This is a minor bug-fix update.

• Fix crash from clicking the Summon button in the recipe window
• Fix text issues with popup UIs
• Fix issue with chat button going onto 2 lines
• Fix for manticores getting stuck in their crystals
• Fix for Winter Turrets getting stuck inside rocks
• Fix for spiders in Myconian Cave never coming down from their vantage points
• Improve pathing in Rahu Sewers (though it's still not 100% up to par yet)
• Reduce texture-memory usage in "Enter the Light" area; previously low-end PCs could hit out-of-memory crashes when entering this area
• Fix bug where charmed enemies' pet-mode wasn't displayed correctly (should be assisting but was displayed as passive follow)
• Fix broken unarmed treasure effect "Slashing Strike deals +64 damage and worsens the target's Slashing Vulnerability +16% for 60 seconds."

In this update we revise several combat skills and make improvements in many areas. Note: We're still working on the upcoming city Statehelm; it's probably two major updates away. You may see new references to it in-game, but it's not accessible yet.

Unity Engine Upgrade

Lost Scapegoats Event Fixes

UI Changes

• Adjust UI defaults to look better on a 1920x1080 screen. Namely:
  • GUI Scale defaults to 1.5, and has a new maximum value of 3
  • Several window default sizes have been increased: Quest Log, Recipes, Item Info, Chat
  • Note: These changes will only affect new installations!
• The setting "Chat Text Size" now affects the chat input font size
• There's a new default chat tab called "Chat" with the following channels: Nearby, Global, Tell, Status, Error, Emotes, Trade, Help. This tab is selected by default for new players
• New setting "Windows Text Size" affects the font size of the Quest Log, Recipes, & Item Info windows. More windows may be added in the future
• New setting "Popups Text Size" affects the font size of the Summon Item, Split Stack, & Informational Popups
• You can now ctrl-click on an item to view More Info about it
• Slightly adjust text of the Word of Power popup
• Slight changes to some of the windows, to make them look better and be easier to read
• New setting, "Use Reflections", turns reflections on or off. Find it in Settings > Graphics > Advanced > Lighting & Shadows

Weather Witching Changes

Ability Changes

• Summon Doomstorm: chance to consume necromancy dust reduced from 33% to 10%
• Tsunami: Base Damage significantly increased (e.g. Tsunami 6 from 741 to 1007). Some treasure effects adjusted as a result of this formula change
• Deluge: Base Damage significantly increased (e.g. Deluge 9 from 578 to 882). Some treasure effects adjusted as a result of this formula change
• Summon Tornado: works in water
• At level 50, weather witches gain a lore recipe to determine the current weather in all outdoor areas

Treasure Changes

• "Tsunami Damage +116, Targets also take +20% damage from sentient weather phenomena for 30 seconds" => ... take +30% damage
• "Tsunami deals +469 Nature damage over 7 seconds" => +560
• "Tsunami Damage +179, Every other casting resets the timer on Summon Tornado (so it can be used again immediately)" => "Tsunami Damage +252, ..."
• "Deluge deals +102 damage on contact and increases the target's Poison Vulnerability and Electricity Vulnerability +15% for 30 seconds (non-stacking)" => +18%
• "Dampen deals Cold damage and debuffs the target so that it takes +90 damage from future Cold attacks for 10 seconds" => ...takes +12.5% damage from future Cold attacks
• "Dampen debuffs the target so that it takes +90 damage from future Nature attacks for 10 seconds" => ...takes +12.5% damage from future Nature attacks
• (Head, Chest) "Shocking Grasp Damage +114. Every other use has a 25% chance to stun the target" => "Shocking Grasp Damage +95. Shocking Grasp has a 100% chance to stun the target"
• this treasure effect is now only available on Head-slot equipment. Chest-slot items that have this effect have become Legacy Items. You can use Transmutation to remove this treasure effect and make the item "un-Legacy", or speak with the Legacy Item Helper golem in Serbule to get a randomized replacement item
• new: (Head): "When you use Summon Tornado 3 or higher, you summon a second tornado that is 2 ability-tiers weaker. In addition all summoned Tornadoes deal +15% Damage"
• new: (Main-Hand, Ring): "Using Dampen, Lightning Bolt, Shocking Grasp, or Hailstorm while simultaneously channeling a different Weather Witching ability boosts your next attack (which is typically the channeled ability, unless it's not an attack) damage +34%"
• new: (Chest) "Shocking Grasp Reuse Time -5.5 seconds"

Vampirism Changes

• Dominate ability: no longer has a casting time
• Sidebar ability "Giant Bat Form" no longer requires you to have the Vampirism skill active to cast it
• Fixed bug that prevented rakshasa enemies from dropping blood
• Treasure changes:
• (Feet) "Enthrall Range +15 and Damage +138" => "Enthrall and Dominate Range +25"
• (Feet, Necklace) "Dominate Reuse Time -10" => "Dominate Duration +10 and Reuse Time -10"
• new: (Off Hand) "If you abort Dominate before it naturally expires, or if you use it on an Elite target, the target is stunned for 6 secs and it suffers +25% damage from all Indirect Damage sources for 30 seconds"
• new: (Chest, Hands) "Dominate boosts its victim's Direct Damage +79% and Taunt +1000% while charmed"
• new: (Ring) "Dominate boosts its victim's non-Rage attack damage +162% while charmed"

Animal Handling Changes

Ability Changes

• Ability Clever Trick is now marked as a Survival Utility ability, which allows some buffs to apply to it
• Changed the level that you get "Sic 'Em" from 9 to 3. Changed the level that you get "Feed Pet" from 3 to 4. Since newly-trained Animal Handlers are automatically raised to level 3, this means Animal Handlers will always have an offensive combat ability they can put on their bar. (You need to use an Animal Handling ability at least once per minute to earn Animal Handling XP, but previously newbies only had "Feed Pet" available at level 3, and it wasn't intuitive that they needed to feed their pet before battle to earn XP.)
• Ability "That'll Do" no longer has a casting time. Reset time is 15s instead of 30s
• Added a new ability "Mark Target". This ability will eventually be trained by an NPC in Statehelm, but in the short term it can be learned from Crelpin in the Fae Realm.

Treasure Changes

• (Chest) "Direct Cold Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active" => "Direct Cold Damage and Direct Darkness Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active"
• (Head) "Direct Electricity Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active" => "Direct Electricity Damage and Fire Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active"
• (Hands) "Direct Piercing Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active" => "Direct Piercing Damage and Direct Slashing Damage +20% when Animal Handling skill active"
• (Head, Main Hand) "Animal Handling pets' Sic 'Em abilities taunt +1500" => +2000
• (Legs, Main Hand) "Animal Handling pets deal +20% damage when they critically hit" => +50%
• (Legs, Necklace) "Animal Handling pets taunt as if they did +200% additional damage" => +400%
• (Chest, Ring) "Animal Handling pets taunt their opponents 40% less" => 57% less
• (Necklace, Ring) "Animal Handling pets' damage-over-time effects (if any) deal +162% damage per tick" => +200%
• (Legs, OffHand) "Animal Handling pets recover +21 Armor every five seconds (whether in combat or not)" => "Animal Handling pets have +11% Max Armor, and every second they recover Armor equal to 2% of their Max Armor"
• (Hands, MainHand) "Animal Handling pets' Clever Trick abilities deal +24% damage" => +27%
• (OffHand, Ring) "Animal Handling pets' basic attacks deal +15% damage" => +26%
• (Main Hand, Necklace, Legs) "For 19 seconds after using Clever Trick, pets' basic attacks have a 15% chance to deal double damage" => 30% chance. Also fixed bug that caused high tiers of this effect to only last as long as the lower tiers.
• (Legs, MainHand) "Animal Handling pets' healing abilities, if any, restore +53% health" => +73%
• new: (Chest, Ring) "Mark Weakness Damage +193"
• new: (Main Hand, Feet) "Mark Weakness Damage +75%"
• new: (Hands) "When Mark Weakness is used on a target that has less than 33% of their max Rage, it triggers again, targeting an enemy within 8 meters of the first (using Mark Weakness 9)"
• new (Off-Hand) "Mark Weakness further increases target's Pet Vulnerability +16%. Reuse time -4 seconds."
• new (Necklace, Legs) "Mark Weakness causes your next attack to deal +182 damage if it is a Psychic attack"
• new (Head) "Psychic Damage +18% while Animal Handling skill active; Crushing Damage +18% while Animal Handling skill active"

Dev Commentary

• Note that some pets have better inherent Basic Attack damage than others. Pets that aren't damage-focused, including most Bears and some Rats, have better Basic Attacks than damage-centric pets such as Cats. (This is because the cats' damage bonuses are applied elsewhere, usually to their Sic 'Em and/or Clever Trick attacks.) So Basic Attack-boosting treasure is a way to improve the damage of less damage-focused pets.
• If you equip multiple copies of this effect, the percentage-chances aren't added together; instead each is rolled separately. If you have two copies equipped and they both trigger on the same attack, the pet would deal 400% more damage than normal.
• If you use these treasure effects, it's recommended that you also use the effects that boost pets' Basic Attack Damage!
• Also consider the treasure effects that boost pets' Critical Hit Damage. Most pets have about a 10% Critical Hit Chance with all their attacks. (Chance is based on the pet's Enthusiasm.) When their Basic Attacks crit, the crit damage is also doubled, which can stack with this effect.
• Typical builds that use this effect only use one or two copies of it (because other treasure effects are more important). Three copies are available to provide build flexibility

Animal Handling Pet Ability Changes

• Bear Taunt: is now an 8m Burst attack. High-level versions of Bear Taunt have a percentage-based taunt bonus instead of a flat bonus
• Bear Stun: is now an 8m Burst attack
• Bear Ultra: is now an 8m Burst attack. Base damage is higher
• Bear Warmth: self-taunt buff is now percentage-based instead of a small flat amount
• Bear Self-Heal: restores same amount of health, plus restores even more armor
• Bee Inject: increased damage over time (by more than double at higher-level tiers)
• Bee Poison Vuln: lasts 30 seconds instead of 15; range increased to 40m
• Wasp Blast: damage increased; ranged increased to 40m
• Wasp Ranged Slow: damage significantly increased; range increased to 40m
• Wasp Ranged Debuff: damage increased; range increased to 40m
• Wasp Burst Pierce: damage increased
• Big Cat Kill: now an 8m Burst slashing attack
• Big Cat Ultra-Kill: deals more damage; deals its full damage directly to both Health and Armor (doubling effective damage and bypassing armor mitigation)
• Big Cat Root: now a Burst 8m effect
• Raking Claw (Slashing Debuff): now a Burst 8m effect; debuff lasts longer
• Big Cat Heal: retains its instant heal and also has a heal-over-time effect that restores twice as much (total) health over 10 seconds
• Grimalkin Puncture: bleed damage dramatically increased
• Grimalkin Flee: added massive built in taunt plus an increased temp-taunt to more reliably pull target away
• Rat De-Rage: base damage is higher
• Rat Heal: now is a 20m burst heal that targets the pet, owner, and any other allies
• Rat Poison Vuln: now a 8m burst attack
• Rat Burn: fire DoT damage dramatically increased

Other Pet Changes

• Bees with melee poison attacks now deal Poison damage-over-time with every basic attack (with shorter and weaker effect than their special move, but scaling at all levels)
• Chopjaw's regeneration has been reduced. Previously it regenerated 361 health per second at level 100. This was a bug; it was using monster-regen instead of pet-regen. Chopjaw now recovers 15% of its Max Health every second, which by default is 89 health/sec at level 100. This value can be buffed by using equipment or abilities that boost the pet's Max Health.
• Freeze Wasps' basic attack is now ranged
• Shooty wasps now have all ranged attacks (some had melee-range basic attacks)
• Grottofang has nature resistance instead of cold resistance

Everything Else

• revised pet AI logic for "Aggressive" and "Aggressive Seeker" pets so that they attack a nearby enemy immediately upon existing, even if their owner is not in combat. Previously they could not detect foes that weren't actively in combat with themselves or their owner.
• To help players adjust to the skill changes in this update, the following skills will have discounted Transmutation costs through April: Weather Witching, Animal Handling
• The Serbule Community Chest is now known as the Serbule Dynamic Safebox. The name has changed, but everything else is the same.
• Elven Lily, Red Rose, & Cedar Wood are now a bit more abundant, and each now spawns somewhere in the world
• Game now specifies that Denton Razor likes "Elvish" jewelry
• Upgrade fat dropped by Vidarian Hogs
• The footpath in Vidaria no longer counts as being in water
• Vidaria Orc Invasion event now shows up on the map
• Add a note to a strange panel in Vidaria to denote that it doesn't do anything yet
• more locations are accessible via teleportation coordinates
• Elite and Boss monsters have increased Critical-Hit Chance (from a flat 5% chance to up to 8% for some epic bosses)
• fix bug that allowed Battle Chemistry mutations to stay on pets even when the caster stopped using the Battle Chemistry skill
• fix bugs that caused you to lose/gain Body Heat, Flight Power, Breath, Radiation, Cleanliness, Peaceableness, and Hydration while the client was still loading a new area
• Fix Eltibule and Vidaria trees not providing shade for vampires
• Fix for Corey the Croaker not actually providing a hangout
• Fix Makara's dialogue not progressing
• you can now train Corpse Talking if you have either Necromancy 20 or Shamanic Infusion 20
• monsters who hunt by scent no longer track dead players
• fixed certain abilities such as Castigate that could not be used in water unless you were standing on the bottom of the lake or pool

This is a bug-fix update.

Hellfire adjustments:

• You are now engulfed in purple flames when you are standing in an area that is applying Hellfire to you
• Demons that apply Hellfire now say so under their name when targeted
• Being dead in a zone of Hellfire no longer continues to apply Hellfire stacks to you
• Ferris Blueheart now offers a daily hangout to remove some Hellfire. What a nice guy!
• Hellfire stacks now show in your buff bar even when you are hiding Permanent Buffs

Vidaria adjustments:

• Fix bug causing you to respawn at a random location in Vidaria, instead of the nearest respawn point
• Kormathrux the Helix Devourer (the horse thief boss) no longer curses you
• Astonishing Skulls can now be found on the undead in Vidaria
• adjustments to dynamic activities in Vidaria - monsters' detection, shout, and chase radius is a bit smaller
• Slightly increase spawn rate of engineers in the back half of the Vidaria Orc Camp
• Fix bugs in the Crazed Animal and Gargoyle events in Vidaria
• Vidaria events now show up on the map when they are active (make sure you have Events selected in your filters!)
• Orcish Mining Pick recipes now work like other crafted gear recipes, and Engineer Crall has many more recipes to teach as a result
• Optimize Vidaria crater smoke particles
• Fix wrong favor-increase text for Korbok

Vampirism adjustments:

• fixed display bug in Blood Mist tooltip; it showed that it dealt damage without any treasure effects. (Ability does no damage without treasure effects)
• Treasure effect "While in Blood Mist form, you erupt in a fountain of vile blood every 2 seconds, damaging all enemies within 5 meters" was broken, is now fixed
• Treasure effect "Bite attacks deal +24% damage and hasten the current reuse timer of Blood Mist by 3 seconds" => by 2 seconds
• Vampire 81-90 can now be unlocked
• Enable vampire rune in Vidaria farmhouse
• Vampire Runes can now be interacted with in the Old Targeting UI

Other:

• New currencies (Vidaria Renown, Blood Oaths) now show up on vendor screens, displaying how much of that currency you currently have
• Fix bugs in the Golf window GUI
• Potential fix for Combatant-related exceptions on subservers (a/k/a "dead monsters chasing players")
• Gain a synergy level of Toolcrafting when reaching Gadgeteering 55
• Fix for "You're appreciating a performance" not going away when it should
• Fix for some NPCs no longer receiving gifts, and instead responding with something along the lines of "I don't know what to do with that"

This is a minor bugfix update to yesterday's major update.

• Fix issues preventing users from redeeming VIP gifts
• Fix barters in Povus
• Add icons for new currencies
• Reduce cash reward for Xogrite work orders (400k -> 160k)
• Vidaria adjustments:
  • Hellfire craters are more obviously dangerous now, with a demonic texture added to them
  • Tweak the northwestern lake to improve monster pathing
  • NPCs in Vidaria now talk to animals -- for now (some will eventually require introductory quests before they speak with animals)
  • Ferris Blueheart now sells Hellfreeze in exchange for Vidaria Renown
  • When standing in hellfire, you now accumulate 1 stack of Hellfire every 5 seconds (up from 1 stack per 2 seconds)
  • Minor Panaceas now cure all Hellfire stacks
  • Epic Bosses in Vidaria are now no-lock
• Vampirism adjustments:
  • Reduced chance of blood loss in sunlight
  • Improved potency of Lifeblood
  • When you become a vampire you get a small stack of Lifeblood
  • Note: it's not explained in-game anywhere yet but the more blood you have, the less likely you are to lose blood in sunlight. Keeping the blood meter at 60 or above gives you the best base protection

Welcome to our first major update of 2025! It's a big one.

Vidaria

Vampirism

Other New Content To Know About

• Tryaka in Povus has something new for players with a combat skill of 70+
• There's now a way to access the closed off section of the Ranalon Den. (Might want to bring a friend.)
• New flowers have started appearing in Gazluk and Povus
• Note: Lavender seeds require Gardening 100, which is currently unobtainable (and will be until Statehelm launches). Thus, the seeds can be collected but not used yet. Lavender the flower has been added to some loot tables temporarily to provide a source of lavender
• Riston in the Red Wing Casino has something new to explore for qualified players

Animal-Form Travel Boosts

Combat and Treasure Changes/Fixes

• Necromancy Treasure Changes:
  • "Necromancy Base Damage +50%" -> "Necromancy Base Damage +50%; Summoned Skeletons deal +10% direct damage"
  • "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +70 direct damage" => now affects all types of summoned skeleton
  • "Summoned Skeletal Swordsmen have +149 armor and -20% Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Vulnerability" => now affects all types of summoned skeletons
• Changed Organic Armor Suit Bonus: "Combat Refreshes (from Basic Attacks) reset 3 seconds faster." => now reset 5 seconds faster
• Psychology: multiple sources of the mod "Tell Me About Your Mother causes target's attacks to deal -X damage for 60 seconds" now stack - i.e. if you have the mod on a hat and boots, their damage reduction values stack. But multiple applications of the debuff do NOT stack.
• Fix bug causing "Eclipse of Shadows Range +X" showing up twice on a specific enchantment
• Enhanced Windstep Shoes and Enhanced Amulet of the Rugged Traveler are now more enhanced!
• Most crafted armor, jewelry and some weapons will now have an endurance requirement if two combat skills are not present on the item.
• Warden treasure effect "While Privacy Field is active, melee attacks that damage you have a 75% chance to restore X Power to you" now actually restores power instead of health
• If a target is hit by multiple Stun, Slow, or Root effects within 1 second, the latter effects don't affect diminishing returns for future ones
• Tweaked the timeouts for Stun diminishing return logic to better reflect the current game style. (Previously, stun diminishing-returns could last up to 30 seconds, which is an eternity of combat in the modern game.)

High-Level Monster Adjustments

• Boosted high-level solo monster Max Health a bit. The change starts to affect monsters at level 70+. Some example comparisons may be the best way to describe the change. For all of these examples, imagine an "average" solo creature.
  • Previous level 80 monster Max Health: 3902, now 4118
  • Previous level 90 monster Max Health: 4882, now 5523
  • Previous level 95 monster Max Health: 5372, now 6318
  • So the change is noticeable, but is intended to be conservative given the way that player damage multiplies at high level
  • Max Armor was also slightly changed, but in this case was to correct some weird old calculations. Impact is negligible at all levels

Everything Else

• Fix bug causing text to disappear on Linux (we hope)
• Fix misaligned lake water in Serbule
• Multiple stacks of a temporary effect on a monster now only shows the effect with the longest remaining duration
• Added 20% Boost potions for Spirit Fox and Weather Witching, both of which are taught by Ragabir
• Orc Rangers in Povus orc camps now count towards Mope's favor
• Gain synergy-bonus levels in Flower Arrangement when reaching: Nature Appreciation 70, Nature Appreciation 90, Artistry 25, Artistry 50, Gardening 75, Plant Anatomy 39, Jewelry Crafting 60, Psychology 55
• Add an extra check for a player being stuck in an animation loop. Previously the check only applied to combat-related animation loops, now it applies to all
• Eating fish now count towards the Vegetarian and Vegan behavior badges, and towards player cows' milking effects
• Fixed collision on some brick floors and pillars in Nightmare Caves.
• Moved a drakeworm spawn to no longer be stuck behind an invisible wall in Nightmare Caves.
• Potential fix for Forthragarian Overseer getting stuck in a certain wall.
• Removed a leftover wall in Elven Judgment
• Fixed more monsters stuck inside of rocks in Ilmari.
• Fixed collision and "ghost pillars" at Zeratak's building in Serbule.
• Removed a lone pillar that was on a wall just outside of Serbule Keep.
• Mobs in Boss Gauntlet should no longer get stuck in acid pits.
• Fixed a specific corner in Fungal Fortress so that Fun Guys should no longer get stuck
• Mythander no longer sells Prototype Horses, he sells genetically-generated horses that are similar to wild ones found in Eltibule
• Horse Glamourizer NPC can now turn Proto mounts into horse glamours
• Increased the maximum number of installable items in the casino guild hall from 50 to 100

A roaming caravan of master crafters have stopped at the Red Wing Casino for a few days of rest, restocking, and a chance to study some of the local crafts. They have rented the Theater Room for their staging area. Go pay them a visit and see if they can help you advance your craft skills faster!

This is a minor update to begin our Thanksgiving-themed event. There were also some fixes and revisions ready to go, so they're included here. (We're still working on the upcoming "major update" that will include Vampirism.)

Bard Skill Revisions

• Song of Discord: base damage increased a bit at all tiers
• Song of Resurgence: base healing amount increased
• Song of Bravery: power-cost reduction increased at all tiers (by roughly double)
• Blast of Defiance: "reaps Health and returns it as Health" => "reaps Health and returns it as Health (or Armor if Health is full)"
• Moment of Resolve: now restores Health (or Armor if Health is Full). Previously it restored Armor.
• Moment of Resolve: physical damage mitigation lasts 8 seconds instead of 5 seconds

• "Song of Bravery boosts allies' Basic Attack and Core Attack damage +67" => +151
• "Thunderous Note costs -20 Power and range +6 meters" => "Thunderous Note costs -30 Power and damage is +10%". Note: previously this effect was on Necklace and Hands slots. It is now only available on Necklace slot equipment. If you have gloves with this effect on them, they have become Legacy. You can use Transmutation to roll the effect off of your gloves, or you can get a randomly generated replacement. Speak to the Legacy Item Helper golem in Serbule for more information.
• "Blast of Defiance reaps +22% of the Health damage to you as health. The reap cap is +100" => "Blast of Defiance reaps +22% of the Health damage to you as health (or armor if health is full). The reap cap is +150"
• "Song of Resurgence also restores 10 Power every 4 seconds to each target in range" => 16
  • Also, fixed bug that caused this effect to incorrectly add in benefits from Song of Resurgence health-restoration effects
• "Song of Discord deals +X damage and has a 5% chance to stun each target every 2 seconds" => 10% chance to stun
• "Song of Discord has a 53% chance to deal +25% damage to each target every 2 seconds" => 33% chance to deal +100% damage
• "Song of Discord Damage +20%" => +26.5%
• "Song of Discord reduces targets' Rage by -238 every 2 seconds" => "... and deals +55 damage"
• New effect: (Chest, OffHand): "Song of Discord deals +100% damage to targets with less than 33% of their Max Rage"
• New effect: (Head) "Thunderous Note deals +84 damage and is considered a Bardic Blast ability."
• New effect: (Hands) "Every 2 seconds while Song of Discord is active, your Bardic Blast ability damage is boosted +10.5% for 30 seconds"
• (Head, MainHand) "Song of Bravery has a 15% chance every 4 seconds to grant listeners a Moment of Bravery: all attacks deal +25% damage for 5 seconds" => 25% chance to boost all attacks by 50%
  • Dev note: this was originally coded in an old-school way, where each slot's effect triggers separately. This seems like the most fun approach here, so that hasn't been changed. What this means is that if you have both the Head and Main-Hand versions of this effect, you don't have one 50% chance to get a moment of bravery, but rather two 25% chances. If both effects trigger, damage is boosted twice.
  • Also note: there is a new tier of this effect for level 90+ gear, with 30% chance instead of 25% chance
• New effect: (Legs, Ring) "Direct Nature Damage +24% and Indirect Nature Damage +48% while Bard skill active"
• New effect: (Legs) "Song of Bravery further reduces ability costs -20 and increases Direct Damage +11.5%"
• "Song of Bravery causes allies' Combat Refreshes to restore +92 Armor" => +143
• "Moment of Resolve dispels any Stun effects on allies and grants them immunity to Stuns for 8 seconds." => "In addition, Moment of Resolve can be used while Stunned."
• "Song Of Resurgence Healing +22" => +30
• New effect: (Ring) "Melee abilities boost your Bardic Blast ability damage +15.5% for 30 seconds"
• New effect: (Ring) "Blast of Fury Damage +182"
• "Blast of Defiance reaps 23% of the Armor damage done (up to a max of 150), returning it to you as armor" => "Blast of Defiance Damage +120 and Reuse Time -2 seconds"
• "Blast of Fury deals +52% damage and knocks the target back, but the ability's reuse timer is +2 seconds" => "Blast of Fury deals +28% damage and knocks the target back"
• New effect: (Ring, Necklace) "Blast of Fury Damage +120 and Reuse Timer -1 Second"
• New effect: (Legs, Chest) "Bard Blast abilities cause target to suffer 280 Nature damage over 8 seconds"
• New effect: (Legs) "Melee abilities boost your next attack +62.5% if it is a Bardic Blast ability"
• "Whenever you take damage from an enemy, you gain Bard Base Damage +10% for 15 seconds. (Stacks up to 10x)" => "Whenever you take damage from an enemy, your Bardic Blast abilities deal +10% damage for 20 seconds. (Stacks up to 12x)"

• Bard horn weapons that boosted "Bard Base Damage %" now instead boost "Bard Damage %". (This is a buff as it is generally a larger bonus for high-level players, and the same bonus as before for low-level players.)
• Rakshasa Lute has been revised to reduce Moment of Resolve reuse time
• Fairy Lute now also reduces Moment of Resolve reuse time
• Starlute now also reduces Virtuoso's Ballad reuse time

Changed Necromancy Treasure Effects

• (OffHand) "Death's Hold causes target to take +10.7% damage from Darkness for 15 seconds" => +11.57%
• (MainHand, Ring) "Summoned Skeletons deal +18% direct damage, but take +50% more damage from cold attack" => deal +24% direct damage, but take +50% more damage from cold attacks
• (Feet, OffHand) "Summoned Skeletons have +130 armor" => "... and suffer -20% damage from Burst attacks"
• (Chest, OffHand) "Summoned Skeletons have +93 health" => "... and suffer -20% damage from Burst attacks"
• (Feet, OffHand) "Summoned Skeletal Swordsmen have +149 armor and +10 Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation" => "+149 armor and -20% Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Vulnerability"
• (Hands, Ring) "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +50 direct damage" => +70
• (Head, MainHand) "Provoke Undead restores 64 Health to you and causes your attacks to taunt +20% for 10 seconds" => "Provoke Undead restores 83 Health to you (or Armor if Health is full) and causes your attacks to taunt +58% for 20 seconds"
• (Feet, Ring) "Provoke Undead deals 72 damage to your minions, who then deal +72 damage for 10 seconds" => deal +129 damage for 10 seconds
• (Feet, MainHand) "Provoke Undead causes your minions to deal +29% damage for 10 seconds, but also take 175 damage over 10 seconds" => +46% damage
• (OffHand, Necklace) "Provoke Undead causes your minions to deal +43 damage for 10 seconds" => "Provoke Undead's Reuse Time is -5 seconds and it boosts your minions' damage +48 for 10 seconds"
• (Feet) "Heal Undead restores +22 health/armor and grants target undead +17 Mitigation from all attacks for 8 seconds" => "Heal Undead causes target undead to take -39% damage from Elite attacks for 8 seconds"
• (Legs, MainHand) "Heal Undead restores an additional 156 Health/Armor over 12 seconds" => "... and also hastens the current reuse timer of Rebuild Undead -5 seconds"
• (Chest, Ring) "Using Raise Zombie on an existing zombie raises its Max Health +195 for 60 seconds (and heals +195)" => for 5 minutes

Other Changes and Fixes

• To help you adapt to changes in this update, transmutation costs for Necromancy and Bard skills are reduced
• Fixed bug with Archery treasure effect: "Blitz Shot Damage +X% and Critical Hit Chance +Y%". The critical-hit chance bonus was not applying.
• Fixed bug with Archery treasure effect: "Aimed Shot deals +X damage, has +Y% Critical Hit Chance, and also grants this Critical Hit Chance bonus to your next Archery attack". The critical-hit chance bonus was not applying to Aimed Shot
• Added display of buffed critical-hit chance to ability tooltips
• Bug fix: Bladesmithing sharpening kits no longer add a Bladesmithing level-requirement to the item. They now apply a Sword, Knife, or Unarmed level requirement, as appropriate. Note that this fix can only apply to newly-used kits; weapons sharpened prior to this update will still have a Bladesmithing prerequisite until they are re-sharpened.
• The JSON file `abilitykeywords.json` has a new structure. (Sorry)
• Jack o'lanterns and a few other art items can now be "installed" in guild halls
• Fixed bug that caused elven judgment student key trunk to give no loot to party members except the one who receives the poison. (All party members should be able to get loot, just not the poison)
• Fixed many Effect descriptions to have precise buff amounts in them. (This is shown in a tooltip when you hover over an Effect.)
• Changed Weather Witching treasure effect: "Deluge deals +102 damage on contact and increases the target's Poison Vulnerability +15% for 30 seconds (non-stacking)". This effect now debuffs both Poison Vulnerability and Electricity Vulnerability. (It was bugged to debuff Electricity, and when fixing that, we decided it can just debuff both.)
• Bugfix: fixed recipe for "Dwarven Stout (1 glass)" so that it better matches ingredient ordering from "Dwarven Stout Keg"
• Fix pet skeletons not persisting across Areas. (And btw we can't currently implement spiders persisting, so that's why they don't. But it's on the todo list.)
• Horse Apple Bushes no longer have collisions
• Norbert no longer treats druids as animals, unless they are in an actual animal form. Previously you would see the countdown and it would get stuck at 0 and not let you progress - now he just directs you to speak with Spot
• Field Surgery 4 now requires Field Surgery 3 instead of 2
• Brugo the Wise now actually gives a gift at Best Friends favor
• Adjust graphics sliders: Shadow Distance & LOD Bias now have max values of 1000 and 10 respectively, and Ultra setting respects these maximums
• Lower flash brightness of certain get-hit effects
• Fix Gardening uncap icon in Floxie's training menu
• Fixed bug that caused game UI to show incorrect ability reset times when certain unrelated buffs or debuffs were applied to them

This is a minor client-only bugfix update to improve stability. There is one new very minor feature: if you hold down the SHIFT key on your keyboard while pressing the Quit button in-game, the game will open an Explorer window to the folder that contains the game's log file. If you are experiencing problems logging in, we may ask you for your player log, and this is an easier way to find it.

It's Halloween! In Project: Gorgon, that means the traditional annual incursion by Zhia Lian, goddess of Whimsy. Your characters will receive a quest when they log in to help them get started with the holiday. There are lots of activities and some pretty cool rewards! Now let's take a look at everything else in this update:

Not Vampires

Horse Genetics

• A floating sphere deep beneath Povus teaches new high-level textile recipes for creating Mare Blankets that accelerate gestation. (These recipes will eventually be learned from an NPC in Statehelm.)
• Dozens of genes are now quite rare in wild horses. As a result of increased gene rarity, wild horse stats in general are now lower - by about 10 points per stat.
• Several horse breeds were missing some coat-related functionality; it has been added to pre-existing genes. It's very unlikely but this may affect the appearance of some horses. If it does, it will be an obvious change.
• One of the Satincoat Scale genes now boosts friendliness when previously it gave nothing
• Moved an attribute from horse gene 28E4 to 28F1, so 28E4 doesn't affect multiple attributes.
• Wild Horses now display their virility alongside other stats when you Pet them.
• Wild horse hitboxes are more accurate.
• Wild horses now take small breaks from running every now and again.

Mount Glamours

New Inventory Slots

Community Activity System

Everything Else

• Yoy in the Myconian Caves has a new favor which unlocks a new Mentalism ability. (Requires Myconian 17 and Mentalism 20, and may require a friend to complete the quest.) (Higher tiers of this ability can be trained from myconians Sem and Mope, for now.)
• Fixed a bug that caused treasure effects not to work. These effects were ones that were triggered by the state of the target (such as "if target is not Elite").
• Updated some Povus favors to require proper quantity of items. They previously only required half of the items crafted.
• Sped up several humanoid animations.
• Anatomy-Based Critical Hit Chance % attributes now display as percentages instead of decimals.
• All Bladesmithing weapon recipes now require you to be near a forge.
• Added a ladder to the Serbule Hills watchtower and sprinkle some items on its balconies.
• Fixed a bug that broke movement completely if you tried to climb a ladder while already climbing it.
• Saddlebags are now accessible in guild halls.
• Fixed bug preventing moon phase from affecting genetics mutation chance.
• Player bats can be clicked on again.
• Fixed inverted permission for picking up others' items in guild halls.
• You now get a stable slot at Racing 50 instead of 60.
• Fixed graphical glitch with horse manes when teleporting within a zone.
• Closed ceiling hole in deep Povus Caves.
• Update Joeh's store.
• Update Marna's Front-of-House.
• New JSON file: abilitykeywords.json lists Attributes that apply to any Abilities that have a certain keyword. These have been broken out into separate listings to better reflect that abilities can dynamically add or remove keywords (e.g. when a Melee attack becomes a Burst attack due to an equipped piece of treasure).
• VIPs, don't forget to claim your more-or-less-monthly gifts from the Persona panel! The November gift will become available on November 1.

Horse Genetics

• If you don't know the Riding skill, you can attempt to "pet" wild horses which will eventually teach you Riding. (You can also just train Riding the usual way, which is faster, but costs Councils.)
• If you have the Riding skill, you can attempt to tame these horses (if you have their favorite food).
• If you have the Animal Husbandry skill, you can speak to a stablemaster to breed two tamed horses (a male and female) together.
• If you have the Genetics skill, you're a very high-level player and you likely already know who to speak to in order to unlock the new Ungulate Genetics sub-skill. With this skill and the right equipment, you can view the actual genome of horses, both in the wild and in your stables.
• Once you have bred a new horse, you can use animal crates to package them for transfer or sale to other players.

• You now gain an additional stable slot when reaching level 25 and 50 in Racing skill.
• Reduced individual gene mutation chance by an order of magnitude, from 0.1% to 0.01%.
• Genes mutations are more likely during the full moon.
• Backers who purchased a Thoroughbred Breeder or Horse Lord Shop package can now claim the two horses of good genetic stock that are included in those packages. Make sure you have two empty stable slots!
• Improved various genetics and breeding-related UIs.

Instanced Guild Halls (Soft Launch)

• The casino Guild Hall has a limit of 50 installed items at a time.
• You can drop items on the floor in a Guild Hall and they will never be auto-destroyed. You can have at most 50 items on the ground before being unable to drop more.
• There are several new Guild Permissions related to the Guild Hall; guild leaders may want to review these
• There are two new Guild Chests that can be installed and accesses in the Guild Hall. These chests can be purchased from a guild sign. Once set up in the guild hall, you can purchase slots in that chest in the same way as other guild chests.

Treasure Effect Changes

• New treasure effect: (Chest) "After using Fire Arrow, your next Archery attack will simultaneously shoot a Fire Arrow 10 at a target within 8 meters of that attack's main target. This extra Fire Arrow consumes ammunition as normal."
• New treasure effect: (Legs) "After using Mangling Shot, your next Archery attack will simultaneously shoot a Mangling Shot 9 at a separate target within 8 meters of that attack's main target. This extra Mangling Shot consumes ammunition as normal."
• (Hands, Feet) "Fire Arrow deals +26% damage and taunts +1475" => "Fire Arrow deals +160 damage and taunts +1475"
• (Head, OffHand) "Archery Base Damage +50%" => "Archery Base Damage +50%, Anatomy Critical-Hit Chance +3%"
• (Legs, Feet) "Blitz Shot Damage +46%" => "Blitz Shot Damage +53% and Critical Hit Chance +10%"
• (Ring) "Heavy Shot deals +18% damage and reuse timer is -5 seconds" => "Heavy Shot deals +18% damage and reuse timer is -6 seconds"
• New treasure effect: (Chest, Necklace) "Heavy Shot Damage +390"
• New treasure effect: (Legs) "Aimed Shot deals +88 damage, has +13.5% Critical Hit Chance, and also grants this Critical Hit Chance bonus to your next Archery attack"
• New treasure effect: (Hands) "When an Archery attack Critically Hits, you erupt in a burst of acid, dealing 89 Health and 89 Armor Damage to all foes within 8 meters. This effect is increased by treasure that boosts Acid Arrow."
• New high level loot-drop treasure augment: (Feet) "Acid Arrow and Poison Arrow hasten the current reuse timer of Fire Arrow by -5 seconds"
• (Head, OffHand) "Max Power +42 when skill Archery active" => "Archery attacks that Critically Hit restore 43 Power and boost your Anatomy Critical Hit Chance +1% for 20 seconds"
• New treasure effect: (MainHand) "Anatomy-Based Critical Hit Damage +48.5% while skill Archery active"
• New treasure effect: (OffHand) "Archery attacks that Critically Hit deal 396 Poison damage over 12 seconds. This amount is further increased by treasure that boosts Poison Arrow's damage-over-time"

• "When you are near your Fire Wall, you heal 12 Health per second." => "When you are near your Fire Wall, you heal 15 Health per second. Fire Wall reuse time is -3 seconds."
• "Fire Walls deal +65 damage per hit." => "Fire Walls deal +52% damage per hit. Fire Wall reuse time is -3 seconds."
• "Fire Walls have +220 Max Health." => "Fire Walls have +220 Max Health. Fire Wall reuse time is -3 seconds."
• "Fire Walls' attacks taunt +310%." => "Fire Walls' attacks taunt +310%. Fire Wall reuse time is -3 seconds."
• "Frostball, Scintillating Frost, and Defensive Chill boost your Nice Attack Damage +83 for 7 seconds" => for 10 seconds
• "Molten Veins restores 145 health to any Fire Walls within 10 meters" => "Molten Veins and Flesh to Fuel restore 145 health to any Fire Walls or other pets within 10 meters"
• Fire Mages can train new fire wall variant spell research recipes from a floating sphere in Povus. (These recipes will eventually be obtained from an NPC in Statehelm.)
• Scintillating Frost now once again has a frostier ball than Frostball.

• (Legs, Necklace) "Rib Shatter deals +210 damage to targets that are knocked down" => "Rib Shatter deals +140 Damage. If target is Knocked Down it deals a further +44% damage"
• (Chest, Feet) "Seismic Impact deals +70% damage to targets that are Knocked Down" => "Seismic Impact deals +160 Damage. If target is Knocked Down it deals a further +49% damage"

• (Chest, Hands) "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike boost your Nice Attack and Signature Debuff ability damage +67 for 7 seconds" => +105
• (Necklace) "Cobra Strike Damage +100" => "Cobra Strike deals +100 damage and boosts your Melee Evasion +14.5 for 7 seconds"
• New treasure effect: (Main-Hand) "Mamba Strike deals +67 damage and boosts your Melee Evasion +5.25% for 6 seconds"
• (Head, Off-Hand) "Mamba Strike Damage +59 and Reuse Time -1 sec" => "Mamba Strike Reuse Time -2 seconds". This effect is now only available on Off-Hand items. Head items with this treasure effect have become Legacy. You can transmute this effect off of the item to un-Legacy it, or you can get a random replacement item. Visit the Legacy Item Helper golem in Serbule for more assistance.
• New treasure effect: (Head) "Mamba Strike boosts your Melee Evasion +10% for 10 seconds"
• (Off-Hand, Head) "Slashing Strike boosts your Melee Evasion +5.25% for 5 seconds" => "Slashing Strike deals +64 damage and boosts your Melee Evasion +5.25% for 5 seconds"
• New treasure effect: (Ring) "Slashing Strike deals +64 damage and worsens the target's Slashing Vulnerability +16% for 60 seconds (this effect does not stack with itself)"

• New treasure effect (Main Hand): "Storm Shield targets all ally pets within 20 meters, but ability reuse time is increased +5 seconds"

Writ Challenge Wrap-up

Other Bug Fixes & Tweaks

• Sun Vale: Ranalon Guardians are higher level to match the rest of the area (were level 23, now 35).
• Fixed bug with the AI configuration for several types of skeletal archers. These archers were supposed to flee if their target got too close, but they didn't.
• Some NPCs were supposed to give out higher-level versions of their reward-items at certain times (such as Christmas or when increasing Favor Level), but they were configured incorrectly so those items had the NPC's base level. This is usually lower than the intended level
• Slightly improved distribution of stats across the bee genome to increase available virility and intelligence.
• Change wording of Recall Heart's Home so that it's accurate: "Sends you to the Teleportation Circle that you have recalled to the highest number of times" -> "recalled from"
• New setting: "Cloth Physics": Provides more control over cloth physics simulating, allowing you to enable it only for yourself, for other players, or for everything (or turn it off completely). Found in Settings > Graphics > Advanced > Animation & Physics.
• New setting: "Easy-Drop Items": Allows dropping items by dragging them out of the inventory window. Previously this was hidden, it is now accessible from inside the Inventory window's Settings (the gear at the top right).
• New setting: "Mute Guild Quest Sounds": Mutes update sounds for guild quests. Found in 2 areas: Settings > Sound > Other, and by right-clicking on the floating "Quests" HUD element.
• Contextual keybinds in Settings are now organized a bit better into subcategories: Corpse Actions, Build Mode, & Other
• Several new items have been added to Riston in the Red Wing Casino and the guild credit shop.
• Sparklers last longer (from 7.5 seconds -> 11 seconds).
• Multicolored Sparklers' emitted light now changes color.
• Watcher pets now float off the ground a bit more.
• Fae Dragon pets no longer continuously divebomb while idling; they only do it every once in a while.
• Improved a *lot* of visuals in Serbule Hills
• Fixed bug that could cause the server to hang up on players during long loading screens.
• Giant bats are slightly cuter. (You may need to re-bat to see this change.)

Update Notes: September 30, 2024, Patch #2

• Fix bug causing the scroll wheel to no longer zoom the camera in and out
• Fix bug preventing vegetation and terrain features from appearing in some areas
• Fix for horse feathering not appearing
• Reduce size of Wall of Coldfire's icon
• added missing portal entity for Nightmare Cave Summoning Device
• Update the book "Secrets of the Ungulates" so it requires Non-Ruminant Anatomy instead of Ruminant Anatomy
• Watcher Pet now hovers slightly higher from the ground
• Adjusted mount points for hats on new Giant Bat model
• Fixed bug that prevented evasion-reply effects from working

Today we have a very small update with some bug-fixes and tweaks we wanted to get out sooner rather than later. We're clearing the decks - the next update after this looks to be a big one! In this update:

• Writ Challenge:
• Changed "Do Your Part" objectives to be concurrent, not sequential
• Adjusted several loot profiles for writ drop chance
• Fixed bug with last update's experimental boost of AoE target counts before penalties. The effect worked on indirect damage but not direct damage
• Current VIPs can now actually use /knuckles and /cower.
• Guild storage is now included in the "Find" tab of Item Info.
• "Hotbar Periphery", aka the UI that surrounds the main hotbar, can now be disabled via the "Show Hotbar Periphery" setting (accessible via right-clicking the hotbar as well).
• You can now hold shift while hovering from item to item in your inventory, instead of having to re-hold it on each item.
• Forest Gourds are now targetable by clicking on them.
• Fixed a minor rendering issue causing the current favor level to show up underneath the favor bar for NPCs.
• Fixed a bug allowing recipes to be "used" from the right-click menu.
• Improved graphics in the Anagoge Records Facility.
• Fixed a bug impacting rock collision in Ilmari.
• Updated mini golem textures.
• Improved visual quality of assorted props.
• The Tapestry Inn in Serbule Hills has received a facelift.
• Fixed a bug preventing Bard's Blast of Defiance's Armor Reap from working properly.
• Weather Witching treasure effect "All channeled Weather Witching abilities channel -0.5 seconds faster, and Tsunami costs no Power to use." has been changed to: "Channeled Weather Witching abilities are not aborted if you are attacked while channeling."
• Rabbit ability Play Dead no longer has a self-stun aspect
• Rabbit treasure effect "Play Dead causes all affected enemies to take 410 Psychic damage after a 10-second delay" => ... after a 5-second delay
• Rabbit ability Play Dead's earlier tiers have a faster reset time. The reset time for the highest tier, Play Dead 7, is unchanged (at 35 seconds)
• New Rabbit treasure effect: (Head) "Play Dead Area of Effect +5 meters, and victims suffer -174 direct mitigation for 30 seconds"

Project: Gorgon is having a special Steam sale this week! From now until August 19th at 1pm US EDT, all PG products will be discounted!

• Base game - 50% off
• Extra Character Slots Pack DLC - 25% off

• Monthly - 25% off first installment
• All other subscriptions - 10% off first installment

Today we have a nice well-rounded update for you, with a bit of combat mechanic tweaking, some necro love, a bit of horse cosmetics, a new horse race and more.

Combat Changes

Changes to Area-of-Effect Damage and Monster Buffs

• "Burst Reaction" Monster Buff has been replaced with new damage-resistance buffs
• Monster Buffs no longer stack with themselves
• Monster Buffs last 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds
• Most Monster Buffs are diminished in potency, with the notable exception of the "Angry" buff that boosts non-Rage attack damage -- that buff remains very dangerous!

Burst Radius Bonus

Damage Reflection Changes

Aktaari Burst-Reflection Changes

Necromancy

Treasure Changes

• "Raised Zombies deal +28 damage and speed is +10" => +60 damage and speed is +10
• "Raised Zombies deal +47 damage and taunt as if they did +200% more damage" => 65 damage
• "Summoned Skeletons have +62 health" => +93
• "Summoned Skeletons have +92 armor" => +130
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +36 direct damage" => +50
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +24% direct damage, but take +50% damage from any slashing, piercing, or crushing attacks" => "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +28% direct damage, but take +50% damage from crushing attacks"
• "Summoned Skeletons deal +22% direct damage, but take +150% more damage from any cold attacks" => "Summoned Skeletons deal +18% direct damage, but take +50% more damage from cold attacks"
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +15% direct damage, but are instantly destroyed by ANY Nature Damage" => "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +25% direct damage, but take +50% damage from nature attacks"
• "Provoke Undead deals 69 damage to your minions, who then deal +62 damage for 10 seconds" => "Provoke Undead deals 72 damage to your minions, who then deal +72 damage for 10 seconds"
• "Heal Undead restores +24 and has a 25% chance to boost targets' mitigation +43 for 8 seconds" => "Heal Undead restores an additional 156 Health/Armor over 12 seconds"
• "Summoned Skeletal Swordsmen have +140 armor" => "Summoned Skeletal Swordsmen have +149 armor and +10 Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation"
• "Heal Undead restores +28 Health/Armor and boosts your next attack +59 if it is a Darkness attack" => "Heal Undead boosts your next attack +117 if it is a Darkness attack"
• "Rebuild Undead restores 67 Health to you" => "Rebuild Undead grants targets +20% Universal Damage Resistance for 6 seconds"

Other Necro Changes

• Heal Undead ability restores a bit more health at each tier.
• Pet skeleton archers no longer try to back away from their target until they have less than 50% of their Health remaining.
• Skeleton Swordsmen have more innate Max Armor.
• Daniel Murderdark in Rahu trains a new recipe to create 10 Necromancy Dust at a time.

Mount Cosmetics

• Riston offers a new mount cosmetic item for Live Event Credits.
• A mount cosmetic item can also be won in the new Moat Circuit race in Serbule! Check for the start banner on the south side of Serbule Keep.
• The August VIP gift also contains a mount cosmetic. (VIP gifts are available to anyone who is/was a VIP during the given month. The August VIP gift will be available starting on Aug 1.)

• Pouch reins allow saddlebag access when no saddlebag is equipped (since they have pockets, too!).
• The Mount window now shows item levels & rarities.
• Auto-Close Mount Window setting now works for all mount actions.

Bug Fixes & Tweaks

Gameplay

• "Anti-Invincibility Poison" special quest item no longer disappears immediately when you log out. Instead, it lasts up to 75 minutes before self-destructing. Because the self-destruction feature can only be used on non-stacking items, "Anti-Invincibility Poison" items no longer stack in inventory. To offset the combat problems this causes, the poison no longer takes 1 second to cast; it is instant-cast when used.
• "Anti-Invincibility Posion" debuff now shows at the top of the debuff list when it's present.
• Increased the duration of all Orran Inventory potions to 5 hours (previously 3).
• Changed the self-destruct timer of all Liquid Super Buff potions to 60 days (previously 30 days).
• Fixed a bug that caused some evil Sun Statues to not count for Sun Vale blood portal event.
• Animal forms can now wear Firefly Hats, Orbiting Gems, & Floating Pumpkins.
• Fixed a bug that restricted gene mutation when breeding animals.
• Fixed a bug causing corpses to sometimes be unlootable when using the new loot window.
• Fixed a bug causing undiscovered landmarks to show up on the minimap over top of the fog.
• Tuneup kits no longer prevent transmuting.
• Tuneup kits now have a warning that they will add a Bladesmithing requirement to any weapon they sharpen. (This is a temporary fix; eventually they will not add a requirement.)
• Elven Ceremonial Longswords now count as Elvish for the purposes of gift-giving.
• New emote for all players: /wave2
• New emotes for current VIPs: /cower & /knuckles
• Military Blue Dye can now be found in loot.

UI

• Improved genetics window readability.
• Added loot radius to the persona window stats, under "General Stats".
• Temporary items now go to the top of the inventory when it's sorted.
• Better handling of missing items on hotbars when Show Item Levels is enabled.
• Tracked combat skills now update when you gain XP in them.
• Change the "High-Quality Anti-Aliasing" setting to "Anti-Aliasing", with a dropdown so you can choose your AA or turn it off completely.

Other

• Fixed mixed-up descriptions of VIP/package titles.
• Fixed misplaced snows in Goblin Caves & Anagoge Records Facility.
• Fixed misplaced water splashes in Gazluk Keep.
• Fix for some elven hair being see-thru.
• Fixed a broken texture on Tree in Fae Realm.
• Fixed Dark Chapel ceiling with a hole in it.
• Fixed a floating mushroom in Kur Caves.
• Fixed a hole in mountains of Eltibule.
• Reduced server read timeout to 30 seconds to avoid interference with relogging when players violently lose connection.

Update Notes: June 20, 2024

• Fix memory leak in the new loot window, which should hopefully fix the freezes & crashes
• Fix various bugs with Inella's rewards in the new dungeon
• Fix bug causing inventory pack data to carry over between characters
• Fix logic bug with judgment lever that could cause the door to not open
• Dance skills can be used again while music volume is muted

Update Notes: June 24, 2024

• Fix Sun Vale blood portal event failure state
• Fix bug causing mounted animal forms to appear strangely on the character select screen
• Fix incorrect dye colors on some pieces of armor
• Fix bug causing some arrow abilities to get dropped when queueing a lot in a row
• Quicken Deadly Emission particle effects
• Retting bundles now take the proper 30 minutes to treat (instead of 20s)
• Fix critical-hit tuneups for dirks
• Slight revamp of the training window to better display training options with long names (such as golem abilities)
• Add recipe names to self-learning bladesmithing workbooks
• Fix for gene window being blank above a certain font size
• Make all Peltast Gear dyable

Summer is finally here -- and with it, another big update to the world of Project: Gorgon. This one took us a little longer than expected, but we think the results are worth it. New dungeon? Check! New skills? Multiple checks! Performance improvements? Also check! Ongoing QoL improvements? Major check! Combat balance? Progress made! Visual improvements? Looking good! Bug fixes? So many, many bugs have been fixed! In fact, we have a lot of stuff to talk about today -- so let's get to it!

Price Drop

Elven Judgement

Combat & Treasure

• Previously, most Special Monster Buffs only affected the monster that was buffing itself. Now it affects all monsters within 20 meters of the caster.
• The Special Monster Buff "Reflective" is now "Burst Reply" instead. It no longer reflects a percentage of damage back at attackers; instead, when the buffed target is hit by a Burst attack, they reply with a fixed amount of damage. The buff will react to the next 3 burst attacks (not infinite attacks, as Reflective did).
• Several of the Special Monster Buffs have unique particle effects to help quickly differentiate them.

• Some abilities were incorrectly treated as Ranged attacks and are now Burst attacks: Panic Charge, Multishot, Heavy Multishot, Astral Strike.
• Some abilities were incorrectly treated as Ranged attacks and are now Melee attacks: Deathgaze, pet bee stinger attacks.
• Some abilities were incorrectly treated as Melee attacks and are now Burst attacks: King of the Forest, Deflective Spin, pet bee poison-debuffs.
• Some abilities were incorrectly treated as Melee attacks and are now Ranged attacks: Chill.
• Some monsters had abilities that incorrectly marked as Ranged or Melee instead of Burst: Hexapuses, high-level undead swordsmen, Electrified Pigs, goblin fire mages, Kuvou, orc fire-archers, watchers, Lamia, ratkin mentalists, spike traps, training golems, (and probably other one-off monsters that reuse the abilities of the above).
• Some monsters had Ranged attacks that are now Melee attacks: Vipers, Wasps (stabs).
• Some monsters had Melee attacks that are now Ranged attacks: ogres' boulder throws, electric-wizard skeletons, various fae, some spiderwebs, wasps (bullets), giant beetles, tentakillers.
• Some monsters had Burst attacks that are now Melee attacks: Minotaurs.
• Some bosses were affected similarly: Ratkin King, Lethargy Puck, Eye of Hate, Scion of Discord, Astarion, Sherzat, and probably others.

• Bard ability Virtuoso's Ballad: Reset time changed from 60 seconds to 50 seconds; minor treasure number changes as a result.
• (Legs, MainHand) "Virtuoso's Ballad restores 200 Armor" => "Virtuoso's Ballad restores 192 Health (or Armor if Health is Full)"
• New treasure effect: (Head, Feet): "Virtuoso's Ballad causes target's next attack to deal +376 damage"
• (Legs, Hands) "Blast of Fury deals 276 Armor damage and restores 43 Armor to you" => "Blast of Fury deals 440 Armor damage"
• (Feet) "Disharmony causes target to deal -10 damage with their next attack" => "Disharmony causes target's next attack to have a 16% chance to automatically Miss. (This effect does not stack with itself.)"
• (Ring) "Disharmony causes target to deal -10 damage with their next attack" => "Disharmony causes your next attack to deal +47 damage"
• (Head, Legs, OffHand) "Bard Blast-Ability Range +5" => "Bard Blast-Ability Range +5, Bard Blast-Ability Damage +84" (Note: previously there was only one tier of this treasure effect, which could be found starting at level 50 and up. There are now multiple tiers of the ability. If you had this effect on your high-level item already, the item will still have the level 50 version. You can use Transmutation to remove the treasure effect from the item and (eventually) re-roll it with a higher-tier effect.)

• (Head, Chest) "Discharging Strike Power Cost -44" => this effect is now only available on Chest, not Head. Helmets with this treasure effect have now become Legacy. You can use the Transmutation skill to roll this effect off of the helmet and it will stop being Legacy. Alternatively you can speak to the Legacy Item Helper golem in Serbule for a randomized replacement item
• (Ring, Off-Hand): "Pound To Slag restores 144 health to you" => "Pound To Slag restores 144 Health (or Armor if Health is full)"
• (Chest, Feet) "Leaping Smash restores 64 Armor to you" => "Leaping Smash deals +100 Damage and restores 64 Armor to you after a 6-second delay"
• (OffHand, Necklace) "Seismic Impact restores 100 Armor to you" => "Seismic Impact deals +100 Damage and restores 100 Armor after a 6-second delay"
• (Feet, MainHand) "Rib Shatter restores 48 Health to you" => "Rib Shatter deals +100 Damage and restores 48 Armor after a 6-second delay"
• (Legs, Necklace) "Thunderstrike heals you for 51 health" => "Thunderstrike deals +60 Damage and restores 60 Armor after a 6-second delay"
• New treasure effect: (Head, Necklace): "Discharging Strike Damage +140"
• New treasure effect: (Chest): "Hammer abilities that restore Armor after a 6-second delay have +100% Armor restoration"
• New treasure effect: (Hands, Legs) "Hammer abilities that restore Armor after a 6-second delay also restore 25 Power, increased by 20% of the Armor restored"

• (Feet): "Controlled Burn costs -33 Power" => "Controlled Burn and Aggression Deterrent cost -37 Power"
• (Feet, Ring): "Aggression Deterrent Power Cost -22; Aggression Deterrent Damage +43" => "Aggression Deterrent Range +5; Aggression Deterrent Damage +43"
• (Legs, Necklace): "Apprehend costs -47 Power" => this treasure effect is now only available on Necklace. If you had this effect on Leg armor, that item has become Legacy. You can use a Transmutation Table to remove this effect and it will stop being Legacy. Alternatively you can speak with the Legacy Item Replacer golem in Serbule to get a new randomly-generated item.
• New treasure effect: (Legs): "Apprehend Damage +98. Non-Elite targets do not call for help."

• Fixed bug with knife treasure effect: "Knife abilities with 'Cut' in their name cause all Knife abilities WITHOUT 'Cut' in their name to have a 48% chance to deal +39% damage for 10 seconds". This treasure was applying the buff for a different treasure effect.
• Bleeder Shiv now boosts trauma damage instead of poison.
• Fix the mod "Backstab deals +X direct damage. You recover X Health (or Armor, if Health is full) over 12 seconds". It now actually heals you.
• Surge Cut is now affected by mods that affect Minor Heals.
• (Legs): "Marking Cut deals +60 damage and grants +85 Accuracy to your next Knife ability" : No changes to the displayed effect, but this treasure effect also quietly made Marking Cut prevent monster-shouts. A different treasure effect is supposed to do that (and does), so that's been removed from this one.

• Abilities with longer attack times are no longer overridden by queued abilities (most notably, certain archery abilities).
• Archery: Fix ammo-related typos for Heavy Shot 8 & Multishot 7.
• Battle Chemistry: Fixed bug with golem's Self-Sacrifice ability potentially causing damage to the owner.
• Psychology: Soothe's critical damage is now affected by mods.
• Psychology: Fixed a bug with the mod "Psychoanalyze causes the target to be worth X% more XP if slain within 60 seconds"
• Deer: Deer Bash 8 now does the correct damage (288 -> 400).
• Fire Magic: The mod "Fire Breath and Super Fireball deal +X damage over 10 seconds" now does more damage at higher levels.
• Mentalism: Power Wave ability: Restores Power every 4 seconds instead of every 6 (effectively increasing Power recovery 50%)
• Mentalism: (Head, Hands): "System Shock restores 56 Armor to you" => "System Shock Damage +78, System Shock Critical-Hit Damage +40%"
• Mentalism: (MainHand, Ring): "System Shock boosts the damage of your Signature Debuffs by +116 for 6 seconds" => "... for 8 seconds"
• Priest: Give Warmth 6 now restores 35 body heat (up from 25).
• Spirit Fox: Power Glyph ability: the amount of Power restored by the glyph is increased; this is a display fix (the glyphs gave out this amount of Power before, but it was listed as less.) Also adjusted description to explain that group members can use the Power Glyph

• Based on feedback, we've made the Hardcore Living skill require more XP to level up. (As always when XP tables are changed, your current level in the skill is unchanged. But the amount you need to reach next level will be affected.)
• Fixed a bug that caused monsters to behave strangely when hit by Slow effects while already moving at high speed.
• Ranalon Guardians' blind attack is now actually a 20 meter Burst as intended.
• Yetis with a slowing-ice ranged attack now have a range of 20 meters as intended (instead of a range of 6 meters).
• Portal-summoning mantises no longer hurt themselves when they summon portals.
• Fixed a bug that could cause monsters to get stuck while wandering.
• Improved damage of higher-level explosion sigils, electricity sigils, and acid sigils. Electricity Sigil 4 and Acid Sigil 4 are a higher level as a side effect of rebalancing.

Off to the Races!

• Eltibule Cirtcuit: In Eltibule, near Mythander.
• Amulna Grand Tour: In Ilmari, outside the north entrance to Amulna.
• Kur Mountain Debry: In Kur Mountains, just outside Syndra's barn.

Quality of Life

• The corpse-looting window now displays other nearby corpses, and allows switching between them via Tab. This key is configurable in Settings > Keys > Contextual > Corpse: Select Next.
• "Take All" on corpses now loots items that you have partial stacks of in your inventory, even if your inventory is otherwise full.
• Using Take All on a corpse when other corpses are nearby will now auto-select the next corpse.
• Burying a corpse no longer closes the window if other corpses are nearby.
• The distance at which you can loot a corpse - your Corpse Loot Radius - can be increased!
  • Leveling Foraging increases this distance by a total of +3 meters at level 75.
  • Leveling Skinning, Butchering, and Survival Instincts increases this distance by a total of +2 meters each at level 80.
  • Gain a total of +1 meter by maxing Werewolf Metabolism to 50 (as that is the level cap atm).

