Preparing Stendhal 1.17

There have been lots of changes in many different areas. This is really cool and I am excited about them.

But I have trouble to catch up after being away for a couple of weeks. I'd like to have a release rather soon.

In my opinion we should deactivate anything for Stendhal 1.17, that is not perfect at this time. Those things can go into Stendhal 1.18. I hope to do Stendhal 1.18 a lot sooner than 1.17.

Branch creation planned for: 2015-04-09 Change log (master): http://sourceforge.net/p/arianne/stendhal/ci/master/tree/doc/CHANGES.txt

Release announcement story and screenshots

• TODO

Open issue

• Discuss whether to convert experimental outfit handling to map to remove dependency on unreleased Marauroa version
• Discuss whether to revert Ilisa's name back to ilisa in conversation.
• Website adjustment to new outfit sprite organisation (I remember that I did a dirty hack to fix something on the live system but cannot remember the details.
• Adjust release instructions and scripts to git

In

world

• A new fish swimming along the coast in Ados City
• Different "elf" head for players and NPCs
• New corpse for bone dragon
• Added to Daily Item Quest list: 5 olives, 2 marbles
• Varying weather at outside zones
• Drunken player speech is now more confusing and depends on the state of drunkenness
• Animated flame tiles replaced in int_semos_wizards_tower_1
• Karma reward for quests: Kill Dhohr Nuggetcutter, Coal for Haunchy
• Aliases "zucchini" for "courgette", "armour" for "armor", "color" for "colour", "extend" for "prolong"

client

• Can restore window width, height, and maximized state
• Drawing weather can be disabled in settings
• The client can draw a weapon sprite with the attack swipes, if one is available

Move to section "world"?

• Active entities reset animated sprite index to 1 to appear standing when stopped
• Zombie status is indicated by making the player green

Is zombie status active?

chat

• More visible new chat message indication
• Links to stendhalgame.org in the chat log can be opened with a mouse click
• Alias "/status" for command "/sentence"
• "sentence" is now displayed in player description when using "Look"

fixes

• Fix player cannot move after zombie status wears off, zombie status removed for release
• Reporting killers on an entity death no longer lists all attackers at the time of death

To discuss

general

• New item medicinal ring: Slightly protects against poisoning

client

• Auto-walk feature:
  • Character right-click menu: "Walk" to toggle on and "Stop" to toggle off
  • Slash action: "/walk" to toggle on/off and "/stopwalk" to toggle off
  • Hotkey: "Ctrl+W" to toggle on/off

code

• Organized outfit parts into subdirectories
• Changed "player_base" outfit type to "body"
• Entities can now pass through collision tiles with "setIgnoresCollision()"
• Items can be given status resistance with StatusResistantItem implementation
• New SlotActivatedItem enables an item's attributes when equipped to specified slots

Out

• new attack system
• Alternative ATK XP training with "testing.combat" defined defined for server
• Optional ranged attack (RATK) stat with "testing.combat" defined for server and client
• Emote character map available by passing -Dtesting.chat to VM