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Release 103

Went live 6/28/2022 · 138 change items · 6 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 103 is now live, bringing a wealth of changes across the game. A major focus this release was balancing combat pets and summons. Tamed pet critical damage has been reworked to scale with taming mastery and adventure level, while summoned creatures have received stat adjustments and new effects intended to diversify their strengths. Gear components affecting pet damage have also been rebalanced, shifting from flat damage bonuses to critical hit multipliers.

Beyond pets, players will find a substantial number of world content updates, particularly in areas like Blood River Outskirts, Caverns of Skrekk, and Grusk Factory with numerous task clarifications, compass marker fixes, and stuck spot resolutions. Lord British’s birthday celebrations have begun with fireworks displays over major cities. Crafting has been expanded with recipes for the recently added fetid fish—Barramundi, Tigerfish, and Araipama—and some quality of life improvements like stackable wine bottles.

Finally, this release includes a variety of UI tweaks, bug fixes, and smaller adjustments throughout the game world. Several POTs have received upgrades or changes, and there’s been ongoing work to address issues with sounds in Lua scripting. The development team notes that further adjustments to tames and summons are planned for an upcoming patch, building on the foundation laid by Release 103.

AI-generated summary (google/gemma-3-27b) — may contain errors; the full notes below are authoritative.

Crafting & Items (9)

  • Added food recipes for the recently-added fetid fish: Barramundi, Tigerfish, and Araipama.SOTA-70565
  • Set Bottle of Wine deco to be stackable.SOTA-70596
  • Adjusted the 2022 cupcakes to also have slight learning speed bonus.
  • Added instructions in the descriptions of Recall and Teleport scrolls.
  • Reduced size of fishing dead zones and and changed dead zone depth to relate to fishing skill.
  • Adjusted cost of Altar Lockbox recipe: increased iron bindings cost and tier of wood.SOTA-70599
  • Made Acara’s Shield legacy version placeable as deco.SOTA-70032
  • Fixed incorrect regeneration bonus on confection eggs.
  • Fixed incorrect channel weight for Oyster Potpie.SOTA-69775

Combat & Skills (13)

  • Changed some summons’ stats/skills to balance them with other, stronger summons: Daemon – Chaos bolt damage has been increased. Attunements and fire damage over time sub-effects will now scale with chaos mastery. Strength of daemon has been slightly reduced. Movement speed has slightly increased. Fire Elemental – Added a chance to add fire damage over time with fire elemental attack. Dexterity increased. Air Elemental – Air elemental attack will now have a chance to stun their opponent. Strength, intelligence, and dexterity have also been increased. Phoenix – Damage has been significantly increased and the phoenix will now have a chance to blind enemies, reducing their damage avoidance. Strength, dexterity, and intelligence have been increased. Ice Elemental – Range of attack has been reduced from 2 to 1 so elemental will move closer to enemies when hitting. The ice elemental now has a chance to add a slow movement debuff to their opponents.
  • A pass has been done on tamed pets. The high critical damage of tamed pet has been reduced. To compensate for the lost damage, tamed pets will now have their critical damage multiplier scale with taming mastery and the tamed pet’s adventure level. The strength of pets has also been increased and scaled, which gives more base damage. Note that this only affects tamed pets, not summoned creatures.
  • More changes will be coming in the next patch for tames and summons to complete this work.
  • The pet damage bonus from the pet gear component “iron studded strip” would previously give about 15 damage each strip, so would give a total of 45 damage per piece of gear. This has been significantly reduced to give about 15 damage for each piece of gear. Meanwhile, bronze studded strip’s critical hit damage multiplier has been significantly increased from 2% to 10% for each strip, so goes from 6% a piece to 30% per piece of gear. This affects both tamed pets and summoned creatures.
  • Renamed “Tame Attack Precision” which was found on some taming equipment to “Tame Critical Hit Chance.”
  • Increased pet perma-death timer so it’s not the same as the player resurrection timer.SOTA-70526
  • Encumbrance will no longer affect players in PvP battlegrounds.
  • Fixed a visual issue with using items that scale character height while mounted.
  • Daemon – Chaos bolt damage has been increased. Attunements and fire damage over time sub-effects will now scale with chaos mastery. Strength of daemon has been slightly reduced. Movement speed has slightly increased.
  • Fire Elemental – Added a chance to add fire damage over time with fire elemental attack. Dexterity increased.
  • Air Elemental – Air elemental attack will now have a chance to stun their opponent. Strength, intelligence, and dexterity have also been increased.
  • Phoenix – Damage has been significantly increased and the phoenix will now have a chance to blind enemies, reducing their damage avoidance. Strength, dexterity, and intelligence have been increased.
  • Ice Elemental – Range of attack has been reduced from 2 to 1 so elemental will move closer to enemies when hitting. The ice elemental now has a chance to add a slow movement debuff to their opponents.

