Revision as of 00:30, 2 November 2020

This page lists any significant updates made to the game from Version 5 onwards. Smaller changes and fixes which aren't enough to constitute an update, particularly if they are meant to fix or modify errors, typos, or inconsistencies with object lines, will usually be listed in the Tsuchinoko updates instead.

In progress

Version 5.57 - Unnamed November 2020 update

Changes to Crafting:

• Specs docs: Docs no longer unlock Specs docs-only items for sale. The Proving Grounds engineer now requires player characters to trade in the correct documents for each item, alongside money (and in some cases, specific items). In exchange, these items cost significantly less than they used to - all prices were slashed to 1/4 their previous values.

October 15th 2020

Version 5.56 - The Unintuitively Named Update (that has nothing to do with 5.56mm firearms)

Changes to Weapons:

• New concept introduced: Traditional inner tubes. Refers to certain firearms - specifically, lever-action rifles - that do not possess a side-loading gate, and are instead reloaded by using a traditional, Henry-style inner tube.
  • Reloading a traditional tube rifle is done the same way as a single-action revolver; a full reloading action is required to remove the tube, then the normal loose rounds rule applies (up to 3 rounds per turn). The tube is replaced automatically when the character is done reloading.
• The Winchester Model 270 stats have been modified to reflect that it is a rifle with a traditional inner tube.

September 8th 2020

Version 5.55 - 555-WE-SAFE update

New creature:

• The horse returns to the bestiary.

Changes to Ammunition:

• Sintered Frangible (SF) ammunition now has a different effect:
  • Against unarmored ACs: 1.2x Pain, 1.2x LD
  • Against armored ACs: 0.5x Pain, 0.5x LD
  • Every hit successfully causing an injury will open 3 Wounds instead of 1.

Changes to Unarmed combat:

• Two new techniques, Steal and Monkey's Paw, have been introduced.

Changes to shops and services:

• The style shop has been revamped completely and is now a custom clothing service.
  • Completely custom human/halfling clothing items and youkai outfits can be designed there. The basic principle is for the player to describe, in free-form, what the item is supposed to look like, then to purchase protection ratings, covered body parts, effects, and more in order to give the custom item a useful purpose. This service is intentionally very expensive.
• Dojos have been expanded, and now offer various machines and training programs designed to improve a character's natural statistics:
  • The stats that can be improved are Natural Pain Sensitivity, Natural Strength, Max Blood, Max Limb HP, Natural Endurance, and Natural Agility
  • Each training program has an XP counter. Spending time (and effort) on a training nets XP, which can be spent to increase one natural stat, up to certain limits (some stats cannot be trained further once they reach a certain value, others have a maximum XP limit)
  • Training program XP is now tracked on inventory sheets.
• The bank's item vault service has been modified:
  • Item vaults are no longer free and unlimited. A player character must first purchase an item vault before it can be used; this costs 1000 and allows the player access to a 50-unit vault. This vault can be upgraded in 50-unit increments, up to the maximum size of 400 units; upgrading costs (size x 15)
  • Withdrawing items from a vault now costs 500 + (weight of items withdrawn x 10), and it is not possible to withdraw more than 150 units of items at once.
  • Withdrawing items from a vault now requires waiting for 1d3 day periods (between 4 and 12 hours), as delivery time.
  • LBE items must be stored empty. LBE items that cannot be folded down (e.g. most backpacks) are not allowed inside the vault anymore.

June 24th 2020

Version 5.54 - Magazines and other knick-knacks

Changes introduced:

• Glock 18C: Event line and wiki page now correctly state that the weapon is fitted with the Ported barrel Maze Customs mod instead of an integrated muzzle brake.
• New muzzle brake: Muzzle brake, Shotgun, standard, .410 bore
• New magazines:
  • Delta Elite 11-round and 17-round extended magazines
  • Nightmare 11-round and 17-round extended magazines
  • P-14 18-round extended magazine
  • P-16 22-round extended magazine
• Removed a Maze Customs magazine: the 1911DS Custom 10mm 16-round magazine was scrapped (P-16 magazines are now used to feed 1911DS 10mm pistols
• Maze Customs speed strips: 9x19mm Parabellum speed strips are now also compatible with 7.62x25mm Tokarev

May 23rd 2020

Version 5.53 - Update to food and hunting.

Changes to Hunting:

• Game meat from certain creatures no longer provide Effects such as Alertness increase or Strength +10%/+20% for a few turns.
• Instead, a system of high-value meat was created. Meat from certain creatures is now considered to be either a Delicacy (Double value) or a Luxury (Triple value).

Changes to Creatures:

• The item lines of all relevant creatures now state if they produce delicacy meat, luxury meat, tainted meat, illegal meat, or if they produce no meat at all.
  • An exception was made for humans, halflings and youkai - their item lines do not display meat status, as it is assumed that the meat of all playable species is already known to be illegal.
• All references to "Poisonous meat" have been changed to the correct term: Tainted meat.

Changes to Food:

• The Hot-gon no longer has a Strength boosting effect, in accordance to the changes listed above. Instead, nutrition was increased from 296 to 592.

May 14th 2020

Version 5.52 part 2 - Bestiary update

Changes to Creatures:

• Old creature bestiary was completely removed and replaced with an all-new collection of monsters - in total, 128 creatures, including the 20 playable species.
• Human, halfling and youkai occupations have also been revamped - a total of 34 occupations are now listed into the game.
  • New occupations: Janitor, Head janitor, 8 different flavors of non-faction criminals, Youkai activist squadleader, and 3 different ranks of Yatela gangsters

Changes to Crafting:

• New blueprint: Kama blueprint (Level 1)
• New crafting ingredient item: Sickle blade

Pending: The wiki will be edited to reflect the new changes as soon as possible.

