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Episode. World of Episode 8 "The Dark Revelation" (2012); game values from the original episode 8 server tables (Archonia additions dropped); systems of the original release. Detail by episode: Game episode.

Working with the real client

• Server and tools entirely in Rust (a single archcore executable).
• Encrypted handshake, world list, account login.
• Character list and creation screen.
• World entry, with a starting village per race.
• Spawning of the NPCs around the player (557 since the switch to episode 8 values), with translated titles.
• French client interface, accents included (translation in progress).
• Player movement, with position saving.
• NPC dialog: the npc.ini functions (dialog, shop, quests) are sent with each NPC, and clicking opens the dialog window.
• NPC shops: Darryl's shop (Anchorville) shows its 43 items, and buying takes the gold and puts the item in the inventory.
• Character inventory shown on world entry.

Verified with the simulator, to confirm in game

• Creatures: 36,960 monsters placed from the original server tables, off blocked ground, with their stats (level, speeds, HP). Seen and targeted in game during a first test; sending their HP, added since, remains to be checked. Levels from the template in the episode 8 tables and boss respawn from its boss window; fidelity report in Game episode.
• Melee combat against monsters: approach, hits (hit chance, class-based damage), death, experience and level up (stats, HP and MP from GrowUpFactor), corpse then respawn. Monsters that are hit fight back and chase their attacker; player death and resurrection in town. Drops: gold and items on the ground, pick-up. Equipment: weapons and armour worn (restrictions, two hands), counted in damage and defense, visible to other players; moving items in the inventory. Life and mana potions, out-of-combat HP and MP regeneration. Teleport scrolls (town, round trip, destination); monster patrols. Resurrection at the point of the last safe region crossed; item stacks split, merged, destroyed. Skills: learning and upgrading at trainers, skill points, casting; damage, areas, buffs and debuffs, damage over time, heals, passives; special states (stun, sleep, slow…), critical hits, block, damage turned into HP or MP, counter attack (damage sent back to the monster); party skills; masteries (required skills of the high and heroic trees, levels in a template's class "1722;30", Dragon Scion passives "10004;4"); monster skills (AI from the original server tables: casting, damage, effects, on-hit procs). Parties (invitation, members, leader, kick, experience sharing, chat). Guilds (creation at guild managers, invitation, joining, leaving, kicking, disbanding, notice, chat, sub-master and handover, enlarging, guild list, guild marks, guild battles, alliances and hostilities, guild warehouse). Account bank (items, money, extra pages) and trading between players. Teleport portals (paid trips between linked points, player-versus-player zones and "Return", refusal in combat). Automatic reconnection (type 0x63). /last_refine GM command. Quests: taking, progress (monsters, quest items), completion and rewards, abandoning. See Network protocol.
• ArchRust extensions: capability negotiation, AddOn messages (whisper, SAY), and the client language (version 1.1): the server serves NPC and monster names in the chosen language, with fallback, and the other texts on demand; the choice follows the account. See ArchRust extensions and Translation; on the ArchRust side, a language selector in the Options.
• Selling an item to an NPC.
• Player versus player: Archonia's attack rules (areas, level 20, Ctrl, friends, party, Battlegrounds), declared enemies, first attacker, wins and losses, murderer points and their penalties (party, trade, NPC prices, experience), charisma gained, remission at the pardoners, offensive skills on players (Ctrl, areas); on the ArchRust side, Ctrl attack and skills, messages, name colours, area announcements and the UI_Remission window. Guards stay passive like their Archonia AI (UseNormalAttack 0); wanted posters: see below.
• Preemptive monsters: those whose AI has PreemptiveType 1 attack a player within their range (PreemptiveRange) on their own, except targets their level conditions exclude. Validated with the simulator (aggro scenario). Validated with the simulator on 27 October 2026 (pk scenario). Murderer point and charisma amounts are configurable, the original ones being unknown.
