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!
  

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.
  

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.
  

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.
  

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.
  

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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.
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

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 "
  While this option was experimental, it was always set to 100 meters (unless you used the AppearanceRange special setting to change it). The default range is still 100 meters for most graphics settings, but if you're using "Amazing" or "Ultra" graphics settings, it now defaults to 200 meters. Note that this is more expensive than before, so if you're using Amazing or Ultra graphics, your framerate may be reduced from the last update! You can easily return to the FPS you had before, though: just set the "Maximum Entity Simulation Distance" slider to 100.
  
  For super-powered computers: if you want to be able to see entities more than 400 meters away, you can use the new special setting InfiniteEntitySimulation. Adding this to your Special Settings window will cause all entities to be simulated regardless of distance from you. (This is equivalent to turning off "Experimental Optimizations" prior to this update.) Note that this will tank your framerate unless your machine is quite powerful! To stop using infinite range, remove this setting from the Special Settings window, save settings, then restart the game.
  
  Note: the AppearanceRange special setting no longer does anything. It can be removed from your Special Settings list.
  
  
  

  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%)