longer hang and spam (Done!) (Corroded Axe and others). Quest NPCs no longer freeze mid-path.

Some updates

Pet bags at the Void class vendors now cost ~1 platinum (were 30p).

Selling: sell all will never sell your equipped gear.
Buying: partial item names now work — if several items match, you'll get a numbered list to pick from. buy 10 arrow style quantities still work.
New: combine <bag> repeat — combines, then automatically refills the bag from your inventory so you can combine again right away. Warns you when you run out of materials. (help combine)

Pet spells like Renew Elements now automatically hit the right pet — no need to target it first, and multiclass characters heal the pet matching the spell's class. +Melee Damage is now a real stat — items and augs with all-skills extra damage boost your weapon swings too, not just kicks and bashes.

New craftable aug: Warforged Echo of Carnage — +5 melee damage / +5 spell damage. Forged in a Class I Augmentation Crucible. Recipe details are in Discoveries of Void-Touched Augmentations at the Void aug vendor.

Some missing class/race combos were made available like troll berserker. some races are still not yet available.

more ninja patch

spell command now shows an Effects list — each effect decoded into plain language ("Decrease Hitpoints by 10 per tick", "Stun (2.0 sec)", "Summon Pet", etc.) New delete command — permanently delete your character (with confirmation). See help delete Starting guildmasters in the Void now respond to hails and quest turn-ins using their home zone's quests

New help files: help disciplines and help activate — how discs and tomes work

Casting messages now capitalize the caster's name Fixed teleport spells (like Into the Void) announcing "leaves into the void" in the wrong room Confirmed skills like Kick correctly count as magical when wearing magic boots Fixed Quivers - they can now be equipped and arrows will be drawn from them

ninja patch today

Newbie monsters spawn triple the amount All monsters lvl <10 flee much much slower Getting attacked now auto-enables your attack (10s grace period after manually turning it off) Ranged dmg was funky (fixed) and bows no longer auto-fire while your auto-attack is off 60% of fired arrows can now be looted back from your target's corpse Fixed **consume **— it was completely non-functional; now eats/drinks from inventory Fixed **loot all **doing nothing if you hadn't run loot first (worst without a loot bag set) **spell **command now shows much more: beneficial/detrimental, spell type (heal, DoT, mez, etc.), who to target, duration at your level, resist type, reagents, recast, and more

Screen reader support: **brief **mode now says "known/unknown" in the spells list instead of using colors

**Vision increased by 15 feet across the board (day and night)** Newbie monsters aggro from half the distance; their hunting speed is back to normal but they still flee slowly

**New game feature**:

 **treasure maps**

See help treasure in-game. Finding this treasure is worthwhile. you'll get 20% of your level's exp requirement, money (could be a few PP) and a random armor or weapon

now there is a chance to recovery your consumable arrows from your enemies:

So it's probably almost better to craft ammo then.

Bows and other ranged items now gain 10% range on epic and 25% on legendary.

Ammo now can be epic or legendary status also. Crafted ammo is _always_ legendary and will gain damage and stats like weapons do.

UPDATES! 🙂

We now have a bazaar. see the 'baz' command, help bazaar. There is also a bazaar channel - channel add bazaar to join.. new players will be joined automatically. This means you can now trade with eachother, only through the bazaar for now.

The game now supports partial commands like 'b' for bazaar. closest alphabetical hits first. Complete verbs are honored first. See 'which' command to detect where your verb is being trapped: > which b b -> /bin/player/_baz.c (baz)

We now have an 'eq' command which shows only your equipped equip and empty slots.

Thanks Metzlix for for the ideas.

UPDATE!

Solusek's Eye zone is in. All connected up to lavastorm and Solb.

Some of the lava slows were simplified so it's one flat map, but everything should be there!

also the game now notifies you if there was loot left behind

Version 1.0 of auto-loot is in. See 'help loot' for full syntax and options.

Basically you can define a bag, like a backpack, as your junk loot backpack. you can overfill the backpack, but obviously cant manually put anything else into an overfull backpack.

Updates

Fixed Summon Phantom Leather so it summons the Phantom Satchel and places the phantom leather armor pieces inside instead of showing Unhandled spell effect: 109.

Updated class skill access so abilities like Kick now work properly from secondary and third classes too. The game now checks your actual current skill caps across all selected classes, instead of relying on a limited hardcoded ability list, so multiclass characters should get the usable combat and utility skills they qualify for.

Made pets dismiss/depop cleanly when rebirth begins.

Improved run zone-line support: Zone-line help now shows known exits that are on another map layer as not currently accessible.

Added a ladder landmark to guktop so you can easily transition to the lower layer, then run to gukbottom. Reviewed guktop to confirm gukbottom exits are on a different Z layer, so players should run to a landmark/layer transition first, then run to the zone line.

Reviewed pet proc behavior for Spirit of Lightning. Confirmed the spell data is valid. Fixed unarmed pet proc chance so natural pet attacks use a real attack delay instead of zero. Pet procs wont change drastically but this was a legit bug.