• Production (types 0x17 and 0x3A): production skills learnt from the Adventurer, Cook and Alchemist NPCs (function 24), recipes bought from them, gathering from monster corpses (Collection Skill, Gathering Knife, items from productresultitem.txt by skill level), cooking and alchemy (materials, recipe item, tools), experience and levels 1 to 15 (AGPMSKILL "dirt" factors 4 and 6), known recipes sent on entering the game. Success, quantity and experience rules are ArchCore's choices, documented in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 27 October 2026 (product scenario); the ArchRust windows (UI_PDSkill, UI_PDSkillBuy, UI_Compose) are on the way, to be confirmed in game.
• Friends and ignore list (type 0x2B): friend requests relayed and accepted on both sides, refusal, removal, online state (op 6) and a friend's region, ignore list kept in the database and merged with the client's local file, blocks applied by the server (whispers, trade, party and guild invitations). Mail (type 0x2D): a letter for one letter paper sheet, one attached item, offline recipient, mailbox sent on entering the game, reading, collecting, deleting. ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (buddy and mail scenarios), to be confirmed in game; the "Buddy" relation (mentor and disciple) is postponed.
• Wear and repair (types 0x04 and 0x34): durability (DUR column) stored and sent to the client ("item" factor), weapon wear on every hit dealt and armour wear on every hit received (Item.WeaponWearChance, Item.ArmorWearChance), an item at 0 has no effect until repaired, repair at blacksmiths and animal breeders (function 17) at the client's price. Mounts (types 0x04 and 0x4D): mounting by equipping the part 14 item, AgpmRide op 2 and op 4 broadcast, Run_Buff speed, seen by others (field 18), refused in combat, for a murderer and outside allowed regions, forced dismount on death. ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (repair and ride scenarios), to be confirmed in game; display by ArchRust in progress.
• Auction house (type 0x0B): board opened at the "Item Trader" NPCs (function 28), listing a whole stack at a fixed price in gold and CC (3 % fee), search by TID, instant purchase at the database price, completed sale announced to the seller, collecting, cancelling, sales sent on entering the game. Equipment switch (type 0x6A): 100 saved slots, re-equipped through the manual equipment path, read back on entering the game (Archonia has no set bonus). World clock shared by everyone (AgpmTimer, World.TimeSpeed speed, resent every 10 min) and weather (type 0x30: /weather, automatic weather World.WeatherAuto). ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (auction, itemset and nature scenarios), to be confirmed in game; ArchRust windows in progress. The ArchLord's sky skills (478, 522, 523) act on this clock and weather (see the ArchLord title).
• Summons (type 0x4F): Elementalist spirits, Sacred One, Legion of the Dead and the other skill summons (creature at the master's level, Summons.StatScale), fixed creatures (traps), Increase Gate (raised limit), summoning scrolls and item pets; view, special state then op 0 in the order the client requires, following the master, attack, defense and shadow propensities (op 2), monsters fighting back against the summon, experience and loot to the master, end on expiry, on death, when the master teleports or leaves, and beyond the limit. ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (summons scenario), to be confirmed in game; ArchRust target windows still to do. Taming, Call on Nature and Evil Light (no creature in the data) and rift traps remain.
• Cash inventory and pet bag (type 0x04, statuses 51 and 13): items marked "Cash" stored in the Cash inventory (Cash mini-packet in field 23, Cash items already in the database moved when entering the world); a pet in use = item "in use" (op 26), recalled by using the item again or by op 23; 4 × 2 × 4 pet bag available with a "PetType" 1 pet: deposit from the inventory, equipment and bank, withdrawal, stack merging and splitting, items kept when the pet is recalled, loot into the bag when the inventory is full, "Auto Pick Up" button (op 30) saved. Left out (Archonia additions): bag marking (ops 37/38), "Sell All", pets 14821 to 15674. ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 1 November 2026 (petbag scenario), to be confirmed in game; ArchRust UI_SubInventory and UI_CashInven windows still to do. Pet stamina (Pet Feed) and the Chantra shop remain.
