Beta v0.7.1

Beta v0.7.1
Date	12 July 2018
Version	0.7.1
Related links
Closed Beta II Patch Notes [1]
Chronology
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Beta v0.6.4	-

General

• Graphics Overhaul
• Server wipe (not the final wipe, though)
• Skill gain progression curve set for launch instead of testing
• Crafting recipes added
• Crafting orders expanded to Fabrication
• Larger group sizes
• New tutorial
• Atlas change
• Saddlebags
• New creatures to tame
• Persistent UI/sticky bars

Client / world

• Character UI elements are now persistent across game sessions.
• Dragged out status bars now persist across world and region changes.
• Added earthquake spell icon
• Torches no longer are automatically turned off during the day
• If auto targeting is enabled, your current target is now shown next to your status bar, the previous indicator of current target (ground circle splat) has been removed.
• Container drop down lists will refresh when an item is exhausted or used.
• The minimap can now be locked so that it doesn’t rotate with camera rotation. Non-rotation is the new default setting.
• House blueprints are now for sale in town shops.
• Fixed broken merchants in Trinit and Belhaven
• Fixed static collision in Western Upper Plains
• Fixed female beggar pants
• Fixed collision in Valus
• Added new bind stone art
• Tree fall animation no longer loops
• Fixed objects not highlighting after clicking on a UI element
• Every item now has appropriate sounds
• All general stores sell the correct region map
• Added “no weather” region to goblin mine
• Added crocodiles to the Black Forest Swamp
• Added foxes to the Upper Plains and Eastern Frontier
• Fixed Catacombs portal activation animations
• Changed "The Bushwoods" region to "The Brushwoods"
• Adjusted overlapping border between Barrens and Southern Rim (the old border was causing incorrect portal summons)
• Fixed invisible collision on client
• New Great Tree Area
• Club PRZM has been reopened for our backers with that access level
• Mouse hover now shows the sword over hostile mobs, not the chat bubble, when in non-combat mode.
• Fixed a bug where items in subcontainers were shown as missing if they were on the hotbar