May 7th 2020

Version 5.52 part 1 - Bestiary update: Preparatory changes

Changes to ammunition:

• Small bolt: Base damage nerfed by 4% (46% -> 42%)

Changes to weapons:

• Pistol crossbow: No longer has a damage multiplier (previously was x0.8)
• Lambda magazine crossbow: Now has a 1.2x damage multiplier

New clothing and armor:

• New human clothing and armor: Hooded robe, Sleeveless jumpsuit, Janitor outfit shirt, Janitor outfit pants, Security guard hat, Armored trench-coat.
• New youkai outfits (for all 5 body types): Farmer outfit, Janitor outfit, Maid outfit, Prison outfit, Scientist outfit, Security outfit, Technician outfit

New weapons:

• Class 5 Long: Scythe
• Class 5 Short: Hasami blade

Pending: The wiki will be edited to reflect the new changes as soon as possible.

April 10th 2020

Version 5.51 - Changes to game mechanics, simplification of damage models

Changes to core gameplay mechanics:

• The C2 Armor Class is entirely scrapped from the game, as it is considered unnecessary. The AC previously called C3 is now known as C2. All weapons and ammunition in the game no longer have a damage value for the scrapped AC. Most clothing and armor that was classified as C2 will be reclassified as C1.

Changes to ammunition:

• .30-06 Springfield: Base damage buffed by 1% (166% -> 167%) so that the new C2 damage value (old C3) becomes 150% (previously 149%).
• 9x25mm Dillon: Base damage buffed by 1% (54% -> 55%), so that the new C2 damage value (old C3) becomes 50% (previously 49%).

Notes:

• Creatures have not been modified yet, as the bestiary update is still in progress.

March 17th 2020

Version 5.5 - Game mechanics changes, new ammo types

Changes to Recoil:

• Recoil calculation and effects no longer rely on exact shot order, but now instead only needs total shots fired, significantly cutting down on the amount of time that needs to be spent counting and checking shots.
• The new Recoil system works as follows: Every Recoil level has a limit of shots (the Accuracy Drop Threshold, or ADT) that can be fired - if a character shoots over ADT, accuracy and aim wandering effects are applied to the entirety of the shot string, and not just the shots that go over ADT. A second level with even more severe penalties is applied if the amount of shots fired is equal to more than double the limit.
  • As before, going over ADT will result in aim wandering (which sends shots to &bodyaim instead of the desired point of aim), however instead of being applied only starting from the shot that went over the limit, aim wandering applies to ALL shots if the total amount of shots fired goes over the limit. Laser sights still cancel out this aim wandering effect.
  • Accuracy windows and effects of going over ADT once and twice will also be updated.

Changes to Combat mode and Weapons; specifically, critical failure effects:

• Like with Recoil changes above, critical failure effects no longer rely on knowing exact shot order, but only the total shot count, and in particular the critical failure count.
  • Failures to eject (stovepipes): For every stovepipe that occurs, the two highest scoring shots (excluding critical failures) are cancelled. If 3 stovepipes occur in a single string of fire, the 6 highest scoring shots are never fired. This has the potential of cancelling critical hits.
  • Failures to fire (misfires): No changes.
  • Failures to feed:
    • If 2 or less occurred during the same string of fire: Same as stovepipes.
    • If 3 or more occurred during the same string of fire: All shots are cancelled and the weapon is considered to be jammed; this can be fixed by performing a reload action.
  • Failures to burn: No changes.

New ammunition types for pistol and rifle calibers:

• Tracer (T): FMJ bullets with an illuminating compound at the base of the bullet, which lights up and displays bright, colored light when fired. Tracer ammunition is used to visibly see the flight path of a bullet, and is useful for controlling long strings of fire, particularly full auto, as it allows a shooter to physically see where the bullets are going.
  • Effects: Increases ADT by a certain amount of shots, which scales with Recoil level. However, it always breaks Stealth even when shot with a silenced firearm; the tracer light works both ways and can be seen by others, thus revealing your position.
    • Recoil 1-2: ADT +4 shots
    • Recoil 3-4: ADT +3 shots
    • Recoil 5-6: ADT +2 shots
    • Recoil 7-8: ADT +1 shots
• Semi-Armor Piercing (SAP): Also known as metal-piercing bullets, they offer a lower cost alternative to full AP or APX, but are less effective at defeating armored targets.
  • Effects: 0.8x damage against unarmored ACs, 1.3x damage against armored ACs.
• Retail ammunition using these new projectiles is now also available:
  • .22 Long Rifle: Standard T
  • .30 Carbine: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T
  • .30-06 Springfield: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • .303 British: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • .32 ACP: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • .357 Magnum: Standard SAP
  • .357 SIG: Standard T, Standard SAP, Personal Defense SAP, Pocket Dragon SAP
  • .380 ACP: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T
  • .40 S&W: Standard T, Standard SAP, Personal Defense T, Personal Defense SAP, Pocket Dragon T, Pocket Dragon SAP
  • .45 ACP: Standard T, Standard SAP, Personal Defense T, Personal Defense SAP, Pocket Dragon T, Pocket Dragon SAP, Milsurp T
  • .50 BMG: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 4.6x30mm: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 5.45x39mm: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • 5.56x45mm NATO: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • 5.7x28mm: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 5.8x42mm: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • 7.62x25mm Tokarev: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP, Milsurp Cold T, Milsurp Cold SAP, Milsurp Hot T, Milsurp Hot SAP
  • 7.62x39mm: Standard T, Standard SAP, Reduced Velocity SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • 7.62x54mm R: Standard T, Standard SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP
  • 7.62x51mm NATO: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 7.92x33mm Kurz: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 7.92x57mm Mauser: Standard T, Milsurp T
  • 9x18mm Makarov: Standard T, Standard SAP, High Impulse T, High Impulse SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP, Milsurp Hot T, Milsurp Hot SAP
  • 9x19mm Parabellum: Standard T, Standard SAP, Personal Defense T, Personal Defense SAP, Pocket Dragon T, Pocket Dragon SAP, Milsurp T, Milsurp SAP, Milsurp Hot T, Milsurp Hot SAP
  • 10x25mm Auto: Standard SAP