UI, Store & Lua (12)

  • Added a loading tip about placing Recall Scrolls in your toolbar.
  • Added a scrollbar to the text area of the post-game feedback form and a checkbox to hide the form in the future.
  • Added links in the feedback form to the bug forum and to Discord.
  • Fixed a rare null exception that prevented the character sheet from being filled upon loading a scene.
  • Fixed journal UI when completing a task.
  • Added ShroudIsSoundPlaying function to Lua.
  • Fixed the volume setting of a sound when played with Lua.
  • The creation date of certain items like fish will now show NBT time like in game.
  • Fixed exceptions related to claiming rewards in offline mode.
  • Salt will now show as Salt Deposit in scene information pop-ups.SOTA-70521
  • Vendors that have no name set by the player (use the default name) will now show a compass marker when using the Get Directions button in the zone vendor listings.SOTA-70577
  • Fixed a typo in the virtue balloon’s store listing.SOTA-70523

World & Quests (50)

  • Placed fireworks for Lord British’s birthday on the overworld over many of the major cities and automated them to always display during the first weekend of July.
  • Novia and Mistrendur: Improved some ambient sounds.SOTA-70547
  • Added some additional songs to some scenes.
  • Created new kobold banners and added them to the major kobold communities.
  • Removed extra Altar Lockbox recipe from merchants.
  • Updated Town Crier conversation to explain binding and improved the associated yes/no phrases.
  • Updated some of the Helpful Automatons’ keywords and responses.
  • Aerie: Added a compass marker for Bunker T.SOTA-70605
  • Aerie: Fixed typos in responses of Oakie Lawrence.
  • Blood River Outskirts: Updated journal and tasks related to Alberic’s task to help refugees, including adding specifics to mention “help” to NPCs. Added tips to mention “help” to NPCs on a loading screen and in the Player Guide.SOTA-70568
  • Blood River Outskirts: Corrected a bandit name to “Vigilante.”SOTA-70594
  • Blood River Outskirts: Fixed a stuck spot in the wilderness.SOTA-70593
  • Castle Atos: Created new banners and added new decorations for special events. Added pennants in preparation for Lord British’s birthday. Changed celebration decorations to be automated “Timed Events.”
  • Caverns of Skrekk: Updated Korabar’s and Krishach’s conversations to help clear the “Speak with Krishach” task. Improved the tasks and compass markers related to Korabar’s ‘finale.’ Players with a lingering “Speak with Krishach” task should be able to speak with the “after” version of Korabar to clear it.SOTA-70548
  • Caverns of Skrekk: Fixed a typo in one of Korabar’s required responses.
  • Desolis: Updated compass marker used for the Loreley’s Sketchbook tasks.SOTA-70601
  • Elysium Mines: Added a milling station and coal to the scene.
  • Elysium Mines: Fixed pathing on a silver ore node.SOTA-70554
  • Grusk: Added a compass marker for the Grusk Factory entrance.
  • Grusk: Fixed multiple ladders that had lower targets which were below the ground.SOTA-70592
  • Grusk Factory: Removed “Factory Steward” title from enemy mushrooms.SOTA-70608
  • Grusk Factory: Added a switch to help exit the ‘two-person’ room.SOTA-70602
  • Grusk Factory: Adjusted a doorway that was too low for tall characters.SOTA-70607
  • Grusk Factory: Blocked a stuck spot behind a wooden platform.SOTA-70612
  • Grusk Factory: Closed a gap in the tunnel wall.SOTA-70610
  • Grusk Factory: Fixed z-fighting on a wall in the processing room.SOTA-70611
  • Highvale Outskirts: Updated the compass marker for returning an obsidian elf bow to Horatio to be “Give Bow to Horatio.”SOTA-70590
  • Highvale Outskirts: Updated the quest compass markers for Sven’s magical copper ore quest.SOTA-70595
  • Highvale Outskirts: Fixed several typos in journal entries.SOTA-70591
  • Hills Encounter: Activated Aether Dragons.
  • Kingsport Sewers: Fixed several prison doors and their switches that had shifted.SOTA-70553
  • Kobold Expeditionary Camp: Fixed an issue where players would prematurely get a task by killing Mongo when not in the proper quest stage.SOTA-70545
