History of Loathing (2008)

These pages shall contain the history of the Kingdom of Loathing.

January 3, 2008

• January's Item-of-the-Month is now available in Mr. Store. Sorry about the delay.
• In other, related news, Summon Snowcones, Summon Candy Hearts, and Summon Hilarious Objects are no longer considered skills, but are accessed from a bookshelf that has appeared (as if by magic) in your campsite if you had any of those skills. January's IotM also uses this new mechanic.

January 18

• Interface upgrade! Mystical Bookshelf skills have been re-added to the skills page (including Quick Skills.) Convenient!
• Additionally, the Account Menu has been tidied up a bit. Some links were removed and turned into checkboxes, and hidden behind javascripty links. In the Account Menu, you can find a new option to anchor the Bookshelf skills to the bottom of your skill menu, and separate them by type (tome, libram, grimoire.)

January 22

The Traveling Trader is back in Market Square, and he's brought more inscrutable objects from Distant Lands.

January 31

February's Item-of-the-Month is now available in Mr. Store.

February 8

Strange things are afoot on the open seas. The mysterious plinth has begun behaving in an even more mysterious way.

February 8

This was a trivial announcement yesterday, but it probably merits a real announcement: There's been a change to the way Meat pasting works. Items that are pastable are now designated as such, and the combine screen now only shows items that have existing paste recipes. No more huge lists.

February 20

A fourth type of PvP attack has been introduced. Where the original three stances pick three tuned stat challenges and four minigames for the PvP contest, the new "Ballyhoo" stance will pick a random buffed stat, a random raw stat, and five minigames.

February 22

The Fly-By-Knight Heraldry form is now available in Mr. Store (two of 'em for 1 Mr. Accessory.)

February 29

March's Item-of-the-Month is now available in Mr. Store.

March 5

• In inventory, the name of an equipment slot at the top is now a link to that section of the equipment page.
• The "From" display when you open gift packages is now a proper player link. This means you can now use the right-click menu, if you've got it enabled, to quickly send a thank-you note if you want to.

March 6

Rings of gain strength, adornment, and increase damage have all had their enchantments doubled.

March 8

Fixed a glitch with the Weapon link in last week's trivial inventory update.

March 11

A minor (but hopefully strategically interesting) update -- key lime pies made with the Legend keys now give you back the key you cooked into them when eaten. The digital and star equivalents give you some of the ingredients back, as well.

March 13

• Random interface upgrade time! Combat Action Bars, a shiny, graphical way to interface with combat, has been released. Go to your Account Menu to enable it. This feature will likely only work in Internet Explorer and Firefox. See this forum thread for details.
• The character pane should now update properly when you get Meat from the hippy store.

March 17

• The way that elemental resistance works has been changed a little bit. See this forum post for details.
• Internet Explorer users of the Combat Action Bar should now be able to load the old combat form.

March 18

• The Disco Bandit skill Crossbow Fever has been renamed Disco Fever, and now applies to all ranged weapons instead of just crossbows.
• Fixed a minor glitch whereby certain conditional skills that were supposed to be free were charging 1 MP.
• You can now forsake your period of Ronin and drop to a casual ascension with an option in the Account Menu.
• You now get proper access to Hagnk's after freeing the King in a Bad Moon run.

See Also

• Kingdom of Loathing Calendar

External Links

• Trog Dor's History of Loathing
• KOL Old Announcements
• KOL Trivial Updates