• Chat: Archonia's prefixes read by the server ("/p", "/g", "/s" sent as type 0, before GM commands; a player's unknown command is ignored), local "[Shout]" (Chat.ShoutRange), area shouts (type 0x4C: /race, /scream, /warn, one item used up per message, one shout per second), chat rooms (type 0x2C: public, private, guild, invitations, player search; 5 per character, kept in memory). Stylists (type 0x43, function 29): hair style and face from charactercustomizelist.txt bought at the client's price, seen by other players; creation look checked. Wanted posters (type 0x46, function 32): the victim of a first attacker or of a murderer may put a price on the killer, base bounty by level, bounties added up and stored (Wanted.ExpireDays), board of 100 posters, bounty paid to the hunter, experience lost by the criminal (Wanted.ExpLossPercent). ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (chat, channel, customize and wanted scenarios), to be confirmed in game; ArchRust windows in progress. The <Chat>No</Chat> region rule is not applied (there is none in the data).
• Episode 8 battles and the original combat areas: Shrines (type 0x62, raw structure; shrine and shrine_reward tables of the content layer, as the original tables are not shipped): eight Shrines opening every evening (Shrine.Enabled, /shrine open|close), entry by level and head count (codes 47 and 48), carving at the centre, occupation, race victory, 53000 coins and charisma, scores, shrinemessage.xml messages; combat rules inside the Shrine (races are enemies without Ctrl, no murderer points or bounty, resurrection in one's race zone). Battle Square: floor levels imported, travel through the supervisors (BattleSquare.SupervisorTeleport, no portal leads there), codes 2, 13 and 18, kills without penalty, skulls from pvpskulldroptable.txt. Battleground: resurrection in one's race fort, 0x58 announcements on a schedule (Battleground.Schedule). Archonia's boss window (type 0x64): state of the UIBoss.xml bosses, possible loot, ranking of the last fight, damage meter; server time in AgpmTimer (fields 2 and 3). ArchCore's rules are described in Network protocol. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (shrine, battlesquare and boss scenarios), to be confirmed in game; Shrine op 8 (unknown meaning) is only logged, Archonia's race war (type 0x33) is not done, ArchRust windows in progress.
• Castle siege wars (types 0x49, 0x50 and 0x61): castles from SiegeWar.txt, assault objects from SiegeWarObject.txt and siege resurrection points imported (siege_war, siege_war_object, siege_binding tables); owner, calendar and applications stored (castle, castle_application). Client rules: the owner declares within its slot (base day, 8 to 10 pm), applications by the guild master on site (15 attackers, 3 defenders of which 2 are chosen, one guild per castle), siege commanders (function 33), object attack order, throne, Archon's Eyes, carving by the master (the last one wins). ArchCore's choices: castles start without an owner, date set automatically without a declaration, every attacking applicant kept, siege cancelled without attackers, the former owner keeps the castle without a successful carving, Siege.MinGuildMembers and Siege.MinGuildAgeDays thresholds, Siege.DurationMinutes length, Siege.Enabled calendar. Siege objects and guards only shown during the battle, "being destroyed" then ruin variants; fighting without Ctrl between sides, no murderer points or bounty; siege resurrection (AgpmCharacter 0x13 and 0x14); castle trips (SpecialType 2 to 4); catapults and resurrection camps; WarInfo board; /siege start|end|owner|hp commands. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (siege scenario), to be confirmed in game; guard towers and guards now only target attackers; the lord's hunting ground contents and the exact catapult effect remain to be established.
• ArchLord title (type 0x55): Rensphere war every 30 days at 8 pm (Siege.Enabled) or with /siege start Rensphere, guilds owning a castle as attackers, steps 1 to 4 (portal, fight, ArchLord battle at status 7, end), seal carved by the master (skill 930); that master becomes ArchLord until the next war (archlord table), announced to everyone (ops 0 and 1) and on entering the game. skill_type 9 skills given to the ArchLord and refused to anyone else: Call Dragon (Alcadia, AgpmRide op 6), Call Royal Knight and /guardactivate, /guarddeactivate, /guardinformation (royal guards, Archlord.MaxGuards), Rain and Snow Control (rain or snow for 5 min for everyone), Day and Night (clock shifted by 12 hours, Archlord.SkyMinutes), /archlord <message> to the whole server; test commands /archlord set|clear, /archlordbegin, /archlordend, /nextstep…