Patch tonight!

Added brief mode for a more screen-reader friendly experience. Brief mode hides the mini map, suppresses the spammy prompt, and keeps status available through hp. Target lists, tracking, login help, and who output are now cleaner for screen readers. look now avoids repeating “No NPCs in range” constantly while running. Fixed Gfaydark tracking/pathing issues where NPCs could appear “here” but not be reachable. When you walk off the platforms in Kelethin, you will fall to the ground. No fall damage yet. Added support for walkable map tiles that bump players up or down a layer, used for Gfaydark. Fixed skill grants when selecting additional classes, so new class skills unlock at the appropriate training level instead of instantly maxing. Prevented equipped items from being destroyed accidentally, and added destroy confirmation for other items. Improved item matching for vendors, equipment, and exact-name purchases. Fixed several quest hand-in edge cases that could double-complete or mishandle stacked items. Added small passive regen for summoned pets. Fixed casting/fizzle cases that could incorrectly stop melee combat. Fixed multiple movement and NPC run-target crash cases.

Items moved into tradeskill containers should not stack - so the tradeskill can be satisfied. But items moved into normal containers should stack.

Improvements made to the creation process. You can now 'chat' and 'help' during creation. New help files around classes, races, deities.

you can now 'run closest' which will run you toward the closest npc, whatever it might be.

When you're running around zones now, it will give you a slightly indication as to where the closest npc is:

update to range combat.

default is now auto-range.

Cabeast/west and field of bone are in. no way to get from field of bone to the rest of kunark yet but I'll work on that soon.

Added a 'docks' landmark to east freeport for easy travel.

Added a void stone to the center of freeport north.

UPDATE (6/27):

1. The Story Board - early beta version will be present in the void (NE of the rift). The story board is basically a story based task system where you accept tasks, and go complete them. Sort of a scavenger hunt. You can earn money and experience from these! If its not good enough let me know, we'll adjust it. This is a really early version, so expect there to be bugs like sending you to zones you can't access yet!

2. Vendor upgrades in the Void. Ranger vendors added to the SW. They also have some starter ranger stuff. Bard instruments added to bard vendors.

3. some default class help files were added. they're not super useful yet but see help class guides.

4. Casting beneficial spells now properly targets you, if no target is provided.

ANOTHER UPDATE! 🙂

Freeport North is in! Yeah buddy!

Also improved the creation process to display the classes for each zone before you choose the starting zone. Helps skip a step or two.

UPDATES 6/26/26!

You can now 'look at item in/from bag'. You can now 'sell' from bags. see help merchants. this should behave like 'trade' and 'move'.

I also worked on the new player creation because i feel like people are bugging out. I can't reproduce the issue but added some hardening anyways.

there is a quit command now 🙂

Reboot complete to implement this and fix the quest bug. tested transport to/from ocean of tears. all is well! enjoy.

Translocator Setikan in freport east now can also send to butcherblock.

It'll work after I reboot tonite.

last minute ninja update. find will now also display if an item comes from a quest! it's not going to guide you through the quest or anything but at least it's a step toward it:

> find item 2300

Item ID: 2300

Journeyman's Boots (magic) MAGIC ITEM

Charges: Infinite
Slot: FEET
AC: 1
Effect: Journeyman Boots (Any Slot, Casting Time: Instant)
WT: 2.5 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL

Slot 1: Empty                          [Type 1]
Slot 2: Empty                          [Type 2]

Item Type: Armor

Known Sources ————————————— Najena — #The Fabled Drelzna (drop) **Rathemtn — Hasten_Bootstrutter.lua:25 (quest reward)** Southkarana — #Triathalon_Running_Shoes.lua:15 (quest reward)

Also, the tutorial was updated. there's now an actual portal which can take you to the void, or you can cast origin or into the void.

Update! Next boot: 'find' gets a little upgrade.

you can now find items that spawn on merchants or ground spawns.

> find item cajoling Top 1 item matches for 'cajoling':

 1. id:15183  name:Spell: Cajoling Whispers  [source in game]
Use: find item <id>

[Level: 2 (1.1%) M: (0%) HP: 3288/3288 MP: 4039/4039 EP: 95/95]

> find item 15183

Item ID: 15183

Spell: Cajoling Whispers (magic)

MAGIC ITEM

WT: 0.1 Size: SMALL
Class: Enchanter

Slot 1: Empty                          [Type 1]
Slot 2: Empty                          [Type 2]
Effect: Cajoling Whispers

Item Type: Scroll

This spell scroll can be scribed.

