Hey everyone! I haven't posted any news here in a long while, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy! Announcing three recent releases to help you beautiful bards on the battlefield to manifest even more magnificent MIDI music and inspire your team to victory...


https://discord.gg/DFZfWud
BotLord Scribemaster is back from vacation and capturing and sharing MIDI files on our Discord server again. The Bards Guild MIDI Library has also been massively expanded, now with over 130,000 unique MIDI files!


https://github.com/Dimencia/LuteBot3/releases/tag/v3.2.0
LuteBot has also been upgraded with features for Mordhau and Rust Instruments, including track filtering and octave shifting, and integrations with BitMidi and the Bards Guild MIDI Library. Now you can search, download, edit, and play new songs without even leaving LuteBot!


https://mordhau.mod.io/lutemod
Monty has also released Lutemod to the community, which is now available on mod.io. This integrates the ability to play songs directly into the game, without an external app or console commands, which gives you faster response times and the ability to move around freely while playing songs. LuteBot3 also integrates a MIDI converter to support the new Lutemod!


Please visit our Discord server to stay up to date with the latest guild news, or to find help with the MIDI library, Bardbot, LuteBot, or Lutemod![discord.gg]

Your trusty Bardlord has been busy developing a Discord bot exclusively for the Bards Guild Discord server, and I am pleased to announce version 1.1 went live today with some brand new features!

What Does BotLord ScribeMaster do?

Game Activity Tracking

BotLord ScribeMaster monitors when someone on the Discord server is playing a game supported by the Bards Guild, and assigns them a matching "Now Playing" role. You can now see at a glance how many guild members are in game, and you can even ping @Now Playing MORDHAU or @Now Playing Rust to try and get a band together with them on the spot!

BardBot Feature: Now Playing 

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Game Activity Tracking BotLord ScribeMaster monitors when someone on the Discord server is playing a game supported by the Bards Guild, and assigns them a matching "Now Playing" role.

BotLord ScribeMaster monitors the MIDI workshop channels on the Bards Guild Discord server for new MIDI files, and adds them to the Bards Guild MIDI Library automatically.

MIDI File Visualizer

BotLord ScribeMaster creates a pianoroll PNG image visualizing every MIDI file in the Bards Guild MIDI Library.

BardBot Feature: MIDI Analysis 

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MIDI Library Management BotLord ScribeMaster monitors the MIDI workshop channels on the Bards Guild Discord server for new MIDI files, and adds them to the Bards Guild MIDI Library automatically.

LuteBot Playback Accuracy Score

BotLord ScribeMaster estimates how accurately a MIDI file will be represented when played with LuteBot in MORDHAU.

You can now search the Bards Guild MIDI Library directly from the Bards Guild Discord Server with the help of BotLord ScribeMaster! Give it a try in any of the MIDI Workshop channels, the bot can be called in a number of different ways! Here are some examples:

BardBot Feature: MIDI Library Search 

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NEW! MIDI Library Search You can now search the Bards Guild MIDI Library directly from the Bards Guild Discord Server with the help of BotLord ScribeMaster!

Our fearless leader has gone missing for almost two whole days and I've taken it upon myself to post our newsletter. At least partially because of...

I'm hosting a pathfinder game for the Bard's Guild! TBH any system works, it doesn't have to be Pathfinder. And I'm a new DM, I'd be happier if someone wants to DM, but I've got a lot of stuff written up and it's ready to get going.
PM me on Discord @D.Mentia#0614 if interested in joining, we'll see what we can schedule (I'll get you a spreadsheet to put in your availability). World information/house rules can be found here[docs.google.com]

Sesh is now hosting his own community Minecraft server; this server is his own and for his stream community, not necessarily the Bard's Guild, but if you go say hi to him on stream I'm sure he'll consider letting you join
Sesh streams regularly at https://www.twitch.tv/seshn_ and will be playing MC every Monday night

Mordhau took their forums down for a short time, including the Lutebot megathread, so we got quite a few new members who came to us looking for it. Nice.
The megathread appears to be back up so... that was short-lived. But they're stuck with us now, so do your best to make them feel welcome!

