RoadMap and Updates

April 25, 2026 at 09:46 - dayrinni

Room Formatting and Command Improvements

Good day!

Here is the update to the update - enjoy reading the update notes for this update.

• More currency room formatting updates.
• Updated played command to be better formatted for times.
• Removed the indentation on the room descriptions. This was not in DG and was an ATS specific formatting. It has been removed.
• Added a newline from the room title and room desc. This was in DG and missing newline was an ATS specific formatting. The newline has been added when viewing the room desc to see the newline.
• Logout now works while sleeping.
• Health now comes before the help command.

Thank you!

DGR Team

As a reminder, you do not need to logout of the game for copyovers. It is a hot reboot and you stay connected during the process.

April 23, 2026 at 07:31 - dayrinni

Shop, Spell, Networking, Room, and Equipment Update

Good day!

Here is the update to the update - enjoy reading the update notes for this update.

• Themed the shop view to be more accurate.
• Fixed issue with Focus Force not displaying the proper OR values after logging out.
• Fixed some issues with flight and targeting messaging.
• Beneficial spells should bypass the resist check unless you are a Hithual or Arachnian.
• No longer can you mem corridors for spells you don't have access to yet.
• When picking up coins, it'll tell you how much you pick up.
• The item listing in rooms is now formatted along with the room description.
• The played command has been themed. However, we still don't have an in-game calendar in. That will come in the future.
• Updated REFLECT DAMAGE to capture the damage before armor reduction.
• InvokeCommand now lets you target yourself with hostile spells. Each time you blast yourself the DGR team gets more powerful!
• The targeting has changed to allow for <blank> to target yourself automatically on non-harmful spells, and it doesn't rely on the last known targeting feature any longer. This should represent DG more closely.
• Made some enhancements to the networking and copyover systems to reduce memory usage overtime. This means there was some changes deep in the system (places where I don't like to go but will go there for you!) so report any Connection Funny Business to me and I'll take a look. I did testing with multiple characters and connections and it seemed to work without issue as well as deploying to ATS beforehand to do more in-depth testing.
• Added LIT flag to allow for baseline illumination in rooms. DARK still overrides it though.
• Holy Mist should now only be usable on the undead monsters - test it out and give feedback!
• Added a prototype of needing to unready/remove equipment before equipping it. We will refine some more - the team will build a matrix of how this worked.

Thank you!

DGR Team

April 21, 2026 at 21:45 - dayrinni

Code Update Rescheduled

Hello! I had a change in schedule in my appointmentsv this week so the update will be Thursday instead of tomorrow.

April 21, 2026 at 07:26 - dayrinni

Code Update Timing

I shall aim to update the code and copyover sometime tomorrow morning.

April 18, 2026 at 10:45 - dayrinni

Player Feedback Continues to Shape the Rebuild

The spell and system changes were built from community feedback, logs, testing, and data collection. The team reiterated that DGR will continue to be refined iteratively toward the original Dragon's Gate experience with the community's help.

April 18, 2026 at 10:40 - dayrinni

Draco Spell Rebuild

• The new Draco spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Draco please logon and give these spells a try.

I need to ask Dace a few questions on the Psions, so I'll do those when he returns!

All of these changes we've done is based on your feedback and assistance with the data collection! We will keep iterating and collecting data, feedback, logs, and so on. As you can see, the game is easily updatable (I just got busy with RL this past week). The end goal is to make DGR as close as possible to DG. We will refine everything over time. We will get there with your help over a long period of time! Thank you!

April 18, 2026 at 10:30 - dayrinni

Cleric Spell Rebuilds

• The new Heart Cleric spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Heart Cleric please logon and give these spells a try.
• The new Sword Cleric spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Sword Cleric please logon and give these spells a try.
• The new Hand Cleric spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Hand Cleric please logon and give these spells a try.

April 14, 2026 at 15:48 - dayrinni

Next Code Update and Spell Work

Good day! Next code update will be next week. Keep your feedback coming in. I'll continue getting the next iteration of the spells in this week: Clerics, dracos, etc. Thank you!

April 13, 2026 at 09:01 - dayrinni

Temporary Spell Wear-Off Messages

For the time being, the spells which have durations will have a generic wearoff message. This will be updated in the future when we gather more data and also finalize the spell lists.

April 12, 2026 at 09:33 - dayrinni

Forester Spell Rebuild

• The new Forester spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Forester please logon and give these spells a try.

April 12, 2026 at 09:07 - dayrinni

Thief Spell Rebuild

• The new Thief spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Thief please logon and give these spells a try.

April 12, 2026 at 08:48 - dayrinni

Bard Spell Rebuild

• The new Bard spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Bard please logon and give these spells a try.

April 11, 2026 at 09:32 - dayrinni

Fighter and Barbarian Spell Rebuilds

• The new Fighter spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Fighter please logon and give these spells a try.
• The new Barbarian spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Barbarian please logon and give these spells a try.

April 11, 2026 at 08:55 - dayrinni

Affect Stacking Planned Next

Also! After this round of spell updates go in, I will start looking at affect stacking and implement that system.

April 11, 2026 at 07:48 - dayrinni

Non-Elemental Runemage Spell Rebuild

• The new Non-elemental Rune Mage spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Non-elemental Runemage please logon and give these spells a try.

