Changes

What's new in Act of War

Recent updates to the game and the native client. New stuff lands on the live server as soon as it's ready.

Raid siege rework

  • New siege weapon recipes at blacksmith NPCs in every capital.
  • Raid cooldown reduced from 4h to 2h for Tier vs Kael matchups.
  • Fixed a crash when two raids triggered on the same city tick.

Minimap area map push + helpfile crash fix

  • Minimap now shows the whole area on entry instead of filling in room by room. Server pushes a single Area.Map GMCP message with every room in the current area whenever the player crosses an area boundary.
  • Minimap tiles bumped to 32px with 2–3 letter name labels and hover tooltip showing full room name + vnum + terrain.
  • Fixed a crash on `help arena` (and other long help outputs) caused by 77x duplicate entries in the helpfile. Deduped 134k lines → 21k lines.
  • Added missing help entries: `help warlock`, `help cerberus`, `help aratar`, `help harpy`.
  • Fixed a latent segfault in the GMCP group emitter triggered by any large text flush.

Website rebrand to aow.lol

  • New pages on www.aow.lol: /classes, /races, /kingdoms, /arena, /warpoints, /changes. Classes and races auto-generated from src/const.c.
  • Replaced every legacy www.actofwar.com reference in the MUD with aow.lol.
  • Help links in game (`help warrior`, `help kobold`, etc.) now point at https://aow.lol/classes and https://aow.lol/races.

Dockable panel framework (Tiers 1–10)

  • New Steam-ready native client with dockable panels, tab groups, splits, resizable splitters, and pop-out child windows.
  • HUD driven by the player's own prompt codes — HP/MP/MV/XP bars, exits compass, target bar when fighting.
  • 10 new panels: Character sheet (Ctrl+P), Minimap (Ctrl+M), Inventory paper doll (Ctrl+I), Party frames (Ctrl+G), Chat tabs (Ctrl+T), Combat meter (Ctrl+B), Quest tracker (Ctrl+Q), Kingdom panel (Ctrl+K).
  • Full GMCP protocol: Char.Vitals, Char.Info, Char.Worth, Char.Items, Room.Info, Area.Map, Group.Info, Quest.Info, Kingdom.Info.
  • Refreshed help overlay (Ctrl+/) with all new hotkeys and a dock usage guide.