Sip some hot chocolate, put on your cozy socks and kick back for the Dark and Light community winter event!
We will be kicking off the season with some winter weather, holiday trees, Double harvest rate event weekend, gargoyle treasure drops and we will be adding a new creature: The Snowy Fox!
During the Holiday event, you can find these cute creatures in the snowy areas! When picked up, the snowy fox wraps around the player's neck like a scarf and will keep you cozy during this cold season!
Holiday card community Event
Using a scene/screenshot from Dark and Light, create your version of a holiday-themed card! Be sure to include a title to go with your card and an optional inner description. Remember, the funnier the better!
Rules:
1. The card can be horizontal or vertical.
2. Please include a text title on your screenshot. You may use what you like for example: “Season's Greetings”. Feel free to be creative!
3. Optional: Include an inner description that you would typically find on a card. This does not have to be a part of the image but can be placed below the image as a description. Please see examples provided for inspiration
4. The card must be dark and light related
5. Keep in mind the card is not judged by photoshop skills but by wit and creativity
Optional/bonus points
1. Funny text inner description
2. A card border
Submit your Holiday cards to: dnlevents@snailgamesusa.com
Submission end date:
11am PST December 28th 2018
Be sure to get your submissions entered in as soon as possible for your chance to win!
Please include your *full* server name, the region and the number if you’re on an official server, as well as a link to your Steam profile (twitch and twitter handle if you have one) along with your submission.
Judging, Prizes, and Community Voting
Four (4) winners will be recognized in this event:
Three (3) winners, will be selected by our community team for their display of the Holiday spirit!
Each of the three winners will receive a key for DNL to share with a friend!
One (1) “Community Vote Winner” will be selected from a vote on runner-up entries that we’ll be featuring on our Facebook Page
The community vote winner will receive a $25 dollar gift card
Timeline
Entry Submission Period: 12/24/18 11AM PST - 12/28/18 11AM PST
Voting Period Begins: 12/29/18 11AM PST
Voting Period Ends and Winners Announcement: 01/04/18 11AM PST
Update: Due to the delay in getting the community event up, we will be extending the submission period to 01/04/19 11AM PST. Voting will begin at 01/04/19 at 12PM PST, and winners will be announced 01/07/19 11AM PST.
Upcoming Patch: December 14th - Introducing Server Transfers
Greeting Adventurers,
Our next patch will be at 12:00 am PST on December 14th!
Remember to keep an eye out for the in-game message for when the servers will be closed for update!
Patch Notes:
Continue to Fortify Defense
In upcoming builds, we plan to continue to buff defense facilities such as the Spell Tower, to give the defending players/houses more advantage over the attacking party in combat.
Adjusted Elemental Tower attack to beam/ray attack. Once the Spell Tower aims at its target, its attack will 100% hit it. This will greatly increase the hit percentage and strengthen the defensive ability for Elemental Tower. This will prevent players from being able to unfairly dodge it.
We will also reduce the crafting cost for Spell Tower Ammo. For the same amount of crafting cost, you will be able to produce triple the amount of ammo after this patch.
This patch will be buffing the HPs for Door, Gates, and Manor structures as the below:
Straw Door: 640 to 1280
Wooden Door: 1720 to 3440
Wooden Beast Gate: 6000 to 9000
Giant Wooden Beast Gate: 12000 to 18000
Stone Door: 3720 to 7440
Stone Beast Gate: 12000 to 20000
Giant Stone Beast Gate: 24000 to 40000
Iron Door: 10000 to 20000
Iron Beast Gate: 20000 to 30000
Giant Iron Beast Gate: 40000 to 60000
All Manor structures: 40% increase
Gorgon’s artifact bow will be nerfed by disabling its ability to range-attack Spell Tower while the character is outside Spell Tower’s attack range. Iron structures and Manor structures will no longer take damage from Gorgon’s artifact bow. Only against, straw, wooden and stone structures.
