Ashen Empires news & patch notes

Spring Fling We wanted to add a lighthearted and fun event to this season. To participate, head to Parian’s east garden and talk to the Wise Rabbit to sign up for a free no drop event basket (1 per character). This weight reducing basket holds small things (no chocolate coins or jelly beans, sorry).

While the event is active you can find the usual Festive Walkers in most mainlands areas and in some TR/SOC areas. This year we added two more creatures – a Wild Helper (lvl 100) and a Golden Walker (110+). The Wild Helpers are fast and will avoid you at all costs! They will spawn while foraging or harvesting. Golden Walkers are roaming the Newtown Savannah. All three drop the event item Festive Eggs. Turn in festive eggs to the Egg Collector in the east Parian farm for various prizes and golden eggs. Open golden eggs for random rewards you can’t get through the event store and in some cases anywhere else in game. This is a free event. Two new garden veggies are now available – onions and greens. Buy these seeds from the event store or harvest rarely while foraging during the event. Craft Shamrock Swirls or Spring Salads from them. The recipes are posted to our Discord server. Shout out to Coralynn for the amazing Easter art! We appreciate everything you do!!

 3 Mainlands Quests

Three new mainland quests were added to Darkfell, Josody, and Dawat. Speak to Zaeas, Wren, and Gurt to start these. They are designed for mid-level players and will give you experience AND a choice of a nice weapon to help with those times that the RNG is being unkind to you while looking for a weapon upgrade. Many thanks to Bahamut for the (as usual) great design.

  Below are the detailed patch notes for those that like to read: Creatures ▸   Removed ability to berserk from almost every sub lvl 80 Main lands monster and from some monsters like Scalo, Hugla, Deep Shadow.

▸   Macklings spawn adjust and lowered spell odds of Macklings

▸   Removed Rock Trolls and Eww by Darkfall; added Ettins

▸   Added more Orc miners by Farstead

▸   Removed Ettins from Silvest, added Orcs in their place

▸   Added Astari Spies, Inquisitors, and Assassins west of Varg

▸   Added -5% Pierce and arrow res to all eye ball monsters!

▸   Adjust on lower level creature attack ratings

▸   Added dedicated Krog rat spawns South west of Krog

▸   Grasping Tentacles and Harbinger of Kuthos get their very own corpses

▸   Added a new monster Genereal of Vinteruul that is of Ancient lvl for Vint dungeon

▸   Reduction in Greater Shadow Dragon toughness and health regeneration. Lowered Cut and Disease resist to 25% vs 50%

▸   Adjusts to GDI cave spawns. More tweaking on the greater shadders

▸   Moved a spawn chunk to the right one because Greater Shadow Dragons could swarm you at the cave entrance

▸   Slightly tweaked treasure pool for GSDs to reduce Infinite Loop/Stag chances and equalized across remaining items

Items ▸   Adjusted a lot of stats regs and resists of items lvl 10-90 from mainlands

▸   Added Totem of Wolf to other lvl 35-50 creature drop tables (Black Death, Ettin, Hobgoblin, Hunter)

▸   Adjusted the low lvl Scallywag Pirate set from Pirates at Varg to be a bit more common to drop

▸   Boosted the rate that Pirate Captains can drop weapons

▸   Added low lvl weapon tier drop tables to King Kobold drop table

▸   Adjusted what weapons are sold by mid-level ranged shopkeeps

▸   Adjusted a lot of armor requirements; some stats, resists for armor between lvl 25-85

▸   Lowered the weight of almost every armor item from mainlands for lvl 5-90

▸   Added +1 Stam Regen to "Defender's Ring" "Archer's Band" "War Mage's Charm"

▸   Added Spell slots to all low lvl staff slings; added int and Dex reqs for balance

▸   Changed dps of some low lvl weapons from lvl 30-85 due to bad dps gaps

▸   Adjusted drop rates for the new GWS armor from 12-20%

▸   Lowered Black and Holy resists

▸   Adjusted the Crystal Knight gear sets from FarStead keep

▸   Added Rune of Shalox to Disease Ghouls, Rotted Ghouls, Orc Reavers and Mature Wyverns as a rare drop

▸   Boosted the rate of the hearts that Ancient Crystal wyverns drop to be more common

▸   Added Stam regen to the Parian amulets

▸   Frog leather belt set as armor (not clothing) for armor cabinet purposes

▸   Added desc on battleblood of what is needed to equip (2500 dragon kills)

▸   Added DE for ulthien's grim smile to help with harvesting (wheat, sugar, barley, cinnamon, hemp, etc)

Map ▸   removed extra door in chlera dungeon by ancient wizard (causing issues) ▸   Added a land Bridge south east of Josody

▸   Filled in some mountain areas that monsters got stuck in

▸   Fix for Lopal Sign (Dexerity > Dexterity)

▸   Added some land bridges so monsters can unstuck themselves in Carbonite cave

Quests, etc

▸   Fix for Merric conversation

▸   Fix for Silvest Steward (if you set Whisperdale or Krog as your starting city after Valinor)

 Junk Drawer

▸   Fix for some exploits that resulted in a few accounts being suspended. If you find an issue in game, report it to us and do not abuse it or you will be suspended. ▸   First aid bonus will apply to healing with bandages; this will developed on and expanded

▸   Cap for skill bonuses to give benefits to players

▸   Fortune Teller print message will be in colored text if you have gotten a “real” fortune. Other ways of improving your fortunes have been added, it is up to you to discover how that works. Essentially it can reduce the chance for your fortunes to give you red herrings/false flag results.