• Region taxes (type 0x53): "Grand Advisor" stewards (function 34), 0 to 50 % rates for the castle and outskirts regions set by the owner once a week (codes 0 to 3), op 4 to everyone with the region name translated by the player's language RegionGlossary.txt (region_glossary table, imported); price + price × rate / 100 on NPC purchases, repair, stylist, portals, skill master, production and guild creation (neither sales to NPCs nor sales between players); income per region (castle_tax, castle_tax_region), paid every Monday at midnight (Tax.PayoutDay, Tax.PayoutHour) into the bank of the owning guild's master, minus the 20 % tribute to the ArchLord; /tax and /tax pay. Validated with the simulator on 28 October 2026 (archlord and tax scenarios), to be confirmed in game; skill 472 Evil Light (summon kind 7) and the guards' Archon item remain to be established, removed skills only leave the client's bar on reconnection.
• Server-side anti-cheat (world/anticheat.rs, no client-side check): positions sent by the client bounded by a distance credit (current run speed × AntiCheat.SpeedTolerance + AntiCheat.MoveSlack, up to 5 s of lag), valid position sent back beyond it; server teleports, entering the world and reconnection as starting points, GMs exempt; normal hit rate bounded after a target change or a resume; packet rate per connection (AntiCheat.MaxPacketsPerSecond), floods disconnected; log_anomaly table, log, kick or ban sanctions beyond a threshold, /anomalies, /move x,z "name" to place a player. Duplication audit: refining with the same item listed twice (ingredients counted twice) closed; trade cancelled if an offered item changed since it was offered, after an unlock the exchange waits for both locks again (the partner keeps its own, as in the reference client), a request cannot be accepted by its author; offered items can no longer be converted, sold, refined or put in the guild warehouse; ground gold beyond the cap left on the ground; second world entry on one connection. Validated with the simulator on 29 October 2026 (cheat scenario, and the existing ones), to be confirmed in game.
• Test report no. 1 (29 October 2026), server side: NPC and object use ranges aligned on Archonia's shared code (600 dialog and shop, 800 bank, conversion, guild, skill master and stylist, 1600 repair, quests, production, auction, portals and alchemy spheres, instead of 1500 everywhere), measured on the position tracked at that moment; refining limited to the 20 alchemy spheres of the obj*.ini files; disabled portal points (destinations without an arrival object or forbidden to the race); Berserker heroic tree read (two trees, shifted columns). Validated with the simulator, to be confirmed in game.
• Metamorphosis (world/morph.rs): usable type 7 potions (101 items, form "Polymorph Id", duration "Polymorph Dur") and ItemTransformTable.txt bonuses (item_transform table) added to the factors; AGPMCHARACTER op 11 to the player and those who see them (view: op 0 with the original TID, bit 0 of field 18, then op 11), op 12 when the duration ends, on cancellation (client op 13) or on death; AGPMITEM op 4, op 19 (shared 10 min cooldown), op 27 code 4 when mounted, transformed or evolved, code 2 in a siege zone; form lost on logout, cooldown kept per session. Client refusals repeated (skills, scrolls, Potions of Quickness and Beam, portals, Shrines, NPCs, stylist, private trade when either side is transformed), except for the ArchLord; equipment allowed with the ordinary check on the original factors (FUN_1401bca10), removal checked without level while transformed or evolved (refused under an evolved form that does not allow the item), mounts still refused while transformed (ArchCore's choice); original race for player-versus-player rules. Creature form (CharacterDataTable Type 8: Mutation animals, potions 408 to 416): the player attacks nobody and no player attacks them; form without 0x20000: not the target of an enemy skill. Mutation (transform_target 4): form drawn from creature_tid for 7 s, no cancellation, on a player or a monster (no summons, siege objects or boss-window bosses); the monster stops, its AI waits for the end, it can be neither attacked nor targeted under an animal form (op 11 / op 12 to those who see it, op 11 after its view); then 30 s of immunity (SKILL_SPEC downtime_duration, deduced meaning, Skill.DowntimeSeconds). Item.TransformMaxDurationMs shortens the duration (simulator). Validated with the simulator on 1 November 2026 (morph scenario: equipment and trade while transformed, Mutation of a Green Worm), to be confirmed in game; on the ArchRust side, still to do: equipment not redrawn during the form, trade menu, animal target.
