08/30/2025 Patch Notes - GMCP and Armors

[Martaigne]

The armors command received an update:

• It now outputs a list of worn armors and the slots they occupy:

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  Worn armors by limb:
    right hand : (none)
    right arm  : pastel blue and misty gray tartan wool jacket
    left hand  : (none)
    left arm   : pastel blue and misty gray tartan wool jacket
    head       : (none)
    neck       : (none)
    right foot : (none)
    right leg  : (none)
    left foot  : (none)
    left leg   : (none)
    abdomen    : gleaming high steel plate cuirass, pastel blue and misty gray tartan wool jacket
    back       : gleaming high steel plate cuirass, pastel blue and misty gray tartan wool jacket
    chest      : gleaming high steel plate cuirass, pastel blue and misty gray tartan wool jacket

• It also outputs a notification if a strength penalty is impeding your ability to effectively use armor:

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  | Your movements are not impeded.                   |
  | Your current Strength penalty is decreasing your  |
  | effectiveness with armor.                         |
  | Your current martial art is heavily impeded.      |
  | Your arcane spells are completely disrupted.      |
  | Your astral spells are completely disrupted.      |
  | Your vedic spells are completely disrupted.       |

Updated FE Tags to include:

• Room <exits> as a single collection.
• Unique <roomid> for all non-dynamically loaded rooms (meaning no inn rooms, mindscapes, druid groves, etc. will have ids, as they are not kept perpetually in memory) [for now]
• Fixed <exit> to fire only when appropriate, not on peer, etc. <exit> will be deprecated in the near future in favor of <exits>, giving folks time to update their clients.
• Added new <preparedspell> FE tag that gives the short and long name of a spell when you begin preparing it.
• Fixed issues with <pt> that would sometimes result in a -1 being sent.
• Fixed issues with releasing prepped spells that didn't reset <pt>.
• Offline experience absorption is now calculated and delivered in a single update rather than one update for every pulse absorbed
• Offline experience absorption has been capped at 7 days instead of infinity

The big change - GMCP (Generic Mud Communication Protocol) was implemented, bringing UL into the more modern era of MUD engines. This allows for clients that support GMCP to receive notifications on the backend.

• All current FE tags (including the new ones above) with the exception of <exit> are communicated via GMCP, including Discord info.
• Discord integration is opt-in only, and may be changed with "settings 17".
• The complete spec is posted to the wiki resource.

[Martaigne]

Added a convenient "snapshot" command to this release for client developers. It will re-send all available GMCP values as it does upon login.