In CLOK we always seek to find a balance between making mechanics realistic and making a game. Let's talk about real world trapping. Trappers would go out into the wilderness (very far away from civilization), giving up all those amenities for weeks or months, in order to be where the animals were. ...

From the help file: The bugcheck command may be used to view the status of recent bug reports that you submitted. You may specify an optional numeric argument to show a specific number of bugs (It will show 10 by default), up to 50. Example: bugcheck 20 - shows the last 20 bug reports submitted. You...

If you find a bug while doing a profession, please stop doing that profession, or at least the part of the profession that is bugged. Continuing just makes more work for the GMs, as we will have to try to track down all those little items you made while you were fully aware there was something wrong...

It generally lasts through New Year's Day.

Unique critters will now have a cooldown time after their death during which they will not respawn. Fish caught by spearfishing will no longer swim away when dropped into water. Cause, you know, they're dead. It is now possible to release caught fish, provided there is applicable water nearby to rel...

On the sturdy worktable you see a bloodstone-studded leather hood.

On the sturdy worktable you see a leather hood stamped with climbing vines.

On the sturdy worktable you see a leather hood inscribed with two crossed longswords.

Leatherworking got updated! Mostly this is internal stuff that players would never notice, but it does mean that most items got descriptions based on quality, and there were a few changes with pelt requirements and weights, as well as syntax. While I was at it, I added a few items. A note on pelt re...

So, not saying this will happen (well, it will happen, but it won't necessarily happen how you guys discuss it), but I'd like to bring up a discussion of how to add in customized descriptions to certain items. I have some general ideas in mind, some of which won't be changing: I won't restrict it to...

They shouldn't be going in private homes if they're closed.

All wandering people (including constables in Shadgard) would wander into an open house, I think.

Toys and trinkets will now require blocks of wood instead of branches. You can get blocks of wood by chopping split logs.

It also makes sense to keep charging more for this more valuable information. Well, no, the information is not more valuable, it is virtually the same as telling you what you already know. The information is as valuable as somebody is willing to pay for it. But if that isn't convincing, consider th...

Skills aren't meant to increase linearly (in terms of percentage, which is how rolls work), which includes training.

Karasi wrote:So now are the tanner shops, workyards for smelting, forage areas with anvils and such, all going to charge?
In my opinion, it should be all or none.

I'm of the same opinion (the answer to your question is, "Yes").

A better question is "Why would business allow people to use their resources free of charge?"

It is now possible to add staves (straight branches after the bark has been carved off) to campfires. Characters can now use the esp pulse command to send a brief pulse of their personal ESP ID color over the channel they're tuned to, in order to alert others that they're present and listening. Opti...

These smelting changes are live.

As for the scales - not right now, no.

People really shouldn't be worrying about cutting stuff and risking off-weights if they're going to make alloys.

They aren't necessarily in the north part of the playable lands. That just meant they were south of the playable area.

Not technically blacksmithing, but oh well. I have some (slight) changes to smelting ready to roll out, but I wanted to give people a little warning, first. First of all - weights will no longer be restricted to being integers (whole numbers). This is particularly important for smelting alloys, as c...

There is a holiday skill gain, but it doesn't happen until Christmas. Sorry, we're not going to give double skillgains for over a month.

Guess who's made it back north!

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans. Enjoy an extra special holiday skill gains bonus.

Oh, and all you non-Americans can have it, too.

All skill gains will be increased starting now through sometime on Friday when it's disabled. These stack with everything else that modifies skill gains.

http://wiki.contrarium.net/index.php/Pottery

Right now there is only one place in the entire Lost Lands where you can practice pottery - go find it.

There are also no skillgains until I figure out where I want to put them.

Bandages and tanning solution are available in the Chapterhouse, as an alternative to cities.

I've planned on changing many of the woodworking items to be made from blocks instead of branches, it just hasn't gotten to the top of my list.

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