• Guild chests are now included in ctrl-f item searching (or /isearch).
• Item Search (ctrl-f or /isearch) now highlights items that it finds in your inventory.
• Storage Deposit All and Stow buttons now have hotkeys, configurable under Settings > Keys > Contextual. Defaults are G and Shift-G respectively.
• Withdrawing items from storage now deposits them into the currently-open inventory folder.
• Abilities that require an item to use now show the current amount of that item in your inventory in the tooltip.
• You can now Ability-Lock inventory folders, similar to Vendor-Locking them! This prevents items inside that folder from being used by abilities.
• New icons were added to the inventory window to denote when the current folder is Ability- and/or Vendor-Locked.
• Abilities with ammunition now pull their ammo from the smallest stack in your inventory.
• You can now show the number of free inventory slots you have at all times as a small number on the Inventory button on your right-hand sidebar. Enable "Show HUD Inventory Space" under Settings > GUI > Windows & HUD > Other Windows Settings.
• The item info window now has a "SELL" tab that lets you view all NPCs that buy the item in question.
• Moved a few inventory settings from buttons in the bottom right of the window to the gear icon at the top right.
• Goblin Calling Cards and Orcish books now display their level requirements on the icons.
• Equipment icons now show their levels in the persona window.

• When a Quest auto-completes (meaning it doesn't have to be turned in to anyone), its outcome now goes into a new section in the Quest Log, rather than being presented right away. Some quests, namely event-specific ones, are exempt from this behavior.
• When you have one or more unread auto-completed quest, the Quest sidebar button now shows a notification dot, and clicking on it takes you straight to the unread quests section.
• Tracking & untracking quests in the Quest Log is now more responsive.
• We now display a notification dot on the Persona button and Redeem button (in the Persona window) when a new redemption is available.

UI

• New targeting settinng: Auto-Select Attackers. This setting can be found under Settings > GUI > Targeting > Tab Targeting (Experimental). It defaults to enabled.
• New targeting hotkey: Select Nearest Enemy. This keybind can be found under Settings > Keys > Targeting > underneath the keybind for "Select Previous Enemy".
• "Select Next Interactible" now prioritizes NPCs.
• The /target command now prioritizes non-corpses.
• Map pin labels now show on the minimap.
• Added party members' names above them on the map.
• Added Viedesi, Urglemarg, and Puffy Ben to the Sun Vale map.
• Willem Fangblade's map info now knows that he has a store, and shows his council count.
• NPC map icons will no longer overlap your own after first meeting them.
• Fixed a a bug causing party members and pets to sometimes disappear from the map.
• Fixed a bug that caused minimap buttons to become unreadable at different GUI zoom levels.
• Holding shift while viewing an item with enchantments now shows the enchantment levels.
• Extract Augment recipe descriptions are now clearer, and reference the new functionality of holding Shift.
• Polished the loading screen a bit, and added several new tips -- many provided by players! A big thank you to everyone who contributed!
• Some hotkeys now have explanatory tooltips; those that do are marked with an asterisk (*).
• Fixed a bug causing XP values to sometimes wrap to the next line.
• Fixed a bug with gear sometimes disappearing in the persona preview window.
• Fixed a minor UI bug in Skills Window causing level numbers to sometimes wrap strangely.
• Fixed a bug causing UI elements to lose their locked status across multiple play sessions.
• Tooltips should no longer appear in their old position before quickly updating to their new position.
• Fixed a bug causing the horse window to not remember that it was closed when it closes itself after opening the saddlebag.
• Fixed a bug causing some face portraits to not display.
• Improved tooltip readability of certain items with long names (notably Crisp Mint Vanilla Cinnamon Coffee).
• Right-click options that are simple on/off settings have a new icon, and can be toggled without closing the context menu.
• Added some polish to the right-click menu.
• Standardize fonts, colors, and spacing across many UI windows with a focus on window titles.
• Item durability no longer rounds up, which resulted in the transmutation window sometimes not working.
• Update the transmutation window UI to be more in-line with the rest of the game's UI.
• Right-clicking an empty hotbar slot now lets you set that slot's ability (for primary and secondary skills).
• Item levels & rarities are now shown in the loot window.
• Werewolf Altar abilities are now visible en masse when their prerequisite level-uncap is purchased.
• Fix visual glitch on many elven hairs.
• Fix 'Show Player Stats Pane' GUI setting.

Other Changes & Fixes

• Bard Armor is now dyeable!
• Snail Armor is no longer dyeable since it doesn't dye properly.
• Mended Thentree Armor so your legs no longer peek through the skirt.
• Visual improvements to all Cloth armors.
• Visual improvements to all Leather armors.
• Visual improvements to several other armor sets, including: Thentree, Peltast and Steel Platemail.
• Improved animation for laying in a bed and subsequently waking up out of one.
• Added new animations to all butterfly dances.
• Added more particle effects to some pig dance variants.
• Added new animations to several spider dance variants.
• Sealed holes in spider model.
• Fixed a few cases of infini-looping animations.
• Swordsman's Elven Longsword offensive topology is now different and less offensive.
• Furniture in the Abandoned Sunvale Inn now has textures.
• Closed holes in Kur Tower.
• The lake bridge in Povus should no longer disappear when seen from certain spots.
• Fixed the physics on rocks in Povus.
• Added better handling of NPCs in flight that can also swim. Also improved fly-follow logic for flying monsters, to further reduce jitter in the air.
• Improved minotaur animations.
• Improved animation, VFX, and SFX for summoning cosmetic pets.
• Fixed some gear that previously was supposed to glow but wasn't.
• A number of off-hand weapons have new more distinct icons.

• The loot from defeating Knight Eggs is improved.
• The guardians of the Knight Eggs, Gross Maggots, are no longer worth any XP.
• You now gain a synergy level of Civic Pride when reaching level 38 of Compassion. (This allows players to receive the final level-up benefit of Civic Pride which is obtained at level 51: "+1% Favor from Hangouts".)
• Many cosmetic pets and player titles are now shared across all the characters on an account. You will need to login the character who originally gained the pet/title once before being able to access it on other characters on the account.
• New emote for everyone: /bow. In addition, the emotes /taunt and /thank have new animations.
• Current VIP members can also use two new emotes: /accuse and /monkey.
• You can no longer promote someone who has recently left your party.- If you misplace a certain key related to a certain skull, you can now get a replacement from the thing that gave you it to begin with.
• Fished a missing skull button out of the wall (in a certain trap room that has a lot of skull buttons).
• Added missing skill-training unlock for Pathology 90.
• The recipes for Crafted Alchemist's Claws are no longer Blacksmithing recipes; they are now under a new skill. They are no longer trained by Kohan
• Crafting Caravan: All quest titles have been updated for better sorting in the Quest Log.
• Crafting Caravan: Prices for some items bartered by Orran have been reduced.
• "Awesome Bard Boots" are no longer erroneously called "Amazing Bard Boots".
• Fixed a typo on Birch Pants.
• Updated quest text for "Holistic Wellness: Yarn" to clarify the required number of yarns.
• Fairy Soul Anchors now bestow 3 seconds of invulnerability to protect against immediately re-dying.
• Increased drop rate of orcish wheat grinders.
• Fixed a typo in Sie Antry's dialog.
• You can no longer try to dance if no nearby music is playing.
• Changing equipment while using furniture now continues using the furniture afterward.
• You can no longer mount your horse while using furniture (chairs, beds).
• Mounts turn a bit slower in water.
• Fixed a bug causing horses to not jump if you aren't actively pressing forward. (As long as they still have momentum, they'll jump.)
• Fixed a bug that could cause multiple Hissy's to spawn in the desert.
• Fixed bugs that caused monsters in the Fae Realm to never spawn in pairs or trios as intended.
• Improved performance of monster and pet movement.
• Fixed the appearance of dice in Monsters and Mantids when game graphics are set extremely low
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Just a quick update today with a lot more map updates and improvements, some knife balancing (which is just as dangerous as it sounds), and a host of bug fixes and tweaks. Let's dive in!

Map Fixes & Tweaks

• The map's zoom slider returns!
• Added several customization options to the map, accessible by clicking on the new gear icon.
• The map sidebar can now be attached to either the left or right side of the map.
• Auto-following of the map can now be disabled, so you can freely explore the map while moving.
• Minimap resizing & disabling is now more obvious via the gear icon.
• Zone name & current time are now shown when the map sidebar is collapsed.
• NPC Vendors now display their currently available councils and, if applicable, how long until their councils reset in their map info.
• Party member names are now shown when their map icon is hovered over.
• When a map pin is selected or created, its label text field is auto-focused.
• Most portals throughout the world now show up as portal icons when targeted.
• Fixed a bug with party member map icons breaking.
• Your pet no longer prevents placing of map pins.
• Map pins can now be deleted by right-clicking on them.
• Map pins can be added directly on the minimap.
• Minimap resizing now saves.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause map pins to not save properly.
• Fixed nameplate placement of portals.
• Removed fae molluscs & cows from maps.
• Uriana and the Wintertide Portal, both in Fae Realm, now display on the map.
• NPCs now disappear from the map when they de-spawn.
• Added a new map filter for Events.

Knife Tweaks

Knife Ability Changes:

• Surprise Throw: changed from having a 45-second reset time to 12 second reset time; treasure revised accordingly, see below. (Note: this change is a *dramatic* buff to the ability's total DPS and usefulness, although the treasure numbers below may make it seem like a nerf.)
• Poisoner's Cut: buffs from this ability last 8 seconds instead of 5 seconds
• Fending Blade: innate Rage reduction is increased
• Venomstrike: deals its Poison damage over 10 seconds instead of 12
• Surge Cut: reset time changed from 20 seconds to 10 seconds. It is now a Minor Heal ability instead of a Survival Utility ability. Treasure effects recalibrated/rewritten.
• Bug fix: Fan of Blades is now marked as a Burst attack instead of a Ranged attack

Knife Treasure Changes:

• (Head, Necklace) "Surprise Throw Damage +78%" => +40%
• (Chest) "Surprise Throw deals +43% damage and stuns the target if they are not focused on you" => +134 damage and stuns the target if they are not focused on you. Also, this effect is now only available on Chest, not Legs. Items that already have this effect on Legs will now be Legacy. (See below.)
• (Hands, Ring) "Surprise Throw restores 143 Power if the target is not focused on you" => "... restores 80 Power if the target is not focused on you"
• (Legs, OffHand) "Fan of Blades, Hamstring Throw, and Surprise Throw deal +44% damage and reuse timer is -1 second" => "... deal +25% damage and reuse timer is -1 second"
• (Legs, Feet) Backstab deals an additional 695 Trauma damage over 10 seconds if the target is not focused on you. => 1400
• (MainHand, OffHand) "For 5 seconds after using Opening Thrust, all knife abilities with 'Cut' in their name deal +28 damage" => +60
• (Head, MainHand) "Blur Cut restores 52 Health after a 15 second delay" => "Blur Cut restores 35 Health"
• (Chest, Feet) "Slice deals 175 Poison damage over 10 seconds" => 275
• (Head, Legs) "Fending Blade deals +64 damage and reduces Rage by 600" => +102 damage
• (Feet, Ring) "Fending Blade restores 32 Health to you immediately and reduces the target's Rage by 400 after a 5 second delay" => "Fending Blade restores 41 Health to you and reduces the target's Rage by 400"
• (MainHand, Ring) "Venomstrike deals an additional 240 Poison damage over 12 seconds" => 375 over 10 seconds
• (Hands, OffHand) "Venomstrike has a 50% chance to stun the target and deal +60 damage" => "Venomstrike deals +100 damage and has a 50% chance to stun the target"
• (Chest, Feet) "Gut deals an additional 260 Trauma damage over 10 seconds if the target is not focused on you" => 440
• (MainHand, OffHand) "Gut deals +60 damage and if target is not focused on you, deals +25% Trauma damage over 10 seconds" => "Gut deals +80 damage and if target is not focused on you, deals +40% Trauma damage over 10 seconds"
• (MainHand, Necklace) "Surge Cut restores +95 Health to you" => 72 health
• (Chest, Legs) "Surge Cut restores 120 Armor to you" => "Surge Cut restores 67 Power to you"
• (Head, Ring) "Surge Cut deals 265 Trauma damage over 10 seconds" => 305
• (Chest, Legs) "Blur Cut deals 145 Poison damage over 10 seconds" => 215
• (Necklace) "Marking Cut deals +146 armor damage and does not cause the target to shout for help" => this effect is now only available on Necklaces. Existing off-hand items with this effect have become Legacy. (See below.)
• (Legs) "Slice ignores mitigation from armor and deals +101 damage" => this effect is now only available on Legs. Existing off-hand items with this effect have become Legacy. (See below.)
• (Head, MainHand) "Backstab steals 121 health from the target and gives it to you" => "Backstab deals +198 direct damage. You recover 198 Health (or Armor, if Health is full) over 12 seconds."
• (OffHand, MainHand) "For 5 seconds after using Opening Thrust, all knife abilities with 'Cut' in their name deal +60 damage" => For 10 seconds
• (Chest, Hands) "Opening Thrust has a 25% chance to cause all Knife abilities WITHOUT 'Cut' in their name to have a 38.5% chance to deal +39% damage for 10 seconds" => "For 10 seconds after using Opening Thrust, all Knife abilities gain +20 Accuracy and have a 20% chance to deal +25% damage"

Knife New Treasure:

• (Head) "Fan of Blades, Hamstring Throw, and Surprise Throw deal +100 damage and can Critically Hit based on your Anatomy skill levels"
• (OffHand, Necklace) "When wielding two knives, Knife Fighting attacks with 'Cut' in their name deal +43% damage"
• (Chest, Feet) "Poisoner's Cut boosts Direct Poison Damage an additional +79 per attack"
• (OffHand, Ring) "Knife abilities with 'Cut' in their name leave a Lasting Mark in the target for 30 seconds. When the target dies, each Lasting Mark hastens the active reset time of Backstab by 3 seconds, or if Backstab isn't on your ability bar, you instead recover 36 Power and your next Slice attack deals +80 damage."
• (Hands) "Backstab deals +83% Direct Damage to Elite targets"
• (Legs, Feet) "Surprise Throw boosts your Epic Attack Damage +206 for 30 seconds if target is not focused on you"
• (Head, Ring) "Taunt from Attack Damage -33.5% and Rage From Attacks -10.5% while Knife Fighting skill active"
• (Hands) "Duelist's Slash hits all targets within 8 meters and deals +82 damage"
• (OffHand) "Slice deals +86 damage and causes target to suffer +86 damage from future attacks for 30 seconds"
• (MainHand) "Backstab deals +85% Direct Damage if target is stunned"
• (Legs) "Marking Cut deals +60 damage and grants +85 Accuracy to your next Knife ability"
• (Ring) "Duelist's Slash deals +82 damage and for 12 seconds afterwards all melee Knife abilities can Critically Hit based on your Anatomy skill levels."

Legacy Equipment:

Cheap Transmutation:

Hardcore Living

Other Tweaks & Fixes

• Slightly increased the drop rate of barley seeds when harvesting barley.
• Bug fix: Battle Chemistry: (Ring) "Toxic Irritant causes the target to suffer +15.5% from Acid Damage (including Toxic Irritant) for 15 seconds." => This effect did not work (in fact it debuffed the caster instead of the target). It's been revised as follows: "Toxic Irritant boosts your Acid Damage (including from Toxic Irritant) +15.5% for 15 seconds. (This effect does not stack with itself.)"
• Khyrulek's curse damage no longer benefits from the victim's Trauma buffs.
• Fixed a bug that could cause monsters to react to damage they suffer after death. (Which could cause doors to be opened/closed incorrectly.)
• Community Chest slots in Serbule can now actually be purchased with Live Event Credits.
• Deer are no longer invisible up close.
• Fixed a bug causing the party UI to stick around if you switch characters.
• Using /nap while in wolf form no longer infiniloops.
• Fixed a bug with channeled abilities causing you to infinitely loop an animation the next time you perform an emote.
• Fixed a bug where someone playing music near you would later cause your own animations to interrupt your music playing.
• Bird forms' music-playing is no longer interrupted by other animations.
• If you are Friends with Irkima in the Red Wing Casino, you might want to check in with him. (Requires one 70+ combat skill.)
• VIPs now have access to a few more special emotes, including a real head scratcher. And don't forget to check out the VIP redemption for March if you haven't already! Pity you can't glamour that bug ...

Welcome to another exciting PG update! Can you believe it's late February already? Today's update has the usual set of additions, improvements, fixes and tweaks, of course -- but the biggest news is an extensive update to the map system! (You know, that sounded more exciting in my head.) Let's take a look!

Updated Map System

• NPCs: After meeting an NPC for the first time, they'll show up on your map. Their list of known services and item preferences are displayed, showing more and more information as you uncover them. Your current favor level with that NPC is displayed, alongside any new unlocks you'll get when you level up their favor. You can also take custom notes on any NPC.
• Teleport Platforms: You can now see Teleport Platforms on the map, with how many times you've used each one.
• Meditation Pillars: You can now see Meditation Pillars on the map, with the corresponding Combo that's granted when you meditate at one.
• Portals: You can now see portals to other areas/dungeons on the map.
• Filters: Don't want all the new info cluttering up your map? Simply turn them off!
• Pin Customization: There's now a more intuitive UI for customizing your own map pins, with extra color options.
• Pets: Your pets now show up on the map, and can be clicked on to see which one has fallen behind.
• Minimap: The minimap has gotten a visual upgrade. You can easily toggle between seeing all pins, personal pins only, or no pins at all on the mini-map.

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"Hardcore Living"

Monster Adjustments

• New experimental monster behavior: Monsters no longer chase players as far if they've only taken minor damage and are unable to land a hit.
• New experimental monster behavior: Monsters who are called in to assist their friends are slightly less dogged in how long they chase.
• Improved some loot drop unique stats for Boss Gauntlet bosses.
• Fixed AI bug: during the first second of combat, monsters could choose to use their self-buff even if no other allies were supporting them.
• Orc monsters' reaction to being slowed or being unable to chase their attacker is to throw a Khopis; this Khopis now slows their opponent.
• Aktaari that are slowed or unable to successfully chase their attacker use a new slowing spittle attack.
• Spriggan Weeds have unique combat behaviors (instead of using generic animal logic).
• The Big Slime in Carpal Tunnels should no longer summon level 90 slimes.

Abilities & Combat & Loot

• Abilities that have a chance for critical hits now display this info in their ability tooltips.
• Minor change to Hammer treasure effect: (Necklace, Ring) "Reckless Slam deals +89 damage and taunts -345" => "Recklass Slam deals +105 damage"
• Alchemical item "Aiming Potion" now applies to critical hits from anatomy criticals as well as phrenology criticals.
• Alchemy items "Telka's Teeth": all tiers now last 15 minutes.
• Changed treasure effect: "Long Shot increases target's vulnerability to Trauma and Acid +10% for 20 seconds. (Max of 2 stacks.)" => now also debuffs Poison
• Changed treasure effect: "Tundra Spikes stuns all targets after a 6 second delay" => 8-second delay. (The top tiers of this effect were reduced because the delay was too short to take full advantage of.)
• New treasure effect: Archery: (Chest, OffHand): "Acid Arrow deals 365 Poison damage after a 6-second delay"
• Low-level item "Ring of Critical Hits" now applies to anatomy criticals as well as phrenology crits. (Just because it should.)
• "Bounding escape dispels any active Slow or Root effects..." now works on Ice Cocoon.
• Fixed scaling on high-level Provoke Undead & Raise Zombie abilities.

Other

• Added new basic emotes: /point, /yes, /no, /agree, /nod, /disagree
• New command: /target targets the closest entity whose name matches or contains the text. This is rudimentary right now, and does not affect the order of tab-targeting. /ta is an alias.
• Added 2 new hotkeys: Select Next Pet & Select Previous Pet.
• Right-clicking a pet's state (Attack, Follow, etc.) now sets that state for all active pets.
• When a pet is selected, its name now highlights in the pet window.
• Item rarity and level overlay now applies to storage & merchant UIs.
• Vendor item prices now update in real-time, if e.g. you buy back all of the items you previously sold the vendor, or a player updates their store's pricing.
• Attempting to Stow an item with a max carryable amount into a maxed stack no longer deletes the item.
• Added right-click menu options for turning mushrooms into powders.
• Fixed right-click menu options for Hides (to easily convert them to leather rolls).
• Low level Werewolf Hind Leg Guards (Enchanted) recipes only require the non-enchanted versions now.
• Fixed teleport platform in Serbule Hills that would cause Foxes to fall under the world.
• Kur now uses dark versions of map icons.
• Fixed bug causing Book UI button text to overflow the button.

Welcome to our first update of 2024! Today we say farewell to the Ri Shin celebration, and hello to a host of improvements, changes, fixes... and a new high level dungeon.

Boss Gauntlet 2

Monster Changes

• A typical level 80 Elite now has 12% more Max Health and Max Armor.
• A typical level 80 boss now has 20% more Max Health and Max Armor.
• The hardest tier of bosses now have 25% more Max Health and Max Armor.

• These abilities previously stunned the monster that used them for 5 seconds and then applied a buff.
• Now, the monster stands still (but not stunned!) for 5 seconds, then uses the ability.
• If the monster is killed, stunned, mesmerized, feared, or knocked back during those 5 seconds, the buff is aborted.
• Important Bugfix: Monsters no longer consider dead allies when calculating whether they have enough friends to perform a self-buff.

Other Monster Changes

• Tornados have faster cooldown on their lightning bolt attack.
• "Turret Crystals" -- those crystal enemies that shoot beams at you -- have faster attack speed.
• Gazluk Healing-Suit Tester is weaker (receives less healing from nearby crystals).
• Orcs' Electricity Sigils are a bit more potent.
• Ranalon Guardians of all levels have a bit more Max Health.
• Tornado Spiders can fly (although they still prefer walking).
• Mantis Teachers in Mope's dungeon are a bit tougher.

Aktaari Event Adjustments

• The "Aktaari Queen" event now starts at the same time each game day, at 9am (game time), rather than starting at whatever game-time the first player showed up. This should help players plan better.
• Elite Aktaari (guardians and bosses) are now a bit tougher, and are marked as "no-lock", meaning that their loot is available to all players that help kill it (instead of just the first hunting group that attacked it, as before).
• Moved a teleport destination in Aktaari caves to an earlier point in the cave -- after the giant blocks but before the acid pit rather than after the acid pit.
• Fixed "air tube" type apparatus in several dungeons, including Aktaari caves. They were using testing values that caused the air to refill in 10 seconds instead of the intended reset of 2-3 minutes (depending on the dungeon).

Glamour Changes

Cargo Suits

Other Tweaks & Bug Fixes

Combaty Stuff

• Hammer: new treasure effect: (Head, Off Hand): "Hammer attacks that kill an enemy via direct damage restore 46 Power to you."
• Hammer: new treasure effect: (Ring): "Direct Electricity Damage, Direct Fire Damage, and Direct Cold Damage +20% while Hammer skill active"
• Knockdowns are now separate from Stuns for purposes of diminishing returns. This means you can Stun, then Knockdown an enemy, and have full duration from both.
• Weak slow effects no longer affect diminishing returns for subsequent strong slows/roots.
• Bugfix: Some sources of indirect damage did not reduce monster regeneration as intended.
• Bugfix: Unarmed treasure effects that absorb damage and redirect it into your attacks were bugged: they stopped working when you logged out or switched areas, and wouldn't work again until you re-equipped the item.
• Bugfix: "Raise Skeletal Ratkin Mage 7" raised the same level of pet as "Raise Skeletal Ratkin Mage 6".

Other Stuff

• Emoting (such as watering plants or waving) should no longer interrupt music playing.
• Stephie Blackhammer in Povus no longer offers barters; instead she has daily crafting quests
• When each phase of the Povus nightly event is completed, any leftover monsters from that phase de-spawn much more quickly
• An augment's associated skill could clash with the skills of the mods already on the item, causing the transmutation system to think no mods were available due to skill incompatibility. This will no longer occur.
• Crafting Electric Cyan Dye now requires real ingredients instead of just Masterwork Metal Slabs.
• Crafting Caravan: Added level 90 tasks to all applicable Caravan NPCs.
• Crafting Caravan: Changed the required items on two tasks to bring them in-line with their level range.
• Fixed a bug causing hard-core broken gear to not display properly when horse-equipped gear also breaks.
• When selecting a title in the GUI list, tooltips explain how that title was earned.
• Fixed tooltip display issue with damage from Bun-Fu Kick's delayed damage.
• Using some Fireworks and Confetti Bombs now triggers an appropriate emote. (Except for Small Confetti Bombs; those are just too quick to look right.)
• Restored some info to various sources JSONs.
• VIPs: Don't forget to check your redemptions! (It's the little gift box icon at the bottom of the Persona panel, which you can find on the right-hand sidebar - third button from the bottom. Or just type /redeem in chat.)

Update: January 12, 2024 - Part 2

• Revised both versions of the "Healing Suit Tester" encounter in various ways (but making them easier overall).
• Fixed an exploitable bug with a Finishing Blow treasure effect that incorrectly boosted indirect damage. This is fixed on the server, but tooltips can still be wrong in-game until the next client update.

This is a quick bug-fix update.

Bug Fixes & Tweaks

• Battle Chemistry Fix: "Bomb attacks deal +50 damage and cause your next Healing Mist to restore +60 Health over 30 seconds" => this was actually boosting healing 6x more than intended. Corrected to match description.
• Battle Chemistry Fix: "Bomb attacks deal +61 damage and cause your next Healing Mist to restore +50 Armor over 15 seconds" => this was actually boosting healing 5x more than intended. Corrected to match description.
• Summon Deer 6 now requires Summon Deer 5 instead of 4.
• Fixed: When analyzing the genetics of a corpse, XP earned was based on the level of the player rather than the level of the corpse being analyzed.
• Survival Instincts: Lend Grace 5 is now grouped with its other Lend Grace buddies.
• Three-Nostriled Barrier now remains open appropriately.
• Swollen Hands curse no longer prevents you from wearing a helmet.
• Glamour Berries from Riston are now usable (and more generally, attuned ingredients can be used in crafting).
• Tomato plants grow much slower.
• Renamed some "Amazing" hat recipe-teaching items to "Astounding".
• Human-Style Pizza with Tofu is now correctly labeled as a meal.
• Added a comma to food-related crafting recipes, to separate the recipe level from the type of food it creates (meal, snack etc.).
• Evu Fruit is now affected by foraging bonuses.
• Bug fix: Added missing titles for some long-term animal form behavior badges (e.g. while you have the Eternal Fox behavior badge, you also now have the Eternal Fox player title).
• Fixed typos for Snowleaf & Irkima.
• Fixed a spot in the Serbule Hills Goblin Logging Camp that was easy to get stuck in.
• Fixed selection colliders & face cams for Osslars and Gricklings.
• Fixed some wands that were appearing as big white cubes.
• Bug fix: Festive Holiday Maggot is more festive.
• This is the 400th published build of Project: Gorgon! As a thank you for reading the patch notes, use the command /400 in chat to receive a dumb title

Happy holidays from Project: Gorgon! Today we celebrate the turning of the season, from bountiful autumn harvest to gift-giving extravaganza. In other words, we're finally done with Halloween - it's time for presents! If you've become Friends with any townsfolk in the game, they will have gifts for you the next time you speak with them. (Make sure to have your favorite combat skills active when you talk to them, in case their gift is a randomly-generated treasure item!) The Ri-Shin event is also underway -- look for townsfolk wearing red santa hats (err Ri Shin Hats) for more information. There's one in each town or settlement. In addition, we have a bunch of improvements, tweaks, bug fixes, etc.

Combat Changes/Fixes

• Transforming into an animal no longer changes your active skills if one of them is already the appropriate animal skill. For example, changing into Deer while Bard and Priest are active will change one to Deer; changing into Deer while Bard and Deer are active won't change either.
• High-level deer-summoning mods now summon the appropriate level deer.
• Chemistry Staves now support Druid mods.
• Fixed the mod "Finishing Blow causes your next attack to deal +X damage if it deals direct Psychic, Trauma, or Poison damage"; it now actually affects Trauma and Poison damage, and the Psychic damage is reduced to what it should be.
• Fixed the mod "If Finishing Blow or Decapitate kills its target, you gain +X% direct damage for 15 seconds".
• Fixed a bug causing lower-level enchantments to be transmuted for Weather Witching and Druid.
• Increased healing amount of Healing Mist 10 (110->120).
• Changed James Eltibule's Sword damage boost from 0.1 back to 17.
• Nissim no longer teaches Debilitating Blow 4 - it was only getting in the way of his Psychology lessons, after all.
• We're still not sure what could cause players to not retain the repeating aktaari quest, but added a backup system that will reapply the quest whenever players are in the Aktaari lobby area.
• Revised a certain boss encounter a bit. Should be a piece of cake now :) :) :)

UI Changes/Fixes

• You can now view item levels and rarities overlaid on the item icons in your inventory. Toggle this view by clicking the "Show item rarities & levels" button in the inventory window, next to the "Show Equipped Items" button.
• Important monster buffs, such as Damage Reflection, now show up first in the list of Active Effects on the target.
• The Damage Reflection buff on monsters now has a unique icon.
• Fixed icons for Fire Magic unlocks at Sand Seer & Bendith.
• Added "(or better)" to the arrow requirements of some Archery abilities.
• Dropping an item onto another in inventory or storage now always puts that item in the dropped slot, never the slot before it.
• Acid Sigil icon is now green.
• Your current equipment now has a yellow border in the compare-item view, to make it more obvious.

Other Changes/Fixes

• Fixed a bunch of level 90 crafting recipes that had placeholder material ingredients.
• You can now raise Textile Creation to level 70 via trainer spheres beneath Povus.
• Some corrected item-creation recipes now require Enhanced Yarn; you can learn the recipe from the same trainer sphere in Povus.
• Fixed some items that would let you learn their recipe but not their ability, thereafter breaking the item for the original learner. (We're still working on a way to fix those characters already affected by the issue and will have something in the next update.)
• Cosmetic pets now stay alive when you switch areas or log off (so you don't need to resummon them).
• When you have a cosmetic pet active and summon a different pet, the first pet is automatically dispelled (rather than making you dispel it manually first).
• Updated directions for getting to the Sacred Grotto.
• Removed an extraneous warning sign from Serbule Hills.
• New JSON file is available on the cdn (at https://cdn.projectgorgon.com/), called tsysprofiles.json. See the updated index page for more information.
• Updated JSON file: tsysclientinfo.json now includes the internal names of each tsys power, so they can be mapped with the new profile JSON file.

This is a pretty little update chock full of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks. Let's see what we've got!

Sword Skill Revamps

• (Hands) "Decapitate Reuse Timer -12" => "Decapitate deals +250 damage and reuse timer is -12 seconds"
• (Head, Necklace) "Decapitate deals +525 damage to non-Elite targets" => +1200 to non-Elite targets
• (Legs) "Decapitate deals +255 damage and terrifies the target for 7 seconds" => "Decapitate deals +300 damage and the next attack you use stuns its target"
• (Feet, Ring) "Finishing Blow and Decapitate damage +190" => +264
• (Chest, OffHand) Finishing Blow deals 530 Psychic damage after a 4-second delay" => "Finishing Blow causes your next attack to deal +380 damage if it deals direct Psychic, Trauma, or Poison damage"
• (Legs) "Wind Strike causes your next attack to deal +142 damage" => "Wind Strike deals +142 damage and causes your next attack to deal +142 damage". In addition, this is now available on both Legs and Feet slots
• (Main Hand) "Wind Strike gives you +50% projectile evasion for 5 seconds" => for 10 seconds
• Wind Strike ability: increased amount of bonus damage added to the next attack
• New treasure effect: (Head, Necklace) "Indirect Poison Damage, Indirect Trauma Damage, and Indirect Psychic Damage +50% while Sword skill active"
• New treasure effect: (Off-Hand, Ring) "Parry and Riposte boost your Indirect Trauma Damage +24/tick for 30 seconds"
• New treasure effect: (Hands) "If Finishing Blow or Decapitate kills its target, you gain +63% direct damage for 15 seconds (this effect does not stack with itself)"
• New treasure effect: (MainHand) "Decapitate deals +165 damage. If the target is killed, Decapitate can be used again immediately."

Group XP Changes

Other Bug-Fixes and Tweaks

• All high-level skill unlocks now require that you also have already unlocked the previous tier. In other words, in order to unlock 'Skill 81-90', you must have already unlocked 'Skill 71-80' (in addition to your current skill being 80+). If you run into a skill that looks like it will let you unlock skill caps out of order, please let us know through the in-game bug report. (That's the '!' on the top of the right-hand sidebar.)
• Jewelry Crafting: Astounding Arisetsu Medallion actually taught the recipe for Astounding Enchanted Necklace. The recipe is right - only the name of the recipe book was wrong. The new name is: Jewelry Crafting: Astounding Enchanted Necklace.
• Orcish Plate Gauntlets erroneously said in their description: "(Must be near a forge consecrated to Umrad.)" They now correctly say "(Must be near a forge consecrated to Tast.)"
• Fixed a bug causing your last-used emote to play again when you change gear.
• NPCs are now listed in their correct, precise area in the Quest Log & Item Info windows. This fixes some bugs that resulted from separate areas being located in the same zone technically, e.g. Carpal Tunnels being reported as Khyrulek's Crypt, or Winter Nexus reported as Kur Caves. If any NPCs are still wrong, please let us know ASAP through the in-game bug report. (That's the '!' on the top of the right-hand sidebar.)
• Unfetter 3 now lasts for 20 seconds.
• Galdyr's Tasty Energy Flask will now come with Battle Chemistry mods.
• The recipes Reliable Flask and Reliable Flask (Repair) now have a chance to consume their hammer ingredient.
• Updated the text displayed when you first learn Necromancy, to match how raising skeletons works now (via Necromancy Dust).
• "Mock and Ridicule deal +X% damage and taunt +Y" now properly affects Mock.
• Icons for Acid Bomb 10 & Mycotoxin Formula 10 now have the correct number.
• Fixed Triage 9, which was broken.
• Changed verbiage of whether Wanted Posters are usable or not, and hooked up verbiage properly.
• Update leveled requirements of new tailoring scrolls to match their associated recipes.
• Greta is no longer considered an arthropod.
• Added a basic dance animation to eagles.
• Fixed some quests that were giving out high-level items with low-level enchantments; most notably, several brand-new quests and Fae Realm Beehive quests.
• Fixed Mudbath 6 healing amount.
• Basilisk and Lamia slow abilities are now affected by Slow & Root immunity.
• Enchantments that can't be obtained via transmuting are no longer shown in the Transmutation window.
• Fixed a typo in soybean sprout item description.
• Bug fix: "Rotskin deals 354 Trauma damage to health over 12 seconds": the ability tooltip listed this as 8 seconds, the treasure listed it as 12, and the actual DoT lasted 15 seconds. The correct duration is 12, and other values have been changed to match.
• Animal Handling pets may now earn XP past level 80.
• Fixed a typo in Ruxandra's Bite item.
• Small Fireworks now stack to 99 instead of 20. Recipe for Small Fireworks makes 99 instead of 20.
• You can now unlock Gardening 81-90, and Cooking 81-90 at a mysterious entity deep beneath Povus.
• Fixed recipe ingredients for Awesome Werewolf gear.
• Fixed intermittent issue with mount anxiety bar not showing.
• Ruxandra's Bite is now augmentable.
• Recipes with no crafting time can now be used while sitting; this allows calligraphy benches to be used while being sat upon.
• If you can't craft a recipe, hovering over the button now tells you why.
• Altered Flaming swords' text (such as Flaming Gazluk Sword) to clarify the DoT damage they do.
• Removed references to Master Flopsy from Master Boop's text.
• Fixed a typo in Meat Candy (tonue -> tongue).
• Fixed stats on crafted belt buckles that got messed up in an earlier November update. (And buffed many of them!)
• Fixed many treasure effects that didn't correctly scale past level 80. At this time we believe ALL treasure effects should correctly scale to level 100. If you come across one that doesn't, please report it through the in-game bug report. (That's the '!' on the top of the right-hand sidebar.) Please report this even if you've reported it in the past.
• Fix to Rabbit treasure: (OffHand, Necklace) "Thump causes the target to take +20% damage from Cold attacks for 10 seconds": this effect did not stack if you had it on both slots.
• Fix to Rabbit treasure: (Head, OffHand) "Bun-Fu Kick causes the target to take +18% damage from Trauma attacks for 20 seconds": this effect did not stack if you had it on both slots.
• Change to Knife treasure effect: (Hands, Ring) "Fending Blade restores 22 Power" => 44
• All (non-Demo) players should check their redemptions to see what special gifts they may have available this month! You can do that by typing /redeem in chat, or by checking the "View Redemptions" button on the bottom of the Persona panel, accessible from the right-hand sidebar. VIPs, you've got two!

This is a small update that fixes a number of bugs, as well as tweaking and extending the new content from our last update.

Dungeon-Related Fixes and Improvements

• The acid slime in Errruka's Cave now displays in the correct location. It was displaying too low, leaving players thinking they were high and dry when they actually weren't.
• Previously, the animal combat-skill trainer challenge required you to be an animal for at least 7 days of real-world time and 12 hours of gameplay time. The former requirement of real-world time was not communicated, leaving some animals unsure why they couldn't open the door. For simplicity we've dropped the real-world time requirement.
• Added a few special respawning eggs to the Aktaari event. These "egg events" are a prototype way to add replayability to the Aktaari event. In the future we may implement a large number of these sorts of "events", and randomly choose which are active during each Aktaari run.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Aktaari Princess's door from activating.
• Completing the mummy puzzle reopens doors leading to the puzzle (if they happen to have closed).
• The exit to the Lady room remains unlocked for several minutes after leaving (in case players return immediately).
• Rixie's Floating rings respawn more quickly.
• Evu Fruit requires Foraging 85, down from 95.
• The Elite version of Mangler Scorpions have been replaced with much larger Mutilator Scorpions (to make it easier to differentiate them from the non-Elite scorpions).
• You can now unlock Hammer 81-90, Battle Chemistry 81-90, and Butchering 81-90 at the appropriate trainers.
• You can no longer unlock Fishing 81-90 until you've unlocked Fishing 71-80.
• Fixed a bug where giving Support Local Fauna Initiative flier to Hazy Mirror yielded no item.
• Fixed typo in Serendipity Cheddar's dialog.
• Added an additional boss encounter (although there's still at least one boss that has yet to be discovered)

Non-Dungeon-Related Fixes

• Fixed a whole bunch of typos in skill hints.
• The ability Summon Doomstorm no longer refers to "frangments" instead of "fragments".
• Awesome Spring Fairy Shoes, the recipe, and the recipe scroll, are all now properly Awesome instead of just Amazing.
• Changed labels of armor- and power-restore after death-avoidance attribute, so they no longer just say "Healing".
• Fixed display of triple digit levels on your hotbar.
• The recipe for Astounding Skinning Knife was erroneously called Awesome.
• Coffee beans and soybeans are worth more Foraging XP.
• Fixed: Stun Trap 5 had same stats as Stun Trap 6.
• Orcish Wheat now grows in visible stages.
• Fixed the broken locked-NPC UI icon.
• Performance Appreciation info effect should now disappear when you're not appreciating any performances.
• Fixed some bugs causing instrument playing animations to get out of sync.
• "Square" map indicators have been renamed "Pointed Square", and a new Square (which is the old square) has been added in its place.
• Updated player nameplate colors in real-time as a response to entering or exiting PvP mode.
• When your targeted player is in PvP mode, an icon will indicate as much (replacing an old bugged-out icon showing their level as 0).
• Animal forms that are in skeleton illusion can now mount properly.
• Updated Brambleskin 10's damage.
• Changed level at which the third cheesemaking cask is unlocked to 40 (previously 41).
• Fixed mount form for skeletons when their underlying form is spider.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause unlisted vendor items to list for 0 councils.
• Updated Bounding Escape 6 numbers (7 speed for 12 seconds -> 9 speed for 17 seconds)
• System Shock abilities dealt 1 point of Damage-over-Time even when no DoT treasure effects were in use.
• Warden (Necklace): "While Privacy Field is active, melee attacks that damage you have a 75% chance to restore 34 Power to you" => this treasure effect did not work correctly
• Icesnake can now occur with Ice Magic treasure effects.
• Head Candle will now persist through zoning & changing gear.
• Deep Wasps now count for the "Bats Eat Bugs" quest.

It's here! After a rather longer wait than we intended, we are proud to share this new update with you. It's got everything -- dungeons, skills, puzzles, and a scary holiday party.

Halloween

New Dungeon

Skills & Abilities

• Crossbow: Knockback Bolts 9 was using ammo one tier lower than intended; this is fixed.
• Floxie in the Fae Realm can now train Fletching to 70.
• Orcish Battle Cry: fixed bug that prevented this from working.
• Priest: Healing amounts for various abilities fluctuated by a few health points due to formula changes.
• Priest: Castigate 7 and 8 deal more damage to undead.
• Psychology: (OffHand, Necklace) "Mock and Ridicule deal +65 damage and taunt +200" => "Mock and Ridicule deal +43% damage and taunt +200"
• Psychology: new treasure effect: (Chest) "Ridicule damage +93 and range +10 meters"
• Psychology: new treasure effect: (Ring) "Ridicule damage +93 and target does not call for help"
• Psychology: (Chest, Legs) "Psychoanalyze restores 212 Armor to you" => "Psychoanalyze deals +100% damage and restores 130 Armor to you"
• Psychology: (Head, Legs) "Strike a Nerve generates no Rage and instead reduces Rage by 610." => "... It also deals +200 Armor damage"
• Psychology: (Feet, OffHand) "Strike a Nerve deals +236 armor damage" => "Strike a Nerve deals +100 damage and hastens the reuse timer of But I Love You -1.5 seconds"
• Psychology: (Chest, Hands) "Strike a Nerve deals between 60 and 200 extra damage" => "Strike a Nerve deals +80 damage, and has a 33% chance to deal double damage"
• Rabbit: "Play Dead boosts your Psychic attack damage +100 for 20 seconds" => +320

UI

• Abilities that require specific animal forms now say so in their tooltips.
• Clicking a notepad tab now scrolls the text all the way to the top.
• Remaining hangout time should no longer show absurd amounts of seconds remaining.
• Updated map player indicators once again, to further clarify which direction you are facing.
• The old map player indicator styles are available via Settings > GUI > Windows & HUD > Map Player Indicator Styles.
• Fixed a bug causing the Performance Appreciation explanation effect to appear when it shouldn't.
• Skill Tracker should no longer move around the screen.
• Fixed item previews when opening the More Info screen and not clicking around.
• Pain Bubble will now show up in debuff lists on current target & party members.
• Freezing Mist tooltip now includes Bomb-related mods.
• Fixed a bug causing Shocking Grasp to show Spirit Bolt mods.
• Updated tooltip for music boxes to reflect the effective level of music supplied.

Other

• New items! There are new high level items to discover in loot. Some of these are based on designs created by our early backers. Others are named after important community members as gifts to those players. (And others are just entirely made up by us.)
• Eternal Greens and Chalice of Life both now cause Resurrection Sickness. Resurrection Sickness prevents you from consuming more greens or a Chalice of Life for 15 minutes.
• Chalice of Life can now only be consumed by druids.
• Chalice of Life now stacks to 3.
• Many crafted items have significantly boosted innate stats.
• Added missing behavior titles for career-long Foxes, Rabbits, and Butterflies. (Earned after staying in that form quite a long time, and lost if you leave the form.)
• For players who want to get their friends into the game faster, or players who just hate tutorials, you can use the chat command /leavetut to skip the tutorial island and appear in Serbule. (You can always go back to the island later.)
• Gain bonus levels in Brewing when you reach Alcohol Tolerance 80, Alchemy 49, Battle Chemistry 70, Cooking 70.
• Completing nightly Povus event quests earns a bit more Xogrite at each reward tier.
• When you Miraculously Avoid Death, you also instantly recover 10% of your Max Health. This amount can be changed through treasure and buffs.
• Purchasing items from Drima now costs 2 Sir Johnson Bucks instead of 3.
• Crafting Caravan: Added an option to purchase a legendary version of the Enhanced Windstep Shoes and Amulet of the Rugged Traveler for 2x the token cost.
• Adjusted leather armor so it blends into the world more.
• Moved Serbule Hills spawn point closer to the portal to Serbule.
• Adjusted raven-form attack speeds for some archery attacks.
• Mummies are a little more dangerous.
• Polar bears now have Health Regeneration.
• Hook beasts attack faster.
• Donkeys and cattle now have an innate buff that knocks back any Burst attacker that hits it.
• Fixed a bug causing monsters to stop attacking their current targets when a subserver restarts.

This minor update includes some neat new stuff, as well as a horde of tweaks and fixes.

Serbule Community Storage Chest

Notepad Improvements

• You can now organize your notes in up to 5 tabs!
• All of your existing notes will be in the first tab.
• You can rename the tabs by right-clicking on them.
• The hotkey to open the notepad defaults to 'n' and can be changed in System > Keys.

Gameplay Fixes & Tweaks

• To help make animal loot stack up better against the loot of bipedal monsters, most types of animals now have a high chance to drop phlogiston. (Look, I don't know. Maybe they ate it?)
• Povus: Being in combat no longer stops you from using the Povus quest sign.
• Povus: Giving gear to Ishiko the boatwoman in the morning now earns double town XP.
• Povus: Ishiko the boatwoman now gives Civic Pride XP for each donation, rather than waiting until you've donated 100 times.
• Battle Chemistry: Fixed a bug with the new treasure effects that boosted minigolem damage +25% (along with some other buffs). This boost did not apply correctly. After it worked correctly it was clearly overpowered, though, so it's been reduced to a +15% damage boost.
• Increased the chance for monsters in a group to perform self-buffs before engaging in combat.
• Priest: Fixed the treasure effect "Triage restores X Health over 15 seconds" -- the highest-tier levels of this effect were weaker than intended.
• Fixed a bug from the last major update that caused delayed-healing effects to trigger twice (once when added, and again after the delay).
• Added Glamour Berries to the very-rare consumables loot table (the same table that drops Eternal Greens and Minor Panaceas).
• Reduced the cost of some LEC items on Cinnamon in Sun Vale.
• Reduced pricing on Riston in the Red Wing Casino for multiple items.
• New item added to Riston: Liquid Super Buffs! (24 hours) for 150 LEC.
• Slightly increased the chance to loot Pixie Dust on appropriate mobs.
• Fixed a bug that caused Chitterface to not drop its quest item if you had killed it in the past 3 hours.
• Fixed a bug that prevented necromancer pets from being targeted by burst attacks, group buffs, and area heals - Dev comment: the bug was that they couldn't be burst-attacked. In fixing that bug, they became targetable by beneficial spells as well. This wasn't part of the original design of the skill (in particular they were supposed to be immune to most types of healing), but we want to see how this change feels in play.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some creatures from tracking aggro properly.
• Young Krakens for the Serbule Druid quest will now stick around for the entire duration of the event.

UI Tweaks & Fixes

• Main storyline quests are now marked in the Quest Log.
• Your current hangout is now viewable from inside the Quest Log, at the top of the list of quests
• An item's associated quests are now shown in the "More Info" window. (Only the quests you are currently on, not ALL quests!)
• When viewing a work order at the board, you can now view its associated recipe (if you have it unlocked) by right-clicking on the work order icon.
• Docile enemies (those that don't attack-on-sight) now have their own nameplate color. It defaults to white; you can change that in Settings > GUI > Colors.
• Made "deliver" quests more obvious by adding the number of items to deliver to the text.
• Fixed a bug that caused the XP Tracker to reset its position on launch.
• The current number of free inventory slots is now always visible in the window, even at the smallest size.
• Fixed a bug that caused nameplates to not sort properly, so closer ones would appear behind further ones.
• Updated the map UI with new icons for characters and pins.
• Fixed a bug that made certain ambient sound FX lower than intended.
• Performance & Dance Appreciation effects are now more obvious.
• The current Appreciation level is visible on the buffs themselves.
• A new icon will appear when you are actively appreciating a performance. It shows the level of the current performance and explains how your current buff levels change over time.

Other Stuff

• Failed network calls on the login screen should no longer cause the Loading screen to hang after picking your character.
• Your character should no longer get "stuck" and keep moving with your mouse even when you aren't holding in right-click.
• Updated to Unity version 2021.3.29. This should fix several bugs in Linux, including: - Some parts of the screen are inaccessible to the mouse when in full-screen mode. - Clicking and dragging the mouse doesn't lock the cursor.

This is just a quick bug-fix update, with some added chemistry!

More Battle Chemistry Changes

• (Hands): "Healing Mist hastens the remaining reset timer of Pep Talk by 10 seconds (if Pep Talk is not already ready to use)" => "Healing Mist accelerates the current reuse time of Pep Talk (for any targets that use Pep Talk)"
• (Head): "Healing Mist hastens the remaining reset timer of Reconstruct by 10 seconds (if Reconstruct is not already ready to use)" => "Healing Mist accelerates the current reuse time of Reconstruct (for any targets that use Reconstruct)"
• (Ring): "Healing Mist hastens the remaining reset timer of Regrowth by 10 seconds (if Regrowth is not already ready to use)" => "Healing Mist accelerates the current reuse time of Regrowth (for any targets that use Regrowth)"

• New: (Legs): "Healing Mist accelerates the current reuse time of Mend Flesh (for any targets that use Mend Flesh)"
• New: (OffHand, Necklace): "Bomb attacks deal +50 damage and cause your next Healing Mist to restore +50 Health over 30 seconds"
• New: (Head, Chest): "Bomb attacks deal +61 damage and cause your next Healing Mist to restore +70 Armor over 15 seconds"
• New: (Hands): "Acid Bomb deals +61 damage and causes your next Minor Heal ability to restore +41 Health"

Bugfixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug preventing BC golems from using their new abilities.
• The Battle Chemistry trainer in Rahu is no longer afraid of scary animals.
• Lowered the cost of training new golem abilities a fair amount.
• Animal forms are treated as always having an "unarmed weapon" equipped.
• Werewolves are treated as always having an "unarmed claw weapon" equipped.
• Combined Extra Toes & Knee Spikes effect descriptions into a single effect.
• Fixed bug with treasure effect "Toxic Irritant deals +N damage. If target has 5 or more Damage-over-Time effects, it also stuns them". This effect incorrectly always stunned the target.
• Fixed a bug with the Battle Chemistry treasure effects that boost flat acid and poison mitigation: the acid one was buffing poison and vice versa. They've been swapped to match their descriptions.
• Fixed a bug with the effects "You heal N health/armor/power every other second while under the effect of Haste Concoction". These effects incorrectly applied their healing every second instead of every other second.
• The minigolem's abilities no longer display buff info about minigolem-summoning abilities.
• Tweaked audio falloff settings of nightmare creatures.
• Fixed a bug causing your own avatar to not respect the "Avatar Portraits" setting.
• Sped up recipe sorting.
• Fixed assorted typos.

This update sees some serious upgrades for Battle Chemists, improvements to pet and enemy AI, an XP system tweak, and - as always - a lot of bug fixes large and small.

Battle Chemistry Changes

Mini-Golem

• (SlotsThisPowerCanShowUpOn): "This effect does blah blah blah at level 100" => changed behavior of the effect at level 100

• UI: fixed blank ability labels in golem programming UI window
• Fixed the ability icons of some of the mini-golem's abilities
• New golem conditional group: "Any group member is below X% Health"
• Minigolem abilities: all damaging abilities deal more damage
• Minigolem abilities: all abilities now scale to level 80. You can purchase the new ability tiers from the usual dude in Rahu
• Minigolem ability Rage Acid Toss: now aoe-splashes to hit all enemies within 20m of its target. (Primary target can still be up to 35m away)
• Minigolem Rage Mist abilities: reset time is now 5 seconds instead of 15. (But ability still requires a full Rage bar)
• Minigolem Rage Acid Toss abilities: reset time is now 5 seconds instead of 30. (But ability still requires a full Rage bar)
• Minigolem Self Destruct abilities: aoe range increased from 10m to 20m
• Minigolem Taunting Punch abilities: increased innate temp-taunt so that golem can briefly pull aggro more reliably
• (Head, Necklace): "Your golem minion's Taunting Punch deals +100 damage" => "Your golem minion has +25% Max Health and its attacks taunt +600"
• (Chest, Legs, Head): "Your golem minion's Poison Bomb deals +82 damage" => "Your golem minion's attacks deal +120 damage"
• (Hands, Feet, Ring): "Your golem minion's Self Destruct deals +360 damage" => "Your golem minion's attacks deal +25% Damage, and its Self Destruct deals +777 damage"
• (Head, OffHand, Necklace): "Your golem minion's Rage Acid Toss deals +243 damage" => "Your golem minion's attacks deal +25% Damage, and its Rage Acid Toss deals +357 damage"
• (Ring, MainHand, Feet): "Your golem minion's Doom Admixture deals +340 damage" => "Your golem minion's attacks deal +25% Damage, and its Doom Admixture deals +340 damage"
• (Legs, MainHand): "Your golem minion's Invigorating Mist heals 58 health" => "Your golem minion's Invigorating Mist restores +58 Power"
• New treasure effect: (OffHand): "Your golem minion's Fire Balm absorbs the first 198 Fire damage you suffer in the next 15 seconds"

Mutations

• The abilities "Mutation: Knee Spikes" and "Mutation: Extra Toes" have been combined, giving the benefits of both in one. For fiction reasons, the name Extra Toes makes more sense than Knee Spikes. But the old Knee Spikes ability had more tiers, which makes for smoother leveling. So we've dropped the old Extra Toes ability and renamed the old Knee Spikes ability to Extra Toes. If you're confused, we don't blame you, but long story short: if you were using Knee Spikes OR Extra Toes, you'll want to make sure that Extra Toes is on your ability bar.
• The ability "Mutation: Stretchy Spine" has been retired as being too niche. Its treasure effects were revised to apply to other mutations instead.
• Extra Heart abilities: instead of boosting Power Regeneration, now boosts Combat Refresh Power Restoration
• Treasure Effects that previously boosted Knee Spikes now boost Extra Toes
• Mutations: fixed bugs that caused treasure buffs to remain on targets even if the caster unequipped the treasure responsible for the buff
• (Chest): "Your Stretchy Spine mutation randomly repairs broken bones twice as often" => "Your Extra Heart mutation grants you -50% Indirect Poison Vulnerability and randomly repairs broken bones over time"
• (Head, Chest): "Your Knee Spikes mutation also causes kicks to restore 22 Health to the kicker" => "Your Extra Toes mutation also causes kicks to restore 44 Health to the kicker"
• (Legs): "Your Knee Spikes mutation causes kicks to deal an additional +24% damage" => Your Extra Toes mutation causes kicks to deal an additional +30% damage
• (Hands, MainHand): "Your Extra Skin mutation causes the target to heal 67 Health every 20 seconds" => 78 every 15 seconds
• (Necklace, OffHand): "Your Extra Skin mutation provides +22 mitigation from Slashing attacks" => +27 mitigation from Slashing and direct Acid damage
• (Legs, MainHand): "Your Extra Skin mutation provides +22 mitigation from Piercing attacks" => +27 mitigation from Piercing and direct Poison damage
• (Hands, OffHand): "Your Extra Heart and Stretchy Spine mutations grant the target +67 Max Health" => "Your Extra Heart and Extra Skin mutations grant the target +71 Max Health"
• (Necklace): "Your Extra Heart mutation causes the target to regain +74 Power every 6 seconds" => every 8 seconds
• New treasure effect: (Feet): "Your Extra Toes mutation grants the target +100% Knockback Resistance"
• New treasure effect: (Legs): "Your Extra Toes mutation grants the target +58% Slow/Root Resistance"
• New treasure effect: (Chest): "Your Extra Heart and Extra Toes mutations grant the target +67 Max Power"
• New treasure effect: (Head): "Your Extra Heart mutation grants the target +23% Max Power"
• New treasure effect: (Hands): "Your Extra Toes mutation grants the target +15.5% Ranged Evasion"

Splashin' Chemicals

• Kohan in Rahu now teaches recipes for Alchemist's Claw weapons, which are complex unarmed/battle chemistry hybrid weapons. Crafting requires Gadgeteering 50 and a high level of Toolcrafting.
• Ufkar in Rahu now teaches recipes for Chemistry Staff weapons, which allow all manner of staff-based skills as well as Battle Chemistry. Crafting requires Gadgeteerig 50 and a high level of Carpentry.
• Staff-Beaker combo weapons (such as the Beaker-Stick and the new Chemistry Staff) are now elligible to have Staff treasure effects on them. (And Fire Magic effects for fire-staff-beakers.)
• Yogzi in Sun Vale teaches recipes for Arachnid Mechaharnesses, which allow spiders to use Battle Chemistry. Crafting these intricate belts requires high levels of Toolcrafting skill.
• Yogzi in Sun Vale teaches recipes for Aerosolizing Bat Harnesses, which allow giant bats to use Battle Chemistry. Crafting these exotic belts requires high levels of Toolcrafting skill.
• Backfat in the Fae Realm teaches recipes for Porcine Blast Dispersers, which allow pigs to use Battle Chemistry. Crafting these bizarre bracelets requires high levels of JewelryCrafting skill.
• Toxin Bomb abilities: base damage increased
• Toxic Irritant abilities: no longer a melee attack; now a ranged projectile attack with a 10m range
• Mycotoxin Formula abilities: base damage increased
• Acid Bomb ability: ability now does both direct Health and direct Armor damage. Power cost and base damage increased
• Freezing Mist ability: reset time changed from 45s to 30s. Ability fully functions as a Bomb. (The fire DoT treasure effect previously didn't work on it). Damage revised upwards.
• (Chest, Feet): "Acid Bomb Damage +53%" => +59%
• (Feet, Ring): "You heal 26 health every other second while under the effect of Haste Concoction" => 36
• (Hands, Chest): "You regain 18 Power every other second while under the effect of Haste Concoction" => 34
• (Necklace, Legs): "Freezing Mist restores 165 Armor to you" => "Freezing Mist restores 165 Health (or Armor if Health is full) to you"
• New: (Head, Off-Hand): "Acid Bomb deals 198 Acid Damage to Health and Armor over 6 seconds"
• New: (Hands, Necklace): "Mycotoxin Formula deals 392 Nature Damage to Health over 8 seconds"
• New: (Chest, MainHand): "Toxin Bomb deals 385 Poison Damage to Health over 7 seconds"
• New: (Hands, Ring): "Freezing Mist Damage +195 and Reuse Time -7 seconds"
• New: (Hands): "Toxic Irritant deals +61 damage. If target has 5 or more Damage-over-Time effects, it also stuns them"
• New: (OffHand): "Toxic Irritant Damage +52 and Range +20"
• New: (Ring): "Toxic Irritant causes the target to suffer +15.5% from Acid Damage (including Toxic Irritant) for 15 seconds."

Game Systems Changes

Pet Logic

• Pets can now target Feared monsters. (They still cannot attack Mesmerized monsters.) This is an experiment; let us know if you like this change.
• Fixed a bug that could cause pets to stop responding to Sic 'Em and/or Clever Trick instructions.
• Potential fix for pets returning home too quickly. We'll monitor this to see if more needs to be done.
• When an Animal Handling pet tries to determine a target for Sic 'Em or Clever Trick, it can now check its owner's target's target. This means that if you have the group tank selected and use Sic 'Em, the pet can lock on the group tank's target.
• Fixed several subtle bugs where monsters and pets wouldn't use the right ability at the right time.

New Experimental Gameplay System: Monster Gang Buffs

XP Dropoff Change

Everything Else

VIP Challenge

Combat

• Basic Attacks: many Basic Attacks deal slightly more damage at high level.
• Pig Frenzy ability: changes to the damage boost amount at each ability tier; highest tier changed from 60 to 118.
• Pig: (Legs, Ring) "Frenzy restores 30 power to all targets" => 76
• Pig: (Main Hand, Necklace) "Grunt of Abeyance restores 28 Power to all targets" => 52
• Pig: fixed some treasure effects that did not yet scale past level 80.
• Survival Instincts' Lend Grace ability: significantly increased Power regeneration. The stated +10% evasion buff is now actually applied.
• Rattail-Ring of Screeching: Nature Damage bonus reduced from +20% to +10%.
• The Sonic Burst Combo mod for bats will now do the correct damage on the final step.
• Toxic Flesh abilities: deal more damage to melee attackers.
• Hammer treasure effect: (Feet): "Rib Shatter dispels any roots or slows you are currently suffering. Power cost to sprint in combat is reduced -3 for 9 seconds" => "Rib Shatter dispels any roots or slows you are currently suffering. Sprint Speed is increased +3 and Power cost to sprint in combat is reduced -3 for 9 seconds"
• Droaches: high level Droach monsters deal more damage when their armor is depleted.
• Fixed a bug where monsters with special opening moves wouldn't always use them.
• Fixed an issue that might be the cause of reported "DoT persists for way too long" bugs. We'll monitor this to see if more needs to be done.
• Fixed bug that prevented earning auxiliary-combat-skill XP if you didn't earn XP in both of your main combat skills.

