Realm of Simplicity MMORPG news & patch notes

Bugfix

- Fixed bug where it wont let you repair to 100% but always one-off

- Mob's health will not reset if they lose their target whilst another player is still in range

- Fixed percentage calculation for Town Taskboards

- Fixed Barrier + Fortify blocking their respected damage types

- Fixed bug where fishing spots did not hide graphics/model when depleted

Feature

- Added the ability to drag bank items into other bank tabs

- Added a setting to change the mouse button for party pings

Misc

- Changed durability repaired per mat: 100 -> 200 (2x easier to repair equipment now)

- King Slith ground AOE poison effect damage: 100% -> 10%

- King Slith green explosion damages lowered by 30%

- King Slith blue explosion damages increased by 75%

- When hit you will take durability damage on one equipment, rather than all equipment now

- Changed all fishing respawn timers: 3600s -> 600s

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Fixed bug where Taskboard UI did not scroll down properly

- Fixed old tooltip text for town rep in Player Skills UI menu

- Fixed typo in dialogue with Martin

- Fixed bug where you were not able to drag any item in the Superheating menu

- Gold reward message now shows for Taskboard tasks

Feature

- If in a party and get a hunting task, all proximity party members will get the assigned same task

- Party members now show up as a HUD in your screen

- Quest mob kills now count for all proximity party members now

- Taskboard task mob kills now count for all proximity party members now

Misc

- Changed Pinewood Spirit health scaling: 90 -> 150

- Changed both Armor Penetration + Magic Penetration socket scaling: (1-10, 9-10) -> (1-5, 4-5)

- Changed buff damage for Weak potions: 10 -> 30

- Change NPC sell price: 5% -> 8%

- Removed both Armor Pen + Magic Pen from all equipment (sorry - hopefully last balance change!)

Performance

- None

Polish

- Equipment tooltips will now show red text once durability is very low

- Added a one-time warning if clicking Hunting Scroll to reset task when you have some progress already

Bugfix

- Fixed the recipe for making a Large Disease Treatment potions

- Removed the 'dropping equipment' text from the dungeon entrance UI

Feature

- Implemented a damage multiplier for player skills (augments) to easily control damage balancing

Misc

- Popped off ALL sockets from ALL equipment items (please reclaim them back at the temp npc in towns)

- Set both Corrupted Spider + King Slith respawn timer to 5 minutes

- Changed Corrupted Spider mob level: 58 -> 70

- Changed King Slith mob level: 64 -> 84

- Balanced all player skills (augments) to be much more appropriate damage numbers

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Removed missing + old components on some gameobjects

- Fixed an intermittent bug causing database deadlocks (THANK GOD!)

Feature

- Made some shortcuts near towns that are unlockable from town reputation points

- Added a 'Block Profanity' option in the Setting Menu

- Refactored equipment repairing to support partial repairs instead of requiring full repair only

- Added an underground area in the Airedale Swamp

- Implemented Cosmo's Cosmetic Shop

- Added a new mob: King Slith

- Revamped the Corrupted Spider mechanics

- Added new item: Staff of Sliths

- Added new item: Thornwood Fishing Pole

- Added new item: Ginger Fishing Pole

- Added new item: Corrupted Cape

- Added more Socketweaver NPCs around towns

- Added more fishing spots in water areas

- Added new quest: Cook's Helper

- Refactored world chests/coffins to be 'open container' rather than a 'get all items at once' when interacting with them

- Added new items: Sugar + Egg

- Made farming plots much smaller size and more quantity of them

- Added new farming item: Sugarleaf

- Refactored Town Taskboards to be purely difficult linear tasks for town unlocks/rewards

- Added new quest: Stable Condition

- Added a little more space in the troll area near Airedale

- Refactored giving items to farming plots: can only be one of each type instead of spamming

- Added new alchemy potions: Disease Treatments

- Implemented bank tabs

- Added new item: Basic Scroll paper

Misc

- Transitioned Purite from an even spawn to normal ore spawns

- Changed standard mob scale for health: 25 -> 50

- Disabled the falling Purite rock from sky event until we can repurpose it

- Changed standard mob scale for defenses: 3 -> 4

- Renamed 'Bag of Gems' -> 'Cosmetic Gems'