Some content and bug fixes (and a few bug catchers, too). Check out the new Mainlands dungeon starting with an Orc named Mack in the Chlera pub. New items, creatures, and a quest with nice XP rewards to go with this dungeon. Recommended for levels 80-95. Anyone may take the quest of course, but you may find it difficult if you are unprepared and lower level.

Creatures ▸   Dedicated Spider spawn on Valinor; rocky areas ▸   Dedicated Triddle spawn on Valinor; sandy areas ▸   Snake/bat spawn adjusted around Valinor; forested areas ▸   Removed trolls from the Valmond crypt area, constrained them to the >> side of road PvP ▸  Oil of Restoration will apply wanted flag on someone who resurrects a wanted player when player chooses to res, not after res happens Map ▸   Some mountainous areas had bad/missing art Quests ▸   Fix for issue with Wyrmscale quest not accepting Seaweed Specimen Tradeskills ▸   A few changes to some agriculture shops around the world (non-expansion) ▸   Osalka gives fertilizer info on Valinor ▸   Cloth Salvage Tools added to Valinor Provisioner ▸   Fixed tooltips on fancy salvage tools to be consistent ▸   Cost of sugar, sugar cane, bags of sugar adjusted The Junk Drawer ▸   Honeycomb can now be eaten (+STR & CON) ▸   Added to tooltip of Mist Stone and Dock Lantern (30 Min Cooldown) ▸   Reduced weight on three low level ammos: arrows, bolts, pebbles ▸   Added Guardian of Whisperdale (shield) to patron shop

Patch 227.929 1.10.2026

Foreclosures are being enabled today. We have also adjusted exp gain rates for levels 105-108, and a few smaller experience adjusts from 90-105. There are a few other small fixes included after we reviewed the #bugs channel in Discord and the issues posted to our GitHub account. Thank you for reporting issues!

Creatures ▸   Bumped spawns of Crystal Golems, Frost Giants, Greater Wyverns, Cyrstal Wyvern, Wyvern Nestling, NFGs

Items ▸   Giant Triddle Shell and Dragon Tooth marked reusable ▸   Added tooltips to all totems ▸   Removed SoC expansion flag from the totems given as rewards in TR/Mainlands (Totem of Warrior, Archer, Mage)

Map ▸   Fixed sign outside Dawat to have correct town buffs listed ▸   Heartwood trees / Greater Heartwood trees art (sometimes the tree looked greater but was lesser/regular)

Quests ▸   Inc chance to find Nelly's locket, RIP that poor new player ▸   Fix for Wyrmscale; will behave slightly differently now. At stage where you must give him item, you will be sent below to his lair. ▸   Valinor cooking trainer flour bag message updated (said 10, was 1)

Tradeskills ▸   Camp Stove can be used to brew ▸   Added message when brewing that cold soc oven and camp stove need turned on to use ▸   Zombie Skin added as a crafting material to leatherworking; see what you can make!

The Junk Drawer ▸   A few more additions/changes to GM shop ▸   Fix for pets in pvp ▸   Removed Torches from the Misc treasure table.

Patch Notes 227.920 1.3.2026

A few minor adjustments/small fixes on various misc issues. We have also updated our player memorial area with Grinch’s name. Rest in Peace, Grinch. It didn’t feel right to include that in any of the below patch notes. Please visit the memorial area and read the names of those who are no longer adventuring with us on this mortal coil. The Player Memorial area is located in the northwest corner of Lotor’s Summer Palace, left of the main castle/throne room area. If you know of anyone who has passed, please let us know.

Boating ▸  Adjusted drop of treasure maps from floating wrecks Creatures ▸   Fixed goblin arrow that had some big hitboxes ▸   Bumped # of spawns and spawn locations of both alpha lions and diamond golems ▸   Social tag on reindeer fixed ▸   Some Halloween corpses not drawing as expected

Items ▸   Dock lantern was putting players in a state where they couldn’t use their lanterns ▸   Dungeon secrets books now give yes no box prompt before consuming, also give more info when used on what they do ▸   Added move speed increase to boots of the traveler tooltip ▸   Trick or Treat Band tooltip fixed ▸   Scalo’s Ring of Right and Left now marked for Jewelry Boxes ▸   Fix for variety of unarmed weapons and a few armors (mostly rings) that cause the "golden floating thing" as they were missing a model entirely

Map ▸   Mage of Lotor in Whisperdale missing name of npc so wasn't speaking to players ▸   Made Aeul Unlope a shipyard (was jeweler)

QOL ▸   Your UIConfig, Hotslots, ignore list will now be synced per player to Steam ▸   We improved the mute command; this is not a QoL for you all but it will be a change. Until now, any mutes in game were per char and would disappear with a server restart; moving forward, when you are muted it will be for a set time that will persist across all servers and you will be notified of that time upon logging in. That being said, I hope we have to use this less and less. Remember – offensive language 

Quests ▸   Added exp to undead priest stage reward of the Warlord Mage/Warrior quests. Was 30,000, should have been 300,000. ▸   Fix for Wyrmscale quest npc ▸   Boots of Krog added to Lady of Krog shopkeep ▸   Afer > After misspelling in DTM quest text ▸   Criminal NPCs should avoid safe zones now

Tradeskills ▸   Fix for endless salvage bug. Everyone sitting on stacks of 1,000,000 crafting mats is getting a 1 month ban. ▸   Hell's Gate Hammer messaging updated (was calling itself veldan's) ▸   Newer Alchemy items (gorilla brains, frozen heart, slug antennae etc) marked re-usable ▸   More text info when using foraging sticks and failing to select correct bush etc

The Junk Drawer ▸   Death location listed in chat when players die so players can locate their grave markers more easily in case a map marker doesn't draw for whatever reason ▸   Value of throwing nets bumped to be higher than mats needed to craft them ▸   Potion of Freedom could be spam clicked when not rooted ▸   Throwing nets won't work on sea creatures now ▸   Caiman Scale totem will bypass speed check if player has spell or equip speed