Server

• Use the hunting knife on bolts of cloth to get bandages.
• Wearing Light/Heavy armor without the corresponding skill grants 50% of it’s defense property.
  • GM Light/Heavy armor skills grants 100% of defense property.
• Salve renamed to antidote, added to Alchemy.
• Reorganized alchemy craft menu
• Skill gain rates revised.
• Stat gain rates revised.
• Adjusted raw and refined resource weights.
• Dyes are now stackable.
• Removed rarer spawning ore levels from guard protected zones.
• Adjusted Sorcerer prestige abilities.
• Spellshield now has a duration of 7 seconds at all ranks, and returns 50/150/250 spell damage for each rank respectively. Cooldown increased to 5 minutes.
• Destruction has had its cooldown increased to 3 minutes.
• Spell Chamber has had its cooldown increased to 2 minutes.
• Fixed a bug where the NPE magical guide waypoint was not showing up on the map.
• Updated magical guide dialogue to match the game system changes and correct terminology.
• The Magical guide now takes longer time to despawn while interacting.
• Added a “miss combat” message when missing with weapon abilities to make what happened more clear.
• Extended spawn delays on escorts and reverse hirelings.
• Attempting to take an escort through a portal prompts a dialog to cancel the escort.
• Training at NPCs has been re-enabled, talk to different merchants to get a head start in specific skills.
• Fixed issue where a second target after failing the first wouldn't work for some items, such as bandages.
• Shovel, Fishing Rod, and Crook will now take durability loss upon use.
• Magical guide now explains what to do when exhausted.
• Fishing villagers spawn with fishing rod.
• Double clicking after harvesting a mob which has a pack now opens the pack.
• Players cannot attack or cast spells while harvesting.
• Mounting a pet or changing equipment will now automatically cancel harvesting.
• Players can no longer harvest while they are already doing something else.
• Tattered Shirt is moved from legs section to torso at the loom.
• Updated Hiding description to include supplementary skill information.
• Hired Merchants are now always invalid combat targets.
• New characters no longer start with leather or padded armor.
• Empower fixed and modified; For a duration of 10 seconds, healing spells casted will also heal friendly mobiles near the target.
• Fixed Destruction applying more damage than intended to main target.
• Fixed some instances of pets not being properly protected by Karma system.
• Destruction has a unique icon, no longer sharing an icon with Empower.
• Harvesting a kill that is not yours will advance conflict relation, triggering Karma and guards. Enabled Karma Protection to prevent this.
• Users are now informed when they have a very low chance of taming a creature.
• Fixed issues with animal taming / beast mastery for large spiders.
• Craft menu will re-open on craft failure.
• Players will now receive system messages about the status of hunger and vitality.
• All prestige abilities now reset swing timers correctly.
• Changing stat arrow directions or locks on tamed pet stats no longer also change the owner’s stat locks and directions.
• Player's now have an option to lock their title so it will not get overridden when they earn new title.
• Player's can mount their tamed horse by double clicking it after reviving them, previously a revived mount had to be mounted by using right click.
• Renaming a pet now causes its name color to reflect that of the owner.
• Stove now acts as a heat source for cooking.
• Players will be moved when furniture is placed on them.
• Command and Sneak actions have been moved to the skillbook, under their respective skills.
• Stun now advances conflict relation causing Karma, and by extension, guards calls.
• Wine is now drinkable.
• Group maximum size increased to 25.
• Replaced "Leave Group" context menu on self with "Group" that opens the group user interface.
• Group leader no longer has to convert a group to karma free; now each individual member can consent at will, meaning late joiners can also choose to consent as well.
• Missing an NPC will now advance Conflict ( Karma and Guards ) and add aggro ( reduced rate compared to hit ).
• Fixed the unlocked ability Cleave not hitting your selected target. (Weapon ability Cleave was not affected by this.)
• Cleave will no longer hit mobiles that are out of Line of Sight.
• Corrected craft descriptions of anvil and forge.
• NPC merchants item prices have been adjusted, and also now have limited stock.
• Added Great Tree Awakening Mobs & Regions.
• Reduced chance to receive fluffy cotton from 30% to 5%
• Item values are once again derived from resources used to create the item
• Catacombs resets when the portal to it is opened from Southern Hills.
• Players attempting to login to Catacombs region are automatically transferred to the Southern Hills Catacombs Portal location.
• Catacombs Portal automatically closes after 3 minutes of defeating Death, and at that time, players are purged from Catacombs if still present.
• Catacombs Portal no longer has a four hour open duration, and persists until closed by the defeat of Death, or a server restart.
• Mobiles inside Karma free zones (Arena or similar) cannot attack mobiles outside of the zone and vice versa.
• NPCs now can have beards.
• Immune combat text is more obvious
• Fixed bleed immunity
• Books are now writable and can be crafted using inscription
• Banker NPC dialog now closes when they open your bank.
• Dead pets no longer follow you when transferring across regions or worlds.
• Vile spiders now fight when their health is above half
• Lizardmen now sound like lizardmen
• Mobs now have appropriate sounds
• Players no longer receive the message "Nobody invited you" when declining a guild invite.
• Fixed exponential fish fillet creation
• Cloaked targets may now be damaged by AOE effects, and damage over time effects.
• Hireling merchants now follow player through world teleports, like the boats used to reach Sacred Isle.
• Fixed bug allowing cleave prestige to reset swing timer and swing weapons quicker than should have been possible.
• Slightly lowered taming difficulty of Giant Scorpion.
• Death no longer continues to emit smoke after dying.
• Corrected order of raw metal difficulties for mining. (Min/Max Skill check):
• Iron -5/65, Bronze Ore 10/80, Copper Ore 25/95, Steel 40/110, Obsidian 55/125
• Boss direct in-backpack loot distribution only includes living players
• Attempting to /stuck while hidden breaks invis effect.
• Attempting to sneak or cloak while waiting for /stuck cancels /stuck.
• Items created during crafting now properly adhere to container weight limits.
• Added crafting orders to Helm’s smith
• Disabled message boards for now, pending a design overhaul to be more useful.
• Converted cultists to use regular monster AI.
• Chain tunic craft description corrected.
• Crafting actions dragged into hotbar slots should now work correctly.
• User is informed if a weapon swing is stopped due to target going out of line of sight.
• Weapon swing is reset when swing is stopped due to line of sight issues.
• Hirelings will attack back at players when attacked. After getting attacked by a hiring player, they will run away upon taking too much damage or being idle.
• Hirelings now cannot be hired while in combat with a player trying to hire them.
• Mobs now exit combat state upon going idle.
• Death, Cerberus, and Awakening Dragon bosses can no longer be stunned
• You can no longer drag new actions into weapon special move icons, and override the icon.
• The correct message shows for trying to add items to overweight containers.
• Cooking pot updates with correct weight.
• Cooking pot correctly destroys ingredients on failure.
• Picking up an item that puts you over backpack weight max now disables movement until it's placed back down (including splitting stacks).
• Logging out drops currently held items
• Since double shots are now only used on Shortbows, we’ve lowered the stamina cost from 20 to 10
• Crafting a regular stamina potion now gives you...a regular stamina potion
• Add bind portal stone (consumable item purchased in town)
• You can now mark in house plots/yards (not inside)
• Horses sold by NPC merchants are now guard protected.
• When hireling merchant dismisses, the items being sold by that merchant now get removed from sale automatically.
• NPC Merchant items now say “out of stock” when sold out and appear semi-transparent.
• Saddlebags can now be crafted by fabricators.
• Katanas are now craftable.
• Server change to hopefully prevent glitching/exploiting through house walls and other areas.
• Fixed issues with Oasis Awakening spawn fighting each other.
• Players can hide within the no hide range of someone, if out of line of sight
• Atlas is now blessed.
• Taking damage interrupts the burial of a rune.
• Packed objects placed by a co-owner of a house now do not decay
• Mob camps no longer spawn inside a terrain object
• Fixed many dialog windows not closing when they should
• Alcohol and drugs now apply the correct visual effects
• You can now drink refreshments even when "not hungry"
• Items being sold by a merchant and an item purchased from a merchant now show item info correctly in tooltip
• Item being sold by a hireling merchant now shows weight

