@Frandum, I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with. I always like it in rpgs when death is more a "go off and do something else since what you were doing didn't work" (especially when I get somewhere new to explore), rather than slapping your wrist and making you do more repetitive grinding. It's actually an interesting concept to explore and of course can make for some great descriptions.

One other nice thing about the ghost mechanic, is that you can actually let it foster player cooperation by having a way for players to do restoration rituals to effectively get you out of death early, meaning that there are ways players can help each other out.

@Marta Yes, access is awesome here, one reason it got a db entry. I particularly like the new commands for learning about the world around you such as area and directions, since apart from the ascii that was a miner issue in the game as the Frandum world is fairly large and has lots of locations to explore.

I'd highly recommend trying this one, it's not really like any other mud I've ever played at all one reason it took me a while to get into the swing of things, and if you love quests and can get your head around a game where basically your rewarded for wandering around and looking at things and working things out rather than slaying anything that moves you'll enjoy it.

@Jayde it should be 1 and 2. For the first few quests what to do is basically written in the descriptions of rooms and things. These quests serve to teach you the commands to use when exploring which amount to less than 10 (look, tell, search, dig, push/pull/turn). Other commands will be used at some point depending on context (e.g. kneel before an altar or kiss a toad) and your spells will give you new possibilities, but the basics won't change.

@Dark I got a few ideas, knowing that some limitations are in order (ghosts can go through walls and doors in Frandum, but we don't want this to allow low level players to visit areas for which they have not found the regular entrance or key for instance). Galanhir-willing, it should be deployed on Tuesday at worst.

@Dark generally you can tell anything to NPCs to trigger their quests. Many don't have one, they are also here for flavor. For the Sherrif, he may be missing keywords but the note in his office is enough of a starting point I think. I'll double check him anyway.

@Orin For filling the bowl, use the FILL command. There is a small quest right south of Wildstone for this if you remember (filling a cup from a pool of water). As this is not a widespread command, I have added hints on the description of the bowl. Hope you will be able to make the most delicious chocolates now! If you face issues with specific parts of the game like this, rather REPORT them online so it doesn't spoil others. I will answer you just as quickly.

@Everyone The new death system has been implemented and it's not player dependant (pretty much agree with you on this one, Orin). As usual, hope it's not buggy but if you run into issues, REPORT them in game.

I've given it a try, and I admittedly love it.:) Getting stuck at the mysteriously devastated house quest though. Can't find any way to open the chest, which I think the last object should be inside.

Oh that's why! i misspelled it lol! thank you!:)

I'd actually not noticed that.
Frandum seems a little unusual in that respect since in most games, when your in a room you just get to know an npc is there and if you want more specific information on them, eg what they're carrying you have to look.

For example benieth a description of a prison cell you might get

"A man is chained to the wall"
and "A burly guard thrusts out his chest importantly"

then looking at the guard you'd get

"this plump balding gaoler is puffed up with his own sence of self importance and planely enjoys his job. A set of gaoler's keys being carried, a dirty leather breastplate being worn" indeed in some games you even have a pickpocket skill which can remove items from npcs directly once you'd seen them, so in the above example if you wanted to unchain the prisoner you might need to get the keys from the gaoler, either by fighting him and taking them or by stealing them.

I'd not noticed any confusion with frandum specifically, either because it was fairly obvious from the descriptions who was carrying or wearing what, or because I just look at every npc as a matter of course anyway.

I'd suggest either clunky though it seems include "she/he is carrying/wearing" or "being worn" or "being carried" in the main room descriptions along with the short description for each npc, or simply have it that you don't see what a person is carrying or wearing until looking at them, which most people should probably be doing anyway, especially in a game like Frandum.

Actually I did wonder if this was how stealing things worked for thieves, you looked at people and could see if they have small valuables on them and pick their pockets accordingly.

Hi.

The carrying works,and i look forward to trying out the new crafting system, also death is cool! .