• Can no longer get kill credit or loot while you do not match your party member's location (land vs sea)
• Flying, amphibious, ethereal creatures cannot attack swimming creatures or players in boats
• Added some new docks; see Discord for details
• Updated Goba Powderblast: Faster, and return to normal drop rules
• Added mobs to Goba's area
• Fix for LSP ref (should be LC) in boat scroll quest "How Do They Do It"
• Fix for people unable to teleport after using TR/TOF teleport stones
• Siege totem cooldown reduced to 3 min from much more than that
• Air Elemental made slightly faster
• ID with looking glass gives sailing xp for sea creatures
• Scalo's Revenge sped up
• Fix for player abusing boat repair
• Full Lobster Trap can now be harvested while in your boat

• Alt X can no longer be used to wiggle your way out of dialogues etc.

Tides of Fate

END OF BOAT CONTENT

Non Boat Content Server Gameplay Fixes, Adjusts, Changes etc

• Removed double degrade for Carbon Filet Knife; skinning knife uses dex and skill level to determine degrade which may be slightly more frequent than before
• Some breadcrumbing for Artraxis quest; npcs in Duremar will give info
• Bel's thinking cap set to silver instead of red
• Valinor basement music different than above to prevent loss of music when switching Maps
• Added some barrels to Valinor undead outpost for stashing stuff
• Expanded check for raft in Duprik's dialogue to include the ToF raft offer deed
• Removed incorrect prints in newbie leadership trainer
• Quest typo "breatehs"
• Quest Stage was wrong for Half Empty or Half Full quest
• Frieda's taming list (added nor. warlord to flayer, added commoner to all tamable)
• King Lotor's Lake timed fishing quest was not giving exp
• Added consume for blueprints for thrones
• Gauntlet event updates
• Added Magic Skinning Knife to Talazarian Infiltrators
• Reduced Pristine Blue Scale drop rate off Greater/Young Blues
• Gathering with gatherer's cloak - will allow to double any resource obtained from lobster traps
• Upped rate on bottles and maps with quest completion and a special buff

• Adding logout check while in BFD
• Adjust to faction dungeon drop tables (chances only not additions/deletions)
• Corrected missing material for new Vint/GoL items
• Fixed SoC potions on TR mob tables
• Faction check for all neutral factions in scripts that look for neutral faction
• Claw of the Werewolf should last 4 min with the Armor of the Cynosure now
• Added chat prints for all buff spells
• Fixed error in Tome of Demonic Inspiration adding too much to Parasitic Leech, now +10%
• Fixed traps in SoC dungeons acting as walls that created pathfinding issues and prevented players from completing farming quest portion in SoC crypt
• Fixed Demon Spire from spawning ancient demon/balron if not used for Hell Siege event
• Glowing Jewelry Case had no settings for crafting; adjusted to be similar to glowing storage crate

Patch Notes 1.21.2023 - Post SoC Patch

Items/Drops

• New Item: The Prime Fist
• Fixed typo in Legendary Wok stamina text.
• Stat mismatch corrections - tooltips now accurate:
• Calamity Wake boots +8 DEX
• Ritual Sheers +22 INT and +8 CON
• Evil Council Leggings +9 CON
• Robe of Dark Rites +20 STR and +28 INT
• Symboled Blade of Destruction proc adjustment
• Adjustments to Dirk/Sabre/Axe of Many Souls proc effects
• +100% Soul damage to Dirk/Axe/Sabre of Many Souls
• Oleander bloom marked SoC
• Adjusted Lotorian Dungeon drop tables slightly to add Talazarian Emblem to the lower tier KC/EEO/BL/LP tables. This means mini-bosses now have a chance to drop these spawning items.
• Adjusted drop of Rune of Shalox up some on the mobs that currently have it (design here is that you are not meant to get entire set unless you hunt after or do quest multiple times)

Spawns

• Lord Cerebus respawn time reduced and randomized. Still a trigger chance to spawn, but duration between respawns has been halved to allow two chances minimum per dungeon pass timer.
• The Prime Creation has been given a shorter and randomized respawn timer, increased chance of boss vs PH.
• Shark guards will patrol dragon coast for anchored boats…
• Adjusted rotted ghoul spawn in Meroven graveyard and Gnobol Mauseleum, greater skeles moved below

Spells

• Stat buff spells (excluding movement speed buffs) reduced cast times across the board to match Holy Aura’s speed
• Chat printout for buff values on Mind buffs (Cerebral Though, Brilliance, Insight, Resplendence).

The Junk Drawer

• SI altar adjusted to correct time (30 min cooldown; if starting at 9pm, can start a new SI at 10:30pm). SI cooldown is there for all levels of solo/small group players; this is not an ideal long term fix but something to help those players not be at the mercy of SIs which drastically impact their ability to hunt. Long term idea is placeable altars/totems which increase spawns in a radius on ground or on the player using.
• Faction Quests for Lotor/Talazar now allow you to cancel once started (speak to faction officer to cancel) plus additional conf to begin neutral quest
• A bit of cleanup on faction timers and quest text
• New Name for Lotorian Faction Dungeon quest (was “For the King” which was the same title as the faction quest itself; now it is “Royal Relic”)
• Gauntlet event adjust (reduced mob spawns)