January 12th 2020

Version 5.49 - Simplification update #8

Changes to Addictions:

• Advancement of withdrawal levels is now tied to Daily Reset.

Changes to Inebriation:

• Inebriation no longer naturally decays at a rate of 0.1 per turn.
• New Effect: For every +0.1 Inebriation gained, Stress is decreased by -0.4%; effectively turning alcohol into a reliable Stress relief method.
• Inebriation decay now depends on the passage of time (and not specifically Daily Reset either), based on the amount of day periods that have passed since the last drink.
• Effects of Inebriation have been modified and simplified.

Changes to Venom:

• Rebuilt the effects of Venom poisoning (modified the thresholds and simplified the effects)

January 6th 2020

Version 5.48 - Simplification update #7

Changes to Stress:

• Stress thresholds for Low and Moderate have been adjusted (respectively 0.0% : 19.9% and 20.0% : 49.9%)
• Stress is no longer gained from taking damage (Pain, Limb Damage...) or from sustained injuries.
• Stress gained from combat (now clarified as an effect called Combat Stress) is now calculated differently; the total amount is now equal to (Td4)x0.1xE, where T is the total amount of turns spent in combat, and E is the amount of enemies at the start of a fight.
  • Effectively, this means gaining between 0.1% and 0.4% Stress per turn spent, multiplied by the amount of starting enemies.
• Stress gained from combat is now given at the end of combat, instead of gradually turn by turn.
• The Stress Tolerance effect is scrapped.

Related changes:

• Books now heal a flat amount of Stress, -2.0% per reading. Books provide their Stress reducing effect only once per ingame day; an already read book must be marked with a tag.
  • Suggested tag: "Read recently - provides no effects until next Daily Reset"
• Showers no longer provide negative effects, and the command is now always rolled when using a shower, regardless of the location. Each use will now spend 30 ingame minutes and has a chance to provide a positive effect (reduces Stress, Fatigue, or Pain) each time.
• Computers now decrease Stress by (4d10)x0.1 at the cost of spending 2 ingame hours.
• Radios now decrease Stress by (2d10)x0.1 at the cost of spending 1 ingame hour.

December 8th 2019

Version 5.47 - Simplification update #6

• The Cover system has received multiple modifications aimed at simplifying their purpose and function:
  • Cover no longer have pass-through thresholds or corresponding Pain modifiers (like trauma plates).
  • Deleted the "full protection" trait (which protected against bouncing explosives - of which there is only one type currently)
  • Modified the list of cover types (changed health and AC values on many of them)
• Explosives:
  • Simplified the damage calculation method for pressure mines: full limb damage to legs/feet, 0.25x limb damage to everything else. (Previously, it also dealt 0.5x damage to torso/hips)
  • Simplified injury calculation from explosive weapons. It is now dependent on base explosive damage; specifically, equal to BED / 4 rounded down (or in other words, for every 4 full points of limb damage dealt by an explosive weapon, 1 wound is also dealt).
• Chlorine bomb and Chlorine gas clouds:
  • Removed the 25% chance to lose eyes per turn spent in a chlorine gas cloud. It was replaced by an additional damage effect (2 limb damage to a random body part per turn spent in a cloud).
• Crafting items
  • Gun Repair Kits can no longer be used to repair dud explosives; this ability was moved to the...
  • New toolkit: Explosives Toolkit (XTK). Costs 300 and can be used up to 5 times. This kit allows users to repair dud explosives and defuse certain types of primed explosives more quickly than with bare hands; consumes 1 use per explosive repaired or defused.
• Effects
  • Nausea is now a temporary effect which prevents using Food items. All items inducing Nausea are now given a turn duration, and no longer induces IR +1.
  • Anti-Oni Syndrome now causes creatures under this effect to get Pain instead of Venom from drinking alcohol (1% Pain per 0.1 Inebriation). The Pain gained this way is fixed and ignores Pain Sensitivity entirely.
  • Decompensation and Self-deterioration were simplified, introducing a system of points gained at Daily Reset. If these points reach a particular threshold, instant death occurs.
  • Various effects were simplified or scrapped entirely.