- Fishing spots may now move randomly

- Removed the 'Exotic' tier of item rarity

- Refactored the purchasing of bank slots to be revolved around bank tabs now instead

- Remove farming plots from inside the towns

- Max bank tabs for non-members are 4, while members are 10. (112 items slots per tab)

- Removed all Treasure Stones items

- On death inside a PvP Zone (Dungeons), you will now only drop inventory instead of both inventory + equipment

Performance

- None

Polish

- Added Members/Non-Members sections in the quest UI

- Replaced the cow death sounds

- Changed fishing spot particles to be more visible

- Made all crops much larger in scale in the farming plots for easier visibility

- Changed all level-1 augment recipes: Augmented Scroll Paper -> Basic Scroll Paper

Bugfix

- Fixed a typo in Secrets of the Hunt quest

- Removed weapon experience from PvPing

- Fixed recipes for Pierce sockets to include 2 mat items instead of 1

- Fixed recipes for Strike Sockets to include more sands instead of all being 1

- Fixed non-tradable items dropping in PvP areas

- Fixed bug where showed the previous results from the market searching if no items were on the market you currently searched for

- Fixed an intermittent bug causing database deadlocks

- Balanced stat rolls from mob drops to match values of sockets

- Changed Crit Damage roll range: (1-10) -> (1-5)

Feature

- Added the possibility to drop with empty sockets from mobs

- Added crafting recipes for True Damage sockets

Misc

- Made Sand stackable

- Disabled all verbose logging for trying to find the database issue

- Made Gold Dust stackable

- True Damage stats can only be applied on Weapons now

- Changed all Damage roll range: (1-7) -> (1-5)

- Added max caps to some values: BlockChance(75%), Cooldown(75%), CritChance(100%), CritDamage(250%)

- Changed True Damage roll range: (1-5) -> (1-10)

- Changed the Global Market messages to use the new toast UIs

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Fixed server-sided bug that spammed console with false-warnings

- Split 'Luck' to both 'Crafting Luck' and 'Mob Drop Luck' in character stat UI

- Fixed clickable purchase button cosmetic bug in shop UI if the item was locked

Feature

- Added a 'Unique' item rarity (can not be obtained in normal ways)

- Refactored the algorithm of rolling item rarities so it is more flexible to control

- Hunting xp algorithm changed (should give faster xp/hr now)

- Reworked how stats on equipment items work. New equipment items will have empty slots that can be filled by items that apply stats to the equipment item

- Added items that can be slotted into equipment items to add stats to them

- Added the Socketweaver NPC that allows you to socket items

- Added new Rock ores to make Smooth Rocks for socketing

- Superheating now remove all sockets on an equipment item

- Refactored the algorithm for deconstructing Socket Items always give back the base stone used

Misc

- Ores now have 1-3 ores instead of a constant 1

- Changed all weapons max durability: 600 -> 1200

- Changed hunting to only get xp on task completion only

- Changed rarity on material items (mainly all to 'Common' now)

- Removed 'Gold Ring' from Larisa shop

- Set almost all max quantities to 1 for gems in NPC shops

- Changed max Cooldown Reduction: 50% -> 75%

Performance

- None

Polish

- Refactored the luck algorithm for drop tables

- Refactored the luck algorithm for item crafting

- Rearranged character stats in the UI to make it more organized

- Renamed all Enchantment Essences to match the new system (tier 1, tier 2, etc...)

