Dark Castle News

04/Mar/2026
- SPELLDAMAGE added to the fire-opal set items.

27/Feb/2026


10/Feb/2026
- new command, pets. example usage:
pets, pets bard, pets bard 50, pets all, pets all 50, etc

05/Feb/2026
- new Chain gossip
- you can meta AC to -250 now (previous limit was -50)

04/Jan/2026
- portal spell no longer has a secondary lost concentration failure chance

03/Jan/2026
- Secure SSL/TLS port available at port 6970 for telnet port 23/6969.
- Secure SSL/TLS port available at port 6670 for telnet port 6666 (legacy DC).

22/Dec/2025
- Poodles eat trash now. (in order to deal with body parts in donation)

21/Dec/2025
- Casino reopened.

13/Dec/2025
- Refactored code dealing with positions that objects can be worn at. Let an immortal know if you encounter any oddities with "wear positions" of objects like TAKE, HOLD, EAR, etc.

23/Nov/2025
- Fixed bug so drown can now bingo mobs again

27/Oct/2025
- Fixed crash bug with mobile scripts.

21/Oct/2025
- Fixed bug that could prevent a cleric from getting mana when they level
- Fixed bug with titles involving %
- Added notitle command

09/Oct/2025
- Fixed bug with unlock/pick of door not always opening the correct direction.

02/Oct/2025
You will auto-open a door that you unlock or pick.

25/Sep/2025
- Fixed bug that caused crash when logging out with Champion flag.

23/Sep/2025
- Fixed bug causing strange characters to show up during login.

21/Sep/2025
- Westley fixed a bug with outcast command, enhanced auction vendor ticket identification logic, lowered int racial modifier for dwarves by 1 and increased wisdom racial modifier for gnomes by 3.

19/Sep/2025
- Instrument combat and non-combat modifiers added to score.
- Minor rearrangement of some stats on score.
- Large numbers on score screen will have comma separators in thousands place. Set config locale=C if you prefer a locale that does not use , for separator.
- tell and gossip both have longer histories with optional timestamps. Run config tell.history.timestamp=1 and/or config gossip.history.timestamp=1 to enable.
- Timestamp dateformats can be controlled with config dateformat=value. See config dateformat=? for all possible formats.
- Timezone can be changed now config timezone=value. See config timezone=? for all possible timezones.
- It will take some time before all timestamps in the game adhere to the timezone and dateformat settings but for now tell and gossip timestamps should.
- Locale can be changed via config locale=value. See config locale=? for all possible values.

15/Sep/2025
- Fixed bug with quest command.

14/Sep/2025
- fscore command added to show score for non-player followers

12/Sep/2025
- Release all will attempt to release all spell effects.
- Remove curse via methods that don't use up mana will not remove all curses at once.

07/Sep/2025
- Remove curse spell now removes all curses at once but uses the same amount of mana as if it was invoked multiple times.

06/Sep/2025
- fixed search command.

05/Sep/2025
- Idling over 30 seconds without logging in causes the connection to disconnect.

26/Aug/2025
- Fixed bug with secret barriers and other "command_prog" type object programs not working.

25/Aug/2025
- Fixed bug where vaulting a custom container would revert its stats when you unvaulted it.

19/Aug/2025
- Gold prizes for hunt increased.
- Illusionary Dagger of Death changed to do sting type damage, vampiric touch increased from by 3 to by 5, harm by 5 and poison by 5 added.

17/Aug/2025
- Fixed corrupted output in wizlist command.

11/Aug/2025
- Casino closed.
- Self-archive feature removed.
- Self-delete feature limited to only level 19 or less.