It's been a while and I've recently been back at it again adding lots of missing features and fixing bugs.

I’ll be honest. I got a little burnt out on reoserv. Lots of stuff has happened since my last post.

• Vult-r has launched the new main server Endless Online “Recharged”
• I got distracted and made a 0.4.x compatible proxy with a web app GUI
• Vult-r updated the protocol/encoding multiple times and broke our fun new toys
• Cirras has announced a new server emulator! Croissant 🥐
  • It’s being written in Java and using a similar actor model to reoserv. I’m excited to see how it goes as he develops and releases it.

So what’s new in REOSERV? #

Features ✨ #

• Killing monsters now grants experience and players can level up
• Players can spend stat points to level up their stats
• Players can now interact with shop keeper NPCs to trade and craft items
• Players can now sit and stand from chairs
• Players can now interact with skill master NPCs to learn skills, forget skills, and reset their character
• Players can now cast healing and combat spells 🪄
  • Limited to PvE combat for now
• Players can now open and deposit items into their bank vault
  • But they can’t take anything out yet 😅

Bug fixes 🐛 #

• Fixed Server side range checks
  • NPCs shouldn’t “disappear” from player view without manually refreshing
  • Ghost Players/NPCs shouldn’t appear near the edges of your screen
• Fixed a bug with NPC chase behavior so they will attempt to move around obstacles
  • This still needs some work. NPCs can get caught in a loop where they just walk back and forth if there’s another NPC blocking their path
• Fixed NPC spawn logic so they should spawn in bounds of walls/npc walls
• Fixed player weight issues when dropping/picking up items from the ground
  • Player weight should now always be capped at 250
• Fixed player death code so that NPCs drop the player from their opponent list after death
• Fixed NPC damage handler so that a “Miss” attack still registers the player as an opponent
• Fixed character loading code so that necklace equipment properly loads

Code cleanup 🧹 #

• Packet handlers now take the existing StreamReader object, rather than allocating a new one
• Replaced the giant pattern match statement for packet handlers with individual modules for each family.
  • This makes the code a lot more readable
  • Like EOSERV you can now find all the handlers for a particular packet family in one file
• Got rid of most of the debug! statements in the code base. I felt they didn’t really add much value and just made the output noisy
• Split up the character struct implementation into smaller modules to make my editor more happy when changing them

What’s left? #

REOSERV is getting closer and closer to feature complete, but there is still so much to do.

• Finish player vault handlers
• Bank NPC handlers
• Party system
• Player trading
• Kill steal protection system
• Guild system
• Town boards
• Anti-speed system
• Timed map events
  • Spikes
  • Earthquakes
  • HP/TP Drain
  • Warp “Suck” (being warped if you stand next to a warp tile for too long)
• Boss & Minion system
• Moderation commands (kick, jail, ban, mute, player info)
• Admin interaction (reports, messages)
• Admin commands (hide/unhide, map mutation)
• Player commands (#find, #ping)
• Law & Marriage
• Quest system

Release? #

I don’t expect anyone to use REOSERV in its current state, but I do want to begin releasing updates and updating the documentation on how to set it up.

We’ve been version 0.0.0 since I started and it’s starting to bother me.. 😅

Hope you enjoyed this update! I’ll try to get the next one out soon 😜