November 14th 2019

Version 5.46 - Simplification update #5

• Weapons:
  • In a manner similar to the MAC-10 and MAC-11, these weapons are now considered to be auto pistols if their stock is folded: B+T MP9-N, CZ Sa vz. 26, CZ Skorpion vz. 61, CZ Skorpion vz. 83, IMI UZI, KBP PP-2000, Ruger MP9, Steyr MPi 81
  • These weapons have changed categories entirely: Danuvia VD-01 (Submachine gun -> Auto pistol), H&K MP5K (Submachine gun -> Auto pistol)
  • Artifact weapons; Bat out of Hell, Doomslayer: No longer dependent on the Contestant story for acquisition. Their effects and special abilities have also been modified - see each page for further details.
• Statistics:
  • Pain: No longer naturally regenerates at a rate of -2% per turn; in fact, the entire concept of "Pain regeneration per turn" is removed. Instead, 40% Pain is healed every day during the Daily Reset (10% in Survival Mode at every Trading Post instead)
• Meds:
  • Cannabis no longer increases pain regeneration per turn, but instead decreases Pain by a flat amount; -25%.
• Other changes:
  • Augmentations: Guardian LSS modified so it doesn't improve pain regeneration per turn anymore, but instead reduces Pain Sensitivity and improves the effectiveness of Pain healing at the Daily Reset (Level 2: Pain Sensitivity -10%, Daily Reset Pain healed by 70%. Level 3: Pain Sensitivity -20%, Daily Reset Pain healed by 100%.)
  • Tanuki special abilities: A new 9 TB ability called Still Hard is added. Applies Strong limb healing to any of the tanuki's limbs. Regeneration is now more expensive, bumped up to 5 TB. Many abilities have had their effects simplified as well.

November 10th 2019

Version 5.45 - Simplification update #4: Ores, metals and mining

• Valuables:
  • Scandium and palladium ingots have been scrapped
  • Introduction of new types of ingots: Zinc, Iron, and Tungsten
  • All ingots are now available in four sizes: 100g (0.2 Weight units), 250g (0.5 units), 500g (1 unit) and 1000g (2 units)
  • "Hardened steel" was renamed to just "Steel"
  • Value per kilogram of brass is now 240 P$ (previously 224 P$)
  • Value per kilogram of electrum is now 1400 P$ (previously 1340 P$)
• Ores and mining:
  • All metal ores have been completely scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up. All types of metal ores now contain a percentage of ONE useful metal or "quick cash" element, and are now based on more realistic types of minerals.
  • The list of "Primary" mining elements (which can be exchanged for ingots) has been rewritten, and now includes (from least to most valuable): Zinc, Lead, Iron, Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
  • The list of "Secondary" mining elements (which can be exchanged for cash) has been rewritten, and now includes (from least to most valuable): Coal, Sulfur, Nickel, Mercury, Magnesium, Tin, Cobalt, Aluminium, Molybdenum, Titanium, and Chromium.
  • There isn't a tertiary "garbage" category of ore materials anymore.
  • Object line nomenclature for all metal and gemstone ores has been redone for clarity.
• Other changes:
  • Dimensions of brass and electrum coins were modified slightly to account for the changes.

September 24th 2019

Version 5.44 - Various changes in various domains

• Buff to the gohei and shaku: Each weapon now gains a Charge point when killing a creature it is designed to deal double damage to, and for every Charge point it holds, the weapon deals an additional LDV+1. If at least 1 Charge point is in the weapon, the user can use a special attack ("Terminating Seal" for the gohei, "Cleansing Fire" for the shaku) which will allow the weapon to temporarily deal quadruple (4x) damage instead of just double against the species it is designed to hurt, for one turn only. On the following turn, the weapon loses all of its Charge points.
• Introducing a new type of key item, the skeleton key; 10 different types exist, from Type 0 to Type 9. The purpose of a skeleton key is to open any mechanical lock, as long as the type matches the first digit of the lock's serial number (e.g. a Type 2 skeleton key will open any lock from 2000 to 2999).
  • Skeleton keys break after one use.
  • They can be sometimes found in &stuff.
  • They can also be crafted; two new crafting blueprints, SkelKeyA and SkelKeyB were introduced. In a first for the game, these recipes also require a certain skill level in Lockpicking in order to use (respectively, Lv2 - Basic, and Lv3 - Skilled).
• Introducing a new type of toolkit, the hacking tool, which is essentially an electronic lockpick. Hacking tools are disposable devices with electronic spoofing software; they can be used up to 10 times, then brick themselves.
  • It replaces the HX-1337 series of hacking augmentations, which have been scrapped from the game.
  • Modifications to the hacking mini-games were made to accomodate for the new hacking tool.
  • The &loginwords command was renamed to &words, and its dictionary of words was increased from 810 to 8738 words.
• Kasha buffs: Kasha base stats have been improved (Base limb health: 43 -> 60, Max Blood 12 -> 17, Pain sensitivity 163% -> 117%), and their old "Savage" ability was removed, and replaced with two new abilities, Natural Hunter and Savage Mode:
  • Natural Hunter: As a passive ability, kasha claws are tough enough to allow for Butchering without the need for a suitable tool. All Kasha also start with Lv2 - Basic in Hunting.
  • Savage Mode: Kasha can, at will, give themselves +10.0% Stress in exchange for +40% Strength and -40% Pain Sensitivity for 20 turns. If Savage Mode is already active, Kasha can activate the ability again to extend the remaining duration by another 20 turns.
• Nerfing UHS ammunition: It now deals 1.3x damage (Pain and LD) instead of 1.4x.
• Changes to MAIM: Rie "Fireball" Kirari, being a kasha, now benefits from the new abilities introduced above. Her natural Pain Sensitivity was also lowered to 87%.
• Changes to healing: First Aid Kits and Field Surgery Kits now instantly heal HP instead of HP over time (Light: +7 HP; Strong: +12 HP). The bonuses introduced by the Healing skill now give additional HP to all of the limbs not targeted by the FAK/FSK - +1 HP at Basic, +2 HP at Skilled, +3 HP at Expert, and +4 HP at Master. The bonus HP is free and costs no Nutrition or Fatigue.

