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 13

Pieces of after eight should no longer cause you to explode... most of the time. Hee hee.

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 21

There's been a trivial change to the way sandcastles are constructed. No game reason, it just makes it easier for me to work with the campsite dwelling interface.

January 22

• The Traveling Trader is back in Market Square, and he's brought more inscrutable objects from Distant Lands.
• Fixed the bug that was making the Protector Spectre not physically resistant.

January 23

• Zones or stores which can only be accessed by wearing the pirate outfit will now also be accessible by only wearing pirate fledges.
• The list of things you can turn in for coins during the level 12 quest is now alphabetized. I'm REALLY stretching the limits of "trivial" here.
• CLEESHing physically resistant monsters should no longer result in a physically-resistant amphibian.
• Cans of black paint should now be multi-usable.
• The MP regeneration from the spark-plug earring should be working now.

January 28

In order to repair the damage from a short-sighted decision made earlier in the week, the pirate fledges are now a quest item.

January 30

You can now get rid of the Degrassi Knoll shopping list by using it after you've already built your meatcar.

January 31

• February's Item-of-the-Month is now available in Mr. Store.
• There has been a slight change to the way White Citadel burgers work in Bad Moon. Propriety prohibits me from being any more specific.

February 2

There's no longer a stupid comma inside the stupid parentheses when you use a stupid Knob Goblin firecracker.

February 2

• Golden Mr. Accessories should now be usable in Bad Moon (in the same, not-actually-impacting-gameplay way that they do in regular Hardcore.)
• The plastic pumpkin bucket should no longer behave incorrectly against physically resistant monsters (this fix will actually take effect at rollover tonight.)
• The name of your Reassembled Blackbird is now remembered across ascensions.

February 7

• Small meat pasting change: Items which can be meat pasted are now marked as such on their item description, and only items which are meat pasting components will show up in the [combine stuff] page.
• Evil golden arches are also no longer campsite items.
• The Orcish Meat locker is no longer a campsite item. The locker item (and the key, and the way in which the "puzzle" works) has been updated.
• Fixed some display weirdness with the campground bookshelf.

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.
• Strange things are afoot on the open seas. The mysterious plinth has begun behaving in an even more mysterious way.
• Beanbag chairs have gotten the meat locker / evil golden arches treatment, which was the most popular program at John Harvey Kellogg's sanatorium. They now go INSIDE your dwelling, and give bonus MP when you rest.
• The NPZR will no longer steal Meat after the 10th round of combat. Nerf nerf nerf.
• There's a new item that can be made with mummy wrappings. Ashallond will presumably be super-excited.

February 11

The Hole in the Sky no longer has two different (identical) versions of the Astronomer in it.

February 18

• Divine champagne flutes should no longer trigger on the steel margarita. In other news, all trivial updates, starting with this one, will be written by Allen Ginsberg.
• The conditional that prevents the lion oil from dropping before the bird rib has been altered such that it now only applies during your very first run through the game.
• There's another new clover adventure, this one in the Black Forest.
• There's a new clover adventure at The Oasis.
• The drop rate on the quest items in The F'c'le have been increased a bit to bring them more in line with drop rates on other quest items in other zones and other, completely different video games.

February 19

The first encounter with Mr. Alarm should now properly respond to +Noncombat skills and effects.

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 21

Spectral Snapper is now no longer unusable with a ranged weapon equipped.

February 22

• The Fly-By-Knight Heraldry form is now available in Mr. Store (two of 'em for 1 Mr. Accessory.)
• Drum machines are now tradable, and they will no longer work if you haven't unlocked Desert Beach yet.

February 25

The various Pastamancer lo mein dishes no longer require the Wok of Ages to cook.

February 26

• The Flea Market now has sections for HP- and MP-restoring items.
• During the level 12 quest, the "Last Adventure" container link should now send you to the specific section of the island you were in, rather than the main island page. Sorry it took me so long to figure out that this is what people were asking for.
• At least two problems with the Yellow Exclamation Points sending you to the Council when they've got nothing for you have been solved. At least one problem with the previous sentence has been ignored.
• The various duckful zones of McMillicancuddy's farm should now have links back to the island when they become duckless.

February 27

There should now be an "Adventure again" link after you fight a topiary golem.

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.

March 23

• Due to Easter, the in-game holiday Oyster has been postponed until tomorrow. This delay has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that we drank a lot last night.

March 25

• Items marked as "Gift Items" can now be traded with other players using the secure trade system. Our inner hippies are crying.
  
  In other equally gift-related news, there are three new hilarious items available for summoning from McPhee's Grimoire. For the next week, summons are guaranteed to produce at least one of the new items.
• If you try to adventure in an area of the Cyrpt that has already been undefiled, you will now get a link back to the Cyrpt.
• There's now a little magnifying glass above your campsite dwelling that will tell you what bed you've got in your dwelling.

March 27

• The way Critical Hits work in combat has been changed. See this forum post for details.

March 28

• Fixed a bug that was causing the item "brick of sand" to not stun monsters the way it used to.

March 31

• April's Item-of-the-Salad is now available in Mr. Store.
• Various punctuation marks are now usable in candy hearts: , @ # $ ^ > * ' " = + - / \ & ( ) : ;
• The rewards for retrieving Yossarian's tools are now zappable into one another.

April 1

• Fixed a bug that was causing some intrinsic effects to persist through ascension.
• To avoid (or possibly cause) confusion, the Tome of Transcendent Olfaction has been renamed to the Manual of Transcendent Olfaction.

April 10

• Pastamancers get some love today. See this forum post for details.
• Accessories in your inventory are now always sorted by name, even if you've set equipment to sort by power.

April 15

• When you view a clan, people who are in Bad Moon now show "(BM)" rather than "(H)" next to them.
• Soft echo green eardrop whatevers will now appear in the list of MP restoring items list on the skills menu. Works with Quick Skills too!
• The iceberglet and its associated items now give a "squeeze again" link when you squeeze them. This is good for cases where you're in the mood for a whole lot of squeezing.
• Locked doors in the Daily Dungeon now tell you how many skeleton keys you have (if any).
• Metallic foil cat ears: You can has them.
• The summon button for the new Pastamancer stuff now tells you what kind of thing you're summoning, as well as what its name is.

April 16

• If you blow up a wand of polymorph, you can now get another one, three days later. 25 days after that, watch out for zombies.

See Also

• Kingdom of Loathing Calendar

External Links

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