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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 2019!
We have prepared a small New Year's present for everyone, simply log in the game to receive your very own New Year's party hat and a bunch of fireworks! Fireworks are also craftable by level 25 alchemists, in case you happen to run out.
There is lots to come for 2019, so stay tuned!
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We are ALIVE!! Update 129
We apologize for the less frequent updates recently for GSO. We have been working hard on some less visible content the recent weeks to improve the performance of the game and server. We very much appreciate the ongoing support from our community. There is lots to come for 2019, so stay tuned.
New
- New island Ruteran, accessible through a portal near Yorkhill south gate
- Mob pathfinding rework/improvements
- Customize keybindings (Esc -> Keybinds)
- Player houses can now be rotated in the house menu
- Item insurance window to see all currently insured items
- Non equitable items can now also be insured
- Auction house improvements: Added offers to buy items and a button to see more/less offers if there are too many search results
- Auto target nearest enemy when using an ability or weapon without a target (Toggle in game play options)
- Torch ability Torch Throw (2nd slot): long range attack, deals fire damage and applies Combustion (Elemental Grimoire ability, fire damage over time) on target
- Items Dragonbone Shield and Serpent Mask
- Archery ability Fire Arrows, turns basic bow arrows into fire arrows which deal extra fire damage and lower target's fire resistance
Changes
- Broadsword ability Sword Throw now deals 10% of it's initial damage to nearby enemies every 0.5 seconds while the ability is active after reaching its target
- Broadsword ability Sword Throw damage now scales up based on maximum mana
- Elemental Grimoire ability Flame Lance now ends if target is changed while the spell is active
- Elemental Grimoire ability Flame Lance is now interrupted if the player is stunned
- It is now only possible to add players to the friends and ignore lists if they are currently online
- Increased offhand pistol range and damage
- Auction house window can now be resized
- Changed bounty silver to humiliation debuff length ratio, maximum debuff now requires dying to a player with a bounty of roughly 150k silver
- Increased Lute ability Tritone ability damage
Bugfixes
- Gal Jaseel bank chest not working
- Players and gather-able resources sometimes not showing on minimap
- Trophies not showing player names correctly
- Auto run not working when chat is active
- Flashy lights on player house chandelier
- Fire elementals unable to move
- All party members not receiving rewards when completing the quest "A Fishy request"
- When trying to demolish a house players would sometimes get an incorrect message about not having the right permissions
- Level design bugs/edits in Goldon, Grimwall, Monetary
- Players now siting on leather chairs correctly.
- Fixed cabinet furniture wrong model.
Happy Halloween!
To celebrate this year's Halloween we have created four new spooky halloween items for you to enjoy: a pair of golden masks and two different size pumpkin lanterns to place in your house. A limited amount of these items are spawned in various locations around the world within the next 24 hours, have fun!
Two happy players enjoying their freshly obtained halloween gear
Update 128
Doing some maintenance, server will be offline for a while
New
- Guild houses (Option to convert a house into a guild house in house options)
- Quest "Powder monkey"
- House types Blue Sea house 1 & 2, Blue Sea Village
- House furniture Guild banner and guild activity log book
- Simple autorun (Hotkey Numlock)
- Graphic updates (Water, some fire spells)
- Mining nodes Sulfur and Saltpeter
- Boat types Small and medium Bal Sardan boat
- Added an insurance advisor in The Blue Sea island town
- Blacklisted and, if the house door is locked, also non-whitelisted players are now automatically removed from player houses
- Invert mouse X/Y axis added in Gameplay options
- It is now possible to attack players inside their houses in self defence (If they have attacked you within the last 30 seconds)
Changes
- Teleports now work in player and guild houses even in red zones
- Mob experience rates have been increased for levels 1-40, experience is now scaled down when fighting much lower level mobs
- It is now possible to pick up any amount of items from the ground if you are not carrying too much weight
- Players who lost their PvP protection before reaching 30 hours playtime will get their remaining protection back when entering a Blue, Yellow or Green zone
- Grimwall mine is now a green zone, Coral Cave is now a yellow zone
- Tweaked materials required for verum, shadow and iridium ingots
- Updated item weights for trout, spruce, oak and palm logs and planks
- Increased palm tree respawn time
Bugfixes
- Water breaking line of sight in PvP
- Looter debuff activating in red zones
- Typo in Coral Dungoen entrance gate
- Newbie pvp protection ending in yellow zones
Update 127
- PvP Risk zones (see details below)
- Honor system (see details below)
- Looter debuff (see details below)
- Free for all and team PvP Arenas (Arena teleport, bought from general merchants)
- New world map available by clicking the "World map" button in full screen map
- Rearranged and partly reworked zones to match the new world layout
- It is now possible to move and zoom the local map
- Party and guild members are now shown on map, outlaws within 40 meters
- World chat /world
- Teleport items to South Athagos and Bal Amana
- Ignore list to block chat messages, whispers, trade/party/guild invitations from other players
- New animations when fighting with pickaxe!
