• Three new minimissions
• A new parser - you can now use 'and' and 'any'
• Bar-stools can only be sat on by one person
• Combat messages are more varied
• Clothes have been reimplemented. You can now wear outerwear over under or middle-wear.
• Minfo has been restored.

Hot on the heels of version 1.5 comes version 2.0! We really wanted to move to this straight away, but couldn't resist letting you have some of the features earlier.

The combat engine has undergone a total revamp. This project has been long in the making, but we've finally done it.

The Ocean mission by Orange has been added. This mission, set on Livingstone, is the replacement for the old Livingstone quest.

There's a 'whoname' command now. And a 'sayto', although why you'd want that I'm not quite sure.

Shops won't just buy anything back. A clothing shop will only buy clothes, a bar won't buy anything. However, anything you do sell to a shop that doesn't usually stock, it will be added to the stock list. You might find it tricky finding people to buy Contraband items, though.

There's a rumour that the Cryosphere is just a game. You can prove that right by trying 'endprogram' outside of a simulator, courtesy of Gaz and Twiglet.

A number of core commands have been given a fresh lick of paint, including look, inventory, size, value and map.

Magic mushrooms may make you trip. (If you just take random ones from the Livingstone forest you may die, but there is of course a way round this). You can now interact with fluffinexol-inspired bunnies. Thanks to Sniper for the zone-work on this.

Most commands that take 'all fish' also take 'all but fish', too. 'take all but fish' would pick up everything here apart from any fish.

On some mud clients (putty, crt, xterm, and screen), the Cryosphere will set the title of the window to your current location. And on some (putty, xterm, crt, linux console, java), it will use line drawing characters for making tables. To turn these off do 'lines off'.

Skateboards!

The mud supports various different colour schemes. Just type 'colour' to get a list of them.

And that's just the start of it - many bugs have been fixed, many small changes have been made, many help files have been updated.

Welcome to version 1.5 of the Cryosphere. This new improved version fixes many bugs and adds lots of new minor features, some of which are listed below.

New missions include Kazimierz by Yoru and Eviction by Orange, and two new minimissions. The old baddiel mission has been substantially renovated into the new Rescue mission by Gaz and Twiglet.

You can now alias commands. For example, alias banana users will allow you to view the output of the users command by typing banana. Some actions, such as cower, can be used with an object as its target. Actions can now be used over the communication lines. e.g. gossip #cheer will show the cheer action to everyone that has gossip enabled.

Use of the map command has been altered slightly. Try using it on the Cryosphere itself!

Mobiles now leave corpses when slain. Don't indulge yourself on too much alcohol, it could be harmful to your health.

In outdoor planetary locations, there are now day and night periods. Use of away has changed slightly - you can just change away message by using it again, instead of coming back to your keyboard first. Back issues of the Cryosphere Daily Record can now be purchased from the newsagent at a reduced price. There should be a new edition any day now!

Of course, there are lots more behind-the-scenes systems that have been re-written and fixed, and lots of general tidying up.

Hope you enjoy the new version!

After some recent downtime, the Cryosphere is pleased to announce its return.

In the next few days Cryosphere's IP address will change. To this end, DNS may take a while to get updated. If you find you cannot connect, try to connect to 152.78.189.236 instead. Port number remains as 6666.