- Changed default keybind for drop-item: LeftShift -> LeftControl

Bugfix

- Fixed a small typo with Adventurer Allan dialogue

- Added item-coal shop back to Torag in Dwarven Mines

- Fixed typo in item tool for percent experience boosts

- Gold amount is now dynamically calculated by NPC sell price in PlayerTask rewards

- Fixed dragging empty white slot from Farming UI

Feature

- Added active/afk methods for woodcutting (Tree = non-afk, Log-Pile = afk)

- Added the hunting-specific items to the hunters shops

Misc

- Aura of Light buff duration: 60s -> 180s

- Black Stallion speed: 9 -> 10

- Changed respawn timer for Mining Deposits: 600s -> 300s

- Mining Ores now give randomly 1-3 instead of always 1

- Remove the +1 yield when watering crops

- Buffed all farming yields from Compost items

- Aura of Light buff: +6 hp/s -> +20 hp/s

- Brown Horse speed: 8 -> 9

- White Horse speed: 8 -> 9

- Removed the Thornwood Trees from the Undead Cemetery

- Added Thornwood Trees in the spider-forest area (this area is really low-quality at the moment, it will be refactored in the future)

Performance

- None

Polish

- Added level requirement for tooltip for all survival nodes

Bugfix

- Fixed Water Wells

- Fixed destroyed graphics when mining small ores

- Fixed Sand Scorpions buggy animations

- Fixed Potato Seed buy price from 0g

- Added collision for Caleb's stall

Feature

- Added Vial of Water item

- Mining Deposits amount: (25-60) -> (60-180)

- Added Black Stallion in Rockchester Horse Trader shop

Misc

- Changed NPC Restock Timer tick: 120s -> 300s

- Removed Diamond from Lady Gale's shop

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Purite Arrows crafting recipe change: Thornwood Log -> Ginger Log

- Changed Silk equipment repair item: Frost Cloth -> Silk Fabric

- Changed Goldust equipment repair item: Gold Ingot -> Gold Dust + Cloth

- Fixed loading retroactively changed item rarities

Feature

- Added active/ afk methods for mining (Ores = non-afk, Deposit = afk)

- Refactored the NPC Shop feature

- Players may now sell items to General Stores

- Added a 'Sell-All to Shops' setting for safety

Misc

- Changed Black Dragon respawn delay: 600s -> 300s

- Changed Ginger Guardian respawn delay: 600s -> 300s

- Removed Goldust items from Green Dragon droptable

- Increased Wild Mana Wisp model size to be 50% larger

- Increased Crossbow projectile speed: 10 -> 13

Performance

- None

Polish

- Changed the customization UI to use our new UI sprites

- Changed the tutorial to be much simpler + faster to make onboarding new players much easier

- Moved another Haberdasher into Green Encampment so new players can customize their player right away

Bugfix

- Fixed bug where you could cast skills when your weapon was broken

- Instead of losing items when deconstructing, it will be placed directly in your bank

- Fixed bug where the buff skills would reset your attack cooldown

- Chicken's Feathers now drop in one stack

Feature

- The 'Cooldown Reduction' stat now works

- Added the ability to add all stats as base stats on items

- Added small, medium, and large Mana Potion items. Can be brewed in cauldrons with alchemy skill

- Mount tooltips now show their hunger value and if they're already dead

- Lanterns are now able to be crafted

- Added crafting recipes for Goldust equipment

- Added Mana Wisp plants around the world to pick

- Added new mage armor: Silk Fabric

- Add Silk armor crafting recipes

Misc

- Changed drop chance of Amber Resin: 1/100 -> 1/50

- Changed required defense level for Mystic Cloth: 50 -> 60

- Changed required defense level for Goldust Cloth: 30 -> 50

- Added the Augmented Scroll Paper required back to crafting augments on the Enchanting Table

- Removed the Goldust equipment from the Goblin Merchant shop since it's now craftable

Performance

- None

Polish

- Added 'this will be your in-game display name' to the username field when creating an account on the website

Bugfix

- Player Skills UI now respect the user-mapped keybind

- Removed Crit Chance and Crit Damage rolls from Staffs + Wands

- Removed Crit Chance, Crit Damage, and Lifesteal rolls from Lanterns

- Superheating items now works

- Fixed typo on Superheat button

Feature

- Change how taskboard rerolls work: Now uses Task Coins to remove a task which can be smithing from bronze

Misc

- None

Performance

- Refactored how we invoke some async methods for better stacktraces

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Map UI now uses new font

- Mob level UI now uses new font

- Removed the "Lifesteal" roll from Staff + Wand weapons

Feature

- Added a new toast UI feature

- All un-accepted taskboard tasks will now reroll every 12 hours

Misc

- Quieted some of our networking library logs

- New players are now allowed to login without email verification, however they are not able to trade or use the Global Market