Other

• Added work orders for all new angling fish. These can be found randomly at the work order sign in Sun Vale and the Red Wing Casino.
• Added new "bulk" work orders for fish. These bulk orders require 99 fish and have a higher payout rate than normal. These work orders can be found as Angling junk loot.
• Reverted changes to fish fillet icons that unintentionally broke match-3.
• Elite Training Dummies have been renamed to Healthy Training Dummies, and no longer give combat wisdom.
• Fixed a bug where learning teleportation from Elmetaph would break future crafting animations.
• "Prioritize Unlooted Corpses" setting will no longer cause tab-targeting to stick to unlooted corpses.
• Fixed a bug causing some ability tooltips to show the wrong damage type when the type is changed via an item mod.
• Fixed a bug causing Skill XP Tracker to change its position.
• Fixed a bug causing tooltips to blink in the wrong spot when Use Tooltip Animation is disabled.
• Fixed a bug causing the minimap to be invisible until you toggle its visibility in settings.
• Search golem item results will no longer have a "1" in the icon.
• The crafting error message for being in the wrong area is now more accurate. (It tells you you must be IN the required area instead of NEAR it.)
• The Create New Character UI now scales with the screen size properly.
• Fixed a couple instances in the UI where the waving flag is invisible at certain resolutions.
• Default enemy nameplate color is now red.
• Fixed a bug preventing you from turning left/right after crafting certain recipes.
• Replaced the animations of several crafting recipes to be more accurate, rather than just sitting.
• Fixed some graphical problems with elven faces and hair.
• Lowered volume of some sounds, including eating and drinking sound effects and the water-ball particle effect used by some monsters.
• Revised audio settings on fireworks.
• Reduced horse selection hitbox size.

This is a relatively small update with some relatively large changes. In brief: based on player feedback, we're reverting some of the recent balance changes we made to Power generation and consumption. In addition, we've also taken some time to optimize performance in some areas to improve framerate. And, of course, there are bug fixes.

Power Balance Changes Reverted

Misc skill changes

• Hammer: Slight changes to cost and potency of Reckless Slam and its treasure effects.
• New treasure effect: (Off-Hand, Necklace) "Core Attacks cause the next Look At My Hammer to restore +50 Power"
• New treasure effect: (Feet) "Rib Shatter dispels any roots or slows you are currently suffering, and Power cost to sprint in combat is reduced -3 for 9 seconds"
• Sword treasure effect tweak: (Hands, Feet) "All Sword abilities deal +13% damage to targets with less than 33% of their Max Rage." => +18%
• Known bug: the Fire Magic ability Flesh to Fuel currently costs Power (it should be free). This will be fixed in the next game update

Optimizations

• Optimized lighting in Povus city to improve framerate, particularly at night.
• Fixed some LODs in Povus to reduce pop-in.
• Optimized Gazluk terrain, which should fix most framerate issues in that zone.
• Fixed framerate issues in Kur at one of the orc camps.
• Optimized UI updates of nameplates. This should have a significant performance boost when using the new UI in areas with a lot of entities.
• Persona and Mount cameras now turn off when those windows are not open; previously they were always on and wasting time being rendered.

New Backer Package Incoming

• Auto-unlock the advanced Orc character race for your account when they become available. (Orcs have not yet been implemented! Normally you would need to complete in-game quests to unlock the Orc race.)
• Receive a unique cosmetic mini-pet for all characters on your account.
• Be granted the special title "Summer's Fairest".
• Receive a unique new food to help level your Gourmand.
• 9 months VIP membership.

Other Stuff

• Items can now be summoned from the Warden chest when in Kur.
• Fixed a bug that caused dropped items to appear above the character instead of on the ground; this was notably bad in the Red Wing Casino, where items would seemingly disappear into thin air (but were actually stuck in the walls).
• The events on the login page now auto-scroll.
• Some light polishing of the login screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused the waving flag on the login screen to disappear at certain resolutions.
• Fixed a formatting error in the score in the golf UI.
• Fixed a bug with spring fairy gear that caused elves to have purple skin.
• Animal players should no longer "ping-pong" (rotate back and forth very quickly) when standing still in certain scenarios.
• Pigs & deer no longer rotate when strafing left & right.
• Polished "On Fire" particles.

Update Notes: June 30, 2023

• Update to fix problems with animation loops in yesterday's patch

Update Notes: July 4, 2023

• Drowning & dehydration put you in combat again, so that regeneration doesn't prevent dying.
• Fixed a bug that broke channeling as a bat almost-completely.
• Fixed a bug where an error that prevents channeling causes you to be stuck in the animation (E.G. trying to harvest wood without a saw).
• Fixed a bug causing NPCs to get stuck in dancing or instrument-playing animations.
• The new treasure effect that causes Heart Thorn to deal Acid armor damage over time did not show in the ability tooltip.
• The new treasure effect that causes Heart Thorn to deal Acid armor damage over time did health/armor damage, not armor damage as intended.
• Using Premeditated Doom showed the effect icon for mod-activated healing even if you didn't have appropriate mod.
• Treasure effect "Signature Debuffs deal +80 damage and restore 90 armor to you after a 10-second delay" could not show up on Uncommon crafted belts.
• Added more detailed instructions on how to find Elmetaph to the barrier wall in the newbie dungeon.
• Good Bait is now a level 30 recipe (instead of 45).
• The meals Venison Psi-Mantis Style and Chicken Psi-mantis Style are now properly marked as containing fish.
• Added a line to Words of Power 1 to make it more obvious that you have to manually jot them down.
• New setting that keeps your current target selected if you click away from it (without clicking on another target): GUI > Targeting > Mouse Selection > Clear Target on Click. Note that it's only supported in the new UI.
• Fixed a graphical issue with leather headgear.
• Decreased the SFX volume for some Weather Witching abilities.
• Fixed a bug causing the camera position to reset when zoning.
• Fixed a bug in the old UI where letting go of left-click while holding in right-click would un-hide the mouse.
• Set Near Clip Plane's minimum value to 0.1, to avoid occlusion issues (notably in the casino).
• New feature: 5% of all randomly-rolled Legendary loot items will be "Foretold in Prophecy", gaining 60 additional crafting points. It will have additional benefits in the future.

Update Notes: July 6, 2023

• Rebalanced all abilities and treasure effects that generate/restore Power. We have a list of specific changes, but it's quite long so we'll save that for the discord-linked patch notes. The short version is that all such abilities and treasure effects are more potent to varying degrees. In many cases the Power restoration increase is pretty dramatic.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused gathering animations to not play.
• Skeletons now play the correct attack animations again.
• Fixed sit/nap animations for Nightshade's bed, a moldy bed in the Carpal Tunnels, and Utimak's chairs.
• Fixed an invisible boulder in Eltibule.
• Added an Elite Training Dummy with 100k hit points to Serbule.
• Lowered cost of Glamour Berries on Riston from 20 LEC to 5 LEC each (but they are now account-bound upon purchase)

This update primarily focuses on game balance issues and quality-of-life (QoL) issues. And it's time for summer... and the Steam summer sale!

Summer Sales

Balance Changes

Transmutation Cost Changes

• Decomposing an item into Phlogiston now yields an average of +100% more Phlogiston. (But note that there's more randomness in the yield than before.)
• Durability costs for using Transmutation are now as follows:
  • Legendary: was 25%, is now 8%
  • Epic: was 20%, is now 6%
  • Exceptional: was 10%, is now 5%
  • Rare and Uncommon: unchanged. (Was 5%, is now 5%)
• Note that it no longer matters whether the transmuted slot is "generic" or not for purposes of durability cost. (But it still affects phlogiston cost.)

Power-Cost Changes

Favor Rewards

• Favor Quests now reward more Favor (averaging +50 Favor per quest).
• Hang Outs that reward Favor now reward significantly more Favor (about +90%).

Inventory Slots

Deer

• (SlotsThisCanShowUpOn): "Old level 100 version of this effect" => changed level 100 version

• (Head, Necklace): "Summoned Deer Rage Attack Damage +183" => "... In addition, if it deals Indirect Nature damage (such as via Insect Egg implantation), damage is +20 per tick"
• (Hands, Necklace): "Deer Kick implants insect eggs in the target. (Max 4 stacks.) Future Deer Kicks by any pet deer or player deer will cause target to take 390 Nature damage over 5 seconds" => This effect has been re-coded so that the attacking deer's indirect nature buffs are added to the damage dealt. It can also now be found on Ring (as well as Hands and Necklace)
• New treasure effect (Feet): "Bounding Escape dispels any active Slow or Root effects on you and grants you immunity to similar effects for 15 seconds"
• New treasure effect (Head): "Forest Challenge deals Psychic damage, and damage is +200"
• New treasure effect (Hands): "King of the Forest deals Psychic damage, and damage is +120"
• Summoned deer pets now periodically use an Antler-Slash move in between Deer Kick moves. This was done to somewhat reduce the number of Egg Infestation stacks per deer (when those mods are used)
• Pummeling Hooves: This ability is now considered a Kick (for purposes of buffs and combos).
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Forest Caller's" treasure effect to not show up for all item levels.

Druid

• Removed treasure effect (Legs, Hands): "Fill With Bile heals 92 health and 92 armor" => This treasure mod has been replaced with the new effect below. The new effect can only be on Hands, not Legs, so if you previously had it on Legs, that piece of gear leg-gear is now Legacy (because the new effect will be on your pants and shouldn't be!). Use transmutation to remove the effect and it'll stop being Legacy.
• Replacement treasure effect (Hands): "Fill With Bile causes any Core attacks that deal direct Poison damage to deal +180 damage for 3 minutes. (This effect does not stack with itself.)" Note: this mod applies to Toxin Ball, Toxin Bomb, and Inject Venom.
• New treasure effect (Legs): "Fill With Bile causes any Nice attacks that deal direct Poison or Acid damage to deal +180 damage for 3 minutes. (This effect does not stack with itself.)" Note: this mod applies to Acid Bomb, Spit Acid, Delerium, and Venomstrike.
• (Chest, Legs) "Heart Thorn coats the target in stinging insects that deal 378 Nature damage over 12 seconds" => 480 damage over 8 seconds
• (Hands, Legs) "Heart Thorn deals Poison damage (instead of Nature) and also deals 330 Poison damage over 12 seconds" => 440 damage over 8 seconds
• New treasure effect (Necklace): "Heart Thorn causes target to suffer +19% damage from all Indirect Damage sources for 15 seconds"
• (Head, OffHand) "Heart Thorn restores 90 armor to you" => "Heart Thorn coats the target in acid that deals 580 armor damage over 8 seconds"
• (Hands, OffHand) "Pulse of Life restores 100 Health over 15 seconds" => 260 Health over 15 seconds
• (Head) "Pulse of Life gives +18 Fire, Cold, and Electricity Mitigation (direct and indirect) for 15 seconds" => 22
• (Hands, Feet) "Brambleskin deals +120 Nature damage to melee attackers" => This is now available on Main-Hand gear, as well as Hands and Feet
• New treasure effect (Chest, Head) => "Brambleskin deals +34% damage to melee attackers"
• New treasure effect (Legs): "Rotskin debuffs target's Indirect Nature Vulnerability -28% for 12 seconds"
• (Chest, MainHand) "Cloud Sight covers the target in insects that deal 312 Nature damage over 12 seconds" => "304 Nature damage over 8 seconds"
• Ability Toxinball: deals the damage over 8 seconds instead of 12
• (Hands, Legs) "Toxinball deals +234 Poison damage to health over 12 seconds" => 224 damage over 8 seconds

Rabbit

• (Chest, Ring) "Bun-Fu Kick Delayed Trauma Damage +221" => +358. The delayed trauma damage happens after 5 seconds instead of 8.
• Long Ear ability: Removed the movement-speed debuff. Normalized buff duration to 15 seconds at all tiers.
• Hare Dash no longer cancels Long Ear.
• Love Tap ability: Revising to make this more interesting as a combat-opening "puller debuff". (Note that it already prevented help-shouting.) Ability no longer generates any Rage. Ability has bonus Accuracy. Hastened reset time of all tiers. In addition to increasing the target's rage-fill requirements, Love Tap now also Slows the target 45% for 10 seconds.
• (Head, Main Hand) "Love Tap deals 415 Trauma damage after an 8-second delay" => 505 Trauma damage after a 4-second delay.
• New treasure effect (OffHand): "Love Tap causes target to suffer +14% damage from future physical attacks (Slashing, Crushing, and Piercing) for 10 seconds"
• Love Tap and Bun-Fu strike are considered bodypart attacks (for purposes of certain buffs).
• New treasure effect (Feet, Necklace): "While Rabbit skill is active, all Kick abilities deal +25% damage, with a 15% chance to deal double damage"
• Fixed leftover attributes that referenced "Bun-Fu Blitz" (now renamed to Bun-Fu Kick).

Spider

• Spider: Incubate ability: it now takes 10 seconds to incubate an egg, not 15
• (Hands, Main Hand) "For 12 seconds after using Infinite Legs, additional Infinite Legs attacks deal +28 damage" => "After using Infinite Legs, additional Infinite Legs attacks deal +58 damage" (The duration is now the same as the built-in buff for that tier of ability, i.e. 10 seconds at level 1 and 18 seconds and level 8.)
• (MainHand, Ring): "Premeditated Doom restores 128 health after a 10-second delay" => "Premeditated Doom restores 231 health (or armor, if health is full) after a 10-second delay"
• Removed Treasure effect (Head, Necklace): Premeditated Doom restores 200 armor after a 10-second delay => this treasure mod has been replaced with the one below. The new one can only be on necklaces, so if you had the old effect on Head gear, you now have the NEW effect on head gear... which is illegal, so your head gear has become Legacy. If you use transmutation to remove the effect it will stop being Legacy.
• (Necklace): "Premeditated Doom boosts your Crushing damage +80 for 20 seconds"
• (Head): "Premeditated Doom boosts your Direct Poison damage +97 for 20 seconds"
• (Legs, Hands): "Gripjaw deals +42% damage and hastens the current reset timer of Grappling Web by 5 seconds" => 41.2% and 6 seconds
• (Main Hand): "Spit Acid raises your Poison Damage +23% for 30 seconds (this effect does not stack with itself)" => "Spit Acid raises your Poison Damage +22% for 12 seconds"
• (Head, MainHand): "Terrifying Bite causes the target to take +16% damage from Poison attacks" => +24%
• (Hands): "While you are near your Web Trap, you recover 6 Power per second" => 10
• (Hands, OffHand): "While you are near your Web Trap, you recover 13 Health per second" => 18
• New treasure: (Head, MainHand): "Incubated Spiders' Rage attacks deal +1056 Poison damage over 12 seconds"
• (Legs, Necklace) "Gripjaw restores 78 Armor to you" => "Gripjaw deals +78 Armor damage and restores 78 Armor to you"

Sword

• Ability Hacking Blade: Trauma damage from this ability is generated over 6 seconds instead of 12.
• Ability Many Cuts: This ability now deals Trauma damage to health (instead of dealing Slashing armor damage over time); amounts increased.
• (Head, Legs) "Precision Pierce deals +40 direct health damage and further reduces target's Rage by 300" => +63 damage; -350 rage
• (Feet, Main Hand) "Hacking Blade deals +240 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
• (Necklace, Off Hand) "Hacking Blade and Debilitating Blow deal 162 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
• (Head, Necklace) "Flashing Strike deals +269 damage to undead" => +580
• (Chest) "Flashing Strike deals +35% damage and gives you 50% resistance to Darkness damage for 4 seconds" => for 7 seconds
• (Main-Hand, Necklace): "Many Cuts and Debilitating Blow deal +166 damage to Arthropods (such as spiders, mantises, and beetles)" => "Many Cuts and Debilitating Blow deal +134% damage to Arthropods (such as spiders, mantises, and beetles)"=> Also, this effect can now only be found on Necklaces. (Main-hand weapons with this effect are now Legacy, until it's removed from them via Transmutation.)
• (Legs, Main Hand) "Many Cuts deals 236 armor damage" => "Many Cuts deals +228 Trauma damage over 6 seconds"
• (Feet) "Many Cuts deals +25% damage and stuns targets that have less than a third of their Armor remaining. However, Power cost is +33%" => "Many Cuts deals +12% damage and stuns targets that have less than a third of their Max Rage."
• (Head, Feet) "If target has less than a third of their Armor remaining, Many Cuts knocks them back and deals +40 damage" => "Many Cuts deals +86 damage and if target has less than a third of their Max Rage, also knocks them back."
• New treasure effect (MainHand): "Debilitating Blow deals +75 damage and causes target's Rage attacks to deal -20% damage for 10 seconds"
• (Chest, Off-Hand) "Finishing Blow restores 128 armor to you" => "Finishing Blow deals 530 Psychic damage after a 4 second delay"
• New treasure effect (Hands, Feet) : "All Sword abilities deal +13% damage to targets with less than 33% of their Max Rage."
• (Legs) "Decapitate deals +100 damage and terrifies the target for 4 seconds" => +255 damage and terrifies for 7 seconds
• (Chest, Off-Hand) "Decapitate restores 197 armor to you" => "Decapitate increases your Max Health +137 for 60 seconds (and heals 137)"

Other Skill & Ability Changes

• Fire Magic: (Hands, Feet): "Indirect Fire Damage +48% when skill Fire Magic active" => +38%
• Necromancy: (Hands, Necklace): "Indirect Fire Damage +48% when skill Necromancy active" => +30%
• Shield: (Chest, Ring): "While Bulwark Mode is enabled you recover 34 Armor every second" => "... every 3 seconds"
• Shield: Elemental Ward ability: protective buffs last for 20 seconds instead of 30
• Warden: (Hands, Feet): "Indirect Fire Damage +77% when skill Warden active" => +42%
• Unarmed: Abilities Cobra Strike, Mamba Strike, and Slashing Strike have a new innate benefit: "Dispels the strongest Damage-over-Time effect you are currently suffering from"
• Hammer: removed artificial Power-cost increases for this skill, resulting in a 5-10% cost decrease. However, this decrease is completely overshadowed by the major Power-cost rescaling explained above. (But Hammer users can now rest easy knowing their skill no longer has artificially-high Power costs.)

Note on Legacy Gear

Monster Changes

• The creatures variously known as "Garden Tenders", "Sand Dogs", and "Snow Leapers" (depending on their variety) are now immune to slow and root effects.
• Orcs: Sword-wielding orcs previously had a Parry move which drained a tiny amount of Power. This Parry move now reduces Core Attack damage by 75% for 10 seconds.
• Orcs: Melee-range orcs can now throw a knife up to 20 meters. They use this when slowed or rooted.
• Slimes are now immune to slow, root, fear, and mesmerize effects. (But notably not knockbacks.)
• Monster tornadoes are now immune to slow and root effects.

Angling

• Dramatically increased the amount of XP earned by catching high level fish. (All levels of fish are affected, but will be most noticeable after level 50.)
• Quest "Angling: Toxic Blooms": The toxic blooms only appeared during nighttime hours, but should appear at all hours.
• Adjusted the level & distribution of fishing zones in Povus.
• Added some more types of angling fish to Povus zones.
• Grapefish on the line are now purple.
• Fixed an Angling visual effect with transparency issues.
• Quest "Angling: Vicious Eels": Fixed the description; it had been "Angle Invasive Ice Fish". The fishing pool on the northeast side of the main Sun Vale island previously gave a quest that rewarded you with the "Angling (Advanced)" ability. This ability's level has been lowered to level 30, and is now given out by a lower-level pool: the one on the north end of the main island. (The northeast-side quest still exists, but now gives bait and XP as a reward.)
  • Note: the "Catch And Release (Advanced)" ability is still level 45; it will changed to 30 (and moved to a level 30 pool) in a future update
• Catching junk like crates and bottles now gives better XP at higher levels.

UI

• You can now search for items with Ctrl+F! Note: This is a new keybind, located in Settings > Keys > Interface > "Search for Item".
• Adjusted vitals-change animation speed so larger changes will animate quicker.
• Fixed bug causing "Save Changes" popup to show erroneously due to some custom chat channel preferences.
• Settings tooltips now only show when you hover over the name of the setting.
• Closing the Settings window without saving changes will now properly update the window the next time it opens.
• Fixed bug preventing the settings "Save" button from enabling when modifying some graphics overrides.
• New setting to disable enemy AOE ranges from appearing: "GUI > Windows & HUD > Abilities & Items > Show Enemy AOE Areas". Defaults to true.
• Better handling of AOE Range opacity, and default the setting to 0.5 instead of 1 (resulting in dimmer AOEs).
• Renamed "Reset Camera Position" keybind to "Re-Align Camera to Character".
• Fixed bug that sometimes caused party-member nameplates to get stuck on the screen.
• Target of target's avatar portrait is now controlled via the "Avatar Portraits" setting.
• Right-clicking on your target to use it will no longer use the thing behind it.
• Fixed bug causing the cursor to not change properly when your hovered target disappears.
• Drastically decreased the time dropping & picking up items stops you for (especially for humanoids).

Defaults Changes

• Open Inventory: I, B
• Open Skills & Abilities: K, Ctrl+D
• Open Social Window: O, Shift+Ctrl+S
• Open Crafting: C, Ctrl+R
• Open Quest Log: L
• Open Chat: Ctrl+C

• Chat no longer closes when pressing Esc.
• Ability Tooltips appear near the cursor, not in the top corner of the screen.
• Change tooltip font size from 11 -> 12.
• Skills, Abilities and the Quest Log start out as larger windows.
• The "Tip" window (that shows tutorial messages) is centered on the left of the screen.
• Channeling bar is centered above the character's head.

Other Changes

• Added an "Observation Golem" to Anagoge to help direct lost players.
• Added a "Training Golem" to Anagoge Records Facility to point out some hidden-but-useful game settings for new players.
• Demo players can no longer be sent pigeon mail. (This was a bug.)
• Golf: Fixed a number of bugs, refined the golf UI, and tweaked some functionality for a (hopefully) improved experience.
• Fixed bugs with fairy chimes not properly updating.
• Fixed the sometimes-broken nib barters on Shala.
• Adjusted minigolem hitboxes to be more exact.
• Improved handling of looping animations for most animals.
• Toned down some Battle Chemistry visual effects.
• Prevented particles from sticking around in certain conditions.
• An assortment of graphics touch-ups in the character select & create screens.
• Updated a number of icons.
• Damage from falling, dehydration, and drowning will no longer put you into combat.
• Fixed a bug causing playable animals to not rotate properly when strafing when ground alignment was turned off.

This is a small update to fix some of the bugs we introduced in the June 1 update. It also includes some other balance changes and bug fixes as well. (Sometimes bug fixes sprawl. One thing leads to another and so on, and suddenly you're making changes to Deer.)

Angling

Changes to Deer

UI & Graphics

Other

Welcome to June, and also the latest Project: Gorgon update! This update contains a new much-requested skill, Angling, as well as new UI features, quests, balancing, and a ton of bug fixes.

Main Story

New Camera Types

AoE Visibility

Angling

Skills & Abilities

Settings

UI Changes

Graphics & Animation

Other Bug Fixes & Tweaks

In this minor bug-fixing update: [olist]

Welcome to update #383! Today we have some more tweaks and additions that expand upon the major changes we made in the last update. Plus, as usual, a bunch of bug fixes. Let's get to it!

Changes to Uncommon and Rare Equipment

We've made an experimental change to the lowest-rarity magic loot:
• Uncommon (green) items now have two additional generic powers (for a total of 3 powers, but only 1 is specific to a skill).
• Rare (blue) items now have one additional generic power (for a total of 3 powers, but only 2 are specific to skills).
• In addition, we've created new generic treasure effects aimed at improving low- and mid-level player capabilities.

Mastercrafted Items

• Mastercrafted items have 40 more Crafting Points than non-Mastercrafted items.
• There is a new recipe that lets you restore a Mastercrafted item's transmutation durability as often as desired (for a hefty cost in prisms). The recipe can be learned from Sona in Gazluk.

Legacy Item Helper

• If the item can be fixed by removing a power from it (because it's got more than the prescribed number of powers), the golem prompts the user for which power they want to remove, and removes that power.
• If the item can be fixed by just transmuting a power off of the item, the golem tells the player this. The player can choose to go and transmute the item, or just get a replacement from the golem (like before).
• For any other causes of Legacyness, the golem can only replace the item with a new one as before (for now). Hopefully, though, the new wording and warnings will make this less scary and error-prone!

Other Crafting Tweaks/Fixes

• There are new recipes that let you reset a piece of armor's crafting points by wiping the item's enhancements, pockets, augments, etc. These are difficult high-level recipes. For now they can be trained from Felmer in the Fae Realm.
• Revised some "rubywall" generic treasure mods to be less terrible. (They still don't scale very well, by intention. They're just less terrible than before.)
• Fixed a bug where an item could have the same skill for both chosen skills, resulting in an item with bonuses for only one skill, causing it to immediately become a Legacy item.
• Drima, Sir Johnson's assistant, has raised the price on all equipment from 2 "Sir Johnson Bucks" to 3. The items are now guaranteed to be Epic+ rarity (instead of Exceptional+).
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from taking off equipment when your skills were temporarily down-ranked to the point that you no longer met the equip reqs of the item. (This could also generate errors when trying to use loadouts.)

Ability UI Improvements

Abilities now automatically change their rank when skills change, when either entering or exiting a skill level disparity. For example:
• If you change from Necro 60/Bard 60 to Necro 60/Shield 10, all Necro abilities on your hotbar will de-rank to level 35 abilities.
• If you change from Necro 60/Shield 10 to Necro 60/Staff 55, all Necro abilities on your hotbar will up-rank to level 60 abilities.
• If you change from Necro 60/Bard 60 to Necro 60/Staff 55, Necro abilities on your hotbar will not change ranks.

• Individual abilities on your hotbar can now be changed quickly by right-clicking an ability and selecting "Change Ability".
• You can now disable the display of the hotkey assigned to that hotbar slot.
• The rank of an ability is now displayed on its ability icon.

More UI Fixes

• Pressing alt will now show any currently-hidden overhead labels in the new UI.
• Changed the names of some ability groups in the Skills and Abilities window so they are more generic, such as "Tame Rat" -> "Tame Animal".
• Polished lots of ability tooltips to rearrange how some data is presented on them, mostly the Special effects.
• Many abilities cannot be used in the air. Attempting to do so will now behave like any other cannot-use-ability case: the icon will gray out and the error will display in the tooltip.
• The "Search Corpse" button on pets now properly updates to "Check" when the pet is revived.
• Combat Info no longer shows Player levels (which were always showing as 0 anyway).
• Fixed a UI bug that would cause all items to display as sellable if the vendor reset timer somehow goes negative.
• Fixed a bug causing items to sometimes not float to the correct location when the inventory is open and any bag besides the first one is selected.
• Added a new beta command, **/reloadchar**, that will reload your character's appearance. This should fix many animation issues that arise because it re-initializes the whole character, including their animations. (You should still report any bugs you run into, but this command is a quick way to fix yourself - after you send in a report!)

Other Fixes & Tweaks

• Fixed issue that could cause players to fall through the world when using the new selection system.
• Fixed a rare bug when switching areas that could cause a player character to effectively "roll back" to a version of their character that is about 1 minute in the past, losing any progress from the previous minute.
• The mod "Reconstruct causes the target to take X less damage from attacks for 30 seconds" now correctly states 10 seconds.
• Butchering an Ice Runner now gives the player a Raw Paralytic Chicken instead of a plain Raw Chicken. Note that the butchering requirement has been raised from 10 to 35 (to match Ice Runners' target level). In addition, Ice Runners have a small chance of dropping Raw Paralytic Chicken as loot.
• Tyler Green in Serbule Hills will now install low-level augments at Neutral favor. (Before it required Friends.)
• Moved the Council Proclamation Form to its own fancy little table on the other side of the room so it won't be in Hulon's way.
• Animal illusion forms can no longer milk cows.
• Bulwark Mode now turns off when you change form.
• Summoning recipe ingredients now takes your saddlebag into account.
• Fixed a bug causing HP to sometimes get out of sync when hit by projectiles.
• The special teleportation scroll "Teleportation: Recall Gazluk Animal Camp", which can now be found rarely in loot, was teaching the special teleport destination "Recall Serbule Docks" instead. This has been fixed.
• Ukorga's tanning rack can be selected. This fix also fixes items falling through the floors in the houses in Kur Mountains.
• It's no longer freezing inside Ukorga's house.
• The quest "Cleo's Lost Books" from Cleo Conyers now tells the player to go east, not west.
• Newbie players can find a free butcher knife at the top of Elmetaph's tower. (Previously there was a small chance to find a butcher knife in Lawara's chest; this has been removed)
• There has been a small change to the flow in the Anagoge Records Facility (the dungeon on the newbie island). There's a new barrier between the second and third floors that requires the player to talk to Elmetaph. This should not affect existing players who have already made it to Serbule Hills.
• Added a new emote! /kneel
• Added new dance animations for Cow, Pig, and Wolf dance variants. Cows speed up or slow down depending on the variant. Pig dances now involve a lot more mud. And some Wolf variants now come with glowy eyes!
• Polished Cow, Pig, and Wolf animations in general, adding some new ones and making them flow together more smoothly.
• Fixed grass pop-in issues in several zones.
• Fixed a bug where channeling while jumping breaks your character.
• Fixed a bug causing the Unarmed combat stance to sometimes show up when it shouldn't (for example, while playing a Bard song).
• Failure to revive a pet no longer plays the kick animation.

Update Notes: April 6, 2023, part 2

• Items should no longer erroneously report stack sizes of 1.
• Fixed alcohol becoming Legacy. (Any booze that went Legacy is un-Legacied.)
• Fixed crafted Uncommon belts having three treasure effects -- belts are still only supposed to have 1. (Any existing 3-effect crafted belts have become Legacy.)
• Remove text from cosmetic pet icons.
• Cows now use a subtler animation for many non-cow abilities.
• Added rank numbers to spontaneous fireballs.

• We're investigating reports that shield wax can make a shield become Legacy -- but only until the wax wears off
• Max-enchanted non-Legendaries are being reported as Legacy because they have more effects than they're supposed to. In the next update, we'll improve the Legacy Item Helper golem so that it can fix these items by increasing their rarity. (e.g. the fix for a max-enchanted purple is to turn it into a normal yellow.) Hold on to those items for now.

This minor update fixes bugs and refines the new systems from last week's update. We'd also like to use these patch notes to give extra behind-the-scenes info for long time players about why the recent gameplay changes are happening, and where we're headed. You can skip all the "Background Info" sections if you just want to read about the changes in this update!

XP Changes:

Background Info: Goals of the XP Changes

Background Info: Leveling Speed

In this update: Revised XP Dropoff Rate (When Killing Higher-Level Monsters)

Background Info: Max-Enchanted Change

• We'll provide a way to pick one mod to remove from you max-enchanted legendaries, making them non-Legacy so you can keep using them.
• Mega-raffle gear that's max-enchanted legendary will be treated like other max-enchanted legendaries.
• We're not going to "grandfather" existing level 80 max-enchanted legacies. In many cases, that one extra treasure mod on a level 80 item makes it better than a level 100 item with one fewer mod. That would mean players with these grandfathered items don't need to replace them until we launch level 100+ content! That is problematic for balancing in many ways.

Background Info: Crafting vs. Looting

Weather Witching Fixes

• Weather Witching + Warden equipment is now a valid combination that can be found in loot and treasure. (Although note that only butterflies can use such equipment!)
• The following Weather Witching treasure buffs were bugged such that they disappeared as soon as you used an ability:
  • "While Wind Ward is active, you gain +N% Melee Evasion"
  • "While Wind Ward is active, you gain +N% Burst Evasion"
• The following Weather Witching treasure debuffs were similarly bugged, and disappeared as soon as the monster used an ability:
  • "Dampen deals Cold damage and debuffs the target so that it takes +N damage from future Cold attacks for 10 seconds"
  • "Dampen debuffs the target so that it takes +N damage from future Nature attacks for 10 seconds"
  • "Deluge deals +N damage on contact and increases the target's Poison Vulnerability +15% for 30 seconds (non-stacking)"
  • "Deluge deals an additional N nature damage over 7 seconds. For 7 seconds, target has a 15% chance to Miss with any Melee attack."
• The following abilities can now be used underwater or in shallow water: Dampen, Deluge, Tsunami, and Hailstorm.
• Hailstorm is now a Signature Debuff ability.
• The effect "Summoned Tornadoes move much faster and their attacks deal +N% damage": tornado speed is buffed +6 instead of +9.
• The effect "Summoned Tornado attacks deal +N damage and cause the target to take 15% more damage from Electricity for 10 seconds (non-stacking)": this debuff was stacking incorrectly. Is now non-stacking as intended.
• The treasure mod "Shocking Grasp Damage +N. Every other use has a 25% chance to stun the target" will no longer generate extraneous error messages.
• Corrected recipe text for level 80 Weather Witching research: there are four level 80 spells, not five.

UI and Graphics Fixes

• Nameplates of entities that update (such as growing garden plants) will no longer get stuck on the screen.
• When the thing you have selected updates, the button will update too when applicable (such as trees/bushes running out of fruit).
• Nameplates no longer get in the way of dragging to move the camera.
• Fixed selection problems with the following: Beer Barrels, some Chests, Writing Benches, Firefly Boxes, Zombie Hands, Urns, & Jack-o-Lantern turrets.
• The Animal Town transfer chest, grapevines in Serbule Hills, and the New Prestonbule portcullis are selectable with the new UI.
• Fixed mouse-cursor-changing logic so the mouse should no longer disappear.
• The escape key no longer sends chat messages.
• When the party leader changes, the new leader's party frame will jump to the top of the list.
• New UI now respects the "Use Floaty Numbers" and "Auto-Move to Interactors" settings.
• Modified the logic of looping animations. This should fix bugs where the character gets stuck in an infinite looping animation.
• Added missing water bubble icon. This affected multiple items, including Kraken Potions and Water-Breathing Potions.
• Grass Draw Distance setting is now properly clamped between 50 and 500.
• Fixed visibility of some graphics dropdowns.
• Ability tooltips now use proper number formatting for any "special" numbers, such as Cur Tempest Energy or the amount that Blast of Defiance Reaps.
• Fixed the Damage Over Time calculation in ability tooltips, so it now matches the actual damage done.
• Portrait combat numbers will no longer get stuck when zoning.
• Effect stack text now scales with effect icon size.
• Fixed bug causing text overflow for some ability tooltips.
• Changed color of highlight around items that are usable in the current-selected recipe to orange.

Other Fixes

• Fixed bug that broke storage switching if certain crafting recipes were open.
• Fixed bug preventing "That'll Do" from activating properly, leaving the character in a weird, very slow condition.
• Fixed bug that caused alcohol toxins to not wear off if you moved to a different area or logged out drunk.
• Fixed more logic bugs that could cause a piece of equipment's instant effects to be re-applied at inappropriate times. (a/k/a "Sometimes when my instrument is equipped, my skill bar changes to Performance".)
• Fixed a bug that was causing armor set buffs to wear off when zoning.
• Illusive Guise and Insidious Illusion sidebar abilities don't need to be kept on the sidebar to maintain the buffs.
• Fixed a bug that caused Fairy Magic abilities to bypass the 25-level skill disparity cap.
• Fixed a bug that caused Crossbow and Endurance sidebar abilities to bypass the 25-level skill disparity cap. For now, the other sidebar abilities (such as Stake the Heart and Spade Assault) are usable regardless of combat level disparity. We'll revisit this after a while to see if it's a good idea.
• Comfortable Bed in Serbule and Rustic Bedroll in Serbule Hills are now slept in properly. In addition, the Rustic Bedroll no longer shoots the camera through the ground.
• Adjusted the colliders on humanoids. This might help prevent Velkort from getting stuck on his flame buddy.
• Foxes won't get stuck in certain areas as easily anymore.
• Sir Arif now lets animals turn in delivery quests to him.
• Endurance previously used a placeholder XP table. It now uses an XP table tailored to modern monster damage output. This makes it dramatically easier to level Endurance compared to a few patches ago.
• Repeatable kill-quests that reward Combat XP now scale the same way monsters do. In other words, completing a level 80 kill quest now scales down the XP reward if you're lower than level 80, the same way higher-level monster XP is scaled
• Fixed some monster-pets (monsters spawned by other monsters) that were worth XP.

This patch fixes bugs in yesterday's patch:

• Fixed gift-giving window & related windows not working.
• Spiders can use non-spider abilities again.
• Fixed the "sometimes while my horn is equipped my skill bar changes to stringed instruments" bug.
• Player Work Orders will no longer immediately expire.
• Creature levels now display at anatomy level 5 instead of 50. (This is a temporary hack -- we have other ideas on how to display level disparity in the future)
• Certain First-Aid abilities are now exceptions to the new rule that you must keep the ability on your bar to maintain a buff. Affected abilities are: "Soberize", "Emergency Alcohol Treatment", and "Field Prophylactic".
• Fixed bug preventing humanoids from playing music.
• Saving settings will no longer cause nameplates to get stuck on the screen.
• Fixed bug causing nameplates to multiply infinitely.
• "Use New Selection UI" setting should be properly respected when restarting the game.
• Cursors on linux should no longer be gigantic.
• There is a new setting for disabling cursor changes when hovering over things: Settings > GUI > Mouse Selection > Change Cursor on Hover
• Fixed bug where Animal Handling pets couldn't follow your commands because they had -1 Power
• added Shock Dust to level 20 powders loot table (it is also in the level 30 and 40 powder tables)
• reset version of Drunkenness effects (which may help users suffering from infinite drunkenness)

As winter winds its way towards spring, we have another exciting update full of bug fixes, improvements, and big changes. The experimental selection UI is finally becoming a real boy, XP curves are getting lots of work done, and there's a brand new combat skill to learn.

Preface: Bugs!

• the Give Gift menu option doesn't work for most NPCs. We will fix this within 24 hours.
• nameplates in the new UI get "stuck" when you switch on/off the new UI system. We will fix this within 24 hours -- in the short term you can fix it by restarting the game.
• new beds in Serbule Hills look weird when you sleep in them. We will fix this in a future update.

Combat XP Changes

XP Curve Rework

Monster XP Values Rework

XP Scaling Changes

Treasure-Effect Scaling Changes

Feedback Needed

Weather Witching

New Buff/Debuff Requirement: Keep It On Your Bar

Max-Enchanted Recipe Change

Channeled Ability Changes

Spirit Fox Changes

• Power Glyph: this is now correctly marked as a Survival Utility ability (bug fix).
• New treasure effect: (Chest) "Galvanize Reuse Timer -10.5 secs"
• New treasure effect: (Necklace, Legs) "Galvanize boosts targeted pets' non-Rage attacks +X for 45 seconds"
• New ability: Infectious Instincts: usable only on an allied pet, this boost's the damage of the pet's next attack. Learnable from a Completely Normal Fox deep beneath Kur.
• New treasure effect: (Head, Ring) Infectious Instincts boosts target pet's next attack +160
• New treasure effect: (Chest, OffHand) Infectious Instincts boosts target pet's non-Rage Attack damage +58 for 12 seconds
• New treasure effect: (Hands, Feet) Infectious Instincts grants target pet +43 Mitigation vs. elemental (fire, cold, and electricity) damage for 20 seconds
• New treasure effect: (Legs, Necklace) Infectious Instincts grants target pet +29 Mitigation vs. physical (slashing, crushing, and piercing) damage for 20 seconds
• New treasure effect: (Necklace): "Galvanize grants pets Health (or Armor if Health is full) equal to the amount of Power generated +105"
• After one too many complaints from stablemasters, we've decided that Spirit Foxes are no longer allowed to ride horses. Instead, they should seek out Mittens in Kur to learn how to fast-travel directly as a spirit fox. (Requires Spirit Fox 25, Friends, 1000g)

Skills & Abilities

• Getting stunned should no longer interrupt an attack that's usable while stunned.
• Fire Magic: There are only two "Flare Fireball" abilities, but they were numbered "Flare Fireball 2" and "Flare Fireball 4". Renumbered to 1 and 2, respectively.
• Fire Magic: The ability "Flare Fireball 4" (now renamed to "Flare Fireball 2") was a level 50 ability learned at level 55. Ability is now level 55 (with slightly higher base damage).
• Ice Magic: Cold Spheres now have a small amount of Armor.
• Lycanthropy: New treasure effect (Necklace): "If you are reduced to 0 health while Shadow Feint is active, it automatically triggers and cancels the damage. In addition, Shadow Feint boosts your accuracy +N until triggered."
• Lycanthropy: New Altar of Norala options: "+1 Non-Combat Sprint Speed" (costs 3). Purchasing this unlocks the second tier version "+1 Non-Combat Sprint Speed & +1 Movement Speed" (costs 3).
• Lycanthropy Pro Tip: Stat boosts from the Altar of Norala work in any form, not just in wolf form
• Removed ability-usage delay for butterflies.
• Added contextual hotkey for Analyze Genes.

Everything Else

Selection UI

Target of Target

Another exciting change in this update: You can now see your target's target!
• At Anatomy level 25 (for each sub-anatomy, E.G. "Fae Anatomy"), you'll be able to see your target's current target, as well as their current health, armor, and if they are enraged. Clicking on the target will select it.
• The existing Target UI has been adjusted a bit to fit the new target-of-target UI. Most notably, Real-Time Effects and the Combat Info button have been moved.
• Seeing Real-Time Effects on a target has been moved from sub-Anatomy level 25 to 35.

Chat Commands

We have slightly revamped how custom chatroom chatting works:
• '/c ' no longer exists.
• '/c ' sets your current chatroom to .
• '/c ' sets current chatroom to and sends to it.
• '/cc ' sends to without setting it to the current chatroom.
• 'global', 'nearby', and 'guild' can now all be used with the /c commands.

Other UI Stuff

• The strength of the highlight when hovering over an entity can now be controlled via GUI > Mouse Selection > Overlays > Hover Highlight Strength.
• New selection UI now shows distance to current target when you hold in alt.
• New selection UI now handles the "Hold to Bypass Clicking Players & Pets" key.
• New Selection UI now respects all of the "Overhead Info" settings.
• Improved the new click-selection algorithm, so entities should be easier to click on.
• Updated selection hitboxes & facecam avatars for a long, long list of creatures.
• Fixed a bug that caused the cursor graphic to get stuck if a nameplate disappears while you're hovering over it.
• Added "Show/Hide Hotbar Globes" to hotbar & player stats right-click menus.
• Added "Show/Hide Metabolism Bar" to player stats right-click menu.
• Organized Graphics settings and changed several sliders to dropdowns.
• Right-clicking on the active-skill hotbar is now easier; if you click the space between ability icons it will still show the full context menu.
• Ability Tooltips now show multiple "Other" effects in a more concise format.
• Fixed bugs that prevented some Privacy Field mods from showing up in the Ability Tooltip.
• When you use an ability on a party member, that ability's icon will once again appear on their party frame to indicate that it went through.
• Party frames can now be resized and re-padded, under "Settings/GUI/Features/Party Frames", "Party Frame Scale" and "Party Frame Spacing".
• Fixed bug that prevented right-clicking on a party member who is not in the same area as you.
• Added outlines to party names.
• Added max-use info to recipe window.
• Right-clicking a craftable item in a quest objective now shows the "Jump to Recipe" option for Enchanted recipes.
• Moved the settings "Scale Names with Distance" and "Overhead Name Fade Distance" under a new section, "Old Selection UI", which is only visible when using the old selection UI.
• Added button to GUI Settings that resets all window positions & sizes to their default, in case a window goes off-screen or any other GUI weirdness happens.

Graphics & Such

• Fixed several instances of armor being invisible on one side (such as being able to "see through" the inside of a helmet, or spring fairy leggings).
• Fixed some helmets that would allow the wearer's scalp to poke through.
• Fixed bug that caused some particles to appear on invisible creatures.
• Personal Rainstorm effect is now easier on the eyes.
• Added mount trails to Cow & Pig.
• Fixed bug with fae feet when chopping wood.
• Added turning-while-standing-still animation to humanoids (out of combat only).
• Added smoke VFX to hags.
• Revamped Fire Rat visual; they now glow and have a flame at the end of their tail.
• New visuals for Fire Sheep.
• Fixed Biting Vines death animation.
• Fixed graphical glitch with Drakeworms.
• Faces of Death now stop animating when they die.
• NPC hares should no longer sink into the ground.
• Wolves no longer float above the ground.
• Fixed bug causing dead players to stand back up.

Other

• Bottled items in stacks now have a right-click option to "Empty All Bottles" (if their stack size is greater than 1).
• When crafting, fillable ingredients are now highlighted in your inventory.
• Fixed a bug that prevented work order cancels from returning councils.
• Fixed a bug preventing level 0-10 Industry and Foraging textbooks from being read when you don't have those skills yet.
• Gifts of equipment to NPCs are now worth notably less Favor.
• You can now deploy ice fishing gear properly on the lake near the Necromancer's Tower in Kur Mountains.
• Ice fishing lakes in Kur Mountains once again give a variety of fish, including some species that weren't available there before.
• Campfires in Kur are a little safer now to cut down on campfire murders. (Does not include the orc camp fires.)
• Northern, Pure, & Augmented Bounceweed now affect foxes.
• Lowered council value of fairy starter gear.
• Removed coin purses from Fae Newbie Chest and moved them to a reward for completing the Fae starter arc.
• Fire Sheep are more deadly when they explode.
• Fixed bug that prevented players from seeing a notification message when an item gets used up in combat.
• The JSON file npcs.json has a bit of new information in it: item preferences now have a "Desire" field which will be "Love", "Like", "Neutral", "Dislike", or "Hate". This information corresponds to what is displayed in-game when you learn an NPC's likes and dislikes. (You could kinda-sorta figure this out before from the "Pref" value, but that's becoming less and less accurate -- in fact, the "Pref" field will eventually be removed from npcs.json when the client stops referencing it. If you're using that field, please switch to using the "Desire" field where possible.)
• A number of JSON files have had changes to their format: sources_items.json, sources_recipes.json, sources_abilities.json. They now include additional information, some of which is not yet used by the client (but will be in the future)
• The JSON file sources_items.json is now documented in the CDN's help page. (The file format is now reasonably stable. Yay!)

This fixes some issues in yesterday's update.

• Fix bug preventing abilities from being queued
• Fix swim-jump-skating
• Fix bug that causes nameplate to get stuck when you select a party member from their party frame
• You can no longer select things through walls
• Promoting or kicking party member will now show their name instead of "PartyFrame(Clone)"
• Fix broken floaties & speech bubbles for default selection UI

New Year, New Database Code

New Party Frames

Experimental Selection UI

We continue to build out and improve the Experimental Selection UI. Changes in this update:
• Entities can now be targeted & interacted with via their nameplates. This is a setting that defaults to Enabled, located in GUI->Experimental Selection UI->Nameplate Configuration->Select Via Nameplate.
• Humanoid nameplates now follow the creature's movements more readily.
• Humanoid selection colliders are now shaped to the humanoid rather than being a big box that surrounds them.
• Humanoid Skeleton (Archer, Mage, etc.) improvements: they are now easier to select in the experimental UI, their shoulders jut out a bit more, and their neck bones attach to their spine.
• Mouse selection is now more lenient.
• Crafted chairs can now be selected.

Other UI Changes

• Combat Info polish: The window is now available for all combatant targets (NPCs and players) all the time, and more clearly indicates what the next info unlock is.
• Anatomy skills now list more specifics instead of "More Combat Info Shown". For example, "See Abilities in Combat Info".
• Increased hitbox of nameplates.
• The Keys Settings menu is now grouped into categories.
• The "Quest UI sounds" setting now saves properly.
• Changed confirmation popup animation.

Graphics & Animations

• Improved VFX for Phoenix Strike.
• Slightly sped up Many Cuts animation.
• Added some new animations for Sword attacks, Shield attacks, and Multishot.
• Added unique animations to humanoids when being knocked back or forward.
• Added knockdown animation to humanoids.
• Humanoid hands are now placed more realistically when sitting.
• Equipped weapons should be visible in hands more reliably now.
• Fixed meditation hover-hands (hands will be in the meditator's lap now).
• Camera zoom level now persists between play sessions.

Other Tweaks & Fixes

• Playable animal colliders are now the same size as humanoids, so they can fit in all the same areas. This should let them escape pit traps in the Gauntlet.
• Jumping is now more responsive. For regular jumping, you can now turn mid-air (but your momentum continues in the direction you jumped in). For steerable jumping, you can now control it via the movement keys.
• Flying while jumping will no longer shoot you into the air.
• Energy Bow Blitz Shot should now receive all the same mod bonuses as regular Blitz Shot.
• Fixed icon for Blitz Shot (was using the Aimed Shot icon).
• Red Wing Casino: Added an attendant mantis in the high-stakes table room. She announces the winners of each arena battle as a convenience to the high-rollers. (The announcer Kuzavek's voice doesn't travel that far.)
• Fixed a bug that prevented some monsters from using their special abilities (such as healing or buffing themselves)
• Fixed a bug with player shops when using the for-guild-members feature
• Dramatically reduced the chance of spontaneous Olugax sightings

Ri-Shin Celebration

A Holiday Gift

Experimental Selection UI

• Wolves can now be targeted. Yay!
• Serbule Crypt can now be entered when using Experimental UI.
• You can no longer select things through walls.
• Nameplates will no longer get in the way of clicking things.
• Fixed a bug that caused cursor graphic to get stuck.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause some corpse hotkeys to not work.

UI, Graphics & Animation:

• Dye recipes now have a preview, so you can play around with colors more easily without having to apply them.
• Item tooltips now list which dyes have been applied to a piece of equipment, if any.
• Equipment can now be previewed in the "Item Info" window (accessed by right-clicking and selecting "More Info").
• Armor types are now consistently shown & named in item tooltips; E.G. "Metal Armor", "Leather Armor", "Cloth Armor", and "Organic Armor". Previously "Cloth Armor" was listed as "Clothing", and "Organic Armor" was not listed at all.
• New Combat Refresh icon animation makes it more obvious when it triggers and better hints at how it works.
• Combat Refresh usage particles now include the blue-wings icon, so it's more obvious when it's been used.
• Reconstruct & Restorative Arrow will now properly list their Restores in the ability tooltips.
• Claw Barrage DoT will no longer display in tooltip unless it does > 0 damage.
• Improved VFX for most mentalism attacks.
• Stacking animal forms will now properly remove the underlying forms' buffs/debuffs from the UI. This should only affect druid bird forms and butterflies.
• Tigers & Panthers now align to the ground more realistically.
• Reduced "glow" highlights from flowers and humanoid eyes.
• Fixed a bug which sometimes showed multiple "requires beast form" messages on a single item.
• Fixed some wonky-looking animations that would make humanoids enter and then immediately exit combat stances.
• Reworded the skill level disparity effect to make it clearer how the number is calculated: lowest-level-skill + 25.

Other Fixes & Tweaks:

• Fixed a bug that could cause spawned monsters to disappear sooner than intended.
• Changed the way durability works in crafting: if a recipe consumes durability, an item with less than that durability can now be used. If a recipe consumes the full item (with no durability consumption), then an item with ANY durability loss cannot be used. For example, "Cottage Cheese" consumes 15% of a firkin's durability, so you can now use a firkin with only 10% durability in this recipe. "Sour Cream" however requires an entire firkin, so you cannot use a firkin with 85% durability.
• The following Major Heal abilities are now affected by Yagreet's Staff:
  • Restorative Arrow
  • Ilth Hale's Kiss
  • First Aid Bomb
  • Rally
  • Carrot Power
• Added a hotkey for giving an item to an NPC which defaults to X. You can change this setting under Settings/Keys/Contextual Actions/NPC: Give Item
• If you are disconnected, the game will now attempt to reconnect to the server.
• The /isearch command now has a shorthand version: /i
• On any event-related reward chest, (including the key chests in Serbule) if you are mounted or are in a beast-form travel mode, you will be locked out of the chest until you dismount.
• Increase hitboxes of some projectiles, so they'll hit short targets such as bear traps and chickens.
• Corpse hotkeys bound to Spacebar should no longer cause you to jump when the window closes.
• Dyes will no longer dye the UI slot they are removed from.
• Cranberry-Turkey Sandwich recipe now actually creates 2 servings.
• Fixed iocaine powder recipe to read "field mushrooms" instead of blusher.
• The recipe "Crude Cow Shoes (Enchanted)" now only requires 1 Basic Metal Slab instead of 2.
• Fixed typo in fairy potions ("cannot not").
• Many item short descriptions (E.G. "Potion", "Quest Item" etc) are now determined and stored during the data pre-parse step instead of at runtime. This should have a minor positive impact on performance.
• Repeat completions of the Gauntlet will no longer trigger global broadcasts.
• Boss Gauntlet '22: There are some new hidden rooms with a few new challenges. There's another room or two left to come in another update, but we wanted to get feedback on this part. It's a bit whimsical (which means cruel), but you'll be fine. When you get to that encounter -- you'll know the one -- we'd love your feedback. We're planning to use that encounter in a future dungeon. You're playing a prototype. Good luck!

There's a new version for Linux that addresses the "super brightness bug". (Other OSes won't have a patch to download at all.)

MacOS users have a new version of the game which fixes problems that prevented the game from running. (Users on other operating systems won't see a new download.)

Welcome to another beautiful fall season! Zhia Lian's tricks and treats are behind us, and we're ready for the tofurkey. In addition to Thanksgiving, this update also contains a lot of bug fixes large and small - plus a special new dungeon for the most powerful players to test their might. So let's get to it!

Turkey Time!

Introducing the Boss Gauntlet!

New Version of Unity

Experimental UI Changes

• Fixed bugs with highlights being out of sync with their models, such as rotating around them.
• Actually removed broken highlights from fairy wings. (They were still showing up sometimes.)
• Added outline to selected-entity description.
• Selecting an entity for the first time using tab instead of click will no longer cause their highlight to display in the face cam.
• Favor floaties now round the number.
• Using hotkeys to select & interact with something will now work 100% of the time.
• Experimental UI now shows current Power, in a UI similar to Rage but different enough to easily be able to differentiate it.
• Experimental UI now handles player title changes.
• Implemented stat bars for party members.
• New Settings: "Show vitals over players' heads?" & "Show combat numbers for other players?". These are each dropdowns with multiple options.
• All entities should now be selectable; some entities were still missing colliders.
• Speech bubbles and floaty combat numbers now both display even when their entity isn't in line of sight.
• Experimental UI now respects the "PortraitFloaties" special setting.
• New settings for outlines, located under GUI/Experimental Selection UI: "Outline Opacity", "Outline Width", and "Outline Quality".
• New overhead label color for dead enemies. Only applies to the experimental UI. Located under GUI/Overhead Labels/Overhead Label Colors.
• Add extra image (a little diamond inside the power diamond) to self nameplate to more easily differentiate it from others' nameplates.
• Speech bubbles no longer overlap the speaker's name if they are selected.
• Experimental UI now changes the cursor when you hover over something, which are higher res versions of the existing cursors.
• Vital bars now only animate when hp/armor/power/rage changes, not when the creature's appearance changes.
• If your current target changes its appearance (E.G. changes gear, polymorphs, etc.) it will now be re-selected after the appearance change is complete.

Other Changes

• The ladder on Anagoge can now be climbed. (New ladder tech! Expect to see it more often in the future.)
• The mod "Bun-Fu Strike deals Cold damage..." now correctly states that it replaces Slashing instead of Crushing.
• The mod "Love Tap deals X Trauma damage after an 8-second delay" now correctly says Trauma instead of Ice.
• Recall Stones now take a few seconds to swallow (rather than allowing instantaneous teleport).
• Fixed an error that caused some Alchemy potions to not have a Metabolism Cost when they were supposed to. Affected potions are:
  • Poison Resistance Potion (10)
  • Thin Fae Energy Potion (20)
  • Thick Fae Energy Potion (30)
  • Gooey Fae Energy Potion (80)
  • Rez and Shine (10)
• Move Those Legs! now works while mounted.
• Deer will no longer neigh like a horse while in travel form.
• Ducks, foxes, & ravens can now fit into all areas that humanoid forms can.
• Fan of Blades 5 & 6 now list the proper consumables.
• Fixed audio for Bear Traps, Pigeons, Tentakillers, and Blur Smoke.
• Item tooltip names should no longer overlap their short description.
• Completely redesigned Ability tooltips to be easier to read.
• Combat Refresh stats on items are now easier to read, and visually similar to new Combat Refresh UI in Ability tooltips.
• Overlayed a unique icon on abilities that cannot be used due to level disparity.
• Fix for new Ability Tooltips: Labels no longer linebreak
• The area you click to select a monster now updates when a monster dies even if the monster is currently selected.
• Monster-click areas for humanoids now match their dead bodies better.
• Better handling of appearances disappearing while they're being loaded. This should fix the current round of stuck-on-loading-screen issues.
• Fixed broken deereye particle effect.
• Gathering crystals now looks like you're actually gathering instead of sitting.
• Improved animation for "Become Wolf" ability.
• New animation for Necromancy Dust recipe.
• New visual effect for Ice Magic Research recipes.
• Speed up Sonic Burst animation so it stops interfering with other attacks.
• New 3d model for health, armor, and power potions.

Welcome to the yearly Zhia Lian event - aka Halloween! You'll receive two quests from Zhia Lian when you log in after the update. Completing these quests will unlock more and more -- there's about a hundred quests in all, including three brand new group quests for high-level players. This update also contains some small bug fixes and tweaks.

Experimental Selection UI:

• If your selected creature dies, it now updates properly (loot button will appear & name color will change)
• Fixed bug that caused speech bubbles to stick around forever
• Fixed bug that caused floaty numbers to queue up while off-screen and then display all at once
• Fixed bug that would crash client if you logged out and then back in while something is selected
• Floating numbers now respect the size settings (Size of Combat Numbers)
• Darkened outlines around Experimental UI names
• Mounted players can now be selected, and their nameplates are positioned better

Other:

• Legs in Sun Vale now trains a Riding ability for spiders when in their travel mode.
• Fixed all tier 1 Bat ability cooldowns.
• Fixed bug that causes vendors with low gold amounts to sometimes have large gaps in their Sell tab.
• Added POI markers near the portals in Kur Mountain so they are easier to find.
• We now show a subtle cooldown overlay on all abilities when the global cooldown is in effect.
• Non-humanoids display better on the character selection screen and in the Persona window.
• Improved nameplate placement, highlighting, and selection colliders for all monsters.
• Fixed bug that prevented camera panning if you clicked on certain GUI elements, such as floaties or speech bubbles.
• Sped up Hare "ear-scratching" animation, which is used mostly for support abilities.
• All animals will now stick-to-ground more smoothly.
• Fixed issues with cow appearance under certain lighting.
• Fixed error resulting from rapidly changing appearances.
• Fixed bug that causes "Loading 1 additional assets" to stay on the screen forever.

This is a small bug-fix update that covers some important initial bugs (as well as some pretty minor stuff that got fixed in passing). We're planning another update next week to address more complicated bugs. Your feedback is *essential* to this process, so a big thank you to everyone who has reported problems or shared their experiences so far!

Fixes & Tweaks:

• ExperimentalSelectionUI setting now saves properly.
• The Experimental Selection UI now respects font sizes and updates settings in real time instead of requiring a relog.
• New settings for the Experimental Selection UI, located under GUI/Experimental Selection UI:
  • Flash Selected Nameplates: Should nameplates flash when something is selected? Defaults to enabled.
  • Speech Bubble Font Size
  • Name Font: Allows selection between serif and sans-serif fonts for entity names. Defaults to serif.
• Fixed Werewolf Hunting Speed.
• Fixed Winter & Dark Werewolf armors.
• Mounts will no longer show up in the character select screen.
• Adjusted fox mount animation so it sits in the saddle instead of hanging on.
• Snow Raven form and Deer now stick to the ground appropriately. In addition, animals that stick to the ground now take most decorations into account.
• Deer will once again fall over when dead.
• Lowered volume of spider skates by half.
• Fixed some wonky looking selections for doors and a fire in Eltibule.
• Slightly decreased egg drop rate for Ice Hen.
• All bugs which caused client out-of-sync issues (E.G. entities being too-far-away to attack, not moving, not animating etc.) should now be fixed.
• Fixed the color-picker window.
• Fixed some NPCs in Kur that were inaccessible.

Welcome to our latest update! There's a lot of important changes, so we'll dive right in. It was hard to prioritize all the different changes, so please at least skim over the topics to make sure you know what you need to know! If you find issues, please report them ASAP! Given the number of changes, we may need a quick hotfix to address any big problems. (And regardless, we'll do another update next week to start the Halloween event!)

Revised Zones: Eltibule & Kur Mountains

Treasure Cap for Uneven Active Skills

• The base effects of the gear ("white label effects") don't have any scaling info so they just stay the same all the time.
• If no lower-tier effects are usable, that effect is just disabled.
• A new icon in the effect bar explains that they are downgraded, and lists which slots are affected.
• Equipped item tooltips display the correct downgraded information (or an indication that the enchantment is disabled) if the item is affected by skill level disparity.
• Looking at the abilities themselves will also show that the capped effects are being used.

Necromancy Summon Change

• Necromancers automatically learn the recipe to do this at level 2.
• If you are already level 2 or higher in Necromancy, the recipe has been automatically added to your recipe book.
• The recipe requires a femur or other large bone, and can only be performed in a graveyard during the in-game hours of 10pm and 4am.
• All tiers of the ability "Free-Summon Skeletal Archer" have been removed.
• All tiers of the ability "Raise Skeletal Ratkin Mage" are unchanged: these abilities still require you to be indoors and have a ratkin medallion.

