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What is the specific date of this patch note? Day/month required - otherwise I could just claim the patch notes say:Zorce wrote:Patch Notes 1999
Players who have a high level of Detect Hidden will be able to detect their presence by merely walking near them.
Thieves Guild, new skills, and more Feb 24 1999 1:06PM - http://wiki.uosecondage.com/?title=1999_Patch_Notes wrote: Detect Hidden
- This skill has gained the ability to detect traps.
- It works just like now, examining a range around the location you target. As before, the range is scaled based on your skill.
- Some traps (freestanding ones in dungeons) are invisible until detected, and when found will become visible to all.
- At higher skill levels, merely coming close to simpler traps will result in "trap here" appearing over the invisible trap. Only the player with high skill will see these messages, though! The trap must be manually revealed for others to see it.
- The professional title for this skill is now "scout."
Also, the messages that appear were based on the type of traps. For example, the type of traps use special font for each such as poison being green, etc... The description of all this lies in the '99 stratics page.Thieves Guild, new skills, and more Feb 24 1999 1:06PM - http://wiki.uosecondage.com/?title=1999_Patch_Notes wrote: World
- Items will now spawn in chests and other containers.
- The items within will depend on the location of the container.
- These containers will be locked, with the lock's difficulty being based on the value of the contents.
- Some of these containers may be trapped as well. The power of the trap will also be scaled by the value of the contents.
- Traps will begin to appear randomly in dungeons.
- These traps will be invisible to the normal observer.
- They can be detected with the Detect Hidden skill.
- Players who have a high level of Detect Hidden will be able to detect their presence by merely walking near them.
- Some traps may be poisoned.
- Capability was added to have special event regions, to allow things like town invasions.
I'm highly confident that the '99 Stratics will reflect the same color mechanism. However, my initial thoughts was that explosion traps were purple not red as you stated above Sandro. Reading this pretty much confirmed that it was in fact purple as memorized.Current Stratics - http://uo.stratics.com/content/skills/detecthidden.shtml wrote:To see if a container is trapped place it on the floor and use the Detect Hidden skill on the container or on the floor next to it. If the container is trapped and the skill is successful the words "[trapped]" will appear over it.
The 3 types of container traps are displayed with a color when detected.
- Purple for explosion traps.
- Blue for dart traps or dart & explosion traps
- Green for poison traps, poison & dart traps, poison & explosion traps or poison & dart & explosion traps (ouch!).
Stratics '99 - http://web.archive.org/web/19991116031932/uo.stratics.com/detect.htm wrote: Trapped ContainersDungeon Traps
- The 3 types of container traps are displayed with a color when detected.
- Purple for explosion traps.
- Blue for dart traps or dart & explosion traps
- Green for poison traps, poison & dart traps, poison & explosion traps or poison & dart & explosion traps (ouch!).
- All dungeons can spawn the following traps at random locations: Floor saw trap, floor spike trap, poison gas trap and exploding mushroom trap. The deeper you descend into a dungeon, the more powerful the traps will be.
- Freestanding traps in dungeons are invisible until detected, and when found become visible to all.
- Dungeon traps can do up to 60 points of damage.
- At higher skill levels, merely coming close to simpler dungeon traps will result in "trap here" appearing over the invisible trap. Only the player with high skill will see these messages, though! The trap must be revealed by using the Remove Trap skill for others to see it
- Revealed dungeon traps will disappear after a few minutes.
That is correct.Derrick wrote: I was pretty certain before and and very certain now based on the posted notes above that you didn't ever detect trapped chests by approaching them, this was for dungeon traps only.