This page generally only reports changes to the client, and not additions to the world. You'll have to explore to find the additions to the world.

Latest What's New

12/13/06 v472
Time for work - yet take
Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake - George de Wilde, "On the Arrival of Spring"

• Happy Skristmas!
• Happy Thoomas!
• Happy Bawkmas!

11/21/06 v469
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country.... The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. - Benjamin Franklin

• Strange things are afoot.
• Turkeys? Or chickens? Possibly... ducks?!
• The Windows client has received several improvements:
  • A problem has been fixed that sometimes prevented the preferences file from being saved on quit.
  • @env.textlog now keeps the value from previous frames if nothing has replaced it.
  • The positions of minimized windows are now saved correctly.

11/1/06 v466
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

• You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!

10/10/06 v463
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. [He who fights with monsters should beware that he himself does not become a monster.] - Friedrich Nietzsche

• Some whiskey bootleggers are flooding the market. Don't go blind.
• Wearing armor is no longer silent.
• Peaceton is having a Take-Me-Away Promotion and has lowered fare prices. Buy a ticket and be taken away!
• Trainers recognize your hard work now with more platitudes.
• Dueling gloves can now be worn (instead of being held in the left hand).

9/19/06 v460
Say hello ta th' shredders fer us, ya scurvy dogs! - Darshak Pirate

• Arr, there be no crashes in 196 days an' more.
• Vote fer yer favorite CL ad. Some o' them is real beauties!
• Just wait, me hearties: the next Chaos Storm will be v463, blowin' in on Tuesday, October 10.
• Ye'll have ta hoist sail ta discover the rest o' this Chaos Storm's changes. More fun than a barrel o' grog!

8/29/06 v457
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man. - Groucho Marx, comedian

• Champion stones now work in fighter tests.

8/15/06 v455
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

• You'll have to explore to discover this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!

8/3/06 v453
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. - William Davis

• You'll have to explore to discover all of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!

7/18/06 v451
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

• How are your eyes?

7/4/06 v449
...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

• A certain book whose pages were inexplicably glued shut has been pried open.
• Delta Tao has discontinued development of the 68k version of Clan Lord. If you've been running the 68k or fat version, first try upgrading to the PPC or OSX version from the Mac client download page, or if you're running in an emulator, try the native Windows client instead. If you're really still running Clan Lord on a 68K Mac, a computer more than 11 years old, Delta Tao has offered to purchase a G3 iMac for you, free of charge, so you can keep playing. See Joe's blog for more information.
• Character name changes are now permitted, with some restrictions. You can't change your name if you wouldn't be able to delete the character, nor if you wouldn't be able to start again at Resetus. (Roughly speaking, that means you can't have pending jail time or banishment, or too much bad karma.) There is a fee of $9.95 for each character's name changed, becuase Ann or Joe has to do it by hand. Email Joe to arrange a name change.

6/20/06 v447
Silence is a text easy to misread. - A. A. Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"

• You'll have to explore to discover all of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!

6/7/06 v445
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
- Robert Frost, "The Secret Sits"

• New attraction in Peaceton. Now with reduced rates for family travel!
• That secret new area that's being worked on -- you know, in secret -- is making lots of progress, but we can't say how much because, you know, it's a secret. Shhh!

5/23/06 v443
I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff. - Matt Groening

• You'll have to explore to discover all of this Chaos Storm's changes. Enjoy!

5/9/06 v441
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life"

• Progress is proceeding apace on a new area or two. A surprisingly fast pace, in fact, although there's a lot to be done.

4/26/06 v439
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Wumpa Gourds don't rot as fast now.
• Due to a glitch in the update, anyone who tried to auto-update the Windows client during the first few minutes of v439 will need to download the full v439 Windows client again. The images and sounds should all be fine; only the client update was bad. We apologize for the inconvenience.

4/12/06 v437
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" II:1

• We are pleased to announce the general availability of a native Windows client! Provided by the folks at Arindal, it has been working very well in testing and is now available to anyone. You can now download the v437 client for Windows, which should update automatically from then on just like the Mac clients do.
• One note: Since the Windows client is provided by Arindal, we can't guarantee 100% that the new version will always be available exactly on the day of an update. They know when our updates are, and we all do our best to get everything in place in time, but since it's outside our direct control we can't make a rock-solid promise. We appreciate your understanding.
• Please read the Windows client support FAQ for troubleshooting information before reporting a problem. We'll do our best to help with Windows client troubles, but again, since we didn't develop it, we're not experts in it.
• Earth Wyrms have been tweaked a bit more.
• Lots of work on new areas proceeding behind the scenes.

3/28/06 v435
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. - François de la Rochefoucauld

• If you're apt to venture out on a limb anyway, at least now there are more sturdy ones on which to do so.
• Shiny Daggers are shinier before the Dull.
• Armor appraisals should work now.
• It'll be a cold day in the Abyss when the rocks won't freeze you, but now they're back in their place.
• Earth Wyrms want company. (Things have been tweaked slightly. More coming. /bug comments, suggestions, and, as ever, complaints are welcome.)

3/6/06 v432 - Medium Tan

• We crashed a couple of times on February 23 and 24. First time in 128 days. The record is 708 days. A certain gerbil has been trained not to try to swallow its own tail anymore.
• Great GI gourd growth. Gorging disgouraged [sic].
• Shapeshifting shakedown shucks shriveling shock.
• Certain supported silica shunts stats superiorly.
• Exploration evokes exciting effects. (Embellishment? Entropy? Extra easter eggs?)

2/21/06 v430 - K. Chameleon

• The restrictions on anonymous good karma have been eased considerably.
• There's a big new area in the works! It's a ways away, but it's progressing well.
• New rugs?
• The "area nobody's reached yet" in the v428 news has always been reachable, and isn't on Puddleby island. Sorry if anyone was misled.

2/7/06 v428 - Aardvarks? (Okay, this one's pretty obscure.)

• We fixed some problems with poison in v426, but it appears that at least one remains. We're still looking for it. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
• Likewise the bug that lets boosts stick to people wearing armor. Why can't these things be easier to track down?
• We've put in a few measures to discourage "karma-bombing". We're keeping an eye on the situation and may change the details of this feature, or add more preventive measures, if that seems necessary.
• Some improvements to an area nobody's reached yet. You'll appreciate it when you get there.

1/23/06 v426 - Perchance to Dream

• We apologize for the problems with poison and webs during v424. We believe they've all been fixed now, but we'll continue keeping an eye on things to be sure.

1/11/06 v424 - Busy Bees

• The Chaos Storm schedule will be changing to Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays starting with v426.
• Red healing salves are still being adjusted. Don't get too attached to (or upset by) their current form.
• We love our GMs, but they aren't always very good about sending in their change lists...

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