July 13th update

• Reduced mining/lumberjack skill gain speed

• Fixed amounts of blank scrolls on scribe vendors

• Lowered sewer gold amount on mobs.

• Remove tinderboxes from starting new player inventory.

July 15th update

• Fix to skill gains over 80 (will now be substantially slower).

• Tweaked some skillgain rates (notably reducing taming gains and a small reduction to combat skills).

• Wild tameables are now subject to a respawn delay.
• Fixed Karma calculations when attacking another player's pet.
• Sped up escorts to be able to keep up with running players.
• Craft orders are now weighted relative to quantity (lower quantity orders will drop more than higher quantities).
• Fixed attacking your own pets causing Karma, and by extension, being guard whacked.
• Added lockbox and pouch to recipes. Now craftable by fabricators and woodsmiths.
• Fixed a typo on character creation.
• Fix selling items that are crafting in stacks (merchant used to off 20x the correct value for arrows).
• Adjusted weight of weapons.
• Fixed sos_map and treasure_maps in invalid locations.
• Treasure chests now spawns at appropriate locations.
• Updates title section on character window when title gets changed.
• Removed dialogue about dismissing npe magical guide forever.
• Lowered the speed at which combat skills and stats gain slightly.

July 17th update

• Camp merchants no longer pay out rewards for certain items.
• Toggling combat state with a bow has the same effect as stopping; minimum of 1 second swing or remaining swing if greater.
• Fixed scout abilities Stun Shot and Wound sometimes failing to work.
• Skill gain removed from training dummy.
• Mark and Portal no longer consume reagents or mana on invalid targets.
• Fish fillets now drop to the ground if they put you overweight.
• Buying stacks of items that put you overweight now results in them dropping to the ground.
• Known material recipes are now considered when issuing crafting orders.
• Fixed an issue allowing players during character creation, to sometimes see other characters being created.
• Fixed remaining pet issues leading to guard responses.