• Fix for Gauntlet event - effects could be cast just before entering
• Crims on PVP servers will be sent to a four way portal; you have 60 seconds to choose from Lopal, VF, Meroven, Rahura or be sent to Lopal
• Fix for Red Dragon Leather set - should now be able to forge items if anvil of veldan is in pack while wearing set
• Fix for Gatekeeper's gate in SoC; if you haven't completed the quest you will be harmed and ported back; to prevent players from getting through without quest completion
• All Housing Deeds and items such as Surveyor tool should be tagged for Construction; server will now check that expansion flag
• Added AC to weeping winter skirt and winter wildform
• Removed arrow resist from hood of rahura
• Typo in Crystal Knight quest Rotted > Rotten

Map/Encounters

New Area: Dragon Coast

• Added New Dragon Coast with heavier spawns of younger dragons meant as a group challenge
• New dragon type Shadow Dragon, small chance to spawn on New Dragon Coast, also spawn on Nithhogr level
• One way entrance to new Dragon coast through Fire Elemental Cave

Updated Area: Dragon Caves

• Added extra loops in Dragon Caves, modified flow so it's less linear in nature with some less direct routes/side loops, added escape portals (one per level, one-way) back to previous level at various locations
• Dragon Eggs now have colors reflective of their parent dragon

Updated Area: Vinteruul’s Fortress

• Warlord Vinteruul spawning mechanic has been readjusted, is now a summoned spawn using Talazarian Emblem, still requires quest in order to spawn
• Vinteruul now leashed to his room, similar to dragon bosses
• RNG on clicking horns and statue removed, this will be a single click per step, and he will spawn (statue will disappear for 10 minutes and may then be spawned again if you have the proper item)
• The Lich Prince has moved into the Lotorian Dungeon with Warlord Vinteruul
• Added Talazarian Blood Cleric spawns around Lich Prince's new room and above in Vinteruul's castle
• Secret exit/entrances added to this fortress
• Fix for being unable to progress on Lotorian faction quest if not on PVE server
• Added 5 new items to Warlord Vinteruul

Updated Area: Broken Finger Dungeon

• Trigger spawn chances added/adjusted (similar to Asterion) for bosses
• Broken Finger Dungeon changed to not require a party for entry/access to full dungeon (you may still need a friend or two to survive!)
• BFD pass countdown timer should suspend when player leaves the dungeon now (only uses when you are in hunting)

Passages, Escapes, Tunnels

• Added underground passage between Redwake and Rahura
• Removed evil spawn gate on Khafra island
• Added alternative passage from Rahura Water Elemental Cave to cross river to area before the gatekeeper; no longer a single bridge as a chokepoint
• Portal from Fire Elemental Cave (Khafra) to SE corner of New Dragon Coast, one-way, use at your own risk
• Added entrance/exits to Horned One (neutral faction dungeon) on charred island and dunk’s dungeon
• Added entrance and/or exits in Ghost of Lotor (talazarian faction dungeon) on Salamander and Crypt levels

Spawns

• Increased amount of caimans to spawn (min/max limits)
• Added Desert Giant Noble as a rare spawn in Desert Giant spawns (split spawn)
• Added more dedicated Desert Giant Noble spawn locations
• Added Titan Scorpion spawns southeast of Rahura across the river
• Added/increased Titan Scorpion spawns in Blacktail's lair
• Increased chance of Sandsting spawning instead of placeholder
• Faster respawn for Lava Mold, randomized, no longer drops magical items
• Fixed several encounters that were despawning during an SI due to a config issue
• Fixed some mountains where creatures could spawn inside and get trapped (Josody/RT, TR/Snow Elves)
• Faster respawn timers and better randomized timers for:

NPCs

• Ancient Crystal Wyverns and Mannabrottur are now tied to expansion flags, if Tides of Fate is disabled they will drop nothing
• Dragon NPC resistance adjusts (each dragon now has one magery resist that they are weaker against)
• BFD/Talazarian/Lotorian dungeon creature difficulty slightly increased by scaling hitpoints upwards to better match Asterion Minos
• Caimans changed to land creatures
• New Item Summoned Followers - Blood Cleric, Crypt Guardian
• Vessel of Isos now has 0 hitpoint regen and does not damage player
• Removed Valinor Orb Reset limits
• Removed Bonesnarl killcount limit
• Town Guardian reduced to solo/duo difficulty, he's now basically a difficult guard
• Minor mechanics adjustments to Sir Lancel (Attack Range, Pounce), Crypt Protector Hobensnarl (Ethereal), High Priest Volsey (New Spells), Krank Bruut (Teleport), Der Schlaechter (Knockback), The Lich Prince (New Spells)
• Artonian Hassassin removed Disease resistance
• Adjusted Dragon Heal to have a low/medium/high replenish amount instead of just low/high, resulting in less chance of a high 50% heal
• Sand Golem, Desert Giant, Desert Giant Noble all lost their MIND (resistance)
• Sand Golem gained 50% Nature and 80% Soul resistance
• Guards in SoC received some survival training
• Set type of crabs to be vermin instead of sea creatures (if swim type, sea creature, if land, not a sea creature)
• Added reindeer to animal group for DTM counts
• Removed solo tag from Small Skeleton
• Removed social tag from Minos since they have no allied types