Known Sources ————————————— East Freeport — Eywen Nalous (for sale) East Freeport — Rolfic Gohar (for sale) Neriak - Commons — Kizya D`Dbth (for sale) South Qeynos — Isobelle Losiwoo (for sale) The Void — Illusionist Sevat (for sale) West Freeport — Yarina Zarampo (for sale)

here's an example ground spawn for rogue 1.0 epic:

> find item 28016

Item ID: 28016

Book of Souls LORE ITEM

Slot: SECONDARY
WT: 0.1 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL

Slot 1: Empty                          [Type 1]
Slot 2: Empty                          [Type 2]

Item Type: Miscellaneous

Known Sources ————————————— Plane of Hate — ground spawn The Plane of Hate — ground spawn

Gfaydark painted. not sure why it wasn't already 🙂

Updated the login experience for new players. Removed the 'captcha' and replaced with a simple question about EQ.

Not sure it will work but trying to cut down on the bots.

you can also find npcs.

UPDATE!

New command: find

Use it to find items by name to see stats and get an idea of how to make one.

The example i'm showing here is an item needed for the new sympathetic healing aug. i was able to find that it drops from mobs in the hole.

Updates!

help getting stringer help sympathetics

3 sympathetics augs have been created (healing, dots, blasts). information can be purchased in the void from the mage, necro, and cleric guild masters. These augs are similar to the crafted augs from the Gemcrafter, but the items are farmed from the Hole, and Nagafen's Lair. They are worth making!

Updates 6/9/26!

1. increased outdoor daylight visibility by 50ft. increased nighttime visibilit by 20ft. 2. 'run' now supports running to another zone line. very helpful for new players running thru zones (especially neriakc->neriakb->neriaka->nektulos). now its easy. 3. fixed all neriak zones and both freeports - there were some mistakes and you could accidentally run into the white space. oops!

please lmk if 'run' in any zone sends you into the whitespace that isnt supposed to be walkable. it could happen.

you can now 'vote' for Beyond the Void using the mudvault website, and receive in-game rewards. you'll get a 25% exp potion and a silver token that can be turned in for random rewards. trade the token to the void touched spirit, in the Void zone.

'run' has been improved. it can now run with better acurracy toward any spot on the map, even around major obstacles.

all races also now have built-in void stones. this allows players to navigate to their local newbie zones easily.

both of the above should help with navigating big confusing zones like neriak.

We're now compatible with the mudvault web based mud client.

I kind of like this one the best, but it's still in development. You have to manually install the plugin.

I've been working on integrating other clients all weekend, it's not going nearly as well as Mudlet and Mushclient 🙂

Both Mudlet and Mushclient plugins updated. The number pad buttons are now walking macros by default. +/- are up down.

The website now advertises both mudlet and mushclient support. Mushclient is nice because it's modal out of the box.

https://www.voidmud.com/#installation

We now have a Tutorial process.

The Tutorial is offered to new players and every time you rebirth. You can access the Tutorial at any time from the Void - it's n,nw,nw,nw,nw from the Void Rift. You can try out the Tutorial with no risk and leave at any time.

LMK what you think of the tutorial. I wanted to use it to address a few complaints I heard from new players in the past months such as confusion about the maps and the target list.

fixed a little bug with titles.

UPDATES!

1. East Freeport is now available. It's connected up to west freeport, and north ro. No boats were connected but the translocator is there on the docks. 2. Human race and Wood elf race are now available and can start in freeport or gfaydark. 3. Item 'light' and vision have been implemented. 4. score now shows your visibility stats:

 Vision: Normal +light source Distance: 50ft
 See Invisible: no

The above example is for human who has shitty base vision.

Light sources matter, in the dark.

Ultravision and infravision matter.

5. your vision range will affect the distance you can see npcs on your target list

6. your vision range will be indicated on the mini map. anything outside your range will be gray

Not sure if the initial values on vision are ideal but please send feedback. Human is pretty rough with no infra/ultravision - can only see 50ft. Other races with infra/ultra can see a bit further. we can always integrate improved vision into other things like rebirths.

reboot and update today

Airplane got some new colors applied. More dirt!

Quests got a big round of repairs. I've been blanket testing all quests scripts, this should be a much more dependable quest system.

Fixed a quest regression, basically broke 'trade' in several ways. Tested coin and item turn-ins, so far all is OK.

Keep an eye out for quest bugs like this I'm sure more will pop up. I'll try to come up with better testing for quests.

Also, bard songs stop refreshing if you are >120s idle. they will begin again once you become active.

UPDATE

for suspendable bard songs, you will no longer be spammed for each song you're keeping active. There is a small chance for a general bard message, but all of the songs themselves will be suppressed.

Fixed a few bugs, must have regressed with all the other work going on.

1. see invis npcs now properly see invis. same with see itu, see sneak (but I didnt test this one) 2. some spells were casting instantly. fixed this.

Lake Rathetear is now fully painted. the underwater region is fully accessible.

UPDATES

New zone: Chardok

Some repairs to Kelethin in Gfay. the doors needed attention.

Spells command now has a new filter: spells charm (lists your charm spells)

NEW COMMAND

'twist' for bards. see help twist in game.

Improvements tonite:

1. targeted bard songs like Selo's Consonant Chain were dropping too quickly. that has been fixed. Keep in mind getting stunned can still force your song to come to a close.