• Dragon Scion evolution (world/evolution.rs): Slayer, Orbiter and Summoner of Evolution (1189, 1192, 1195), learnt from the Dragon Scion skill masters from level 20; casting → AGPMSKILL op 4 (effect without duration) then AGPMCHARACTER op 26 (1722, 1723, 1732); from one form to another, op 27 then op 26; casting the active form again is refused; cancellation by AGPMSKILL op 7 action 4 → op 5 and op 27 (1724). Form's factors and growth, HP and MP capped, skills and passives by the form's require_class_* columns, weapons not allowed no longer counted, skill reset item refused; form saved (characters.evolution_tid), kept on death and restored on entry (form's TID, bit 2 of field 18). Validated with the simulator on 1 November 2026 (evolution scenario), to be confirmed in game; the ArchRust client still has to handle these packets.
• Secondary stats of the character window (world/effects.rs): AGPMSKILL op 3, field 9 (220-byte block: critical rate and damage, hit taken turned into HP, ignored defense and resistance, critical hit and stun resistance) sent to the player on entering the game and on every change of their effects, skills' share only (passives included): the client adds the items' share itself. Critical hit resistance (critical_defence_percent2, Critical_Defense_Rate option) subtracted from the attacker's critical hit chance (deduced rule); stun resistance (stun_resistance, StunResistance) Archonia-only, no longer read since 2 November 2026; an option with Critical and no skill_type (13822) counts as critical damage, as in the client. Validated in the simulator on 1 November 2026 (ignore scenario), to be confirmed in game with the ArchRust window.
• Consumables, death and skill reset (world/consumables.rs): skill items (stews, speed potions, stones, wings, charms, costumes, Janus talismans: "Use skill id" at "Use skill level", ";" lists) that apply their effect without casting, for the level's duration or else the item's ("Apply Effect Count" × "Apply Effect Time", "RemainTime" / "ExpireTime" in minutes), cooldown "Use Interval" + count × time per item and recast_time per skill (refusal: AGPMITEM op 5), skill_classify_id / _level families (an equal or higher rank replaces, a lower one is refused), "CanStopUsingItem" items kept and switched off when used again; elemental defense of effects ("def_point_*"); experience and loot bonuses ("bonus_exp", "bonus_drop_rate", unit set by Skill.GameBonusDivisor). Resurrection orb (use type 14): dead players only (op 5 otherwise), refused with op 27 code 3 (ArchLord, siege at war, region without bit 0x100, combat region without a Cash orb, levels, cooldown); on the spot, full HP and MP, invincible for 10 s, op 4 then op 18. Skill reset with the Gem of origin (use type 27) or at the skill master (AgpmEventSkillMaster op 8 → op 9, once, gold of the learnt levels refunded, "skill init" string saved in characters.skill_init, field 19 and op 23); ArchLord and production skills and the normal attack are kept. Experience loss on town resurrection can be set (Death.ExpPenaltyPercent, Death.ExpPenaltyRoguePercent), off by default as in Archonia, never a lost level. Validated with the simulator on 1 November 2026 (consumables scenario), to be confirmed in game; left: the lifetime of timed items (not counted down) and item effects lost on death and on logout.
• Small episode 8 systems: party recall (Summoning Orb, Bead of Summoning, usage 15: AGPMITEM op 4 to the caster, management op 15 to the members, op 16 accepts and teleports next to the caster, op 17 declines; refused when dead, in a siege, in a Shrine during a battle, in the Battle Square, in a region without bit 0x100 and in combat, Recall.* settings); social actions (AGPMCHARACTER op 16, types 0 to 16, sent back to the player and to those around, refused when dead, mounted, transformed, Social.MinIntervalMs); Shrine shop (charisma and Shrine Coin prices imported from itemdatatable, quantity, codes 10 and 11; no NPC of the data sells such items, the mechanism is ready); quick belt kept by the server (AgpmUIStatus: 50 slots on entry, op 1 saved, character_quickbelt table, skills found again by TID, used-up item replaced); return to character selection (AgpmReturnToLogin 0x2F: op 1 → op 5 with a key, op 6 to the login server, op 7 after logging in). Validated with the simulator on 2 November 2026 (recall, social, quickbelt, returnlogin scenarios), to be confirmed in game; which NPCs run the Shrine shop is still to decide.