Loot Tables

• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from many SoC creatures, added their respective SoC table in some cases as it was missing
• Adjusted boss tables in BFD and Faction dungeons to reflect their shorter respawn times, removed useless items (Mainlands tables)
• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from all Faction Dungeon creatures (excluding Salamanders/Basilisks area of Talazarian cave)
• Removed generic Mainlands loot tables from BFD creatures
• Claws of Overwhelming Darkness and Virulent Axe removed from tables used in SoC/Faction Dungeons, instead added to ToF/110 bosses
• Scroll of the Ancients no longer drops from Ghost of Lotor I
• Amulet of the Dark Mage removed from Nithhogr and added to Young Dragon tables
• Faction dungeon creatures have a chance to drop all pieces of armor sets within the dungeons, mini bosses drop at a much higher rate
• Neutral dungeon rates reduced considerably on Level 1 for legacy Horned One items
• Ghost of Lotor I and Warlord Vinteruul have new powerful items as a rare drop
• Raised rates for Rune Armor on hell monsters
• Added Rune Armor loot table to Lord Tserith
• Slight increase to Fresh Mead rates in Frieda Dungeon
• Increased Beekeeper rare table on Queen and Warriors, reduced common tables inversely
• Slightly increased Caiman Teeth drop count to 1-2 at a time
• Sand Wurms are still just as annoying, but now drop Mystic Orbs and Magic Skinning Knife in their new loot table
• Added new items to Warlord Vinteruul and Ghost of Lotor

Spells

• Adjusted buff spells to have increased rune charge costs per cast but significantly lower fail chances if player has appropriate skill requirement
• Nullify changed to a 1 rune spell and reduced cast difficulty substantially
• Slightly reduced 8 slot spell damage boost from Northern Cleric's Staff, Northern Wizard's Staff, Staff of Prismatic Waves
• Reduced Int modifier on Ice Bolt and capped damage at 450
• Added purple (A3) color to claw/exposure messages when they wear off for more visibility
• 6 New Scrolls that can cast a variety of class and tier based spells; these are on a trial basis for now and available through events

Crafting

• Dragonian Skinning Knife requirement reduced to 80 Skinning raised level req to 105, removed orb requirements, NEW ART!
• Blue Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Sewing/Weaving 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
• Gold Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Leatherworking/Tanning 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
• Green Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Carpentry/Milling 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
• Red Dragon Leather Set Bonus - Reduced Crafting Time Forging/Smelting 25%, allows crafting as if using a Runespire
• Adjusted drop rates of lvl 100 craft materials up some (tangled, spectral, full metal)
• Removed skinnable corpse from Greater Kudo
• Tradeskill Taskmasters now require Tides of Fate expansion enabled on the server
• Apple Pie Slice tooltip said +2 Stam Regen (is +1)
• Changed minimum Skinning skill level requirement on Wyverns (55), Salamanders (65), Dragons (80)
• Adjusted cost of vellum/scrolls and inks down
• Marked scrolls as books, set up scroll case to hold books
• Added scroll case and scholar’s trunk for carpentry at level 43 and 8 enchanted heartwood and level 69 and 15 enchanted greater heartwood respec. to craft; holds books and scrolls (quest scrolls, return scrolls, demon scrolls, identification scrolls)
• Lobster Traps used from land have smaller distance to prevent player from placing it where they cannot retrieve it
• NPC Basil in Parian will sell you a sharp shovel for 100 black pearls if you have completed required quest stage
• Sharp Shovel now requires quest stage completion to use (the stage it is obtained originally)

Items

• Re-enabled and adjusted Scroll of the Demon Horde - now Scroll of Foul Creatures; also drops outside of ToF; will continue to expand on this idea
• Item expansion flag changed for Soothsayer, AQB and HotAG from ToF to SoC
• Complete rework of Dragon Leather sets, now better match their parent dragon resistances,
• Complete rework of Spore Crusted set, now grants hitpoint regeneration on each piece (req Level 100, 45 DEX, 30 CON)
• Complete rework of Scavenger Bone set, now useful for mages (req Level 100, 70 INT, 30 CON)
• Corrected item hitpoints for Salamander Skin Leggings
• Titan Hide set slightly reduced in overall stats to reflect its challenge to obtain
• Large Gold Coin drop from Desert Giant Nobles made stackable to be kinder to your inventory slots
• Leather Collar/Chain Collar/Iron Collar not marked as Jewelry for purposes of fitting into jewelry case
• Corrected tooltip on dagger of fleeting thoughts (+15 Dodge/Crit Hit)
• Adjusted some SoC quest reward items based on quest difficulty/level
• Add several new weapon proc effects
• Level requirement reduced on variety of gear
• Orb/Resists adjusted on variety of gear
• Please see Discord for detailed item adjusts: https://discord.gg/VUvMj8z9

Events

• New Event: The Gauntlet!
• Make your way unarmed and without aid through a maze of increasingly deadly creatures (no equipment, no backpack, no buffs, no followers).
• Entry at this time is free with a manual GM reward; will be automated in future with enough play/feedback from the community.
• When the event is on, head to Parian South Weapons shop to speak with NPC Armsmaster to enter. A deck, signs and banners marks this event area.
• 1 player in event at a time, Limit of 10 minutes in event, ntry restricted to level 50 only
• New GM tools to help GM run events be more enjoyable: Item Degrade and BP drop; also for emergencies when server is misbehaving

Quests

• New Quest and Gear: Crystal Knight (Farstead Keep) inspired by DC creatures
• You may obtain any pieces by trading with the Crystal Knight who will list item level and stat requirements
• Quest gives limited quantity of Runes of Shalox; these can also be found naturally hunting in TR at uncommon rates from variety of mobs
• Increased range to allow quest update when killing Termigon queen for Varios quest
• Fix for print in rock troll quest - says you have to be level 15, should be 65 (checks correctly just tells player wrong number)
• Excluded a few CK creatures (wolverine pack leaders, mystic crawlers)
• Reduced faction quest switch wait time and neutral faction garden of sitting on one's bottom time to 10 min

