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‹ Release Notes

Release 106

Went live 9/27/2022 · 102 change items · 4 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 106 is now live, bringing a variety of fixes and improvements across Shroud of the Avatar. A major change for players will be the removal of the “Heritage” item flag; previously trade-restricted items can now be freely traded without packaging. Crafting has also seen attention with adjustments to pet food balance – Bear Bites and Dragon Kibbles now take up more inventory space, and their benefits have been slightly reduced – as well as lowered recipe difficulty for pet equipment components.

This release includes numerous quality of life improvements and bug fixes, particularly in scenes like Highvale, Solace Bridge, and the swamps. Several quest issues have been addressed, ensuring players progress correctly through storylines, and NPC behaviors have been refined throughout various locations. Combat bugs related to Scarecrows, Pumpkin Heads, and unknown damage-over-time effects have also been resolved.

Finally, several Player Owned Town updates are live including new villages and holdfasts added to the world. Additionally, a number of visual glitches have been corrected, particularly in store items like Obsidian potions and the Greenhouse, and there’s a 30% discount on deed upgrades throughout this release. A wide array of smaller fixes addressing terrain issues, typos, and stuck spots round out the update.

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

Crafting & Items (12)

  • Heritage is no more! Items that were flagged as Heritage will now be tradeable without packaging.
  • In response to an AskaDev, twenty soups and stews can now be placed as twenty different deco objects.
  • Created Bug Brigade 2022 Anniversary Cloak.
  • A balance pass has been done on pet foods. Bear Bites and Dragon Kibbles have been set to take three slots instead of two. Bear Bites’ combat health regen and health regen have been reduced. Dragon Kibbles’ critical hit damage modifier has been reduced. Rabbit Paté’s focus regen has been removed.
  • Added description for pet foods to specify that they are for tamed pets, not magical summons.
  • The difficulty level of the recipes for pet equipment components has been lowered from 80 to 30.
  • Item component Silver Studded Roll of Leather, that previously gave pet focus regeneration, will now give some physical and magic resistance instead.
  • Limited land-based deed decoration to the lot size to prevent players from decorating under the terrain.
  • The Shroud of the Avatar has again been marked as a quest item partly to ensure it is removed from the avatar’s inventory during a quest reset.SOTA-70754
  • Made the special patterns for the dread artifact and final items reshaped with them tradable and able to be placed as decoration. Removed the inherited stats which should only have applied to the real dread artifacts.
  • Radiant Energy Cell: Adjusted FX to properly toggle on and off when switched.
  • Fixed warning from the audio of the turkey decoration spawner.SOTA-67043

Combat & Skills (6)

  • Fixed issue with Scarecrow creating unidentified debuffs.SOTA-69988
  • Fixed issue where Pumpkin Head Footsoldiers were sometimes not properly dropping their weapons.SOTA-70492
  • Fixed issue with Pumpkin Head Footsoldiers using incorrect skills for their weapons.SOTA-70492
  • Fixed issue with unknown DOTs from mushroom creatures.SOTA-68123
  • Separated skills for creature Daemon and summoned Daemon chaos bolt.SOTA-70716
  • Another fix for characters being stuck after receiving two resurrections at once.SOTA-67692

UI, Store & Lua (8)

  • The pet sheet UI was previously showing combat health regen only. It will now show the normal health regen stat in the same way as the player sheet.
  • Changed the stat description “Companion Health Regeneration” to “Companion Combat Health Regeneration” to better reflect what it is.
  • Fixed the display of virtue-related material bonuses. They can now show the values calculated from the viewer’s virtue but will still mention that virtue power affects them.
  • Fixed a visual glitch in the mail UI when resizing the window when there are items attached.
  • Removed erroneous no-trade flag on the Gothic Display Case in the store. A future data migration will be required to fix pre-existing ones.SOTA-70724
  • Removed erroneous no-trade flag on Fine Oak Bookshelves in the store. A future data migration will be required to fix pre-existing ones.SOTA-70751
  • Fixed blurry image used for all the Obsidian potions in the store.
  • Fixed blurry image used for the Greenhouse in the store.

