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Seeking Screenreader Users To Apply As Playtesters, posted on Mon Jun 30 17:19:53 2025
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
Do you use a screenreader to play the MUD? Would you ever consider applying as a playtester?

If your answer to both of these questions is yes, then the PT domain admin would love to hear from you! We don't currently have any PTs who use screenreaders, and we'd like to fill this gap in our team.

You can talk to Kake, Mauve or Pokey for more information, or check out the resources under the Playtesting menu on the MUD website, or just take the plunge and use the "apply" command.

Please note th...

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Added Value, posted on Wed Jun 25 12:02:00 2025
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
Vessels (i.e. liquid-containers such as cups, buckets, bottles, etc) can now be manually filled when you're in a water room using the syntax "fill <object> from here".

Honeycombs can now be referred to as "full honeycomb" or "empty honeycomb" as appropriate.

Barbarian-themed saddlebags are now sold at the summer and winter Hublandish Barbarian camps.

Flowers braided into your hair are no longer visible when you're wearing something that covers your hair.

A Fine Disregard For Awkward Facts, Part 2, posted on Fri Jun 13 11:30:10 2025
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
As I blogged about last month, we recently identified a long-standing bug that was sometimes letting objects be put inside containers when they shouldn't have fitted due to length and width restrictions.

For the past two weeks, the MUD has been giving a WARNING to anyone who managed (due to this bug) to put an over-large item inside a container it shouldn't fit into. This was done in order to let people check whether they had been unwittingly taking advantage of this bug, and if so, to make any...

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The Fix Is In, posted on Wed Jun 11 15:49:09 2025
Posted by: Stygian
Category: General
This month's Bugfix Weekend involved fixes across the Disc. Below are some of the most noteworthy:

* Mrs Cosmopilite's branch in Holy Wood has begun to rotate its stock a little more frequently.

* The dogs from Peter Periwinkle's pet shop will now respond to a wider range of souls (try barking and howling at them, for example). Also, a bug has been fixed that was making some of them try to pick up things from the floor that were too heavy; those that do pick things up will now target lighter ...

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