September 6th 2019 (2)

Version 5.43 (part 3) - The SteveMRE Konbini update part 3/3: Convenience stores

Convenience stores

• Convenience stores are a new shop type which replaces the previously existing takeout stands.
• Convenience stores are a type of individual shop, sharing the same layout as other types of individual shops.
• The purpose of convenience stores is to sell a fixed inventory of items considered to be basic necessities. Unlike most other shops in the Mazes, the majority of their inventory is not random.
• Items sold at convenience stores are divided in four aisles: Food aisle, Ammo aisle, First Aid aisle, and Misc aisle.
• Each convenience store belongs to one of five chains; 24-Seven, Fusco's Bodega, Angelstop, Circle H and Tomato Konbini. Each chain has their own traits and extra features, such as raffle tickets for every 250 P$ of purchases, extra gear, or extra services.

September 6th 2019 (1)

Version 5.43 (part 2) - The SteveMRE Konbini update part 2/3: New and improved rations, new food items

This is the second part out of a series of three updates.

New food items

• 11 new and improved rations have been introduced, replacing the previous 3 completely.
• New category of food item, powdered drinks. Powdered drinks are inedible on their own, but can be combined with a bottle of water to create a drink.
  • 8 powdered drink packets, and 8 corresponding crafting-only beverages introduced.
• 20 new types of regular food items introduced, many of which can be found in the new rations.

All of the new items have been added to the Food page.

Other changes

• New crafting item, the Mini-bag of 5 safety matches, which is found in many rations, but can also be found for sale at Workshops for 0.10 apiece.

September 5th 2019

Version 5.43 (part 1) - The SteveMRE Konbini update part 1/3: Changes to consumables

This is the first part out of a series of three updates.

The effects of many consumables have been modified.

General changes to all consumables

• All consumables that previously listed a percentage chance to get an effect, now always give the listed effect. The percentage chance effects have been scrapped.

Changes to Effects

• Nausea is now a permanent effect that gives the afflicted creature an IR +1 effect and a nauseous sensation. This effect can, however, be eliminated by attempting to throw up. Even if the attempt fails, Nausea will always be eliminated this way.
  • All references to Nausea having a turn duration have also been eliminated.
• Suppressed hunger has been completely rewritten, and now works as follows: If Hungry, Famished or Starving, this effect will treat the creature's Nutrition level as being OK (temporarily canceling any negative effects from low nutrition).

Changes to food

• Can of cola drink: No longer provides Agility +1 and Alertness increase - still affects Fatigue and Stress
• Can of lemonade: No longer provides any effects besides nutrition and hydration
• Can of energy drink: No longer provides Strength +10%, but the effect is lengthened from 15 to 20 turns, and now also reduces Fatigue by 5.0% and increases Stress by 0.5%.
• Cup of tea, green: Effect now increases alertness instead of Agility, effect now lasts 10 turns
• Cup of tea, black: Effect now increases alertness instead of Agility, effect now lasts 10 turns
• All game meat boosting Strength or Alertness: All effects now last 20 turns instead of 2 or 3 turns.
• Hot-gon (exclusive to Diamond Hot-Dogs): Effect now lasts 20 turns

Changes to meds

Many medical items have had their effects completely rewritten. These are the new effects for the following items:

• Cannabis joint: Agility -1, Pain Regeneration Rate +2% /turn for 20 turns, Stress -1.0%
• Cigarette: Agility +1, FT -1 for 10 turns
• Nitrous oxide: Pain Sensitivity -50%, Euphoria Rush for 10 turns
• Amphetamines: Agility +2, Alertness increase, FT -1 for 20 turns, Stress +3.0%
• Pentobarbital: Instant death in 20 turns
• Steroids (anabolic): Strength +40% for 20 turns
• FG-7142: Suppressed hunger for 40 turns, Stress +8.0%
• Desoxyn (meth pill): Alertness increase, Forced wakefulness for 20 turns, Fatigue -30.0%, Stress +10.0%
• Oxycodone: FT+1 for 10 turns, Pain -50%
• Epinephrine: Agility +3, Fatigue -10.0%, Stress +8.0%
• Heroin: Pain sensitivity -100%, FT+2 for 30 turns, Pain -90%
• Lorazepam: Forced sleep for 30 turns
• Morphine: Pain sensitivity -75%, Agility -2 for 30 turns, Pain -70%
• Cocaine: Pain sensitivity -100%, Alertness increase, Hallucinations for 20 turns
• PCP: Pain sensitivity -50%, Alertness increase for 20 turns
• Codeine: Nausea, Pain -40%
• Concentrated caffeine: Alertness increase, Agility +1 for 10 turns, Fatigue -12.0%, Stress +1.2%
• Diazepam: Alertness increase, FT-2 for 20 turns
• Ecstasy: Intense relaxation, Euphoria Rush for 40 turns

Changes to mushrooms

Many mushrooms have had their effects completely rewritten. These are the new effects for the following items:

• Oni's Bane mushroom: Anti-oni syndrome for 10 turns
• Golden cap, Liberty cap: Hallucinations for 10 turns
• Infirmitas: Strength -20% for 10 turns, Nausea
• Turbatio: FT+1 for 10 turns
• Oni Terror: Anti-Oni Syndrome for 30 turns, Nausea
• Fatigatio: Fatigue +30.0%
• Caecitas: FT +3 for 20 turns
• Potentia: Strength +20% for 20 turns
• Accuratio: FT -1 for 20 turns
• Anxietas Medicus: Stress -10.0%
• Strenuitas: Alertness increase for 20 turns
• Velocitas: Agility +1 for 20 turns
• Extra Velocitas: Agility +2 for 20 turns
• Furor: Rage for 20 turns

July 21st 2019

Version 5.42 - Detective update

An accompanying Tsuchinoko update (version 138) will be released on the same day.