  • Lamech’s Bazaar and South Midmaer Way: Moved lanterns from atop destructable objects to solid platforms.SOTA-70575
  • Lord British’s Castle: Fixed an occlusion issue so some windows can be seen through.
  • Lord British’s Castle: Updated loading screen image.
  • Midmaer Passage: Fixed issues with the water visuals.SOTA-70546
  • Necropolis Barrens: Cotton nodes are now correctly set for Tier 5. Fixed an unharvestable letter node. SOTA-70559,SOTA-70559SOTA-70555
  • Norgard Fens: Improved the collision and path grid within a kobold room to prevent NPCs being pushed through the walls.SOTA-70556
  • Norgard Fens: Moved a floating tree to the ground and improved some of the pathing in the kobold outpost.SOTA-70589
  • Northwood: Smoothed the material transition on terrain near a certain housing lot to remove a visible line.SOTA-70551
  • Resolute: Godbert should no longer give players the “Get Report from Cyannis” task if they already have the report or have already turned it in. Also, updated the task so that if it lingers in the UI it has a better chance to automatically archive itself when the avatar changes scenes.SOTA-70573
  • Ruins of Ravensmoor: Fixed an issue with spiders getting stuck on rubble.SOTA-70558
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Approaching the shack near the swamp now pops up a message warning the avatar to exit combat before they approach to avoid accidentally attacking the resident. The message can appear only once each day. The associated task completes when you talk to Hartley or stand next to the shack.
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed a black pearl node so it can be harvested.SOTA-70557
  • Solania Catacombs: Added combat barks and loot to Mistress Valdis.SOTA-70606
  • Tanglemire: Updated loading screen image.
  • The Obsidian Trials: Fixed small errors in the responses from the trader NPC.
  • Ulfheim: Updated the colors used by Banamathr the dragon.
  • Valhold Palace: Moved a camera target used by Grannus to stop his conversation from being blocked.SOTA-70552
  • Valhold Palace: Removed “line of sight” requirement for Grannus’ conversations.SOTA-70552

Player-Owned Towns (3)

Interim builds (6)

Build 1558 — Jul 12, 2022, 3:30 PM

  • Disabled July 2022 Weekend #2 Specials to in-game store.
  • Enabled July 2022 Weekend #3 Special to in-game store, to last for rest of month. (There will a fourth Weekend Special coming, but weekend builds to turn sales OFF will be on pause due to Unity upgrade testing.)

Build 1557 — Jul 8, 2022, 4:50 PM

  • Added July 2022 Weekend #2 specials to in-game store.
  • Sheet music title length increased from 32 to 64.
  • Fixed incorrect name on Spotted Catfish Trophy Recipe.SOTA-70587
  • Fixed description for Green Marble Straight Hallway.SOTA-70586
  • NPC Towns: Fixed a visual issue with a certain lamp used in front of many NPC shops that wasn’t illuminated when in ‘on’ mode.SOTA-70631
  • Aerie: Fixed the invisible collision that was blocking access to Bunker T.SOTA-70605
  • Battle of Solace Bridge: Re-added a missing flag which Avatars must receive when they agree to escort Charlotte.SOTA-70641
  • Grusk: Fixed an issue with one banner in the Governor’s mansion not displaying the kobold symbol.
  • Grusk Factory: Fixed an issue with z-fighting on the ceiling of the rooms with gears under the grate flooring.SOTA-70640
  • K’rul: Added a ‘don’t walk here’ gimmick for NPCs to help keep them from approaching too closely to the lava.SOTA-70633
  • Lord British’s Castle: Updated occlusion settings to help ensure a secret room was properly visible.
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed a typo in the mouseover hint for the “Meet Captain Kinsey” task. SOTA-70642 Updated the circumstances which cause Lieutenant Corliss’ waves with blue sparkles.SOTA-70642SOTA-70643
  • Tenebris Harbor: Removed the staff from Tarian the drunken ritualist because it was blocking players from talking to him while he had it in his hand.SOTA-70644
  • Crafters Town: Upgraded to Metropolis from Town.SOTA-70636

