====== Old DuneMUD News ======

Items moved from the home page as they become less relevant.

^ Date ^ Update ^
| Dec 23rd, 2023 | The Holiday spirit has reached Arrakis. Monsters have holiday names, tokens are plentiful, and rare presents may be found. Ho ho ho! |
| Oct 23rd, 2023 | Halloween is here and for a limited time only Dune has been taken over by spooky monsters dropping special surprises. |
| Oct 14th, 2023 | The Fremen thumper and maker hooks have been fixed, allowing worm riding once more. See in-game guild news for more information. |
| Sep. 17, 2023 | The Honored Matres guild shop has a new "training cuffs" item available for purchase. See in-game guild news for more information. |
| June 14th, 2023 | The ''skillcheck'' command can now calculate how much exp is required to advance a given skill to a specified level. See ''help skillcheck''. |
| May 30th, 2023 | The Fremen ''train'' command has been reworked and now has the potential to give both parties an exp boost. See ''fhelp train''. |
| May 29th, 2023 | Emoji support has been extended to pretitles. The wiki has been updated to the latest version. |
| May 27th, 2023 | Dune has upgraded to LDMud 3.6.6, added emoji support to channels, and rolled out many GMCP improvements.  See in-game news for details. |
| May 19th, 2023 | Dune is now listed on [[https://game-scry.online/game/dunemud|GameScry]]. If you create an account you can 'Upvote' our listing to help attract more players. | 
| May 17th, 2023 | In-game news posts are now also echoed to the Discord [[https://discord.com/channels/411385767106183169/600530214036045828|#mud-updates]] channel. |
| May 17th, 2023 | The IMG and Bene Gesserit guilds have received minor upgrades. See guild news in-game for more detail. |
| Apr 19th, 2023 | Some [[tintin:gmcp_setup|TinTin++ documentation for GMCP]] was added to the wiki. Thanks Fufa! |
| Apr 17th, 2023 | The Easter Egg Hunt is over. Congratulations to the Atreides guild and Neworder! |
| Apr 6th, 2023 | The annual Easter Egg Hunt has begun! See in game news for details. |
| Feb 3rd, 2023 | The Giedi Wilderness, Salusa Desert, Arrakis Desert, Tleilax Forest, and Wallach Forest have had their automatic maps improved. |
| Jan 19th, 2023 | All guilds now have some form of GMCP support. Many thanks to Math for his hard work on this! |
| Jan 18th, 2023 | Some brief Mudlet documentation for GMCP support has been [[mudlet:gmcp|added to the wiki.]] |
| Jan 1st, 2023 | Initial GMCP support has been added to the Fish Speaker guild. |
| Dec 31st, 2022 | Initial GMCP support has been added to the Atreides and Harkonnen guilds. |
| Nov. 13th, 2022 | A new ''kills'' command has been added to show kill history/exp gains per-session. |
| Nov. 13th, 2022 | We've added support for [[https://mudhalla.net/tintin/protocols/mssp/|MSSP]]. |
| Nov. 11th, 2022 | The Harkonnen guild has received a tune-up with some major changes. See in-game guild news or Discord for more information. |
| Oct 27th, 2022 | The ''steal'' command has been updated to allow stealing solaris. |
| Oct 8th, 2022 | The ''evaluate'' command will now indicate a monster's race if your skill level is high enough. |
| July 26th, 2022 | The Honored Matres guild has been upgraded. See guild news for details. |
| July 18th, 2022 | A new area has been added to Wallach northwest of the main town. Warning: very large monsters (850+) |
| July 17th, 2022 | 1.5x exp, 1.5x solaris drop, and 1.5x socket drop bonuses are in effect for the next 48 hours! |
| July 17th, 2022 | The ''score'' command has been reworked to better display exp/solaris/socket bonuses in effect. |
| Jun 2nd, 2022 | A new area has been added to Wallach, Castle Sylvan. Monsters are lvl 450+ and best suited for upper-level players. |
| Jun 2nd, 2022 | Experience crystals have been reworked. See in-game news, or the #mud-updates Discord channel for more info. |
| May 17th, 2022 | The damage competition has returned! Visit 'up' from Chapterhouse AP. The contest ends June 24th |
| April 23rd, 2022 | The egg hunt prizes have been announced. See in-game news, or the #mud-updates Discord channel. |
| April 18th, 2022 | The Atreides guild has won the egg hunt!  Fish Speakers and Fremen in 2nd/3rd. Kudos to Demona, Neworder and Baldur for finding the most eggs. |
| April 10th, 2022 | The annual Dune easter egg hunt has begun! Deposit the eggs you find in the depository ''3s,w'' from Caladan AP. |
| April 4th, 2022 | There's a new command ''gains'' which displays your skills' change for the current session. It's aliased to ''skillcheck -h'' as well. |
| March 31st, 2022 | Backpacks have been reworked. There is now one size and variable gravitizer slots. | 
| March 27th, 2022 | The Ixian spire area now has additional human opponents. |
| March 5th, 2022 | Guild-issued weapons now properly support socket upgrades. |
| November 26th, 2021 | The  Chapterhouse No-Ship area has been upgraded with more, larger, enemies. |
| November 25th, 2021 | Playerkilling level ranges after vowing revenge increased. |
| November 21st, 2021 | MUD server upgraded for better uptime and performance. |
| November 19th, 2021 | Ixian guild AM levels adjusted. Two new weapons and two new missile types added. |
| October 29th, 2021 | Halloween approaches. Hoards of undead carrying prize tokens have broken loose across the MUD. |
| October 4th, 2021 | The Bene Gesserit Warriors guild levelling system and blade upgrade costs have been revamped. |
| September 30th, 2021 | The 'channels' command now supports searching. See 'help channels' for more information. |
| September 2nd, 2021 | Socket bins now periodically convert 4 sockets of the same kind into one socket of that kind at +1 level |
| August 12th, 2021 | The Ixian spire area and quest have been re-added to the game with scaled up monsters. |
| August 5th, 2021 | Sublevels have been removed. Experience costs for levels above 500 scale normally. |
| August 1st, 2021 | Dune has updated to 64bits, the max exp cap has been raised to 9 billion. |
| July 3rd, 2021 | An old quest was re-added, and the monsters scaled up to level ~650. |
| July 3rd, 2021 | Dune has updated from LDMud 3.3.x to 3.5.x and added a secure TLS port. |
| June 12th, 2021 | Dune has updated from LDMud 3.2.x to LDMud 3.3x, picking up ~10 years of updates. |
| June 7th, 2021 | A new area on Salusa Secondus has been opened. |