PVP & Reputation

• Feats now count as attacks for combat rule purposes (will make you wanted, slow both players)
• Added level bias to alignment gain >=5 levels.
• New NPC Alinus in Parian to give one time reputation forgiveness from >6500 -> 6500 (alignment # can be checked with lvl 1 mind spell “Runesight”)
• Reputation loss when going wanted changed from 250 > 5 points
• Wanted timer is 5 minutes and refreshes when any criminal action is performed
• Looting items results in loss of 50 rep per item (no per item loss previously)
• Helpful spells (healing, heal over time) cast on wanted player will cause you to become wanted as well
• Please see Discord for complete pvp ruleset write up
• Players cannot mark a stolen item as no drop using token store product; if you have stolen items stuck in bp please summon a GM/page or make a ticket

The Junk Drawer

• Removed leadership check of 100 from wild camel (should be 70)
• Cooldown of Spawn Increase of 30 min
• 1 free Mainlands Orb reset available now in Josody (speak to Lady Esler)
• Changed chances on ancient wyverns to give mix of immaculate wyv hide (unchanged rate) sinew (decreased rate from previous) and other hides (added to this skinning table)
• Construction expansion check on Surveyor Tool. If not enabled on server, will be unable to use.

• Changed Disruption resist check as it was irresistible <100 mind skill
• Changed Disruption's silence to 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds
• Disruption should now message players when the effect wears off

• Restructured drop chances and places to obtain scrolls – now solo drop chance from lvl appropriate mobs rather than placed in tiered loot groups from all creatures with that group
  • Problem with Bats
  • Infestation Black Widow Hatchling
  • New Bear Skin Rug
  • My Shadow is Haunting Me
  • Stop the Greedy Gluttons
  • Injured Minotaurs Below Chlera
  • Those evil Shadow Spiders
  • Rock Trolls Near Josody
  • Secrets of Vampire Bats
  • Slay the Sand Golems
• Increased exp given for scroll quests
• Set min level req to take scroll quests (except lowest 2 scrolls)
• Bear Skin Rug scroll quest (for npc “Raff” in LSP) is now functional
• Added fail conf for marsh dungeon quest where it was missing on stage 8
• More pointer text in quest npcs on marsh dungeon quest for final stage

• Elven Tools will increase arrow output by flat quant of 5

• Removed ability for creatures to spawn followers if they are a follower (Deadwillows, Ice Golem, Golem, Slimes, Skeletal mage)
• Added solo great light encounter to marsh dungeon and bumped up Great Light chance to spawn in trash chunks w normal marsh lights to help with the spawn

• Valinor was missing some music regions on the above ground map on coastlines/pond borders
• Increased max syllable of each race/gender to 4 from 3 – enjoy longer, more silly names
• Fix for random name generator – when no names were available had no way to exit and caused server to hang
• Reverted change to targeting limitation; should not drop target immediately when leaving play area
• Encounters not recalc/respawning at times and would become empty, then respawn at once and be a world of pain

• Removed no drop on jack o lantern blade, gave small blade req of 65
• Typo in druid staff summoning wyverns
• Fix for tooltip of raider poisoned short sword
• Adjusted level req of following high level weaps:

• Sword of Agon's Fervor
• Spell Slinger
• Necromancers channel
• Staff of Prismatic Waves
• Northern Cleric's Staff
• Northern Wizard's Staff

• The Laughing Blade
• Spearslinger Crossbow
• Thirsty Blade
• Warmage's Fury
• Bow of Terror
• Sling of Nature's Wrath

• Ghoul Blade
• Battleblood Axe
• Thrakk's Tribute
• Wyvern's Tooth
• Glaive of Contagion
• Bow of Darkening Skies

• Claws of the Northern Wastes
• Crossbow of the Northern Wastes
• Druid's Staff
• Gloves of the Giantess
• Infectious Voulge

• Crystal Guardians now ethereal, social with pallus
• Adjusted summoned wyvern to lose ranged attack and gain 3 radius melee attack instead, will still cast

• Removed normal mobs (vampire bat, ghost) from Halloween dungeon
• Bumped drops of candy corn on some event mobs – black cats in particular
• Great Pumpkin is hate drop Encounter (not party drop rules)
• Reworked Halloween dungeon to take care of a few cheesy exploits; removed columns and decorative pumpkin in boss room (could get stuck there, lame!)
• Adjusted dungeon that passed close to pumpkin collector's corner of dungeon entrance; players could stand there and collect candy passively somehow
• Removed ability to summon followers inside the Halloween Dungeon
• Adjusted Halloween encounters to match the new dungeon layout

• Adjust to greater Skele stats
• Adjusted weaknesses/resistances of the following creatures; creature groups have similar weaknesses/resists varying by level/difficulty and some variance within. To save you time, I have included a GENERAL guide. There is some variability; check creature stats before deciding what to hunt.

• Sickly Troll
• Minor Storm Giant
• Storm Giant
• Frost Giant
• Stone Giant
• Rock Troll
• Storm Giant Elite
• Crystal Golem

• Imp
• Deadwillow
• Floating Horror
• Chiromorph
• Horned Devil
• Death Tyrant
• Eye of Valekar

• Undead Priest
• Ghost Willow
• Wraith
• Spect. Horned Bers
• Lich
• Lich Apprentice
• Greater Skeleton
• Diseased Ghoul
• Spectral General
• Spectral Destroyer
• Spectral Demon Ov.

• Glutton
• Minotaur
• Hunter
• Elite Fighter

• Fungoid Minion
• Undead Fungoid W
• Fungoid
• Undead Fungoid
• Fungoid Warrior
• Fungoid Wizard
• Poisonous Fungoid

• Dire Wolf
• Dire Wolf Leader
• Polar Bear

• To go with creature stat adjusts, we have also adjusted several mid level spawn areas, typically cleaning up the mobs that do not work in these areas, inc respawn time, adding some more spawn areas
• Fungoid cave (more structured throughout, bigger spawn)
• Storm Giant Valley (more giants, be careful! Storm Giant Elites the premier mob here)
• New Korelth (less of a mixed spawn, more difficult mobs within; Horned Devils the premier mob here)
• Deadwillows North of Chlera

• Added rune slots to Runed Oak Bow and Oak Bow of Spirit (up to 6/5 respectively from 4/2)
• Added oak bow of spirit and runed oak bow to some drop tables
• Added WWT to Sires/Lords. All Werewolves but pups drop the totem now.