Changes to Creatures

• The Maze Police faction has a new rank, Guard Detective. Ranks above Sergeant but below Chief, they are investigators in plain clothes, in charge of cases and issues. They come with their own set of equipment.
  • They now appear as a separate type of creature that can be rolled by the &enc and &enc-LEO commands.
• All Maze Guard flavors have received an equipment update; trauma plates, Tasers, better load-bearing equipment.

July 13th 2019

Version 5.41 - Weapon accessory tweaks and simplifications

This update aims at trimming some more of the fat with game mechanics, specifically mechanics related to weapon accessories.

An accompanying Tsuchinoko update (version 137) will be released on the same day.

Changes to weapon accessories

• Scopes: All scope effects have been re-balanced.
  • Low-power optics: No longer have a special effect boosting accuracy only when aiming at small body parts, and instead provides a flat FT-1 bonus.
  • Medium-power optics: Now provides a FT-2 bonus instead of FT-1.
  • High-power optics: Now provides a IR-2 bonus instead of IR-1.
  • Extreme-power optics: Now provides a IR-2 bonus instead of IR-1.
• Weapon lights:
  • The dazzling effect mechanic has been entirely scrapped.
  • When someone with a weaponlight aims at a creature with night vision or NVGs active, it no longer causes a blindness effect. (Flashbangs are unaffected, they still cause enhanced blindness to creatures with night vision).
  • Weaponlights switched on now automatically break stealth, as they are sources of bright light that can be seen by everyone.
• WL2 batteries have been entirely scrapped, alongside three models of weapon light (Inforce APL, Inforce WML, and P3X Fury Tactical) due to redundancy.
• One new type of dual modules introduced: the Streamlight TLR-4, which can be fitted on Short interfaces.
• All accessories that used to require WL2 batteries, no longer need them, and can function indefinitely. Integrated lights and lasers also no longer show a turn counter to represent battery life.
• All character sheets must have the following modifications made: All Inforce APL lights are replaced by Surefire X300U lights, and all Inforce WML and P3X Fury Tactical lights are replaced by Surefire M620 lights.

Other general changes

• Cover mechanics simplified (effectively returned to a previous state); the Exposure system (exposed/hidden) is scrapped, cover now returns to protecting the full bodies of everyone that is behind cover.

May 18th 2019

Version 5.4 - Simplification update #3 : Stress and inaccurate hits

This update aims at further simplifying certain game mechanics.

General changes

• Stress: All stress levels from Moderate and up no longer cause incremental fatigue effects.
• Inaccurate hits with ranged weapons no longer call for a 1d2-1 check to determine if the shot hits. From now on, all inaccurate hits are hits.
• All inaccurate hits now deal 0.7x Pain and Limb Damage, including in melee (down from 0.8x)

April 23rd 2019

Version 5.3 - Simplification update #2 : Blood

This update aims at simplifying some of the mechanics related to the Blood statistic.

General changes

• Blood no longer naturally heals at a rate of 0.1 per turn, making Pain the only statistic that naturally regenerates every turn no matter what. If you have no wounds, your current Blood level stabilizes at its current level.
• Natural blood regeneration is now tied to the daily reset; on top of the nutrition/hydration that is normally lost at midnight ingame, your body will attempt to regenerate 1 unit of Blood on its own every day (as long as there are no open wounds at that moment). Upon hitting the daily resert, you will lose 150 ntri and 2% Fatigue, and regenerate 1 Blood instantly. This is intended to incite finding BTKs or pay for a medic. If neither is possible, the tried and tested "buy food and let it heal over a few days" also works, however it may take several in-game days for large amounts of lost Blood.
• Blood Transfusion Kits now carry 3 units of Blood each instead of 5. Full BTKs now cost 350 P$ instead of 550 P$.
• A new type of medical item (Epoetin-alfa, syringe) can be consumed to start a 20-turn effect resembling the old natural regeneration effect: +0.1 Blood per turn, in exchange for -15 ntri and +0.2% Fatigue per turn. In total, the item would help your body regenerate up to 2 Blood but burn up to 300 ntri and 4% Fatigue. Syringes of Epoetin-alfa cost 100 P$, making them the cheapest syringe-type medical item.
• Changes to Augmentations: The Guardian LSS no longer increases the amount of Blood regenerated per turn, since that mechanic is gone. Instead, each level increases the amount of Blood regenerated every day by 1, at no extra cost of nutrition and fatigue. Level 1 therefore lets you heal 2 Blood per day, Level 2 is 3 Blood per day, and Level 3 is 4 Blood per day, all for the same cost of 150 ntri/2% Fatigue per turn, making it viable to heal large amounts of Blood loss over the space of a few days.
• Changes to Clothing protections: Buffs to protection ratings. -Resistant will prevent injuries on hits dealing up to 4 limb damage (previously, 2), and -PROOF will prevent injuries on hits dealing up to 8 limb damage (previously, 4).

February 20th 2019

Version 5.2 - Extra game modes update

This update introduces two new methods of playing MazeWorld: Survival and Freeform, and retroactively renames the 'main' mode into Contestant Story or just Story. These new game modes, so to speak, aim at providing more flavors for players and future GMs to enjoy.

General changes

• The character sign-up form has been updated to account for the changes below.

Survival

In this new mode, players adopt the role of a Survivor, whose only objective is to kill anyone that looks at them wrong, and survive as long as possible. Survival is mainly inspired from old-school MazeWorld, it is essentially an endless Uncivilized Area run, just as it once was.