2. general improvements for boats. a few boats were renamed instead of pirate skiff. boats now show which zone they will head to. also there was a bug with at least 1 boat which left it circling around in the ocean forever 🙂

3. translocator in Butcher works now.

Skyfire uses some new coloring to look like ash colors.

NEW ZONE

Skyfire is now available and connected to the Overthere. No zone connections yet to Veeshan's peak or the Burning woods.

Druid and Wiz portal spells to Skyfire should work, if they can be obtained by level 50.

The Overthere is now in game!

Can reach OT from the docks at Timorous deep. There is a void stone near Skyfire Mountains.

UPDATE

Some bugfixes including usable skills for Bards.

Kedge Keep is now open. The zone is the only fully underwater zone, so bring your waterstones. It functions almost exactly like the original zone, with a few modifications to the ways the water tunnels connect.

WATER UPDATE 🙂

So, a few zones in game have 'underwater' states - at least there's Dagnor's Cauldron, Timorous Deep. Maybe soon to be Kedge Keep. 'help movement' talks about how to swim up and down.

Underwater breathing is integrated, including items like waterstones. You _will_ die from drowning.

UNREST UPDATE

Walking around unrest I noticed the basement got inaccessible somehow. It's accessible again with one catch..

The basement door is locked. Youll need to find the key.

Some repairs to Rivervale. Old map, needed updating for the newest version of doors.

Added a message to lockpicking for both success and fail status:

Little update for merchants. if there are 2 merchants in a room you can now 'list from <name>' and 'buy x from <name>'. Sell doesn't care because they all buy at the same values.

You also inspect items on merchants now.

Help merchants updated.

UPDATES

1. fixed a bug with items that have charges letting you use it unlimited amounts (thanks Lashar) 2. made sure anyone can equip a weapon in secondary even if they dont have dual wield - it just can't hit unless you have dual wield 3. made it so shields can act as a weapon in secondary if you have dual wield (1h blunt weapon) - more to come on this maybe some default weapon damage for shields 4. Pet naming is in (thanks Ghaglash). see help pets, and pets command. 5. improved the merchant's 'buy' command. you can buy partial name (at least 5 characters needed) and you can buy # item.. like buy 10 bones 6. augments completely restructured and simplified. see help augs. Basically there are now only a few types and some items have been given more aug slots (like 2 handers). 7. Insert augs improved so you can insert 2 of the same type - LMK if this cause any issues having 2 proc augs.

HELP IMPROVEMENTS

help topics has been added.

help will now show partial matches by reading content in the help files. i.e. help stones will show you all files and topics that partially match

Also you should log in near full HP now instead of being reduced due to your gear bonuses.

Few small updates

Pet bags will now show up on character browser and its contents, but nothing else from your inventory.

Shields can now act as a secondary 1hb weapon if you can dual wield (like war/mnk combo).

Shields no longer gain hand2hand skill in this way but they can gain 1hblunt.

Jewelry, rings, necklaces etc will now properly show their epic/legendary status.

UPDATE

Mobs were not hitting you when they caught up to you while fleeing. this was a bug. Now they will hit you when they arrive. THey will still honor their normal combat speed.

You won't hit them if fleeing because you're.. fleeing.

CHARACTER BROWSER UPDATE

NEW STUFF

the run command has been improved. You can now save personal landmarks for each zone. The landmarks should save between rebirths.

By default you get 2 personal ladmarks and 2 more for each Druid rebirth. Just another rebirthing incentive.

Small repair to 'run'. if you run toward an npc, and it moves while you are running, you will continue to run toward it instead of stopping at the original place it was.

This is used via 'run #' where # is the index of the target in the 'look' target list

Rebirth bonuses are explained a little bit better in help rebirth. Ranger and druid now give +10 tracking, so you can get some basic tracking in any class by taking that rebirth.

SOME UPDATES

Tracking 1.0 is in. See help tracking.

Plane of Knowledge teleporters in Nektulos

Bugfix with tradeskilling. recovered items.

Look is now limited to 10 targets. 'll' to see a full list.

Various behind the scenes quest repairs today. Hopefully that will improve the stability and accuracy of a ton of quests.

UPDATE

1. effects and skill data have been removed from 'score' 2. skills has been sorted into three columns 3. skills train <skill> now has a different output: skills train baking You pay 7gp 9sp 5cp for training. You train your skill in baking with the help of Hebber Druneny. You train Baking to 54. 4. as seen above, skills training has a coin cost

UPDATE

• help, help crowd control added
• fleeing mobs no longer attack (unless rooted)
• snare speed confirmed
• snare while fleeing speed confirmed
• {fleeing} added to enemy name while fleeing
• mobs are super slow <5% now (0% movement while snared)

Also the Tacvi zone was added. It will be a long time before anyone can clear Tacvi, but I like the zone for a sanity check on how powerful we're getting, and the quest scripts are really complex, so having those in game is a good milestone.