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- Mount hunger values now save and load from the database

- Fixed typo in tutorial quest dialogue: Oak Crossbow -> Bow

- Fixed search input for Crafting Menu to now allow spaces

Feature

- Discord will now announce once you reach level 100 in any skill

- Added new items: Ginger weapons

- Added new items: Black Dragon armor

- Tweaked algorithm for Deconstructing (will now give back something even if all required materials are 1)

- Added new mob: Ginger Guardian

- Added new items: Spears

- Added crafting recipe for Reinforced String

- Added new offhand items: Parriers

- Added new skill: Spear

- Added new mob: Black Dragon

- Added new items: Dragonstone

- Added random event when picking Blood Berries

- Added new quest: Hammering Imperfections

- Added a mechanic to remove the 'Cant Repair' roll on items

- Added new quest: Forest Spirits

- Added new item: Bucket of Dirt

Misc

- Magic damage can not Critically Strike

- Moved Ginger Trees

- Thornwood crafting recipes changed: String -> Reinforced String

- Magic damage can not Lifesteal

- All mobs now have their respected defenses (depending on what they are weak too)

- Prevented blocking the player's login on the "double-login" bug

- Changed level requirement from Wand+Staff -> Combat level for Lanterns

- Buffed Base Max Health on all shields

- Increased zoom-out range for camera

- You can now sell items to the Goblin Merchant

- All compost recipes now require dirt

Performance

- None

Polish

- Damage popup number now uses the new font

- Mob names now uses the new font

- Polished all the dragon hat sprites

Bugfix

- Fixed food item tooltips to display how much they heal for

- Fixed the Mythril Ore inside the Airedale Swamp

- Fixed the Willow Tree right outside Rockchester Castle

- Fixed the Thornwood Tree inside the Undead Cemetery

- Fixed a bug where it spammed the logs with repair item messages

Feature

- None

Misc

- Allowed the hunting research books to be dropped now

Performance

- None

Polish

- Latency text stays hidden now if not currently logged in-game

- Updated item sprites for Faint Essences + Draconic Shield

- Resource nodes now only show the "gathered effect" if your close while it was gathered

- Added random velocity to XP drops (to hopefully prevent stacking XP drops)

Bugfix

- The audio from the Dragon-fire skill now respects the effects volume setting

- Fixed "off by 1 index" bug when getting a hunting task

- Removed the dialogue for Contuff npc in Wynnter Villager

- Removed the hunting requirement flag on the White Wolf

- Fixed special attacks bypassing the "learned mob mechanic" for hunting mobs

Feature

- None

Misc

- Remove the "Crafted/Loot" status on items entirely

Performance

- None

Polish

- Add "non-tradeable" to item tooltips

Bugfix

- Fixed the missing item reference in the shop for Priest Paul

- Party UI now shows health value instead of "123,456 / 123,456" for each member

- When in a party, you should now see your party members in the HUD

- Fixed icon for Wuff Wuff taskboard task

- Fixed icon for Dragon Slayer taskboard task

- Fixed the Augment of Light graphics

Feature

- Added the ability to deconstruct items on the Crafting Workbench

- Added the setting to "prevent dropping mounts" like horses

- Implemented a system where we can conditionally check the player's equipment to apply certain buffs or extra damage when hit by mobs (used in Hunting mobs)

- Added new hunting-specific mobs

- Added new hunting-specific items

- Added Thornwood Trees in the Undead Cemetery (but with much longer respawns)

- Added new quest: Secrets of the Hunt

- Changed the model + attacks for Ghost

- Implemented an automated temp-mute system

- Split cooking into 2 types: Open-Fire + Stove (complex recipes need to be cooked in a Stove)

- Refactored the entire Hunting skill

Misc

- Reset everyone's Hunting level

- Picking wild cloth now gives Survival experience

Performance

- Removed unused Discord libraries

Polish

- Moving bank items around now make sound

- Changed Oak Crossbow -> Oak Bow in tutorial quest so it requires less logs (better new-player experience)