New AoE Buff Logic

Monster Hatred Calculation Change

Changes to Mentalism Treasure

• "Electrify, System Shock, and Panic Charge restore 30 Health after a 15 second delay" => 53 Health after a 7 second delay
• "Mindreave taunt -500" => "Mindreave taunt -665"
• "Reconstruct restores +30 Health and causes the target to take 24 less damage from attacks for 10 seconds" -> "Reconstruct causes the target to take 18 less damage from attacks for 30 seconds"
• "Revitalize restores +30 Health and causes the target to take 30 less damage from Psychic and Nature attacks for 10 seconds" => "restores +30 Health and causes the target to take 26 less damage from Psychic and Nature attacks for 12 seconds"
• "Psi Health Wave heals all targets for 90 health after a 25 second delay" => "Psi Health Wave heals all targets for 109 health after a 15 second delay"
• "Psi Armor Wave and Psi Adrenaline Wave restore 202 armor to all targets after a 25 second delay" => restore 139 armor to all targets after a 15 second delay
• "Psi Power Wave and Psi Adrenaline Wave restore 70 power to all targets after a 25 second delay" => restore 56 power to all targets after a 15 second delay
• "Panic Charge boosts the damage of all your attacks +23 for 20 seconds" => +57 for 20 seconds
• Fixed several other treasure effects that didn't get more powerful after level 80.

Other Treasure Changes

• Archery: New (Head, Main Hand): "Heavy Multishot boosts the damage of your Nice Attacks and Epic Attacks +167 for 10 seconds"
• Archery: "Acid Arrow Taunt -1260" => "Acid Arrow deals +280 damage to Armor"
• Shield: Display Fix: "When you are hit, all Shield abilities taunt +10 for 20 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)" now correctly states the stack count, "10 times", instead of "15 times". (It already stacked the correct number of times; this was a simple typo fix.)
• Spirit Fox: Display Fix: "While Blur Step is active, Soul Bite has a 33% chance to deal +7 damage and hit all targets within 7 meters" => +124 damage. (It already dealt this much damage, it was just incorrectly listed as +7.)
• Staff: "For 30 seconds after using Phoenix Strike, your Survival Utility and Major Heal abilities restore N Health to you" => Fixed bug that caused this to restore Power instead of Health as intended.
• Staff: "After using Headcracker, you take -N% damage from Psychic attacks for 15 seconds" will now stick around for the entire 15 seconds. In addition, we fixed a bug that caused the level 85 version to be weaker than the level 80 version.
• Warden: Privacy Field ability: reduced base damage at all tiers. (The highest tier changed from 275 => 196.)
• Warden: "Privacy Field deals +65% damage to melee attackers" => +48%
• Warden: "When Privacy Field deals damage, it also ignites the suspect, dealing 180 damage over 12 seconds" => 156 damage over 12 seconds
• Warden: Small tweaks to several other warden treasure. (These were formula revisions.)
• Minigolem abilities Healing Mist, Invigorating Mist, Haste Concoction, and Rage Mist have increased area-effect range.

• "While Unarmed skill is active: any time you Evade an attack, your next attack deals +X damage"
• "While Unarmed skill is active: you gain +4% Melee Evasion and any time you Evade a Melee attack you recover X Armor"
• "When you are hit, Finish It damage is +X for 20 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)"
• "When you are hit, all Shield abilities taunt +X for 20 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)"
• "When you are hit by a monster's Rage Attack, the current reuse timer of Stunning Bash is hastened by 1 second and your next Stunning Bash deals +X damage"
• "When you are hit by a monster's Rage Attack, Reinforce restores +X Armor for 60 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)"
• "Privacy Field causes you to recover X Power when a melee attack deals damage to you"

Mounts

• Spider form has a new travel mode: Spider-Form Travel Mode can be learned from Legs at Animal Town in Sun Vale. You must be Comfortable with Legs.
• Many animal forms can now ride horses, including: Hares, Foxes, Giant Bats, and Butterflies. Riding a horse in these forms behaves just as if you were riding in a bipedal form.

• Mounts now come to a stop more slowly, except when stopping to interact with something. Note that you can stop more quickly by holding the "move backward" key.
• Safe Fall no longer persists while mounted.
• Fixed a bug that allowed prevention of fall damage by mounting.
• Dying from a projectile while mounted should no longer let you walk around while dead.

Butterfly Changes

• Player butterflies no longer have +25% Mentalism Base Damage; instead they have +10% Psychic Damage and +10% Nature Damage.
• There is a new butterfly-only recipe which allows you to drink nectar from flowers (or flower arrangements). This consumes the flower and buffs your Health Wave, Armor Wave, and Power Wave abilities for 30 minutes. The potency of the buff depends on the quality of the flower(s). For now, this recipe can be learned from Yavazek in Sun Vale.
• Butterfly dances are a bit more unique now with different particle effects for each move. And butterflies now float subtly while moving or dancing. Very pretty!

Other Animal Forms Tweaks & Fixes

• Stuns should now properly affect all forms.
• Ducks can now fit into areas that all other forms can.
• Shrunk the pigeon hitbox.
• Your Persona window will now correctly update when you switch between forms.
• Most animal forms now adjust the camera so that the new form remains in the center of the screen.
• Foxes and spiders now "stick" to the ground, similar to hares.
• Polished deer animations, including new dance moves.
• Added new dance moves and color variations to fox dances.
• Spider dance variants B & C are now slower & faster versions of the base dances.
• Added new dance moves to giant bat dances.
• Spiders, foxes, and bunnies now all kinda-sorta look like they are swimming & flying.
• Added falling animations to giant bat, spider, & fox.
• Improved animations & visual effects of giant bat attacks.
• Spider abilities should now be quieter.
• Polished some spider attack particles.
• Sped up some Hare attacks.
• Fixed the specularity on player cow texture.

VIP Challenge Limited Edition Vanity Pet - The Ice Hen

More Backer Package Benefits

New Selection UI

Other UI Changes

• Chat tabs now turn green instead of italic when there are unread messages.
• Unread notifications can be turned off for chat tabs, in the "Edit Tab" menu (by right-clicking the tab itself).
• Tracked skills now persist through sessions.
• The "Hide Known Recipes" filter on vendors is now just "Hide Known", and applies to both recipes and abilities.
• The enter key can now be used to confirm item summons and splits.
• When summoning an item, the amount to summon is now automatically selected so you can quickly change it.
• Player-bestowed title messages will no longer show color tags in chat.
• Recipe tooltips now accurately state when an ingredient is not consumed, instead of "(% chance to consume)".
• Hovering over an effect when it wears off will now properly update the tooltip.
• Equipment gained from a barter will now show the proper level when hovered over in the barter window.
• The tooltip icon cooldown overlay should no longer appear on items.
• Fixed stretching icons in Player Work Order sign and crafting UI.
• Fixed rounding error in client display. Certain buffs could make it seem like you had 1 more Max Health than you did.
• Quests that cannot be abandoned now have a greyed-out "Abandon Quest" button with some informative text. This should make it clearer that this inability to abandon some quests is intended, and not a bug.
• More clearly delineated item attributes from the info below them when there's no enchantments.
• Optimized NPC vendor UI to remove freeze-up when first opening the UI or switching tabs when there are a lot of items present.
• Better handling of on-screen messages that display as soon as you enter a new area.

World Draw Distance Changes

• Maximum tree-draw distance increased from 2000 meters to 3000 meters.
• Minimum tree-draw distance increased from 0 meters to 100 meters.
• Minimum grass density increased from 0% to 35%.

Other Animation & Graphics Changes

• Added a new Graphics setting, "Realistic Non-Bipedal Placement", which is like "Realistic Foot Placement" but for non-humanoids. This will make non-bipedals "stick" to the ground realistically, rather than just float above it. Currently only implemented for bunnies, foxes, spiders, and horses.
• Added animations when humanoids evade attacks.
• Added particle effects to recipes for Shamanic Infusion and Fire Magic.
• Added a new visual effect to Take The Lead.
• Revamped Priest attacks (animations, visual effects, and some sounds). This has the effect of speeding up some attacks.
• Revised armor appearance to be less washed-out. This is most noticeable on metal armors.
• Numerous appearance loading improvements and fixes, which could cause the loading screen to hang or fail.

Other Bug Fixes & Tweaks

• Rewrote water wells. Now instead of being a single-use interactible that fills one jug of water, it works in a delay loop, filling water repeatedly until you move away from the well (or run out of empty bottles). It starts slowly and then accelerates.
• Ursula's Curse: when Ursula appears, she immediately targets the cursed player.
• Equipped gear can no longer be transmuted.
• Show error messages when attempting to transmute equipped or low-rarity gear.
• Dropping items no longer stacks them on top of each other, they are spread out in a grid around the dropper.
• Increased chance of dropping Ilmari gems on all four types of Rahu mineral nodes.
• Added actual fire to static campfires (like those in Kur Mountains) when they are fed with wood.
• Projectiles will no longer stick around indefinitely when shot at ghosts.
• Dead humanoids should no longer skate around dead some of the time.
• Fixed recipe Secret Calligraphy: Hemorrhage to give the intended effect.
• "Astounding Cloth Shirt (Max-Enchanted)" and "Camouflaged Astounding Shirt (Max-Enchanted)" now have the proper pre-requisites.
• Changed effect name of Agonizing Speed Potions from Bleeding Speed to Agonizing Speed.
• Changed instances of "Amazingly" inks to "Amazing".
• Emptying bottles of water no longer counts for quest "Holistic Wellness: Drink Water".
• Serbule Hills outhouses are now easier to interact with, and have a more appropriate search animation.
• Added Pet owner's name to the name of some of the vanity pets - Death on a Leash, Fae Dragon, Radish, Winter Beet (and the new Ice Hen).
• "Level 10-20 Event Loot Key"s are now properly called "Level 15-20 Event Loot Key"s.
• Fixed typo in Jumper's quest "The Bridge Bully" that indicated the wrong direction (southeast instead of northeast).
• Fixed typo in Fist of the Green Man (wayword -> wayward).
• Fixed typo in quest "A great new calligraphy bench".
• Changed "Kill Toxic Frogs in Gazluk While Nude" to "Kill Toxic Frogs in Povus While Nude".
• In quest "Kill Barghests in Gazluk", fixed "klil" typo.
• Changed mushroom name from "Groxmak" to "Groxmax".
• Converted all quest titles containing 'Halloween Event:' to 'Zhia Lian Event:'.
• Assorted improvements to server and client performance.

This is a minor update to make adjustments to the Summertime Experience event which starts tomorrow. There are a few other changes and bug-fixes:

• Add better handling of rapid changes in a humanoid's equipment. This should fix the bug where some players' textures display as bright pink
• Remove duplicate Blitz Shot 6 training option from Alravesa
• The "Heed The Stick" mod that grants mitigation from direct attacks will now always last 10 seconds
• More debug info to track down remaining "stuck on loading screen" bugs
• The local player mesh is now optimized again, this functionality broke as part of recent loading optimizations
• Deselecting an object that has just changed (such as a flower as part of gardening) will no longer re-select the object, or previously-selected objects
• The Healing-Suit Tester (a high-level boss) now recovers less health when there's only a few healing crystals

This is a minor update. It addresses the following bugs:

• Fix bug that could cause the loading screen to get "stuck" with a few remaining downloads
• Fix bug that caused queued ability icons' green highlight to stick around longer than it should
• Remove framerate stutter when opening the quest window (when it had hundreds of quests in it)
• Better error handling when reapplying particle effects
• Fix bug that prevented ghosts from loading correctly
• Fix bug that causes hotkeys to break when an appearance failed to download (for any reason)
• Fix bug that caused the Skill Tracker to disappear if positioned on the left side of the screen
• Fix typo in instruments ("Enabled musical performance" -> "Enables musical performance")
• Add better handling of dynamic music; this should fix bugs with background music overlapping instrument music, and background music not playing at all
• Fixed bug that caused Ultra Item Rafflers to be counted toward an area's max-temporary-entities count. (Only this raffler was bugged)

• The player rabbit model now uses the new animation system instead of the legacy system. (This is in preparation for future content)
• Player rabbits will now "stick" to the ground better, so it looks like they are on it (similar to how humanoids have realistic feet placement)
• Removed the ability to select 'Set limit per customer' on Item Rafflers. This is now permanently set to 1
• Players can no longer buy a ticket for their own raffles
• All Item Rafflers can now be used to raffle Event Loot Keys

Welcome to our 364th update! This one is jammed full of new features and bug fixes. Let's take a look!

Animal Travel Mode

• Bounceweed now has a new effect on these animals, increasing their animal-form top "travel speed".
• The particle on the animal form's footsteps while traveling is a placeholder.
• Not all animal forms have a travel mode yet; others' travel methods are coming soon!

Werewolf

• Sanja in Kur teaches wolf players to enter travel mode. This requires Werewolf level 40.
• The werewolf Hunting Speed abilities (1 through 3) are no longer sidebar abilities. They are now Riding abliities, meaning that you should place them on your ablity bar while "riding yourself" as a wolf. They are still unlocked via the werewolf altar as before.

Deer

• Silvia in Sun Vale teaches deer players to enter travel mode.
• Silvia also teaches Bounding Speed, a deer-only Riding ability.

Cow

• Both Raul and the Suspicious Cow train player cows how to enter travel mode. This requires Cow 25 and Comfortable favor.
• Both Raul and the Suspicious Cow train Cud Speed, a cow-only Riding ability.

Pig

• Norbert trains player pigs how to enter travel mode.
• Norbert teaches Porcine Speed, a pig-only Riding ability.

Archery Changes

Removal of Basic Shot

Note on minor Changes

Treasure and Ability Changes

• Changed treasure effect: "Long Shot boosts your Armor Regeneration (in-combat) +16 for 15 seconds" => "Long Shot and Hook Shot Damage +121"
• Changed treasure effect: "Restorative Arrow restores an additional 126 Health over 30 seconds" => "Restorative Arrow restores 58 Power"
• Changed treasure effect: "Restorative Arrow boosts target's Nice Attack and Epic Attack Damage +188 for 10 seconds" => "Restorative Arrow covers the target in a barrier that mitigates 40 damage from Crushing, Slashing, Piercing, Acid, and Fire attacks. Lasts for 20 seconds or until it has absorbed 200 total damage."
• New treasure effect for off-hand: "Restorative Arrow targets yourself and all allies within 30 meters and restores +52 Health, but reuse time is +10 seconds"
• New treasure effect for off-hand: "Hook Shot Damage +132. Non-Elite targets do not call for help."
• New treasure effect for feet, necklace: "Long Shot increases target's vulnerability to Trauma and Acid +10% for 20 seconds. (Max of 2 stacks.)"
• New treasure effect for hands, necklace: "Hook Shot increases target's vulnerability to Fire and Poison +10% for 20 seconds. (Max of 2 stacks.)"
• New treasure effect for head, feet: "Hook Shot and Bow Bash deal +200% damage to Stunned targets."
• new treasure effect for legs, ring: "Poison Arrow deals +480 Poison damage over 12 seconds"
• New treasure effect for head: "Blitz Shot deals +59 damage, and the damage type becomes Poison."
• New treasure effect for ring: "Direct Poison and Acid Damage +124 while Archery skill active."
• New treasure effect for necklace: "Direct Fire Damage +124 and Indirect Fire Damage +16 (per tick) while Archery skill active."
• New treasure effect for hands: "Multishot deals +99 damage, and the damage type becomes Fire."
• Buffed effect: "Aimed Shot deals 132 additional health damage over 12 seconds" => 270 over 12 seconds.
• Buffed effect: "Multishot restores 90 Health to you after a 15 second delay" => 132 health after an 8 second delay.
• Buffed effect: "Long Shot restores 61 health to you after a 15 second delay" => 86 health after an 8 second delay.
• Buffed effect: "Fire Arrow suddenly deals an additional 400 indirect Fire damage after a 12 second delay" => 500 after a 6-second delay.
• Ability change: Hook Shot base damage increased slightly at all tiers.

Cow Changes

• Chew Cud, Moo of Calm, Stampede: these abilities can be used while stunned.
• Changed treasure: "Stampede boosts your Slashing/Crushing/Piercing Mitigation vs. Elites +8 for 30 seconds (stacks up to 5 times)" => +16
• Changed treasure: (Hands, Feet) "Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus Crushing, Slashing, and Piercing attacks +18 for 10 seconds" => "Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus Crushing, Slashing, Piercing, and Fire attacks +18 for 10 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +18 more"
• Changed treasure: (Chest, Ring) "Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus Crushing, Slashing, and Piercing attacks +18 for 10 seconds" => "Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus Crushing, Slashing, Piercing, and Cold attacks +18 for 10 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +18 more"
• Changed treasure: "Stampede boosts your Slashing/Crushing/Piercing Mitigation vs. Elites +8 for 30 seconds (stacks up to 5 times)" => +20
• New treasure: (Ring): "Stampede boosts your Fire/Cold/Electricity Mitigation vs. Elites +20 for 30 seconds (stacks up to 5 times)"
• New treasure: (Necklace): "Stampede deals +860% damage if used while you are stunned"
• Changed treasure: "Cow's Bash heals you for 66 health" => "Cow's Bash heals you for 66 health and reuse timer is -1 second"
• Changed treasure: "While Cow skill is active, you regenerate +40 Health every 5 seconds and resist +20 damage from Elite Crushing, Slashing, or Piercing attacks" => now resist all Elite damage types (not just Crushing/Slashing/Piercing)
• Changed treasure: "Chew Cud's chance to consume grass is -42%" => "Chew Cud restores +80 Armor. Chance to consume grass is -42%"
• Changed treasure: "Graze boosts your out-of-combat sprint speed by 8.5 for 30 seconds" => "Graze boosts your out-of-combat sprint speed by 3 for 50 seconds"
• New treasure: (Necklace) "Stampede deals +1050% damage if used while you are stunned"

Psychology Changes

• Ability change: Soothe: all tiers have higher base damage; reuse timer changed from 15s to 13s; Power cost increased
• Ability change: Cause Terror: all tiers have higher base damage
• Ability change: But I Love you: all tiers have higher base damage
• New treasure: (hands) "Fast Talk targets all enemies within 10 meters and Power cost is -18"
• New treasure: (chest and feet) "But I Love You and Cause Terror Damage +58%"
• Changed treasure: "Fast Talk heals you for 74 armor" => "Fast Talk reduces target's rage by -1190 and reuse timer is -2 seconds"
• Changed treasure: "Inspire Confidence restores +104 Health after an 8 second delay" => "Inspire Confidence restores 60 Power over 9 seconds to all targets"
• Changed treasure: "Soothe further reduces target's Rage by 1210" => "Soothe reuse timer is -1 second and it further reduces Rage by 1370"
• Changed treasure: "Fast Talk taunts -540 and reduces Rage by 900" => "Fast Talk taunts -2196"
• Changed treasure: "Inspire Confidence increases the damage of all targets' attacks +16 for 30 seconds" => +69 for 30 seconds
• Changed treasure: "Tell Me About Your Mother restores 177 Armor to you" => "Tell Me About Your Mother restores 123 Health (or Armor if Health is full)"
• Changed treasure: "Soothe boosts the healing from your Major Healing abilities +56 for 10 seconds" => "For 10 seconds after using Soothe, your Major Healing abilities restore +68 Health and your attacks generate -30% Rage"
• Changed treasure: "But I Love You boosts your Nice and Epic Attack Damage +91 for 8 seconds" => 10 seconds (fixes description typo; actual effect was already 10 seconds)
• Changed treasure: "Cause Terror Damage +214" => "Cause Terror deals +214 damage and restores 46 Health to you"

Staff Changes

• Blocking Stance: Reduced bonus mitigation vs. elites by 50%. Thus Blocking Stance 1 now mitigates +5 and +5 more vs. elites; previously it mitigated +5 and +10 more vs. elites.
• Changed treasure: "Deflective Spin restores 82 Health instantly and provides +58 Mitigation from all Elite attacks for 15 seconds" => restores 82 health and provides +37 mitigation from all Elite attacks for 10 seconds
• Changed treasure: "Blocking Stance mitigates +15 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 30 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +30 more" => "... Against Elite enemies, mitigates +15 more"
• Deflective Spin ability: "You take X% less damage from all attacks for 15 seconds." => 10 seconds
• Changed treasure: "Deflective Spin costs -11 Power and mitigates +13 damage from each attack for 15 seconds" => "Deflective Spin damage +100. Targets' next attack deals -10% damage"

Shield Changes

• Shield: "While Bulwark Mode is enabled you recover X Power per second" -> "While Bulwark Mode is enabled, abilities cost -X Power to use"
• Shield: "Elemental Ward mitigates +40 elemental damage (Fire, Cold, and Electricity) for 30 seconds" => "Elemental Ward mitigates +40 elemental damage (Fire, Cold, and Electricity) for 30 seconds. Against Elite attackers, mitigates +40 more"
• Shield: "Slashing Mitigation +8, Piercing Mitigation +7, Crushing Mitigation +7 while Shield skill active" => "While Shield skill active: Mitigate Slashing +16, Piercing +14, and Crushing +14. Versus Elite attackers, these values are doubled"
• Take the Lead abilities: now boost sprint less. (Take the Lead 6 was +10.5, now +6.5)
• "Take the Lead boosts your sprint speed by an additional +5 and you recover 48 Power after a 15 second delay" => "Take the Lead boosts your movement speed +3 and you recover 58 Power after a 15 second delay"

Ice Magic Changes

• Ice Armor: now has reduced mitigation vs. elites. (Was 27 and 54 more vs. Elites; is now 27 and 27 more vs. Elites)
• New treasure: (Chest, Hands) "Blizzard Damage +150 and you gain Elite Resistance +10% for 20 seconds"
• "Ice Spear heals you for 58 health after a 15-second delay" => "Ice Spear heals you for 80 health after a 7-second delay"
• (head, feet) "Frostbite causes all target's attacks to deal -22 damage (this effect does not stack with itself)" => "Frostbite causes all target's attacks to deal -22 damage, and their Rage attacks are further reduced by 10%"
• Ice Veins, Ice Armor, Cryogenic Freeze: these abilities can be used while stunned

Other Balance Changes/Fixes

• Animal Handling: treasure effect "Animal Handling pets recover +X Armor every five seconds" now actually recovers the armor.
• Bard: Fixed bugs that allowed abusable "stacking" of bard song healing.
• Bard: Added damage type (trauma) to Song of Discord description.
• Fairy Magic: The treasure mod 'Fae Conduit's Power cost is -X and reuse timer is -Y seconds' now actually reduces the reuse time.
• First Aid: Reset time changed from 30s to 20s for Treat Disease [1-4], Set Broken Bone, Moss Bone Repair, and Soberize.
• Rabbit: effects that change Bun-Fu Blast and Bun-Fu Strike damage to cold will no longer revert the damage type later on.
• Unarmed: New treasure effect: (Hands): "Cobra Strike, Mamba Strike, and Slashing Strike deal +50 damage and can be used while stunned. Doing so removes the stun effect from you."
• All metal armor has been rebalanced to give slightly less Max Armor and slightly less Armor recovery from combat refresh. In exchange, it now has modest Power recovery from combat refresh.
• Pulling a target toward you (with E.G. Hook Shot) will no longer fling the target off into the distance if you are standing on top of one another.
• Bonus pet health and armor from treasure effects will now persist through the pet's death.
• After zoning, pets will now have the correct state selected in the UI instead of always Follow.
• The werewolf altar buffs to increase physical mitigation have been changed into percentage-based vulnerability buffs.
• Transmutation costs will be reduced for the next month for Archery, Cow, Staff, Psychology, Shield, and Ice Magic skills

Boss Encounter Revisions

Gazluk Healing Suit Tester:

• The healing crystals now have a much more pronounced effect on the boss's regeneration. When all 8 crystals are up, he recovers 100% of missing health every 5 seconds.
• Healing Crystals now have 8000 max health each instead of 125.
• Destroyed crystals respawn more quickly.
• Nearby "Healing Suit Technicians" are now Elite.

Gazluk Clutchmaster:

• More eggs spawn at the beginning of the encounter.
• Eggs have more health (but still not all that much).
• When eggs hatch, they now spawn an Elite urak that wanders.
• Eggs respawn more quickly.

Productivity Expert:

• The expert's assistants are now Elite, and more numerous.

Arkura:

• Arkura has been upgraded from a named Elite to a Sub-Boss, with commensurate bonuses to health, damage, and annual compensation.
• Some of Arkura's skeleton minions have been replaced by (elite) Mutterer Cabalists.
• Arkura and her minions have exceptional help-shouting capability.

Shower Slime:

• Has more health and lots more regeneration.

Zukelmux the Intransigent:

• Zukelmux's summoned backup are now Elite.

Beakhorse:

• Beakhorse is a bit more powerful (especially the beak).

Captain Evergloam's Bridge:

• The captain and her crew have all been promoted one or two tiers of potency. This makes Captain Evergloam an Epic Boss.
• This does not change their loot, because their loot was already epic-tier for some reason.

Coldfeather:

• Security crystals have more health (but remain extremely vulnerable to knockback).

Hotfeather:

• Hotfeather has more health and offensive power.
• Hotfeather and friends have larger help-shout radii.

Dalvos's Astral Projection:

• Summoned assistants are more powerful and numerous.

Chet Thunder:

• Chet Thunder is stronger.

Gue and Wormback:

• Both have been promoted from Elites to Basic Bosses.

Eeaeiikik and Funguile:

• Eeaeiikik has been promoted from Elite to Basic Boss.
• Funguile is a bit stronger.

Everhorn and Shockybug:

• Both have been promoted from Elites to Basic Bosses.

Vemuta's Area:

• Vemuta has been promoted from Basic Boss to Epic Boss.
• Some of the myconian students in each teaching cluster are now elites. (Randomly picked, with higher chances of elites in Vemuta's cluster.)

Imarak:

• Imarak has been promoted from Basic Boss to Epic Boss.
• Imarak's adds are a bit stronger.
• Young mantises in general are stronger.

Guzyerp:

• Guzyerp has been promoted to Epic Boss, with commensurate loot improvements.
• Nearby bears are a bit tougher.

Peacemaster Guztok:

• Guztok's hobgoblins are a bit tougher in general.
• Guztok is more epic.
• Guztok now calls for Elite backup after taking a little damage.

Deathcore Penalty

Discord Integration

UI Improvements/Fixes

• Skills can now be tracked, similar to Quests. Click the star in the Skills & Abilities window to track a specific skill. Tracking a skill makes it always visible in the HUD, showing the current level and XP bar. The HUD can be right-clicked to quickly jump to the skill.
• When XP is gained in a non-combat skill, the skill will briefly show in the HUD to display the amount of XP gained and the skill's current level.
• Fixed XP bar and level display for phrenology recipes.
• Right-click to select combat skills now splits the UI at 20 skills instead of 25.
• Active Skill XP bars (at the bottom of the screen) now animate XP gains, and show the number of XP gained.
• Separated out "Action" emotes from regular emotes. Action Emotes are emotes that are part of a gameplay action, such as burying or eating a corpse. They can now be filtered differently from non-action emotes (for example /wave or /em emotes) in the chat window. By default, they are enabled in any tab that had emotes enabled.
• Added tooltip functionality to the list of chat channels when editing a tab. Currently only Action Emotes have a tooltip; everything else is pretty self-explanatory.
• Removed extra whitespace in front of some emotes.
• Overhead rage meters now flash pink when they are full.
• The "Examine" button will now appear when you select yourself.
• Non-fiction books now properly display colored text instead of a color code.
• Item attributes are now displayed in a vertical list in tooltips.
• Tooltips that are too large to fit on the screen can now be scrolled by a key. This defaults to Shift + V.
• Long player-written book titles should now fit in the item tooltip.
• All equipped items should now update properly in the persona window.
• Item short descriptions should no longer overlap their names in tooltips.
• Fixed bug that caused items with expiration dates to always show April 4.
• Tooltips for equipment in barters now correctly indicate the rarity of the resultant item.
• Non-repeatable completed quests now have their own tab in the Quest Log.
• Storages can be manually reordered again.
• Recipe complete text no longer covers up ingredients, and fades out more quickly.
• Fix bug that would sometimes cause map pins to swap their north/south coordinates.
• Prevented casting bar from resizing too small and effectively disappearing.
• Meal and snack levels are now highlighted in tooltips, and displayed in the food's effect description.
• We now check that a progress bar is actually active before trying to animate it.
• The "Overhead Name Fade Distance" slider is back, which allows you to control how far away something must be before its name disappears. The slider is in Settings > GUI > Overhead Labels.
• Modified XP bar animation when a skill levels up - it will now fade out instead of drain.
• There is a new contextual keybind for crafting: Use Current Recipe. It only works when the crafting window is open, and defaults to the X key.
• Crafting recipe hotkey is now part of the button itself instead of off to the side.
• Handled error when a child skill is obtained before its parent skill is.
• Fixed bug that sometimes caused "FAVOR LEVEL UP!" to stick around forever.
• Fixed bug that would break the chat window with some unclosed tags, E.G. by typing "Other Stuff
  
  • Removed the "Experimental Optimizations" check-box for now (because there are currently no experiments running).
  • Fixed some Exceptions that could cause memory leaks if an appearance fails to load.
  • Visually re-equip all weapons when a character leaves combat. Weapons will appear/disappear during combat to account for certain attacks (you can't pull a bow string back with your sword in hand, for instance), but they would often remain permanently invisible. They should now reset after combat.
  • Phrenology recipes no longer perform the "sit" animation.
  • Sped up some hammer animations, so the attacks land quicker.
  • Sped up "Fight Me You Fools" animation.
  • Revamped Animal Handling animations.
  • Revamped "ouch" animation (which plays when taking DoT).
  • Sped up Armor Patch & First Aid abilities, so their effects trigger sooner in the animation.
  • Effects with particles that don't last the entire duration will no longer re-show their particles after the initial display; previously they would display again every time a character's appearance changed, for example when you equipped a new piece of gear or mounted your horse.
  • Added particles to most teleport recipes.
  • Added particle effects to all distilling recipes.
  • Added particle effects to transmutation repair recipes.
  • Spirit foxes no longer float above the ground.
  • Improved appearance loading, which should reduce lag in Serbule related to the merchants loading in.
  • The MaxActiveLoads special setting now controls more of the appearance-loading code path, meaning that it has more effect. If you use this setting, you may want to remove it or change its value after this update, as the old values are probably not optimal for you anymore!
  • We now properly account for ingredient durability when crafting. If an item does not meet the ingredient durability requirement, it cannot be used. For example, you cannot use a Firkin with 10% durability remaining to make a cheese that requires 15% durability.
  • When summoning an ingredient, durability is now taken into account (when applicable). The lowest-durability item that still meets the ingredient requirement will be summoned first. If no items in storage meet the durability requirement, items with remaining durabilities lower than the requirement will be summoned. For example, if you have no Firkins with 15%+ durability, any Firkins with <15% durability will be summoned.
  • Stackable items can now be sent to mystic saddlebags even when the saddlebag inventory is full (as long as the item in question has enough room left in its stack)
  • There is a new NPC in Serbule Hills. Cleo Conyer is a newbie vendor in the Tapestry Inn. Cleo has one Favor quest at the moment.
  • Yurra the hag now shows up in front of the Serbule Hills newbie exit to give direction to newbies who escape the island via the caves.
  • Kalaba's quests now correctly reference "Crude Phlogiston" instead of "Rough Phlogiston".
  • The Serbule stage now counts toward the Halloween event, "Staged Death".
  • Fae Navy Shield now counts towards the Cell Matrix Repair requirement.
  • Some quests in the log that were missing NPC names now have them.
  • Shields can now be glamoured (into other shields).
  • We now set the correct levels of musical conch recipe results.
  • Fixed bug where playing your own music via instrument would prevent zone music from ever playing again.
  • Repeatedly messaging someone who is ignoring you will now return an error to inform you that you've been blocked.
  • Adjusted portal selection boxes so they are more reasonably sized.
  • A human's 'Current Community' can now increase beyond 100 if their Max Community is greater than 100. Previously, a bug prevented Current Community from going above 100.
  • Monsters that flee will no longer be considered fleeing when they return to their original position.
  • Fixed a problem with werewolf buffs expiring before the next full moon.
  • Fixed a bug on the item info panel: the list of vendors for an item is supposed to prioritize vendors in the current area, but didn't actually put them at the top of the list as intended.
  • Reduced barter price for Pitch Black Dyes on Orran to 15 Crafter's Guild Tokens (previously 20).
  • Added Orcish Steel and Orichalcum to the list of Orran barters.
  • Added The Fungal Fortress to the Civil Service event.
  • The Hardcore Altar in Gazluk now buffs +10% Max Health and damage (up from +5%)
  
  [ 2022-06-11 03:43:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a bug-fix update. The purpose is mainly to fix a UI bug when viewing alcohol casks, but we've also included some other fixes and changes that were ready to go. We've heard some reports of issues with golf balls occasionally "glitching" in various ways. We're still investigating these, and will fix them as soon as we can. If you have a reproducible situation that causes problems, please bug-report it!

Glamour Gourds in the Guild Shop

Other Changes/Fixes

• Alcohol items now show their effect information when examined.
• Fixed the start and goal beacons for holes 8 and 9 in Pennoc's Pennant.
• Rebalanced reward tiers for Pennoc's Pennant based on initial scoring this round. (This only affects the reward tiers you haven't received yet, of course.)
• Improved legibility of the recipe UI window.
• Fixed skill reward text-wrapping UI issue.
• In addition to Glamour Gourds (discussed above), you can also buy Portal Summoning Devices with Guild Credits (sold at any Guild Sign).
• Increased the cost of Extra-Gigantic Coin Sacks at the Guild Signposts. Cost increased from 2 to 4 Guild Credits.
• You can now occasionally find Live Event Credit Vouchers (worth 10 Live Event Credits) when playing the high-stakes match-3 game in the casino.
• Added a Portal Summoning Device for Fungal Fortress that is available through Riston and the Guild Sign.
• Fixed client bug that could cause items in your storage vault to display incorrectly if you clicked and dragged really fast.
• Riston now sells VIP Tokens, as well as Povus Teleportation Devices, for Live Event Credits.

Project: Gorgon is on sale for 50% off! We've been working hard to polish and improve the game, and now we want to share it with new players -- at a discount! If you're still on the fence about joining us, why don't you check out our free demo? The demo lets you play a BIG portion of the game, and your demo character will auto-upgrade to a real character when you buy the game. It's a great way to explore the breadth of content that PG has to offer. If you checked us out during Alpha but haven't been back since we started Beta, this is a great time to see what's changed. We've been smoothing out newbie game flow, removing irritants that frustrate players, improving general quality of life, and making the game's content more accessible, discoverable, and useful. Not to mention all the features and content that we've added recently, like horseback riding, animal husbandry, and a big new level 80+ outdoor zone. Just for extra fun, we've got some newbie-accessible events lined up for the next two weeks, including an Easter-themed bunny invasion, a golf tournament, and a risk-free chance to try out an animal form. See you in Alharth!

This is a quick patch to address some bugs in today's earlier update, including a fix for teleportation.

Kalaba Logic Fix:

Werewolf Fix:

Other Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: some recipes (including common Teleportation recipes) could not be used
• Fixed: some portals in Serbule Crypt had sunk into the ground
• Fixed: some title scrolls caused client errors when dropped on the ground

Continuing our focus on improvements for new players, this update makes some changes to Transmutation. We are also premiering our new glamour mechanics (which some other games call transmogrification). And we have exciting news - we're going on sale for half off!

Known Issues:

• Some recipes aren't able to be used right now, most notably certain teleportation recipes. We'll be fixing this in a client patch later this evening.

P:G is on Sale!

Transmutation

• Added a Transmutation table to Kalaba's work area in Eltibule.
• The Transmutation level requirement for "Distill Rare Magical Item (0-30)" is now 5 (instead of 10).
• The Transmutation level requirement for "Repair Transmutation Damage 1" is now 10 (instead of 5).
• We now allow transmuting when shield wax is on an item.
• Fixed a bug with the transmutation animation swipe not working correctly.
• Changed "power" to "enchantment" in the Transmutation window, for consistency.

Glamour Berries

• Any piece of armor can be glamoured to look like any other piece of armor that goes in the same equipment slot. Main-hand and off-hand items can be glamoured to look like similar items (e.g. you can glamour a sword to look like another sword, but not a hammer or a shield).
• Glamoured items can't be dyed (because glamours hide the original paint, so dyes wouldn't do anything).
• You can glamour a piece of gear as often as you like, as many times as you like.
• Glamouring the equipment doesn't attune the equipment; in fact, attunement doesn't affect glamouring at all.
• Glamours can be copied: if you glamour an item to look like another glamoured item, the new item will have the same glamour as the other item.
• If you glamour an item to look like something that is animal-only (such as Werewolf Armor), the glamour will only be active when worn in that animal form. It will look un-glamoured in other forms.
• We haven't yet implemented UN-glamouring, so the effect is very permanent! (But you can always apply a different glamour on the item.)

• Due to internal changes, certain "head gem" items, such as the Orbiting Gem, are no longer shown on your character when you're in an animal form -- they are only visible when you're a biped. The old behavior was accidental, but it was fun, so we expect to add new animal-specific floating gem items soon. Affected items are: Orbiting Gem, Rohina's Mind Gem, Monger's Boon, Ever-Hateful Jack O' Lantern, Ever-Glaring Jack O' Lantern, and Fae Navy Communicator.

Item Tooltips

• There's now a "short description" right underneath the item name that tries to point out the most important aspect(s) of the item. Some items do not have a short description.
• "Attributes", "Enchantments", "Augment" and "Shamanic Infusion" for equipment are now grouped together in a display that's easier to digest and (hopefully) makes the underlying mechanics more obvious.
• Augment rarity is now displayed in the tooltip.
• Augment tooltips now explicitly indicate the required rarity of the item it can be placed in.
• Dynamic stats (durability, doses, waxes, & craft points) are now more obvious when they show up.
• Added an indicator to tooltips for items that can be used, such as "Right-click to Drink".
• Shield short descriptions are now accurate (instead of "Level X OffHandShield").
• Crystal color now displays in the tooltip.

• When you raise the Tooltip Font Size to the higher ranges allowed by the slider, equipment tooltips don't fit on the screen well. We'll be working on this in future iterations.

UI Features and Bug-Fixes

• Added an "Always compare items?" setting under GUI/Features. This auto-compares items without having to hold the Alt key. Defaults to off.
• Added a purchase confirmation to player-vendor purchases. The amount over which the confirmation presents itself is set by the "Purchase Confirmation Amount" setting, under GUI/Other. Default is 10,000 councils.
• Active combat skill levels are now displayed on the bottom bar.
• Skill tree collapse states are now character-specific.
• Skills are now added to the Skills & Abilities window when you first earn XP in them, instead of when they first hit level 1.
• We now show skill levels in the skill list on the Skills & Abilities window.
• We now display your new skill level in the pop-up message when leveling up.
• Loot Mode is now displayed properly in the UI; previously it would reset every time you logged in.
• Monster info should no longer get cut off in the combat info window.
• Inventory items can be used via double-click while the Crafting window is open.
• We now account for XP mods when displaying the addition in the crafting XP bar.
• Sped up the minimum crafting repeat time from 2 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
• The "repeat" feature of the Crafting window now takes into account durability and consumption rate when calculating the max number of times you can repeat the recipe.
• The quest tracker respects the "Show Quest Tracker" setting again.
• Tracked quests are now saved properly.
• The quest log now displays the associated NPC's name in the list of quests.
• The chat channel of the current tab will now remember when it is switched via a command, such as '/p' or '/n'. So if you switch to another tab and then back, you will remain in that channel. This should reduce mistells.

Physics & Graphics

• The "High-Quality Anti-Aliasing" graphics option now uses a different anti-aliasing algorithm that doesn't cause as many visual artifacts. (The old one could cause a type of unintentional "motion blur".)
• We now properly set camera effects (vignetting, blur, etc.) when entering a new area.
• Fixed a bug that caused heavy framerate loss when certain static objects were selected in the world.
• Removed the "Overhead Name Fade Distance" setting for now, as it didn't actually do anything.
• The change in moving upward to falling during a jump is now smooth instead of instant. (The jump physics still isn't 100% realistic but it should look a little better now.)
• Added particles to Fire Shield ability to make it more obvious when the effect ends.
• Polished fairy Free-Flutter animation.
• Fixed several bed sleeping animations.
• Polished Brambleskin particles.
• Animated Crafting XP & NPC Favor bars.
• We now do better handling of your currently-selected entity's appearance changing (such as Vendor Fox coming out of its box).
• Fixed mounting/dismounting bug that would enable infinite jumping.
• Reduced lag, and fixed a bug that caused the screen brightness to change, when mounting the first time.
• Prevented ice fishing holes from falling through the ice or being un-clickable.
• We now only reduce selection box size when entities are behind the player. This should make things like large doors and trees easier to click on.

Other Changes

• Added keybinds for corpse actions, such as Autopsy, Bury, etc. They default to keys 1-6, and can overlap with non-corpse keys (such as ability keys). The corpse action keybinds are used only when the corpse window is open.
• Added a "Loot All" hotkey for corpses that defaults to Spacebar.
• Werewolf-altar buffs now last until the next Full Moon (instead of the next Waxing Gibbous Moon). Note: since this patch is happening DURING a full moon period, things are a little weird - if you logged in yesterday as a werewolf, your timer is currently set to end on the next Waxing Gibbous Moon. If you log in today or tomorrow, your timer will be updated so the buffs last until the next Full Moon.
• Werewolf's "Lunacy" buff ("You feel powerful.") now buffs Max Health +30% instead of +30.
• Fixed bug with treasure effect "Tundra Spikes deals +19% damage, gains +8 Accuracy, and lowers targets' Evasion by -16 for 20 seconds". The evasion debuff did not stack with itself (if you had this effect on two pieces of gear).
• Uncommon items in loot now glow green, but do not have an associated humming sound.
• Characters now have some control over their jumps while mid-air (e.g. jumping with no momentum and then moving forward).
• Higher-level poisoned blades can now be used for lower-level Poison Knife abilities.
• Loot bonus related Words of Power now last 1 hour instead of 15 minutes.
• Dead pets can now always be interacted with.
• Enemies can no longer sink into the floor.
• Corpses of sheep and floating skulls can now be walked through.
• Fix typo in Spider Speed effect.
• Sarina, the enslaved fairy in the Goblin Dungeon, no longer just pretends she is leaving after you free her. She now uses a nearby teleporter to leave. It's also now possible for multiple players to finish the quest by talking to her as she leaves (or before she leaves) rather than having to re-kill the goblin boss.
• You can now loot fruit trees even if your inventory is full (in which case your inventory will become overflowing). You cannot loot fruit trees when your inventory is overflowing.
• Bone Meal can now be stored in gardening-related storages.
• Work Orders for Healing Potion Omegas are now correctly labeled Mycology instead of Alchemy.
• Work Orders for werewolf armors are now correctly labeled Armorsmithing instead of Blacksmithing.
• Cloth enhancements now require a tanning rack.
• Changed references to "Enhancement Points" to "Craft Points" for consistency. "Craft Points" is shorter and thus easier to display in the UI.
• Changed Serpentine to an Orange Crystal instead of Orange + Green.
• Hiral now gives juices at each favor level-up.
• Added durations to pineal juice descriptions.
• Torches in Eltibule now turn off when they're not lit.

This is a minor bug-fix update to fix issues with our latest major update.

• Fix problems with projectiles that persist after monster death
• Reverted unintentional lighting change that made certain dungeons extra dark (including "under the model home" and "Dark Chapel" dungeons)
• Fixed treasure effect "Nip boosts the damage of Basic, Core, and Nice attacks +X for 6 seconds" which actually buffed the enemy, not the attacker
• Item prompt now only shows when appropriate for NPCs
• Fix floating barrels in Goblin Dungeon
• Stop auto-running when using an ability on an enemy
• Fix minor padding issue in crafting window ingredients

In this update we've done a ton of polishing and bug-fixing, and we have some new content for the Eltibule region.

Eltibule Content

UI

• Polished all of the main UI windows to have consistent header fonts, colors & sizing.
• Organized the GUI/Features settings with headings.
• Augment sub-skills now show up under the "Augmentation" umbrella skill in the Skills & Abilities window.
• Fixed an issue with Skills being displayed in a weird order in the Skills and Abilities window.
• Repeated searches within the Skills & Abilities window will no longer mess up Skill name padding.
• Reunited Toxic Flesh 9 with its friends Toxic Flesh 1-8 in the Special Abilities window.
• Mushroom Farming max grow-box bonus is now displayed in the Skills and Abilities window.
• Set correct error message for abilities whose parent skills are not high enough level, most notably when Fairy Magic is higher level than Mentalism.
• The right-click hotbar submenu "Change Skill" will now display in 2 columns when you have 25+ combat skills. This prevents the list from going off the screen.
• Tightened the display of the right-click submenu that displays list of combat skills.
• The Crafting window now has an XP bar, displays the associated skill under the recipe name, and has a star icon to quickly favorite the selected recipe.
• Clicking an item while the crafting window is open will now place that item into any applicable ingredient slots.
• Attempting to craft with an ingredient in storage will now show an accurate error.
• Improved algorithm for single-clicking an inventory item with the crafting window open:
  • If there are multiple ingredient slots, it will no longer swap them and will instead fill successive slots.
  • If there is a single ingredient slot, it will swap any existing ingredient in the slot.
• Empty stable slots now have a custom UI that is more descriptive.
• The mount preview window should no longer be black.
• Polished pet UI, including highlighting the currently-selected mode (Assist, Guard, etc.).
• Added a new setting, "Automatically show pet UI?" under GUI/Features, which auto-shows the pet UI when a pet is summoned. Defaults to true.
• Added an option "Close mount window after action?" to prevent mount window from closing after performing an action.
• Properly resize Dismount button text.
• Mount anxiety bar now changes from green to red as anxiety increases.
• Added Riding to list of toggleable shop skills.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from toggling off Riding skill when using the shop search golem (if you first talked to the golem while on a mount).
• General polish of the transmutation window.
• Transmutation now always uses the new transmutation window.
• Polished the Quest Tracker a bit.
• Added an icon to quest list headers when one of their quests is completed. (It's a little green dot.)
• Tracked quests can now be right-clicked to view the Quest details or untrack the quest.
• Allowed locking of the hotbar from the right-click menu of the ability icons.
• Sidebar is no longer movable when attached to the main hotbar.
• The minimap now starts at the correct location when changing zones.
• The second floor map of Gazluk Keep now uses the correct map pins.
• The item comparison tooltip now properly disappears when the compare key isn't held in, and the equipped item in the comparison is more obvious. (It has an "Equipped" label.)
• Chat bubbles & selection boxes for yourself should no longer be jittery.
• Scaled down selection boxes for large rabbits, so they stay more-or-less centered on the rabbit itself instead of hovering over its head.
• We now update a selected target's description in real-time (if, for instance, someone's title changes while you have them selected).
• Monster name colors now update properly when the monster dies.
• The monster Rage-Full indicator (in Combat Info) now only displays on attacks that actually require full Rage.
• Removed blue power bars from above target heads.
• Polished favor bar in the NPC interaction window.
• Julius Patton's favor increase text now lines up properly with his storage unlock.
• Moved the effect icon for "background downloading" to the end of the effects list, and only show it when background downloads are active for more than half a second. This should prevent pop-in of the icon repeatedly, which shifted the rest of the effects icons.
• Float item pickups to the correct place when they go into a different inventory pack than is currently selected.

Graphics & Animation

• Added a new "Gather" animation for collecting fruit from trees/bushes.
• The transmutation animation is now quicker, and can be skipped via clicking on it.
• Changed animation for all fae recipes.
• Fixed fairy swim animation.
• Fairies should continue looking like they're floating when using most emotes.
• New pickup animation for rabbits.
• Revamped Knife Fighting animations.
• We now correctly orient knives during stab animations.
• Add particle effects to bard songs that last as long as the song is active.
• Improved mount ability animations.
• Add particle effects to mount abilities.
• Reset horse state completely when swapping between mounted & unmounted.
• When mounting, the camera now raises so your head is still in the same position on the screen.
• Polished spawn premonition particles.
• Eltibule: replaced legacy Unity trees with speedtree trees to fix problems with LODs. (The actual tree choices are still a work in progress, but good enough for now.)
• Eltibule: fixed LOD on "casino castle" (the facade entrance to casino).
• Removed advanced graphics setting for "Tilt Shift". (It hasn't actually done anything for a long time.)
• Added advanced graphics setting for "High-Quality Anti-Aliasing". Previously this was always enabled when you set the graphics quality to "Great" or higher. (And that's still the default, but now you can override it.)
• Added two new graphics settings:
  • There's a new Advanced Graphics Setting for "Torch Flicker". This is on by default for "Great" or higher graphics settings. It's a relatively inexpensive graphical flourish.
  • There's a new Advanced Graphics Setting for "More Lightsource Shadows". This causes some torches and fires to cast dynamic shadows. This is a MUCH more expensive graphical flourish, but it looks neat in the goblin dungeon. This feature is off by default for all quality settings (even Ultra).
• Fixed camera reversal when entering Serbule sewers via the lake.

Abilities and Treasure Effects

• "Headbutt and Knee Kick Damage +X" now correctly applies to Headbutt instead of Barrage (and still applies to Knee Kick, of course).
• "Provoke Undead deals extra damage" will no longer do double the specified damage to the minions.
• "Basic Attacks restore X Power" now properly restores the power.
• "Trick Foxes have +X Max Health and +X Max Armor" now properly gain the specified Max Armor instead of a Taunt boost.
• "Ridicule taunts and causes target's next attack to miss" now applies the chance to miss to the target instead of the caster.
• "Spirit Pounce hits all enemies within 6 meters" now displays in the ability tooltip.
• Fixed the icons for various treasure effects.
• Elemental Ward's darkness and trauma mitigation effects will no longer display if they aren't active.
• Bulwark Mode's health & armor leech effects will no longer show up in the effects list.
• The treasure mod for System Shock's DoT now correctly reports the DoT damage type as Psychic instead of Trauma.
• The armor ability from Gazluk War Wizard Armor ("War Wizard's Battle Cry") now has a reset time of 180 secs and restores 300 power.
• The armor ability from Gazluk Death Trooper Armor ("Death Trooper's Battle Cry") now restores 350 armor as well as 350 health.
• Attempts to transmute a mod with no possible replacements will now be prevented.
• Endurance mods will now show up on crafted gear as intended, and can be extracted.
• Endurance mods can now be transmuted into generic mods.
• One of the treasure effects that gives small +Armor bonuses previously had no requirements and now has endurance-level requirements.

Other Bug Fixes

• Toned down the rate of XP decay in Povus (until there are more high-level players to work on it).
• We now put abilities on cooldown immediately, and refund cooldown if you are stunned before ability goes off.
• Reverted an old change to in-combat fly costs. The earlier change raised flight costs exponentially the longer you were flying, which definitely did fix the exploit we were trying to fix, but took away a lot of the fun of being a fairy. (Now the cost is still not cheap, but it increases linearly instead of exponentially.)
• Fixed a bug that caused pets to reduce the total XP value of monsters they fought.
• Fixed a bug that caused Saddlery skill to give permanent health/power bonuses for leveling it up.
• Fixed bug that prevented you from earning Riding XP if your bonus synergy levels put you over the level cap.
• All effects that require a specific active ability will now persist while mounted, such as Summoned Skeletons, Battle Chemistry buffs, etc. The only exception is Bulwark Mode, which will be dispelled as normal.
• Fixed an issue with mounting/unmounting in water sometimes not updating your speed correctly.
• Humanoid illusions can now ride mounts (including some skeletons).
• Banana & Guava trees now have 3 of their respective fruits.
• Add bananas to banana tree models.
• When a tree has no fruit but still has wood, its name now changes to "Harvested Tree" to denote the change.
• Guava trees now yield Maple Wood when they run out of fruit.
• Banana trees now yield Cedar Wood when they run out of fruit. (What, you've never heard of banana cedars?)
• Made it clearer which foods and effects are meals vs snacks.
• Recalling to the underwater teleport circle in Sun Vale will no longer teleport you to the circle near the druids.
• Fixed Carpal Tunnel chairs that were embedded in the ground.
• Fixed errors for some golems in newbie caves.
• Filled in the mini-pools in the caves in Gazluk, making them shallower to prevent exploitability.
• Kur beds can now be slept in properly.
• Fixed a bug that caused the server to think you were floating when you first enter a new area (until you move). This could lead to messages like "You can only do that when standing on the ground" when trying to drop items, and cause your mount to generate anxiety (because it thought it was flying).
• Newly spawned entities will place themselves on the ground quicker.
• You now stop auto-running after interacting with something that is too far away. This would cause problems when interacting with things while mounted.
• Added a lore note in the tomb of James Eltibule I.
• Replaced the lore note for James II (found in a secret place in Eltibule). Note that this text canonically replaces the original lore.
• Misc. lore cleanup; notably, moved the text of "Sedgewick's Journal" from a static entity into a lorebook file.
• Fixed yet more references to "Davlos". (It should be Dalvos.)
• Roshun the Traitor's favor should no longer reset for fae.
• Nelson Ballard's small talk is more accurate (to indicate that he accepts all Carpentry items, not just hand-made ones).
• Glajur should now teach everyone Phrenology, unless you have both the skill and the research recipe for each individual phrenology.
• Irkima will now offer a hangout if you've finished Probing Tavilak's History.
• Added a new favor to Jesina in Eltibule which is automatically given to "scary" animal players. After completing this quest, you can interact with her normally.
• Game client now retries Steam authentication if the first attempt fails for any reason. (If the second attempt also fails, we show an error message like before.)
• Added a new redemption package for our 4th Anniversary on Steam. Redemption will run Mar 11 - Apr 30.

This is a bug-fix update. Here are the fixes:

• Fixed bug causing some entities to be invisible and some particle effects to be permanent
• Fixed issue that prevented monsters from fully loading, causing a permanent loading screen
• Prevent placing a saddlebag inside of itself
• Put an ability on cooldown only when the ability successfully completes
• Added crossbow mods back to crossbows. This also fixes crossbows thinking they are legacy because they have crossbow mods on them
• Fairies now sit on horses properly
• Fixed the avatar pictures on the login-screen & persona window when character is on horseback
• Elevation changes while flying are now smooth when Camera Vertical Smoothing is turned on
• Remove duplicate "Read more about V.I.P." buttons from UI
• Bring horse to a full stop before interacting with an object after moving via right-click (and bring the horse to a stop quicker). This fixes the issue with the player attempting to collect something with a delay but not actually collecting the thing
• Forbid mounting/dismounting while performing an attack. This should prevent some edge-casey bugs that prevent you from using abilities
• Toggle saddlebag window instead of showing it every time the button is clicked
• Show floaties again for DoTs on self
• Properly dismount horse when un-mounted due to a DoT
• Change "Mount Anxiety Cost -20" to "Mount Anxiety -20" for horse calming abilities
• the Riding skill gives bonus Max Health and Max Power when active
• Mount doesn't gain or lose anxiety while the client is still showing the loading screen

This update introduces mounts! There are also a LOT of new user-interface features. Read the "UI Improvements" section carefully, it's full of useful stuff!

Mounts

• You can purchase a horse from a trainer in Hogan's Keep, Eltibule. The total cost is 6000 councils. You'll also need an empty stable slot to store the horse.
• All players who log in this month can redeem a pack of basic horse tack. Click the redemptions button at the bottom of the Persona window.
• There is also a new crafting skill that lets you create better tack. The trainer is in Amulna and the skill requires Leatherworking 50 to learn.
• Players in an animal form can't ride horses. However, they can access the saddlebag even when not on the mount, so there's still some benefit. (Animal forms will eventually have a travel mode, but we haven't decided how it will work yet.)
• We've talked in the past about revising how "sprint gear" works, and we still intend to do that, but not until mounts are more thoroughly tested. For now, there are no changes to how gear works.
• You can access your saddlebag while on your mount, and you can also access it while NOT on your mount, as long as you're in an area where you could theoretically ride the mount. (In other words, you can't access your saddlebag in dungeons.) The Red Wing Casino is a special case: even though you can't ride a mount there, you can still access your saddlebag.
• If you have a backer package that includes a horse, basic riding skill, and a saddlebag, you can now redeem that feature. Click the redemptions button at the bottom of the Persona window. NOTE: horses require a stable slot. If you don't see the redemption, make sure you have an open stable slot!
• If you have the "Thoroughbred Breeder" package, those horses are not yet available -- they'll be added when horse genetics are in. You can safely redeem the free horse+riding skill+saddlebag now; you'll get the two "breeder" horses at a later date.

UI Improvements

• Added a new window for cosmetic pets, accessible via a button in the Persona window. Pets are summonable from the window directly or can be placed on the sidebar like before. All cosmetic pets have been moved here from the Skills & Abilities window.
• Added a "Hotbar Layout" option for attaching the sidebar to the main hotbar, which turns it horizontal and places it underneath the active skills hotbar. You can access this in Settings, under GUI/Features, or by right-click the sidebar and selecting "Attach to Hotbar", or "Detach from Hotbar" when attached.
• Added the setting "Camera Vertical Smoothing" under Controls in the Settings window. This causes the camera to smoothly follow the player vertically instead of being directly tied to them. Enabled by default.
• Added options to individually lock most HUD elements, either by right-clicking on the window's titlebar or by clicking a lock icon. To enable the lock icons, go to Settings->GUI->Features and check the "Show GUI Locks?" option.
• Added confirmation to stable slot purchasing.
• The Transmutaion window has been redesigned. Due to its complexity, we'd like your help testing it! When you use an item workbench, you can choose between the old and new interface. Please try out the new interface first. We're leaving the old one available in case there are bugs. (Both interfaces use the same server-side transmutation code "under the hood"; only the interfaces are different.)
• The "Hide Known Recipes" toggle is no longer displayed when the Sell tab is selected.
• Added a hotkey in Settings, under Keys, that bypasses players and pets when clicking, titled "Hold to Bypass Clicking Players & Pets". For example, while holding this key you can click on a player who is blocking your view of a corpse and select the corpse, not the player.
• When a party member dies, the party status window should now display the text "DEAD" in all of the attribute rows, rather than 0's or, worse, incorrect non-0 values.
• Added a search bar to Special Abilities in Skills & Abilities window.
• Added a news ticker of player activity to the login screen.
• The skills window now lists previously-earned skill rewards under the list of upcoming rewards.
• There's a new hotkeys to summon your mount. It defaults to Shift+NumLock. (The Auto-Run key defaults to NumLock, so you can press Shift+NumLock, then NumLock, to start traveling.)
• There's a new hotkey to view your saddlebag. (It doesn't have a key by default.)

Animations & Graphics

• We now take animations into account when attempting to queue an ability. E.G. When summoning a pet and then queueing up another ability, the summoned pet animation will finish (thus actually summoning the pet) before firing the queued ability.
• Polished all Necromancy animations and particle effects.
• Sped up animation and removed the movement slowdown for Dig Deep & Push Onward.
• Slightly sped up animations for First Aid and Patch Armor.
• Improved Fae Bee attack animations.
• Fixed a bug with players not standing back up after dying.
• When initiating flying mid-jump, the jump will properly be canceled and the character can no longer fly sideways/diagonally.
• We now delay shooting of some archery projectiles until the proper moment; they were shooting right away.
• Fixed LOD issues with buildings and some terrain objects in Rahu.
• Adjusted camera settings and draw distances in Eltibule to reduce the horrendous pop-in. This change may impact performance for some users on low-end machines, but hopefully not too badly!

VIP Changes

• We've cleaned up the half-assed VIP panel in the settings window. It now explains what VIP is, and has a link to the Steam store page for non-VIPs that may want VIP.
• Most of the features under the VIP section now actually require VIP. The exception is basic chat logging, which will remain permanently available to everyone. The option is still in the VIP section, labeled as a "VIP preview feature". Note that combat logging does require VIP.
• Added new combat logging options, including ways to log indirect damage and healing amounts. (These options show the raw damage/healing amounts, but it's not always easy to tell which ability caused which indirect damage/healing. This is something we want to show in the logs, but it will require some rearchitecting. So this is an incremental improvement.)
• VIP members who log in during Jan 25 - Feb 28 can redeem a February VIP gift package: a Sturdy Music Box.
• New permanent VIP benefit: VIP players gain +15 saddlebag slots.