- It is now possible to sit on chairs inside player houses
- Rare trophy drops: Mounted dragon head, Zalranaz's head, Cave dragon wing, The Red Crab's pincer. Interacting with the trophy shows the owner's kill count for that mob
- Guild names starting or ending with spaces or containing double spaces are no longer accepted
- Other people can no longer drop items in your house
- Prisoners in jail are now offered to be released in a non-guarded area while keeping their outlaw status after mining 500-1000 ores
- Surviving a bounty now gives 80% of the total bounty silver to the wanted player's bank account
- Spiders now have a small chance of dropping silk
- PvP protection is now visible on screen
- Trout, level 38 fish
- Palm, level 35 tree
- Level 30 Elemental Grimoire spell Stranglevine, learned from a spell scroll, deals earth damage and stuns the target
- Mobs Ent (lv. 55), poachers (lv. 58, 65)
- House type Fortress
- Added NPC shops and workbenches in Goldon and on an island in The Blue Sea
Changes
- PvP loot is now visible to the killer after a 15 second delay, to the killed player in 60 seconds and to everyone else after 5 minutes
- Item teleports no longer work while swimming
- Added Evark bows to Yorkhill bow shop
- Increased staff basic attack damage and damages on staff abilities Fire wall and Fire ball
- Increased damage on all Elemental Grimoire skill abilities
- Increased Elemental Grimoire ability Flames cooldown to 15 (from 4)
- Increased Elemental Grimoire ability Land mine duration to 90 seconds (from 35)
- Increased Elemental Grimoire ability Combustion cooldown to 15 (from 10). All fire damage taken is increased by 15% on targets suffering from Combustion
- Item teleports can no longer be used if carrying too much weight
- Tweaked experience drops from mobs, levels <40 have been nerfed, 40 and above have been buffed
- Guards will attack and chase outlaws for 30 seconds before sentencing them to jail if they are still within the guard's protection radius
- Stranite weapons now require Ghit teeth instead of hides
- Removed 2500 ore cap from jail sentences
- 10 hour shield on tax collectors now only activates after a successful attack, unsuccessful attacks result in a 1 hour shield
Bugfixes
- Logging in on top of a mining node launches you up in the air
- Bank chest in Gal Jaseel not working
- Resurrect fails if logging out when dead
- Missing Ramie bandage icon
- Rats not dropping any loot
- Decaying houses now correctly show "(Decaying)" in the house's name
- Greatsword ability Slashing damaging players in safe zones
- Possible to buy a house from another player to bypass the limit of 1 house per player
- Transferring ownership of houses and whitelist/blacklist not working for players with spaces in their names
Risk zones:
- Criminals always drop 60% of loot (except 80% in red zones), outlaws 80%
Blue (Guarded areas)
- No PvP unless both players have PvP mode enabled
- For innocent players no jail or loot dropped on death
Green
- 20% loot dropped
- All insurances on outlaws' items are lost before dropping items on death
- PvP deaths with bounty give 2x humiliation debuff (max 48 hrs)
- Jail sentence on death regardless of spawn point
Yellow
- 40% loot dropped
- Respawn at home wayshrine on death, criminal timer is not reset and no jail unless spawn point is in a guarded area
- PvP Protection capped at 2 minutes
Orange
- 50% loot dropped
- 10 second delay to logging out and teleports, moving or entering combat resets the timer
- Respawn at home wayshrine on death, criminal timer is not reset
- PvP Protection capped at 2 minutes
- Murder will result in roughly 30% shorter outlaw status
Red
- 80% loot dropped
- Teleports are disabled completely (Except wayshrines and player portals)
- 10 second delay before logging out
- Respawn at home wayshrine on death, criminal timer is not reset
- PvP Protection capped at 2 minutes
- Murder will result in roughly 70% shorter outlaw status
Looter debuff
Picking up loot from a dead player in green or yellow zones will flag you as a criminal (not outlaw) and give you a debuff which prevents using banks, auction house, house storage and trading outside of blue zones for the looted items for 30 minutes. A warning message and a confirmation is shown before picking up loot.