Giant Bufo Skill Optimization
We’ve adjusted how you control tamed Giant Bufo’s swallowing ability. After you press MMB (Middle mouse button) to swallow the target, within a certain period, you can press MMB again to disgorge it. Swallowed targets with lighter weight will travel longer distance when disgorged from Bufo. This creates more possibility for Giant Bufo to combo with other tames.
Server-Transfer: First Batch
This patch will introduce server transfer and have it implemented for the below servers:
Via Soul Node, players from any one of the above servers (whether it being The Sacred Path server or Shard of Faith server) can transfer their characters to any one of the above servers (whether it being The Sacred Path server or Shard of Faith server) while keeping their character levels, and Knowledge progression, and Quest progression. You can also bring items with your character in your inventory (with the exception of Summoning Stone, Small Soul Suppression Stone, Soul Suppression Stone, and Shipyard, etc) However, while item transferability is available, we currently advise against transferring items as you might encounter item loss. We’ve done our tests with transferring items, and will continue to test to make sure item transfer is implemented as designed without bugs.
Spanish Localization
- Spanish localization will be implemented in this patch.
Please take note that we are still working on making sure the Spanish localization is accurate. If you would like to contribute in proofreading, please feel free to review it here:
Fix an issue where Treant is not correctly catalyzing plant growth in crop plots.
Fix an issue where some ore nodes are visually invisible but substantially existent
Fix an issue where you can not equip or unequip incarnation stone while you are accessing the facility inventory UI
Upcoming Patch: November 29th
Greeting Adventurers,
Our next patch will launch on November 29th at 12:00AM PST.
As per usual, please keep an eye out for the in-game message for when the servers go down for the update. Be sure to have your tames and items in a safe place during this time!
What’s changing:
Turkeys are joining Shard of Faith!
Spoiler: [they are likely to be found when you harvest a shrub and a bush]
Patch notes
Fix an issue where the last update caused various holes in the terrain.
Fix an issue where characters in the Sacred Path are not able to complete the quest system that was introduced in DLC.
Fix an issue where new Knowledge blueprint cannot be unlocked nor crafted.
Fix the sky lighting in the Sacred Path.
Fix some terrains that are getting characters stuck.
Fix an issue where hotbar items are moved to inventory after players die.
Fix an issue where some armors have glitching texture.
Fix an issue where Spell Generator has missing texture.
Fix an issue where the ghost blacksmith is misaligned when using the Refining work bench.
Fix an issue where your tame gets shrunken if you mount a tame right after changing back from a Shapeshifting form.
Fix an issue where Fire Cave Workbench disappears when server restarts.
Again we would like to thank you for your patience for the miscommunication during the holiday break. We hope you enjoy the upcoming turkey event and the double experience that will run until december 3rd!
Happy hunting!
Thanksgiving Miscommunication
Greetings adventurers
First and foremost, we would like to apologize for the miscommunication about the Thanksgiving event in our last announcement. The turkeys were not pushed live before Thanksgiving and our miscommunication has caused some players to believe we were having a double harvest rate event over the Thanksgiving holiday while in fact, it was a double experience event that was ongoing.
For the inconvenience, Turkeys will be added to Shard of Faith this Thursday when we release a patch update, and they will stay live for three weeks as we enter the Christmas event. In the meantime, we are extending our double experience event for another week. It will last until December 3. Thank you again for your patience with this and we hope you all had a great holiday!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Adventurers!
We will be having 2x experience event from 11.23 to 11.26 in celebration of Thanksgiving!
Turkeys will join the Shard of Faith as well. There is possibility that they will spawn from harvested shrub and bush.
Happy holiday!
UPCOMING UPDATE: Patch notes for Nov. 15th
Greeting Adventurers,
We will be pushing an update at 12:00 am PST on November 15th.
Please keep an eye out for the in-game message for when the servers will be closed for update and keep an eye out for your items and tame!