@Jon fixed a bug with Neriakc's Noxhil V'Sek Box of Beetle Eyes quest.

Some improvements to 'spells' cmd. it was super slow.

Also, some monk uptunes.

UPDATE

Pets now ID to: <class>_pet

so nec_pet, bst_pet, etc. See 'help pets' for a full list.

So then you can always cast at pet like: cast <spell> at bst_pet

(see help item rarity and help weapons)

UPDATE

+damage and +bonus damage to Epic and Legendary weapons.

TASKS update

Some quests will trigger a task, such as the one below. the basic framework is in. i'll do my best to test all kinds of tasks to make sure all of the task step types work. but, consider this a work in progress cause its complicated. This basic task works well:

Harm Touch Feedback

Beyond the Void's first NERF!

Rebirth bonuses were reduced. There were some issues with the synergies, you could technically get multiple synergies at once. HP bonuses were reduced quite a bit. The benefits are still real just more balanced.

Rebirth now has a cost. +50 plats for the first, +150 for the second, +450 for 3rd and beyond. Reason: the game needs an economy.

REBIRTH UPDATE

coins were being deleted on rebirth. that is fixed, they will now persist.

UPDATES 3/26/26:

Combat auto-skills were added. YES this means skills can fire automatically. You can now set combat skills to fire automatically in combat. Commands: use auto <skill> use unauto <skill> use now separates combat vs non-combat skills and shows auto status.

Rogue combat flow improved. Backstab now gives clearer failure reasons. Rogues can backstab while soloing if the mob is targeting them (circling behavior), with a longer reuse in that case. Normal behind-target/opening behavior still works as expected.

Combat skill feedback is clearer. Skill use now reports what you used . More explicit “why it failed” messages were added for common combat blocks (range/state/invalid target conditions).

Berserker Frenzy is integrated and cleaned up. Frenzy activation/end messaging is present.

Taunt pacing/feedback adjusted. Taunt reuse was increased (less spammy). Better failure feedback for invalid taunt targets.

4. Next boot probably tomorrow, lava terrain (L and l) will burn you. levitation/flight will prevent

Updates 3/24/26:

1. added DPS calc to 'look' for weapons. also re-added 'inspect <item>' which is equivalent to 'l at <item>' 2. some quest bugs repaired (this is neverending) 3. re-disabled the halloween stuff it got reenabled somehow

Updates 3/23/26:

1. a bunch of zones had missing quests. they are now added. (misty, highpass hold, city of mist) 2. fixed potential bugs with guard assisting. i noticed some gfay guards weren't doing a very good job with it. LMK if this acts up 3. Skill: bind wounds is now in game. 4. hateplaneb has new colors and the quest scripts tested

quest hint words, when they are present, are now colored bold cyan:

Guards now have the ability to assist you.

Rogue update:

More rogue skills are implemented. begging, pick pockets, pick locks.

SPell casting update:

Spells with component requirements will now expect them, and consume them:

Removed holiday spawns like halloween npcs in gfay and removed fireworks vendors from home towns.

implemented rogue hide/sneak ('use' command).

fixed invisible players showing up on map.

Sneak:

Server maintenance tonight.

Neriaka/b/c now have a void stone.

Wood elf should be playable.

NEW ZONE

West freeport. Might be an old map not sure.

NEW SWIM COMMANDS

swim up, swim down

This will swim to/from deep water in zones with deep water. Only timorous deep includes this at the moment.

NEW TRAVEL COMMANDS

capital cardinal directions:, N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW now will run until you hit a wall.

NEW ZONE

Timorous deep. Boats travel to/from oasis and butcherblock.

TRAVEL UPDATE

Now when you walk over any water room, you swim. It takes more effort to swim, therefore you are slower. that may speed up with swimming skill.

Flying/levitating returns you to normal speed over water.

this boat travels from butcher to OOT

NEW ZONE

Ocean of Tears is done, but you can't get there today unless there's a druid port or something.

Boats need work, i'll be implementing boats this weekend.

The emperor encounter is fully functional.

NEW ZONE

I don't recommend this zone yet cause its a bit of out range for level 50 max, but..

Ssratemple is open.

Just floor 1 at the time of this posting. other floors shortly to follow as I paint them.

VOID UPDATE

A tradeskill hall was added southeast of the void rift. The hall contains a bunch of tradeskilling things (pottery wheel, forge, loom, oven, kiln, brew barrel) and a bunch of vendors. I doubt they have 100% coverage on all tradeskill items but its a start. Someday we need plane of knowledge to be open for full coverage.

Research vendor Eric Rasumus was added near the necromancer guildmaster.

Fishing vendor was added in the tradeskill hall.

FISHING UPDATE!

fishing is in.

you have to be standing near water in whatever zone.

ZONE UPDATE

Fearplane map has been updated. it's now smaller, fully colored, and the temple has been properly split up into three levels.

Working on the cazic thule routines.

