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‹ Release Notes

Release 116

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Went live 7/25/2023 · 103 change items · 2 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 116 is now live, bringing a variety of improvements and fixes across Shroud of the Avatar. A major seasonal event has begun with Pumpkinhead terrorizing Drachvald until mid-November. Players will find that Master Trainers can now direct them to others around the world, and have unique responses when spoken to directly. Wyvern spawns in the Plains and Snowy Tundra have been adjusted to help balance color distribution.

This release includes a significant number of quality-of-life improvements throughout many scenes, addressing typos, collision issues, and navigation problems. Several towns have received upgrades – Avallon and Chiron Beta Prime are now Villages, while M’hul Island has become a City. Crafting sees additions like Explorer's Shovels becoming available from graveyard caretakers (and being placeable as decoration), along with new decorative plants for hedge maze construction.

Finally, the patch addresses numerous smaller bugs and inconsistencies across various areas of the game, including fixes to NPC dialogue, item icons, and map functionality. Several maps have been created for regions like Crags and Quel Way. Players may also notice adjustments to resource node spawning and improvements to fishing experiences in Port Harmony Cistern and other locations. The team has removed Twitter widgets from the website due to recent platform changes.

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

Crafting & Items (6)

  • Graveyard caretakers that are also merchants (which now includes the Port Harmony caretaker) now sell Explorer’s Shovels. These are currently equipable as (weak) bludgeons and will be expanded upon in the future.
  • Added decorative plants from agriculture and water lilies from loot to the “Plants” crafting category which is used in recipes for hedge maze pieces, garlands, and wreaths.SOTA-71495
  • Made the deco scaling range on all numbers and runic letters larger to be consistent with the block letters that were expanded previously. Thanks, Owsley!
  • Added the ability to use pattern removers on all the light armor bandit, riding, and taming artifacts. SOTA-70047,SOTA-70047SOTA-70255
  • Heavy Two-handed Axe Blades can now be used to craft axes.SOTA-70073
  • Adjusted the “Fish Fillet” crafting category to include all (and only) the common fish: added barramundi and removed pacu.SOTA-70904

World & Quests (50)