Favor Fixes

• We realized that many NPCs did not have their target level set in data, effectively making them level 0 NPCs. This made them more receptive to gifts than intended. We've fixed these NPCs, and as a result they will give somewhat less favor for gifts. (This is a bug-fix, not an overall balance change. We're fixing bugs in preparation for balance work.) Affected NPCs include:
  • Gorvessa in Hogan's Basement
  • Yalox in the Goblin Dungeon
  • Glajur in Kur Tower
  • Percy in Eltibule
  • Sem in Snowblood Shadow Cave
  • Rubi and Cassie in the Warden Cave
  • Laura Neth in Kur Mountains
  • Ratuk the Thinker in Kur Mountains
  • Mope in Povus
  • Hirochi in Rahu
  • Ichin in Rahu
  • Wintria Irasca in Rahu
  • Silvia in Sun Vale
• Several NPCs who said they liked "Magical Equipment with Skill X prereq" actually liked anything with that skill prereq, including textbooks. Now they only like actual magical (i.e. loot and crafted) equipment. Those NPCs are:
  • Alravesa in Ilmari(Archery)
  • Falkrin Overstrike in Ilmari (Hammer)
  • Sand Seer in Ilmari (Fire Magic)
  • Sugar in the Warden Cave (Deer)
  • Leah Bowman in Povus (Animal Handling)
  • Ashk in Rahu (Mentalism)
  • Lady Windsong in Rahu (Druid)
  • Jumper in Sun Vale (Deer)
  • Raul in Sun Vale (Cow)
  • Silvia in Sun Vale (Druid)
• Crafted belts and buckles now count as 'magical equipment' for favor gifting.
• For the purpose of gifting favor only, textbooks now cap how much an NPC will value them. This does not affect their actual Council value, just how much favor an NPC will give for the gift.

Mount-Related AI Changes

We've made some small changes to how monsters react to players when they are on a horse. We'll be refining these ideas in the future.
• While you are mounted, melee-centric monsters have 33% reduced player-detection radius. (They still respond to help shouts at the same distance, however.)
• While you are mounted and not in-combat, melee-centric monsters ignore your out-of-combat pets. (But ranged attackers will still shoot at pets, which will bring the pets into combat. And then melee monsters will notice it! So best not to rely on this overmuch.)

Other Changes

• When mining in Povus, there was a chance to receive the message "You didn't find anything valuable that time, but you can still try again." This seemed like a failed skill-check to players, but it was actually just random. We've replaced this with an equivalent change to mine very-low-value items (such as Pebbles and Flint). This way it's clear that you haven't failed at anything, you just have more mining to do. (The total number of high-value items in each node is unchanged.)
• Items with shamanic infusions on them should now be transmutable. The infusions also show up differently in the UI with the new transmute window.
• Crossbows mods will no longer appear on non-crossbow off-hand items.
• We now prevent right-click movement when dead.
• Bulwark Mode is now fully dispelled on death. (Previously a few side effects of it would stick around.)
• Chat logs now include timezone offset when you login to the game (to aid automated tools).
• Fixed Amutasa's broken "Install Augment" option when your favor level is too low to augment.
• You no longer stop auto-running when using an ability without a channeling time. This functionality can be re-enabled via the "Always Stop Auto-Moving when Using an Ability" option in the Settings window under Controls. Note: You WILL stop auto-running if you use an ability outside of its range and have Auto-Move to Attack turned on.
• Added collision to the gates in Rahu.
• Fixed the MacHack3 special setting so that it works more reliably: you no longer have to re-apply it whenever switching areas.
• Removed MacHack1 and MacHack2 special settings because they didn't actually help Mac users fix the visual problem. You can now just type MacHack instead of MacHack3 in the special settings. (Although MacHack3 continues to work.)

In celebration of the new year and the outstanding level of support we have received from the PG community, we want everyone to start off the new year with a little something in their pockets! So, for ONE DAY ONLY (Jan 1), we have turned on a whole bunch of our special event buffs and cranked them to max, including double combat and crafting XP!!! These buffs will turn off at midnight server time (US EST), so get out there and grind it up while you can! Enjoy the super buffs and we thank you again for playing and supporting Project: Gorgon! Happy New Year!

New Dungeon

Ri-Shin Event Changes

• Povus now has a Ri-Shin tree to set up; speak with Leah Bowman for more information.
• There is a small chance to receive a Live Event Credit when opening a Ri-Shin tree present.
• Tweaked the Ri-Shin Shrine event in various ways, changing the required item amounts, adjusting buff effects, and adding a small chance to receive a bonus Live Event Token each time you receive a Ri-Shin Token from Snowleaf.

Combat Changes

• The basic effect of Sword items has been recalculated. Weapons that boosted "Sword Base Damage" now boost "Sword Damage" (to different amounts). This is a buff to high level sword damage.
• The basic effect of Dagger and Dirk items has been recalculated. Weapons that boosted "Knife Base Damage" now boost "Knife Damage" (to different amounts). This is a buff to high level knife damage, especially dual-wielding damage.
• Fixed brewing buffs that are supposed to buff damage versus a specific anatomy group (e.g. Bears). (Previously they did nothing.)
• Fixed brewing buffs that are supposed to buff Burst damage vs. Elites. (Previously they incorrectly boosted Melee damage.)
• Revised brewing buffs that were intended to buff Projectile damage vs. Elites; they now buff Ranged damage. (Previously they incorrectly boosted Melee damage.)
• Fixed ability "Toxic Irritant" not applying certain buffs/debuffs.
• Fixed minigolems' "Taunting Punch" not applying certain buffs/debuffs.
• Fixed pet rats' "Rat Burn" Special Trick not applying certain buffs/debuffs.
• Fixed the Problem Spider's curse.
• Fixed treasure effects that make Pixie Flare deal bonus damage vs. Demons.

Other Changes

• Items with only generic mods should extract properly now.
• Sunstone & Goshenite will now properly extract generic augments.
• Brought back the "Genes" window at stables.
• Stable pet previews should now always show.
• Persona window preview should now properly display at all times.
• Fae now float in the character select screen & persona window.
• Improved how effects line up with the attack animations.
• Polished & sped up hammer animations.
• Mushroom Box use level requirement changed from 0 to 1.
• Corrected tutorial text after researching your first fire magic spell. (The UI has changed since it was originally written.)
• Fixed typo in foods (mitigatation -> mitigation).
• Summon the correct skeleton with Free-Summon Skeletal Archer 6.
• Elite members of the "Evil Carnivore" gang (seen during a Povus invasion) now correctly have group loot instead of solo loot.

Bonus Levels

• Animal Handling: Fishing 42, Skinning 15, Feline Anatomy 19, Bear Anatomy 29, Animal Husbandry 25, Animal Husbandry 50, Animal Husbandry 75, Rodent Anatomy 19, Rodent Anatomy 39
• Archery: Meditation 25, Human Anatomy 19, Crossbow 25, Crossbow 50, Crossbow 75
• Armor Patching: Armorsmithing 15, Armorsmithing 45, Armorsmithing 70
• Bard: Art History 15, Art History 45, Poetry Appreciation 35
• Battle Chemistry: Mycology 30, Cooking 55, Iocaine Resistance 30
• Cow: Unarmed 27, Gardening 51, Gourmand 25, Foraging 26
• Crossbow: Fletching 21, Fletching 34, Fletching 53, Archery 32, Archery 58, Gadgeteering 15, Gadgeteering 45
• Deer: Unarmed 16, Psychology 17, Ruminant Anatomy 17, Cow 26
• Druid: Mycology 45, Rabbit 42, Pig 48, Nature Appreciation 38, Nature Appreciation 65
• Fairy Magic: Fae Anatomy 49
• Fire Magic: Battle Chemistry 20, Battle Chemistry 40, Armorsmithing 28
• First Aid: Priest 15, Priest 45, Compassion 15, Compassion 42, Phrenology 10, Druid 29
• Giant Bat: Animal Handling 46, Necromancy 55, Bard 40
• Ice Magic: Fire Magic 28, Fire Magic 39, Fire Magic 65, Armor Patching 55, Meditation 30, Battle Chemistry 30, Battle Chemistry 55
• Hammer: Unarmed 26, Mining 65
• Necromancy: Undead Anatomy 19, Undead Anatomy 49, Incorporeal Creature Anatomy 26, Spirit Fox 29, Paleontology 24, Paleontology 49
• Pig: Mycology 65
• Priest: First Aid 45, Pig 55
• Rabbit: Unarmed 10, Unarmed 38, Gardening 25, Gardening 53, Gourmand 30, Foraging 28, Deer 16, Animal Handling 28
• Shield: Armorsmithing 48
• Sigil Scripting: Calligraphy 10, Calligraphy 30, Calligraphy 45, Calligraphy 60, Battle Chemistry 11
• Spider: Psychology 19, Psychology 46, Arthropod Anatomy 13, Textiles 34
• Spirit Fox: Unarmed 49, Fishing 37, Gourmand 35, Psychology 51, Myconic 40, Foraging 47, Mentalism 30, Canine Anatomy 23, Fae Anatomy 29, Incorporeal Creature Anatomy 49
• Staff: Sword 42
• Unarmed: Staff 60
• Werewolf: Skinning 35, Canine Anatomy 19, Canine Anatomy 47, Butchering 34, Giant Bat 25, Animal Handling 60

It's time for Alharth's holiday season! All the townsfolk that you've befriended (meaning you have Friends favor-level or higher) will have gifts for you when you speak to them. Make sure to have your favorite combat skills active, because if they give you equipment, it will likely be tailored to those skills. The human celebration of Ri-Shin is also in full force, and townsfolk in every town and settlement [except Povus] need your help setting up their Ri-Shin trees! Look for townsfolk wearing a red festive Ri-Shin hat. There are trees to set up in Serbule, Serbule Hills, Eltibule, Kur, Gazluk, Ilmari, Rahu, the Fae Realm, Sun Vale, and Red Wing Casino. We've actually been working on a different Christmas present for our long-term players, a new level 85 group dungeon, but it's not quite ready yet! We'll do another update next week to introduce the new dungeon. In the mean time, if you have a high-level character, you may want to make sure you are Friends with Mope in Povus. (Oh, and Povus doesn't have a Ri-Shin tree yet, but will get one in next week's update!)

A Holiday Gift

UI

• There is a new vendor filter: "Hide Known Recipes".
• You now auto-select the number box when splitting a stack, to allow quicker precise splits.
• Tooltips for the sidebar buttons (like the Inventory button) will now show the keyboard shortcut for that button (if any is assigned).
• You can more easily clear out social statuses ("Who's Online" status and "Friends" quote).
• Fixed bug where cancelling a confirmation window would accidentally confirm it instead. This could happen if, for instance, you quickly clicked "Erase This Loadout" twice in a row and then chose to cancel.
• The first time you open the recipe window from a world object (like a fire) in a play session, it will now start recipes at the top of the window instead of in the middle.

Animations

• Skeletons can now perform emotes and sit in chairs!
• Accounted for latency when performing attacks, so they should now line up better with animations on clients.
• Polished animations such as First Aid, Armor Patch, Dig Deep, & Push Onward.
• Sped up a few animations used by buffing abilities and made them able to be used while moving.
• Made pickup & eat corpse animations more responsive. (You can move more quickly after performing the animation.)
• Sped up dig animation, and use it when burying a corpse.
• Players are now placed into beds more appropriately.

Other

• Bulwark Mode must now be kept on a hotbar in order to be sustained.
• You can no longer earn combat XP for "fake" auxiliary skills (like performing a song right before murdering a monster to get Stringed Performance XP from the kill). This was considered an exploit and is not the normal way to earn XP for these skills.
• Cheese casks & brewing barrels should no longer get stuck in walls.
• We now properly change your active skill on your first polymorph. For example, the first time Ciervos turns you into a Deer you will reliably activate the deer skill.
• Dead humanoids no longer have collisions (after being un-targeted).
• Removed duplicate descriptions from food items.
• Fixed description of cranberry sauces in their recipes. (Snacks -> Meals)
• Fixed Spicy Fried Tofu Cubes recipe typo. (Feeds two -> Feeds three)
• Made bed on Ivyn's farm (in Serbule) more easily usable.
• Renamed Cat Anatomy Decoction to Feline Anatomy Decoction.
• Ability "Spade Assault" now gains damage bonuses from gear that boosts Kick or Front Kick damage
• Higher tiers of "Spade Assault" have a higher chance of the shovel breaking (going from 5% to 7%)
• If you are Comfortable or better with Mope, you can stand at the base of the giant mushroom and say "Mope, Up!" in local chat. If you then stand still (and out of combat) for a few seconds, Mope will teleport you to him. (This is something he now tells you when you reach Comfortable favor-level, but if you've already reached Comfortable before today... well, it's a good thing you read the patch notes.)
• Adjusted the buffs from the [spoiler]Ri-Shin pool in Kur[/spoiler] so that they last 90 minutes instead of 60, but can only be received once per day. Hopefully this makes them more useful without being too overpowered.

Happy Thanksgiving! It's harvest season in Alharth and you know what that means: turkeys are hiding in all the bushes, and there's classic fall foods to eat. High-level crafters should visit Ricatu in Povus to learn to craft some new kinds of food! We also have many fixes and improvements for you. Are you on a new Mac? Is the screen opaque? Scroll down to "MacOS Visual Fog Bug" below.

Povus

• Povus ratkin drop more cheese mold, especially root-tenders and miners.
• Povus nightly quest "Undead Surprise" has been revised.
• Povus nightly quest "Warmaster Brukal" more reliably has the necessary elite orcs.
• Fixed Povus buildings that could have frogs spawn trapped inside the ceiling.

UI

• There are two new chat commands to let you see login screen information while you are in-game: /events will display upcoming events, and /news will display login news.
• Improved the clarity of genetic-info tooltips in the genome-view window:
  • H, S, and V are now shown as "hue", "saturation", or "intensity".
  • If both the dominant and recessive behaviors boost the same attribute (but to different amounts), only the more potent behavior is listed.
• VIP players now see a "Save" button on the Genome View window. This saves the genome as a .txt file in the user's "reports" folder. (The format is subject to change based on your feedback, so let us know what you'd like to see here!)
• Abilities in the Skills and Abilities window that are different levels of the same ability will now sort correctly. For example, Blocking Stance 5 no longer sorts before Blocking Stance 4.
• Sub-skills are now sorted alphabetically in the Skills and Abilities window.
• Recipes that share cooldown timers, such as Mushroom Recall and Mushroom Un-Recall, will now all display the appropriate timer in their recipe.
• Closing the corpse window too quickly after performing an action will no longer cause the loot window to pop right back up again.
• The show/hide effects UI is now handled properly when player doesn't have sufficient anatomy skill level.
• It's possible to drag the "NPC talk" window far enough left on your screen that the left-side menu doesn't show. New players often do this by mistake because the first few NPCs they talk to have no side-menu. Later when they're talking to NPCs with side-menus, they have no idea what they're missing. To fix this, the left-side menu on an NPC's talk window is now prevented from going off the left side of the screen. (If you really want to drag the sidebar off-screen for whatever reason, you can use special setting, AllowSideMenusOffScreen.)

New Tab-Targeting Option

Other

• Knockdowns are considered stuns for purposes of dispelling them. This applies to both player and monster knockdowns.
• Fixed a bug with NPC_Errruka that prevented some dye recipes from showing up in her barters.
• "Analyze Arthropod Genes" ability was incorrectly making a skill-check against the Arthropod Anatomy skill instead of the Arthropod Genetics skill.
• "Proclamation" note in Serbule is targetable again.
• You can no longer sit in a chair that you are already sitting in.
• All instances of the name "Davlos" should now correctly use "Dalvos" instead. Just for you, Beta Notus!
• Some archery abilities were missing the text "(or better)".
• Many typos have been fixed.
• New bandwidth improvements to networking protocol. This will not be detectable during gameplay except to players with VERY poor networks -- it's mainly intended as a feature for players on metered or limited bandwidth, so that the game uses less bandwidth overall.

Food Tweaks

MacOS Visual "Fog" Bug

We're back with another update! This one's a little earlier than expected because we wanted to fix a Halloween-event bug (the quest "Skeleton Dance?"). The Halloween event will run for another week or so, into November, so there's still plenty of time to finish the quest lines! But this isn't just a bug-fix update -- there's also major changes to the Povus nightly quest system, plus a new UI feature.

Povus - New Feature: "Bonus" Nights

Povus - New Feature: Armor Shipments

Povus - New Feature: Capstone Quest

Povus - New Feature: Town Storage

Povus: Other Changes

• Increased the number of players needed to start Povus nightly quest stages. Tiers previously required 1,2,3,4,5,6 players; now require 2,3,4,6,9,12 players. This should better match the actual quest requirements.
• Fashnagar the Prognosticator's post-bath prognostications now have a kernel of truth: many of his lines now accurately hint at how soon the next Bonus Quest Reward night is coming. (Previously they were entirely random.)
• Made sure enough Invincible Ratkin Skeletons spawn for the quest "Bone War!"
• Fixed the spawn rate of Enchanted Mega-Scrays during quest "Povus Safety: Ranalon Assault"
• Reduced the kill-requirements of most higher-tier Povus quests a little bit (e.g. kill 35 flapskulls instead of 40)
• The second-highest-tier Povus nightly quests now earn the town 200 XP instead of 100
• The highest-tier Povus nightly quests now earn the town 300 XP instead of 100

UI Improvement: See Active Buffs on Targets/Party Members

Other Changes

• Fixed a bug that caused Spawn Premonitions to be permanent, instead of having a 5% chance to dispel on death as intended. As part of this fix, all existing spawn premonitions were erased, so you will need to reapply them!
• Also reduced the 3-second universal spawn premonition to a 2-second premonition, and the 5-second universal premonition to 4-second
• Summoned deer are now correctly unsummoned when player leaves Deer form
• Frostbite & Rib Shatter stuns now remove Ghosts' nigh-invulnerability
• Now treat /em custom emotes as chat messages, so they are affected by /ignore, moderator gagging, etc.
• Polish Hammer animations
• Fixed a "click really fast" exploit with Genetics XP
• Properly loop stun animation for NPCs
• Reduce crouching of female elves with realistic foot placement turned on
• Fix sideways-sitting chairs in New Prestonbule and Serbule
• Skeleton dancing is functional again
• No longer send endless undeliverable messages for pigeon messages with no items attached
• Place bulwark shield particle correctly on Skeleton Mages
• Play animations (invisibly) when in first-person mode. This fixes some subtle bugs
• Prevent auto-selected targets from interfering with tab-targeting

Halloween is here! Zhia Lian, the demanding god of Whimsy, has new higher-level tasks for you to take on. The Halloween event now has over 90 quests! So get out there and see what whimsical random things she wants now! Just remember the first rule of the Cult of Zhia Lian ... In addition to new quests and rewards for Halloween, this update also includes a bunch of fixes and improvements.

UI

• Added auto-repeat back into crafting, for use primarily with recipes that don't always consume their ingredients.
• Skills and sub-skills are now properly listed in alphabetical order in the abilities window.
• Fixed a bug that prevented area-specific loading-screen tips from showing when you logged into the game. (They could only be seen when you teleported to other areas.)
• The search bar is now cleared when opening the recipe window from the "More Info" context menu.
• Changed "Virility" to "Fertility" for female pets during direct pet inspection.

Animations

• Players can move their characters a small amount even when they are performing "locked" combat animations. In other words, players can slide around while their feet are doing other things. This is an experiment in our ongoing animation work, as we continue to try to balance graphics quality with gameplay benefits.
• Players sit better on chairs.
• Birds sit properly on bird perches.
• Deer have a jump animation.
• Animal forms now display Bulwark Shield correctly.
• Skeleton archer animations play correctly.
• Smoothed out movement/rotation of equipment during animations.
• Many, many animations have been polished, including: Archery (and crossbows) animations; dance animations for Butterfly, Deer, & Owl; Psychology animations; animations for playing harp & fairy chimes; and others.

Other Stuff

• We've reverted earlier Povus change that allowed monsters to auto-despawn even if players were near them. This was intended to be beneficial to players, but proved detrimental, because it could despawn corpses that you wanted to loot. For now, Povus event monsters no longer auto-despawn if any player is within 20 meters of them. (We'll revisit this idea soon, as we continue to evolve the Povus nightly event system.)
• Fixed genetic equipment breakage rate, from 50% to 5%.
• Gestation time is now properly modified by the special-event that's supposed to cut it in half. (For the next time we run that special event.)
• Ghostly creatures that spawn during Povus invasions now correctly have the anatomy type Incorporeal.
• Glajur now teaches individual Phrenology skills instead of the overarching Phrenology skill.
• Dog Ear actually wants insect meat now.
• Eltibule treasure map treasures will no longer generate out of zone bounds.
• Goats now spawn in Gazluk instead of sheep. The availability of wool and mutton has not changed.
• Ratkin Root-Tenders (and their servants) can drop wood as loot.
• Ratkin Miners can drop ores as loot.
• Swapped north/south east/west in Povus surveys.
• Fixed the Zukelmux World Boss Portal to actually teleport players to the Fae Realm rather than back into Gazluk Keep (for next Attack of the World Bosses event)
• We now display accurate damage of Song of Discord when a damage mod like Bulwark Shield is active.
• Having Giant Bat form no longer slows your jump or renders you unable to make the lift jump in Wintertide.
• Fixed typo in Murky Tunnel in Povus.
• Fixed Latent Charge typo.
• Added a check to prevent players from dropping items if there are already 20 entities within 5 meters. (This is to prevent players from dropping 100+ items in very close proximity, which breaks Unity's physics engine.)
• Reduced intensity of fogginess on foggy days. Most areas are dramatically less foggy; Povus is still notably foggier than other areas (but still half as foggy as last update).
• Fixed brightness changes to indoor areas, such as from "Brighter World" and "Echolocation".

Today's update is a big one. There's a new high-level zone, several new skills to find, and a metric tonne of UI fixes and improvements. Please keep in mind that with as many changes as are in this update, we are really relying on you for feedback to help us identify problems and bugs. Thank you!

Povus

Animal Husbandry

Pet Genetics: What You Need To Know

Free Bees

Animal Handling/Pet Changes

• Fixed a data problem that gave AH pets two opportunities to perform a critical-hit. This caused high-level pets to crit more often than we desired.
• AH pets no longer gain automatic crit-damage boosts as they level up.
• One treasure effect directly changed the pet's Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is now controlled by genetics and can't be meaningfully enchanted, so we've replaced it with an effect that is vaguely similar to the old one. We'll revisit this effect when we make deeper revisions to AH.
• "Animal Handling pets have +80 Enthusiasm (which boosts XP earned and critical-hit chance)" => "Animal Handling pets deal +20% damage when they critically hit"
• Pet bears whose Special Trick dealt crushing damage actually dealt slashing damage. This has been fixed.

Psychology

• "Psychoanalyze restores 143 Health to you after a 15 second delay" => after an 8 second delay
• "Psychoanalyze restores 224 Armor to you" => 212 armor
• "Psychoanalyze causes the target to take +20 damage from Psychic attacks for 60 seconds" => +78 damage for 15 seconds
• Soothe ability now deals a small amount of direct Health damage.
• Soothe ability is now eligible for phrenology critical hits.
• "Soothe, But I Love You, and Cause Terror Damage +86" => damage +205
• "Inspire Confidence / Positive Attitude Healing +83" => +98
• The effect "Inspire Confidence increases all targets' Accuracy +20 for 10 seconds" now stacks with itself.
• "Inspire Confidence restores +205 Health after a 25 second delay" => restores +150 Armor to all targets
• "Soothe Damage +128" => Soothe and Psychoanalyze damage +167 and range +5 meters
• "Ridicule deals +57 health damage and taunts +525" => Ridicule taunts +800 and target's next attack has a 25% chance to automatically miss
• "Mock deals +125% damage and taunts +500, but reuse timer is +2 seconds" => Mock deals +125% damage, taunts +500, and hits all targets within 20 meters, but reuse timer is +1.5 seconds
• "Strike a Nerve deals +168 armor damage" => 236 armor damage
• Some Psychology treasure effects did not correctly scale past level 80; this has been fixed.

Werewolf

• "Future Pack Attacks to the same target deal +100 damage" => +610 damage
• "For 8 seconds after using See Red, all other Lycanthropy attacks deal 148 Trauma damage over 8 seconds" => Effect now lasts for 10 seconds after using See Red.
• "Sanguine Fangs deals +280 trauma damage over 8 seconds" => +360 trauma damage
• New treasure effect: Chest/Feet: "Pack Attack deals +100 damage and causes target to be 12% more vulnerable to Trauma damage for 10 seconds"
• "Sanguine Fangs suddenly deals 350 Trauma damage after an 8-second delay" => 450 trauma damage
• "Sanguine Fangs causes the target to take +15% damage from Slashing attacks for 15 seconds" => +18% damage
• New treasure effect: Legs: "For 10 seconds after using Sanguine Fangs, all other Lycanthropy attacks deal 180 Trauma damage over 8 seconds"
• "Werewolf Claw, Double Claw, and Pouncing Rake Damage +62" => +81
• Replaced treasure effect: Legs: "Double Claw Power Cost -21" => "Double Claw deals +40 damage and reuse timer is -2 seconds"
• "Pouncing Rake deals +220 Armor damage" => 304 armor damage
• Some werewolf treasure effects did not scale past level 80; this has been fixed.

Animal Armor Changes

• Crafted Werewolf armor has been rebalanced to have less Armor and more offensive buffs. It also has a potent new sidebar ability that can be used when wearing a full set. (Equip a chest-piece to learn the ability.)
• The recipes to craft Werewolf Armor are no longer Blacksmithing recipes. They're Armorsmithing recipes now. If you previously had any of these recipes, you still have them, but you'll need to earn the appropriate level of Armorsmithing skill before you can actually use the recipe again.
• Solgribue in the Fae Realm now trains the recipes for level 80 wooden cowshoes and deershoes.
• Added level 80 versions of various other animal armor (but the recipes must be found).
• Revised Werewolf Armor recipes: high-level versions now require slightly fancier ingredients.
• To make Werewolf Armor work like the other prestige metal armor sets, you now need to forge it in a spot consecrated to Norala. There is a new forge for this purpose in the Kur wolf cave.
• Recipes and stats for crafted Snail Armor, Cow Barding, and Cow Champrons have changed.

Staff, Shield, and Cow Nerfs

Staff

• "Blocking Stance costs -20 Power and mitigates +10% of physical damage from Elite attackers for 30 seconds" => "Blocking Stance increases your Max Health +63 for 30 seconds (and heals you for 63)"

Shield

• Bulwark Mode 3 previously granted +27% direct invulnerability => now +17%

Cow

• "Max Power +37 and Vulnerability to Elite Attacks -10% when Cow skill active" => now -5% vulnerability

Synergy Level Changes

• Players gain a new bonus level to Shamanic Infusion when reaching Psychology 70 and Skinning 70.
• Fixed bug that prevented players from gaining the intended synergy levels to Sushi Preparation when reaching Fishing 55 and Knife Fighting 60.
• Gain a new synergy level of Sushi Preparation upon reaching Fish Anatomy 31.
• Gain new Mining synergy levels by reaching Hammer 24 and Hammer 46.
• Gain new Surveying synergy levels by reaching Calligraph 35, Calligraphy 55, and Nonfiction Writing 25.
• Gain a new Calligraphy synergy level by reaching Nonfiction Writing 15.
• Gain new synergy levels in Gardening when reaching these levels: Flower Arrangement 57, Nature Appreciation 55, Plant Anatomy 20, Carpentry 45.

Misc Treasure Changes

• Fixed bugged Knife treasure effect: "When wielding two knives, all Knife Fighting attacks have a 33% chance to restore 41 Power". This did not work at all.
• "Signature Debuffs deal +29% damage and also deal 156 Armor damage" => 220 armor damage
• "Many Cuts deals +172 armor damage" => 236 armor damage
• "Wind Strike and Heart Piercer deal 164 armor damage" => 224 armor damage
• "Unarmed attacks deal +42 Armor damage" => 52 armor damage
• "Tundra Spikes deals 290 armor damage and taunts +750" => 380 armor damage
• "Marking Cut deals +80 armor damage and does not cause the target to shout for help" => 146 armor damage
• "Blast of Fury deals 200 Armor damage and restores 43 Armor to you" => 276 armor damage
• "Spit Acid deals +240 armor damage" => 360 armor damage

Sky and Camera Changes

September/October VIP Gift

UI Fixes and Improvements

• We no longer randomly remove your "Who's Online" status.
• The display of active buffs on other players would often disappear when changing zones. This is now fixed.
• In the Friends panel, long quotes will no longer overlap other fields.
• The volume of quest sounds can now be controlled separately from other types of sounds.
• Items in locked inventory folders will no longer be affected by the 'Stow' commands.
• We now handle character turning via mouse during large framerate drops better.
• Using mouse-look, you can now look vertically when both left- and right-mouse buttons are clicked simultaneously.
• There is now a search bar on the recipe panel. You can search by name ("baked potato"), by type ("meal", "snack", "instant-snack"), by level ("L 10" for level 10 items), or by some combination of those.
• You can now specify how many times you'd like to craft a recipe.
• Headers in the quest list now indicate when one of that area's quests is being tracked, to more easily locate tracked quests.
• We've added a search bar to the list of skills.
• Non-integer effects now display their real value, so "+0.5" instead of "+0".

Player Shops

• The number of unread notes you have waiting for you in your player shop is now included in the text of the "Read Notes From Customers" button.
• You can now reserve items to be bought only by members of your guild. This requires a minimum guild level of 5.
• You can now mark items in your shop "Accepting Offers", which prevents the item from being purchased and instead allows shoppers to "Make Offer" and leave a shop note with the owner, indicating the price they are willing to pay.

Particles, Animations, and Other Visual Things

• Many animations have been fixed or improved.
• Many ability particle effects have been fixed or improved.
• There is a new Graphics setting called "Realistic Foot Placement" which improves animation quality in exchange for a small performance penalty.
• When you take damage to Health, the screen now only flashes red if you have below 25% health remaining.
• When you take damage to Armor, the screen now only flashes yellow if you have below 25% armor remaining.
• Fixed a bug where an ability's particle was not played on the target if they didn't take direct damage from the attack.
• Sometimes a creature with a 'crown' quest would display their own texture over their head instead of a crown. This has been fixed.
• Deer now consistently fall over when killed.

Misc. Crafting

• You can now raise the Cheesemaking level cap to 80; see Bendith in the Fae Realm.
• You can now raise the Blacksmithing level cap raised to 80; see Solgribue in Fae Realm.
• The level cap of several other skills can be raised by NPCs in Povus.
• Bard instrument recipes that require a Perfect Conch (meaning "Great Musical Conch", "Amazing Musical Conch", and "Astounding Musical Conch") are now guaranteed to have a minimum rarity of Exceptional, and have improved chances for higher rarity. (This only applies to newly-crafted items.)
• The level 45 item "Great Arachnid Harness" has been nerfed from +8 inventory slots to +6. There are new higher-level arachnid harnesses with increased buffs up to +10 inventory slots. (The toolcrafting recipes drop as rare scrolls.)
• The recipe ID for the obsolete recipe "Legacy Bat Belt" has been reused. If you had this old alpha recipe, congratulations: you now know how to craft the "Amazing Arachnid Harness" (but you can only use the recipe when you have the necessary Toolcrafting level).
• Fixed some recipes that were supposed to require a Forge but didn't, including: various utility knives, armor stakes, and tool hammers. (Note that metal throwing knives are intentionally omitted from the forge requirement.) Improved the error messages when you try to use a recipe but aren't in the right place. e.g. "You must be near a TanningRack" became "You must be near a tanning rack."
• "Gazluk Plate"-type armors are now dyeable (up to 2 colors). If you were wearing Gazluk Plate when you logged out, your character will show up incorrectly in the character-select screen the first time. This is normal, and will fix itself when you log in.
• Moving, jumping, and Escape all cancel recipes with a crafting time.
• You can now summon partially-used items from storage.
• Items that cannot have work orders can no longer be sold in player shops, and now have the tooltip: "This item cannot be sold to other players." If you have an item like that in your shop, you'll get a notification to remove it.
• An internal numbering problem requires us to change the ID for Firkins of Sour Cream. If you had any of these in your inventory or storage, they are now marked as "Firkin of Sour Cream (OBSOLETE)". Please use these ASAP as they will disappear in the next update.
• The recipe for gold dye has changed.
• "Snail Plate Armor" is now Organic armor, like other snail armor.

Other

• Certain skills are now explicitly marked as "umbrella skills". The max level for these skills is 0, so the only way to earn levels is via synergy bonuses. The following skills are umbrella skills: Anatomy, Phrenology, Performance, Augmentation, and Genetics. Players who had inadvertently earned XP in these umbrella skills (through content bugs in alpha) have had their levels recalculated.
• Goats (regular goats, not scapegoats!) have a new AI profile and use knockback attacks.
• Revised all non-Elite healing monsters so that their heal amounts are more meaningful (typically about 15% of their max health, but it's not actually a percentage-heal, so the amount varies per monster). This change was done individually per monster, so some monsters may have been missed. If you notice a monster that heals for a negligible amount (like a monster with 1000 max health healing for 50) please report it as a bug!
• Increased the damage of scray monsters' acid attacks, and higher-tier scray acid needs higher-tier First Aid to dispel.
• You no longer earn Gourmand XP for eating additional raw cantaloupe or fairy nuts beyond the first consumption. (It previously earned 1 and 2 XP respectively.)
• The results of treasure maps, such as motherlodes, should now correctly spawn on top of the ground and not embedded into it.
• The debuff "Spore Coating" used by certain fungal enemies no longer keeps you in-combat. Using First Aid 2 or higher now removes one stack of the debuff.
• Jace Soral now succumbs to his nature when the moon is full.
• Item Dispensers and Item Rafflers are no longer subject to premature item-cleanup. They will last for 2 hours starting when they are placed in the world, or until they run out of items/tickets. High-end rafflers can have explicit durations up to 2 hours (instead of 90 minutes).
• Previously, wild deer had junk genetics for testing. They still have junk genetics for testing, but it's different junk now. They should be less Evasive overall.
• Changed "Tremor"'s boss curse: instead of permanently disabling Basic Attacks, it now gives the attacks a 15-second reset timer. As a side-effect, players with the old version of the curse will be automatically cured.
• A few monsters (that are supposed to be extremely evasive) are slightly more evadey.
• The world now goes gray when you are dead.
• The 'Stuck Report' is intended to get your character free of being stuck in something like a tree or cow. It is not to be used for free transportation. There is now a highly visible warning when you file a Stuck Report making that very clear for those players who have been using it for teleportation. Don't worry if you get stuck a few times; just don't use Stuck reports dozens of times a week!
• We've added the ability to use '/e' or '/em' to perform custom emotes (no animation, you supply the text). You can also use '%t' to include the name of your target. Emotes display in their own chat channel, so you can decide which chat tabs you want to include them.
• Guild quests now display in the guild audit log when they are started, canceled, or completed.
• Flying enemies will now stay at roughly the same elevation as their target, to prevent being unable to attack them with melee.

Hotfix Notes: September 27-28, 2021

• Recipes with no ingredients (such as some teleportations) can be crafted again
• You could get multiple notifications for completing Povus night quests
• Fixed Grakelsput's quest "Cleanup Duty: Triceratops"
• Povus lamp logic no longer considers player pets to be "monsters"
• Augments can once again be sold in shops
• Swamp Gourd item tooltips now have a line indicating whether they've been eaten before
• Changed an additional Psychology treasure effect: "Inspire Confidence restores +151 Health after a 15-second delay" => restores 104 Health after an 8-second delay
• Fixed error in ability-tip text for Psychoanalyze's delayed-heal buff
• Fixed typo in names of "Hexameat Wraps" and "Superb Parchment"
• Corrected the start time in Povus instructions (it starts at 8pm, not 7pm)
• More orcs spawn in the Povus orc camp
• Correctly limit the reassembly of [redacted] to Povus
• Fixed Povus vegetation that had no collisions
• Arianna Fangblade no longer tries to sell you a stable slot when you ask for a hot betting tip
• Could not correctly train Armorsmithing from Tremmond in Povus
• The nightly Povus invasion system was bugged and did not correctly advance to harder quests

We've got a quick and dirty update for you today -- a smorgasbord of bug fixes and improvements that we've put together in the background while we continue to work hard not only on Animal Husbandry, but on a whole new high-level zone! But while those features are in active development, they aren't ready yet -- and we didn't want to wait any longer on fixing these annoying bugs. Here's the list: Animations

• Improved locomotion animations of both flying and non-flying creatures.
• Female humanoids slouch less. (But more tweaks still to come, especially for rakshasa females.)
• Updated Sword ability animations.
• Updated Shield ability animations.
• Updated Bard ability animations.
• Tweaked Archery animations. In particular, all Archery animations should now aim toward their target.
• Bard abilities no longer have a delay before their damage or healing is applied.
• Fixed animation problems with Deer that caused certain attacks to take a very long time to trigger.
• Changing gear, then flying, no longer causes your character to use walking animations instead of flying ones.
• Limited how far your character will crane their head while looking at something.
• Disabled headlook while dead.
• Sword slash particles now face toward the attacker and not the attackee.
• While loading into a zone, you will no longer appear to other players as if you were falling.
• Ghosts now float again.
• /cry cries. Improved many other emote animations also. Note that some animations, such as /wave, have become full-body emotes for now, meaning that you cannot move while waving. We plan to make them upper-body-only emotes again in the future, so that you can e.g. walk while waving.
• Wings should now stop flapping when a fairy dies.
• More improvements to sitting and lying animation sequences.
• Hags in the character introduction screen are still creepy, but no longer 'sink into the ground' creepy.

• Player Vendor UI Improvements:
  • Items can be moved up & down with buttons instead of right-clicking.
  • Items can be moved to the top & bottom of the list via right-clicking.
  • Saving an item will no longer revert unsaved changes of other items.
  • Text colors change to indicate whether item is or is not currently shown in shop.
• Loadouts can now be renamed.
• If an NPC likes a gift but you don't know that yet (because they only share that info at higher Favor levels), they will now show up in the "Item Info" -> "Gifting" window as a "person who hasn't told you they like it." For example: "This item is a good gift for 2 people you haven't met yet, plus 1 person who hasn't told you they like it."
• Current vs. required favor levels are now taken into account when showing gifting highlights. In other words, if your character couldn't "know" that an NPC likes an item, the item doesn't show with a purple border as a gift.
• Gifting an item to an NPC no longer causes the highlights of other items to disappear.
• Selecting group members via nameplate in the mini-group UI will no longer intermittently fail.
• If you are the last remaining player in a group, you will no longer receive an extraneous "You are now the leader" message right before being disbanded.
• GUI window resizing now properly responds to locking the GUI with a hotkey.
• Better resizing of Quest Rewards when the Quest Log is tiny.
• Replaced the inventory folder lock icon with an outline around the bag instead, in order to let the bag itself to be more visible.
• Buff durations in tooltips now update in real-time when you leave the mouse over the effect icon.
• Map pin labels now place above their respective pins instead of overlapping.
• NPC shops could show the wrong price for certain multi-buy items like Salt, Flour, and Sugar. This has been fixed.
• Tooltips should no longer occasionally get stuck to your cursor.
• Combat numbers and speech bubbles should no longer appear in the wrong place.
• If you're disconnected to the main menu with the cursor hidden -- for example, while holding right-click -- your cursor should now properly reappear.
• Tweaked the item-pickup floating animation to be quicker & no longer centered on the player. There are two new Special Settings to control the floating start point: PickupItemsStartX & PickupItemsStartY

• When examining a corpse, if you have an autopsy kit and no chance to fail the autopsy, the corpse is instantly auto-autopsied.
• Deposit All will now only attempt to store stackable items and not, for example, non-stacking items like equipment that shares the same name.
• Added the word "unlocked" to Deposit All wording, to clarify that items cannot come from locked inventory folders.
• Stow Items now works properly for the Warden Chest when in Kur Mountains.
• Mobs will no longer knock you into the air if you are very close to them.
• When at negative max HP -- for example, due to anti-regeneration -- the player can no longer: Respawn, Eat items that require you to be dead (Eternal Greens, etc.), or be affected by abilities that require the target to be dead (Resuscitate, etc.). This brings gameplay behavior in line with our intention: if you lose literally all of your Max HP due to debuffs, you can't come back to life until those effects wear off. The main way this can happen is by consuming too much deadly iocaine powder, and we recommend that you don't do that!
• Lycans should now be able to survey at the bottom of water.
• Fixes bug where player sinks to bottom of water when interacting with something.
• Polished a number of projectiles, most noticeably the "darkness ball" used by several necromantic abilities and necro-monsters.
• Fixed bug in particle from Death's Hold: it could leave behind orphaned zombie arms.

This update has a lot of different stuff. In it we've added... wait, let's just do a bullet list. That'll be easier. In this update, we have:

• Soft-launched our long-awaited VIP program.
• Added lots of UI features -- like the ability to lock the UI!
• Bumped up the difficulty of high-level solo monsters.
• Revised the Unarmed skill.
• Added a new crafting skill, Non-Fiction Writing.
• Introduced a new player messaging service: Pigeon Mail.

VIP Membership Program

Pigeon Mail

Unarmed Changes

• Changed treasure mod: (Head, Chest) "Infuriating Fist generates no Rage and instead reduces Rage by 910" => "Infuriating Fist damage +73 and for 10 seconds all Elite attacks deal -8% damage to you."
• Changed treasure mod: (Head) "Bodyslam deals +47% damage and slows target's movement speed by 45%" => "Bodyslam deals +100 damage and grants you immunity to direct damage for 3 seconds"
• Changed treasure mod : (Head, OffHand) "Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage boost damage from Epic attacks +98 for 10 seconds" => "Slashing Strike boosts your Melee Evasion +5.25% for 5 seconds"
• Changed treasure mod : (MainHand, Necklace) "Slashing Strike deals +150 Trauma damage over 6 seconds" => "Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage deal +150 Trauma damage over 6 seconds"
• Changed treasure mod: (Hands, Necklace) "Hip Throw deals +286 armor damage" => "Hip Throw deals +200 damage, plus Armor-specific damage equal to 15% of the attack's total regular damage"
• Changed treasure mod: (Head, Off-Hand) "Mamba Strike Damage +67%" => "Mamba Strike Damage +59 and Reuse Time -1 sec"
• New treasure mod: (Necklace): "Cobra Strike Damage +100"
• New treasure mod: (Chest, Feet): "Claw Barrage Damage +147"
• Adjusted treasure mod: "Barrage costs -14 Power and restores 31 Armor to you" => now -16 power
• Adjusted treasure mod: "Kick Damage +78" => now +100
• Adjusted treasure mod: "Mamba Strike and Front Kick Damage +100" => now +84

Solo Monster Upgrade

Non-Fiction Writing

Autodidacticism

Experimental Optimizations Enabled by Default

Storage UI Improvements

• Any items in your inventory that could be deposited with 'Deposit any items that are already stored' will be highlighted in your inventory with a green border.in your inventory.
• Shift-clicking an item while the storage UI is open now deposits/withdraws a specific amount, instead of just splitting the stack.
• While the storage UI is open, you can also now right-click an item to split a stack into or out of storage.

• Ri-Shin Shrine Storage is now accessible from other storage NPCs in Kur.
• Bookshelves now allow direct access to nearby storage selections (like other storage NPCs do).
• Summoning items via practical summoning will now update the "More Info" menu properly.
• When withdrawing an item from storage, the tooltip will now update properly.
• Storing items after summoning a stack of another item will no longer cause visual weirdness.
• When using Practical Summoning, and the storage that you're summoning from is open, stack numbers will now update properly.

Other UI Improvements

• You can now promote a member of your party to be party leader.
• There is now an option to lock your UI windows in place. You can find it in the Settings window, on the GUI tab, in the Features section. There is also a hotkey.
• There are 3 new settings to control the display of tooltips: "Tooltip Delay", "Instant Tooltip Duration", and "Use Tooltip Animation". You can find these in the Settings window, on the GUI tab, in the Features section.
• There's a new option on that screen as well, under the "Chat Behavior" section: "Close Chat With Hotkey".
• The "Jump to Recipe" functionality now extends to work orders and quests.
• You can now give NPCs an item by single-clicking instead of dragging.
• It's now harder to accidentally close an official admin message. And if you do, there's also a line in chat to explain how to see it again.
• You can now collapse and expand the list of quests for an area in the Quest window.
• (Most of) the rewards for a quest are now displayed as part of the quest in your quest log.
• Made some improvements to the quest tracker presentation.

UI Bugfixes

• You can (once again) select your target's target.
• Players can no longer receive friend requests when their friends list is full.
• Note: you can now have a maximum of 150 friends (up from 100).
• Quotes in the friends list will no longer disappear after relogging.
• Players with long names in the friends list will no longer screw up the display formatting.
• The first time using an item on the hotbar now updates its stack size properly.
• Opening the recipe window will no longer sometimes show the incorrect required number of an ingredient.
• The pet information screen no longer has overlapping text and icons.
• Text in vendor shops is now correctly sanitized of HTML tags (no more color codes)
• When using Automatically Select Chat Channels, the channel you change to will now persist when changing zones.
• Backspacing after using chat shortcuts with Automatically Select Chat Channels on no longer leaves the shortcut in chat.
• Placing unusable gear in persona window will no longer cause it to show an empty slot.
• Better updating in general of entered social texts, such as your friend status or party name.

Other Changes and Fixes

• We've revised how "knockback" works (which also covers "pull forward" attacks such as Snare Arrow or Grappling Web). The effect happens faster and is more accurate, knocking enemies in a more predictable direction.
• Slowed down the respawn rate of golems in the goblin dungeon's "red room" crystal encounters.
• "Live Event Token" items are being replaced with a new pseudo-currency, "Live Event Credits". Tokens can be converted to Credits by using them. Riston in the Casino now sells items for credits instead of tokens.
• You no longer need to hold the Dive Down key while surveying underwater, you only have to be at the sea floor.
• Fire Magic's Cold Protection ability no longer hurts you when you use it.
• All of the mods for Triage and Shadow Feint will now display on the ability tooltip.
• Clearing an inventory slot will no longer disable Bulwark Mode.
• Frostball is now cold & snowy instead of electric.
• Added missing animations for main-hand knife attacks.
• The option for a Hot Tip will no longer disappear on NPCs in the Casino.
• In Match-3, 'Possible Moves:' text will no longer show up when it's not unlocked.
• Percy Evans will no longer accept your Barter item for an Animal Nexus key if you already have one.
• Fixed a bug where right-clicking an object to auto-move to it would never actually reach it. You would just run around the entity in circles.
• Added a troubleshooting command /zapgolemprogram which erases your current golem program. This is to help players who, for instance, program their golems to "Self-Destruct: Always", making it difficult to reprogram the golem since it instantly self-destructs.
• The performance in Gazluk Keep has improved.
• Birds and Crickets in Serbule and Serbule Hills are now properly affected by the Ambient Sounds volume slider.
• The selection boxes for things like a Fire Wall should no longer jump around.
• Fixed non-animating water textures in Eltibule's waterfall.
• Improved the behavior of the camera during bad FPS dips. (This is especially noticeable in areas with many players.)
• Sitting in chairs works somewhat better.

All About the VIP Membership Program

How to Become a VIP Member

• Purchasing a Steam subscription
• Claiming VIP time from a backer-package you purchased
• Using VIP Tokens in-game

VIP Member Benefits

• Four extra character slots -- for a total of 8!
• 15 extra inventory slots -- for each character!
• 25 extra slots in each item-transfer chest! There are four such chests now (75 extra slots) and two more coming (for a total of 125 extra slots).
• Access to offline advancement via the Autodidacticism skill! (You can read all the details about this benefit below.)
• Access to special in-game reports, such as a "character sheet" that lets you view all your character's stats in a simple spreadsheet.
• Extra saddlebag slots for mounts (when mounts are implemented) (mount not included).
• And more benefits to come! We're exploring ideas like giving VIPs custom chat colors, unique emotes, and monthly gift-redemptions that give out amusing trinkets.

All About Slots

Autodidacticism (and Non-Fiction Writing)

• Autodidacticism is a skill that has to be leveled up! You can't read a textbook for a skill level that's higher than your Autodidacticism level, so you'll need to practice by studying low-level books first.
• Only two characters on your account can participate in Autodidacticism hangouts at a time.
• With few exceptions, you can't unlock skills via Autodidacticism. For instance, if you don't know the Knife Fighting skill yet, you can't read the newbie Knife Fighting book. You must unlock the skill normally first.
• You still need to raise your level cap in the normal way: you need to unlock level caps at level 50 and every 10 levels thereafter.
• You need to obtain the books themselves, and as explained above, very-high-level books won't be available for a while.
• Books lose durability when used in autodidacticism hangouts. Most books will last for about 20 days of offline hangouts before disappearing.
• At first launch, only a subset of skills can have textbooks. This is just due to the sheer amount of data-wrangling involved -- we'll add textbooks for the other skills when we're more confident that we've got the numbers correct.

Special Reports

• Character Sheet: generates a .csv (comma-separated-value) text file of all your character's stats. This file can be loaded in any spreadsheet app.
• Inventory Dump: lists every single item that one character possesses (including the stuff in various storage chests) as a text file. This file can be loaded into any word processor.
• Combat log: records every hit your character takes or deals to others in a text file. This text file is too verbose ("spammy") to be useful to most players, but it's being provided as a way for 3rd-party tools to generate new kinds of reports.
• With more reports added in the future!

VIP Is a Big Deal... But Never Mandatory

• Although we talk about it as "patronage", the benefits of VIP should be worthwhile. We aren't asking for charity here, so VIP should be useful!
• But it needs to be entirely optional -- we expect most players won't be VIPs, and that's fine. VIP should never feel "mandatory" at all.

This is a quick bug-fix patch to address some issues in the March 25 update:

• NPCs will no longer appear to be dancing even after they have stopped.
• The Redemptions window will no longer tell you about redemptions that you are not eligible for.
• Your mouse cursor will no longer sometimes stay locked and hidden after you change zones.
• The Quest Tracker will no longer refuse to remove certain quests after they are completed.
• The Trade window will no longer fail to disappear after a trade.
• Sandstorms no longer use the new distance optimization, meaning they can once again be seen from more than 100m away.
• Fixed animation issues when interacting with things that have a usage delay (such as mining, meditation, and chopping lumber).
• Fixed bugs with head-look when looking at certain in-scene entities (such as wells, item workbenches, and inscription tables).
• Tweaked movement animations a bit.

Welcome to another exciting Project: Gorgon update! This one has been in development for longer than usual - we usually aim for an update every month. But we've been working on bringing our animation system into the modern day and that took a bit longer than planned. This update includes our work on the animation system, as well as a potluck collection of new features and bug fixes. So let's dive in!

Animation System Replacement

Interpretive Dance

• Holistic Wellness - 19, 49
• Performance - 30, 50, 70
• Bard - 35, 65
• Endurance - 39
• Unarmed - 59

VIP Panel

Special Reports:

In the " Special Reports" section of the VIP panel, you can export a lot of information about your character and the items you have in storage. There are a couple of reports and formats depending on what you need, including:
• a spreadsheet (.csv) of every item in every (non-shared) storage vault
• a JSON file with similar information about your storage (for programmers)
• a JSON file with information about your character

Combat Logging:

Chat Logs & 'Book' Mode:

New Performance Optimization

• The optimization won't fully turn on/off until you switch to a new area, or logout and log back in.
• The old "experimental optimizations" have stopped being experimental. The checkbox has been turned off for everyone, so you'll need to turn it on again!
• This optimization works by unloading some of the assets for entities that are more than 100 meters away from you. As a side-effect, those distant entities won't be visible... even if you've set the entity-render distance higher than that!
• If you have a high-end PC and like to fly at high distances (or like to travel at light-speeds), you may want to increase this range. You can do so with a new special setting. In the Settings window, Special Settings area, add the words AppearanceRange=200 to double the range. (The minimum range is 100, the default setting.)

Fix for Mouse-Cursor Centering

Transmutation Change for Fairy Magic

Graphics & Such

Head-Look:

Screenshots:

Other graphic-y things:

• The flash you see on your screen when you are being hit ('screen flash') is less obtrusive. If you had it turned off via Special Settings, you might try it out again.
• The Graphics "Brighter World" option will no longer uncheck itself after the client is restarted.
• The Graphics setting "Resolution in Full-Screen Mode" no longer has multiple duplicate options.
• Pet particle effects are now correctly disabled by /particlespam and the NoParticleSpam Special Setting.

UI Tweaks and Fixes

• The Recipes UI will no longer jump when crafting items at the bottom of long list of recipes.
• The Recipes UI will no longer scroll to a selected button that is already visible.
• Improved functionality of "Back" button in the Work Order board.
• Fixed a bug where closing out of certain menus also canceled the recipe you were crafting.
• The casting bar will now remain open when stopping interactions that are not directly tied to the casting. Note that standing up from a chair will cancel casting, no matter what.
• The Quest Tracker will no longer display as a grey dot when no quests are being tracked.
• Quests will no longer linger in the quest tracker after switching characters.
• Action button cooldowns will also reset properly when switching characters.
• The cursor could sometimes get stuck in a mode (like the interact hand). That should no longer happen.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the top ability slot on the sidebar to clear itself.
• Fixed a bug that could cause dragging an item in your inventory to drop an item.
• Certain items that required metabolism, or which were broken, would flash rapidly when placed on the sidebar. This will no longer happen.
• At certain screen resolutions, it was not possible to see the text menus for configuring shop items. Now you can!
• Character generation options with no choices - for example, there is only one human male face at this point - no longer display as options in character generation.
• Improved formatting of the fight and fight result windows in Monsters and Mantids.
• Fixed some display issues with the Settings menu options.
• Prettied up the Redeem menu. Previously you accessed this via /redeem, but now you can also use the handy button in the Persona window.
• In addition, we've added two new redemptions this update! Both of them are time-limited; click that new Redeem button in the Persona window for more details.

Skills Changes

• Sigils, traps, fire walls, crystals, turrets, and other stationary objects are now immune to Fear. (It was adorable watching crystals flee in terror, but too exploitable.)
• Treasure that added damage-over-time to Deadly Emission was twice as effective as listed (it fired every second instead of every other second).
• The ability Fish Gut now requires (and can consume) an actual Skinning Knife. Previously it could use (and potentially consume) any knife that could skin animals.
• Fixed some Animal Handling pet commands that could break due to a bug in the targeting logic.
• Fixed a skill-check that was using the wrong skill when performing a butchery on a dead corpse (specifically, using your Skinning skill when rolling to get "bonus meat").
• Fixed the displayed base damage for Warden's Stun Trap abilities. (The actual damage did not change, just the displayed amount.)
• Moo of Determination 4 no longer shows up twice on Raul's training menu.
• Hammer abilities have new icons.
• (Looking for the Unarmed changes? Rebalancing of the Unarmed skill was postponed due to the animation system changes, but should be included in the next major update.)

Other Changes

• Added a lot of exciting new event content and tech. Stay tuned for dates and times!
• Fixed a large number of bugs with unreachable spawns, monsters walking through walls, bad collision, etc. in: Serbule, Kur Mountains, Ilmari, Rahu, Winter Nexus, Animal Nexus, and the Labyrinth. Possibly others!
• Vendors would sometimes lie and tell you that they could afford to buy an entire stack when they were actually too low on money! Now, instead of lying about it, they will do their best to figure out what they *can* afford, and present that information to players.
• Fixed exploit scenarios where a character could change between animal forms mid-conversation to gain access to unintended dialog options.
• Quest dings and warning screens are slightly less obtrusive.
• A number of creatures, including spiders and horrors, and a number of abilities, are a bit quieter and can no longer be heard from across the world.
• You can now quit out of the game directly from character generation.
• Durstin Tallow in Serbule Hills will no longer rent a room for 100 councils as many times as you ask.
• Gisli in Eltibule no longer displays the wrong stable slots number when he offers to sell you one. (He was off by one.) This was a display problem only.
• Cows now strafe correctly.
• Fixed a very rare bug that could cause players to be unable to log in after a game patch (which previously required administrator assistance to fix).
• It is now possible to bind 'Escape' through the Keys menu.
• Thanks for reading and don't forget the time-limited gifts!

It's time for holiday festivities! In addition, there are big changes to Elite and Boss monsters in this update. There are also revisions to the Ice Magic and Deer skills. And, of course, various other things as well. Read on for more info.

Ri-Shin Celebration

High-Level Elite/Boss Changes

• Prior to level 35, elites/bosses have about the same overall health+armor, but some of their health has been switched to armor as a side-effect of the formulaic changes. This will make them a bit harder, so be careful!
• Starting at about level 35, elites/bosses gain more health and armor than before. This increases fairly gradually until level 50, then it starts going up more quickly. By level 80, the total health+armor of most elites and bosses has almost doubled! (And a lot of that increase is in armor, which means the monster has more mitigation for longer.)

Elite/Boss Loot Changes

Ice Magic Changes

Fire Magic Over-synergy

• (Chest, Hands) "Calefaction causes target to take +45% damage from Cold for 12 seconds" => now +16% damage

Cryogenic Freeze

• Cryogenic Freeze now lasts 20 seconds or until dispelled by using the ability again. The reuse timer is 20 seconds, which begins as soon as Cryogenic Freeze ends.
• Power cost increased; all treasure effects recalculated in potency

Ice Armor, Ice Veins, and Shardblast

• Ice Armor: highest tier of ability has slightly higher mitigation (+27 vs crushing, slashing, piercing, and ice), and all tiers now grant extra mitigation from Elites (+54 additional at highest tier)
• Ice Veins: power cost and base damage increased. All treasure potency recalculated
• "Ice Armor restores 80 Power over 30 seconds" => "Ice Armor costs -19 Power and restores 51 Power after a 6-second delay"
• "Ice Armor restores 170 Armor over 30 seconds" => "Ice Armor mitigates +16 Physical and Cold damage, and mitigates +32 more against Elite attacks"
• "Ice Armor boosts Cold attack damage +34" => +50
• "You regain 44 Health when using Ice Nova or Shardblast" => "Ice Nova and Shardblast deal +61 damage and cost -12 Power"
• New treasure (off-hand): "Ice Veins heals +16 Health and resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)"
• "Ice Veins heals 120 Health over 10 seconds" => 180 health over 10 seconds
• Ice Veins is now marked as a Minor Heal ability (making it eligible for equipment that boosts Minor Heals).
• New treasure (head): "Ice Armor instantly restores 80 health"
• "Shardblast resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)" => "Shardblast deals +X% damage and resets the timer on Ice Armor (so it can be used again immediately)" *

Cold Sphere Changes

• Cold Sphere: increased base damage-boost of all pets level 50+. The "root" effect from their rage attack is reduced from 10sec (!) to 5sec
• "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +34 damage and taunt -65%" => "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +50% damage and taunt -25%"
• "Your Cold Sphere gains 156 Armor" => "Your Cold Sphere gains 90 Health"
• New treasure (chest): "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deal +24 damage and cause the targets to suffer +12% damage from future Cold attacks (non-stacking)"
• New treasure (head, hands): "Your Cold Sphere's attacks deals +170 damage, but their Max Health is -80"

Other Ice Magic Changes

• Ice Nova: power cost and base damage increased. All treasure potency recalculated
• Frostbite ability: ability base damage increased slightly
• "Blizzard deals 328 armor damage and generates -120 Rage" => "Blizzard Damage +255"
• "Frostbite deals +154 damage and raises the target's Max Rage by 79%, preventing them from using their Rage attacks as often" => "Frostbite deals +176 damage and raises the target's Max Rage by 33%, preventing them from using their Rage attacks as often"
• "Freeze Solid resets the timer on Ice Spear (so it can be used again immediately)" => "Ice Nova deals +110 damage and reuse timer is -2 seconds" *
• "Freeze Solid restores 161 armor to you after a 15 second delay" => "Freeze Solid restores 112 armor to you"

One-Tier Mods Changed (*)

Deer Changes

Rethinking Deer Pet

• (Hands, Necklace) "Deer Kick implants insect eggs in the target. Future Deer Kicks by any deer cause target to take 310 Nature damage over 5 seconds"

Removed treasure mods

Specific Deer Changes

• Doe Eyes: Power cost increased. Ability now resists more physical damage, especially against Elites, and lasts for 24 seconds instead of 10. (At level 77 it now gives 36 mitigation, plus 72 more vs. Elites)
• "After using Doe Eyes, your next attack deals +169 damage" => "Doe Eyes reuse timer is -2 seconds, and after using Doe Eyes your next attack deals +190 damage"
• "Doe Eyes restores 95 armor" => "Doe Eyes mitigates +16 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 26 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +32 more"
• "Doe Eyes heals 80 health" => "For 10 seconds after using Doe Eyes, you mitigate +36 from all attacks, and a further +72 from Elite attacks"
• Ability "King of the Forest": base damage and Power cost increased slightly; all treasure stats tweaked slightly as a result
• "King of the Forest gives you +15 mitigation of any physical damage for 20 seconds" => this effect was available on two slots, but only applied once. This was intentional at the time, but now we're trying to make all treasure mods stack together when possible. New (stacking) version: "King of the Forest mitigates +14 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 10 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +28 more"
• "Cuteness Overload heals you for 114 health" => "Cuteness Overload Damage +270"
• "Combo: Deer Bash+Any Melee+Any Melee+Deer Kick: final step hits all enemies within 5 meters and deals +100 damage." => deals +240 damage
• Summoned Deer no longer have the benefits of the experimental genetics system, but have higher base damage
• Summoned Deer no longer have an innate 300% taunt bonus
• Summoned Deer can randomly be male or female
• "Summoned Deer Taunt +X%" => "Summoned Deer Rage Attack Damage +Y"
• "Antler Slash has a 50% chance to restore 48 armor" => this effect has been replaced with an entirely unrelated effect. (head, chest): "You can use the Deer ability Feign Injury, and it temp-taunts +11300. (Equipping this item will teach you the ability if needed.)"
• (Hands, Feet) "Deer Bash deals +120 damage and knocks the enemy backwards" => "Deer Bash has a 15% chance to summon a deer ally for 30 seconds"
• New (ring): "Cuteness Overload deals +160 damage and knocks the target backwards"
• New (Head, Necklace): "Pummeling Hooves deals +45 damage and has a 8% chance to summon a deer ally for 30 seconds"
• "Antler Slash deals +X% damage" => "Antler Slash hits all enemies within 5 meters and taunts +Y". NOTE: this effect used to be available on two slots, Head and Hands. It is now only on Hands. See above about Legacy items.
• "Psychic Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active" => "Psychic and Nature Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active"
• "Nature Mitigation +34 while Deer skill active" => "Burst Evasion +8.5% while Deer skill active"
• "Deer Kick Damage +85" => "Deer Kick Damage +45 and grants you -10% Fire Vulnerability for 10 seconds"
• New: (main-hand) "Combo: Forest Challenge+Any Melee+Any Melee+Any Epic Attack: final step deals +150 damage and summons a deer ally for 30 seconds."

