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|category=General
|subject=March of the Bugs - Update
|author=GS4-THANDIWE
|date=2026-04-03
|changelog=2026
}}
March of the Bugs Skitters On...

A concentrated effort was made to resolve various bugs in the month of March.  Here's a look at some of the things that were resolved:

Some hairworn flowers were permitting you to wear too many items in your hair and threatening to throw you into too many item limbo.  This has been resolved.
The blue flag in the Lair of the Ophidian Cabal no longer thinks it is purple.
Daybringer weapon users can now use BEG in rooms where PRAY serves a different purpose (i.e. in the Duskruin arena).
EMPTY VERB - The misleading "everything falls in quite nicely" messaging has been tweaked for clarity when there are still moveable items in the source container.
Mostly Legitimate Banking Services - As part of an effort with GM Marstreforn to update exchange booth signs west of the Dragonspine, Kaonashi is happy to report that Kraken's Fall is now a listed EXCHANGE option.  Please refer to any and all posted exchange booth signs for applicable rates.  They won't ask where you got your money. 
Parasite weapon users can now use BEG in rooms where PRAY serves a different purpose (i.e. in the Duskruin arena).
Cysaegir Public Lockers - Players who log out while inside the public lockers (aka not the CHE ones) should no longer find themselves somewhere in River's Rest when logging back in.
Foraging PnC fixes have been rolled out.  Specifically for white hook mushroom, black trafel mushroom, withered black mushroom, glowing green lichen, soft white mushroom, and various colored oleanders.
Glowing Green Lichen will work in alchemy again (you'll need a new supply.)
Foraging will now respect your Auto Treasure Hand if it is open (this is done in SET).
Foraging for Pandanus Twig and Date Palm Fronds is now possible again in the ruins of the Atoll.
Foraging failures will no longer count to room depletions.
Teleport Boot should now recognize your origin room.
The Muddy Duds that are "some frayed bits of blue yarn" will now display as "bits of frayed blue yarn" when worn in the hair.  The double 'bits' is gone.  Please remove the yarn and re-wear it to fix the issue.
Finally figured out the double drink messaging on face cowls!
Tinker's Pouch Bee figured out how to get out of the pouch.
Added an analyze line to Gloumerrick books to clarify if they won't fit in a Bookinator.
Phytomorphic Weapons/Shields should now work with Lightening notes.
Label dye should work with the Alcohol Bottle Contraptions again.  In addition, INSPECT should properly display both types of dye instead of a blank character.
Solhaven will no longer offer gem bounties for small blocks of salt, since it's not possible to sell those to the gem shop.
Sorcerers may only SACRIFICE SHIFT and SENSE PATTERN if they know spell 740 and are level 40 or higher.
"Accumulated Shadow Essence" is now appropriately capitalized in the output of RESOURCE (sorcerers only).
Jorshan's Weapons, if they qualify by weapon type, can now be stored in Dual-Sword belts.
Pocketwatch - a variety of bug fixes.  Please make sure when setting an alarm that you are including if it should be hours or minutes.  Default for any number between 1 and 60 is minutes.
Food Items - There was a brief bug that was causing all food items to have a double look on them.  This is now resolved (this includes Wine Press Bottles) with labels.
Face-mask - The double messaging for EAT and DRINK is resolved on these.,Gathering Herbs should now properly messaging when being placed in your hand.
Disk Creation Boxes should now correctly increase capacity by tier and now the air lore issue, too.
Alchemy should now be synched with foraging updates.
PSM attack resolutions (like from CMAN and SHIELD skills) were assigning creatures the wrong number of ranks known, in a modest variety of situations.  The errors were likely no more than two ranks in either direction.  This has been corrected, so you may see some moderate differences in PSM outcomes now.
Disarming Presence had a unique bug of its own, also with using the wrong number of ranks for calculations.  This is also fixed.
Bug Fix - Ear Candy - Pointy eared Erithians may now wear earcaps.
Wavedancer Journal Bug: SHOW and LOOK should now message correctly.  If you are still experiencing an issue, this may require an assist and fix.
Swoon Eternal Wedding verb - some messaging clean up here.
Rub Eternal Wedding Verb - adding the missing 2nd person his/her.
Wiggle Dragonfly - This verb is now accessible again if you have it unlocked and the dragonfly is attuned to you.
Leya's presence can now be sensed in the Shrine of Leya on Old Mine Road.
Aldoran Jewlery - Pectorals - You can now wear these.
The craftsman on Ornath in Little Things now has default messaging for when you ask him things.
Uncommon Beetle Mounts now have access to SNAP, which was supposed to happen.
There was a long standing bug causing Language Spectacles to not access many of the verbs in is analyze.  This is resolved.
Lightening Notes should work with Phytomorphic Shields, as well as the Weapons now.
Some typos have been fixed with GET/DROP messaging on Bone Shaman cloaks, and attachment messaging with Bloodletting leeches.
STAND using the Animalistic Armor will only give RT if STAND on its own would give it now.
LM Clasps carved from teeth with the Scrimshaw Knives will now properly show up as ivory instead of bone.
Spirit Change slips/notes for Animalistic Spirit items should properly allow you to TWIST to the first noun in a list.
An issue with INSPECT on Charmtraptions was fixed so that the current custom design template shows up properly; previously it was always showing the first custom design no matter what (though the chosen design was always used when Pushed - this was a display issue only).
The case of the missing a/ in some of the Animalistic Spirit weapon/shield messaging has been resolved.
A wonky extra period has been removed from one of the taste messages for popcorn kettle-created caramel popcorn.
Several small typos have been addressed in Ice Hound WerePuppy messages.
Fixed a few ambiguous messages with the chocolate heaters.
Fixed sealing wax so it does not change name when depleted.  It gives you messaging that it is almostout, and will delete when empty.
Replaced the teak block in the MH forging shop with hazel.,Fixed various typos around MH.
Twisted Weapons - Minor Fix/Update,

Due to some conflicts with certain container scripts and strange messaging caused by interactions with those items, Twisted Weapons no longer toggle ON/OFF when being sheathed/unsheathed/stored/etc.  Twisted Weapon that are not unlocked and have not reached full affinity with their owners should not see anything out of the ordinary.

A new flavor of messaging when you GET/DROP (and variations of putting it away and taking it out of containers)  should provide cleaner, more consistent, and less messy results.


What does this mean for Twisted Weapon enjoyers?

Leave the weapon in the ON state and reset your READY WEAPON settings while it is "scintillating" mode and it will remain like that while stored, instead of switching to the OFF state as it did previously.

Going forward, to manually toggle a Twisted Weapon ON or OFF, you will need to RAISE it while holding it to get it in the appropriate state you desire.  Analyze it to be sure.  If your Twisted Weapon is not "scintillating" while in the ON state, please ASSIST and I will look into what may be going on with your specific item.

Cysaegir Naerine Hostelry

Naerine Hostelry has had a slight facelift:References to glaes acting like glass have been replaced with actual glass.

There are now actual benches to sit on in the Indoor Garden.

You can now order food at the tables.

Typos in some of the aelotoi barkeep's questions and answers have been fixed.

For those who may not want to see the detailed room descriptions, you can now see brief room descriptions.

Somnis fixes

The following are now working again with greater somnis flares:

Runestaves
UCS gear
VOLLEY
More Somnis bug fixes are on the way.  These were the ones where the fixes were simple enough to push them out quickly.
===tldr===
List of March's Bug Fixes