More on tradeskill ground containers..

Currently you can only move your own objects from a container, and you can only combine items that you placed in them.

The reason for this is, the trade market on voidmud is still undecided. Once players start showing up we need to control transferring items until we have a plan for the economy and a mechanism to trade.

TRADESKILL REPAIRS

tradeskills now allow for in-room objects like forges, looms, ovens etc.

the 'move' command has been updated to allow for this. you can move single items with 'move 1 water to forge' for example.

help files updated.

Example forge recipe:

```move 1 water flask to forge You move Water Flask to Forge. [Level: 45 (0.0%) M: (0%) HP: 1536/1536 MP: 1511/1511 EP: 1009/1009]

move 1 small piece of acrylia to forge You move Small Piece of Acrylia to Forge. [Level: 45 (0.0%) M: (0%) HP: 1536/1536 MP: 1511/1511 EP: 1009/1009]

move 1 small piece of acrylia to forge You move Small Piece of Acrylia to Forge. [Level: 45 (0.0%) M: (0%) HP: 1536/1536 MP: 1511/1511 EP: 1009/1009]

l at forge Forge

Item type: Container
Number of slots: 10
Trade skill container: General

This can hold GIANT and smaller items.

WT: 25.5 Size: SMALL
Class: ALL

(No visible augmentation slots)

Item Type: 1H Slashing

This container has room for 7 more items. Forge contains:

  Small Piece of Acrylia
  Small Piece of Acrylia
  Water Flask

[Level: 45 (0.0%) M: (0%) HP: 1536/1536 MP: 1511/1511 EP: 1009/1009]

combine forge Your skill in Blacksmithing has improved. You have learned the recipe Acrylia Bits! You have fashioned the items together to create something new! Void has successfully fashioned Acrylia Bits!```

FOOD UPDATE

Gemcrafter Tessu in the void now has some water and iron rations.

MERCHANT UPDATES

• merchants now buy stacks of items

  sell water
  Gemcrafter Tessu will buy:
    Water Flask [4] for  - - 3 -
  Gemcrafter Tessu offers you  - - 3 - for Water Flask [4]
  Do you accept? (y/N):

ITEM UPDATES

• stackable items (like water flasks, iron rations etc) now stack when you pick them up or move them between containers. they will auto-stack.
• stack size increased to 1000 for all stackable items
• new command: restack. this will go through your inventory and combine all stackables like so:

   [  1] Bread Cakes* [59]
   [0.1] Skin of Milk [60]

There could be bugs with this stuff. keep an eye on things let me know.

Zone Loading: You now won't be sent to the zone until it's mostly done loading. There will be more time spent in the void animation.

This is because zones take forever to load. 🙂

TUNES this morning:

1:

 Raid targets: have +1 attack
 Raid Dragon targets: have +2 attacks

2:

 NPC damage and pet defenses were reviewed. No major changes but some slight adjustments may result in stronger npcs.

Basic eating/drinking mechanics are now in game.

It will try not to consume any stat boosting food or drinks.

Bugfix, maybe?

There is a database flag which was preventing some vendors in the void from having their full inventory. A bunch more spells are now available.

Downside this could load weird spells from later expansions but for now it seems OK.

improved merchant partial search

> list focus > Vendor: Heretic Drahur > Filter: focus > Item Name Qty P G S C Lvl > --------------------------------------------------- > Spell: Focus Death -- - 4 6 2

Updates 3/6/26

1. general area loading has been improved / made faster. npcs now dont load their equipment until you're in close proximity. 2. when entering a zone that hasn't loaded yet, it will display the 'void' loading animation. 3. touching the void rift no longer loads all of the zones you've visited and lags the mud 4. bugfix: mobs in crushbone were aggro-ing from inside buildings 5. npcs can now continue to hunt you across special exits, as long as you 'walked' there (example, highkeep from basement to floor 1) 6. if you're already on a mobs hatelist, you can't invis to safety

BUGFIXES!

1. invisibility and invisibility to undead are now correctly separated. undead was broken and could not see thru regular invis 2. when npcs wander, they can now aggro YOU. previously only YOU could aggro them by walking 3. when your invisibility drops, there is a ~40% chance you will 'aggro ping' meaning the mobs in your line of sight will be alerted, and may attack you.

The mud now recommends UTF-8 on login. this should change the default charset in mudlet to UTF-8.

The Void zone is now a no-kill zone. it should not allow you to cast detrimental spells or start combat.

In my experience charm breaking didnt get really bad or anything, but the risk reward is better. charm pets are super strong

BUGFIX

spells' resist type was not being detected in some cases - like the charm resistance routine. As a result charms could never break.

It has been fixed. Now it's possible for charms to break.

This may affect other things. hopefully only positively.

pls let me know if this isnt working right

added some extra checks to make sure your detrimental spells fade on death, as well as your pets detrimental spells.

Fixed (I think) a bug where the enemy could hit you after you die in the same round, resulting in 2 deaths.

Also making the player invulnerable for 2 seconds after death just in case. This should be safe since death sickness lasts longer and will send you to the void.

Also:

Downtuned a handful of Death Touch spells. reduced them to something small like 100-200 dmg.

Some tunes:

1. mobs will now rapidly heal if they have no enemies (as in, you died) 2. player MP will be set to 0 on death 3. when you die, you get Death Sickness for 60 seconds, resulting in 'normal' regens. you basically lose the 'fast regen' for 60 sec.

thanks for the feedback! this should prevent cheesing across zones, during death etc.

Client upgrade: draggable separator bars.

the reason for doing this: I'm submitting the game to mudlet to become one of their 'default' muds and the client has to be in tip top shape.

Small update! added font controls to the side boxes in the UI.

You'll need to delete your void mud profile in mudlet and reconnect to the game so it reinstalls.

update help files: radiance (new), item rarity, commands, upgrade (new)

new concept: radiance.

This is how items can be upgraded from basic to epic to legendary.

NPCs can now drop: a small radiant shard

Any npc can drop it. yellow and red npcs will have a higher chance.

'upgrade' your gear to any number of shards that you wish from your inventory. the shards will be destroyed in the process.

also, vendors with spells now sort by your level requirement, if you can use the spell.

Few small updates.

A little different format for coins in 'inventory'. still not sure I love it:

New free void stone offered at level 30+, at the void rift: the City of Mist.

one of my personal favorites.

Basic Gfay is in. zonelines, landmarks, void stones. Connected to Gfay and Crushbone. Kelethin is in.

More paint soon. 🙂

Exp rate now displays on score

this 130% for me comes from:

• 100% base rate
• 5% from my rebirth
• 25% from potion of adventure ii

New output when looking at items.

4 custom augs exist. Three are slot 7/8 so should be able to add those to basically all armor for AC/healing/spelldmg bonuses.

one is a lifetap aug so you can turn any weapon into a lifetap.

Remember: if your pet is tank then the pet can get the healing augs and lifetap aug. Your pet also gets a portion of your stats including healing.

Couple minor things today.

1. in 'score', AC was combining both AC and mitigation value. now it only shows AC 2. Gemcrafter Tessu in the void now has a book: Discoveries of Void-Touched Augmentations. This book outlines how to create the first Void-Touched aug which is an AC aug.

The Void-Touched augs are crafted from collecting items in the game. A few of the aug items will come from the planes (hate,air,fear).

The idea with these augs is you can substantially boost important stats like AC, healing, spell dmg what have you. Your pets also gain a substantial amount of some of your stats (healing, spell, str/agi etc) - discussed a bit in 'help pets'. Healing is pretty huge, if you can land a lifetap weapon it will benefit from the sum of your healing augs.

More augs to come soon.

Repaired Unrest map! it was bugging out

New command: Screen

All rebirths gain +exprate.

For example here's what I have from a single Shaman rebirth:

rebirth bonuses are in!!

They're pretty amazing. see 'help rebirth'.

tank classes get 1% shielding (melee mitigation) for example. melee classes get 1% melee proc rate, 1% crit rate, 1% haste. Healers get bonus heal amount. Casters get spell damage. The bonuses are legit and can easily be adjusted.

All classes get some heroic stats.

'help' now has a pager/more so you can page through it rather than a massive text dump.

rebirth is in game (See help rebirth), but the bonuses from rebirthing are not active yet.

You can now grind mastery points (similar to AA points). So there wont be wasted grinding.

See help mastery and the mp command to set mastery %.

New zone: Old Sebilis.

Reachable from the void rift after level 45.

Also, you can't reach The Hole until level 40 now.

both consider and look commands will report special abilities for npcs:

Bane items are tested:

Special ability: summon is working

RAMPS

I'm working on integrating special abilities (enrage, flurry, rampage etc). Beware, bosses that do this, will now do it 🙂

new command "uninsert" to remove augs. may be a better name for it we'll see 🙂 I didnt want to use 'remove'.

The Hole is in game. You can get there from the void rift, it's currently a 'free' void stone because there's no way to walk to this stone in game.

Some notes about the hole on VoidMUD: 1. the hole is one of the wildest EQ zones in that there are many, many z-layers. 2. the hole on VoidMUD is flattened into only 4 layers. The first layer being the entrance up to the entire first 'castle'. 3. the first 'castle' is broken up into many smaller rooms to break up the spawns. I think it works pretty well. 4. all doors were removed from the hole.

End result should be a playable zone with all npcs in tact, but some parts will be greatly simplified. I think it will be a better mud experience anyways and harder to get lost

you can now sell from a container:

You can now 'loot all' and 'loot #/all to container'.

Dark Elf should be a playable race now.

Neriak is complex and multi-level - I chose to flatten it for now. Someday someone will spend more time making it a multi level map.

Just pointing out that Focus Effects do work! Here's an Improved Range II from the moonstone ring improving my casted heal range.

Items charges and spell are now displayed on their long description. Also, items with limited charges will poof when empty (potions, food, norent items etc)

Both 'cast' and 'useitem' have been updated to accept a target number (from 'look') as the target.