  • Pumpkinhead arose to terrorize Drachvald on July 16th and won’t go to his rest until mid-November.
  • All master trainers now can inform the Avatar about the location of the other master trainers and they also have proper unique responses when told their own names.SOTA-71506
  • Plains and Snowy Tundra Random Encounters: To help distribute underrepresented wyvern colors, Plains Encounters with wyverns will now have red, green (replacing purple), yellow (replacing orange), and black (replacing white) versions. Snowy Tundra Encounters with wyverns will now have blue (replacing red), purple, orange, and white versions. Thanks, Ceal Astra!SOTA-71527
  • Hidden Vale: Added a compass marker for Mysterious Swamp and updated the one for South Ravenswood. SOTA-71531,SOTA-71531SOTA-71532
  • Aerie: Lord Macsen now asks for the Avatar’s name using the same logic as other NPCs.SOTA-71546
  • Ardoris: Regenerated conversation files for Shaaria Barista.SOTA-71510
  • Ardoris: Corrected the color of some seaside ladders to red.
  • Ardoris: Fixed various typos in several NPC conversations. SOTA-71510, SOTA-71509, SOTA-71508, SOTA-71511, SOTA-71512,SOTA-71510SOTA-71509SOTA-71508SOTA-71511SOTA-71512SOTA-71513
  • Blackblade Foothills: Set this scene to “Respawn at Spawn Point” when re-entering it.SOTA-71544
  • Broken Echoes Silver Mine: Adjusted the invisible collision that blocks players from going outside the playspace.SOTA-71545
  • Castle Atos: The town crier now gives his name as Caspian.SOTA-71516
  • Celestis: Reduced the collision for the shield on the coat of arms wall decoration.SOTA-71547
  • Central Brittany: Fixed a bed in the castle that was inaccessible.SOTA-71523
  • Crooked Shank: The river water is now deep enough to swim and fish within.
  • Crooked Shank: Fixed a typo in Stan’s responses.
  • Crooked Shank: Fixed collision on a handful of trees.
  • Crypt of the Avatar: Replaced a missing wall near the start of the scene.SOTA-71522
  • Etceter: The Avatar will now remember vegetable merchant Rowan Norfolk’s personal name.SOTA-71502
  • Ferig’s Battle Camp: Fixed several incorrectly-sized ore nodes.SOTA-71504
  • K’rul: Moved two Oracle Watchers away from the lava. Rebaked the path grid.SOTA-71549
  • Highvale: The default exit should now display as “South Entrance” when entering from Novia.SOTA-71468
  • Highvale Outskirts: Marissa now correctly gives the player all the items back as part of her gathering quest reward and gives a reasonable excuse for doing so.SOTA-71540
  • Highvale Outskirts: Inserted a task for Burnes’s quest to defeat the Obsidian Elf Commander that appears when you collect commander’s head, which directs you to deliver it to Burnes.SOTA-71529
  • Highvale Outskirts: Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not memorize Montgomery the hermit’s name.SOTA-71530
  • Kiln: Added props to the reagents merchant area.SOTA-71533
  • Kingsport: Adjusted sea mist locations slightly.SOTA-71518
  • Kingsport: Fixed typos and grammar in responses for guild registrar, old female shopper, and Jeremy the tailor supplies merchant. SOTA-71514, SOTA-71515,SOTA-71514SOTA-71515SOTA-71520
  • Owl’s Head: Added teleporter signs to several locations.SOTA-71524
  • Owl’s Head: A cabinet with awkward interaction has been improved.SOTA-71517
  • Port Harmony: Selleck has taken off hunting treasure for a bit. We’re sure he’ll have some fascinating things to tell us when he returns.
  • Port Harmony: Corrected the reponse that Jenkins the watersmith gives for her own name. Fixed a logic issue in the responses for the news hawkers when trying to praise them.
  • Port Harmony: Jeremiah the produce merchant now also sells lemons.
  • Port Harmony: Fixed a typo in Peregrine’s conversation.SOTA-71528
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Fixed spawn-in targets. Improved cavern terrain. Fixed collision on exit ladder. Adjusted water-soaked torches. Fixed typos in a letter. Added tooltip to water purication consoles. Adjusted quest logic in Jenkins’ responses.
  • Shores of Malice: Added lights next to Charon and Yama. Players can now destroy their Malice Far Gate key and reacquire one from Yama. Improved the logic that archives the “Learn How to Enter Malice” task.SOTA-71437
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Updated a few responses for Ackerley the Alchemist.SOTA-71503
  • Soltown: Corrected typos in two guards’ responses. Updated Emily’s “red cloth” response.SOTA-71505
  • Sunless Barrens: Removed grass from an inappropriate location. Added a waypoint path for some NPCs.
  • Tenebris Harbor: Removed plants from and slightly reshaped a cliffside.SOTA-71548
  • Ulfheim: The grand hall door will now display magical barrier effects the first and every time it closes.SOTA-65669
  • Vikland: Oski the bard trainer has moved from the Ruins of Utheim and now lives within the village of Vikland.SOTA-71506
  • Westend: Corrected the “read/write” settings for several walls and signs to ensure their collision is always enabled.SOTA-70896
  • Created map for the Crags.SOTA-58040
  • Created map for North Quel Way.
  • Created map for Quel Shardfall.
  • Created map for Sawtooth Thicket.
  • Created map for South Quel Woods.
  • Adjusted alignment for Brittany Alleys map.
  • Added map card for the Jack of Diamonds.
  • The next region for mapping is Verdantis.

Player-Owned Towns (4)

Other (1)

  • We have removed the Twitter widgets from our webpage due to Twitter’s recent changes causing the website embed functionality to cease working as expected. Tweets cross-posted in Discord are partially working at this time. We are considering dropping Twitter as a communication channel and will post more information info on this in the official forums when updates are available.

