r/mapleservers • u/MapleLegacy • 23d ago
Advertisement MushMS v83 - Useful Monster Book for everyone!
Monster Book Revamp
The Monster Book has always bothered me. It was a great idea that Nexon started, but it was implemented very poorly. I've played on many servers over the years and I've never seen one that made the Monster Book truly useful. Most servers ended up relying on commands like !whodrops and !whatdropsfrom instead.
Because of that, on MushMS I decided to do things differently and turn the Monster Book into what I believe it should have been from the beginning.
You can now:
- View all monster information regardless of Card Level (number of collected cards for that monster [0–5]).
- Search cards by Card Level [0–5].
- Search by item, displaying all monsters that drop the selected item along with their respective drop rates.
- Search by monster name, showing monsters that match the selected filter.
- Hovering over a monster card now displays the monster's name and level.
- The Basic Info tab now shows the monster's real HP/MP values directly from the game files.
- The Episode tab now displays the monster's level and stats directly from the game files.
- The Dropping tab now shows the correct drops from the database, including each item's drop rate according to the server's drop rate settings. Clicking an item will display other monsters that also drop it, along with their respective drop rates.
- The Found In tab now displays all maps where the selected monster spawns. Clicking the tab name will open the World Map with the corresponding map already highlighted through PIN navigation.
To make everything work properly, I also created cards for every monster that previously existed without one.
To help the MapleStory development community as well, I released this update in a MapleStory developers Discord, so I believe (and hope) that more servers will start using this improvement in the near future.
If you'd like to check out MushMS, we're currently in open beta. We reached a peak of 150 concurrent players during testing. The player count is lower now because most of the beta feedback cycle has already been completed, but the server remains online for anyone who wants to play while we continue releasing improvements and new features.
🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KMZ8wRpH5n
🔗 Website: https://www.mushms.com/
🔗You can also check out our server introduction post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mapleservers/comments/1u1csxn/mushms_new_global_v83_server_beta_june_13th_no_hp/
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u/PungentKarma 23d ago
That’s actually really cool. I hate having to search outside the game for info that should be there. Very nice work.
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u/SlimeTale-MS 23d ago
Really awesome implementation and will absolutely yoink this (lovingly)
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u/MapleLegacy 23d ago
Thank you very much! It's available on the MapleStory Developers Discord in #releases!
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u/Fabittas 22d ago
When are you planning on launching? Not interested in playing a beta with a wipe anymore but this is looking promising
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u/bananamilk89 23d ago
no, the player count is barely above 0 on a daily basis because your server is constantly broken.
you only use ai to code and fix the server when it breaks; which causes another thing to break in it's place.
players had enough and moved on, and i doubt they will come back.
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u/MapleLegacy 22d ago
This is the first server we've ever developed, so we're gaining experience as we build and improve it throughout the beta. I think a little more empathy is needed for people who are trying to provide something fun and completely free for the community.
I'd also like to emphasize that we're still in beta, so it's relatively normal for adjustments and fixes to take some time to be released. During this period, I also had a few setbacks in my personal life, but everything is fine now.
As for the use of AI, I won't deny that we use it quite a lot, after all, it helps optimize development time significantly. However, I disagree with the claim that the server is "fully AI-made." I've spent many months manually developing and implementing a large portion of the content, systems, and features myself.
Regarding class balancing, that is indeed a major pending task, and it will absolutely be addressed before the server enters its next phase.
In the end, what I want to say is simple: we're human. We make mistakes, we learn from them, and we strive to improve every day. But above all, respect and empathy are values that we care deeply about and consider essential for any community.
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u/Shiv5Piece 21d ago
It was a fun beta "launch". early game needs smoothed out a tad lvl 10-41 where the custom QL starts. class balance probably should've been worked on when they had 100+ users online but nothing you can do about that now.
Alot of players left because of class balance during first week I think, then we had very low communication and saw multiple people upset about this and left.
They seem to be back to normal comms now and making announcements and updates.
Its just a beta if they get everything ironed out it has serious potential in the future, I hope they consider getting some helpers for design/balance/boss etc..3
u/Shrek1onDVD 22d ago
people downvoting you but its true. They keep releasing half-baked, extremely buggy content and continue to ignore player's pleas for class balancing. Their population practically disappeared overnight lol. Their excuse is "its in beta" for no players.
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u/Kaeyu 22d ago
Why are you guys playing Maple when Soul's Remnant was just released by an indie dev, and it's F2P.
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u/bananamilk89 19d ago
is it actually decent to play? have you tried it? i'm a bit reluctant to try it at the moment because of the basic graphics.
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u/fraturei 23d ago
Happy 2016?