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Your equipment list stops emptying itself

5.3.85 · September 13, 2026

 - Your equipment list stops emptying itself: if your client reads
   GMCP, saving your character told it that every worn slot had emptied
   and refilled -- sixty-six messages saying nothing, on every autosave
   and every shop trip.  Repair all turned that into over a thousand,
   which overran the output buffer and threw away the messages that put
   your gear back.  That is why the list went blank rather than stale.
   If the buffer does overflow now, the server rebuilds what your client
   knows instead of leaving it wrong.
 - Surviving a fall leaves you on your feet: a landing you lived
   through used to put you on exactly zero hit points, stunned.  You now
   keep a fifth of your health, and never less than one.
 - HRDR counts your bloodlust: the +4 hitroll and +4 damroll from a
   bloodlust item was always real and always applied, but hrdr could
   not see it -- so the command whose job is explaining where your
   damroll comes from came up four short.
 - Hiself is now himself: bashing someone over could describe them
   hurting "hiself".  Five years old, hidden because the neutral form
   spells "itself" correctly by accident.  (Reported by Kelemvor.)