World & Quests (18)

  • Battle of Highvale and Blood River Massacre: Updated some beginning popup tips to not appear if your avatar has already completed Battle of Solace Bridge.SOTA-70759
  • Northwest Blackblade Mountains and Mistrendur scenes: Added “terrain extra properties” to terrain to ensure proper footsteps sounds are made.SOTA-70764
  • Swamp Encounter: Leaving the Hidden Vale version of the stag/tiger encounter now properly sends players to the Hidden Vale overworld instead of Mistrendur.SOTA-70743
  • Grunvald Shardfall: The adventuring skill cap is now back at 100. This was previously removed because there was not a way to set seperate levels for adventuring and crafting skill sections. Scene caps are now able to be split.
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Private Garridon should now properly force conversation for all players.SOTA-70541
  • Aerie: When talking with Kyle Behrand about the bonesteel dagger, his tasks have been adjusted to clarify that you need to ask him about Vertas before going to that city to find Kiakis.SOTA-70757
  • Battle of Solace Bridge: Fixed an issue where new avatars were getting the “Find the Oracle” task in this scene. Avatars with this task will find it archives after they next log in or change scenes.
  • Celestis: Reviewed NPCs and adjusted where some stand, their range of wandering, and other minor behaviors.SOTA-70721
  • Elysium Mines: Fixed the Minoan buildings to stop “registered with more than one LODGroup” errors.SOTA-70755
  • Grusk: Added a new daily story for Vishpop the lighthouse keeper.
  • Grusk: Adjusted some discoverable compass markers to be seen only when within a certain range instead of across the entire scene.
  • Jotungrund: Avatars will no longer get compass markers to find more wolf tongues when they don’t have a corresponding active task.SOTA-70760
  • Jotungrund: Corrected the spelling of “Gertrud” in the “Find Gertrud” task.SOTA-70745
  • K’rul: Fixed z-fighting on the walls of two buildings.SOTA-70753
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed a typo in one of the rumors given by the guards.
  • Soltown: When asked his name, Varren’s response now has the correct spelling.SOTA-70744
  • Tanglemire: The redundant “Myndill” villager is now a general merchant who refuses to share their name. The real Myndill continues to be an old man in a different building.SOTA-70750
  • Tenebris Harbor: Fixed a typo in a statue used to debug Tarian’s capabilities.

Player-Owned Towns (6)

  • Templates: Added a few ankhs to non-island POT templates, mostly near the center.
  • Arx Draconis Wetlands: Added new village east of Penmawr Island.SOTA-70776
  • Le Port-Marly: Added new holdfast east of Brittany in Novia.
  • M’hul Island: Upgraded to Town from Crossroads Village and moved to south of Soltown in Novia.SOTA-70747
  • Nebula Forge: Added new holdfast east of Nightshade Pass.SOTA-70758
  • Umbra Regnum: Upgraded to Hamlet from Holdfast.SOTA-70746

Dungeons & Basements (2)

  • Items lost outside of dungeon rooms and basements will now be sent back to inventory and bank on sceneload.
  • Removed dungeon sample entrance button. These were used at the first appearance of dungeons to demonstrate what they would look like after being built but are confusing to newer players.

Interim builds (4)

Build 1588 — Oct 15, 2022, 6:45 AM

  • Deed upgrades are now 30% off through Release 106.

Build 1587 — Oct 10, 2022, 7:45 PM

  • Bowls of stew will now stack with identical items in the avatar’s inventory.SOTA-70796
  • Pale Scarecrow Mask will now return the proper pattern on salvage.
  • Fix for error spam from bat flap animation.
  • Vikland: Added missing sand texture for edge of scene and underwater.
  • Assigned owners to two recreated POTs that need the eviction process re-run.
  • Slow build to fix missing textures.