We're still working hard on a few neat toys coming up; Bardlord's Discord bot (WIP) should be able to handle storing and cataloging our Guild Library, and LuteBot should then be able to allow users to search and download from it. There has also been discussion about fancy things with Machine Learning and maybe even having a bot compose songs for us ... but so far it's all just discussion and no action. But there's a lot of fun stuff for us to play with, eventually.
So, keep an eye out for any of these cool things showing up in the coming weeks/months. Or maybe never, who knows, we're still feeling things out and seeing what we can really do

A big news "week" for bards...

Recent patchie finally brings us that long awaited ridiculously expensive lute skin! Rejoice! Start grinding to save up for that bad boy... if you weren't already saving up for months just in case the rumors were true.

We have revived the guild Mordhau server, now without gigabytes of mods! We have some plans to build our new home into a cozy RP server for bards and are just now knighting our admins and getting them equipped to enforce a bard friendly neighborhood. Look for more info coming soon once the staff is settled and the doors are opened to the public.

The Bards Guild has graciously been given a home on the Entropia RP Rust server. An impressive venue with an entire stage was even built for us! We need to show our thanks by putting on an awesome rock concert now, obviously. Visit the Rust channel on our Discord server if you want to join the show!

We are very close to bringing BotLord ScribeMaster online for full time service in the guild, just a couple of bugs to work out still so he doesn't try to wrest control of the guild and attempt to overthrow the Bardlord (again). Once that's sorted out, we will have MIDI search capabilities built into our workshop channels! BotLord will also score MIDIs that are submitted for Lutebot compatibility, and display a pianoroll visualization of the song whenever a MIDI file is submitted, just for fun.

If you would like to help improve BotLord's MIDI search results, consider joining our @Library Curators on Discord. We need some actual humans to tag MIDIs with genre information, confirm artist and song names, and boring stuff like that in order for BotLord to return quality results.

Oh, the ScribeMaster will also bring back the "Now Playing" roles, so you can easily find and ping guild members who are currently in game to encourage everyone to organize their own impromptu events when they see other members already playing. BotLord will evolve new features over time as well (but hopefully not full sentience), to add some other exciting new and custom interactive elements to our Discord server.

A final piece of serious news, Odysseus has departed from the guild. "Odysseus who?" you might be saying, because he deleted literally every reference to his name on the Discord server on his way out. He also made efforts to remove every contribution he ever made to the guild as an Officer before leaving, including server roles, emojis, channel icons, and even entire channels that he felt belonged to him.

The rest of the Officers are all doing their best to clean up the mess after this temper tantrum. We are even working on some new and improved emojis to replace the ones that were deleted! If you find anything is still amiss, are missing any special roles you once had, or if you have new ideas or suggestions for the Discord server while we are forced to reorganize a bit, please leave a comment here or stop by the #guild-hall on our Discord server - now is the time to hear it!

This strong opinion on ownership is why Odysseus needed to leave the guild. While I as Bardlord literally own the Discord server, the Bards Guild is not a thing meant for anybody to own or control. It is a community for sharing music and playing music together, and the Officers of the Bards Guild are merely curators, moderators, and event organizers for this community. The Bards Guild is not a place that tolerates the lording of roles and seniority over others in place of common courtesy and civility. It's hard to wish someone well after they broke a bunch of stuff in your house before leaving, but good luck out there Odysseus.

Happy early St. Patrick's Day, guildmates! I don't know about you but I'm drinking some Guinness already!

Join our #bard-fashion channel on our Discord server and enter this month's St. Patrick's contest! Your costume obviously must be Irish themed, with bonus points awarded for authentic medieval Irish style. You can enter up to 2 submissions, which must be posted on Discord by the 14th to win. You are also welcome to bring your costume to our upcoming Bards Guild Irish Jig event and play traditional Irish songs with us!