• Episode 8 titles (AgpmTitle, type 0x60, raw structure): 684 titles of titledatatable.txt imported (title_template table; Expert Collector, Addict, Advanced, Researcher; Defender of Chantra and Schola 1-3 behind Title.Schola, Archonia's Christmas Event and Schola 4/5 left out), charisma ranks (charisma_title). Lists and active title pushed on entry (op 5, 6.7, op 9); "<Title Manager>" (op 10 instead of the dialog); goal set with the client's checks and bounds (999, 500), gold and cost items taken (6.0 → 6.1, 6.3); conditions of gathering on a creature, using an item, level and production levels tracked (6.3); title obtained (6.5 then op 1), equipped or removed (op 3, op 9 to the player, to those around and to an observer who sees the holder arrive; one change every 2 hours, Title.ChangeDelaySeconds, refusal code 3), deleted or given up (op 8); effects of the equipped title only: its Skill_Tid_* skills as passives, production success (+10 %), doubled gathering on its creature, stronger potions; character_titles, character_title_goals tables and characters.title_changed_at; /title. Validated with the simulator on 2 November 2026 (title scenario), to be confirmed in game with ArchRust's windows; when the lists are sent, when costs are taken and the meaning of op 2's constant 2 are ArchCore's choices (the original server is missing).
• Remaining episode 8 consumables (world/consumables.rs, bank.rs, convert.rs, trade.rs): Return Orb (usage 13, "Reset Selected" button: AGPMSKILL op 13 → skill removed with op 1, skill and heroic points given back, orb used from the inventory then the Cash inventory; skills that cannot be forgotten and prerequisites of another learnt skill are refused); Secret Safe (usage 21: bank pages 3 and 4 without a keeper or gold, once page 2 is bought, cap Bank.SecretSafeMaxExtraPages, messages 29 and 30); Release of Agreement (usage 28, AGPMITEMCONVERT op 12: stones and runes removed, sockets and reinforcement kept, op 0); /go, /safekeeper, /merchant commands (usage 24, bank and shop of the nearest NPC opened from afar) and /nick (usage 26, signature in field 27, characters.signature), only with the item, 30 min cooldown; fireworks (usage 22, op 4 to those around; Chantra shop packages left out); Fortune Manual (usage 25, switched on in the Cash inventory, bonus Convert.LuckyScrollBonus 0 by default, original value unknown); Talisman of Protection (usage 19, switches on without effect: no item loss on death, as in the original data — pvpitemdroptable.txt all 0, "bPCDropItemOnDeath" 0, client text "Holding items will not be dropped even in case of PK death"); the trade's Ex grid, which is episode 8 after all (Marvel Scroll of Release, usage 35, op 9 kind 2) and bound items ("BoundType" 1) refused in a trade without a scroll, one per trade. Validated with the simulator on 2 November 2026 (usables and trade scenarios), to be confirmed in game: signature display, firework effect for those around, replies to ops 13 and 12, Ex grid slot. Left out: skill books (11, no skill in the data), Map of Asylum (16, nothing on the server), Plastic Surgeon Coupon (32), quest scrolls (33); Sentence Combination (23): effect unknown. ArchRust side: "Reset Selected" button (op 13), dragging the Release of Agreement (op 12), Ex grid, local BankSlotFull refusal.
• Rules carried by the episode 8 tables (combat.rs, effects.rs, skills.rs, options.rs, ai.rs, regions.rs): monster evasion (CharacterDataTable DR in the hit chance); point.dmg_min/max_* buffs (elemental damage), point.physical_resistance and the PhysicalAttackResist option (physical damage taken reduced, 80% at most for a player; monsters' Physical_Resistance), point.skill_block, the SkillBlockRate option and monsters' Skill_Block (offensive skill blocked, 80% at most), point.atk_range (metres); monster target preference (aidatatable HateRace, HateClass: weighted damage, distance divided for a preemptive monster); shorter casting and cooldown (point.skill_cast, point.skill_delay, skill_cast, skill_delay options in attack factors 3 and 4, applied_cooldown_cap limit) and MP (cost_mp_decrease); Ignore_* options (seven penetrations, in points), bonus_exp, bonus_money, bonus_drop_rate (percent) and Add_Debuff_Duration; skills' bonus_money; option block (BlockRate) and evasion against monsters and between players; Skill_Const2 second hit (damage_*2, 15 skills); regions DisableSummon (party recall), DisableGo (/go), DisableParty, DisableLogin (placed at the region's point or in the village), ItemSection with Item_section_num (items that do not count in Heaven's Hell) and ResurrectionX/Z (resurrection inside the region). Options' Item_Level_Min/Max do not drive the roll (neither Archonia nor the original table use them). Archonia-only columns: the 589 options with a CategoryName, all from Archonia, are never rolled (only known for an item already in the database); no longer read: StunResistance and magnify.stun_resistance (slot 0xbc of the secondary stats block at 0); CharacterDataTable's Critical_Defense_Rate was not read. Formulas chosen, no binary shows them (see Network protocol). Unit tests; simulator scenarios rerun on 2 November 2026 (full series: only divide and guildstage fail, as before), to be confirmed in game.