Live Event Token Prize Changes

Other important notes:

• Once you learn the Vendor Fox in a Box ability, the ability requires you to have some type of crate in your inventory. Any crafted storage crate and most pet crates (when Animal Husbandry is released) will work to allow use of the ability. The crate will not be consumed. The cool down timer on the ability will reset in 2 real-time hours, but you still need to spend 2 hours in-game before you can use the ability again. (You can see that timer in your effects bar under the effect 'Boxed Fox'.)
• Once you learn the Small Box of Space ability, there are no other requirements. Just use the ability to summon your storage box. The cool down timer for this ability has been extended to 90 minutes (from 60 minutes). The cool down timer on the ability will reset in 90 real-time minutes, but you still need to spend 90 in-game before you can use the ability again. (You can see that timer in your effects bar under the effect 'Spaced Out'.)

Other Changes In This Update

• Bug fix: Rabbit: "Bun-Fu Blast deals +80 damage and restores 44 Power after a 9-second delay" => this did not add damage to Bun-Fu Blast as expected
• Bug fix: Rabbit: "Bun-Fu Blast deals +78 damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Bun-Fu Strike by 3 seconds" => this did not add damage to Bun-Fu Blast as expected
• Rabbit: added Astounding Familiar Controllers (level 80 ice magic tiara) to loot
• Flight in-combat: the Power penalty for flying while in combat now has a much higher cap (meaning flying while in-combat for more than a few seconds costs more Power than before)
• Added a "quit" button to the login and character-select screens
• Fixed AI bug that caused monsters to hate the first attack that hit them more than intended
• "Carbon-form Scrutinizer Array" only gave a +5 pathology bonus instead of intended +10 bonus
• The visual appearance for Winter Court Murder Armor (level 80 Hardcore armor) did not glow as intended
• "Rubgag's Dancing Shoes": sprint buff now only works out of combat
• Worked around Unity shader bug that could cause treants to turn into nightmarish blobs of polygons
• Fixed bugs that caused "corpse stink" particles to continue emitting after the corpse was closed

With this update, the Halloween event comes to an end. But there is a silver lining: it's cranberry season! Also look for special seasonal recipes (they can drop as loot scrolls) throughout the month. There are also some balance changes in this update, mainly for Shield, Staff, and Cow. You can read on to get an understanding of the longer-term goals, or just jump to the sections on each specific skill. The changes will require players to adapt a bit -- especially high-level players -- so for the next few weeks all the affected skills are much cheaper to Transmute. This will help you convert your equipment as needed. Remember to report any bugs you find with the in-game bug report button, and thank you for helping us make Project: Gorgon!

Skill Rebalances: Background Info

Shield Changes

• If you already knew Vigorous Defense, you now automatically know Bulwark Mode instead.
• Treasure change: "Vigorous Defense Restores +48 Power" => "While Bulwark Mode is enabled you recover 13 Armor per second"
• Treasure change: "Vigorous Defense boosts your Sprint Speed +7 for 15 seconds" => "While Bulwark Mode is enabled you recover 10 Power per second"
• New treasure (Legs): While Bulwark Mode is active all your attacks taunt +50% and restore 17 Health to you
• New treasure (Head, Main Hand): "While Bulwark Mode is active all your attacks taunt +50% and restore 26 Armor to you"

• Changed the Elemental Ward ability to: "Reduces elemental damage (Fire, Cold, or Electricity) by 35 for 30 seconds, and for the first 3 seconds, provides complete immunity to elemental damage." [This is the level 75 version.]
• Treasure change: "Elemental Ward mitigates 45% of all Poison damage for 10 seconds" => "Elemental Ward mitigates +54 Darkness damage for 30 seconds"
• Treasure change: "Elemental Ward mitigates 45% of all Trauma damage for 10 seconds" => "Elemental Ward mitigates +55 direct Trauma damage for 30 seconds"
• New treasure (Chest, Ring): "Elemental Ward mitigates +32 elemental damage (Fire, Cold, and Electricity) for 30 seconds"

• "All types of shield Bash attacks restore 16 armor" => 21 armor
• "Stunning Bash deals X Trauma damage over 12 seconds" did not apply to Emergency Bash, but now does
• "Finish It Restores 62 Health" => this treasure effect was bugged and did not work. Also, healing changed from 62 to 68 (@ level 80)
• "Disrupting Bash deals +40% damage and taunts +460" => "Disrupting Bash causes the next attack that hits you to deal 29 less damage"
• "Infuriating Bash generates no Rage and lowers Rage by 725" => "Infuriating Bash reduces the Power cost of melee attacks by 10 for 6 seconds"
• "Direct Acid Mitigation +24 and Indirect Acid Mitigation +4 while Shield skill active" => "Max Armor +36, Direct Acid Mitigation +24, and Indirect Acid Mitigation +4 while Shield skill active"
• New treasure effect (Feet): "All Shield attacks have a 22% chance to conjure a force-shield that mitigates 10% of all slashing, crushing, and piercing damage for 30 seconds (or until 100 damage is absorbed). Stacks up to 5 times
• New treasure effect (Hands): "All Shield attacks have a 22% chance to conjure a force-shield that mitigates 10% of all direct nature, darkness, demonic, and acid damage for 30 seconds (or until 100 damage is absorbed). Stacks up to 5 times
• New treasure effect (Chest, Legs): "Fight Me You Fools deals +18% damage and restores 96 Health over 8 seconds"

Staff Changes

• Ability Change: At max level the protective buff changed to 13% universal mitigation for 15 seconds. Base damage increased.
• Treasure: "Deflective Spin heals 108 Health over 60 seconds" => 270 health over 15 seconds
• Treasure: "If you have less than half of your Health remaining, Deflective Spin heals you for 31% of your Max Health" => "Deflective Spin restores 66 Health instantly and provides +50 Mitigation from all Elite attacks for 15 seconds"
• Treasure: "Deflective Spin restores 54 Power after a 20 second delay" => "Deflective Spin costs -9 Power and mitigates +11 damage from each attack for 15 seconds"
• New Treasure: (Ring): "Deflective Spin gives you +18% Projectile Evasion for 15 seconds"

• Ability changes: "For the next 10 seconds, you suffer no physical damage" => "Reduces any physical damage you suffer for 30 seconds, and for the first 3 seconds you are immune to physical damage" (base ability @ level 77 mitigates +34 slashing/crushing/piercing from regular enemies, and +68 more against Elites). Ability cost increased.
• Changed Treasure: "Blocking Stance restores 50 Power to you" => "Blocking Stance costs -16 Power and mitigates +10% of physical damage from Elite attackers for 30 seconds"
• Changed Treasure: "For 30 seconds after using Blocking Stance, your Mentalism Base Damage is +14.5%" => "Blocking Stance boosts your Psychic Damage +6.75% for 30 seconds"
• Changed Treasure: "Blocking Stance boosts your Direct Cold Damage +19.5% for 30 seconds" => "Blocking Stance boosts your Cold Damage +6.75% for 30 seconds"
• New Treasure: (Head, Necklace): "Blocking Stance mitigates +12 physical damage (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) for 30 seconds. Against Elite enemies, mitigates +24 more."

• Lunge: ability's internal "power category" was increased, increasing Power cost, base damage, and potency of treasure effects. (All Lunge treasure was affected at least slightly; for brevity only significant changes are listed here)
• "Lunge hits all enemies within 5 meters, but deals -8% damage and reuse timer is +2 seconds" => "Lunge hits all enemies within 7 meters and deals +175 damage to health and armor, but reuse timer is +2 seconds"
• "Lunge deals +121 armor damage" => "Lunge causes the next attack that hits you to deal 29 less damage"
• "Double Hit costs -16 Power and makes the target 10% more vulnerable to Slashing for 15 seconds" => "Double Hit costs -16 Power and makes the target 10% more vulnerable to direct Fire and Cold damage for 8 seconds"
• Smash, Double Hit, and Heed The Stick Damage +69 => +125
• "Pin boosts Core Attack and Nice Attack Damage +68 for 7 seconds" => +98 for 15 seconds
• "Phoenix Strike deals +36% Fire damage to melee attackers, and ability reuse timer is -7 seconds" => +36 becomes +41%
• Headcracker and Strategic Thrust deal +16% damage and reuse timer is -1 second => +22%
• "Lunge deals +39% damage to health and armor" => +43%

Cow Changes

• "Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus all attacks by Elites +14 for 10 seconds" => now +34. Also, this treasure effect was bugged and did not work before
• "Tough Hoof has a 66% chance to deal +86% damage and taunt +800" => "Tough Hoof costs -26 Power and mitigates +11% of all Elite attacks for 8 seconds"
• "Tough Hoof deals +51% damage and taunts +800" => "Tough Hoof deals +51% damage and reuse timer is -1 second"
• "Cow's Bash restores 33 Power to you" => "Cow's Bash deals +80 damage, taunts +800, and reuse timer is -1 second"
• "Indirect Nature Damage +40% when skill Cow active" => "Indirect Nature Damage and Indirect Trauma Damage +40% when skill Cow active"
• "Deadly Emission Deals +255 Nature damage over 10 seconds and Taunts +400" => 255 to 415
• "You regenerate +20 Health per tick (every 5 seconds, in and out of combat) while Cow skill active" => "While Cow skill is active, you regenerate +32 Health every 5 seconds and resist +16 damage from Elite Crushing, Slashing, or Piercing attacks"
• New treasure (Feet): "Cow's Bash costs -33 Power"
• New treasure (off-hand): "Deadly Emission Deals +170 Nature damage over 10 seconds and reduces targets' next attack by 35%"
• New treasure (ring): "Clobbering Hoof deals +35% damage and if target is Elite, reduces their attack damage 10% for 10 seconds"
• New treasure (chest, hands): "Max Power +31 and Vulnerability to Elite Damage -8% when Cow skill active"
• New treasure (hands): "Tough Hoof deals +132 damage and taunts +950"

Rabbit Changes

• Ability change: Carrot Power: Base chance to consume carrot changed from 33% to 10%. Tweaked wording to make it clear that Rabbit Treats act as Carrots for purposes of this ability
• Ability change: "Bun Fu Blitz" is renamed "Bun Fu Kick", and is now considered a kick for purposes of effects that boost kicks. ("Thump" also continues to be a kick.)
• Treasure change: "Bun-Fu Blast deals Cold damage (instead of Psychic). Reuse timer is -1 second and damage is +68" => "Bun-Fu Blast deals Cold damage (instead of Psychic), and Ice Magic attacks boost the damage of Bun-Fu Blast by 16% for 60 seconds (max 20 stacks)"
• Treasure change: "Carrot Power restores 144 Health after a 12 second delay" => 240 health after an 8-second delay
• Treasure change: "Carrot Power boosts the damage from all kicks +124 for 10 seconds" => +192
• Treasure change: "Bun-Fu Strike deals Cold damage (instead of Crushing) and deals +112 damage " => additional feature: "... and hastens the reset timer of Bun Fu Blast by 2 seconds"
• New treasure effect (Chest): "Love Tap boosts your Melee Evasion +11.5% for 15 seconds"
• Rabbit gear can be transmuted cheaply at Item Workbenches for the next few weeks

Spirit Fox Changes

• treasure that boosted Paradox Trot only lasted for a maximum of 20 seconds (not 60 as intended)
• treasure that boosted the stats of summoned Trick Foxes did not work
• "Blur Step provides +N% Burst Evasion for 20 seconds, and Paradox Trot boosts Sprint Speed +1": this treasure effect is available on two item slots, but having both did not stack
• "Blur Step provides +N% Ranged Evasion for 20 seconds, and Paradox Trot boosts Sprint Speed +1": this treasure effect is available on two item slots, but having both did not stack

Nimble Gear Nerf

• Crafted Nimble Coat: Every 15 (or 12) seconds, automatically Evade the first Melee attack aimed at you => triggers every 30 (or 25) seconds
• Crafted Nimble Pants: Every 15 (or 12) seconds, automatically Evade the first Ranged attack aimed at you => triggers every 30 (or 25) seconds
• Crafted Nimble Shoes: Every 15 (or 12) seconds, automatically Evade the first Burst attack aimed at you => triggers every 30 (or 25) seconds

"Monster Shout Suppression" Indicator

• Unarmed: Front Kick, Barrage, Hip Throw, Claw Barrage
• Fire Magic: Defensive Burst
• Psychology: Tell Me About Your Mother, Cause Terror
• Pig: Pig Punt, Squeal, Harmlessness
• Deer: Deer Bash
• Cow: Cow Bash
• Staff: Redirect, Suppress
• Necromancy: Deathgaze
• Archery: Snare Arrow
• Spider: Gripjaw, Terrifying Bite
• Shield: Stunning Bash, Emergency Bash
• Hammer: Leaping Smash
• Ice Magic: Freeze Solid
• Bard: Entrancing Lullaby
• Rabbit: Play Dead, Love Tap
• Miscellaneous: Horrifying Screech, Visage of Kajich

Other Changes

• Players receive new bonus levels in Cooking by reaching level 70 in Gardening, level 49 in Knife Fighting, level 30 in Shamanic Infusion, level 35 in Alchemy, and level 60 in Skinning
• Tweaked cow porkpie hat visual positioning
• Removed physics collision from some deployable candles
• Fixed significant framerate drop in Serbule and Serbule Hills during certain hours of the morning, when the camera was facing certain directions. (The "fix" involves making the sun not cast shadows too early in the morning. It's not exactly an elegant or permanent fix, but it'll do for now. The "real" fix will probably involve replacing the sky system again.)
• The Ilmari Desert has undergone graphical renovation. This is mainly a test of a new system for terrain decoration. Theoretically, you should have about the same framerate as before, even though the desert now has thousands more decorative elements (mainly boulders, but also clumps of trees, grass, etc.)
• Fixed bug with certain Graphics Settings sliders that incorrectly rounded a fractional number to the nearest whole number, even if that made the value invalid. E.g. when a slider was supposed to have a minimum value of 0.1, it got rounded to 0.0. (You can still type in "invalid" numbers manually, but they will be capped to the intended min/max the next time you move the slider.)

The Halloween event is live! This year it's much longer than before. If you encounter problems with any of the new quests, please remember to bug-report them.

Balance changes:

• We've modestly increased the Power cost of most abilities. (We'll use level 80 abilities as examples since the changes are most noticeable at high level.) A typical high-damage level 80 ability costs 4 or 5 more Power than before. E.g. Barrage 7's cost changed from 48 to 52. A few abilities (ones in the highest "Power tier", an internal measurement) were increased more dramatically. Most dramatic is probably "You Were Adopted 6": its cost changed from 90 to 110 Power.
• We've revised how quickly bosses respawn. Most bosses now respawn 5-10 minutes faster, with an average speed up of seven minutes. The exact change depends on how complex the boss's scripting is, and how easily we could revise things to be faster (without having to re-engineer the whole encounter). If you run into problems with this new respawn rate, please report them. (An example problem is if the boss's sidekicks respawn much faster or slower than the boss themselves.) NOTE: one of the ways we sped up boss respawns is by hastening the rate at which their corpses decay. Most boss corpses decay 2 minutes sooner than before.

Other changes:

• Added lighting to Hogan's Basement
• Added lighting to Goblin Dungeon
• Treasure bug fix: giant bat Sonic Burst combo effect accidentally also boosted Giant Bat Base Damage for 10 seconds (which comes from a different combo)
• Tweaked cow eyeballs
• Nishika in Rahu has new hangouts that can teach you how to turn mountains of cheap meat into small amounts of low-quality animal fat
• Tweaked spawn density in Hogan's Basement
• Slightly tweaked game performance in some dungeons

Bug fixes/tweaks:

• Fixed a bug that disabled several framerate optimizations (such as Culling Distance Multiplier)
• Fixed label problem on candles: they said they lasted 45 minutes, but actually last 90
• Fixed bug that let you place 2 buffing candles at once (this is mainly a sanity-check mechanism since players can only have one candle buff at a time anyway)
• Fixed bug that let you place 6 decorative tealights instead of 5 (which was wildly exploitable)
• Ultashk now demands Filthy Animal Fat instead of Candle Stumps to get past his gate
• Some rats had gained the ability to fly; this is fixed
• Winter Court Frostmakers didn't advance quests requiring you to kill Winter Court troops in the Fae Realm
• Made Fae Ensigns' consoles opaque for purposes of line-of-sight checks (which also means they can't shoot through them)
• Some Fae Ensigns were unable to hear calls for help
• Fae Ensigns are more susceptible to mesmerisation
• Coldfeather is a bit tougher
• Captain Evergloam is a bit tougher
• Fixed some more treasure buffs that kept working after switching combat skills
• Fixed coloring on named grimalkin "Hissy" and "Chopjaw" (this is a temp patch until animal genetics are enabled, at which point each instance of these creatures will have a slightly different color chosen by their genetics; for now their coloration is always max-intensity)
• Improved the new "Alarmer" behavior, which is used by Captain Evergloam (and entourage), as well as by security aboard the Wintertide. (Creatures with this behavior will have "Alarmer" listed in their portrait tags when selected.) Previously, Alarmers called for help whenever they used an ability. Now, they call for help as soon as they enter combat and every 4 seconds during combat, except when stunned, mezzed, or feared. (Note that this change makes Fearing an Alarmer creature very dangerous: they won't actually shout for help while fleeing, but they will shout as soon as they return to normal combat. So watch out for that.)
• Changed which animals can drop animal fat. (The intent is that mammalian-type animals will drop fat as an organ.) Some creatures such as bees and dinosaurs were dropping fat, and no longer are. Other creatures such as fae bears and entourage panthers did not drop fat, and now do. A few creatures have changed what type of fat they drop. (The type of fat is based on the level and the general role of the creature; meat animals such as cows, goats, and deer will have the best fat drops for their level.)

New Dungeons

Aurest Missions

Goblin Dungeon Revamp

Combat Balance Changes

• Animal Handling pets have reduced health and armor (not very noticeable at low level, but reduced by 20-40% at level 80, depending on the specific pet)
• Significantly nerfed the damage of Elite and Boss monsters (by about 70-120 damage per attack, for level 80s).
  • (But note that their Rage attacks weren't nerfed! They deal approximately the same damage as before.)

Manticore Changes

Manticores are involved in one of the new Aurest missions, and have been refactored for that purpose.
• Nerfed the hell out of manticores' stats
• Nerfed loot also
• Changed respawn rate to be more typical (to make it plausible for a group of level 55s, say, to farm them)
• Hegemonic Storage Keys drop much more often, although the amount of loot from the hegemonic chests is reduced a bit

Other Changes

• Fixed animation issue with golems that made them seem to blip around as they walked
• Fixed animation issue with trolls that made them keep running when they should have stopped
• Frost Hippogriffs, which were previously just blue versions of regular Hippogriffs, now have more distinctive attacks
• Solving the vault puzzle in a War Cache now also gives out 1-4 sacks of Councils, as well as a random piece of gear as before
• Emotes like /wave and /cry now have a different message when you have something selected, versus when you have nothing selected
• Added "/thank" and "/cheer" emotes (which just perform a waving animation for now)
• You can no longer butcher Striga for meat (because they are sentient)
• Fixed display issue that caused all Elite/Boss monsters to have the Thick Armor descriptor. (This wasn't technically a bug, because all Elites do get some thick armor automatically. But this made it impossible to differentiate typical elites from elites that have a LOT of thick armor. Now only the thickest elites are so labeled.)
• Recipe for Forensic Analysis Kit now requires a higher-quality first aid kit
• Tweaked Qatik's Casino Excursion quests to actually require you to pick up the items requested
• "Labyrinth" dungeon tweaks: entrance is easier, Asterion is nerfed a bit, final maze has a somewhat more reasonable monster distribution, added a map
• Laura Neth now accepts work orders from animals
• Fixed bug with treasure generation on Fairy Dirks
• The emergency-exit portal at the bottom of the Wolf Den dungeon could not be selected (except at a very odd angle)
• Fixed a bunch of ability buffs that could persist even after the caster switched combat skills. In some cases this could be exploited by rapidly switching loadouts to gain the benefits from more than two combat skills at once. We've fixed many of these type of bugs, although we're still rooting them out of nooks and crannies of the game and some probably still remain. Please report them! It is never intentional for you to keep the benefits from a combat skill that's no longer active.
• Fixed a few abilities and treasure effects that boosted Movement Speed when they were supposed to boost Sprint Speed. (The difference is that Movement Speed also boosts fly/swim speed, and prevents roots/slows from being as effective.)
• Moderately increased the cash value of higher-level magic items. (Only applies to newly-generated weapons.)
• Fox Outpost defense crystals no longer shoot foxes on sight (other fox tweaks to come, just didn't fit in this update!)

This is a minor update in terms of new stuff, but it's a major update internally -- after a lot of work, we've upgraded to the latest LTS Unity version! With luck, you'll notice better performance. (And a heartfelt thanks to the brave Beta Testers who helped us make this work!) In terms of new content, there's a new animal form for experienced players to discover. It can be found deep in a cave in Kur. (We consider this the "preview edition" of this new animal form; all mechanics are implemented, and most of the treasure, but not much in the way of NPC interactions yet.) We also want to remind players to always take warnings in item descriptions seriously!

Changes to Settings

• The filename of the game's settings file has changed. It used to be GorgonConfig.txt. For new versions of the game, it's GorgonSettings.txt.
• Previously, the game's log was saved to a file named output_log.txt on Windows. That file is now Player.log. This is the log that we usually request when debugging.
• In Windows, both of these files can be found at: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\LocalLow\Elder Game\Project Gorgon

UI Fixes & Changes

• Another attempt to tame the Settings window's complexity: the features of the GUI section are now broken up into sub-sections that can be expanded or collapsed.
• Added the ability to set the color of different types of overhead labels. (Experimental)
• Fixed bug where resizing a game panel or window would not persist in its new size after restarting the game.
• Fixed bug where talking in Party chat while not in a Party would go to the Global channel. (This now displays an error message instead.)
• Fixed bug where chat tabs would switch to speaking on Global channel after switching to a new area.
• The game now saves the channel you want to talk on as part of its settings, so it will remember them when restarting the game (as long as you were speaking on a channel that is actually received in that room -- this is a safety precaution).
• When you click the chat-channel-chooser button to pick which channel you're talking in, the listing shows only the channels that are actually displayed in that tab. (Well, actually the other channels are still displayed, in a special sub-listing, because we didn't want to remove old functionality without feedback. So! Do you use the sub-listing to speak in a channel that isn't displayed in the active tab? If so, why? Would you be sad if it went away? Let us know!)

Combat XP Tweak

Monsters and Mantids

• Monsters toughened up! All monsters beyond level 2 have a bit more health and deal a bit more damage. (More tweaks and random encounters are still in the works.)
• Fixed several events with missing messages (where it would just say "null" instead of a message).
• Fixed golem encounter bug that could lead to fighting a fairy instead of a golem.
• The "skillcode" column on the leaderboard now encodes chosen perks. (Not retroactive for existing leaderboard entries.)

Treasure Fixes

• Treasure effect "Warning Jolt restores X Armor and taunts +Y" restored Health instead of Armor.
• Treasure effect "Warning Jolt restores X Power and attack range is increased 5 meters" restored Health instead of Power.
• Treasure: "Deadly Emission Damage +X and Reuse Timer -1 second" didn't correctly shorten the reuse timer.
• Treasure: "Barrage and Headbutt ignite the target, ..." did not work for the Claw Barrage variant of Barrage.
• Some treasure effects that buff kicks did not apply to rabbits' "Thump" or spiders' "Infinite Legs".
• Priest treasure change: "Direct Fire Damage +35 while Priest skill active" => now +100.
• Necromancy: new off-hand treasure effect: "Death's Hold causes target to take +9% damage from Darkness for 15 seconds"

Other Changes

• Added a new animal form. It can be discovered deep in a cave in Kur.
• Kelim required only level 50 to unlock 60-70 Gardening; he now requires level 60.
• The notoriety message for defeating Betra the Cold incorrectly referred to her as Murdebok the Valiant.
• Yogzi has recipes for a few missing skill belts.
• Backfat now charges the usual royal jelly fee for first aid techniques.
• Pets now follow closer to their owners.
• Fixed bug that prevented pet grimalkin from being summoned by animal handlers.
• Undead creatures are now 50% vulnerable to Darkness damage (instead of 0%). This applies to pets as well as monsters.
• Spider's "Insidious Illusion" reset time changed from 1 hour to 20 minutes.
• Werewolf quests from the Altar of Norala now abort right after the full moon ends (instead of aborting right before the next full moon, as they did before).
• Alchemy: several "Max Health +N" potions had too short of a duration and were fixed to last 1 hour.
• "Toxin Resistance Potion" is now considered a resistance potion for gifting purposes.
• "Steroid Drink" is now considered a max-health potion, not a restorative potion, for purposes of gifting.

This update is heavy on UI improvements. There's also some new things to discover in Sun Vale (which we won't spoiler here since it's exploration content). Plus a broad assortment of other stuff... read on!

General User Interface Changes

• The "overhead labels" GUI options are now enabled by default. This change will override your old settings, meaning that if you don't want overhead labels on, you'll need to go into the Settings window and turn them off again. (Sorry about that.)
• The "avatar portrait" GUI option is now enabled by default. We've made a lot of improvements to the portraits in this update, and while there's still a lot to do, we asked ourselves "Would you rather have portraits enabled, or a pointless blank space in the UI?" And for the first time, we decided portraits were better than nothing. So they're enabled! (But you can still turn them off in the settings, of course.)
• The "Close Last Panel" keyboard command (default Escape key) no longer closes the Pet UI. (Experimental, feedback desired! The old behavior just felt wrong most of the time.) You can still close the pet UI by pressing the pet-UI key (default P) or pressing the pet icon on the bottom bar.
• Another experimental tweak to the "Close Last Panel" keyboard command (default Escape key): if no closeable panels are found, it tries to clear your current selection instead. If you have no selection, it shows the system menu, as before.
• The Recipe window now has back/forward history buttons (to let you view the previous recipe you were looking at)
• Floaty damage numbers that affect both health and armor at the same time have been combined into one number. If the damage was split between health and armor, it will be shown in orange. If the damage was applied entirely to health, it will be shown in red. (If you prefer the old format you can use the special GUI setting DualFloaties to get the old behavior back, at least for now. This may end up being obsoleted unless lots of players indicate that they prefer it.)
• Hide permanent effect icons: you can now remove clutter from your effect-icons bar by hiding your "permanent" effects (ones without a timer duration, such as Armor Bonuses and Curses.) There's a little "..." icon in the effect bar to turn them on and off.
• Some permanent effects that previously didn't have an effect icon (to avoid adding too much clutter) now have an icon. Most notably, Spawn Premonition buffs are now shown.
• Changed the visual effects for monsters who feel vulnerable. (Still a work in progress.)

Chat

• You can now customize the colors of each chat channel. These options are in the Settings window, in the GUI section. (You can also set whether the text is bold or italic, which is actually slated to be a feature of our VIP subscription plan, alongside a bunch of other fancy GUI options. We're not actually sure if this tiny feature will end up being VIP-only, but if it does, consider this a preview.) Known issue: if you join a new chat room while the Settings window is open, you will need to close and reopen the Settings window for that new chat room to appear in the color list.
• You can now share recipes in chat. On the Recipes window, right click the name of a recipe and choose "Share in Chat"
• When sharing items or recipes in chat, you no longer have to type a message. You can just say the item (or recipe) without further commentary if desired.
• In an attempt to make item/recipe sharing a little bit more comprehensible, there's a new "Send Chat" option shown when you click the "+1 Item" button on the chat window. The "Send Chat" option is the same as pressing Enter while typing chat text: it sends whatever's been typed, along with the chosen items/recipes.
• Made the Chat window behave a bit more like other windows in a few ways. Most noticeably, there is a close button on the window now. More subtly, the window is no longer in the "background" behind other windows. This means that it can now appear on top of other windows. It's hard to explain, and not that important, but if you're wondering "wait, did this change?" then you're not insane, yes it did.

Particle-Spam Limiter

Monster Buffs

• High-level monsters have more health. The change starts at level 40, though it probably won't be noticeable until significantly higher level. By level 80, however, the change is noticeable, giving monsters around 20%-40% more Max Health. As an example, a level 77 fire spider's health increased from 2013 to 2898, gaining 885 health. Max Rage also increased proportionately. This change is aimed at solo monsters, although it also affects group monsters by the same amount. (e.g. if there were a Boss version of the aforementioned level 77 fire spider, it might have 20,000+ health, but regardless, this change would only add 885 to it, the same as if it were a solo monster.)
• Scray's delayed acid damage is a bit more painful.
• Bees and wasps with poison-DoT rage attacks now deal a bit more poison damage per second.
• Werewolf enemies whose rage attack is a healing-howl: the heal is now a meaningful amount, although still not especially impressive.
• Sharks were accidentally using generic forest-animal attacks (in fact, their bites could inflict lice!) They now have unique attacks: they have a crippling opener move, and their rage-attack is a bleed.

Bee Hive Encounter Revisions

Monsters and Mantids

• when your Gaming skill is 15, you can now tip your game master. Game masters provide hastier service for big tippers.
• when your M&M character reaches XP level 2, 3, and 5, you'll pick a Perk from a random selection of Perks. Perks are small buffs and benefits.
• when your dice-roll ends in death, you no longer receive your tickets and rewards before the dice are finished rolling. Instead, press the "Continue" button to receive your rewards.
• the ante for playing the regular game has increased from 500 to 650, and Pro tables increased from 750 to 900. Expected average earnings for skilled players are still a bit higher than before, though.
• the ability Prey deals +2 damage and heals -1 health (at all tiers)
• the ability Lurk deals -1 damage (at all tiers) to injured enemies
• the code for the random-encounter system was rewritten in this update, and all the encounters were converted to a new system. It's possible there are bugs -- if you find them, please report them!
• there are some new random encounters, with more to come

Fairy Tweaks

• All beehives in the fae realm now have a quest available to fairies. (Previously, most of the hives were "coming soon".) Each hive can now be completed once every 5 days instead of every 1 day. The item rewards are also tweaked: they now sometimes give valuable items (such as royal jelly) instead of fairy Soul Anchors, although the most common reward item is still a Fairy Soul Anchor. All 12 of the hive quests give 200 Fae racial XP upon completion.
• Most items made of ice now melt less quickly. (Raw ice is about half as likely to melt each tick.)
• Using the Fairy Wing Potion was much more tedious than intended because the potion chose randomly between 30+ different wings. There are now five different fairy wing potions, each covering only one or two styles of wing. This way, when you know which shape you want, you can more easily find it in the color you want by brewing the appropriate potion. These new recipes are unlocked by raising Fey racial skill.

Previews of Animal Husbandry

• The Stable window has been rewritten in preparation for the upcoming Animal Husbandry system. You'll notice that the new version indicates whether your pet is male or female. This will be important for breeding purposes, but won't have any other effect.
• The Stable window will say that your pets are "Unregistered" -- this can be ignored for now
• The Item Info window has a new tab labeled "Preview". This will be how you examine a pet who's stored in a travel-cage item. For now, it does nothing.
• Some animals are currently using genetics internally. This includes cats, wasps, bees, deer, and a few others. These genes can affect the creatures' stats: they may have more or less max health than normal, or have evasion, toughness, etc. However, the genomes these animals are using are junk genes, intended only for testing.
• Two types of creatures, deer and bees/wasps, not only use genetics internally, but externally as well: their genes affect their visual appearance. You'll notice that different individuals have unique colors, sizes, and (in the case of bees), deformities, particles, or other strangeness. Again, these animals' genomes aren't permanent, they're just for testing the system. (Especially the deer's appearance genes, which currently generate rainbow-colored deer.)
• Pets are NOT using genes at this time, so when you tame a wasp (for example), you'll get a standard wasp, ignoring the genes of the creature you tamed.
• Some animals have the wrong colors (e.g. Hissy isn't red). This is temporary and will be fixed.

Bug Fixes/Other Stuff

• Worked around a Unity UI bug that could cause your mouse cursor to get "stuck" in the center of the screen whenever it touched the edges of a GUI window.
• Basic ambient sound-effects added to Fae Realm
• Some words of power that said they lasted 15 minutes only lasted 5 minutes
• The crossbows "Hunting Crossbow" and "Double Crossbow" were incorrectly flagged as having a necromancy gem; the gem is now removed.
• Archery ability Snare Arrow's description indicated that it used 5 arrows, but only actually needed 1. The description was incorrect and has been fixed
• Food item "Gobbledygook" was incorrectly marked as a meat dish
• The "Bridge Bully" has been relocated to a more recognizable bridge
• Velkort's pet flame now acts as a waste disposal service for the town of Serbule: you can discard junk in it.
• Fixed bugs that could cause the wrong icon to be shown on the "casting" progress bar
• Fixed exploitable bug: high-level Fairy Magic abilities could be used even when paired with a very low-level skill (It didn't honor the max-25-level-difference cap between your active skills.)
• Tamed Blinding Wasps' special abilities were both named "Wasp Ranged Debuff" -- one of them is now renamed "Wasp Burst Pierce". Behavior is unchanged, only the label was wrong
• Fixed bugs where Objective Orienteering abilities could report "The quest objective is not anywhere in this zone" when they were, in fact, in the zone, just very far away. This bug could happen for quests in Sun Vale or Ilmari Desert.
• Fixed a bug that caused Combos to be aborted when you triggered a Combat Refresh
• Tweaked spawn range of motherlodes in Kur to prevent spawning off the map
• Fixed display errors where your Friends list would occasionally show incorrect amounts of time since your friends were last online.
• Some types of clothing did not show up in the "paper doll" in the Persona window (and some still don't... still working on it)
• Changed the default LOD Bias value for the graphics level "5: Amazing". It is now 3 instead of 1000. (3 sounds small, but it's actually quite dramatic: it's a 300% increase in how far away the game will render things in their highest level of detail.) The value of 1000 was only intended for "6: Ultra", which still uses that default. 1000 is so high that it essentially turns off the level-of-detail system entirely, always rendering everything at max resolution, even if it's miles away. This is dumb, but Ultra.
• Fixed login issue: if you were disconnected due to internet problems, then tried to reconnect, you could get a message telling you to try again, but no means of trying again (forcing you to restart the game). If this happens now, the client waits a few seconds on the "try again" error screen, then switches back to the login screen so you can try again.

This update had a short timetable because we wanted to release these fairy bug-fixes ASAP. Even so, we were able to fit in a few other changes and rebalances. We'll be back soon with more content for fairies and non-fairies alike!

Fairy Bug Fixes and Changes

• Revised the newbie fairy quest lines to be a little more intuitive. New fairy players will have an overarching quest that directs you to other NPCs you need to help, and some of the quests have been revised to be less annoying. If you were currently working on fairy quests when you last logged out, you may need to speak with the relevant NPC to re-get the quest.
• Limited the number of Troll Honeytenders that spawn in the fae realm.
• Increased number of deer that spawn in Sun Vale -- there's an area on the large island where they like to congregate
• The "Stuff to Do" tab for fairies no longer includes tasks that are irrelevant for fairies (like "Learn Mentalism from Echur").
• Fixed fairy animations when strafing and swimming.
• Fairy Soul Anchors could not be used; they can now.
• Fairy Magic abilities could be used from the sidebar; they can't now.
• Fairy Magic abilities on your bar now correctly get replaced by higher-level versions of those abilities (when you unlock them).
• Marrowchomp doesn't attack fairies.
• Fairies now learn Sword abilities like other races do.
• Resuscitating a dead pet with fae energy now actually consumes the energy. Cost is lowered from 30 to 20 fae energy.
• Treasure effect "Astral Strike deals +85 damage and resets the timer on Pixie Flare (so it can be used again immediately)" did not reset the timer on Pixie Flare.
• Recipes for Fairy Cake and Fairy Stew consumed 10 more fae energy than listed.
• When large stacks of Crystal Ice melted, too much of the stack melted at once. The number of items melted at once has been reduced by half (to a minimum of 1).
• Pixie Flare's sound was playing in 2D instead of 3D.
• Reduced the volume of a particularly loud fairy light.
• Fixed exploit that let fairies respawn outside of the fae realm if they closed the game client at the right moment.
• Fairies gain a fae-only version of Recall Beginnings when they reach Fae Racial 24. It's like the level 20 Teleportation recipe except that it costs a Fairy Dust and doesn't need an amethyst.
• Added a few more hangouts to fae-realm NPCs, with more to come!

General Fixes

• Prevented "empty" augments from dropping in loot.
• Phoenixes remembered they have wings!
• When taming a Fae Ocelot, it turned into a fae panther in your stable. (It was named "Fae Ocelot" by default, but was otherwise a panther.) This has been fixed so that newly tamed ocelots are ocelots. For now the only difference is their size, but they may have stat differences in the future. Already-tamed pets are unchanged; they will permanently remain fae panthers.
• Improved animations for butterflies.
• Fixed selection box sizes for some monsters.
• Improved performance of floaty damage numbers when there are an insane amount of them (more than 30) on-screen at once.

Diminishing Returns for Stuns

Physics-Exploit Fixes

Other Balance Changes

• Fire magic treasure: "Super Fireball deals +40% damage and reuse timer is -1 second, but generates 50% more total Rage" => "Super Fireball deals +90 damage and reuse timer is -1 second"
• Fire Magic treasure: "Ring of Fire Damage +32%" => "Ring of Fire Damage +152"
• Fire Magic treasure: "Indirect Fire Damage +57% when Fire Magic skill active" => +40%
• Druid treasure: "Cosmic Strike deals +51% damage and reuse timer is -5 seconds" => "Cosmic Strike deals +115 damage and reuse timer is -5 seconds"
• Poetry Podium: earn less Oratory XP when reciting poetry to large groups.
• Bard: "Song of Discord" no longer affects targets that can't see you.

This is a big update with a lot of changes, and these update notes are pretty in-depth. The big news is the playable fairy race, but we also have major Animal Handling changes and a big set of monster rebalancing, plus more smaller tweaks, additions, and bug fixes than you can shake a wing tassel at. Buckle up!

Fairies!

Animal Handling Changes

• Pet bond levels now increase base damage a bit more. This affects all levels. For example at Bond level 40, base damage increased from +41 to +56. At bond level 80, it increased from +101 to +157.
• Pet bond levels now also boost the damage of pets' Sic 'Em and Clever Trick abilities. At Bond Level 80 this amounts to about a +150 damage bonus (which stacks with their base-damage bonus).
• Increased the base damage of nearly all pets' Sic 'Em and Clever Trick attacks. At max level, this increases their special-attack base damage by several hundred (for most pets).
• Increased the potency of several pets' Sic 'Em and/or Clever Trick abilities (heals, buffs, debuffs, DoTs).
• Fire Rats: these pets' Clever Trick accidentally dealt the full DoT damage with every tick. Since it ticked 4 times, it effectively dealt 400% of the intended damage. This has been fixed. (Complicating the math, however: the base DoT damage was approximately doubled during rebalancing, so the new DoT is about half of the old value, not 1/4th. And there are new treasure effects which can increase it above the old value.)

• "Animal Handling pets' healing abilities, if any, restore +27% health" => restore +45% health
• "Sic Em boosts your pet's Crushing attacks (if any) +26 damage for 10 seconds" => +80 over 10 seconds
• "Sic Em boosts your pet's Slashing attacks (if any) +26 damage for 10 seconds" => +80 over 10 seconds
• "Animal Handling pets recover +24 Armor every five seconds (whether in combat or not)" => +17 armor
• "Unnatural Wrath causes your pet to bleed for 160 trauma damage over 10 seconds, but also deal +54 damage per attack during that time" => now deals +144 damage per attack during that time
• "Animal Handling pets gain 16% melee evasion" => "Nimble Limbs gives pet +19% melee evasion for 30 seconds"
• "Animal Handling pets gain +5 Armor Absorbency." => new effect: "Animal Handling pets absorb some direct damage based on their remaining Armor (absorbing 0% when armor is empty, up to 20% when armor is full)"
• "Animal Handling pet attacks bypass 33 mitigation derived from armor" => "Animal Handling pets' damage-over-time effects (if any) deal +130% damage per tick"
• "Animal Handling pets deal +36 direct damage with each attack" => "Animal Handling pets' Sic 'Em and Clever Trick attacks deal +100 damage"
• "Get It Off Me heals you for 95 Health after a 15 second delay" => 160 Health
• "Feed Pet restores 90 Health (or Armor if Health is full) to your pet after a 20 second delay" => 140 Health (or Armor if Health is full)
• "Animal Handling pets deal +20% direct damage with each attack" => "Animal Handling pets' Sic 'Em attacks deal +16% damage"
• New treasure: (chest, off-hand): "Animal Handling pets' Clever Trick abilities deal +245 damage"
• New treasure: (hands, main-hand): "Animal Handling pets' Clever Trick attacks deal +16% damage"
• New treasure: (chest): "Direct Cold Damage +16% while Animal Handling skill active"
• New treasure: (necklace, legs, main-hand): "For 17 seconds after using Clever Trick, pets' basic attacks have a 15% chance to deal double damage"
• New treasure: (ring, off-hand): "Animal Handling pets' basic attacks deal +13% damage"

Elite/Boss Monster Changes

Changes to Monster Regeneration

Changes to Elite Monster "Rage Crits"

Changes to Monster Armor, and "Thick Armor" Monsters

Armor-Damage Formula Tweaks

• Staff: "Lunge deals +102 armor damage" => 121 armor damage
• Sword: "Many Cuts deals +110 armor damage" => 132 armor damage
• Sword: "Wind Strike and Heart Piercer deal 108 armor damage" => 124 armor damage
• Unarmed: "Unarmed attacks deal +18 Armor damage" => +32 armor damage
• Unarmed: "Hip Throw deals +192 armor damage" => 226 armor damage
• Mentalism: "Strike a Nerve deals +113 armor damage" => 132 armor damage
• Werewolf: "Pouncing Rake deals +152 Armor damage" => 172 armor damage
• Ice Magic: "Tundra Spikes deals 120 armor damage and taunts +600" => 220 armor damage
• Ice Magic: "Blizzard deals 128 armor damage and generates -120 Rage" => 248 armor damage
• Knife: "Marking Cut deals +48 armor damage and does not cause the target to shout for help" => 52 armor damage

Changes to "Thorns" Damage

• Acid Shield Potion
• Fire Shield Potion
• Molten Veins
• Fire Shield
• Toxic Flesh
• Brambleskin
• Phoenix Strike
• Privacy Field
• Acidic Shield Wax *(already worked this way)

Druid Changes

• Fill With Bile: all tiers of this ability now boost direct Poison damage a bit more
• "All Druid abilities have a 20% chance to restore 15 Power to you" => now a 30% chance
• "Your Healing Sanctuary heals every 4 seconds (instead of every 5) and heals +16 health" => the speed-up feature of the old effect didn't work due to technical issues, and Healing Sanctuaries didn't really need more buffing anyway, so it's been replaced entirely: "Fill With Bile boosts target's direct Poison damage +51"

Shield Item Fixes

• A bunch of shields were incorrectly tagged as "metal armor", which caused them to count toward the metal-armor-suit bonus (for having 3 pieces of metal armor on). This also means NPCs that like "Metal Armor" do not like these shields anymore. But note that shields are still considered "weapons" for gifting purposes.
• Stalwart Targe: is now a Holy Symbol
• Thentree Shield: is now a Holy Symbol, and is Elvish (for gifting purposes)
• Dream-Keeper's Shield: is now a Holy Symbol
• Elven Shield: is now Elvish (for gifting purposes)
• Finesse Targe: is no longer indestructible nor antique

Staff Treasure Changes

• "Redirect deals +84 Trauma damage over 15 seconds" => deals 448 over 8 seconds
• "Phoenix Strike restores 126 Health to you" => "Phoenix Strike deals +189 Fire damage to melee attackers"
• "Phoenix Strike deals +21% damage and reuse timer is -8 seconds" => "Phoenix Strike deals +36% fire damage to melee attackers, and reuse timer is -7 seconds"
• "Strategic Thrust and Lunge damage +61%" => +31% (this fixes a formula error)
• "For 30 seconds after using Blocking Stance, your Mentalism attacks deal +16 damage" => "For 30 seconds after using Blocking Stance, your Mentalism Base Damage is +12.5%"
• "Smash, Double Hit, and Heed The Stick Damage +18" => +69
• "Nice Attack Power Cost -22 when skill Staff active" => Power cost -30

Augments In Loot

Ice Throwing-Knife Changes

Hoplology

Burying Players

Metal Armor Set-Bonus Change

Viewing Buffs/Debuffs on Monsters

Other Tweaks & Fixes

• The /behaviorreport command now has "fake badges" for each equipment slot if you've NEVER used any item in that slot slot before. (There were already "real" badges for long-term refusal to use an item slot, which come with in-game titles, e.g. "Shoeless", but these "real" badges take much longer to earn and aren't as useful for behavior reports.)
• /behaviorreport also now includes the information from /age (e.g. # of attacks made, time online) - Players now have an anatomy type appropriate to their race. (For instance, elves have Elven Anatomy, humans have Human Anatomy, etc.) This has minor ramifications for certain abilities and powers. It also means that in PvP, players are subject to archery critical hits from their anatomy type.
• Skeleton Ice Mages had varying levels of cold resistance/immunity. They now have a uniform 50% cold resistance at all levels. They also now have less resistance to Trauma.
• Skeleton Fire Mages and Skeleton Darkness Mages had varying levels of fire resistance, typically having 100% (immunity). These skeletons now have a uniform 50% resistance to fire, and gain a 25% vulnerability to cold as well. Note that these changes do not affect summoned skeleton mages (which never had fire resistance anyway)
• You can no longer fly upwards when overburdened. (In the strange event that you become overburdened during flight, you can still fly forwards or down.)
• The teleportation platform in Animal Town incorrectly bound you to a different island in Sun Vale.
• Preta's favor "Powedered Mammal" was intended for Agrashab (the one in Sun Vale). If you've not completed the quest before, it is now given out by (and generates favor for) Agrashab. If you already completed the quest, nothing has changed.
• Amberjack now appear more frequently in the deep waters off of Sun Vale
• Battle Chemistry: mini-golems now auto-match to your movement speed, allowing them to keep up with you better
• Energy Turrets (used as part of traps) are no longer worth XP
• Knife abilities Surprise Throw, Hamstring Throw, and Fan of Blades no longer technically require you to be wielding a dirk or dagger, as long as you have appropriate throwing knife ammunition and hands to throw it with. (This has little practical benefit, but it seemed more reasonable.)
• Ability Fire Shield 6 did not do as much damage as listed (it used the base damage from Fire Shield 5 instead)
• Treasure effect for Castigate that made it deal Fire damage did not also increase Rage generated.
• Recipes for turning bones into bone meal no longer give extra XP after the first usage (too spammable for XP)
• The item "Fairy Wand of Cold" has been renamed to "Grand Fae Wand of Cold".
• Fixed a lightning-bolt projectile whose sound effect played in 2D instead of 3D
• Fixed several monsters whose reactive combat sounds played in 2D instead of 3D
• Fixed "floating" animation when firing a bow
• Added server buttressing to prevent Steam lag from impacting in-game performance

Say Hello to Playable Fairies

Fairy Physical Attributes

• They can fly with a default speed about the same as other basic flight, e.g. raven flight.
• They have reduced inventory space -- 16 fewer slots than other races.
• They are slightly more susceptible to knockbacks. (They are knocked slightly farther away.)

Fairies and Death

Skill Bonuses for Fairies

Fae Racial Skill

Balancing Pros and Cons

Combat-Balance Blog Soon

[This blog post is from the developer, Citan.] Discuss this blog post on our main forums here! (This started out as a forum post but got too big and became a blog post. The Fairy race blog post is about a week away, I expect.)

Let's Brainstorm About Housing

Landscape vs. Instanced? Already Settled

Instanced Housing Doesn't Have to Be Boring

Meet the Neighbors

The Front Door

Marriage

Fertile Grounds for Fun Ideas

[This blog post is from the developer, Citan] [If you're looking for info about the upcoming Fairy playable race, stay tuned -- there'll be a blog post about that soon! This blog post isn't about upcoming features at all -- it's behind-the-scenes design notes about recent game updates.]

The Life and Death of the "Charged Pig" skill

Warden vs. Druid

Evolution of Game Storylines

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This is a smallish update with bug fixes and design iterations. We've also added Treasure Cartography to Sun Vale.

Sun Vale Treasure Cartography

Swimming Tweaks

Experimental UI Tweaks to Selection Box Logic

Removal of Channeling for "Pre-Combat" Abilities

• Shield: Rapid Recovery
• Shield: Strategic Preparation. (Casting time in-combat went from 1.5 to 2 seconds)
• Spider: Premeditated Doom
• Warden: Stun Trap

Sushi Changes

• Nigiri items have lower item levels than before, so they heal less health and power when eaten
• Nigiri items no longer have a usage delay, allowing them to be eaten in combat
• Nigiri recipes now require an herb or lettuce of various types (e.g. dill, swamp weed, oregano... you know, classic sushi ingredients)
• Nigiri recipes now require less vinegar

Other Instant-Snack Changes

• Raw Oyster
• Cleaned Shrimp
• Shark Chew
• Cavefish Sticks
• House Cat
• All Candy Canes
• Fried Potato Sticks
• Laura Neth's Famous Tart
• Pepper Venison
• Fairy Honey
• Rattus Root
• Cactus Juice
• Bottle of Sugar Water
• Large Strawberry

Other Changes

• Kelp armor has a new appearance
• Kelp armor can now be dyed (with the Organic 1-Color Dye recipe)
• Live Event boss kraken "George" now has a boss curse
• Certain (non-event) Kraken now deal less damage with their rage attacks... but they still deal more than 1,000 damage per rage attack, so for most players the change is irrelevant
• Squidlips has a few new recipes for amberjack
• Animal Town inhabitants are now able to differentiate between players killing their guardians vs. killing actual enemies of Animal Town
• Fixed the Cotton Gin in Sun Vale
• A bug in Khryulek's crystal communication device prevented her from correctly talking about weird items you presented to her
• Gazluk plate leggings were unintentionally dyeable; this has been fixed. (The armor material isn't set up for dyes yet, so it looks extra-special terrible when dyed. It'll become dyeable eventually.)
• Fixed bug in treasure effect "Armor Received from Patch Armor +X" : it incorrectly restored bonus health instead of armor
• Fixed bug that prevented Norbert from finishing the Warden intro sub-quest "The External Resource Coordinator"
• Improved equipment rarity in various loot chests, most notably high-end chests dug up with treasure cartography
• For technical reasons the game previously allowed you to unearth treasure maps and surveys while swimming at the surface of water, even though it explained that you must be "standing on solid ground" to use a map. Now you must actually be standing on solid ground as intended. In some cases this means you'll need to swim to the bottom of a body of water to reach the ground.

Holiday Event The Holiday event has begun! Talk to any NPC that you have "Friends" or higher Favor with to receive a present from them. In addition, each city (and some non-city areas) have a Ri-Shin tree that needs decorating. Look for the NPCs with red hats on to get started.

Sun Vale 2.0

Stun Trap was too overpowered and has been nerfed a bit.
• Ability change: Stun Trap has a casting time of 2 seconds; being hit during the casting time aborts.
• Ability change: Stun Trap cannot be reused while previous Stun Traps are still active. (You can manually dispel unneeded traps from the Pets window.)
• Treasure change: "Stun Trap deals +85% damage to all nearby targets (when it activates)" => now +45% damage
• Treasure change: "Stun Trap reuse timer is 16 seconds faster" => now 10 seconds faster

• Eel Sushi Roll: went from level 40 to level 30
• Cavefish Sushi Roll: from 50 to 35
• Shark Sushi Roll: from 60 to 45
• Green Vexfish Sushi Roll: from 65 to 50
• Crelpin's Sushi: from 72 to 60

• Fixed a bug that caused Electricity Elementals and Cold Elementals to have the same damage-type vulnerabilitites/strengths
• Fixed a bug that caused Fire Rats and Pumpkin Mimics to have the same damage-type vulnerabilities/strengths
• Giant bats can once again fly inside the Red Wing Casino
• A few types of loot swords that were supposed to have holy symbols did not
• Rugen in Rahu now trains Fishing up to level 70 (although note that the highest fishing recipe/req is currently 65)
• Sushi Preparation now goes to 30 instead of 25. (And for technical reasons Ice Conjuration also goes to 30 instead of 25, although there are no new recipes for it yet)
• Rabbit: the ability Long Ear can now be placed on the side ability bar
• Newbie Island: added a gentle deterrent for new players who decide to try swimming off the island (which is a reasonable idea, but not successful here)
• Ranalon lose their resistance to Nature damage
• Higher-level Ranalon loot profiles improved
• Added a few "Things to Do" entries for Sun Vale
• Cow: new treasure: Head: Chew Cud increases your mitigation versus all attacks by Elites +14 for 10 seconds
• Cow: new treasure: Necklace: Stampede boosts your Slashing/Crushing/Piercing Mitigation vs. Elites +6 for 30 seconds (stacks up to 5 times)
• Cow: treasure change: "Stampede has a 50% chance to deal +56 damage" => "Stampede boosts the damage of future Stampede attacks by +38 damage for 60 seconds (stacks up to 15 times)"
• Cow: treasure change: "Stampede Taunt +310" => +440
• The archery ability Acid Arrow is no longer taught by The Wombat. It's now taught by Squidlips.
• Recipes for Cavefish Sticks and Spicy Cavefish now use Cavefish Fillets (rather than un-fileted cavefish)
• Water Lung Potion: this potion now boosts your Max Breath +10 seconds, instead of reducing your breath-consumption. The recipe now requires oyster meat instead of wool. (The potion's old effect is now granted by a new potion, the "Water Breathing Potion".)
• Trollbane Oil: cash value reduced
• Swimming Potion: this potion now requires Alchemy level 25 instead of 40. Duration is 30 minutes instead of 60. Recipe no longer requires flour or shark fillet, instead requiring an eel fillet
• You now earn synergy levels in Fishing by reaching the following levels in other skills (previously only Knife Fighting 22 provided a synergy level):
  • Knife Fighting 22,
  • Knife Fighting 55,
  • Cooking 35,
  • Foraging 22,
  • Foraging 65,
  • Animal Handing 22,
  • Animal Handling 55,
  • Skinning 25,
  • Fish and Snail Anatomy 22,
  • Surveying 25,
  • Druid 65,
  • Nature Appreciation 22,
  • Sushi Preparation 25,
  • Psychology 22
• Daisy now trains the recipe for Trollbane Oil. (It is also still dropped as a loot recipe)
• Fixed bug that prevented Bounceweed from giving Giant Bats bonus flight speed
• Fixed some base-stats of items (which were statted for the wrong level range):
  • Un-Tal bow: Archery Damage +10% -> +8%
  • Quality Cestus: Unarmed Damage +2 -> +5

This is a bug-fix update, more or less. (The Fae Realm changes might not be "bug fixes" exactly, but close enough!)

Water Fixes

• Fixed water in Serbule Sewers not reaching far enough
• Fixed some unexpectedly swimmable areas in Wolf Cave dungeon
• Removed some places in Eltibule where cows could graze underwater
• The river in Sun Vale doesn't work well with our new deep-water system, so for now it's using our older "puddle" system. The entire river is now treated as a giant puddle, which means you can splash in the river, and fill bottles from it, but you can't drown... even if the water goes over your head. (The new terrain for Sun Vale is in development, so this is a temporary band-aid for the existing terrain.)

Flight Changes

• Flight Potions, Flight Words of Power, and all other forms of flying no longer work in dungeons. (The flight effect is suppressed indoors but will resume when you go back outdoors.)
• Giant Bats can no longer fly indoors. (But they still retain other wing-related benefits such as turning mid-jump and not taking damage from falls.)
• Fixed flight-behavior anomalies for giant bats that turn into ravens

Fae Realm

• Lethargy Puck gives Notoriety XP on first kill (or your next kill, if you've already killed him before)
• Felmer in the Fae Realm now teaches recipes for Astounding Winter leather gear
• There are now a bunch more milkable Fae Molluscs in the Fae Realm (10 total instead of 4), but the timeout before you can re-milk is now a day instead of an hour. The intent is to make "slime-collection runs" more practical

UI Fixes

• UI: fixed bug where the "Combat Refresh Ready" icon would flash and beep at incorrect times
• UI: fixed bug where the blue border around basic attacks would not reappear when combat refresh was ready again
• UI: fixed situations where mouse cursor could get stuck as a resize-handle cursor if a window closed while the mouse was over resize-grips
• UI: fixed bug where an Effect tooltip would get "stuck" on the mouse cursor if the cursor was over the Effect icon right as the Effect ended

Other Fixes

• Fixed typo that caused the Guild Quest "Fox Outpost (25-member)" to require slightly more grapes than intended
• Fixed spurious "blank" error message when using the ability Rotflesh
• Fixed bug where you could lose your empty bottle if you were interrupted while collecting Dirty Snow Water from a Snow-Covered Rock
• Fixed typos in a few recipe names
• Fixed a few quest directions which were inaccurate
• Fixed a few recipe descriptions that claimed they served 2 when they serve 1
• Amazing Venison is now interpreted as raw venison for gifting purposes
• Increased maximum number of temporary entities allowed in the Red Wing Casino (to prevent vegetables from disappearing when a bunch of players are farming simultaneously)

This update brings some changes and experiments to the game. There's new Fall foods, changes to swimming, and changes to the stats of food.