• Missing warning print on event totems when lacking leadership requirements
• Pallus should be spawning again as expected in his throne room

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Event

• Three new items to trade for candy corn: Cavendish’s Cauldron (128 slot 65% reduction container for 20K corn), Army of Pumpkins Totem (req level 70 and 30 leadership to summon 3 rollin’ pumpkin slaves), Haunted Hollows Totem (req level 30 and 10 leadership to summon 1 spooky tree)
• Fix for those who exit dungeon with a stone or scroll who would not be able to transform using mask etc without relog
• Dungeon is now accessible in PARIAN graveyard (south) and is a safe zone
• Added corpses for moldy mummy and spooky tree
• All event mobs that drop candy corn in halloween dungeon will kill followers
• Adjusted drops of candy corn from event mobs (higher level drop more, lower level drop less generously)
• Added "EVENT ITEM" tag to halloween goodies
• New fun particle on item Frightful Cloak (in backpack/player screen only)

Creatures

• Meklor now will not spawn into the dungeon areas/become unattackable
• Adjusted stats and spawn of greater skeles as they are a bit too attractive of leveling option atm

Spells

• Summon Spectre now requires level 60 soul only (no leadership; pet based on player level)
• Brilliance now lasts duration stated in spellbook instead of 30 min
• Removed extra time to cast on Bulwark Might (was slightly longer than any other spell in its class due to this and making it awkward when spells wear off at varying times)
• Misery will give exp when cast on NPCs

Items

• Added CON to Evil Council robe to match its non event counterpart
• Razor Sharp Basilisk tooth stores charge on weapon misc field now instead of target, weight reduced to 4 from 8
• Added bonus damage to Dirk of the Unleashed, Edge of the Slayer, and Sword of Artraxis to make them more interesting choice than they currently are

Quests

• Removed lich apprentices and ww sires from LK/CK
• Franklin Anders should no longer take all potions given to him, just 1, but I mean he could use them so fine whatever be greedy
• Added fail confirmation to Shargar cult kill quest if killing cultists outside of the area near Dawat
• Removed duplicate quest print in Franklin Anders

Map

• Removed safe zone from Proudblood portal
• Adjusted level of guards in the guard outpost between Duremar and Farstead Keep and the Astari outpost north of necropolis, fixed them to be neutral alignment
• Fix for leaving Meklor’s room and having spawn point reset/invalid
• Removed rug in Indoel’s room which was causing corpse layering issues, replaced with red tiles and cleaned up the area of snow/cobblestones overlapping it with some smaller tiles
• Parian set to neutral. Too many quests and other things tied there to be divine, and it fits the lore for that city.
• Added script to WW Mat summon to make sure it's not pulling players into swamp tile where they can't walk

Skills

• Adjusted down the exp given on a few chainmail pieces for forging, was set to more of a 50 skill instead of 2-10 skill level reward
• Materials made of magic wood will salvage back into enchanted planks rather than fine planks
• Removed material for legacy cloak (could be salvaged for infinite malacinth)

Misc

• Fixed Chaos Portal (was allowing you throughif you didn't pay 25K gold)
• Tarvan will no longer go to Valmond but to Chlera
• Added evil mage to give legacy cloak for the people who have chosen a life of evil
• VIP soulstone cooldown cut to 30 min
• Added wanted flag to players who harm other players with incendiary powders

• Minimize box was inadvertently removed, is now added again
• Alt-Tab will minimize the fullscreen exclusive window again
• SHIFT-ALT-ENTER will toggle fullscreen exclusive mode
• Documented ALT-ENTER (windowless fullscreen) and SHIFT-ALT-ENTER (fullscreen exclusive) on Video Options

• 800x600 allowed (for those with bot like eyes)
• fixed screen size being left large when leaving fullscreen windowless
• fixed absurd video resolution selection
• fixed video settings toggle state begin wrong when fullscreen mode changes via hotkeys or system.

• Windowed mode is resizable by grabbing the edges of the window frame or right click titlebar
• The minimum window size (windowed mode) is 1024x768 + window frame
• Default new character UI revamped for 1024x768 courtesy of Era (Big Thanks!)
• Fullscreen windowless mode is supported (alt-enter + video settings)
• Fullscreen exclusive mode is supported (video settings)
• Game windows remember their state for 3 modes (windowed, FS windowless, FS exclusive)
• GlobalSettings.ini and UIConfig.ini are versioned (old/stale settings removed)

• Hotbar hotslot items are grey when they shouldn't be
• Title screen images are warped or clipped for some screen sizes
• PlayArea resets (/pa reset) its size when moving it
• PlayArea no longer squishes when grabbing the titlebar and bumping an edge/dragging
• Game freezes on launch for some video adapters
• Skills window doesn't remember its width
• Game freezes when resuming from the screensaver
• Video settings update their state when you change them in the menu

• Adjust to alignment loss when killing players
• Expansion of the profanity filter
• Adjusted PvP mitigation to give bonus mitigation to a lower level vs a higher level in PvP.
• Fix for client selecting an unsupported resolution by default
• Hotbars greying out
• Add warning to account linking popup and confirmation page about possibility to lose characters