Honor
Slaying an innocent will reduce your honor by 0/0.25/0.5/1% for red/orange/yellow/green zones, respectively. Assisting in a murder will reduce honor by 50% of the full amount. Honor slowly increases over time, 1% per 4 hours of game time
- 95% Honor: Cannot talk in region or world chats
- 90% Honor: Wayshrines in blue and green zones no longer work
- 80% Honor: Merchants in blue and green zones refuse to serve you
- 70% Honor: Item teleports to blue and green zones no longer work, jail if entering blue zones
- 60% Honor: Jail if entering green zones
- 50% Honor: Banks in blue and green zones no longer serve you
- 30% Honor: Jail if entering yellow zones
When entering a zone you're not allowed in you have 5 minutes until the guards will catch you. The timer resets and will not count down if you are inside your house. Attacking a player who does not have PvP mode on within these 5 minutes will instantly attract the guards.
Update 126
27 August 2018
New
- Guild ranks and management improvements
- Criminal and innocent players with bounty now have different icons
- Resizeable chat and chat filters
- Shields now count as heavy armor when using heavy armor abilities
- Shop UI now shows merchant's silver on hand
Changes
- Lute healing abilities Healing Music and Healing Aura no longer work if the player is stunned
- Bandage abilities now share cooldowns
- Lowered item insurance costs
- Corrected item values on vine backpack, Lakhmu's backpack, Uplifting ring and worker's clothes
- Buying items now increases merchants' silver on hand
Bugfixes
- Confirmation when selling items to merchants sometimes showing wrong prices
- 5 second stun immunity not working for mobs
- Collected herbs not removed in Myra's minigame
- Secondary weapon sometimes not showing the right item model
- Players dropping in water if sentenced to jail on a boat
- Insured items sometimes lost on death
- Dragon's Breath damaging players with PvP protection active
- Newbie PvP protection sometimes ending too early
- Wrong items showing in trade screen
- Chat not scrolling to the bottom automatically
Guild ranks and management improvements. Each rank also has the permissions of all the lower ranks:
Leader
- Transfer guild ownership to a Commander
- Promote members up to Commander
- Demote lower ranking members
Commander
- Manage guild houses
- Remove guild members
- Promote members up to Official
- Demote lower ranking members
Official
- Invite new members to the guild
- Promote members up to Veteran
- Demote lower ranking members
Veteran
- Place tax collectors and collect tax
- Manage tax and experience collection rates
Member
- Attack other guilds' tax collectors
Recruit
- Talk in guild chat
Update 125
New
- Alchemy minigame "Myra's Quick Concoction". Level 25 in alchemy and completion of "In the eyes of a child" quest required
- Alchemy ability Ambitious Apprentice - increases experience by 20% when gathering alchemical ingredients
- Bounty boards near banks disaplying rough locations of criminals and their bounties. Players will also be able to set additional bounties on the Bounty Board
- Assisting in a murder will now make you an outlaw
- Guild member list now shows players as online/offline
Changes
- Heavy armor ability Truce duration changed to 7 seconds (from 10)
- Swordsmanship ability Stunnning Blow now only shows the visual effect if the stun lands
- Reduced item insurance cost slightly
- Newbie PvP protection increased to 30 hours playtime (from 6)
- Cooking oysters now requires level 30 cooking (From 35)
- Increased player draw distance when either player has PvP mode active
Bugfixes
- "Remove silver" button not working in trade window
- Some screen resolutions not showing in the video settings resolutions list
- Spell effects and hitsplats sometimes showing in wrong locations
- Loot bags sometimes showing the wrong item name
- Tax collectors sometimes collecting loot when loot percentage was set to 0%
Update 124
! Death mechanics have now been reverted back to normal, you will lose items on death !