New Seasonal Content Experiment

• There are two new seasonal ingredients available for a limited time. Cranberries and turkeys can be found in Serbule, Serbule Hills, and Eltibule, among other places.
• In addition, the pumpkin seedlings (which dropped from undead during Halloween) continue to drop from a wide range of herbivorous and omnivorous animals in the 25-55 level range. This includes ferocious boars, many types of slime, most rhinos, polar bears, tundra deer, mountain sheep, Gaz-Uraks, and many others. (And even a few sentient creatures such as trolls.)
• There are 21 new food recipes that involve the new seasonal ingredients. These recipes can be found on a broad range of animals (with the best chances being from herbivorous/omnivorous animals).
• In addition to the new recipes, the handful of pumpkin recipes from Halloween can also still be found in loot, although the chances are much lower than during Halloween. (And the other Halloween items no longer drop.)
• There are also new Work Orders for all of the new foods (and the Halloween pumpkin foods). These work orders will only show up during this "season", and they have a much larger cash reward than normal work orders of their level. They can also be completed every 5 days instead of every 30 days. You can find these work orders at the work-order signs in Serbule, Redwing Casino, and the Fae Realm. (They won't always show up, but when they do, they will be at the bottom of the work-order list.)
• A few of the Halloween pumpkin foods already had work orders (such as Basic Pumpkin Pie). They've been turned into "seasonal" work orders

Swimming Changes

• Changed how we emulate gravity underwater. Previously you would instantly sink in deep water, but now you are slightly buoyant: you'll very slowly float upwards toward the surface. This means that if you wish to reach the bottom of a deep body of water you will need to use the Down movement key (default F) to swim down. To swim up for breath use the Up key (default R) -- or you can use the jump button underwater as a "swim up" button.
• You now recover your breath automatically when you are swimming on the surface of the water, and breath recovers much more quickly than via the old "hopping in and out of the water" technique. (But still not as fast as when standing on solid ground.)
• "Breath" meter is more granular while losing breath
• Fixed various problems, bugs, and glitches in the swimming system
• Fixed problems with indoor water pools
• Note: the river in Kur continues to behave oddly; this is a known issue that will be addressed when the final art for Kur is ready. All OTHER water should behave reasonably sanely now

Food Changes

• Out-of-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 273
• Out-of-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 222
• In-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 48
• In-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 32
• Metabolism Regen (per tick): 5 -> 6
• Max-Health Boost: 0 -> 160
• Max-Power Boost: 0

• Out-of-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 273 -> 193
• Out-of-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 160
• In-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 32
• In-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 32 -> 48
• Metabolism Regen (per tick): 0 -> 2
• Max-Health Boost: 160 -> 0
• Max-Power Boost: 80

• Out-of-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 273
• Out-of-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 222
• In-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 48 -> 80
• In-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 48
• Metabolism Regen (per tick): 5 -> 3
• Max-Health Boost: 113 -> 220
• Max-Power Boost: 0

• Out-of-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 273 -> 193
• Out-of-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 268 -> 160
• In-Combat Health Regen (per tick): 32
• In-Combat Power Regen (per tick): 48 -> 64
• Metabolism Regen (per tick): 0
• Max-Health Boost: 160 -> 80
• Max-Power Boost: 160

• Items removed from storage vaults now auto-stack with compatible items in your inventory
• Fixed bug that prevented carrots from receiving garden bonuses during carrot-specific events
• Fixed a Deer combat particle that played at full volume no matter how far away you were from the Deer player
• Spriggan Nuts now stack (to 99)
• Treasure effect "Stun Trap reuse timer is N seconds faster" was bugged (it actually lowered Power cost by N instead of reset time)
• Treasure effect "Lethal Force deals +N damage and reuse time is -3 seconds" was also bugged in the same way (it lowered Power cost instead of reset time)
• Treasure effect "Stun Trap deals +N damage, and there's a 50% chance you'll place an extra trap" was bugged and never generated an extra trap
• Iceheart Sustenance Oil counts as a Max-Health potion for gifting purposes
• The Sacred Grotto is now marked as a cave for craft purposes
• Meat-eaters in the Sacred Grotto are now a little more aware of what's being stored by their fellow Wardens

This is a minor bug-fix patch:

• Fixed bug that prevented the "fireworks" particles from playing when you level up a skill
• Fixed a bug in the favor quest "Checking in on Trekker"; the quest incorrectly had you checking in on a different NPC. The quest's version has changed, so if you were on the quest, you will need to re-get it from Tangle. (If you already completed it, you don't need to complete it again.)
• Some tiers of Masquerade Masks and Bat Hats were misnamed, using the wrong descriptive adjective. (In most cases, they skipped over the adjective "Quality".) So the "Decent Masquerade Mask" became "Nice Masquerade Mask", "Great Masquerade Mask" became "Quality Masquerade Mask", etc. This was a naming fix only, the stats on all the items are unaffected.
• Warden ability "Privacy Field" did not cause as much damage as indicated. (The ability's base reflect damage was not included, although treasure bonuses worked.)
• Certain skeletons in the fae realm didn't count toward the Halloween quest "Kill Skeletons in the Fae Realm"
• Fixed erroneous error messages when using Giant Bat's Confusing Double or Warden's Stun Trap
• Milton only liked green peppers; he now also likes red peppers
• Tangle didn't show a Favor progress bar
• Added a level-80 Event Loot Chest (it's behind the Serbule inn, with the other Event Loot Chests)
• Fixed some exploitable scenarios involving flight
• When a Rakshasa who is under the influence of Telka's Teeth turns into an animal, the positive benefits of the drug are immediately aborted (loophole fix)
• The "Dye Placeholder" NPC is now completely gone, and Larsan in Serbule has graciously volunteered to be the Dye Making trainer for now. He teaches the skill at Comfortable favor level (still requiring Gardening 25). He also trains various dye recipes when you reach higher favor levels with him.
• Fixed bugs in the chat window where the chat-channel indicator could show the wrong channel. This bug mainly showed up when deleting partially-typed chat commands. For instance, if you typed a command like "/r hi" (to reply to someone) but then deleted that text without actually sending it, the chat-channel indicator would keep showing the Tell channel, but the next message you typed could be sent to some other chat channel. We've fixed this bug and some related bugs. If you run into any other situations where the chat-channel indicator is wrong, please let us know!
• Fixed name of Calligraphy recipe "Goblin+" to "Mangle+"
• Various typos and small issues addressed

Happy Halloween! The Halloween event has begun! You will receive a quest when you log in to get you started. There's also some fun new stuff for animals in this update. Animals, if you're friends with the Suspicious Cow in Eltibule, Norbert in Sun Vale, or Red in Kur Mountains you should pay them a visit. Plus, the Giant Bat skill has gotten a major makeover.

General Changes

• The Serbule work order sign has been moved from the docks to Serbule Keep itself, near the player work-order sign. (You still turn in completed work orders on the docks)
• The "Dye Placeholder" in Eltibule has sailed off to the east. (His clone, also named "Dye Placeholder", continues to live in Serbule.)
• For new players, Lawara's chest has a few partially-random items in it when first opened. (Bug fix.) (This is not retroactive; if you've already opened the chest, its contents are unchanged!)
• When you right-click an inventory item and choose "More Info", there is new information shown. The "Find" tab now lists vendors who sell the item in their "Buy New" tab, and barterers who trade for the item in their "Barter" area. This only lists permanent ways to obtain the item, so it can't search the "Used" tab of vendors, nor does it search player-hired vendors, etc. But if you've ever wondered "which vendor in town sells nails?" you can now check under More Info.
• Jesina the Fairy no longer sells strawberries. (Once strawberries could only be found in loot, so Jesina was an expensive alternative... but now that strawberry bushes exist, this is no longer needed.)
• Missing level 74 Deer ability "Cuteness Overload 5" can now be learned from Noita the Green
• Missing level 75 Necromancy ability "Raise Skeleton Mage 6" can now be learned from Bendith the Banished
• AI tweak: pets summoned during combat now figure out what's going on slightly faster. (Previously they would sometimes need a few seconds before joining a fight already in progress.)
• Fixed erroneous message "Error: you can only use that ability on yourself!" that was sometimes shown when a Combat Refresh triggered
• Some modest changes to spawn locations in Kur (more monsters in the northeast corner, and more yetis east of the Yeti cave entrance)
• Giant Beetles now have a small chance to drop food Beetles as bonus loot. (There are other ways to obtain beetles during Halloween, but this is a permanent way to obtain a small number of them year-round)
• New Rabbit treasure effect (Hands and Main-Hand Weapons): "While Rabbit skill is active, any Kick ability boosts Melee Evasion +6.5% for 10 seconds"
• Recipe "Amazing First Aid Kit (Combo Method)" no longer has a prerequisite to know "Amazing First Aid Kit", as they are for different skills
• Recipe "Astounding First Aid Kit (Combo Method)" now has a prerequisite of " Amazing First Aid Kit (Combo Method)", not "Amazing First Aid Kit", as they are for different skills
• Sour Cream now stacks to 5
• Bottles of Sugar Water now stack to 5
• The "Icy Feet" debuff used by Battle Chemistry's Toxin Bomb was intended to reduce movement speed by 75% (as indicated in effect description), but actually reduced it by 100%. "Icy Feet" is also used by various monsters and traps, so the fix applies there as well

Giant Bat Changes

• Tear: Core Attack. (Was nothing special)
• Screech: Was a Core Attack; now a Nice Attack.
• Virulent Bite: Wasn't in a category before; now a Signature Debuff
• Smouldering Gaze: Was a Nice attack; now an Epic Attack. In addition, this ability has been renamed. (See below.)

• Drink Blood now deals a moderate amount of direct-health damage, in addition to draining health. (The bite is Piercing damage, and the health-drain effect is still a Darkness attack, meaning that undead are immune to that part.)
• Drink Blood 8 now steals 84 health instead of 68 health. (Bug fix.)
• Screech became a Nice Attack, which involved stat-changes: reset time is now 10s instead of 9s; base damage is increased (e.g. 289 damage is now 401 damage); Power cost is increased (e.g. 47 instead of 33); all treasure rebalanced.
• Smouldering Gaze became an Epic Attack named Deathscream, which involved stat-changes: base damage is increased (827 instead of 588); Power cost is increased (87 instead of 68); all treasure rebalanced. Damage type is now Nature instead of Electricity.

• "Drink Blood deals 96 damage over 12 seconds, and 50% of the damage becomes health for you" => all of the damage becomes health for you. This is now Darkness damage (not Trauma).
• "Drink Blood restores 19 Power and 19 Armor" => "Drink Blood costs -27 Power"
• "Screech Deals 127 armor damage" => "Screech Damage +122"
• "Screech Damage +47%" => +41%
• "Screech has a 60% chance to deal +108% damage" => 60% damage to deal +90% damage
• "Tear deals +70 damage and restores 20 Armor to you" => "Tear and Virulent Boost deal +85 damage"
• "Rip damage +27" => "Rip deals +34 damage and restores 11 Power"
• "Rip has a 50% chance to deal +68 damage" => " Rip has a 50% chance to restore
• "Rip has a 50% chance to restore 20 Power" => "Rip restores 20 Armor"
• "Bat Stability restores 100 Armor and 16 Power" => "Bat Stability restores 145 Armor"
• "Confusing Double Reset Time -11 seconds" -> -13 seconds, and is available on a second slot (necklace).
• "Confusing Double restores 71 Power after a 10-second delay" => 112 Power after a 10-second delay
• "Confusing Double restores 90 Health" => 123 Health
• "Smouldering Gaze damage type is changed to Nature. 7 seconds after use, it deals 384 additional damage" => "Deathscream deals an additional 594 Trauma damage over 12 seconds"
• "Sonic Burst has a 60% chance to deal +60% damage to all targets" => "60% chance to deal +100% damage"
• "Combo: Rip+Tear+Any Melee+Rip: final step hits all targets within 5 meters and deals +85 damage" => Combo is now Rip+Any Melee+Any Giant Bat Attack+Tear. Also, this effect was previously found on both Feet and Necklace gear. It is now only found on Feet gear; necklaces with this effect have become Legacy.
• "Combo: Screech+Any Melee+Any Melee+Virulent Bite: final step stuns the target and deals +100 damage" => Combo is now Screech+Any Giant Bat Attack+Any Melee+Virulent Bite.

• Legs, Ring: "Your Confusing Double deals +55% damage with each attack"
• Main-Hand, Necklace: "Confusing Double summons an additional figment. Each figment deals +61 damage with each attack"
• Hands: "Rip and Tear deal +33 damage and hasten the current reuse timer of Drink Blood by 1 second"
• Chest: "Deathscream deals +45% damage and Power cost is -32, but the ability's range is reduced to 12m"
• Main-Hand, Off-Hand: "Screech, Sonic Burst, and Deathscream deal 256 Nature damage over 8 seconds"
• Off-Hand, Ring: "Sonic Burst deals 210 Trauma damage over 12 seconds"
• Main-Hand, Off-Hand: "Screech deals 240 Trauma damage over 12 seconds"
• Chest, Necklace: "Indirect Trauma Damage +57% when Giant Bat skill active"
• Off-Hand: "If Screech, Sonic Burst, or Deathscream deal Trauma damage, that damage is boosted +75% per tick"

This update brings a smorgasbord of new mechanics, new content, tweaks and fixes. The Fae Realm gets some more polish, there are new recipes and new treasure effects to check out, armor sets are a thing (sort of), and lots more. So let's get to it!

Combat Refresh Boost

• Old: 96 health, 144 power
• New: 320 health, 280 power

• Old: 160 health, 48 power
• New: 240 health, 240 armor, 96 power

• Old: 60 armor
• New: 320 armor

• Old: 36 health, 36 armor, 36 power
• New: 96 health, 96 armor, 96 power

Armor-Material Set Bonuses

• 3+ Cloth Items: If your power is below 20% of max, your Basic Attack restores Power equal to 20% of your Max Power. (Max once per minute.)
• 3+ Leather Items: If your health is below 33% of max, your Basic Attack restores Health equal to 33% of your Max Health, plus your Combat Refresh Healing amount. (Max once per minute.)
• 3+ Plate Items: If you are out of armor (below 10% of max), your Basic Attack restores Armor equal to Combat Refresh Armor amount. (Max once per minute.)
• 3+ Organic Items: Your Combat Refresh happens every 12 seconds (instead of every 15 seconds).

New Skill-Agnostic Treasure Effects

• Main-Hand: "Core Attacks deal +32 damage and hasten your current Combat Refresh delay by 1 second"
• Main-Hand: "Basic Attacks restore 12 Power"
• Off-Hand: " Nice Attacks deal +64 damage and hasten your current Combat Refresh delay by 1 second"
• Head: "Nice Attacks deal +40 damage and cause the target's next Rage Attack to deal -25% damage (debuff cannot stack with itself)"
• Head: "Major Healing abilities also restore 112 Armor"
• Hands: "Signature Support abilities restore 80 Armor to all allies within 20 meters"
• Chest: "Major Healing abilities restore +78 Health"
• Chest, Waist: " Signature Debuffs deal +80 damage and restore 96 Armor to you after a 10-second delay"
• Legs, Off-Hand: "Minor Heals restore 71 Armor"
• Legs, Feet: "Major Healing abilities have a 65% chance to restore an additional 152 Health"
• Feet: "Core Attacks deal +41 damage and reduce the Power cost of your next Minor Heal ability by -22"
• Necklace: "Signature Debuffs deal +25% damage and also deal 108 Armor damage"
• Ring: "Minor Heals restore +33 Health and reduce the damage of the next attack that hits the target by 20%"
• Ring: "Signature Support abilities restore 32 Power to all allies within 20 meters"

• "Patch Armor restores +77 Armor" => +110 Armor
• "First Aid restores +55 Health" => +74 Health

Mentalism Changes

• Electrify is no longer taught by Mu. Instead, mentalists automatically learn the first two tiers (at levels 22 and 36), and the next tiers are trained by Rohina in Sun Vale, with the highest tier (Electrify 5) trained by Raina in the Fae Realm.
• Armor Wave now restores armor every 3 seconds (instead of every 4 seconds), effectively boosting armor restoration by 25%.
• Power Wave now restores power every 8 seconds (instead of every 10 seconds), effectively boosting power restoration by 20%.
• "Psi Armor Wave 6" now restores 18 armor/tick instead of 15 armor/tick. (This effect was bugged and used the value for Armor Wave 5.)

• "Psi Armor Wave and Psi Adrenaline Wave restore 90 armor to all targets after a 25 second delay" => 158 armor
• "Psi Health Wave and Psi Armor Wave instantly restore 76 armor to you" => 84 armor
• "Psi Power Wave and Psi Adrenaline Wave restore 34 power to all targets after a 25 second delay" => 54 power
• "Psi Power Wave and Psi Armor Wave cause all targets' melee attacks to cost -6 Power for 20 seconds" => -8 power. (This effect was bugged and the level 60 variant was used for levels 70 and 80 as well.)
• "Psi Health Wave, Armor Wave, and Power Wave grant all targets +6 Psychic Damage for 60 seconds" => +42 psychic damage
• "Psi Power Wave instantly restores 28 power to all targets" => 31 power
• "Psi Power Wave and Psi Adrenaline Wave instantly restore 26 power to you" => 32 power
• "Revitalize restores +20 Health and removes ongoing Trauma effects (up to 22 dmg/sec)" => (up to 26 dmg/sec)

Fae Realm

• Lethargy Puck's warning screen was not reliably activating.
• Fixed recipes for "Dinobites" and "Rustic Meatsterpiece" to use the type of dinosaur meat found in the Fae Realm.
• Changed pear and peach trees to drop higher-tier wood; this also increases the level requirements to chop the wood.
• Increased the number of special lootable items that spawn only during the day or only during the night (such as certain butterflies, flowers, and mushrooms). There are now 300% to 400% as many of these items in existence at any given moment. This is largely a "bulk" change, and more individual tweaking is likely needed. Play with it for a while and if something seems excessively common or extremely rare, please let us know!
• Dramatically increased the chance to find rare level 80 recipe scrolls. (They're still pretty rare, but this fixes a bug that made them INSANELY rare.)
• Trolls' auto-healing has been nerfed a bit. (This applies to trolls in all areas.)

Other Changes & Fixes

• Solgribue now trains Carpentry levels 71-80, along with recipes for various carpentry items.
• Jara in Serbule no longer trains recipes for chairs. (They were already also trained by Paul Vaughn in Serbule Hills.)
• A couple of high-level Carpentry recipes that were taught by Jara and Paul Vaughn are now taught by Amutasa in Rahu.

• Urzab now raises the level cap for Surveying and Mining to 70, and has new recipes for motherlodes in Gazluk.
• The new resource "Semi-Real Hassium" can be found as a rarely-occurring resource all throughout Gazluk, and can also be bartered for with Fluffikins.
• Fluffikins now has identical barters for both glowy yellow crystals AND safety-coated glowy yellow crystals.
• Awesome Metal Slabs are now called Superb Metal Slabs. (We are renaming "Awesome" items to "Superb" because we have too many other descriptors that start with "A"!)
• Superb Metal Slabs can now be located outdoors in Gazluk or in various Gazluk caves (albeit quite rarely).
• Removed physics from motherlodes so that you cannot get stuck inside them when they spawn.
• "Expert Metal Nodes" can no longer be found randomly spawning in Gazluk or associated caves. (They are junk metal at that level, and there's already enough junk spawning.)

The Fae Realm

Shield

Armor Repair and Shield Wax

Shield Treasure Changes

• "Vigorous Defense restores 85 Health" => "Vigorous Defense restores +48 Power"
• "Infuriating Bash deals +40% damage and taunts +330" => +36% damage (This was a spreadsheet error; the low-level versions are stronger but the high level is a little lower.)
• "Fight Me You Fools and Finish It boost Core Attack Damage +146 for 6 seconds" => +200 Core Attack Damage
• "Shield Team causes all targets' Survival Utility abilities to restore 64 Armor to them. Lasts 20 seconds" => 100 Armor
• Replaced (Hands): "Reinforce Power Cost -32" => "When you are hit by an attack, all Shield abilities taunt +182 for 20 seconds (stacks up to 15 times)"
• Replaced (Chest, Off Hand): "Stunning Bash restores 35 Health" => "When you are hit by a monster's Rage Attack, the current reuse timer of Stunning Bash is reduced by 1 sec and your next Stunning Bash deals +80 damage (stacks up to 10 times)"
• Replaced (Ring): " Fight Me You Fools grants you 33% damage reflection for 10 seconds" => "All Shield Bash Abilities deal +50 damage and hasten the current reuse timer of Fight Me You Fools by 2 seconds"
• Replaced (Chest, Off Hand): "Fire Shield and Elemental Ward restore 57 Armor" => "Elemental Ward boosts your direct and indirect Electricity damage +40 for 30 seconds"
• Replaced (Legs): "Strategic Preparation hastens the current reset timer of Emergency Bash by 10 seconds" => "Strategic Preparation boosts your Indirect Acid Damage +25% for 20 seconds"
• Replaced (Off Hand, Ring): "Strategic Preparation boosts your in-combat Health regeneration +18 for 20 seconds" => "Strategic Preparation causes your next attack to deal +130 damage if it is a Crushing, Slashing, or Piercing attack"
• New (Main Hand): "When you are hit by an attack, Finish It damage is +64 for 20 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)"
• New (Hands): "All Shield Bash Abilities deal +50 damage and hasten the current reuse timer of Finish It by 2 seconds"
• New (Head, Legs): "When you are hit by a monster's Rage Attack, Reinforce restores +42 Armor for 60 seconds (stacks up to 10 times)"
• New (Off Hand, Necklace): "Infuriating Bash deals +48 damage and boosts your Indirect Acid Damage +54 for 7 seconds"

Shield Ability Change

• Elemental Ward: Power cost has increased, and the first tier of the ability lasts 9 seconds (instead of 10). Second tier lasts 10 seconds (unchanged); there is a new third tier of the ability taught by Gorvessa that requires level 55 and lasts 11 seconds.

Level Cap Increases

• Foraging level cap can now be raised to 70 by Jesina in Eltibule.
• Ashk in Rahu can now raise the level cap of Pathology to 70.
• Nishika and Rugen in Rahu can now raise the level cap of Skinning to 70.
• Nishika and Rugen in Rahu can now raise the level cap of Butchering to 70.
• Jake the Buckler in Sun Vale can now raise the level cap of Buckle Artistry to 60.

New Bonus Skill Levels

• You earn a bonus level of Lycanthropy when reaching Howling level 25.
• You earn a bonus level of Spider when reaching Animal Handling 50, Arthropod Anatomy 41, or Survival Instincts 37.
• Fire Magic now grants bonus Fire Mitigation into higher levels. (Previously the final bonus point was at level 45.)
• You now gain bonus levels of Sushi Preparation at Fishing 55 and Knife 60.
• You now gain bonus levels of Armor Patching when reaching Blacksmithing 50, First Aid 25, Endurance 20, Anatomy 20, Anatomy 40, and Toolcrafting 35. (This is in addition to the previously-existing bonus level at Blacksmithing 35.)
• Players earn an additional bonus level of Leatherworking when reaching Tanning 60.

Training Changes

• Fletching: Some fletching recipes have new requirements. You learn the recipe for Precision Fletchings automatically at level 50 Fletching. (If you are already that level, it will be in your recipe list when you log in.) This recipe creates the feathery bits for Amazing and Astonishing arrows; some of the types of Amazing arrows already existed and those have had their recipe changed accordingly.
• Mittens now teaches Toxic Flesh 8 at Soul Mates; it can also be learned in the Fae Realm.
• Some of the very-high-level cheese recipes that Braigon previously taught have been moved to a different trainer.
• The level 66 hammer ability Rib Shatter 5 was missing from the game; it is now trained by Falkrin Overstrike.
• Furlak no longer trains Knee Kick 5 or 6. (Knee Kick and Jab are alternate powers that are only learnable from loot scrolls.)

Health & Power Advancement

• Lycanthropy now grants bonus Max Health into higher levels. (At low levels it gives an average of 2.5 Max Health per level, but previously it changed to 2-per-level after level 60. It now gives an average of 2.5 at all levels.)
• Previously, the Pig, Spider, and Rabbit skills gave slightly more Max Health and less Max Power than normal combat skills (following the "tanky" pattern of the Lycanthropy skill), but this doesn't really fit the nature of those skills very well, so they now gain max health and max power at the regular rate. (Total change is +10 power and -15 health at level 50.)
• The Cow and Deer skills now give slightly more Max Health than before (a total of +15 Max Health at level 50).

Recipe XP Drop-off

Other Skill & Ability Changes

• Most abilities cost a bit more Power at very high level. A typical level 70 ability costs 1-4 more Power than before. The most dramatic change can be seen in the Epic Attacks; for example, Decapitate 5 (the level 72 Sword Epic Attack) previously cost 72 Power, and now costs 80 Power.
• Animal Handling: "Sic 'Em" ability boosts the pet's speed and damage for a few seconds, but the in-game description was bugged and the damage bonus wasn't shown.
• Animal Handling: Feed Pet/That'll Do: minor reduction to heal amounts at high level. (formula fix)
• Archery: Multishot 5 consumes 5x Amazing Arrows (instead of 5x Masterwork Arrows).
• Archery: Blitz Shot 3, 4, and 5 each consumed an arrow that was one tier lower than intended for that level.
• Armor Patching: Levels 2-6 restored more armor than they said they would. This has been fixed to match ability description.
• Battle Chemistry: Several tiers of Summon Minigolem summoned a golem with lower-than-intended health/armor/rage stats.
• Cold Magic: The description of Ice Armor indicated that it reduced movement speed by 33%, but actually reduced by 25%. The ability description was incorrect and has been fixed.
• Druid: Healing Sanctuary 5 restores 55 per tick instead of 60 per tick. (data fix)
• Druid: Energize 2 and 3 restored 20 Health more than indicated in the ability description. (data fix)
• Fletching: Recipe for Amazing Snare Arrows now consumes Expert Wood Glue instead of Advanced Wood Glue.
• Fletching: Recipe for Precision Fletching now consumes Expert Wood Glue instead of Advanced Wood Glue.
• Hammer: Way of the Hammer 2 and 3 did not buff crushing damage by as much as listed in the ability description.
• Knife: The description of Hamstring Throw indicated that it lasted 5 seconds at all levels, but high-level versions last up to 10 seconds. The ability description was incorrect and has been fixed.
• Pig: "Grunt of Abeyance" ability has a stronger innate heal. (formula change)
• Rabbit: Carrot Power indicated that it consumes 1 carrot, but actually there is only a 33% chance of consumption. The ability description was incorrect and has been fixed.
• Staff: Blocking Stance 3 now mitigates 35% of all damage (reduced from 40%).
• Staff: Phoenix Strike now causes melee attackers to suffer significantly more fire damage (more than double the previous values).
• Survival Instincts: All tiers of Toxic Flesh are now more potent (dealing about 2x more damage to melee damagers). Ability has been changed slightly: it now harms "melee damagers" instead of "melee attackers". This means the attacker must do at least 1 point of damage to you in order to qualify. (This is not normally a problem.)

Other Changes & Fixes

• Fixed errant gold icon floating in middle of window.
• Made the green "accepted" overlay click-through-able; this has the important benefit of letting you mouse over the items and see their tooltips. (Previously the green overlay prevented the tooltips from showing up.)
• Fixed race-conditions that could cause the trade window to get out of sync, making the trade incompletable and requiring players to start the trade over.

• Summer and Autumn fairies are now vulnerable to darkness but not psychic.
• Giant scorpions are now vulnerable to darkness.
• Hippogriffs are now vulnerable to darkness.
• Gargoyles are now vulnerable to acid.
• Hippos are now vulnerable to acid.
• Treants are now resistant to trauma and psychic, but vulnerable to darkness and acid.

• Pet AI tweak: Pets in Assist and Defend mode ignore 75% of the aggro they would normally generate due to attackers hitting them. This is to ensure that pets continue to assist/defend you even when being attacked by other foes. (This also applies to mini-golem AI.)
• Notoriety: raising Notoriety above level 50 now has stat rewards.
• The previous update notes said that some orcs now have bonus Accuracy, but due to an error this change didn't actually make it into the game until now.
• The chance for monsters to drop "Telka's Teeth" items has been lowered dramatically. (The chance is approx. 1/4th of its previous chances in desert rakshasa junk loot, and approx. 1/10th of previous drop rate in war caches specifically focused on Telka's Teeth.)
• Fixed bugs with the guild quest "Fox Outpost (25-person)". If your guild was actively on this quest, you will need to re-obtain it.
• Borghild: Fixed some spawn-positions for loot items and acid sigils; they spawned on shelves where they could not be interacted with.
• The cash value of recipe books (found in loot) now follows a simple formula instead of being completely arbitrary. Some scrolls are worth more than before, some less.
• NPCs who like "artwork" (Sir Coth, Lawara, Eveline Rastin) considered poetry books to be about twice as nice a gift as intended. This has been fixed.
• Lemon shaved ice requires 1 fewer lemons; banana shaved ice requires 1 fewer bananas.
• You cannot read Timothy Elerimon's hoplology book while in combat.
• With the advent of more fae creatures in the game, Hiral no longer sells Pixie Sugar. (He sold it at an astronomical +2,000% markup anyway.)
• Several recipes that incorporated venison were not marked as containing deer meat in the final dish.
• Fixed texture problems with Spring Fairy Boots.
• Lakrea's Holistic Wellness quests now give better rewards, thanks to a grant from the Redwing Fund for Biped Wellness.

This update is a potpourri of tweaks, bug fixes, and new content. So let's get to it!

Gardening Almanac

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War Caches

• We've added six more War Cache quests in this update. These are a bit harder than the earlier ones. (But are they too hard? If so, let us know!)
• The rewards from spending "Sir Johnson Bucks" were previously guaranteed to be Epic (4-power) items. That ended up being too good for the work involved; new reward items are now Exceptional (3-power) with a chance for higher-rarity items.

Gazluk Keep

• Bosses have significantly improved chances of rare-drop items. Chances of finding Exceptional (3-power) items are 2-4x higher, and chances of Epic (4-power) items and Legendary (5-power) items are about double. (The exact amount of change varies per boss.)
• Certain types of orcs now have some Accuracy in their attacks, allowing them to overcome player Evasion. Affected orcs indicate this in their monster info (when selected). NOTE: this change also happens to affect a few monsters outside of Gazluk: "Orcish Thaumaturges" anywhere in the world now have Accuracy. Give them a pat on the back for powering up. (Even though it may be only temporary.)
• Bug fix: Stolen War Golem eventually stops calling for backup after its enemies flee or are killed.

Live Events

Unarmed Skill Changes

• Mamba Strike: This ability has changed from a Crushing attack to a Trauma attack that deals direct health damage. When the target's armor is low (below 33%), it now deals +33% immediate Trauma damage, instead of adding a Trauma damage-over-time effect. Reuse timer lowered from 8 sec to 6 sec.
• Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage: We updated ability descriptions to mention that being an empty-handed animal with claws is sufficient to activate the ability. (The behavior is unchanged, it was just not well-documented. Currently only werewolves have claws.)

• "Bruising Blow deals +28% damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Bodyslam by 10 seconds" => Now hastens by 5 seconds. (This is the big nerf.)
• "Headbutt deals +20% damage and conjures a magical field that mitigates 20% of all physical damage you take for 10 seconds (or until 200 damage is mitigated)" => Now mitigates 15% for 10 seconds or until 400 damage is mitigated. All levels now mitigate 15% physical damage; the damage bonus and mitigation cap increase with each level.
• "While using Unarmed skill, 36% of all Darkness and Psychic damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist" => now 25% at a 300% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-36% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 13%-25% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
• "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Acid, Poison, and Nature damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Kick at a 100% rate" => now 21% at a 280% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 8%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 1%-21% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
• "Mamba Strike deals +250% Crushing damage and +400 Trauma damage (if target's armor is below 33%), but reuse timer is +8 seconds" => "Mamba Strike damage +55%"
• "Mamba Strike and Front Kick deal 95 Trauma damage over 15 seconds" => "Mamba Strike and Front Kick damage +80"
• "Barrage and Headbutt ignite the target, causing them to take 130 damage over 20 seconds" => 212 damage over 8 seconds.
• "Unarmed attacks have a 23% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated)." => "While Unarmed skill is active: you gain +4% Melee Evasion and any time you Evade a Melee attack you recover 64 Armor"
• "Unarmed attacks have a 16% chance to conjure a magical field that mitigates 10% of all physical damage you take for 1 minute (or until 100 damage is mitigated). Damage mitigated in this way is automatically added to the damage you do with your next Kick attack." => replaced: "While Unarmed skill is active: When you Evade an attack, your next attack deals +188 damage"
• "Hip Throw and Bodyslam deal +148 armor damage" => "Hip Throw deals +192 armor damage"
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike boost your Nice Attack and Signature Debuff ability damage +44 for 7 seconds" => +55 for 7 seconds
• "Slashing Strike and Claw Barrage boost damage from Epic attacks +60 for 10 seconds" => +74
• "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 150 Trauma damage over 12 seconds": This effect can no longer be found on Hands slot, only on Legs slot. Hand items with this effect have become Legacy items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
• New treasure effect for the Hands slot: "Infuriating Fist damage +103. Damage becomes Trauma instead of Crushing"
• Slashing Strike: The damage-over-time is now applied over 6 seconds instead of 12.
• "Slashing Strike deals +126 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
• "Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 138 Trauma damage over 12 seconds" => over 6 seconds
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike Damage +38%" => +58%
• "Cobra Strike and Mamba Strike restore 32 Armor to you" => 40 armor
• "Bodyslam deals +37% damage and slows target's movement speed by 45%": This effect is no longer available on Hands, just Head. Items with this effect on Hands have become Legacy Items. (See below for instructions on what to do with Legacy items.)
• New hands treasure effect: "Bruising Blow deals Trauma damage instead of Crushing, and targets suffer 12.5% more damage from other Trauma attacks for 20 seconds"
• "While using Unarmed skill, 22% of all Slashing, Piercing, and Crushing damage you take is mitigated and added to the damage done by your next Punch, Jab, or Infuriating Fist at a 100% rate" => now 18% at a 260% rate. (This effect previously scaled from 3%-22% mitigation with a constant 100% soak-reflect; it's now 10%-18% with a continuously increasing soak-reflect.)
• "Headbutt and Knee Kick deal +138 armor damage" => "Headbutt and Knee Kick Damage +108"
• New treasure effect for the chest and off-hand slots: New chest and off-hand treasure effect: "Headbutt Damage +44%"

Legacy Items

Werewolf Treasure

• "Blood of the Pack restores 90 Health over 30 seconds to you and your allies" => over 10 seconds
• "Shadow Feint causes your next attack to deal +144 damage if it is a Werewolf ability" => +192 damage
• "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 50 Armor and your Sprint Speed is +3 for 10 seconds" => 83 Armor
• "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 70 Health" => 100 Health
• "Shadow Feint reduces the taunt of all your attacks by 35% until you trigger the teleport" => 46%
• "Shadow Feint raises your Lycanthropy Base Damage +36% until you trigger the teleport" => +52%

Fixes to Damage Type Overrides

Sonic Damage Retired

• Bard ability Blast of Fury damage type is now Nature.
• Bard ability Blast of Defiance damage type is now Nature.
• Bard ability Blast of Despair damage type is now Nature.
• Giant Bat ability Screech damage type is now Nature.
• Giant Bat ability Sonic Burst damage type is now Nature.
• Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note deals +45% damage, and damage type is Sonic instead of Trauma" => Nature instead of Trauma
• Bard Treasure change: "Thunderous Note causes the target to take +13% damage from Sonic attacks for 15 seconds" => Nature instead of Sonic
• Giant Bat Treasure change: "For 30 seconds after using Drink Blood, all sonic attacks deal +45 damage" => all Nature attacks deal +45 damage
• Giant Bat Treasure change: "Sonic Damage +32%" => "Nature Damage +32%"
• Bard Crafting: Bard Shirts and Bard Gloves now boost Nature damage, not Sonic damage.
• Council Pathfinder Helm now mitigates Nature, not Sonic.
• Ratty Tactics Ring now boosts Nature, not Sonic damage.
• Rattail-Ring of Screeching now boosts and protects against Nature, not Sonic.
• All monsters that were vulnerable or resistant to Sonic have been changed. Most are now resistant/vulnerable to some new type instead.
• All monster attacks that dealt Sonic damage now deal Nature damage.

Preventing Unintentional Quest Turn-ins

• Equipment that is part of a Load-Out is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order.
• Equipment that is in a Vendor-Locked folder is never counted as part of a Quest or Work-Order. (Note this only applies to equipment, not other items. This is so that players can still put regular quest items in vendor-locked folders to prevent accidentally selling them, and the items can still be turned in for the quest.)

Footsteps

Other Changes

• Fixed many teleportation arrival positions where the camera could get switched around to face the player instead of being behind the player.
• Made configuring guild permissions a little more intuitive.
• Fixed bugs that could prevent the "glowing" effect on high-tier loot (in the loot window).
• Thimble Pete no longer notices if you are an animal while turning in a work order. (But still won't train animals.)
• Small performance improvements to humanoids (both NPCs and Players).
• Trolls' regeneration (when not on fire) is MUCH more potent!
• Tweaked resistances and abilities of mummies.

Lore Adjustments

• The "Rains in Ilmari" lasted for 2 years, not 20. (Exaggeration at its best!)
• References to the "Red Mantis Gang" have been fixed to reference the "Red Wing Gang".
• Removed a reference to the god Bogdelle because she has been retconned out of existence.
• References to "Mirraverre" have been fixed to the correct spelling "Miraverre".

External Character References

This is a small update to add fixes and new features for future live events. Stay tuned to see them in action! There are also some other bug fixes:

• Fixed repeated Minotaur Vault rune in War Cache S-1
• Drinking a second Spider Punt Potion no longer gives the confusing message "Error: You already know that ability."
• Fixed a bug that prevented Spider Punt ability (or other sidebar abilities) from working if dragged onto the sidebar under certain conditions
• Fixed a related bug that could cause changes to the sidebar to stop being sent to the server (meaning your sidebar stopped working, and reverted to old contents when you logged out and back in)
• Collect Milk 2 & 3 incorrectly required Clobbering Hoof 6 as a prerequisite
• Sanja in Kur had incorrect training requirements for raising Lycanthropy skill cap
• Fixed bug that prevented slimes in War Cache D-3 from combining into each other, thus allowing infinite slimes
• Added missing warning screen for the Shower Slime in Gazluk Keep
• Fixed bug that caused volume UI sliders (and other number-sliders) in the Settings window to stop updating correctly if an invalid number was manually typed into the text field
• Fixed bug that prevented placing map pins in war cache D-4
• Added a missing Spider Punt Potion to war cache S-3
• Tweaked fire magic mod that added Rage to Super Fireball: it adds less Rage and has a slightly more clear description

Ilmari War Caches

Transmutation Cost Changes

• Uncommon and Rare: 5 Durability and 25 Phlogiston
• Exceptional: 10 Durability and 30 Phlogiston
• Epic: 20 Durability and 35 Phlogiston
• Legendary: 25 Durability and 35 Phlogiston
• Previously, the cost for all Rarities was: 25 Durability and 35 Phlogiston

• Uncommon and Rare: 5 Durability and 10 Phlogiston
• Exceptional: 10 Durability and 15 Phlogiston
• Epic: 15 Durability and 20 Phlogiston
• Legendary: 20 Durability and 20 Phlogiston
• Previously, the cost for all Rarities was: 20 Durability and 10 Phlogiston

• 15 less Phlogiston for items level 15 and under
• 10 less Phlogiston for items level 30 and under
• 5 less Phlogiston for items level 45 and under

Hammer Changes

• "Rib Shatter deals +220 Trauma damage over 10 seconds" => "Rib Shatter restores 40 Health to you"
• Way of the Hammer: "For 10 seconds, all targets deal +15% Crushing Damage" => +35%
• "Way of the Hammer boosts Slashing and Piercing Damage +17% for 10 seconds" => +34%
• "Way of the Hammer boosts all targets' Electricity Damage +20% for 10 seconds" => +35%
• Way of the Hammer is now marked as a Signature Support ability for the purpose of buffs that affect Signature Support.
• The treasure effect "Hammer attacks deal +16% damage but generate +48% Rage" was incorrectly boosting hammer Base Damage, not regular damage. This has been fixed, making the effect typically generate more damage in high-level builds.
• The cost of Pound To Slag was tweaked slightly, and its Reuse Timer changed from 50s to 45s. (Some treasure mods were recalculated very slightly as a result of the shortened reuse timer.)
• Latent Charge: Delayed electricity damage now occurs after 5 seconds, not 8 seconds.
• The treasure effect "Pound To Slag hastens the current reuse timer of Look at My Hammer by 5 seconds" was previously available for all levels 50+, and did the same thing at all levels. There are now higher tiers of this effect which also boost Pound To Slag damage. All pre-existing versions of this effect are still the level 50 one, but new gear can obtain higher versions now. (Note that this effect is still not available in gear below level 50.)
• "Reckless Slam deals +33% damage and taunts -360" => "Reckless Slam deals +64 damage and taunts -285" (It deals about the same damage but synergizes more nicely with other Reckless Slam mods.)
• "Reverberating Strike restores 38 armor to you and taunts -275" => " Reverberating Strike restores 96 armor after a 6-second delay"
• "Hurl Lightning Damage +39% and Reuse Time -1 second" => "Hurl Lightning Damage +94 and Reuse Time -1 second"
• "Thunderstrike Damage +38%" => "Thunderstrike Damage +128"
• "Reverberating Strike deals 70 direct health damage and applies the Mild Concussion status: target is susceptible to random self-stuns" => "Reverberating Strike Damage +85"

Lycanthropy

• Sanguine Fangs damage changed from Piercing to Crushing.
• "Sanguine Fangs suddenly deals 280 Trauma damage after a 12-second delay" => 8-second delay
• Sanguine Fangs base direct damage increased. Some treasure effects revised as a result.
• Blood of the Pack has a faster animation.
• "Werewolf Claw, Double Claw, and Pouncing Rake Damage +22%" => " Werewolf Claw, Double Claw, and Pouncing Rake Damage +50"
• "All Werewolf attacks have a 31% chance to deal 64 Trauma damage over 8 seconds" => 47% chance
• "Double Claw deals +114 armor damage" => "Double Claw deals +88 damage"
• "All Werewolf attacks have a 31% chance to deal 64 Trauma damage over 8 seconds" => "Werewolf Max Health +35"

• Skulk: The "next attack" bonus damage is reduced significantly. (For example, Skulk 4 now gives +223, instead of +359.)
• "Skulk grants you +35 Mitigation against all attacks" => +24 Mitigation
• "Skulk causes your next attack to deal +70% damage if it is a Crushing attack" => +43% damage
• "When Skulk is used, you recover 52 Health and all enemies within 10 meters are taunted -1375" => taunted -700
• Skulk now has a faster casting time and a different in-use particle

• See Red is now a Trauma attack with a 10-second reuse timer and a lower Power cost.
• See Red no longer buffs Piercing/Slashing damage.

• "See Red restores 132 Armor" => "For 8 seconds after using See Red, all other Lycanthropy attacks deal 116 Trauma damage over 8 seconds"
• "See Red grants you Melee Evasion +18%" => +14%
• "See Red increases the damage of your next attack by +260" => +95
• "See Red restores 54 Health and costs -20 Power" => "See Red deals +36 damage and Power cost is -16"
• "See Red heals you for 85 health" => 38 health

• Shadow Feint: This ability is now a toggle. Use it once to enter "feint mode." You will see a small indicator showing where you will teleport back to. Use again to teleport back. The range of the ability has decreased from 40m at all levels to 30/35/40m. Teleport time window shortened.
• Shadow Feint Has faster animation, and the 1-second channeling delay was removed.

• "After using Shadow Feint, your Lycanthropy Base Damage increases +36% for 30 seconds or until you are attacked" => "Shadow Feint raises your Lycanthropy Base Damage +36% for 20 seconds or until you trigger the teleport"
• "After using Shadow Feint, your Sprint Speed increases +3 for 15 seconds and your next attack deals +120 damage" => " Shadow Feint boosts the damage of your next attack +144 if it is a Lycanthropy ability" (note that the old version also only buffed Lycanthropy abilities; it just didn't say so)
• "Shadow Feint heals 130 health and 130 armor when you teleport" => "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 70 Health"
• "Shadow Feint boosts your In-Combat Armor Regeneration +35 for 20 seconds" => "When you teleport via Shadow Feint, you recover 50 Armor and your Sprint Speed is +3 for 10 seconds"

• Werewolves no longer need to be "out of combat" to eat corpses.
• Inherent recovery-per-level from corpses is a little higher.
• Previously, raising the Beast Metabolism skill only increased the duration of the recovery buff. It now also slightly increases the amount of healing and power recovered (per tick). This can be further boosted by treasure effects.

• Boosted potency of Max Health buffs from +10/20/30/40/50 to +10/20/35/50/75 and added a sixth tier that goes to +100.
• Boosted potency of Corpse Eat Healing buffs from +4/7/10/12/15/18 to +4/8/12/16/20 and added a sixth tier that goes to +25.
• The fifth tier of Max Power buffs is reduced in cost from 3 tokens to 2.
• The fifth tier of Physical Mitigation is reduced in cost from 2 tokens to 1.
• Clarified labels to indicate that "Werewolf Damage Boost %" increases Base Damage.

Other Skill & Ability Changes

• Bard: "All bard songs restore X Health [or Armor] to YOU every 4 seconds" => fixed bugs that allowed these treasure mods to get applied multiple times when switching songs.
• Bard: Fixed a bug that caused some song-oriented treasure effects to apply themselves for 60 seconds after you had manually toggled the song off.
• Priest: The ability Invigorate claimed to restore Power but restored that amount of Health instead. Now it restores Power as intended. (Treasure effects were already correct, only the base Power healing from the ability was wrong.)
• Spider: Due to changes to the game engine, the treasure effect "Web Trap sets a teleport spot. If you are hit 6 times within 30 seconds you'll automatically teleport back to that spot. (Must be within 40 meters of teleport spot.)" no longer worked. Since it was really not very useful, we didn't try to make it work and just replaced it. It is now: "While you are near your Web Trap, you recover 4 Power per second".
• Treasure effects that boost Spore Bomb, Stake the Heart, Fish Gut, and Crossbow attacks are more potent.
• Many pieces of equipment that innately boost a damage type by a percentage (e.g. Spring Fairy Shoes, which have inherent bonuses to Nature and Electricity damage) have been buffed.

Monster Balance Changes

• Most Fire Magic abilities
• Battle Chemistry's Toxin Bomb
• Mentalism's Mindreave
• Archery's Fire Arrow
• Priests' Flamestrike and Righteous Flame
• Shambling Corpses' health-reaping attacks
• Skeleton Mages' fire attacks
• Pet Fire Walls' attacks
• The melee attacks of fiery pet rats

• Several Psychology abilities were not correctly marked as receiving critical hits from Phrenology; this is now fixed.
• Crossbow abilities now gain the same chance to "critically hit" that bows do, based on your Anatomy skill and the target's anatomy type. Crossbows gain a +50% damage mod when they crit. (This isn't a bug fix, it's a small power-up.)
• Several monsters did not deal full intended damage with their Rage attacks: Worghests, Gazluk Elite Tacticians, Ratkin hammer-users

Other Changes and Fixes

• Desert Environments: If you are entirely out of hydration in the desert there is now a small chance every second that you will die of dehydration. Stay hydrated! Going into a NPC's building, such as Arlan's shop or Makara's tent, will stop dehydration. In fact as a convenience, being anywhere within the city walls of Amulna prevents dehydration.
• Fixed a bug with Crafted Nimble Boots and Crafted Nimble Pants, which evaded much more often than the listed times.
• The tailoring recipes that add +1% damage of a particular type to shirts and pants have been changed to add +2% damage instead. This change is retroactive. (Note: there was a "round off" bug which could cause these recipes to effectively add +0.9% instead of +1%. This bug has been fixed for new uses of the recipe, but unfortunately it could not be fixed retroactively. So if your old gear added e.g. +5.7% damage, it now adds +11.4% damage, not +12% damage as you might expect.)
• You can no longer use Practical Summoning to summon items that have less than 100% durability. (In other words, you can summon a pristine firkin, but not one with 70% durability remaining.) This is a temporary limitation. Previously, summoning partially-used items magically repaired their durability, which was unintentional.
• You can no longer use the "Reuse Liquor Barrel" or "Reuse Beer Keg" recipes on NPC-brewed liquor (such as Spiked Egg Nog or Burn-Throat).
• Brewing results that raise Max Armor for a particular race were incorrectly labeled as raising Max Health for that race. These now correctly say that they boost Max Armor. (Just to clarify, there are ALSO brewing results that raise Max Health for a particular race, and these are unchanged. The bug was that the armor-boosting ones were labeled as health-boosting.)
• You can now right-click raw fish in your inventory and choose "Fillet Fish" to quickly bring up the appropriate fillet recipe. (Assuming you know how to fillet that type of fish, of course.)
• Breaking down Treant Wood now requires Carpentry 50 instead of Carpentry 20.
• Swapped the icons for Sunstone and Morganite to better match the gem descriptions, and the dye color they create.
• Fixed a bug where malachite attuned to the Rabbit skill did not work correctly in recipes if the malachite was placed in the second gem slot.
• Torgan correctly appreciates gifts of Awesome Metal Slabs.
• Lady Windsong's favor "Escaped Snail Meat" bestows a special druid ability Rotflesh, but if you were not eligible for the ability (generally because you didn't yet know Rotskin 6, its prerequisite), you did not learn the ability. This is fixed retroactively, so if you've completed the quest the ability is now in your list. (But you still have to learn Rotskin 6 before you can actually use it!)
• The Amulna residents Falkrin Overstrike and Alravesa the All-Hunter are still not fully written, despite having important roles to play. They can now be found in the dining area above Selaxi's shop, where they can at least have a drink while they wait.
• The Guardian Rhino's curse "Gored Pockets" changed from -10 Inventory to -5 Inventory. Players who had the old curse will find they are magically cured; this "free cure" is just a side-effect of an internal version number change, and not something we typically need to do when tweaking a curse. But hey: free cure! You're welcome.
• Sentient tornadoes are now more dangerous. They gain innate Projectile Evasion and Melee Evasion, and they a different set of resistances and vulnerabilities than before. However, they are very vulnerable to Burst attacks.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Ice Cocks from breaking more than one toe at a time. (It was supposed to stack to x9 originally; it now stacks to x3 because 9 is too much.)
• The "Slaughterer of Spiders" behavior badge was tied to generic animal killing, not spiders. (Meaning it was the same as the Slaughterer of Countless Animals badge.)
• Made it easier to maintain the "Slaughterer of X" badges -- they no longer require you to have killed more of that monster type than other kinds of monster. (They still have the requirement that you have killed 1000+ in your lifetime, and 500+ in the past 30 days real-time or 24 hours game time. Meaning that they "wear" off and you lose them if you stop murdering that type of foe.)
• If you attempt to use an ability but the server doesn't think the reset timer is up, the game client is updated to show the ability's remaining time needed, rather than showing the ability as having been just-used.
• Improved the performance of "floaty numbers" (damage and healing numbers). Lots of floaty numbers could cause framerate lag.
• Also, floaty damage numbers for your character now float overtop your character's head, like they do for other characters. Previously they floated down from the "portrait box" in the top-left corner, but it was very hard to notice them. If you prefer the old format you can enable it in Special Settings by typing the word PortraitFloaties into the text box.
• Fixed bug where changing the font size of "Size of Combat Numbers (Self)" did not get saved to preferences.
• Fixed map issues in Gazluk Keep (such as weird pointer direction and lack of map fog).
• Optimized memory usage and loading times in Gazluk Keep. These changes should help people whose computers crash when loading into this area. Note: it's now a VERY bad idea to use the "NoCull" Special Setting while in Gazluk Keep, because the Keep now relies very heavily on occlusion culling for performance.
• Updated the contents of the Live Event Reward Chests (located behind the Serbule inn) so that newer types of equipment have a chance of being found in them.
• Command /shop opens a web page to the Gorgon Shop.

Welcome to another large Project: Gorgon patch! This is a dense update with a lot of moving parts, including balance changes, new powers and abilities, and a large new dungeon. And these are some really long update notes... so let's get to it!

Rahu Sewers

Game Balancing Changes

• "Debilitating Blow Damage +66%" => "Debilitating Blow Damage +55%"
• "Decapitate Damage +55%" => "Decapitate Damage +47.50%"
• "Finishing Blow Damage +53%" => "Finishing Blow Damage +44%"
• "Flashing Strike and Hacking Blade Damage +33%" => "Flashing Strike and Hacking Blade Damage +29%"
• "Parry and Riposte Damage +54%" => "Parry and Riposte Damage +49%"
• "Precision Pierce deals +188% damage but its reuse timer is increased +4 seconds" => "Precision Pierce deals +145% damage but its reuse timer is increased +3 seconds"
• "Parry and Riposte Damage +24% and Power Cost -8" => "Parry and Riposte Damage +20% and Power Cost -8"

• All combat skills: Highest tier of "Skill Base Damage +X%" changed from +26% base damage to +40% base damage.

• Start with ability's base damage.
• Add all additive (a/k/a "flat") damage buffs (universal damage boosts, skill-specific boosts, damage-type-specific boosts, boosts just for Kicks or Bombs, etc.).
• Now sum together all percentage buffs (universal multipliers, damage-type-specific multipliers, multipliers for a specific ability, multipliers for Epic Attacks, etc.) and multiply by the previous step.
• Now multiply by target's vulnerabilities and resistances (universal vulnerability, damage-type-specific vulnerabilities).
• Now add in bonus damage from Base-Damage Multipliers (reduced if the target is resistant to the damage type).
• Now reduce damage by the target's Mitigations (armor mitigation, universal damage reduction, damage-type-specific mitigation, etc.). If mitigation is negative, they take that much extra damage instead

• Wall of Fire costs less Power, and treasure effects that boost Wall of Fire are more potent.
• "25 seconds after summoning a Fire Wall, you regain 77 Health" => "You heal 10 Health per second when you are near your Fire Wall"
• "All fire spells deal up to +36 damage (randomly determined)" now has a much higher random boost (+115).
• "Scintillating Flame and Scintillating Frost stun and deal +100% damage to Vulnerable targets": This effect was previously found on three gear slots: Hands, Head, and Main-Hand Weapon. It is now only found on Hands. (This was done to make room for new treasure effects, since the stun didn't stack anyway.) If you had gear with this effect on Head or Main-Hand Weapon, the item has become Legacy and will need to be replaced with the "Legacy Item Replacer" golem in Serbule.

• The requirement for the Healing Sanctuary itself to be "in combat" (meaning that it could detect an enemy nearby) has been removed.
• The requirement for the healing recipient to be "in combat" has also been removed.
• "Healing Sanctuary immediately restores 80 health to you upon summoning" => "Healing Sanctuary restores 16 Power with each heal"
• "Healing Sanctuary immediately restores 115 armor to you upon summoning" => "Healing Sanctuary restores 40 Armor with each heal"
• There are also new treasure effects for Healing Sanctuary.

• Brambleskin deals more damage to enemies, especially at higher levels.
• "Brambleskin heals you for 82 health" => "Brambleskin deals +96 Nature damage to melee attackers"
• "Cloud Sight and Delerium Damage +X%" => significantly reduced percentage (bug fix)
• Pulse of Life is now fully marked as a Minor Heal ability. (Some minor-heal buffs already applied to it, but not all.)
• Rotskin's damage debuff is more potent (-48 mitigation vs -22) and treasure can further improve the debuff. However, multiple Rotskin debuffs no longer stack. (If multiple druids cast Rotskin on a target, only the strongest debuff is used.)
• "Rotskin hits all targets within 10 meters and deals X direct health damage" => "Rotskin hits all targets within 10 meters and further debuffs their mitigation -X"

• Fire Shield now deals more damage when melee attackers hit you. Reset time is 20 seconds instead of 60. Power cost is increased.
• A new treasure effect increases the potency of Fire Shield's reflection; other Fire Shield treasure effects tweaked.

• "Shield Team grants all allies X% evasion of burst attacks for 10 seconds": The higher-level versions of this effect were the same as the level 50 version; they now grant higher percentage evasion.
• "Shield Team grants all allies +8 mitigation of all physical attacks (Crushing, Slashing, or Piercing) for 20 seconds" => +16 mitigation

• Various: A number of abilities have slightly adjusted base damage and power costs; their treasure effects have been revised as a result.
• Various: A dozen or so treasure effects that restore health or armor were buffed to heal 5-20 more health or armor. (formula change)
• Various: Several treasure effects of the type that 'generates no Rage, and reduces Rage by X' have slightly reduced Rage reduction numbers. (formula change)
• Various: An assortment of treasure effects had higher tiers that were identical to lower tiers. These have all been fixed.
• Various: Numerous treasure effects gained a skill prerequisite that they were missing. For example, the Giant Bat mod "Sonic Damage +X%" is now "Sonic Damage +X% When Giant Bat Skill Active". (bug fix)
• Healing Sigils' AI was changed to work similarly to the druid's Healing Sanctuary: they can now heal without needing to have line of sight to a nearby enemy.
• Animal Handling: "Sic Em causes your pet's attacks to generate -X Rage for 10 seconds" has improved rage reduction. (bug fix)
• Archery: "All Archery attacks deal +52 damage but cost +4 Power" => "Archery Damage +70"
• Giant Bat: "Screech has a 60% chance to deal +X% damage": Higher-tier versions now have a significantly lower damage percentage number. (bug fix)
• Hammer: Reckless Slam removed less than the amount of armor listed in the ability description. This has been fixed.
• Lycanthropy: "Taunt from Attack Damage -33%" => "Taunt from Attack Damage -27.5% while Lycanthropy skill active" (formula change, plus fixing missing skill requirement)
• Rabbit: Treasure effects that boost Carrot Power are more powerful. (formula change)
• Shamanic Infusion: "Signature Debuff abilities restore X Power" => "Signature Debuff abilities cost -X Power"
• Shamanic Infusion: Added missing earlier-tier prerequisites (e.g. the third tier of a recipe is supposed to require you to already know the second tier, etc.).
• Shamanic Infusion: You now receive bonus synergy levels in Shamanic Infusion when you reach Alchemy 42, Animal Handling 32, Battle Chemistry 41, Mycology 55, Anatomy 50, and Anatomy 70.
• Sword: "Precision Pierce deals +X% damage but its reuse timer is increased +4 seconds => " ... reuse timer is increased +3 seconds" (side-effect of formula change)
• Sword: "Sword Damage +16" => "Sword Damage +70"

• Belts that you find in loot now have a chance to be Uncommon rarity -- green tier, that is, with one treasure effect. The effect is always a generic power that isn't tied to any particular skill.
• Any belt-creation recipe that requires a trophy skin also now generates Uncommon belts.
• Recipe for Great Hardcore Belt was changed to require a trophy skin (to generate Uncommon belts).
• "Lucky Belts" for specific classes are now just called "Belts" (e.g. "Lucky Belt of the Swordsman" is now just "Belt of the Swordsman"). These belts once affected random-loot generation, but that was long ago. Now they boost damage, so the "lucky" terminology seemed weird.
• All formerly-lucky belts increase Base Damage Multipliers a bit more than before (10% for single-skill and 7% for double-skill).
• Belts that actually affect treasure in some way are still called "Lucky".
• Added missing belts/recipes for rabbit and priest belts.

• Added "Accuracy Boost" stats to the Miscellaneous Enchantments tab of the persona screen. (Only shown if you have any accuracy buffs.)
• Shamanic Infusion now requires much less XP to level, and recipes earn more XP. Now the first-time completion of a recipe (of your current level) will always raise your level by at least 1, and usually raise it by 2. (Existing skill levels are unchanged.)
• The drug Sharpen has been revised so that it is significantly more potent. However, the higher tiers of Sharpen now have Survival Instincts requirements.
• Cooking: Recipe "Tart Applesauce" has been changed to actually use tart (green) apples.
• Necromancy: skeleton mages no longer flee to create distance between themselves and melee assailants.
• Fixed recipe for "Amazing Cloth Pants (Max-Enchanted)", which incorrectly required Maximized Sardonix x2, among other problems. It now correctly requires Vervadium x1 like other level 70 crafting recipes.
• Fixed some work order scrolls whose level requirement (to read the scroll) did not match the actual work order's level requirement.
• Replaced the weird yellow "sewer rat" model with a different model (which is also temporary, but much less terrible in the meantime).
• Fixed a small (100 m square) chunk of the Ilmari desert where nothing could be selected.
• Fixed various monsters whose combat sounds were too loud (because they were not using 3D positioning, so were always at max volume regardless of distance).
• Fixed a bug that caused fire walls to make combat sounds repeatedly when not in combat. This also fixes some Sigil-Scripting sigils that had the same problem.
• The "Proto-Druid" and "Proto-Wolf" titles can no longer be earned. (They were actually supposed to stop when alpha ended.)

Player Work-Order Board: Browse Categories

Zombie Changes

• zombies' inherent self-bleed is reduced by about 75%
• zombies now reap 25% of the health damage they deal (meaning that every time they deal damage to an enemy's health, they are healed by 25% of the health damage they dealt)

Training Changes

• Battle Chemistry: the trainer in Rahu now uses the Training system for golem conditionals and abilities, instead of selling them as books. This makes it easy to tell which ones you've learned: only ones you haven't learned yet will show up!
• Tanning: previously the easiest way to learn Tanning was to complete a favor for Kleave. This is too hidden for such an important low-level skill, so Kleave's training menu now has an entry to Learn Tanning for 500 Councils, which she teaches at Comfortable. (If you prefer, you can still learn it by completing the favor. This will save you a few hundred Councils in Training costs.)
• Learning the first level of Tanning (from whatever method) now teaches the first Tanning recipe. (The other Tanning recipes are still taught by Kleave.)
• Leatherworking: Kleave now teaches her Leatherworking recipes from the Training menu, like a normal trainer. (She previously sold books of leatherworking recipes instead)

Other Changes

• the ability Set Broken Bone did not have the intended 33% chance to consume the Master First Aid Kit. (Instead the kit was always consumed.)
• added another background music track to Red Wing Casino
• Spider: Treasure effect "Premeditated Doom channeling time is -1 second and boosts your Indirect Poison damage +X (per tick) for 20 seconds" was bugged. Data errors caused this effect to use the level 80 version for all levels 60-80
• the game now tries a bit harder to ensure that summoned and deployed items (such as tapped kegs, growing vegetables, motherlodes, etc.) are in an accessible location, and not trapped underground or in a wall. Note that as a side-effect, they can now spawn up to 12 meters away from you (instead of 5 meters as previous), and can now appear above or below you in some cases, so you may need to look around for them
• removed terrifying error about speed-hacking when you try to turn off a toggleable ability too quickly (such as giant bats' Echolocate). You can now turn off abilities like this instantly, without having to wait for the ability's reuse timer to be up.
• fixed a bug where the Party chat channel could be dropped from custom chat tabs when leaving a party
• as a side-effect of cleaning up some old treasure system mechanics, the drop-chances of some treasure effects have changed. Most notably, effects that boost base-damage (e.g. "Sword Base Damage +X%") used to drop at a rate 15x higher than regular mods; they now drop 5x as often. (During pre-alpha those effects were extremely crucial and they needed to show up a lot, but they're more "optional" now.)

Ri-Shin Winter Celebration

"Dangerous Improvement" Recipes Disabled

Treasure Effect Location Fixes

• Some treasure effects for main-hand weapons could only be found on Lutes, and some effects for off-hand weapons could only be found on Horns.

• "Toxic Irritant boosts your Nice Attack Damage +X for 8 seconds" is now available on rings and main-hand weapons.

• "Toxinball Damage +X%": This was intended to be findable on necklaces and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.

• "Tundra Spikes deals +X% damage, gains +Y accuracy, and lowers targets' Evasion by Z for 20 seconds": This mod comes on two equipment slots, but the evasion-debuff aspect of the mod did not stack with itself.
• "Ice Spear heals you for 46 health after a 15 second delay": This was intended to be findable on gloves and off-hand items, but couldn't be found on off-hand equipment.

• Many treasure effects for main-hand weapons could only appear on Daggers. Now that dirks can be wielded in the off-hand, it's now reasonable to have a sword with Knife effects!
• "Poisoner's Cut boosts indirect poison +X per tick" is now available on pants and off-hand weapons.
• "Gut deals +X% damage and reuse timer is -1 second" is now available on shirts and necklaces.