• Remaining data rules (2 November 2026, episode 8 table values; tunable Rules.* proposals, no binary shows them): heroic system (heroic.rs: heroic damage and defense of items, options, effects and monsters, melee, ranged and magic resistances of effects; heroic part at point 19 of normal hits, of skills with dmg_heroic, dmg_heroic_percent and the level-gap penalty, and of damage over time dot_dmg_heroic); ammunition (ammo.rs: one arrow 194 or bolt 238 per hit with a bow or crossbow, skill cost_arrow, results 2 and 3, refusal 12, kataria and chakram need none); required weapon (requirement.rs: requirement mask, refusal action 8, passives without effect, disarm); timed items (lifetime.rs: RemainTime play time counted while in use, absolute ExpireTime date, full Cash mini, op 26, system message 5 then the item is consumed; quest items and started timed items are neither traded nor sold); statuses (Archonia codes 26 to 33 mapped back to the skill's EP8 value, 9 halt, 10 invisibility; rules for 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25: status_rules.rs); skill effects (skill_extra.rs: move_pos, Body Check knockback, Death Strike result 13, at_field ground zones of skills and summons, chains 3 and 4, summons' additional skills, skill_levelup 1, 2, 4, detection, Redemption through AGPMCHARACTER op 24, disturb, target_restriction, provocation); monster AI (ai_kin.rs: SummonTID summons, FollowerTID followers, PinchMonster reinforcement); boots PDR in evasion, ring stat bonuses, QuestItem = quest number (item destroyed when the quest is abandoned or completed). Not done: pet stamina (Archonia does not show it: pet "Immortal"), taming (no skill in the tables), timed item pause (op 25), chains 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, heroic reflection, Skill_plus (field 21: the skill_levelup option still applies to every skill). Unit tests; ammo and lifetime scenarios (new), skill scenarios now hold a weapon; to be confirmed in game.
• Missing protocol ops (Archonia survey of 2 November 2026): quests (op 14 on-screen tracking, 10 at most, stored in character_quests.journal and sent back as the 5th integer of op 4; ops 8 and 9 inventory full); party (op 2: effect area and party bonus, configurable Party.* rules; management ops 9, 12 and 13, refusal of an invitee at least 10 levels below); PvP (ops 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16: enemy lists and enemy guilds, which hit each other without Ctrl outside safe areas; portal refused to a player with enemies, op 18 code 11); guild battles (op 14 fighters picked for types 3 and 4, ops 26 and 27 fighters and lists, op 46 round 1; op 42 truce refused); skills (op 6 effect list, op 15 cooldowns reset when effects end, op 14 level bonus of the skill_levelup options, applied to casts); chat (op 4 recipient absent, ops 1 to 3 whisper blocking); items (op 15 gold dropped on the ground, without an owner; op 28 cooldown per template); AGPMCHARACTER op 8 before closing a session taken over by another connection; portals (ops 2, 3 and 6). Set aside: quests 11 to 13, items 8 and 29, skills 9, 10, 16 and 17, PvP 17. Unit tests; quest, party, pk, pvp, guildbattle, guildrelation, chat and gold (new) scenarios in the simulator on 2 November 2026, to be confirmed in game (party bonus rules in particular).
• ArchRust client (own repository): combat (attacking, hits, death, resurrection, loot), parties, other players, inventory and equipment, NPCs (dialog, shop, bank and buying pages, quests), skills (trainers, casting, shortcut bar), teleport portals (original window and loading screen, confirmation of player-versus-player zones, "Return", refusal in combat), automatic reconnection (UI_ReconnectHold window, 60 s), guilds (registrar, creation, disbanding and guild windows, members, guild name above heads) and guild and party chat, whispers (private bar, /w, /r, guild window button), graphics and sound resource packs (enabled, ordered and checked from the Options; see the guide), original Archonia windows instead of the temporary ones (confirmations, stack split, buying, bank, party, main menus, character select and creation, options), movement speed like Archonia (the GM's /speed visible), potions drunk automatically below the gauge sliders' threshold, GFX, Display and Function options wired, AddOns that can be toggled, client texts in the chosen language; verified against ArchCore by headless runs and screenshots of the graphical client, to confirm in game.
• Player visibility: movement relayed to nearby players, appearing and disappearing by distance.
• Chat within view range, and whispers.
• GM level sent to the "Admin Commands" panel.
• First GM commands: rates, moderation, items, restart announcement, teleport. See Administration.

