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The Hexagon mudlib has reached at last its version 2.0, codenamed Castle Black. It’s a major release that includes a lot of changes and improvements, and it’s the first one that we can say is a beta version, after a lot of years in alpha. It’s a renaming of the v1.24.04 version. The next planned version will be v2.1 Daggerfall.

Release link.

For developers: The Docker container images we are using for the MUDs we host are not anymore in Docker Hub, now they are in the Github Container Registry, just in case anybody want to tests things in their own computers.

DGD image, MudOS Images. You can always find them in their respective repositories, in the right column, under the packages section.

Demo game now fully functional
Date: March 19, 2023 Author:

At last, the demo-fantasy game included with the Hexagon mudlib is fully functional. You can start the mudlib, choose a game, create a character, and test it. It has a full map with three towns, each of them with pub and shop, multiple npcs, several items, etc.

                                       An : Naduk      
        3-4-R                          Bn : Erken      
        |                              TD : Tower
        2                              G  : Guild   
        |                              R  : Raiseroom
     TD-1-G                            41 : Labyrinth       
        |                              *S : Shop
        5            38                *P : Pub
      / |           /                  1  : Start
      7-6      35-36-37         A6 AS
         \     |/ |\           /|\ |
          8-9-10-11-12-13-A1-A2-A3-A4-A7
         /   \ |/ |            \|/ | 
       21     39 40-27-41       A5 AP
      /      / |  |  |
    22     14-15 16-26-41
     |    /    | /   |
    24   17    18   28-41
     |    |   /    /
    23   19-20-30-29
     |       |  |
    25      31-32  34
     |           \ |
    B1            33
     |\
    B2 B3
   /| \|
 B6-B4-B5
 |  |  |
 BS B7 BP
    |
B10-B8-B9

It is based in a very old newbie area made for the Reinos de Leyenda mud, circa maybe 1997. The code is new (as we use a different driver, from MudOS to DGD, and a new mudlib, from frmudlib to hexagon, and now it’s multilanguage, both in english and spanish), but the map and the names have been kept, as an homage.

You can take a look to the game, it is included with the mudlib as an example of how to create your own game. Take a look at it in /mudlib/games/demo-fantasy in the Hexagon repository.

Issue Tracker
Date: March 1, 2023 Author:

Using the new packages functionality, I’ve added a new package to the Hexagon mudlib: the issue tracker.

issue-tracker

The package adds its own command issues, where you can list, close, remove or open issues.

We can create new issues automatically, i.e. when a shop cannot load an item:

// create new issue, same message as npcs equipment
if (package("issues"))
  package("issues")->add_issue("Cannot clone " + file, this_object());

Spring/summer 2023 updates
Date: February 1, 2023 Author:

Changes and updates to the mudlib in its v1.21.09 Beregost version. This post will be updated during the spring and summer:

Player updates

  • Weapons reviewed, and lots of weapons added to the Fantasy Demo game.
  • hold/unhold working with weapons.
  • Armours reviewed, and lots of armours added to the Fantasy Demo game.
  • wear/unwear working with clothes and armours.
  • Shields reviewed, and shields added to the Fantasy Demo game.
  • Weapon combat fully functional.
  • Basic materials for items (weapons, clothes, armours, etc).
  • Passed out when equipping reviewed (doesn’t happen recently logged in). equip reviewed.
  • Multiple commands reviewed:
    • user/games
    • user/characters
    • player/help
    • player/look
    • player/prompt
    • player/commands
    • player/glance
    • player/kill
    • player/prompt
    • player/retire
    • player/configuration
    • player/score
    • player/sheet
    • player/verbose
    • player/inform
    • player/bury
    • player/cost
    • player/stop (for both stop fights and stop following)
    • player/encumbrance
    • player/bravery
    • player/condition
    • player/money
    • player/combats
    • player/past
    • player/inventory
    • player/whomai
    • player/away
    • player/consider
    • player/travel
    • player/equipment
    • player/pov
    • player/time
    • player/grope
    • player/map
  • Health messages (health points, death, etc) fully translated.
  • Handle actions (take, drop, give) reviewed and fully translated en/es.
  • Hearthstone item reviewed.

Developer updates

  • Multiple commands reviewed (see issue #15)
    • coder/goto
    • coder/stats
    • coder/cat
    • coder/clone
    • coder/exits
    • coder/exec
    • coder/grep
    • coder/head
    • coder/more
    • coder/restore
    • coder/rm
    • coder/sar
    • coder/tail
    • coder/uptime
    • coder/armours
    • coder/discard
    • coder/actions
    • coder/backup
    • coder/cp
    • coder/cplines
    • coder/du
    • coder/ioulist
    • coder/load
    • coder/malloc
    • coder/mkdir
    • coder/mv
    • coder/rmdir
    • coder/ls
    • coder/nls
    • coder/visible
    • coder/invisible
    • coder/multi
    • coder/resistances
  • Command handler translation and meta commands (use command rehash to reload all of them).
  • Multilanguage commands: now commands are not executed depending on their file names, but a list of alias specified in code.
  • Some tests done with binary connections.
  • Start working with packages: pieces of code included in the /packages directory, each of them with its own code, license, authors, etc.
    • Each package can add their own commands automatically.
  • Issue tracker working (new package).
  • Start working with a test suite (new package).