Changes and Additions

• Oleander can now be used as a herb in cooking
• Gates and doors that both players can move through will no longer block attacks
• New method for getting rid of unwanted hedges:
  • Hedges can now be cut down similar to trees and bushes with a cut down action or the CUT_DOWN keybind.
  • Destroying hedges on deed is tied to the “destroy fences” permission.

• Dredging additions and changes:
  • You can now flatten and level with a dredge.
  • You must not be embarked when using flatten or level.
  • When dredging from a boat, the dirt/sand/clay will go directly into the hold if there is room. (You must have room in the dredge for this to happen).

• The spawning of Valrei mobs has changed so that they spawn spread out across the server instead of in groups of 10.
• Keybind MILK added.
• Hot cross buns have been added as a recipe.
• Distributed Java has been updated to the newest version
• Golden Mirror added:
  • The golden mirror will allow a one time gender change and face customisation.
  • After being used to change genders the mirror will only allow the face customisation .
  • Upon the face customisation being completed the mirror will be consumed.

New housing addition

• SANDSTONE INTRODUCED:
  • Will act like marble or slate vein.
  • Will spawn randomly out of rock tiles across the server.
  • Can be created with a transmutation rod.

• NEW ITEMS:
  • Sandstone bricks (Sandstone shard + chisel).
  • Sandstone slabs (Sandstone shard + chisel).
  • Slate bricks (Slate shard + chisel).
  • Slate slabs (Slate shard + chisel).
  • Round stones (Rock shard + chisel).

• CHANGED ITEMS:
  • Slate slabs now are created with 88kgs of slate shards and a chisel.
  • Pottery bricks now require 5kgs of clay instead of 15.
  • Pottery brick floors will have new textures.
  • Stone slab house floors will have new texture.
  • House stone slabs will be changing to sandstone slab flooring to retain the same texture (if this is not immediate it will be addressed).
  • Round cobble roads are now paved with round stones.
  • Rough cobble roads are now paved with colossus bricks.

• NEW WALL TYPES:
  • Left arch.
  • T arch.
  • Right arch.

• NEW WALL TEXTURES:
  • Rendered wall – Plain stone wall + 20kgs of clay
  • Sandstone wall – 20 sandstone bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Pottery brick wall – 20 pottery bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Slate wall – 20 slate bricks and 20 mortar.
  • Rounded stone wall – 20 round stones and 20 mortar.
  • marble wall – 20 marble bricks and 20 mortar.

• NEW PAVEMENT TYPES:
  • Sandstone slab pavement.
  • Sandstone brick pavement.
  • Slate slab pavement.
  • Slate brick pavement (existing slate slab pavement will become slate brick pavement).
  • Marble brick pavement.
  • Pottery brick pavement.

• NEW FENCE TYPES:
  • Pottery brick fence.
  • Pottery brick iron fence.
  • Pottery brick iron fence gate.
  • Sandstone fence.
  • Sandstone iron fence.
  • Sandstone iron fence gate.
  • Marble fence.
  • Marble iron fence.
  • Marble iron fence gate.
  • Rendered fence.
  • Rendered iron fence.
  • Rendered iron fence gate.
  • Slate fence.
  • Slate iron fence.
  • Slate iron fence gate.
  • Round stone fence.
  • Round stone iron fence.
  • Round stone iron fence gate.

Siege weapon changes:

• CATAPULTS AND TREBUCHETS:
  • New algorithm now used for Catapults/Trebuchet projectiles that properly takes into account starting power, gravity and firing angle of the siege weapon:
  • Starting power determined by number of winches for catapult, and loaded amount for trebuchet – power directly relates to starting velocity (so 20 winches is 20m/s).
  • Arc of the projectile is checked along it for any walls, floors, bridges or fences it hits, otherwise it will travel the full arc until it hits the ground.
  • Anything within a small radius of the landing position will take damage, radius depends on the size of the thrown projectile.
  • Weight, quality, and final velocity of the projectile all add into how much damage it deals to the things it lands on – metal and stone projectiles do the most damage.
  • Projectiles still have a maximum of 20 damage per shot.
  • Added new actions to catapults and trebuchets to allow changing of the firing angle.
  • Firing angle defaults to 45 degrees, can be changed to be between 5 and 85 degrees.
  • Added messages when winching and changing the firing angle of a catapult or trebuchet that will give an approximate firing distance of the projectile.
  • Action time for winching now takes skill into account, will be 33% faster at 100 skill.
  • Projectile landing messages now give a full breakdown of everything they hit, and how many of each thing – as well as naming which structure(s) received damage.
  • Rewrote how the checks worked for roofs and floors
    • A projectile that clearly passes through a roof now should hit it and land there.
    • The box it uses for this isn’t exact to the model, so if the projectile is going over the roof, try lowering your angle or power slightly
    • landing closer to the bottom of the roof than the top of it will be more accurate.