One command I am slightly missing and noticed today is the ability to get a chat history of recent messages, in case I missed something, eg history to get the last ten chat messages and tells, or history chat to make it specific.

usually most chat systems in muds have this and it's handy with a screen reader particularly since you do sometimes miss chat message.

Okay, I now confess I'm a little confused.
Beware! farmlands of hope spoilage ahoy!

So, I got the key from the farmer and went into the house. i found a figurine of balance (and got killed by the skeleton), and that seemed to take care of the novice riddle, however in the farmer's study I found a scroll which had a riddle about someone in the city of good and the line "the invoker's knolidge" which is now in my missions.
Fare enough,however the line mentioned "in the city of good an invoker awaits" and so I gather I need to go and find a ladyy wizard or something somewhere who wants a job doing. The problem i have though is "the city of good" since that would seem to mean "Angnor" where the paladin's guild is.

However, when I voiced this opinion on the chat I was told the solution was closer to the farm.
Again, okay, however why if the solution is close to the farm does the riddle so obviously point to agnor? I'm rather confused, and now don't know where the heck to go to find this invoker.

Perhaps the hint could be a little more specific to a given plac?

@Dark wow you came back just on time. Indeed, crafting has arrived, with the possibility to craft something like a hundred different kinds of objects (it's possible you will be able to list them soon). But more minor changes keep popping up almost every day, e.g. the new list command you are so used to in other muds: I can't advertise them all in here, eh eh.
The history of chat / conversations has been requested a few times already, so it is probably something I'm gonna lean into next.
As for your quest, nothing to add to Mata's answer!

Hmm, what is the syntax you're used too to scroll back through chat / discussions?

@Dark Ok thanks for the input

Minor spoilers below

For the fighting you really need to look at your opponents. I see you attacked a stag without looking at it. Grinding the skills can help a little, but the game is designed to be finishable without skills, crafting or guild powers. Combat commands are dangerous at a low level: if you try to number but fail, you won't hit, and in the meantime your opponent sure is hitting. You can also have a more passve fighting style and let your character deal the blows (it was the only way to fight before spells for a lot of years). Arena fights are tough for their level: they require preparation, very good equipment, some food to regain health between bouts : don't expect to finish them in less than 3 assaults... And the fire elemental is a fake fight: you are tempted to rush into it but should turn away from it once you realize he is too strong for a level 4 ;-).

Awesome!

My problem with the elemental, and indeed with a couple of other fights I've run into is that the flee command doesn't work too well, so even if I am being fought by something a bit too strong there isn't usually a backout, I get "the so and so is surrounding you" or "you retreated a few feet" or something like that. That happened twice with the fire elemental.
Indeed since it takes time to look at an enemy, it might be helpful if you could let players know when something is too strong in the fight descriptions before it's needed to type the look command, eg "the fire elemental attacks you, your in trouble" That way if fleeing is this difficult you can start off by typing flee multiple times.

Fights seem a little odd even in terms of the arena. I have killed the veteran orc and as I've ground stats a little I can now often get him to severely wounded, and I can kill most of the opponents in the multiple brawl scenario like the goblins and the dwarf, however on some occasions I just seem to get paggered very quickly.

Btw, speaking of food and fighting, I notice there is a butcher corpse command but I don't think I noticed if there was a cook command or something similar. given the amount of flowers herbs and leaves in the game that could actually be fun, being able to cut meat from a corpse, make a fire and either roast the meat on a spit or cook in a pan with leaves or flowers for seasoning and maybe roasted vegitables, with more prepared meals giving more hp regen.

I actually always like games that give me the feeling of wilderness survival ala a fantasy like lotr, catching my own fish and cooking them, having to literally survive off the land, maybe make some of my own items out of skins or bark etc. Indeed, one other game i've played let you make a bark skewer of a branche and cook meat on it so you didn't even need a pan (albeit if you had a pan you could get more meet and seasoning into it).