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Well, there certainly has been a bit of activity in cow recently, primarily thanks to thorn's extensive work on the art of battle read the book of combat.

wolis has been busy working on the internals of cow to fix a little thing here and a little thing there.. all rather too inconsiquential to mention so I wil mention but a few.

As we have come to expect, invisible things are now truly invisible in cow. So too are lurking things as no one want to see a lurker.

There have been a couple of new cowScript commands created to protect the innocent. The most notable being: read the info about multiset and read the info about multivar. It will be a long slow job cleaning up existing code but we should all uses these with relish. "It will be well worth it for clarity and speed Im sure" encouraged wolis.

There is also the possibility for scripters to do things in the future. "Im not realy sure how useful this might be" explaimed wolis "but I thought Id se if its possible". Sure enough it is read the info about call

As for new commands tat may not have beenmentioned recently, you can now drink from something eg drink from the cup without attempting to comsume the whole cup!

You can also chat with someone if there is someone worth chatting with. read the command called detect if your not sure.

I undertsand there has been a bit of new building and creating going on. list new if your interested in finding out whats new. All you creators are welcome to publish an artcile here in the Daily COW to advertis your hard work and it will be beamed ou around the world in crisp new RSS.