April 10, 2026 at 17:06 - dayrinni

Water Runemage Spell Rebuild

• The new Water Rune Mage spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Water Runemage please logon and give these spells a try.

April 10, 2026 at 08:27 - dayrinni

Air Runemage Spell Rebuild

• The new Air Rune Mage spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are an Air Runemage please logon and give these spells a try.

April 10, 2026 at 07:50 - dayrinni

Earth Runemage Spell Rebuild

• The old Fire spells have been renamed so ideally, they conflict less. I'm doing a code update in the future to handle this better.
• The new Earth Rune Mage spells have been remade. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Earth Runemage please logon and give these spells a try.

April 9, 2026 at 07:48 - dayrinni

Fire Runemage Spell Rebuild

• The new Fire Rune Mage spells have been made. These spells use new IDs and the old ones no longer apply. You may see some remnants of the old ones. If you do, let me know and I'll adjust your character (Nothing is lost) and take a look. Your character should auto-update when you log into the game. If you are a Fire Runemage please logon and give these spells a try.

April 8, 2026 at 08:55 - dayrinni

Spell-Rebuild Testing Advisory

New spells based on community feedback were scheduled to arrive incrementally over the following week, beginning with Fire spells. Players online while abilities were being rebuilt could temporarily see missing or unusable spells; logging out for 15–30 minutes and returning would allow the game to update the character automatically.

April 8, 2026 at 08:53 - dayrinni

Lighting, Targeting, Martial Arts, and Quick Draw Fixes

Good day!

Here is the update to the update - enjoy reading the update notes for this update.

• Changed the functionality of the DIM in displaying the illumination of the room. Previously, rooms marked as DIM would still show as "dark" in the room info line. Now, DIM no longer overrides this.
• Fixed an issue with targeting multiple folks with using #.name.
• Adjusted some MA ability messaging. More to do but making progress.
• Ideally, quick draw use gain is better now.

Thank you!

DGR Team

As mentioned the new spells based on your feedback will be coming over the next week. If you're playing the game while these are being built, you'll likely see odd behavior (eg: you can't use that spell, you don't have that spell, etc). The best course of action is to log out and wait for awhile (15-30 minutes). Upon logging in, the game should update your character automatically (eg: give you the new spells). I will start doing the Fire spells first.

April 7, 2026 at 17:16 - dayrinni

Spell Rebuild Preview

Good day! I hope to do a small code update tomorrow and then begin updating the spells. It's an incremental process. I'll be making brand new spells with new IDs. This means you may see the older spells linger on for a bit. I am going to mark these older spells as "disabled" and they should not be seen or used. If you do see them in any way, let me know and we can take a look on a case by case basis.

April 1, 2026 at 10:24 - Wizzydizzy [MUD]

Roadmap Progress: Code First, Areas Next

Hello!

We wanted to give an update regarding the past few months since open. Overall, we are making great progress. We’ve implemented several systems, some of them major, such as the first iteration of the magick system. Everything is going well! The codebase conversion is moving along, and with the recent update, we crossed the 800k lines of code mark. We are making consistent progress in theming the game as well. Dace and Act are compiling data and building out information so we can continue our progress in making DGR!

I wanted to briefly talk about the progress for code vs areas and where we are, since we’ve been at level 3 for a while. I think it’s best said with a picture!

What this graph is basically showing is that the code comes first. All of the initial effort in creating the game engine must be done in the code first. So that is why we are still at level 3, pushing out system after system while staying in TG. Once the majority of that work is completed, we shift to level 5 and beyond: going to Spur. This then means the main effort is area work: all of the items, NPCs, rooms, hunting grounds, shops, and so on. At this point, the amount of code work will be much lower. If you like analogies, it’s like blowing up a balloon until it bursts: you need to blow a lot (the code) before it explodes (going to Spur). So even though it may not feel like we’ve made significant progress, seeing the above, it is clear we have made great strides!

We’re always open to discussing this and any topic related to the roadmap and getting us there. As always, thank you for your testing and contributions - keep it up!

Thank you!

DGR Team

April 1, 2026 at 08:17 - dayrinni

Currency, Focus Force, Quick Draw, and Shield Parry Update

Good day!

Here is the update to the update - enjoy reading the update notes for this update.

• Improved the currency display in rooms and picking items up.
• Themed the item list in the rooms: Items are now listed at the end of the room description.
• Fumbling a quick draw shouldn't award a use any more.
• Fixed an error with the Merc Tour applying the attributes incorrectly in 7.6% of circumstances. In addition, added logging to better track this. We are reviewing past discussions and applying fixes to characters by hand. If you received a raise during the tour, send Dace and I a DM. We will review and adjust your character.
• Adjusted Focus Force to have the proper OR rates and also added a new weapon damage ModType, so that affect can be solely used on getting a use. So you'll only get a use if you deal damage to the target. Additionally, Focus Force should now print the familiar OR message on use.
• Adjusted Quick Draw to the new equations based on community discussion.
• Adjusted Shield Parry to the new equations based on community discussion. Shield Parry will be much easier to block with now.
• Added a temporary debug printout to Shield Parry for all players to see so we can ensure the %'s look good.

Thank you!

DGR Team

The next update is to start adjusting the spells based on all of the discussion and data compilation. It's likely some of these updates won't need a copyover as many adjustments use the online ability editor so you may see changes before they are announced.