When playing Survival, players have the option to choose between two modes: Tier X (The game ends after completing X Challenges) or Endless (The game only ends with the Survivor's death, or at player request).

The main differences introduced by Survival are as follows:

• No towns or intersections as players know them - Survival is an endless Uncivilized Area streak, equivalent to a Deep route. Explorable areas can even still be found and completed for their rewards!
• Nutrition and Hydration Reset occur every time the Survivor reaches a Trading Post (TP reset). In turn, the reset is much lower than normal. The base values are 420 ntri and 140 wtr (0.2x a normal daily reset).
• Date and time are not tracked.
• No Faction Reputation and no Renown to worry about.
• All skills are unlocked: Survivors start with Unskilled in all non-combat skills (unless skill levels were purchased at Startgame)
• The Survivor starts with a MAIM account, with all generic and regular named mercenaries available (Special mercs are not available as they're tied to the story).
• Every 50 rooms, the Survivor will find a Trading Post, which is nothing more than an intersection with a fixed amount of shops and services (see below for details)
• On the room following every second Trading Post (101, 201, 301...), the Survivor will find a Challenge. Completing the Challenge is necessary to progress forwards!
• If playing on Tier X, X corresponds to the amount of Challenges the player must complete in order to reach the end.
  • There is no upper limit on the Tier number (and subsequent amount of Challenges), though in order to keep games from being unreasonably long, the author's recommendation is to keep it between 1 and 10, and any longer games should be Endless instead.
  • The author personally recommends first-time players and GMs to try Survival Tier 4, for a 401-room adventure.
• Mercenaries function differently:
  • The time-based hiring rates do not apply, and are instead replaced by a 50-room hiring rate (corresponds to the distance between Trading Posts). That special rate is equivalent to 2x the 24-hour rate.
  • Upon being hired, a mercenary will immediately join the Contestant with no waiting time.
  • Merc deaths do not need to be reported.
  • All mercenaries show up with their gear. There are no gear costs - their equipment is essentially free.
  • All special parameters are ignored.

The only objective in Survival is to survive. Each Survivor will be entered into a leaderboard for creatures killed and KV score obtained at the end of their run, as well as rooms visited in Survival Endless.

Freeform play

This is essentially the normal game, but without main story quests or sidequests and with certain shops, services and other conveniences immediately available. This mode aims at a more relaxed experience, without the pressure of the pre-made main story, as well as offering an opportunity to design your own stories and plots.

The main differences introduced by Freeform are as follows:

• All skills are unlocked. Freeform characters start with Unskilled in all non-combat skills, as well as a MAIM account.
• The Freeform character starts with a MAIM account, with all generic and regular named mercenaries available (Special mercs are not available as they're tied to the story).
  • Reputation and Renown requirements from certain mercenaries are disabled.
• Roazon is collapsed, exactly as it would after the Contestant completes Sidequest S3-2.
• All repeatable activities are available: Trading Missions, Mercenary Contracts, Mining, and Bounty Hunter
• Several shops and services that are normally only obtained as sidequest rewards are available from the start:
  • The Power Armor Shop (Ferland Sector) is available and fully upgraded.
  • The Advanced Handloading Services are available at the Ellen Sector factory.
  • The Powder & Primer Shop is available at the Littleton factory.
• Renown and Reputation are disabled, to allow GMs more flexibility.
  • It is recommended to replace any rewards in Renown/Rep with money, where applicable and where it would make sense. (e.g. Vigilante work)

January 17th 2019

Version 5.1 - KISS Update (Keep It Simple, Stupid!)

This update aims at simplifying several game mechanics deemed too granular or generally not fun enough.

Simplified nutrition and hydration

• Nutrition and hydration no longer decay at a rate of 1 per turn. Instead, these stats are slashed by a set amount at a fixed rate and frequency, to symbolize meeting daily recommended needs; these are called the Nutrition Reset and Hydration Reset, respectively.
  • Nutrition is reset every day at midnight. The reset will reduce the current Nutrition by an amount equivalent to (meat worth x 30). For a human, that amount is 2100 ntri.
  • Hydration is reset every day at midnight. The reset will reduce the current Hydration by an amount equivalent to (meat worth x 10). For a human, that amount is 700 wtr.
• Nutrition and hydration each have new value ranges and corresponding effects; they are generally simpler and more clear-cut effects.
  • Nutrition going too high will increase minimum Fatigue, and eventually reduce Agility.
  • Nutrition going too low will decrease Strength, and eventually disable the ability to heal Pain, Blood or Limb Damage (due to the body not having the "fuel" to do so).
  • Hydration going too low will decrease Strength, then Accuracy, then cause Hallucinations, until eventually causing death.

Simplified fatigue

• Fatigue no longer gradually increases every turn (what was called "natural fatigue"). Effects that can increase Fatigue bit by bit every turn still do exist.
• The "Energized" tier is deleted.
• Reaching an amount of Fatigue equal to 2x Endurance will result in death.
• All effects of high fatigue now decrease Agility, and eventually decrease accuracy and cause Hallucinations.

Simplified clothing and armor

• Clothing and armor can no longer sustain damage, period. The only exceptions are:
  • Trauma plates - which still continue to work as they normally do
  • Powered armor - which require a condition meter to determine protection level. When wearing power armor, damage calculation is greatly simplified - 1 limb damage sustained = 1 armor condition lost.
• Cutting clothes into rags (as long as they have the RagOK tag) now always succeeds and results in obtaining 1d4 Rags (at least 1 is now guaranteed). Multipliers (0.5x or 2x) affect the result of that 1d4, and it is always rounded up.