You can check out all of the changes in the full patch notes below:
Important Changes
Elemental Tower
Elemental Tower will shoot Magic Ammo in a quicker and more accurate fashion
Added a new facility structure - Magic Ammo Hub, which can be unlocked in Thaumaturgy Knowledge, and automatically refuels Elemental Tower with Magic Ammo within a certain range from Magic Ammo Hub
Satyr Incarnation RMB attack
The base damage of its RMB attack, Lightning Spear will be determined by the weapon that the players are currently equipping with
Character’s damage multiplier will have an additional 50% damage increase in Lightning Spear
Tier II Satyr Incarnation will throw 2 Lightning Spear, with one RMB click, and Tier III Satyr Incarnation will throw 3
Removed Gabboween changes, and restore them to regular content
Implemented German Localization - Please take note that we are still working on making sure the German localization is accurate, and we ask the community to assist us in proofreading it in
Fixed an issue where allied houses can activate multiple House Seal at the same location to keep the base from being raided
Changes
Increased the feeding radius for Wooden Feeding Trough and Stone Feeding Trough so tames are lessly like to die of hunger
Treant’s plant-growth promotion is back and can be activated the in a tamed Treant’s action wheel
Reduce the crafting cost for manor framework structures and framework structures
Fixes
Environment
Fixed some terrains that are getting players stuck
Fixed some terrains and assets that players can glitch through
Fixed some floating vegetation assets
Fixed some vegetation assets not being displayed correctly
Fixed some Darkstone deposit that’s not being displayed correctly
Fixed some servers that are constantly raining
Creatures
Fixed an issue where Behemoth is getting spawned repeatedly more than once in the desert
Fixed an issue where Elite Owl stays immobilized after it is hit by Hook Arrow
Fixed an issue where Kormut Bloatgullet is attacking other creature corpse and not being aggroed when attacked by others
Fixed an issue where the server restart will respawn altar-summoned elites, bosses, and Mythicals which were killed before server restart
Fixed an issue where vfx such as burning vfx and poison vfx will be visually enlarged when they hit larger creatures, such as elites and bosses
Fixed an issue where United Army guards will attack tames
Fixed an issue where outpost Kebo will not despawn after the timer is up
Fixed an issue where creatures are getting spawned inside enclosed houses or on top of houses
Fixed an issue where Uillip doesn’t have the correct slot amount in its inventory
Character and Incarnation
Fixed an issue where using shape shifting runes after player picked up a tame owl will have the owl attached to the shapeshifted character
Fixed the Gorgon and Satyr-incarnated character sliding issue when changing equipments, drinking and eating
Fixed an issue where character’s hand glitched through Gladiator Hide Shield
Fixed an issue where character cannot move themselves until after the player stops dancing around the Bonfire
Fixed an issue where Tier II Satyr-incarnated character cannot use Rune of Warmth, Rune of Light and other runes
Fixed an issue where Satyr Stone Spear is not being displayed correctly when equipped in the hand of Satyr-incarnated character
Fixed an issue where Satyr-incarnated character doesn’t play audio when eating, drinking and using spell
Fixed an issue where 0/5 is being displayed in the left top corner in the hotbar slot for Spear of Hel
Fixed an issue where killing Chimera doesn’t complete the quest
Fixed an issue where male character animation is incorrect when equipping Iron Hammer
Items and Facility
Fixed an issue where “transfer all” will also transfer items in the hotbar
Fixed an issue where revived Ice Imp cannot get out of the Summoning Pool
Fixed an issue where Storm Essence has an incorrect icon
Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor cannot be moved after Balefire Sabaton exhausted the Fire Essence needed for the sprinting
Fixed an issue where stamina is not being used when the character is shape-shifted into Bear and Wolf
Fixed an issue where Sky Fortress is getting stuck when flying close to the ground
Fixed an issue where Sky Fortress is not correctly displayed in its inventory
Localization
Fixed some localization
UPDATE:
The following players have been banned from EU-PVPVE-1
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IceStorm (Icestorm) 76561198075400910
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Sinfromhell (sinfromhell) 76561198052789955
Rianarey (flame) 76561198144907269
rianarey (inoelka) 76561198327333631
sofia_valentino (sofiq) 76561198167193519
kimbli (jiskeri) 76561198039107277
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the patch notes, All feedback is welcome! Please know we are working to the best of our ability to get this resolved and hope that you are enjoying the new DLC, Shard of faith!