• "Grunt of Abeyance restores X Power to all targets": This was intended to appear on necklaces and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.

• "Phoenix Strike deals +10% damage and triggers the target's Vulnerability" is now available on staves.

• "All Werewolf attacks have a X% chance to deal Y Trauma damage over 8 seconds": This was intended to appear on helmets and main-hand equipment, but couldn't be found on main-hand equipment.

• All main-hand treasure effects could not be found on daggers (but could be found on other weapons such as swords).

• Fixed several dozen Feet-slot treasure effects that could not be found on animal shoes (such as Deer Shoes).
• Fixed a handful of other cases where certain treasure effects could not be found on certain specific types of equipment.

Skill Revisions

Necromancy:

• "Create Super Zombie": This ability has been removed! It is now merged into the Raise Zombie ability (which was previously called Create Shambling Corpse).
• "Create Shambling Corpse" was renamed "Raise Zombie". (It was already called in some parts of the game.) You can now use Raise Zombie even while you have a zombie alive, in which case it buffs and heals the existing zombie. The reuse timer on Raise Zombie is increased to 60 seconds and the Power cost is higher. All gear pertaining to zombies has been revised, and many new gear effects have been added for zombies.
• Wave of Darkness: Changed from a 20m burst to a 10m burst. Changed base reuse time from 30 seconds to 18 seconds. All treasure mods that affected Wave of Darkness have been rebalanced as a result.
• Provoke Undead: The inherent damage boost is slightly larger. Also, all treasure effects that were supposed to boost the damage from Provoke Undead were bugged and did (almost) nothing. These effects have been fixed and significantly revised, and new effects were added as well.

Treasure Changes of Note:

• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage for 10 seconds" => was bugged and did not work. It has been refactored to deal +X% damage but also deal Y damage to your minions over a 10 second period.
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage for 10 seconds, but also take Y Health damage after a 10-second delay" => also did not work correctly. It has been refactored to deal damage immediately, not after a delay.
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to deal +X% damage with their Fire/Ice/Electricity attacks (if any) for 10 seconds" => also didn't work correctly. It has been refactored into a flat global damage bonus instead of an elemental percentage bonus.
• "Life Steal targets all enemies within 10 meters and deals +X damage but reuse timer is +3 seconds" => was tweaked a bit because the +X flat damage wasn't useful. It is now: "Life Steal targets all enemies within 10 meters and steals +X health, but reuse timer is +3 seconds and Power cost is +Y".
• "Wave of Darkness heals you for 66 health" => was replaced with a new effect: "Wave of Darkness damage +X and reuse timer is -1 second".
• "Rebuild Undead restores X health/armor to your undead after a 15 second delay" => now has a 10-second delay.
• "Summoned Skeletons deal +X direct damage with each attack, but take Y% more damage from any cold attacks" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat.
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages deal +X direct damage, but take +50% more damage from any slashing, piercing, or crushing attacks" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat.
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers deal +X direct damage with each attack" => now also applies to Skeletal Mages.
• "All Summoned Skeletons deal +X damage with each attack, but are instantly destroyed by ANY Nature attack" => damage bonus is a percentage instead of flat, and this effect no longer applies to skeleton swordsmen.
• "Death's Hold causes target to take +X% damage from Slashing for 15 seconds" => was quite overpowered, or would have been if it worked. It works now but has reduced efficacy.
• "Rebuild Undead restores X health/armor to your undead after a 10 second delay" => accidentally healed the necromancer, not the undead minions.

Retired Necromancy Treasure Mods:

All of these have been replaced with entirely new effects.
• "Death's Hold deals +X damage and Stuns target after a 15 second delay": This effect was almost always useless. It has been replaced.
• "Necromancy Base Damage +%": The skill actually had two of these mods for a total of 4 slots' worth. This didn't seem to fit the Necromancy skill as it is currently envisioned, so two of those slots have been repurposed to boost Skeleton pet damage instead.
• "Summoned Skeletal Archers and Mages regenerate +X health every update, both in and out of combat": Most tiers of this ability did not work on the right kinds of skeleton. It was fixed, but then completely replaced with a new effect.
• "Summoned Skeletal Mages deal +X direct damage with each attack": This effect has been merged with a different one (above), so it was repurposed for a new effect.
• "Create Super Zombie also heals yourself for 192 health, 192 armor, and 38 power": This has been replaced with a new effect that buffs Raise Zombie.
• "Create Zombie also heals yourself for X health": This has been replaced with something that actually makes zombies better.
• "Provoke Undead causes target undead to recover 66 Armor": Although it was one of the only Provoke Undead treasure effects that actually worked, it was thematically inappropriate for the ability. It has been replaced.
• "Heal Undead restores +X Health/Armor and boosts targets' Slashing damage +Y for 8 seconds": The amounts here were so small as to be useless. Replaced.

Cow:

Cows' gear configuration posed a slightly thornier problem. While it was possible to build robust tanky builds, it required a lot of gear before it started to work: there were separate treasure effects for crushing, slashing, and piercing protection, and a typical "tank" would need all three -- and at high level they would probably want two of each. And since all six of those effects appeared on only Hands and Feet gear, cow gear ended up feeling pretty uninspired. We've changed those effects around, and also tried to address some other problematic play aspects and build limitations.
• "Chew Cud boosts Crushing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => "Chew Cud boosts Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation +14 for 10 seconds". In addition, this effect is now available on 4 slots instead of 2.
• "Chew Cud boosts Slashing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => was replaced with a new effect.
• "Chew Cud boosts Piercing Mitigation +22 for 10 seconds" => was replaced with a new effect.
• "Stampede Damage +X" => "Stampede Taunt +X" (for a much bigger X).
• Ability "Tough Hoof" has been revised. "If the target attacks and damages you within 5 seconds, you regain X health" => is now "Each time the target attacks and damages you within 8 seconds, you regain X health". The ability's damage is a bit lower and reuse timer is 12s instead of 10s. Treasure effects have changed also.
• There is also a new ability for Cows, as well as a bunch of new treasure effects. The new ability can temporarily be learned from Raul in Animal Town. (Although not permanently, as he finds it extremely uncouth.)

Deer:

• Cuteness Overload is now marked as an Epic Attack for purposes of equipment that boosts Epic Attacks.
• "Summoned Deer deal +X damage" => damage is now percentage-based instead of flat.
• "Deer Kick deals X armor damage and reduces target's rage by Y" => accidentally dealt Health damage instead. It has been refactored to just deal regular damage.
• "Deer Kick implants insect eggs in the target. Future Deer Kicks by any deer cause target to take X Nature damage over 5 seconds" => didn't work. It now works as intended. In addition, all attacks made by player-summoned deer are now considered "Deer Kicks" for the purposes of this treasure effect.
• "Deer Bash heals X health" => accidentally restored Armor instead.
• Plus a new ability and a number of new treasure effects! The new ability can temporarily be learned from Jumper in Animal Town.

Rabbit:

• Reuse timer of Hare Dash changed from 30 to 25.
• Reuse timer of Play Dead now gets faster with each tier of the ability.
• "Carrot Power Boosts Direct Cold Damage" => now boosts direct and indirect cold damage.
• Fixed effect-ordering bug where the Play Dead effect that boosted Psychic damage did not apply to the Play Dead effect that dealt Psychic damage.
• Plus two new abilities and a large new assortment of new treasure effects! The new abilities can temporarily be learned from Cinnamon in Animal Town, although they will be taught by a different NPC in the future.

Spider:

• Incubate is no longer marked a Nice Attack. Spit Acid is now a Nice Attack.
• Incubate can now be placed on the sidebar.
• Baby spiders' rage attacks now have significantly better poison DoTs, and the spiders have smaller rage bars so they can use their poison a bit more often.
• Spit Acid now destroys more armor on immediate impact.
• Inject Venom's poison DoT deals more damage in a much shorter time window (12s instead of 20s).
• Premeditated Doom reset time changed from 40s to 20s. Durations of various treasure effects adjusted accordingly. Treasure:
• "Incubated Spiders deal +X direct damage with each attack" => now boosts damage by a percentage instead of a flat number
• "Spider Bite has a 50% chance to deal +X damage" => now works for both Spider Bite and Infinite Legs, and it boosts damage by a percentage instead of a flat number.
• "Combo: Gripjaw+any+any+Inject Venom deals +X damage and +Y over 20 seconds" => now deals +X% damage instead of a flat boost. The Damage-over-Time aspect has been dropped, but it was awful and you won't miss it.
• "Spider Bite deals +X% damage" => has been replaced with "Combat Refresh restores +Y Power while Spider skill active".
• "Premeditated Doom restores X health" => restores health after a 10-second delay.
• "Premeditated Doom restores X armor" => restores armor after a 10-second delay.
• "Infinite Legs restores X health" => now also applies to Spider Bite.
• "Spider Bite restores X health" => was made obsolete because the Infinite Legs version now applies to both abilities. So it has been replaced with a completely new effect, one that buffs Premeditated Doom.
• "Infinite Legs restores X armor" => has been replaced with "Infinite Legs deals +X% damage and reuse timer is -0.5 seconds".
• "Grappling Web causes the target to take +X% damage from Poison attacks" => now correctly stacks with itself when the effect is present on two equipment slots.
• "Poison Mitigation +X while Spider skill active" => now also mitigates Acid.
• "Acid Mitigation +X while Spider skill active" => has been replaced with a new treasure effect for Spit Acid.
• Plus various rebalances and new treasure effects to flesh out the spider's arsenal.

Other Stuff

• Abilities that summon pets now list the treasure effects that will apply (just as other types of abilities do).
• You can now click on your pets in-game and examine them to see a rudimentary report of their combat stats at that moment. (Previously this was only available to Animal Handling pets.)
• Sammie Grimspine in Serbule Hills sells Skinning Knives to her Friends. (This is a backup method for demo players who lose the knife they get from Ivyn's favor reward.)
• Fixed equipment-crafting bug where using two of the same gem could generate Legacy items.
• Fixed bug preventing Rabbit treasure mods from being extracted into Malachites.
• Equipment-crafting recipes are changed so that using two of the same gem now usually results in gear for that skill + generic enhancements (rather than being for that skill + a randomly-picked skill) .
• Fixed a bug where Death Avoidance gear did not always take your remaining armor into account before activating.

This is a quick touch-up to last week's update.

• Inventory window: did not show the special overlays shown on top of quest items and broken hardcore items.
• Practical Summoning: manually typing a number did not always correctly change the number summoned.
• Recipe Sorting: the "Sort by Times Used" option did not work in some situations
• Inventory window: showed incorrect status messages in the chat history when locking/unlocking a folder.
• Fixed the level requirement on about two dozen work orders. These work orders' rewards are unchanged, only the level requirement was incorrect.
• Fixed physics bug that could cause oversized monsters to fall through the world
• Miscellaneous very minor data tweaks.

Today's update contains a huge array of new features, bugfixes, and quality of life improvements.

Crafting UI

• You can now sort your recipe list in three ways: alphabetically, by recipe level, or by most-used recipes. There is no button for this UI feature yet; to access it, just right-click the name of a recipe in the list in the Crafting UI.
• You can now mark recipes as Favorites by right-clicking the recipe name in the list. There is a new drop-down option at the top of the list to show only favorite recipes.
• When crafting an enchanted item, the crafting window now shows info about the base item (the unenchanted version of the resulting item).

Inventory UI

• Added an "Update this Loadout" button to loadout window; this button just replaces the contents of the loadout with the currently-active abilities and gear.
• Added a spot on the inventory window that you can drag items onto to get More Info. This is the same as right-clicking the item and choosing More Info.
• Fixed several subtle mouse-click bugs with the inventory window. Most notably, you couldn't drag items around in inventory while you were "in combat".
• Cleaned up confusing error messages and sometimes-buggy behavior with the Split Stack window. (BTW, did you know you can quickly split a stack of items by clicking the inventory item while holding down the SHIFT key?)

Main UI

• Added a new setting to let you turn off the player stats bar that's usually in the top-left corner. This is for players who would prefer to just use the stats globes to track their health/armor/etc.
• The sidebar now has a right-click menu item to bring up the Special Abilities list, similar to the option already available on the bottom bars.
• Fixed bugs with the sidebar's contents getting changed or lost when using potions and effects that increased the number of sidebar slots (such as Gur-Horta)
• Fixed bug where changing the horizontal/vertical layout of the ability bars was not always saved in the settings for the next time the game started.
• On the character selection screen, if the character is not Hanging Out with someone, it instead shows the area the character is in.

Miscellaneous

• At the Guild Management Sign, the Roster option can now be sorted by rank/name (the default, as before) or by Last Time Online.
• When using the Eject Guild Members option, that popup list is sorted by Last Time Online. (We assume that if you're making room in the roster, you probably want to eject people who haven't been online recently.)
• Fixed a bug with Dwarven Fixer: It did not correctly block the bright-lights screen effect of Delerium Tremens (the nastiest withdrawal state of an alcoholic). If you have Dwarven Fixer in your system already, you may need to drink another dose to get the fixed effect.
• Dwarven Fixer now lasts 3 hours instead of 1.
• Fixed several scripted scenarios where the game said you were lit on fire, but you weren't actually lit on fire (such as when trying to break into Ivyn's chest or when giving the wrong answer to the creepy crystal).
• Fixed various scripting bugs that caused players to receive items with impossibly-high stack sizes instead of receiving multiple stacks of the item.
• Fixed bugs when using the /leave command to leave a chat room that was in use in more than one chat channel.
• Improved the heuristics for closing chat tabs automatically.
• Fixed bug that caused the Group window to sometimes lose track of a party member (showing blank health/armor/power bars for them).
• Miscellaneous performance optimizations related to the user interface.
• Added new icons for resource items that are commonly confused with other resource items.
• Added missing titles from player packages. If your account still doesn't have a title and it should, please e-mail support@projectgorgon.com ASAP so we can get you sorted out.

I wanted to give you an update on our plans for near-future game updates. But first, let's talk about the demo!

Project: Gorgon Demo Is Available!

• CANNOT join a guild
• CANNOT trade with other players
• CANNOT send or receive money via /tip
• CANNOT pick up items dropped on the ground (except items they themselves dropped)
• CANNOT milk other players (or be milked, if they become a cow)
• CANNOT listen to poetry orations or recite poetry
• CAN unlock and use regular storage
• CAN sell items at vendors, but CANNOT buy other players' used items
• CANNOT buy consignment items or place their own consignments
• CANNOT purchase from player stores or open their own stores
• CANNOT play any instrument, but CAN listen to performances
• CANNOT place or complete player-work-orders
• CANNOT use deployed gadgeteering items such as vending machines and rafflers
• CAN add friends (it prompts the other player to confirm, as normal)
• CAN join hunting groups (and can chat in hunting group chat)
• CAN speak in Local chat, and in Group chat (when they're in a group)
• CAN speak in a new chat room called Demo
• CAN listen, but CANNOT speak, in all other chat rooms (including Global, Trade, and Help)
• CANNOT send private messages (PMs) unless both the sender and recipient are in the Demo chat room (see below)

Upcoming Game Improvements

Improving the UI

Fleshing out Content

Revising Game Systems

Note: All This Will Take Several Months!

This is a small bug-fix update. The Halloween event is NOT over yet -- it will run through the middle of the week (Wednesday or Thursday).

• Fixed navigation issues with the boardwalks in Serbule and Anagoge Island
• Fixed bugs that prevented the thick green "queued ability" overlay from showing up on a queued ability
• Fixed bug where the faces of some male elves were lighter-colored than their bodies
• Fixed bug with human and elf female eyelashes (they looked creepy in some light conditions)
• Tried to work around weird behavior with Windows 10 firewall: if you log out or disconnect due to being AFK too long, the firewall would sometimes decide the game wasn't allowed to use the internet anymore and constantly break any connections to the server, requiring you to restart the game to log back in. The cause of this is unknown (Microsoft does not document much of anything about how their firewall app works or why), but we've made some changes based on hunches and we'll see if it helps.
• Worked around Unity 2017 bug that caused the lowest graphics tiers (Bad, Abysmal, and Retro-Terrible) to be less efficient than they should be
• Partially worked around a Unity engine bug involving shadows (where performance gets worse at certain times of day when facing certain directions outdoors). This is a partial fix, meaning the issue persists but is reduced. There is a side-effect, though: interactive elements such as monsters, NPCs, signs, lamps, chairs, etc., are no longer lit by the sun or moon. Usually this is completely unnoticeable, but sometimes it can be really surreal: "why is that lamppost not casting a shadow?!" If it's distressing, you can disable this fix by opening Settings and adding EntityShadows to the special-settings box. (There are better ways to address this problem in bleeding-edge versions of Unity, so we anticipate that this workaround is temporary.)
• We'd like players to test out a new experimental graphics feature: spherical culling. To enable it, open the Settings window in-game and add SphereCull to the Special Settings window. Normally the game uses frustum culling, meaning anything that's not right in front of the camera isn't rendered. This is theoretically optimal: why render stuff that's not on the screen? But it has side-effects. One problem is that when you spin around in a circle, a lot of art assets have to be swapped in and out of video memory, which can cause framerate to drop momentarily. Spherical culling means everything in a circle around you is rendered. This may have a lower framerate overall, but it will greatly reduce "turning lag". Please try it out and report your experiences with it (especially bugs, such as missing water or other things being invisible)! And remember: you may need to lower your settings to effectively use this, especially if you've overridden settings like view distance or animation distance!

Halloween

Slow-Boxes Optimization Turned Off By Default

Changes to Damage Formula

"Dangerously Improve Weapon" Recipes Return

Item Rafflers & Item Vendors Changes

Other Changes

• All pet damage is increased noticeably. This is especially true of necromancers' skeletal pets. The most dramatic example is high-level skeletal mages, whose base damage increased by more than 50%. (The adjustments in this update are a "bulk" formulaic change; further adjustments will be made in the future.)
• As of the last update, Elite monsters that are killed with only area-effect attacks are no longer combat-locked. But if a group killed an Elite with ONLY area-effect attacks, the elite would incorrectly act like non-elite for turn-based looting. Non-combat-locked elites now "faux lock" themselves to the group of the main killer when they die so that the group's turns are honored.
• Higher tiers of the ability Spade Assault did not correctly have the lower tiers as prerequisites.
• Fixed a scenario where you could skin an illusion of a dead werewolf if you were really, really quick.
• Fixed weird particles appearing when drake worms burst out of the ground.
• Fixed a client display bug that caused some damage attributes to not be updated after equipment was taken off. This was only a tooltip display bug.
• Fixed a server-side rounding error with base-damage multipliers that could cause attacks to deal 1 less damage than the client tooltip indicated it should.
• Stuffed toy bears can now be deployed for others to be able to hug. (The bear is not destroyed; only one bear can be deployed per 15 minutes per player.)
• The map in the casino was shifted over a bit to include the new party room. The fog is reset, and any map pins in the casino will be off by a small amount. Sorry about that!
• Added signs to the Red Wing Casino to help guests navigate more easily.
• Added a "secret" entrance/exit to Gazluk Keep.

Red Wing Casino

Storage Cleanup

• Laura Neth: "ingredients for any skill" ==> "Food or Cooking Ingredients"
• Selaxi: "ingredients for any skill" ==> "Food or Cooking Ingredients"
• Julius Patton: "Food or Cooking Ingredients" ==> "Food, Cooking, or Brewing Ingredients"
• Joeh: "Equipment" ==> "any item". Max slots reduced from 64 (at Like Family) to 40.
• Tyler Green: "Equipment" ==> "Equipment and Ammunition"
• Charles Thompson: "Alchemy [potions]" ==> "Potions and Alchemy Ingredients"

Monster Crits

(Non-AH) Pet Crits

• Example: the pet summoned by Raise Skeletal Archer 4 is level 47. Thus it has a 4.25% chance to critically-hit, and crits deal 217% damage.
• Example: the spider summoned by Incubate 5 is level 70. Thus it has a 10% chance to critically-hit, and crits deal 240% damage.

Other Changes & Fixes

• Monsters no longer notice players before the player's loading screen finishes.
• Area-of-effect attacks no longer "loot-lock" monsters hit by the burst.
• Added a button to sort storage vault contents. (This uses the same sort order as the inventory-sort button does.)
• About 200 new Work Orders have been added to the game; there is a new Work Order sign in Red Wing Casino, and all existing boards have at least a few new ones.
• In addition, many old Work Orders have been moved from one city to another (to try to make things a little more sensible... but it still needs more reorganization in the future). You may want to check your active Work Orders in case they now need to be delivered to a different city than before!
• Some melee abilities were not flagged as melee, so buffs/debuffs applicable to melee attacks did not work on them: Phoenix Strike, Bun-Fu Strike, Rabbit Scratch, Doe Eyes.
• Some burst attacks were not flagged as bursts, so buffs/debuffs applicable to burst attacks did not work on them: Wave of Darkness, Song of Discord, various minigolem abilities.
• Druid ability Cloud Sight did not benefit from equipment that boosted druid base damage by a percentage.
• Stopped damage-reply effects (such as Fire Shield Potions) from activating due to friendly damage (e.g. from Restorative Arrow).
• "Fight Me You Fools" had untyped damage instead of Crushing damage.
• Some healing abilities that normally deal 0 damage (since they're heals) could inflict damage when flat damage-type boosts were added (e.g. a Ring of Psychic Pestering, which adds +2 psychic damage, would cause some mentalism heals to deal 2 damage).
• Corrected the Causes of Death from Priest attacks.
• The sidebar ability Fish Gut has been completely redesigned: it no longer uses fish scales as ammo and instead uses a skinning knife (with a 5% chance the knife will be lost). Creatures with Fish anatomy take double damage. This is considered a (non-bleed-inducing) variant of Gut for purposes of equipment and combos.
• Renumbered the IDs of poetry appreciation effects to allow room for new effects in the future; if you had a poetry appreciation buff on, it has been dispelled - sorry!
• Recipes for exotic mushroom substrate have fewer ingredients but only yield half as much substrate.
• The cow ability Chew Cud now only consumes regular "Grass", and not other grasses such as "Evil Grass" or "Barley". This is because chewing something besides regular Grass is pretty much always a mistake, and sometimes a tragic one (like when you chew up your Eternal Greens).
• For similar reasons, the ability Organ Displacement now only takes basic Aquamarines, not things with aquamarines in them (such as Aquamarine Rings).
• For similar reasons, the ability Resuscitate now only takes basic Diamonds, not fancy diamonds (such as Winterprize) or equipment with diamonds in them.
• The recipe for some alchemy potions has been simplified: Persona Reducer Potion, Memory Inhibitor Potion.
• Reduced the ingredients needed for high-level Shamanic Infusion recipes.
• Fixed recipe icons that did not match the items generated by the recipe.
• Bottles of Fertilizer now stack to 5.
• Rennet now stacks to 5.
• NPCs that like specific flowers (e.g. Brianna Willer likes Dahlias) now really like bouquets containing just that flower (Dahlia Bouquets in this case).
• Fae Felt can now be dropped by all killable fairy enemies. It is an extremely rare drop for low level fairies such as fairy slaves, and an uncommon drop for higher level fairies.
• Crazed Alphas are more dangerous.
• Fixed missing icons (shown as all-white squares) when viewing player raffle boxes or vend-o-matics.
• NPCs that interact with lamps (such as Sir Coth does at night) can once again actually turn said lamps on/off.
• Slightly shrank the default NPC dialog font text from 18pt to 16pt. (This does not affect existing installations. You can always manually change the font size in Settings->GUI->Font Sizes.)
• Upgraded to a new version of Unity, 2017.4.10

This is a server-only update to fix some networking and database performance problems. The only gameplay change is the following:

• Bard treasure mod: "Whenever you take damage from an enemy, you gain Song of Discord Damage +6% and Song of Resurgence Healing +6 for 20 seconds." => This now stacks up to 12x (instead of infinitely)
• Bard treasure mod: "Whenever you take damage from an enemy, you gain Bard Base Damage +8% for 15 seconds." => This now stacks up to 10x (instead of infinitely)

Catalog Golems

Augment-Installation Services

• Joeh in Serbule can install level 0-20 Augments for 50 Councils.
• Kalaba in Eltibule can install level 21-40 Augments for 250 Councils.
• Urzab in Amulna can install level 41-60 Augments for 650 Councils.
• Rick Snapley in Gazluk can install level 61-80 Augments for 1000 Councils.
• Torgan in Gazluk can install level 61-80 Augments for 900 Councils. You must know Orcish.
• Preta in Sun Vale can install level 0-50 Augments for 350 Councils. You must be Close Friends or better.
• Tyler Green in Serbule Hills can install level 0-25 Augments for free. You must be Friends or better.
• Amutasa in Rahu can install level 0-70 Augments for 650 Councils. You must be Friends or better.
• Nightshade in Kur can install level 0-100 Augments for 2000 Councils.

Skill Changes

• Treasure: Mangling Shot deals 330 Trauma damage over 10 seconds => 462 Trauma damage over 12 seconds
• Ability: Fire Arrow deals damage over 15 seconds => same damage but over 10 seconds

• Ability: Fiery Bolt 6: Deals 468 damage, plus 230 damage over 20 seconds => 418 damage, plus 288 damage over 12 seconds

• Treasure: Cloud Sight covers the target in insects that deal 170 Nature damage over 15 seconds => 252 Nature damage over 12 seconds
• Fixed bug that caused Heart Thorn and Poisoned Thorns DOTs to deal 5 more damage per tick than listed.
• Treasure: Rotskin deals 190 Trauma damage to health over 15 seconds => 282 damage over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Toxinball deals 114 Poison damage over 12 seconds => 186 over 12 seconds. Also note: this treasure effect was bugged and previously didn't work at all. Now it works.

• Treasure: Virulent Bite deals 115 trauma damage over 10 seconds => 222 Trauma over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Virulent Bite has a 50% chance to deal +76% damage plus 120 trauma damage over 10 seconds => This effect has been overhauled. It is now: "Virulent Bite deals 192 Trauma damage over 12 seconds and also has a 25% chance to deal +76% direct Piercing damage"

• Treasure: Latent Charge deals +200 Electricity damage after an 8 second delay => 240 after an 8 second delay. Also note: this treasure effect was bugged and actually took 15 seconds to activate, not 8 as intended. This is fixed.

• Ability: Sanguine Fangs 6: Deals 120 damage over 8 seconds => 140 over 8 seconds
• Treasure: Sanguine Fangs deals +144 Trauma damage over 8 seconds => 224 over 8 seconds
• Treasure: All Werewolf attacks have a 31% chance to deal 48 Trauma damage over 8 seconds => 64 damage over 8 seconds
• Treasure: Sanguine Fangs suddenly deals 240 damage after a 15 second delay => 280 damage after a 12-second delay

• Treasure: Grappling Web deals 224 Poison damage over 12 seconds => 300 over 12 seconds

• Various meditation combos that dealt DoT (damage-over-time) damage have been adjusted to new DoT balance.
• Various monsters with DoT (damage-over-time) attacks have been adjusted to new DoT balance.

Other Changes and Fixes

• Fixed bugs with Skill tree UI not retaining state.
• The item-tooltip for Augments now lists the skill level requirement of the augment.
• Augment-Installation recipes no longer have an extra-ingredient cost (e.g. fish scales, fire dust, etc.).
• When extracting an Augment from an item, you can now extract generic (non-skill-specific) powers by using any of the "desert gems": Turquoise, Sapphire, Emerald, Morganite, Sunstone, Tiger's Eye, Opal, Goshenite, Danburite, and Ruby. Previously these gems did nothing when used with extraction, so for now they are all assigned to generic-augment extraction. Eventually some of these gems will be needed for other things, though. So just to make it official, Sunstones and Goshenites are the permanent generic-augment-extraction gems. Some of the others may be reassigned to do other things in the relatively-distant future -- 3+ months from now.
• Adding augments to items no longer affects how much phlogiston or other resources are obtained when decomposing or distilling the item.
• Using Shamanic Infusion on an item now adds a Shamanic Infusion requirement equal to the level of the recipe. (Previously all infusions accidentally installed a requirement of Shamanic Infusion level 1, even for max-level infusions.) This fix does not affect existing items... UNTIL those items are used in transmutation. Transmutation (and a few other crafting processes) automatically recalculate the item's wield-requirements, and this can cause the correct Shamanic Infusion requirement to appear.
• Fixed Fire Shield Potions and Acid Shield Potions so that their reflection does not stack if you drink multiple potions.
• Fixed ingredient errors in crafted Priest Staff recipes.
• Fixed rounding and calculation problems that caused a number of converted DOT effects (from the last update) to deal 1 or 2 more damage per tick than intended (and more than the tooltip said it would deal).
• Enchantments that boosted movement-speed attributes by a fractional amount were displayed as adding a whole number. For instance, items that add +0.5 to Sprint Speed would say they added "Sprint Speed +0". (This was only a display bug.)
• Fixed invalid locations where monsters could spawn, notably under Marna's shop in Serbule.
• Additional texture memory optimizations.
• Removed yellowish hue to the specular layer of Elvish Armor. (This will affect how the armor looks when dyed. It should look closer to the dye color, and less yellow. Unless you dyed it yellow, in which case... who knows.)
• Fixed texture error with female dwarf NPCs that made their faces look extra wrinkled and weird.
• The 3rd-party tools JSON for treasure mods now includes the minimum level-requirement for each tier of each treasure mod.
• Added a bit more documentation for the 3rd-party tools files.

Hi guys! The next update is coming in just a few days. I've been focusing pretty heavily on the update, but I had some time today, so I wanted to give you a status update. Remember, this is a dev-blog. It's not an official announcement about future changes, it's just me talking about what I'm doing and thinking. I like to share my current plans, but these plans change often. Speaking of which...

About That Treasure Rebalancing

Client Optimizations

Vendor-Stall Searching

AoE Nerfs

NPC Augment Installation

This is primarily a bug-fix update. It includes important server-side bug-fixes, plus other fixes and improvements that happened to be ready to go.

General Changes

• Fixed more server-side performance bottlenecks, and installed a new tracking tool to find remaining bottlenecks.
• The winners of the Steam Screenshot Contest will receive an in-game notification, along with a package of items, later today.
• To make finding the 3rd-party-tools JSON a bit less mysterious, tools developers can now just visit http://client.projectgorgon.com. This page will automatically redirect you to the page for the most recent game data, along with available documentation.

UI Fixes and Improvements

• The Skills window now remembers which parent skills you had opened/closed in the skill tree (between runs of the game).
• Fixed a timing bug that caused chat messages to be lost if they arrived during a certain part of the loading-screen process.
• Improved the Training UI so that it doesn't forget your scroll position when you train something.
• The tooltip for ability scrolls now shows a warning message if you need to learn an earlier ability before you can learn this one. (Previously the error message only showed when you tried to use the scroll.)
• Fixed a bug with the Last Seen time in the Friends list window. Part of the calculations were done in UTC time instead of your local time zone, so if a player had just logged off, instead of saying they were last seen a few minutes ago, it would say they were seen X hours ago, where X is how many hours you are behind UTC time. (If your timezone is ahead of UTC, it would say they were seen "< 1 Min ago".)
• Due to a bug, if you had multiple informational message boxes waiting for you when you logged in, some of those messages could have been missed. Only certain types of messages were vulnerable to the bug, including messages about e.g. shop items that didn't sell. The item would still be returned, but you might not get a message about it. (If you are worried you may have missed a message, note that you can always use the "/messages" command (without quotes) in chat to see recent messages.)

Skill Changes

• Ability: "Call Living Stabled Pet" did not work at all.

• Treasure: Fire Arrow suddenly deals an additional 335 indirect Fire damage after a 15 second delay => 320 after 12 second delay
• Ability: Poison Arrow 6 deals 240 damage over 20 seconds => 180 over 12 seconds

• Treasure: All bomb attacks ignite the target, causing them to take 130 fire damage over 10 seconds => 140 over 10 seconds

• Treasure: Heart Thorn coats the target in stinging insects that deal 180 Nature damage over 15 seconds => 306 over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Heart Thorn deals Poison damage (instead of Nature) and also deals 192 Poison damage over 12 seconds => 258 over 12 seconds

• Ability: Ring of Fire Deals 63 additional damage over 35 seconds => 150 damage over 12 seconds
• Ability: Fire Breath deals 80 damage over 40 seconds => 168 damage over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Calefaction causes 213 additional damage after a 20 second delay => 213 damage after a 12 second delay
• Ability: Flesh to Fuel: this ability was sharing an icon with a mentalism Psi Wave ability; it now has a unique icon.

• Treasure: The damage portion of "Drink Blood deals 96 damage over 12 seconds, and 50% of the damage becomes health for you" => this damage was applied to the caster, not the victim.

• Item: Flame Basher: All Hammer attacks have a 25% chance to ignite the target, causing 50 damage over 20 seconds => 33% to cause 30 damage over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Rib Shatter deals +160 Trauma damage over 20 seconds => 220 over 10 seconds

• Treasure: Agonize deals +425 Psychic damage over 10 seconds => 576 over 12 seconds
• Treasure: System Shock deals +48 Psychic damage and 100 more over 10 seconds => 186 over 12 seconds
• Corrected icon coloration inconsistencies between the various Psi Wave abilities.

• Treasure: Death's Hold deals +175 Fire damage over 15 seconds => 228 over 12 seconds
• Spark of Death deals 105 Psychic damage over 10 seconds => 168 over 12 seconds

• Ability: Pig Rend 4 deals 75 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => 96 over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Pig Rend deals +238 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => +240 over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Squeal deals 266 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => 260 over 10 seconds

• Treasure: "Exhilarate, Triage, and Invigorate restore +47 Health if you haven't been attacked in the past 15 seconds" only applied to Exhilarate, not Triage and Invigorate.
• The tooltips for various Priest abilities reported 0 healing when there were treasure mods that could make the ability provide that healing, but the treasure mods weren't in use.

• Ability: Stunning Bash causes the target to take 145 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => 210 over 12 seconds
• Treasure: "Fire Shield causes melee attackers to ignite, dealing 42 Fire damage over 9 seconds" => 100 Fire damage over 10 seconds.
• Also fixed a bug with the lowest-tier version of this effect (found on level 1-10 gear); it did not work correct, instead briefly boosting your Fire Mitigation.

• Ability: Spit Acid 5 Deals 400 acid damage over 9 seconds => 400 over 10 seconds
• Treasure: Spit Acid deals 228 Acid damage to Health over 12 seconds => 270 damage over 12 seconds

• Ability: Pinning Slash 3 deals 60 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => 180 damage over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Double Hit ignites the target, dealing 135 Fire damage over 15 seconds => 198 over 12 seconds

• Ability: Hacking Blade: "Deals 210 Trauma damage over 15 seconds" => 252 Trauma damage over 12 seconds (but fewer Ticks)
• Treasure: Hacking Blade deals 120 Trauma damage over 4 seconds => 192 Trauma over 12 seconds
• Treasure: Hacking Blade and Debilitating Blow deal 126 Trauma damage over 12 seconds => 138 over 12 seconds

• Treasure: Slashing Strike damage +51% => Slashing Strike damage +35%
• Ability: Slashing Strike deals 120 damage over 15 seconds => 180 damage over 12 seconds (but fewer Ticks)
• Treasure: Slashing Strike deals +26% damage plus 45 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => Slashing Strike deals 126 Trauma damage over 12 seconds (w/ no direct damage boost)
• Treasure: Slashing Strike deals +23% damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Hip Throw by 2.5 seconds => Slashing Strike deals +15% damage and hastens the current reuse timer of Hip Throw by 2.5 seconds
• Treasure: Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 150 Trauma damage over 15 seconds => Infuriating Fist taunts +460 and deals 138 Trauma damage over 12 seconds

Eltibule Changes

• Bug-fixes and adjustments to Eltibule include:
• Tweaked arrival spot from Serbule. (Just a gentle tweak - it didn't move across the zone this time!) As a side-effect, one of the meditation pillars in Eltibule has moved a short distance.
• Adjusted map so that it covers the entire area. (Previously there were some edges that were "off the map".)
• Fixed scenarios where bird-form druids would stop being birds if they flew too close to certain edges of the map (and then fall somewhat hilariously to their deaths).
• Fixed scenarios where attempting to craft a map or survey could generate the error message: "You must be near an Eltibule to do that."

Miscellaneous

• Recipes for max-enchanted priest staves had incorrect (easier-than-intended) ingredients.
• Arisetsu Medallions incorrectly allowed the Familiar's Recall ability to be used by long-term animal players that had bonded to a master.
• The item-description for the necklace 'Treatment of the Poor' was lost and has been restored.
• Sidebar abilities that involve using knives (such as Poison Blade) require the user to have hands.
• Some musical performance abilities were grouped incorrectly in the skills UI listing.
• The "Neurotoxin" movement-debuff from Biting Vines always succeeded regardless of movement-speed debuff protections.
• Previously, tapped alcohol kegs showed a generic error if you were unable to drink for any reason: "Drink failed. You can only have 3 beer/wine and 1 hard liquor drink active at a time." Kegs now show more specific and accurate error messages if you are unable to drink for an unusual reason.
• Fixed a bug introduced with the new UI that prevented many alcoholic beverages from bestowing their special effects when drunk from inventory.
• If a chat message included items and had a spoiler-begins tag without a spoiler-ends tag, the chat line was displayed incorrectly.
• For our volunteer guides: when -Guide- or -Moderator- chat flair is enabled, speech filters are ignored and spoken Words of Power are not activated.
• Added internal tools to help us assist guilds whose guildmaster is gone.

This is a hotfix update to fix some bugs in Friday's major update. (A "hotfix" is just our term for any update that doesn't require you to download a new game client.)

• "Bleeder Shiv" incorrectly boosted direct Poison damage by +500%. It was supposed to be a flat +5 boost. But while fixing the bug it was revised so that it no longer does any direct poison boost, instead it boosts indirect poison a bit more.
• Note: the previous patch notes were incorrect; you DO earn extra XP for re-exploring Eltibule, but this is "phantom XP" that will disappear in a later update (when we make the Cartography skill do something meaningful).
• Fixed data bug that prevented bard+priest gear from being generated.
• Righteous Flame specified that it restored 0 Body Heat (which is true, but it doesn't need to tell you that).
• The max-enchanted recipes for some items had the wrong prerequisites. This included: Crafted Cloth Shirts, Camouflaged Shirts, Cow Barding, Snail Coats, Bard Gloves, Crafted Winter Boots, and Spring Fairy Pants.
• Fire Rats had the wrong internal settings. They now have fiery attacks, fire resistance, and if tamed they don't turn into a normal rat. (Previously-tamed rats are unchanged.)
• Gloria Stonecurl was not appropriately peeved by the presence of necromancy pets.
• Some weapons could not be augmented (this is fixed retroactively for existing weapons): Mutterer's Katar, Flask of Chills, Pounding Cestus.
• The recipe "Amazing Cloth Pants (Max-Enchanted)" created max-enchanted Great Cloth Pants instead.
• The recipe to install Dirk augments required Fire Dust instead of Fish Scales, which is what off-hand weapons are supposed to use for some reason.
• Added the missing augmentation-installation recipes for bardic lutes and horns.
• The various recipes for Bard Leggings generated lower-level gear effects than intended. (This can’t be fixed retroactively; existing items are unchanged.)
• Previously, pets could attack monsters that were 'mezzed' if at least half the mezz duration had elapsed (the same time in which players can break the mezz). Now pets never directly attack mezzed or feared targets. Note that as a side effect, this means you cannot order your pet to attack a mezzed or feared enemy; pets now consider them "invalid targets".
• Fixed a bug that prevented monsters in some areas from fighting. (Fixed in an earlier reboot.)

There's a new combat skill in this update! The Priest skill is primarily a healer and is especially powerful in groups. Unlocking Priest requires either Compassion 25 or Psychology 25. A priest in Kur Mountains' inn area can assist you in learning the skill. The Knife Fighting skill has also been improved. There is a new kind of knife for your off-hand. Off-hand knives are called Dirks. All pre-existing knives are main-hand knives, collectively called Daggers. You can wield a Dirk, a Dagger, or both when using the knife skill. If you wield two knives at once, you can take advantage of a few new treasure effects and a new dual-wielding-only knife ability found on loot scrolls.

General Combat Changes

• Burst attacks (or "AoEs", that is, attacks that hit multiple enemies) now deal reduced damage if they hit more than 3 enemies at once. The damage drops off rapidly as the number of enemies hit increases. Note that this only applies to direct damage from the attack; debuffs and other special effects are applied at full potency to all targets
• DOTs (damage over time effects) incorrectly calculated their damage amount on every tick, instead of just once at the start of the DOT. This meant that if you poisoned a monster, then drank a +5 indirect poison potion while the monster was still poisoned, the remaining poison in the monster would magically do +5 damage per tick! While this this might sound like a beneficial bug, it actually made many small buffs worthless. For instance, Poisoner's Cut boosts indirect damage for 5 seconds, which is enough time to use one or two abilities. But due to this bug, after 5 seconds, the poison you'd just applied to enemies suddenly became weaker. This bug has been fixed so that DOTs behave like you'd expect: the damage of the DOT is calculated once, right when it's applied. (Note that this involved significant code refactoring, so please be on the lookout for weird behavior that may have cropped up.)
• Treasure and spell effects that boosted a certain damage type by a flat amount ("All Electricity attacks deal +7 damage") worked correctly in combat but the damage was not shown in the abilities' tooltips in the client
• Abilities with casting times (now called "Channeling Times") now show their channel times in the ability info tooltips
• Abilities that have Extra Taunt were displayed incorrectly; e.g. an ability that taunted +300 would be listed as adding +30000% taunt

Recipe Prerequisites

Player Titles

Graphics Changes

• Each race now has slightly customized out-of-combat idle stances (all animations are works in progress)
• Fixed weird jerky foot movement in some Unarmed Combat animations
• Fixed the shininess of several metal armors that were set up as leather instead of metal
• Improved culling of distant particles
• Previously if you set your "Shadow Distance" to 0 in the preferences, the game engine still did some of the computations needed for shadows, even though none could possibly be seen. Now if you set it to 0, all shadow processing is disabled
• New special setting ForceHardShadows makes the game use a simpler system for generating shadows, which can improve framerate. However, note that this is automatically enabled for all graphics levels up to and including "2: Fair". So this does nothing unless your graphics quality level is 3 or higher.
• Fixed the "T pose" of female avatars (when humanoids were past the animation cut-off distance, and had not yet had a chance to animate at all, they were supposed to be in a pose with arms extended, called the "T pose". Males were, but females were instead partially embedded in the ground)
• Serbule only: adjusted the animation cutoff for fellow players so that they stop animating at about 35 meters instead of 70 meters. This is roughly equivalent to setting your "Entity Animation Distance Modifier" to 0.5 in the previous update, except that this only affects players, and only in Serbule.
• New special setting PlayerAnimationCutoff=100: sets how close other players need to be in order for you to see them animating. (Distance is in meters. Note that this value is multiplied by your 'Entity Animation Distance Multiplier', which can be changed in the advanced graphics settings.) By default, the game determines this setting on a per-area basis, with values ranging from 35 to 80.
• If you had manually overridden the "Entity Animation Distance Multiplier" graphics setting, it has been un-overridden, reverting back to the default for your graphics level. We did this because we changed the underlying distances that this setting modifies (see above), so it's unlikely you'd still want it to be set at whatever you had it set at! (You can, of course, override it again as you see fit.)
• Fixed the Thentree Helmet, which was using the wrong texture and looked like a monstrosity

Detailed Knife Changes

• You can now wield a new kind of knife, called a Dirk, in your off-hand. You can wield either an off-hand knife or a main-hand knife (or both) to use Knife Fighting attacks
• Boosted how much Poisoner's Cut increases indirect (dot) damage
• There is a new Knife ability called Duelist's Slash. This is a variant of Slice that requires two knives equipped (dual-wielding). The ability can be found via loot scrolls
• When a monster is Feared, it is treated as "not looking at anyone" for the purpose of abilities that do more damage if the target isn't focused on you.
• When a monster is Mezzed, it is treated as "not looking at anyone" for the purpose of abilities that do more damage if the target isn't focused on you. (This was supposed to be true before, but was bugged in some cases.) [Note: previously there was a typo in this patch note that said it worked on Stunned enemies instead of Mezzed. Stunning an enemy does not prevent them from looking at you; this is intentional and is not going to change.]
• Knife abilities no longer generate the error message "The target is looking at you!" (even when it's true), because it was spammy and unnecessary
• Fixed several bugs related to the monster-looking-at-you system
• Lisi the fairy (in Sun Vale) now trains some Knife special abilities (instead of Bahdba): Poisoner's Cut, Backstab, and Surprise Throw.
• Lisi no longer trains level 60 knife; that's Rick Snapley (in New Prestonbule)'s job!
• Flia the fairy (in Serbule) also had redundant training for some Knife abilities; these are removed
• Lisi the fairy sells a couple of knife-related skill belts that had previously been unavailable

• Changed "Gut deals +48 damage and if target is not focused on you, also reduces rage by 800" => "Gut deals +48 damage and if target is not focused on you, Gut's trauma damage is increased 50%"
• Changed "Indirect Poison Damage +X%" => this now buffs both indirect Poison damage and indirect Trauma damage
• Changed "Poisoner's Cut deals 120 Poison damage over 10 seconds" => this mod was replaced due to technical limitations (the ability's purpose is to buffs DoTs, but it couldn't buff its own DoT, which is stupid). The mod now adds a Poison DOT to Slice instead.
• Changed "Fending Blade restores 24 Health to you immediately and reduces the target's Rage by 320 after a 10 second delay" => now a 5 second delay
• Changed "Slice ignores mitigation from armor and deals +65 direct health damage" => now deals +76 regular damage, not direct health damage (mainly a stylistic change)
• Changed "Surge Cut deals +146% damage" => "Surge Cut deals 205 Trauma damage over 10 seconds"
• Changed "Indirect Poison damage reduction +16 while Knife Fighting skill active" => "When wielding two knives, all Knife Fighting attacks have a 40% chance to restore 33 Power"
• Changed "Projectile Accuracy Boost +19% while Knife Fighting skill active" => "Thrown Knife attacks deal +39% damage and reuse timer is -1 second"
• Changed "Venomstrike has a 33% chance to deal 80 direct health damage and stun the target" => "Venomstrike has a 46% chance to stun the target and deal +48 damage"
• Changed "Blur Cut has a 50% chance to deal +160% damage" => " Blur Cut deals 105 Poison damage over 10 seconds"
• There are a couple of new treasure effects to flesh out the skill's repertoire
• When viewing a Knife ability that deals damage over time, you can now press the Alt key (the "more info" key) to see additional details about the DOT, including how many times it "ticks". These changes were made to the Knife skill first as a prototype and when we're happy with them we'll adjust all DOTs in the game to display in this manner

Changes to Other Skills' Treasure Mods

• Battle Chemistry treasure that boosted specific golem abilities did not work for the past few updates (e.g. "Your golem minion's Poison Bomb deals +50 damage")
• Ice Magic treasure that boosted the Cold Sphere's Rage Attack did not work for the past few updates
• "Virtuoso's Ballad restores X Armor" => this accidentally restored Power instead
• Changed "Heavy Shot and Heavy Multishot Damage +33%" => "Heavy Shot and Heavy Multishot Damage +21%"
• Changed "Mangling Shot deals +9.5% damage and 330 Trauma damage over 20 seconds" => "Mangling Shot deals 330 Trauma damage over 10 seconds"
• Changed "Mangling Shot causes target to take +14% damage from Piercing for 10 seconds" => "Mangling Shot causes target to take +11.5% damage from Piercing for 10 seconds"
• Fire Arrow's burn (damage over time) changed from 300 over 20 seconds to 210 over 15 seconds (this change was made so that archery DOT treasure mods can stack more elegantly in the future)
• Healing Injection, Revitalize: these Minor Heal abilities did not benefit from buffs that boost the healing of Minor Heals
• Strategic Preparation: this ability is supposed to have a 1.5 second channeling time, but due to a bug the channel only took 1.0 second

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Increased size of chat history log
• Fixed bug with dummy items from vendomatics
• Brewing: brewing effects that caused you to deal extra damage vs. specific types of enemies did not work
• Fixed a bug that caused some buffs to stick around for an arbitrary length of time after the caster had left the area (most obviously with Battle Chemistry mutations, since they last the longest). The intent is that any buffs that come from an ability (and that last longer than a few seconds) should abort if the buff's caster is not in the same server area as the person they buffed, OR if the caster switches to a different combat skill.
• Revised the heuristic that determines druid event size. When very few druids are online (at the moment of premonition), druid events will be easier and shorter
• Bellema Deftwhisper now likes Peridots, not Lapis Lazuli. People change.
• The weapon "Gut-Ache's Chopper" did not have crafting points and could not be augmented; this has been fixed (retroactively for existing weapons)
• Changed the map orientation, arrival point, and some of the spawns, in Eltibule. (The map had gotten turned all around; while fixing it we also tweaked and improved some spawns.) As a result the fog has been reset; apologies for the inconvenience! You will not earn Cartography XP for fog that you already cleared in Eltibule, but you will resume earning Cartography XP once you've cleared more fog than you had previously cleared.
• Fixed monster AI issues that slowed down server processing

Hi, I'm Eric ("Citan") Heimburg, the lead developer of Project: Gorgon. It's been a while since I did a dev blog -- while we were crunching on the UI rewrite, and then the Steam integration, there wasn't a lot to say besides "we're still doing that thing we already talked about." But now that we have some space, it's time for a dev blog! Before I start, though: What's a dev blog? It's a developer diary, a look at where we are right now. It's meant to give you some insight into how we're thinking and what we want to do. But the details aren't solidified yet. Dates and times, core details ... once or twice I've even mothballed entire systems that just don't work, right after having talked excitedly about them in the dev blog. So I apologize in advance for any inadvertent misinformation. I'm an optimistic person -- you don't start making an MMO by yourself if you're a pessimist -- and I want to convey some of what I'm excited about. And your feedback is a valuable byproduct of that -- we often change direction based on what people say here. Let's get started!

Client Optimizations

Server Optimizations

Treasure and Skill Changes

New Skill: Priest

Mecanim Update On The Horizon

Other Changes

This is a bug-fix update.

General Fixes:

• Fixed several bugs that could bottleneck the server. (You can tell when this is happening because NPCs take a long time to respond when they're clicked on, among other problems.) It's likely there are more of these bottleneck bugs that only arise when 200+ players are in one small geographic region, so special logging was added to help track them down when they occur.
• Fixed bug that allowed you to switch equipment during combat.
• Fixed bug that caused players to have collision with other players if they transformed into/out of an animal form.
• If you died while submerged in an indoor body of water, the camera could remain blurry after you respawned.
• Fixed bug with Hardcore Mode sign allowing players to temporarily keep using hardcore items and buffs after turning off hardcore mode.
• When a guild officer toggled a guild permission, it was logged incorrectly to the Guild Audit Log. (Pre-existing log entries are unchanged; new log entries should be correct.)
• Fixed bug that could turn other players' hair mostly invisible ("ghost hair") if they stood at a certain point between the camera and your character.
• Fixed pet/monster AI bug that caused melee-centric monsters to stand idly until their global cooldown was up, even if their target was fleeing. They now pursue fleeing enemies so they can more quickly be in range to attack again.
• Additionally, adjusted pet/monster AI so that they don't slow down as quickly when chasing fleeing (or backpedaling) targets, allowing them to actually get in range of their targets more often.

Animal Handling Fixes:

• Fixed bug that caused Animal Handling pets to not respond to Sic 'Em/Clever Trick orders if their pet mode was changed.
• Examining an Animal Handling pet once again lists the pet's unique abilities triggered by Sic 'Em and Clever Trick.
• Animal Handling ability "Get It Off Me" referred vaguely to "potency is based on loyalty". Loyalty is now called Bond Level, and the ability was reworded to be a little more specific: "How well the pet focuses on your enemies depends in part on the pet's Bond Level." In other words, Bond Level determines how well the pet is "taunted" to attack your enemies, but other benefits of the ability are NOT based on bond level.
• Increased how well pets stick to your enemies when Get It Off Me is used. (But this effect is reduced if the pet's Bond Level is low; see above.)
• Removed obsolete references to pet Power in Animal Handling abilities.

Content Fixes:

• Fixed visual bugs with ghosts
• Ranalon Den map now uses the new style map pins.
• Fixed some stone objects in the Ranalon Den that could be walked through.
• All old references to "Enoeos" are now spelt "Enoyos". (He'd probably prefer the other spelling, but it's easier to guess how "Enoyos" is pronounced: eh-NO-yose.)
• The "Strange Stick" used in the quest "The Eye of Fate" works again.
• Map fog in the Crystal Cavern behaves correctly.
• Velkort's furniture no longer floats. Neither does Ivyn's house.
• Trees and grasses in Serbule Hills are visible again.
• Killing some types of Winter Court Fey did not correctly advance the guild quest Storming the Nexus (50-person)
• Eltibule is using the new terrain shaders, although the foliage is not yet updated to match, so it looks a bit weird

This update contains a smorgasbord of optimizations, bug fixes, and new content.

Ranalon Den

Animal Handling Changes

• A lot of the systems involved with Animal Handling are still too opaque: that is, it's very hard to figure out how they work. As a first step in helping explain everything, Gisli the Stablemaster now has a menu option where he will explain terms like Happiness, Enthusiasm, Bond Level, and so on.
• Animal Handling abilities that target your pet should work even when you don't have your pet explicitly targeted. (This "mostly" worked before, but the icons were shown as being grayed out, leading to much confusion.)
• Some Animal Handling abilities require you to be within a certain range of your pet. If you're too far away, using these abilities should now move you toward the pet until you're in range. Previously, due to bugs, your character would take one step forward and then give up.
• Pets that are in "Follow" mode will no longer fight back against monsters that attack them. They will chase after their owner and never fight, even unto death. (Previously, switching a pet to Follow mode would briefly kick it out of combat, but if it was hit again it would go right back to defending itself. This made it difficult for players to flee without losing their pet.) Note that this change applies to all pets that can be put in Follow mode, not just Animal Handling pets!
• The special abilities "Sic 'Em" and "Special Trick" will now automatically take the pet out of Follow mode if necessary in order to execute the attack you requested (placing the pet in Defend mode).
• Due to a display bug, Enthusiasm was previously always shown as 0 or 1 on the pet's Examination window.
• Due to a display bug, equipment that boosts pet Enthusiasm was listed as boosting it by a percentage, such as 20%. It actually boosts Enthusiasm by a fixed amount, such as 20.
• Animal Handling ability "That'll Do 8" claimed to restore 450 health but only restored 400
• "That'll Do" previously helped restore pets' Power; pets no longer use Power so "That'll Do" doesn't restore any.

• "Animal Handling pets regenerate +X Power every five seconds (whether in combat or not)" => "Animal Handling pets recover +Y Armor every five seconds (whether in combat or not)"
• "Animal Handling pets gain X% melee evasion, and their special trick costs them -Y Power to use" => removed the Power reduction aspect of this mod
• "Animal Handling pets earn +X% XP" => "Animal Handling pets' Sic 'Em abilities taunt +Y"
• "Feed Pet restores X Power to your pet and Y Power to you" => "Feed Pet restores X Health to your pet after a 20 second delay"
• "Animal Handling pets have +X Max Power" => "Animal Handling pets have +Y% Death Avoidance (ignores a fatal attack once; resets after 15 minutes)"
• "That'll Do restores X Power to your pet and Y Power to you" => "That'll Do restores X Health to your pet and Y Power to you"

General Changes

• Improved framerate in Serbule and Serbule Hills (optimizations to sky/weather system). Further optimizations in the future.
• Optimized UI bottlenecks to improve framerate, especially in busy areas
• Fixed text that still referred to Serbule Hills as "South Serbule"
• Reduced the chances of monsters "clumping up" into huge groups in the Ilmari Desert. (It can still happen, but is more rare.)
• Ilmari desert now uses the new terrain shaders, giving it a rockier and more rugged look
• Slightly increased spoon drops on newbie island
• Reduced the number of temporary entities (such as tombstones) that are maintained in dungeons and on the newbie island
• Changed the maximum length of a player vendor's shop name from 60 characters to 32 characters
• Fixed issues with ambient sounds in outdoor areas
• Fixed locations where monsters could spawn underneath buildings in Serbule
• Fixed some abilities with buffs that didn't correctly abort if you switched to a different skill
• The mini-map is now enabled by default for new installations of the game. (This does not affect already-installed copies of the game, just the default for new installs. You can still turn the mini-map on or off in the Settings window.)
• Worked around bugs in Unity that caused animal-form players to move crazily when knocked back. The fix is complex because the bug is deep inside Unity so if you find more issues, please report them, with as much detail as you can.
• Improved Hammer animations
• The Serbule Hills "spider cave" and the Serbule "brain bug cave" are now properly marked as caves for purposes of crafting (e.g. cheese making)
• Previously, when your hunting group used "any group member" loot mode, solo-monsters' loot was always tailored to one specific group member, chosen randomly, which never changed. Now, solo-monsters' loot is tailored to a different randomly-chosen group member each time. This is still not ideal, but it's a step in the right direction. And to reiterate, this does not apply to groups using the default "turns" looting mode -- in that case the monster is always tailored to the person whose turn it is. And, of course, Elite and Boss monsters work entirely differently -- they have instanced loot that's tailored for each group member.
• Adjusted the spawn configurations of certain monsters that could easily be exploited with area-effect attacks. Most notably, Razorslash Panthers (pets of the orcs) now have orcs spawn among them, rather than a vast field of nothing but panthers. These are stopgap measures as we continue to analyze looting rates and monster density scenarios
• Fixed some spawners that were incorrectly configured to respawn super fast (e.g. respawning every 5 seconds). This includes some areas of Eltibule and many areas of Kur. The outdoor respawn rate is supposed to be quite fast, but not so fast that monsters continuously respawn in your face
• Fixed some spawners that were incorrectly super-slow (e.g. respawning every 60 seconds instead of every 20 or 30 seconds). Most notably this affects pretty much all of outdoor Gazluk (aside from Gazluk Keep town) and much of the Ilmari Desert
• Monsters with Evasion all have a little bit more of it (5 points more across the board)
• The "strange deer" spawned during the quest "Get Crystal Samples" no longer drop loot (besides the quest item) and cannot be skinned
• Flia the fairy likes weird items and rare recipes a bit less than before (in terms of Favor received for gifts)
• Tweaked spawn rates upward slightly during kraken invasions

Fixes to Treasure Mods

• "Reconstruct restores +X Health and causes the target to take Y less damage from attacks for 10 seconds" => this mod appears on two slots, Helm and Necklace, but if you had both mods active at once, the "take less damage" portion only applied once
• "Revitalize restores +X Health and causes the target to take Y less damage from Psychic and Nature attacks for 10 seconds" => this mod appears on two slots, Hands and Feet, but if you had both mods active at once, the "take less damage" portion only applied once
• "If Strategic Thrust is used on a Vulnerable target, it deals +X damage and restores Y Health to you" => this did not restore health if the target was vulnerable
• "Strategic Thrust deals +X% damage, plus Y% more damage if the target is Vulnerable" => this did not do extra damage to vulnerable targets
• "Scintillating Frost and Scintillating Flame stun and deal +X% damage to Vulnerable targets" => this stunned but did not do extra damage to vulnerable targets
• "Hammer attacks deal +X% damage to targets whose Rage meters are at least 66% full" => this did not work
• "Seismic Impact deals +X% damage to targets that are Knocked Down" => this did not work
• "Discharging Strike deals +X% damage plus Y% more damage if target's Rage meter is at least 66% full" => this did not add more damage to targets whose rage was mostly full
• "Unarmed attacks deal +X% damage when you have 33% or less of your Armor left" => this did not work. It works now, though the damage boost is a bit lower
• "All sword abilities deal +X% damage when you have 33% or less of your Armor left" => this did not work. It works now
• "Kick attacks deal +X% damage when you have 33% or less of your Armor left" => this did not work. It works now but the damage boost is lower

"Special Settings" Changes

• The experimental optimization OptimizeMeshes is now enabled by default. You can remove OptimizeMeshes from your special settings list because that no longer does anything.
• A new special setting DontOptimizeMeshes is available as a precaution in case the optimize meshes feature needs to be disabled for some reason.
• Added a new special setting, FPSUpdateRate. This takes a duration in seconds (default is FPSUpdateRate=0.5, max is FPSUpdateRate=10). When the FPS display is active, this is how long it waits between refreshes. While waiting, it averages your FPS. Using a value of < 1 shows your moment-to-moment framerate, which is usually what you want to see. But sometimes you want to know if a certain graphics configuration is an overall improvement or not, and a constantly-changing number is hard to use. In that situation setting FPSUpdateRate=5 makes it easier to see the "big picture".
• A new special setting, MaxActiveLoads, might improve loading times when you enter new areas. Normally the loading screen tries to load up to 10 things at once, but on some computers (maybe most computers?) a different number would be better. The new setting lets you change the maximum number of simultaneous loads. Setting it to MaxActiveLoads=100 would allow up to 100 concurrent loads -- that'd be pretty much maxed out, and could speed up or slow down loading, depending on your machine. (A more practical value to try might be 5 or 20.) You might also try MaxActiveLoads=1 to make it stop multitasking at all -- this will probably be much slower, but it uses much less RAM during startup. If you experiment with this setting please let us know your thoughts after a few weeks' usage.