Version 2.3 5th April, 2004

• New mission: Hijack
• New minimission: Cargo
• New simulator game: Zoo
• Most of the training simulator programs have been updated
• Many fixes and changes to the actions system. Being drunk, or mogged affects the actions output better
• Mobiles have many more tell responses
• Lots of bugs fixed behind the scenes and various new/updated features
• Picayune has been promoted to Captain

Thanks to Charli, Daz, Ellyll, Gareth, Mariusz, Picayune, plett, Serriadh, Twiglet

We've moved 29th September, 2003

And you've found us. We have updated cryosphere.net to point to this new host, but in the meantime you can use its real address - ellyll.net (port 6666 as ever).

Version 2.2

In addition to moving, we also upgraded to a new version.

• There is now a personal actions system, called MyAct. It allows all players to create their own actions, assuming you can follow the instructions in info myact.
• Alpha Centauri now has a wilderness and the Old Town has been linked into it, as has the new Hangar mission. This is the first mission offered by a government other than the British.
• There is a new type of minimission - Bulb.
• More mortal ranks have been added. This means Commander is now grade 23, not grade 18. This stops the gaps between ranks being quite so ridicously large as they were getting.
• Client updates: The Connect 4 and Othello games will now appear in a subwindow in ZMUD. MXP clients like mushclient and ZMUD now operate in 256-colour mode.
  With mushclient, unnecessary prompts will no longer be displayed on screen.
• Who/users etc are much nicer, and there's a new multiwho command that lets you pick and choose what columns you want.
• Emergency tickets off Eden and New Lyon are now available from the British Embassy and the Canadian Consulate.
• 'Sit chair' will now sit upon the first vacant chair it finds, if there are any.
• We can turn you into a pumpkin.

Thanks to Boyde, Charli, Daz, Gaz, Magnus, Mariusz, Orange, plett, Secret, and Serriadh.

MusicMUD release 8th April, 2003

You can now download MusicMUD 2.1. This is the codebase we are currently running (with a few improvements) but with Cryosphere-specific stuff cut out, and a small demonstration world. At the moment comes with very patchy docs indeed (so will only be of use to people who have previously built for Cryo), but this will be fixed at some point.

IPv6 24th March, 2003

We are pleased to announce the mud now has live support for IPv6 (the next version of the Internet Protocol). The address is ipv6.cryosphere.net 6666.

Version 2.1 23rd March, 2003

• We have a new bug tracker written by Plett.
• The Wilderness code has been generalised, so we will be able to offer in future wildernesses on other planets than Livingstone.
• You can smuggle! But we won't tell you how!
• Experimental support for telnet MULTIPLEX option (currently only supported by crystal), to allow game boards to be overlaid on the output and update in-place.
• All scripting has been converted to Lua. Mudcode is dead.
• There's an 'ignore' command.
• The mailer and boards now remember what you've read.
• Tip of the day system!
• Left luggage offices.
• Timezone support.
• Qinv (quick inventory) command.
• Durians!