Gabboween Screenshot Event Winners!
Adventurers,
We hope you’ve all enjoyed another great Gobboween event and we enjoyed seeing all the festive screenshots! Lets celebrate by announcing the winners!
We asked and you voted:
Community chosen winner:
Congratulations Mosfett as the first place overall winner!
It was hard for us to choose our top three as we think that everyone did a great job!
Winners picked by the community team:
Congrats to PrinceTito for 1st place runner up!
2nd place goes to: Kyra
And 3rd place to Theodradek7!
Let's give it up for our 4 winners! Thank you all again for participating and we can’t wait for the next event! Until then, happy hunting Adventurers!
Nov. 7 Patch Note
Greeting Adventurers,
We will be pushing an update at 2:00 am PDT on Nov. 7.
Please take note of the in-game message for when the servers will be closed for update. and keep an eye out for your items and tames.
Important Fixes
Fix an issue where play character movement speed isn’t correctly affected by speed buff.
We will delay our scheduled changes and fixes to a later time, to make sure this fix is correctly implemented in live build. Fixes and changes are being tested and will be promoted to live build around Nov. 15.
Also, for those players who exploited the speed buff for PVP gains, they will have their accounts banned for three days.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the patch notes, we welcome any feedback! Please know we are working to the best of our ability to get this resolved and hope that you are enjoying the new DLC, Shard of faith!
Nov. 1st Patch notes
Greeting Adventurers,
We hope you guys are enjoying Halloween and Gabboween!
We will be pushing an update at 1:00 am PDT on Nov. 1. You can check out all the changes in the patch notes below.
Please take note of the in-game message for when the servers will be closed for update, and keep an eye out for your items and tames.
Important Fixes
-Fixed an issue where riding non-flyer tames were experiencing rubber-banding by certain terrain.
-Fixed an issue where flyer tames could not take off when mounted.
-Russian localization is implemented in game. Please take note that we are still working on making sure the Russian localization is accurate, and we ask the community to assist us in proofreading it in
https://steamcommunity.com/app/529180/discussions/0/1734343428031735169/
·Other language localizations are still undergoing proofreading before we release them.
Map adjustment
-Increased the Z-axis height of the map, and added invisible barrier to prevent players from accidentally travelling too high up and crossing the map boundary.
Item Balancing
Optimize the material required for crafting and repairing tools and equipment, to ensure their recipes are reasonable:
1. Reduce the amount of material required to craft and repair quality armors and weapons.
In the last patch update, we fixed a bug where the amount of material required to repair quality items is not increased compared to non-quality items. However, we received player feedback saying the cost id much higher, so we re-adjust the multiplier and reduce the material cost for crafting and repairing quality items.
2. Reduce the amount of lower-tier tool/equipment, and elite/boss drops required to craft and repair quality armors and weapons.
Some recipes take lower-tier items as crafting material. For example, Satyr Axe will need Stone Axe while Firestorm Staffhead II will need Firestorm Staffhead I. In the meantime a lot of recipes will take elite/boss/drops as crafting material.
This update will reduce the required amount of lower-tier items and elite/boss drops so that it is less costly when you craft and repair quality items.
3. Reduce the cost it takes to craft race-exclusive weapons. Now it will only need material that is more commonly available.