'useitem' repaired in general, it had a hard time finding a target.

Identify is fixed (example item: Holgresh Grand Vizier Beads).

Note: for identify, you or your target need to 'hold' the item. see help hold.

Oggok is now available (walls painted, zonelines created, void stones added).

Ogre race is now playable.

Rathe mountains and Lake Rathetear are in with basic zone connections. No void stones or run landmarks yet.

The wizard guildmaster Gath N'Mere in the void will teleport you to hateplane or airplane, for a fee. Hail him for info.

Hateplane is in, basic painting and borders. There are a few scripted events in hateplane (maestro, inny) those probably dont work yet.

Feerrott is in, basic painting and borders.

Fearplane is in, basic painting and borders.

East Karana is in and the border is painted. The center still needs painting.

North Karana is in, and basically unpainted. Paint comes next.

You now drop a corpse when you die.

The purpose for this (for now) is for thematics, to supply a target for rez and locate corpse spells. But I don't plan on introducing exp loss at this time. Maybe someday.

New aug in the Void, on the aug vendor: Planar Cohesion Stone. The stone can only be installed into slot 7/8 and the item must be a ring.

The stone does this when installed and worn: 1. provides nice stats plus +10 healing, +10 spell damage bonus 2. makes your pet buffs hit all of your pets

Pet bags repaired:

Pet attack example:

Updates:

The mudlet target window now shows Target's Target. It doesn't show your target in this way because your target is the npc to the right.

Also:

Pet attack logic has been implemented. You can use the pets command to send your pets into battle. You can't make them back off yet, so use with caution.

Pets will also hunt your enemy if it flees.

Also:

Before today, NPCs would simply teleport to you when aggroed. Now they will run toward you at their run speed. Root and other things will work to prevent that.

Some changes to pet behavior. Trying to strike the right balance.

Pets will always teleport to you if you are out of zone. They'll also teleport if they lost you and they arent fighting or rooted/stunned.

Else if they are in combat, they will stay in the room with that enemy.

Your pets will now automatically hunt after making initial contact, but will not hunt at the start, until the enemy arrives.

Fixed some bugs around dead npcs showing up on the target list and growling at you when you come into range.

Stuns are repaired.

Some color added to combat: 1. you being hit = bold magenta 2. you hitting = bold red 3. spell damage = bold cyan

Updates: 1. three void stones added to lower guk 2. pet aggro repairs. pet taunt updated in help pets

Minor update:

• if the game reboots while you are in the Void, you will return there upon login.
• after that reboot, the spell Into the Void will still return you to the room you casted from.

The Plane of Air is in-game.

I've tested getting from the zone-in island to the eye of veeshan using keys.

This zone has teleporters. They show up as light cyan on the maps. Look at the teleporter to see how to use it and where it leads.

The quest room is accessible and a few epics have been tested using these npcs.

note: the map is really basic, but it's functional. You can't jump off islands and fall to your doom. You also can't jump down from one island to another, but I will add that soon-ish as special exits marked by ?s.

Some changes to containers. Rare qualities gain bonus slots:

The pet bags in the void already see the bonus slots as they're always legendary items.

necro epic tested start to finish:

new command: commands

The void now has an aug vendor.

Your personal inventory and bank box no longer restore in reverse order each boot. 🙂

Substantial progress over the past week with quests. This quest was done step by step including all kills, combines, turn-ins.

Changes:

1. Players 'heart beat' was not stopping when linkdead (LD). This means some buffs and other things kept ticking. Hear beats now stop when LD. 2. When Invis spells 'break', they tick down to 3 ticks remaining. Now when that happens, they are no longer suspended buffs and will tick down to 0 and fade.

Aug status added to item long description:

Soon I will add an aug vendor to the Void.

You can now label items (see help label), which makes it really helpful when dealing with bags. Example:

Banking is in game.

At each banker npc, you should see a bank box. see 'help banks' for how to interact with the bank box.

Bank boxes have a capacity of 20 items. All of which can be bags, full of items.

Lavastorm Mountains are now available - accessible from Nektulos only.

The Nektulos Forest is now available.

Day/night cycles and zone spawning (like Kithicor Forest) should be working.

Highkeep has been painted. Big area, lots of floors, lots of doors, lots of npcs!

If you are using an invisibility spell, consider now gives you some indication if your target can or cannot see through your invis.

Highpass Hold is in game, accessible from Kithicor Forest. needs more painting but it's all there, No zone connections aside from Kithicor yet.

Some improvements to kithicor map so it's walkable. Added 2 void stones.

Added void stone to rivervale/misty zoneline.

Fixed a target related bug. Rebooted game.

Zoning now properly removes your enemies from your hatelist so you're out of combat and can cast into the void, etc.