• Inc # of attacks on Kritan, Lord Pallus, Northern FG Noble to 2
• Adjusted spawn of orc foragers; removed other mob and added more spawns
• Artraxis and Kritan given nature resistance
• Adjusted spawns on WWI - bumped werewolves and matriarchs, removed ghost willows
• Inc spawn of hell hounds on scorched island
• Adjusted Town Guardian min/max damage, enemy mitigation down some

• Slightly boosted drop rates of Totem of the Wolf on the mobs that have it as a solo drop chance

• Adjust to resists and bonuses on variety of armor: Warg Tail Necklace, Bracers of Defense, Wizards Robe, Grimoire of Veldan, Grimoire of Ulthien, Grimoire of Kuthos, Grimoire of Isos, Glowing Round Shield, Helm of the Orc Lord, Raqlun's Coif, Armor of Great Health, Shield of Runes, Grimacing Ring/Necklace, Dalvon Mining Helm, Black Opal Flame, Glowing Ethereal Staff
• Increased bonuses and resistances on Black, Holy, and Ettin Hide armor sets
• Reduced bonuses/resistances for patron armor sets (Armor of Krog/Whisperdale/Silvest). Main stat bonus, hp, and resistances dropped.
• Updated stats (mostly resistances) on the level 100 crafted sets (Tangled/Full Metal/Spectral)
• Pristine Ferocity set resists increased to 5%, removed str req, increased dex req
• Added/adjusted resistances on Swashbucklers and Queen's Silk sets (up to 3-4% on Blunt/Cut/Pierce in varying degrees)
• Helm of Agility - now req 30 Dex, no str
• Removed str req on Golden Helm of Power
• Adjusted Wizard's Cape to +5 Int +5 Str
• Wizards Robe - requires level 25 and 35 INT (was 50INT, level 35)
• Tormented gear con requirement lowered to 20 from 30
• Staff of Enervation now 1 handed
• Golden Helm of Power gives +6 INT instead of +6 STR
• Lowered DEX req of Nordic Warrior set to 20
• Added some resists to Sash/Sandals/Greaves of Archmage
• Evil Council Hood was not giving the bonus con in the tooltip
• Adjusted resists on Chaos crafted sets (tangled, spectral, full metal)
• Other adjusts: Glowing Round Shield (lowered reqs)
• Tooltips incorrect: shield of runes, belt of krog, pristine arm guards of ferocity
• Adjust for warlords gear sets (main stat bonuses reduced, resists adjusted to 4% for all existing resists), reduced HP slightly as well on certain pieces
• Adjust for various staves/wands, in most cases increased MM bonus, min/max damage and or speed, equip level and other minor adjusts, removed rune requ to equip on some as well:
• Apprentice's Wizard Staff, Novice's Wizard Staff, Adept's Wizard Staff, Master's Wizard Staff, Staff of Power, Staff of Enervation, Staff of the Archmage, Staff of the Impure, Council of Evil Darkstaff, Grand Staff of the Arda, Cursed Staff of Malderox, Staff of Elemental Mastery, Kudo Horn Wand, Glowing Ethereal Staff

• Fix for Carp toolset. Was modifying the wrong skill when crafting.
• Added exp for magic forging/carpentry/jewelery tools (Veldan's Hammer, Anvil of Velda, Hell's Gate, Artonian; Carpentry Toolset, Elven Tools, Jeweler’s Tools)
• Incorrect Stam Regen bonus on Cherry Pie Slice tooltip
• More information on planting skill level req to plant magic seeds
• Adjusted difficulty to harvest cinnamon
• Chef's Cap now has 10% chance to take damage (reduced chance to degrade)
• Slight bump to drop rate on cinnamon on Valinor island (for quest completion in farm quest)
• Blue crab shells now reusable
• Reduced difficulty to craft the tangled/full metal/spectral sets
• Jeweler's tools giving overburdened message on failure
• Removed req on Heartwood Shield, Miners Helm, Orc Mining Helm

• Photosynthesis can now be cast on others (ranged, line of sight)
• Lowered stam cost on Psychic scream to 20 from 25
• Removed DEBUG print in "Soul Drain" spell
• Removed ToF expansion flag from gazelle antlers

• Added some more information to the decayed cap stage of mushroom land quest
• Removed cult leaders, bulls from patrons, LK, CK quests
• Added Chaos Knight to Duremar and Farstead Keep
• Added quest fixup for older accounts who had completed the Artraxis quest but never got the key flag for it (they likely cheesed the quest by following someone into the mine who already had the key, allowing them to complete the quest without triggering key to drop)
• Removed "high level potions" treasure from Dynamic Quest as it contained expansion items
• Fix for Jessicugh quest; Jessicugh quest taking incorrect # of scorpion stings - changed her script to take automatically if on the stage.
• Adjusted DQ that wanted players to go to Vreth but in actuality it should have been darkfell
• Additional text on Father Berdun if player has completed quest "Great Herds"

• Druid staff summons 1 dragon, 1 wyvern with necklace, 2 wyverns without. This fix also impacts Ancient Follower, Wretched Follower; summoned pet value stored on player increments or subtracts based on what is being summoned/dismissed
• Campfires check dwelling then safe zone. Some creature danger areas in safe zones will be included in this
• Follower Marker box being left in player backpack in some situations#8 - fixup code added for any that are improperly left in player
• Updated Dark Guards at the blue portal from Parian/Battle Plains to level 105 from 55
• Changed the way familiar totem is spawned from the NPC (made to be similar to totem spawned familiar)
• Gave a notice on use of change race that one free race change is available from Champion of Lotor
• Oil of Jandros should inform you when it is used on yourself (was missing an obj ref) and when it wears off
• Fix for Darushk sign (not parsing + sign very well)