Build 1585 — Oct 9, 2022, 3:45 PM

  • Recreated two old POTs to re-do the eviction process for both.
  • Turned off hair for females wearing the rotten pumpkin mask.
  • Vikland: Added prototypes for a buried treasure quest.

Build 1584 — Oct 7, 2022, 10:10 PM

  • Updated R106 Subscription Rewards: now includes R105 rewards as well.
  • Augmented Login Rewards for October’s ‘Age of Darkness’ and included September’s rewards as well.
  • Fixed issue with female versions of recent pumpkin and scarecrow reward masks.
  • Bowls of Stew: Updated deco objects that are based on a bowl of stew so they can’t stack on one another.
  • Disable fix for plot, basement, and dungeon decoration area limit for now for sanity testing.
  • Resetting deck order is now saved locally if deck count doesn’t match server.
  • Added a small alert radius on all sarcophagi to alert nearby NPCs that one has been opened.SOTA-15411
  • Aldwater: This coastal PRT how has salt water instead of fresh water.
  • Ardoris: Fixed a typo in the “Accuse Rolf” chat hint.
  • Ardoris: Fixed a chair that was sticking through the floor in the alchemist shop.SOTA-65343
  • Blood River Outskirts: Fixed a stuck spot found using the heatmap.SOTA-60001
  • Brittany Fields: Fixed an issue where the crafting pavillions would disappear when moving away from them.
  • Castle Atos: Fixed a corner near the castle where the avatar was pushed out of the scene too quickly.SOTA-69954
  • Castle Atos: Fixed a shogun lamp to produce light and be interactable.SOTA-70173
  • Castle Atos: There should be much less rain leaking through the roofing of the buildings herein.SOTA-70158
  • Central Brittany: Fixed a stuck spot and a hole in a wall. SOTA-65330,SOTA-65330SOTA-65339
  • Elysium Mines: Invisible torches in these buildings are now visible.SOTA-65369
  • Jaanaford: Rain no longer falls through the roof of the Reliquarium.SOTA-64546
  • Halls of Artifice: Added collision to the iron maidens.SOTA-65149
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  • Jotungrund: Added an ankh at the start of the barbarian’s crevasse.SOTA-69664
  • Jotungrund: Fixed collision bugs on the mountains.SOTA-69436
  • Kingsport: Smoothed down some rough spots on lots that were disallowing deco placement.SOTA-70782
  • Malice: Corrected misspellings of Avatar in Sequanna’s conversation.SOTA-70783
  • Moors of Northshore: Added mountains and trees beyond the playspace.SOTA-64022
  • Naryad Moors: Added one pool of deep water to allow fishing.SOTA-62736
  • Norgard Fens: Added one pool of deep water to allow fishing.SOTA-62736
  • Northwood: Updated the blacksmith shop to stop rain from coming through the roof.SOTA-61966
  • Owl’s Head Sewers: Added ankh by the exit to Owl’s Nest.SOTA-65345
  • Paladis Shardfall: Added a rock in the river.SOTA-66239
  • Shadowmist, Highiron, Lochfield, and Greyacre: Added cherry blossom trees.SOTA-41798
  • Shaminian Hills: Updated a prop.
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed a bad seam between two similar rock materials in the terrain.SOTA-62495
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: “Deliver Bloody Bones” tasks now reads “Deliver Bloody Bones Book” instead.SOTA-70789
  • South Hinterlands: Removed water sound effects from the south exit area.SOTA-65342
  • South Ravenswood: Fixed a bad material on a monument.SOTA-64573
  • Spindelskog: Added collision components to trees that were missing them.SOTA-69343
  • Vikland: Now available for early exploring!
  • Template Swamp Island 01: Removed floating lilypads.SOTA-65341
  • Gobi Rose: Updated to Town.SOTA-70785