• BATTERING RAMS ADDED:
  • Minimum 21 body strength to use it.
  • Uses the War Machines skill for skill checks – action time is 33% faster at 100 skill with a base timer of 30 seconds.
  • Checks a short area in front of the ram for anything to hit, first thing it hits will take damage. Area should be closely lined up with the model.
  • Can only be used by one person at any time, user must be quite close to be able to use it.
  • Damage dealt increased by the ram quality and the skill check result.
  • Ram does double damage to walls underground.
  • Citizen or ally with destroy wall permissions will deal bonus damage.
  • Cannot be used on steep slopes.

• ARCHERY TOWER AND MAGIC TURRET CHANGES:
  • Turrets and archery towers now have increased range based on their quality – up to 5x their base range at 100ql.
  • Turrets and archery towers will now shoot faster based on quality – up to 33% faster at 100ql.
  • Turrets that fail to fire anything when they have a chance to will now do a firing animation without sending out a projectile.
  • Changed the projectile starting positions of turrets and archery towers to line up with their models – This should allow them to fire from anywhere they have proper line of sight to a target.
  • Turrets should now be able to fire from the top of a house or bridge
  • Archery towers now have a damage falloff, the further they fire, the less damage will be dealt

• Added a 3x bonus to damage when bashing arched walls manually.

• Dye requirement for large and small crates has been reduced to 2.50kg and 1.50kg respectively.
• Merchants who move on due to poor business (self-dismiss) will now return their goods and coins inside a backpack through the mail system instead of returning each item individually.
• Cultivate option is now present on grass, steppe and mycelium tiles.
• You will now be able to forage and botanize on mycelium tiles.
• Planter racks will no longer fit in large storage units. Plants inside planter racks currently in large storage units will no longer grow.
• God conversion changes:
  • HotS template kingdoms (default and PMK) can follow Libila or any player god. All others  can follow anyone except Libila.
  • As per the option for PMK libila priests in 1.3, Libila priests will be able to use the /transfer option to change to a player god deity without a faith loss until the 10th of April
• Epic terraforming events have been removed from the endgame of Valrei scenarios.

• Horses, Hell Horses and Unicorns show bridles
• Hell Horses show all equipment and trait colours
• Added new animations: groom, pull, throw (combat and snowballs), take, drop
• Firstaid and push loop to properly reflect action time
• Diamond hota medallion shows when worn

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix:  More text issues addressed.
• Bugfix:  Changed a number of recipes that were using HFC instead of baking.

• Bug fix: Fix for negative quality rift resources as participation reward.
• Bug fix: Fix to prevent most unique creatures from spawning inside a deed.
  • The green, blue, black, and white dragon types use a different spawn mechanic and may still spawn in a village.
• Bug fix: Christmas trees and snowmen were removed from the mission items lists.
• Bug fix: Fix for offline tamed/charmed pets sometimes not logging back online with their owner.
• Bug fix: Addressed a few spelling and text errors.
• Bug fix: Hot stills can now be picked up from the ground if empty.
• Bug fix: You can now properly use the /join village command even if the village which recruited you has more than one word in its name.
• Bug fix: Some recipe fixes:
  • Eggnog can no longer use itself to make more eggnog.
  • Sausage skins can no longer be nested inside each other.
• Bug fix: Improved checks to allow pushing items from a house floor onto a bridge and from a bridge onto a house floor.
• Bug fix: Improved bridge checks, if a bridge is destroyed or decays, planted items on that bridge should no longer give the error message ‘You need to be on the same bridge’ when interacting with them.
• Bug fix: Addressed infrequent issue in which roof and floor damage exceeded 100.
• Bug fix: Fixed dual faith issues between Chaos and Freedom PvE servers.
• Bug fix: Deity colossi can now be destroyed by owner and/or mayor on a deed.
• Bug Fix: Rebirthed Zombies no longer act like NPC's and talk or drop items.
• Bug Fix: Recipe saving error log has been reworded to streamline information.
• Bug Fix: Some reported touch screen crash issues have been addressed.
• Bug Fix: Set Feature 51 to disabled by default, addressing issues of trolls and bears doing no damage.
• Bug Fix: Egg Nog can no longer use itself as an ingredient.

• Deed export system is not currently configured for new pavement and house types. Will be addressed in the coming updates.