Build 1556 — Jul 5, 2022, 12:30 AM

  • Turn off 2XP and Weekend Row Lot bonus item.
  • Jack of Diamonds: Slightly updated text related to the quest for inoperable kobold weapons.
  • When playing a sound in Lua the volume should now work correctly.
  • Fixed errors when playing sounds with the wrong ID or channel that were blocking the rest of the Lua script function.

Build 1555 — Jul 4, 2022, 10:00 AM

  • Changed name of Indestructible Lava Fishing Rod (third attempt to fix store.)
  • Removed the timed event script and set the Aether monsters to spawn ‘manually.’
  • Set up a situation for testing Timed Scripts that manage the Aether monsters.

Build 1551 — Jul 2, 2022, 3:40 PM

  • Ice elemental should now attack properly at range (second attempt.)
  • Water elemental can be summoned again.
  • Renamed one of the duplicate Gothic Dining Chairs.SOTA-70451
  • Changed name of Indestructible Lava Fishing Rod (second attempt.)
  • Changed name of 2014 LB Birthday Cake store entry to fix sorting issue.
  • Updated description for the POT Tree Removers in the store.
  • Modified the timed event script which was causing some Aether monsters to not spawn.
  • Castle Atos: Removed the glass cover over the Lord British cake and added a volume to block players and NPCs from standing on its table.
  • Northwood: Re-enabled housing lots.
  • Soltown Catacombs: The skeleton prince now has unique barks.SOTA-70628
  • Regnum: Siege decorations should now appear on Novia when this POT is under siege.

Build 1550 — Jul 1, 2022, 7:30 AM

  • Previously, Tame Movement Speed was not making your pet move faster but giving it dexterity. This has been fixed. Tame Movement Speed will now make your pet move faster. Dexterity has been seperated from that stat and is now named Tame Creature Dexterity. Skills and gems/jewel that previously had Tame Movement Speed now have Tame Creature Dexterity added to them along with the movement speed. Tame Movement Speed was previously showing a decimal number; it’s now showing a percentage to reflect the pet sheet. The Pet Speed Training innate skill will now give movement speed properly and dexterity as a second stat.
  • Tame Attack Precision was changed to Tame Critical Damage Multiplier. This is for Helm of the Stag Spirit and the Belt of Control artifacts and the Tamed Precision Imbued Gem (which now give a percentage as shown on the pet sheet instead of a decimal.) The value has not changed.
  • Now that wyverns have a higher base damage, their bonus critical damage multiplier while in combat mode has been reduced from 200% to 100% for PvE and from 100% to 50% for PvP.
  • Fixed Train Summoned Pet Resistance not being added to summons’ resistances. Each summon will also resist their own school of magic more than other summons do.
  • Added dexterity debuff to the newly-added blind skill for the summoned phoenix to reflect the same stats as the player skill Blind.
  • Increased the range of attack of ice elementals: the previous fix didn’t work.
  • Earth elementals should now reach targets with their basic attack.
  • Imbued Jewel of the Wolf giving taming strength has been increased.
  • Correcting spelling of Indestructible Lava Fishing Rod in store.
  • Added Grass and Tree Remover bundle to Crown Store.
  • Added container functionality to Redwood Display Table.
  • Corrected duplicate Recipe: Baked Barramundi showing on merchant.
  • Added Recipe: Seared Araipama Steak to merchant listing.
  • Updated the link for Discord in the New Player Handbook.SOTA-70625
  • Grusk: The sign above the entrance to Grusk Factory now simple says “Grusk Factory.”SOTA-70624
  • Grusk Factory: Set display to mark it as Tier 8+.
  • Solace Bridge: Fixed typos in Edvard’s responses.SOTA-70626