Simplified weapon maintenance

• The Reliability/Max Cleanliness stat is scrapped.
• Durability is renamed Max Condition, and all firearms' Max Condition values have been rewritten.
• Critical failures have been completely revamped and simplified. Condition is now meant to be lost on a critical failure, and for each 2 rolled, the new command @critfail must be used.
  • @critfail contains 80 possible effects, half of which are simple condition loss effects (ranging from 100 to 2000). The other half are condition loss effects (ranging from 50 to 1000) with a weapon failure (failure to fire, eject, etc.) effect on top. If the relevant weapon is a melee weapon or does not have a corresponding weapon failure type, the condition loss effect is doubled instead.

Changes to handloading:

• Load level (hotness) of ammunition affects the severity of the Condition loss on a critical failure. -P/Cold: Condition loss x0.5. +P/Hot: Condition loss x2. +P+/Super: Condition loss x4.
• Powder quality of ammunition also affects the severity of the Condition loss on a critical failure. Surplus: Condition loss x3. Premium: Condition loss x0.5.
• These effects may stack. Round up any results.
• If shooting ammunition of mixed hotness or powder quality in the same turn (not recommended!), the hottest and dirtiest ammunition fired that turn is used as a reference for all rounds fired that turn.

Changes to weapon accessories:

• Since Cleanliness no longer exists, silencers no longer apply a malus on the equipped firearm.

Changes to crafting:

• Gun Cleaning Kits: They are now used to restore a firearm's Condition, as long as it's 60% or higher. Gun Repair Kits can still be used at any Condition percentage.

Changes to Maze Customs:

• Improved barrels now have different effects.
  • 4150CS barrel: Max Condition x1.25.
  • 4150CS + Titanium Nitride (TiN) coating: Max Condition x1.5
  • 4150CS + Titanium Carbonitride (TiCN) coating: Max Condition x2
  • 4150CS + NP3 coating: Max Condition x1.25, Condition loss on critical failure x0.5
  • Rechambering a firearm with an improved barrel no longer causes the improved barrel to be replaced by a normal one (forcing the user to re-purchase the barrel improvements again). Making engineers slightly less evil!...
  • Maze Customs now also offers the possibility to return to a non-improved, stock barrel, for 100 P$.

Extras

• New command: @asktsuchi. Ask a yes/no question and use that command. Results may vary.

November 27th 2018

Version 5 update - The Finished State update

Quests

• Story Arc #3: The Human-Youkai War released! Features 33 quests, 1 sidequest, and 1 emergency quest.
• Endgame content now available! The Contestant story may now come to an end as soon as all four Amulets are gathered

Content

Abilities:

• Several special abilities were renamed to techniques, due to their similarity with martial arts techniques. Techniques are actions that can be performed instead of a regular combat action, and which, if the prerequisites are met, may allow their users to perform special moves that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
• Introduction of several new combat techniques:
  • Techniques that are learned upon reaching Expert skill level with a corresponding combat skill:
    • Firearm techniques: Failure Drill (DA revolver, Semi-auto pistol/rifle/shotgun), Fanning (SA revolver), Mad Minute (Bolt-action), Recoil Control Stance (Automatic pistol/rifle/shotgun), Rifleman Trick (Lever-action), Zero's Trick (Pump-action)
    • Melee techniques: Any-Bash (One- and Two-handed clubs), Any-throw (Thrown weapons), Backlash (Whip/Lash weapons), Desperate Smash (Crude weapons), Double Cleave (Axes, One- and Two-handed swords), Stabbing Rush (Knives)
  • Techniques that can be purchased: Lightning Reload (available for 3000 P$ at any shooting range)

Maze Customs:

• Customs:Minor - 1 new tactical conversion (Pecheneg Zenit), 4 new minor barrel configurations (SCAR-H STD, SCAR-L STD, SCAR-L LB, SG551-LB)

Startgame:

• Tsuchinoko update: Rarity is finally weaved into the drop rates for the weapon commands (@wpn @wpnc1 @wpnc2 @wpnc3 @wpnc4 @wpnc5L @wpnc5S @wpncHG). The original commands (with equal chances for each weapon) have been given the -e suffix (@wpn-e, @wpnc1-e, etc...); e stands for "equivalent" (in the sense that each weapon has the same chance to be rolled as any other).
  • Four new Tsuchinoko commands, @wpn-firearm, @wpn-melee, @wpn-firearm-e and @wpn-melee-e. The first two respectively roll only firearms (Classes 1-4) and melee weapons (Classes 5L, 5S, HG), and the last two are the equivalent chances versions of the first two.
• Kitsune and alligator halflings are now playable (discontinuation of the RePoints system)
• Equipment points to allocate have been increased from 5 to 10.
• Unspent equipment points are now worth 200 P$ each instead of 150 P$, and are now paid entirely in copper coins.
• Starting weapons are no longer dependent on the combat skills selected at the start. All of the packages are now available, and extra packages now only cost 2 equipment points instead of 3.
• Difficulty modes are no longer tied to RePoints. The starting amount of lives (Hard: 1, Easy: 3, Messiah: Infinite) is fixed.

Meta

• GM side changes: Planned migration away from Excel and fully towards Google Docs - from now on GMs and players should be using the same files; any changes and updates should be done through direct edition of the player's GDocs sheet. Any information that is hidden from the player should be kept on a separate, GM-only file (preferably also on GDocs) which lists only the hidden information and nothing else.
• Migration to the new wiki will begin shortly after the release of this update.
• The RePoints system is discontinued (please check the corresponding Patreon post for more information).

Prior versions

You can find all of the previous updates up to version 5 on the old wiki's changelog.