- Player overhead text now uses new UI font style

- Changed the Bear model + attacks

Bugfix

- Fixed when clicking on player trade screen, the "bank tabs not implemented yet" UI shows

- Fixed animation bug when on a horse and farming

- Player skills UI now shows 0 on new account rather than 123,456

- Trees now do the shake effect when you're chopping them

Feature

- Added a bank in the Watercrest Port

- Added tasks to the Wynnter Village Taskboard

Misc

- Bonemeal time-to-grown: 10s -> 30s

- Removed the swamp key task from the Airedale Taskboard

- Watering farming plots now give +1 yield

- Increased time-to-fully-grown duration on all farming recipes (takes longer)

Performance

- None

Polish

- Clear left over texts when first opening a crafting UI

- Random events that get announced in the Discord will now get announced in-game too

- Changed the tooltip UI to match the new style + font

- Augments now show their skill description when viewing them in the Enchanting Table crafting UI

Bugfix

- None

Feature

- Carrot Soup buff now gives +1hp/sec for 10min

- Gooshroom Soup buff now gives +2hp/sec and +2mana/sec for 10min

- Added more Kindlestix bushes in the Pinewood Forest

- Added a rare randomly spawning tree: Blood Tree

- Added new survival resource node: Pile of Sand

Misc

- Changed Blood Stone + Magemoss recipes: Alchemy -> Enchanting

- Added level 40 woodcutting requirement to chop Blood Trees

- Changed Mystic Essence to be easier to craft

- Nerfed all Survival xp for burning logs

Performance

- None

Polish

- Change animation when grinding essence on Enchanting Table

- Split options in Enchanting Table: Augments, Enchant, Essence

- Fixed the quantity-text in the equipment UI to be proportional

Bugfix

- Fixed Kindlestix Bushes from being walked on top of

- Special attacks that apply a friendly buff to players can now be done in non-PvP areas as well

- Global Market "x" text which displays amount available now shows correct number

- Fixed a random IndexOutOfBounds error when equipping items

- Fixed bug where after walking to a node and starting to harvest it will intermittently stop harvesting and require you to click again

Feature

- None

Misc

- Added price each value in global market logs

Performance

- None

Polish

- Made the "top xp drop" UI much smaller to be proportional

- Made the "level up" UI much smaller to be proportional

- Made the "top xp" UI much smaller to be proportional

- Withdraw/Deposit gold input amount in bank UI doesn't allow a too-big number now

Bugfix

- Item slot quantity text is now an appropriate size (small)

- Fixed the Loot Acquired UI to be the new style

- Fixed the Party Invite UI to be the new style

- Fixed the Trade Request UI to be the new style

- Fixed the Guild Invite UI to be the new style

- Fixed bank withdraw amount not working

- Fixed a bug where it logged the play-time incorrectly

- Any buff that requires a certain weapon to cast, it get removed if you swap to a different weapon

Feature

- The Greens Encampment cauldron can now be used

- Added an Enchanting Table in Greens Encampment

- Added much more augments

- Modified a lot of augments to be lower-level so beginner players can have abilities much earlier

- Changed almost all enchanting materials and level requirements to try and have a better progression curve

- Implemented AOE object-spawning special attack for players

Misc

- Reset everyone's Enchanting level

- Base Mana Regen: 0 -> 1

- Base Max Mana: 50 -> 60

Performance

- None

Polish

- None

Bugfix

- The item name's text now shows in "My Listings" Global Market UI

- Refreshing the page after posting a comment for a Report Ticket will not prevent double-posting

- Fixed the text UI in "Your Listings" Global Market UI

- Close button now works on "My Listings" Global Market UI

- Fullscreen toggle now works in Settings UI

Feature

- An email will now get sent to all parties involved in a Report Ticket

Misc

- Added a server-wide "shutdown" command for moderators to use (in-case of a horrible bug/glitch while developers are not online)

- Added more server-side logs for player disconnects (trying to find rare bug)

- All normal chat is now global (temporarily while player count is low)

Performance

- None

Polish

- None