Next steps

0. Episode 8 values (2 November 2026): import (original server table values, client names, per-table summary), table export for ArchRust (archcore export-client-tables, fingerprint announced through the client-tables/1 capability), character migration (archcore migrate-ep8, reversible quarantine) done; full simulator series run again. Remaining: in-game tests (tooltips, prices, cooldowns, refining, teleports, remaining quests), then the main server switch (reimport, migrate-ep8 --apply, export) with the user's approval, and episode 8 style balancing.

1. Full character creation and visibility between two players: checked on 25 October 2026 with two ArchRust clients on the test server (creation, arrival in Golundo, refusal of a taken name, players visible to each other). Still to confirm with the Archonia client.

2. NPC functions: quests with interaction objects. Server-built menus (AgpmEventNPCDialog ops 2 and 3, message boxes and buttons) of the " Event", "Portal to Chaotic Frontier", "Portal to Town" NPCs and of Jaig: the client can show them, but their content is neither in the client nor in its data; waiting for a source. Portals: refusal while transformed done (morph.rs), to be confirmed in game; the Battle Ground fort entrances (TeleportPoint.ini) have no object in Archonia's obj*.ini files.

3. Skills: damage reflection (counter attack), monster skills, party skills and masteries validated with the simulator on 25 October 2026; damage sharing (Divine Protection, Martyr's Mark), dispels (Antimagic, Cure, Disentangle…), ignored defense (Lethal Attack, Stunner), heroic points earned with levels and charisma (saved, spent by heroic skills; earning it waits for player-versus-player fights, /charisma meanwhile) validated with the simulator on 26 October 2026; all to be confirmed in game. Skill criticals remain.

4. Item conversion (sockets, spirit stones, reinforcement) and elemental damage on normal hits: checked with the simulator on 25 October 2026, still to confirm in game; item options (rolled on creation, effect on the wearer); runes; skill runes (ice, lightning and poison prayer stones) and triggered options (critical, stun, wound, HP returned, regeneration, evasion, ignored defense) validated with the simulator on 26 October 2026, to be confirmed in game; Archonia's ice, lightning, venom and stat stones refused as the client does; unique items' linked options (Link_id) and refining (alchemy sphere, quote, grid and recipes) done.

5. Guilds: alliance chat; effects of hostility in combat (to be established).

6. Automatic reconnection: to be confirmed with the Archonia client.

7. Remaining GM commands on the Administration page: they wait for their systems (arena, events, rifts, region settings…), listed at the end of its section 4.

8. Finish the translation: about 54,000 texts left.

9. "Buddy" relation (mentor and disciple, AgpmBuddy ops 10 to 14): the MentorConstrict limits and the "inventory emptied" effect are unknown; waiting for a reliable source.

Later

• PlayerBots: a server module for player characters driven by the server, modelled on the PlayerBots of World of Warcraft servers and adapted to ArchLord (movement, combat, parties, trade). To start once monsters, combat and parties work.
• Add-ons built into the client: ship ready-to-use add-ons with ArchRust, built into the client and enabled from the game, on top of the Lua add-on system already in place. First add-on: ArchCoreAdmin, the GM panel.
• Database editor: under way in ArchForge — a free graphical tool for Windows, Linux and macOS that creates and edits the world content without writing SQL: creatures and their spawns, vendors, trainers, quests, items, loot tables, dialogs, conditions and monster behaviour. Every field is explained, selectors help pick values and flags, and the generated SQL query is shown (only the changes, or the whole entry for a backup), to copy or to run directly on the database.

Contributions are welcome: open an issue to suggest or report something.