July 18th update

• Fixed a long standing elusive issue that could allow a player to become invulnerable.
• Fixed training dummy weapon skill gains, can no longer gain past 30.
• Re-enabled skill gains on training dummies.
• Fixed an issue allowing minuscule gains outside of skills chance at success.
• Fixed Karma Protection preventing beneficial actions to your own pets.
• Crafting orders are now additionally weighed by material.
• Fixed crafting orders not being distributed to players.
• Moved Focus from weapon ability to prestige skill ability (can be activated from skill book)
• Books can now be renamed.
• Brown books now use a book graphic, instead of a scroll graphic.
• Fixed an issue with server decay, that was allowing pet corpses and some other items to persist if they hadn’t decayed by time of a server restart.

• Rabid bears updated to use the correct bear graphic.
• Coins gets changed up when stacked onto coins already in a bank box.
• Treasure chests can no longer be used to change up coins.
• Prestige ability Charge no longer results in the player becoming stuck, when used at close range.
• Horses now continue to obey their last active command in the event of a mount request failing, instead of automatically entering into a “stay” state.
• Guards now have appropriate area specific names.
• Fixed silk crafting
• Lowered magic scroll drops
• Tweaked silk drops

July 19th update

• Fixed attempting to craft a packed item resulting in a 100% failure rate.
• Spider silk drops fixed.
• Move Focus ability from Magic Affinity back to Channeling in the skills book.
• Horses no longer teleport behind you, if you login while mounted and then dismount.
• If a resource is not valid when a player finishes harvesting it, they will no longer be stuck in a harvesting state, and unable to harvest new things.
• Made "Cannot harvest now" statement to appear in middle of screen.
• Fixed characters being able to start with greater than 80 skill during character creation.

July 20th update

• Remove remaining level 1 prestige books from sale that shouldn’t of been for sale.
• Added message to inform players when they are sated from eating.
• Silk now drops from spiders correctly.
• Crafting orders now use a sum of total weights to pick orders.

July 31st update

• Fixed large axe vs long axe recipe issue.
• Escorts no longer ask players to escort them if they are already being escorted.
• Fixed a bug where merchants wouldn’t respond with any dialog if the shop item being interacted with was to far away from the NPC.
• Fixed a bug where freshly created characters could spawn without the tag.
• When a mob loses its target they will enter combat with other targets nearby when possible.
• Players no longer attempt to sit down at campfires while on horseback.
• Players now receive a system message when their vitality is at max when near a hearth.
• Farmers NPCs will now respond appropriately when attacked.
• Mob camps no longer spawn on top of players.
• Resources cannot be gathered at an infinite range while on horseback anymore.
• Tinkerer NPCs no longer teach fabrication.
• Added Metalsmith skill trainer in helm
• Crafting orders now correctly verify who the order was issued to before adding an item.
• Changed wood house birch and cottage to the correct door textures
• Previously hotfixed, but noted for accuracy:
  • House blueprints now restock correctly, and change to semi-transparent when out of stock like other items do.

August 1st update

• Fixed vile and beast leather recipe drops.
• Crafting orders now allow you to continue adding items to an order until you cancel.
• Item duping bug fixed.

August 10th update

Server

• Lowered stone requirement in recipes to be balanced to character carry weight.
• Hunter Spiders silk drop rate increased.
• Large spiders have a low chance to drop silk.
• Tree Reapers and Lords now drop regular blightwood instead of the defunct vile blightwood.
• All chopped wood weight reduced from 2 to 1.
• All refined wood weight is now 0.1.
• Doubled saddlebag capacity.
• Blightwood bows are now craftable.
• Being stuck in the Infinite wormhole/tunnel loading screen, and being unable to login characters again until a server restart, has been addressed.

Client

• Memory leak under trees addressed.
• Memory not being freed when switching zones/regions addressed.

August 12th update

• Addressed issue with trees in the the Black Forest not being harvestable.

August 15th update

• Minor fixes to a bunch of prompt/window systems which could cause some slow downs.
• General preparations for Friday's 6x GM Event.

August 23rd update

• Becoming stuck in terrain and impassable objects should be less common now.
• Crafting orders should no longer be given out to players who don’t have a matching recipe for the order.