Patch Notes #126 - Pixel Engine Start & Infested Undercity Map

The people have spoken!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/next-phase-of-3-150191892

I'm going to be creating our very own pixel art graphics engine! Actually, I've already gotten started and have been making steady progress all this week. Look for dev logs every Sunday from here on out going over the nitty gritty of our new Pixel Engine. This is very exciting! I can't wait for everyone to see all the cool stuff we'll be able to do with this new engine!

I will also be focusing on quality of life improvements as that's what all of the comments on the poll post were asking for!

Guild Warfare active week 2 starts now! I'm doing a manual reset of Guild warfare XP and Level this week to make sure the transition between weeks goes smoothly. Crablands is now open for 1 week until February 20th 4pm PST.

Gamer's Patch Notes

* Party members now get Guild Warfare XP as if they were playing solo.

* Added level check to dungeon instance entry on the server side.

* Added more robust validation of players entering a dungeon on the server side.

* Added code to turn off Guild Warfare XP if the Guild Warfare zone is currently locked down.

* Added code to stop entry to a Guild Warfare zone if the zone is currently locked down.

* Added code to stop Guild Warfare Badge consumption when no Guild Warfare zones are active.

* Added Guild Warfare XP to the member list in the guild window.

* Turned on some TCP settings on the server that should help.

* Tweaked some Smartfoxserver settings for disconnecting very very laggy people.

* Fixed an issue with JVM garbage collection pauses that was causing lag sometimes.

* Fixed a bug where casting messages could get spammed if you had low energy.

* Heavily optimized recipe cooking tables in MySQL.

* Created a recipe cooking archive in MySQL.

* Heavily optimized cooking request handler code on the server.

* Heavily optimized player save to db code on the server.

* Optimized several random server handlers like the donate to community event handler.

Dino's Patch Notes

- Added Infested Undercity (IU) Map
- Added basic NPCs to IU

- Increased item drop rates for Cupid and Heart's of Cupid
- Lowered HP of Heart's of Cupid from 6,000 to 5,000
- Added additional graveyard in north section of Crablands
- Fixed two Order of the Claw Faction Steam Achievements
- Changed "Give Me The Goo" quest Large Molten Goo requirement from 15 to 10. No more half stack!
- Moved a Gold Vein in CoD due to collision issue
- Cleaned up left over Holiday Isle and Isle of Coal things