• To review the PvP and death mechanics, please visit https://granskreaonline.com/pvpinfo
• A 6-hour PvP protection has been added to everyone to give time to prepare
New
- Items dropped in your house will not disappear
- Other players cannot pick up items inside your house
- Bal Sardan town gates have been opened
- Bal Sardan Oyster fishing minigame
- House types: 2 story Bal Sardan house, Goldon shack house 1 & 2, Goldon tent 1-5
- Boat type: Fishing vessel
- Quest "Lakhmu's Basement"
- New mobs Young dragon (Goldon), Arachnid, Ravannae (Bal Sardan)
- There is now a cooldown between two guild invites to the same player
- Added target framerate and VSync in video options
- Life potion, resurrects a dead player, crafted using bones and a Life mote (drop from Zalranaz), 1 hour cooldown(edited)
- Player houses now get demolished after 4 weeks of the owner not entering the house. After 3 weeks the house starts decaying and there is a warning message shown to the owner
Changes
- Loot and dropped items now show the name and amount of the item instead of "Loot bag" if there's only one item
- Non PvP flagged players can now only attack criminals in self defence (If the criminal has attacked them within the last 30 seconds)
- Heavy armor ability Taunt now aggros the targetted enemy regardless of it's level for 5 seconds (both players and npcs). All other enemies around the radius are taunted as usual (if their level is equal or less than the player's heavy armor level)
- Jail sentences capped at 2500 ore
- Wayshrines and portals can no longer be used in combat
- Macro check answer timer no longer goes down while AFK
- Increased range limit when placing a tax collector so two collectors cannot collect from the same enemies
- Auction house offers are now limited to 30 offers per person
Bugfixes
- Full screen option not saving between sessions
- Energy blade not activating from poison damage
- Possible to equip shields with a two-handed weapon in combat
- Food healing effect not stacking
- Mobs not dropping loot if killed by indirect damage like poison
- Audio not working in Zalranaz's dungeon
- Dragon's fire attack hitting itself
- Wrong stats on troll and dragon leather quivers
- Unable to use heavy armor abilities with full armor set
- Robes no longer require Elemental grimoire to wear
- Swordsmanship ability Sword throw giving experience in Elemental Grimoire
Update 123
New
- /afk command to activate AFK mode (no macro checks)
- House teleports (teleports to your own house)
- An icon showing your secondary weapon and a button to switch weapons
- Level 7 Heavy armor ability Taunt: Draws aggro from all enemies whose level is equal or lower than player's heavy armor level within a 15 meter range
- Level 15 Heavy armor ability Stability: Reduces damage taken and movement speed by 50% for 8 seconds
- Level 15 Archery ability Vampric arrow: Deals piercing damage and heals the user for 50% of the damage dealt
- Alchemy recipe: Explosive potion
Changes
- Kill streak counter resulting in longer jail sentences now slowly decreases over time
- Increased brightness at night
- Tools can now be unequipped in combat
- Items can now be equipped in combat if the equipment slot is empty
- Increased mob reset timer to allow more kiting (from 10 seconds to 30)
- Limited maximum amount of ctrl+click automove waypoints to 10
- Lute ability Peace now only works for monsters whose level is equal or lower to the player's healing level
- New melee weapon sounds
- Heavy armor ability Disperse is now available at level 1
Bugfixes
- Energy blade gaining damage from direct (typeless) damage
- Stun immunity sometimes not working
- Guards sometimes infinitely stunning and not throwing criminals to jail
- Temporary 15 minute PvP protection not activating on death