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Wyvern is an award-winning massively multiplayer online RPG with a distinctly retro look and feel similar to that of classic PC games. If you make Wizard, you can create your own mods and game areas for other people to visit. You can use our Map Editor to create new areas, and the game is also fully programmable in Java and Jython. Using the Wizard developer tools, you can create your own weapons, monsters, treasures, quests, guilds, and more. Wyvern is currently in beta test. We encourage you to playtest the game, and submit bug reports and feature requests. Please read the Official Wyvern Beta Test Rules before you log in.
Healing Nerfed
We've instituted level caps on healing spells, in response to player complaints that high-level players are "spamming" heal spells with aliases and becoming effectively death-proof. The new limits are:
For example, if you're 8th level you can cast minor healing, but if you're 9th level it will have no effect on you: you'll need to upgrade to medium healing. For now, players can always cast the Heal spell (a full heal). The source of the spell doesn't matter: you can try it with a potion or scroll, or have someone cast it on you, but if your level is above the maximum, the spell will simply be too wimpy to affect your powerful physique. We will continue to observe the balance of heal spells, and if we feel they are still too easy to abuse, we may make further modifications to them.
Death Bug Fixed
We've fixed the "Death Bug" that's been with the game since it came back online 3 weeks ago. The bug was that if you had a spell active when you died, you didn't actually finish dying. As convenient as you may have found this to be in your adventuring, we went ahead and fixed it, so be warned! If you die, you really die now. — The Management
Create Character and Reset Password are back
We've found and fixed a bunch of bugs in the char-creation and new-password pages. Those pages are turned back on again. If you had a new character that was reset last week, we apologize, but such are the perils of beta software. If you have a character that you can't log in with, try deleting it and recreating it from scratch. If the character has possessions and experience you'd rather not lose, then contact a Wizard and we'll try to fix you up. Thanks for your patience while we work our way through the remaining system bugs. 15 months of downtime created a lot of issues, but we're working on them as fast as we can.
Yowza - 3 day outage
Our server machine lost power on New Years Day, and we weren't able to restore it for three days. We're working with our ISP to be able to do on-demand restarts, so hopefully this won't happen again! We've heard that there were some remaining problems with logging in, so for now character-creation and other helpdesk website functions are disabled. We're going to spend a few days to shore things up. You should be able to create characters by Jan 8th. In the meantime, if you are having trouble logging in with one of your characters, rest assured that we're working on fixing it asap!
Login problem fixed
For the past few days, about 200 characters have been unable to log in to the game. We've fixed the affected player files and have emailed the owners. If you have trouble logging in with one of your characters, please contact a Wizard. Update: we accidentally reset a bunch of new characters (all created since 12/26). Oops! If you log in and find all your stuff disappeared, and you're back to level 1, please contact a Wizard and we'll set you right. Our apologies for the inconvenience as we get the game running smoothly again.
A groggy Wyvern slowly recovering strength
We've finally fixed the insidious player-creation bug. All 200 or so characters created since the game returned have been deleted, since they could not log in. You are welcome to create new characters now. Please let a Wizard know if you have any trouble. Bear in mind that currently you cannot use AOL email to create Wyvern characters, but we're working with our ISP on a fix for this. As we predicted in the news item below, there are still some things that are broken. Two of the bigger bugs are (1) a reported "death bug" related to the Mana Shield spell, and (2) a number of existing characters cannot log in, as it freezes up the client. Thank you for your patience as we work to investigate and fix these issues.
A Merry Wyvern Holiday to You!
Happy Holidays! Wyvern is back after being offline for 15 months! Thank you all for your patience. Rhialto had a ton of stuff to do this year, and running Wyvern (even with the help of great wizards like Teshuvah and Arilou) is a big job. But the game is back now, running on a new server, new database and new website. Some things will be broken for a while. Rhialto rewrote a lot of code last year just after bringing the game down for maintenance, but he didn't finish 100% of the work. Some of the forums, high score lists and other sites may not work for a while. But the game should be back to its old self from before the Great Hiatus – no player data or map data or game code has changed. Thanks to all you loyal players and wizards who've kept the faith while the old game bear was hibernating. And welcome back!
— The Wyvern Administrators
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