For example: repairing Spear of Hel will no longer take Hunting Spear+Livingroot+Mithril Ingot. Instead, it will only need Antiseptic Wood+Mithril Ingot to get it repaired after this patch.
Other Fixes and Adjustment
-Added a new wood-chopping animation for Satyr Axe’s and Stone Axe’s RMB swing so that you can harvest wood from trees more efficiently.
-Optimized creatures’ physics and ragdoll to help with their twitchy bodies when creatures are dead
- Fixed an issue where players can cast Drain Spell II Staff head while moving.
- Fixed an issue where the Element Tower is not corrected positioned when placed on top of Behemoth Platform Saddle.
-Adjusted Chimera’s LMB attack speed, and its stamina cost, making it a more powerful enemy, or a stronger tame for players.
-Removed the waggling when Behemoth is idling, so that its platform saddle and the structures atop it are not shaking a lot.
-Fixed an issue where Air Fortress is not controllable because the collision in Air Fortress cockpit is incorrect.
-Fixed an issue where Hydra skills and Behemoth skills are damaging themselves and getting themselves killed.
-Fixed an issue where Shadow Cannon Ball and Light Cannonball are not craftable in the Refining Forge.
-Fixed an issue where Staff of Neutra is not showing the correct crafting material.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read the patch notes, we welcome any feedback! Please know we are working to the best of our ability to get this resolved and hope that you are enjoying the new DLC Shard of faith!
50%Off! Oct. 30 Patch Update
Greetings, Adventurers in Ganareth,
We have another Dark and Light patch coming at 1:00 am PDT on Oct. 30.
You can check out all of the updates in the full patch notes below.
Please take care of your items and your creatures.
We will officially confirm the updating time both in the announcement and in-game pop-up window.
· Fix an issue with the Satyr quest Hel's Blessing where crafting a Spear of Hel doesn't register as task completion. If you are currently working on this task, you need to redo it after the update. If you have already completed this task, you could still do it again and get rewarded.
· Fix an issue with taming quests - players were asked to meet a lot of requirements before they can get the tames. Players were forced to stay around the tame during the taming progress, and they cannot go anywhere until it is finished. To compensate for that, we adjusted it to make it easier for you and house members to finish taming quests:
Even if you leave the creatures during the taming, you can still get the quest finished.
House members who assist in the taming process can also complete the quest..
Bug Fixing
· Fix a bug that could cause server crash.
· Fix an issue where Sluagh is not spawning properly.
· Fix an issue where player characters' and tames' speed are getting incorrect debuff once affected by Dharkhu's venom attack.
Optimization
· We changed the icon of Gorgon Hydroponic Plot to a triangular land. You can use the Hydroponic Plot to grow crops more efficiently. You could use these triangular lands and the fan-shaped lands to build up the unique land as you like.
· Fix some UI.
· Fix some text.
We will soon update the following content in a future patch.
· Players on the Sacred Path may not be able to accept and work on the quests. We have already noted this issue and we are currently working on a fix.
· We have also noticed the rubber banding that has occurred to tames since the Halloween patch. We are working on fixing these bugs right now and will update as soon as possible.
· We are also aware of the issue with Air Fortress. Its collision isn't properly configured at the moment, we will fix it in the upcoming patch. Also note that, in the next few months, we will reconstruct the Air Fortress to avoid future problems.
·Despite being indicated in game elsewhere, Shadow Cannon Ball and Light Cannon Ball currently do not have their recipe ready in the Refining Forge. We are working on this right now.
· We are currently proofreading Russian localization, and other language localization as well, and we will release them hopefully by end of this week.
We would also extend our invitation to our dear adventurers to assist in the localization proofreading about these languages. We will upload a "Dark and Light text reference document" in the community. You could find all language translation in this document. If you find any mistake in the text, feel free to leave a comment in the community or email us. We will fix it!
Thank you so much for your patience and cooperation. Hope you have a wonderful Halloween!