Interim builds (2)

Build 1670 — Aug 4, 2023, 11:30 PM

  • Added seventy items to vendors’ purchase order list and removed three unimplemented ones.SOTA-71244
  • Enabled the PA Tax Free Keep Deed to be upgraded.SOTA-70582
  • Switched incomplete blood splatters in streamer bundles for completed ones.SOTA-71563
  • Enabled use of pattern removers on crafted and taming necklaces at the smithing table.SOTA-69392
  • Corrected Ancient Xenossian Chest Armor eternal pattern showing as salvageable for itself.SOTA-71552
  • Attached a pre-existing eternal pattern and a new custom icon to the Leather Kilt.SOTA-71590
  • Made an appropriately-purple icon for streamer bundles.SOTA-71567
  • Connected Small Balls of Clay to the correct icon.SOTA-69984
  • Corrected icons for Tarpon and Coelacanth Fillets.SOTA-71615
  • Corrected display names for shogun armor, cherry blossom dress, and black aeronaut helm patterns.SOTA-71553
  • Added “with spawns” to the display names of blueprints for the Owl’s Head Sewer and Lich Boss spawned versions.SOTA-71565
  • Corrected spelling of wax cylinder “The Sorcerer’s Tower.”
  • Renamed the red barn home to differentiate it from the original brown one.SOTA-70245
  • Aerie and Brittany Graveyard: Rose merchants, which include the caretakers in both of these scenes, now also sell Explorer’s Shovels.
  • Port Harmony Cistern and Vikland: Adjusted the settings for the fish that swim in these scenes to help them stop swimming outside the bounds of the water.SOTA-71581
  • Aerie: Fixed typos in responses from Fitz Gaeaf, Gabrielle Townsend, Noella, and Caradec.SOTA-71568
  • Blackblade Foothills: This scene returns to allowing avatars to enter the scene at any location. When the scene starts, avatars within the “puzzle cavern” will now be teleported outside the “riddle door.” This teleport effect will go away when the riddle door is correctly solved.SOTA-71544
  • Courage Club: Added a 3- or 4-second delay between fights. Also, added more variety to some fights.SOTA-71571
  • Isle of Storms: Updated legacy areas to better handle outdated characters.SOTA-71613
  • The Oracle Chamber: Fixed typos within the Oracle’s responses.
  • Plains Encounter: Garlic and Ash resource nodes should no longer spawn atop one another.SOTA-71605
  • Port Harmony: Moved some floating objects to the ground. Added some props in the back of the jail.SOTA-71573
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Fixed z-fighting at the mystical water thresholds.SOTA-71574
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Replaced missing walls flanking the mystical water thresholds.
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Blocked a tunnel which allowed the avatar to leave the playspace.SOTA-71576
  • Port Harmony Cistern: NPCs will no longer open barricaded doors.SOTA-71572
  • Tanglemire: Fixed a typo in the “Confront Children About Missing Bone” task.SOTA-71607
  • Ulfheim: Adjusted settings for a ladder to exit dragon area to ensure players never get pushed outside the playspace.SOTA-65894
  • Understorm Gold Mine: Fixed a candle light that was not turning off when taking the candle.SOTA-71569

Build 1668 — Aug 2, 2023, 3:15 PM

  • Monthly Fishing Contest 2023 Community Cloak created.SOTA-71578
  • Explorer’s Shovel is now placeable as deco.
  • Fried Frog Leg recipe has been set to not teachable.
  • Necropolis: Corrected offset of teleport volume for the exit door to Midras Ruins.SOTA-71602
  • Northmarsh: Rotated a rock to hide that it has no visible bottom.SOTA-71603
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Fixed a typo in Annora Jenkins’ responses.SOTA-71583
  • Port Harmony Cistern: A specific torch under water cannot be turned on.SOTA-71585
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Blocked the edge of a cave tunnel that players could see behind.SOTA-71584
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Removed teleporter volume that was blocking access to the Blessed Cavern.SOTA-71601
  • Port Harmony Cistern: Adjusted a feedback light on one of the water threshold archways.
  • Well of Aldur: Reduced collision on a column. Moved a crystal that was spawning close to that column.SOTA-68507
  • Dark Caverns: Added new underground Village southwest of Estgard in Novia.
  • Castle Stone Arena Basement: Fixed an alignment issue with several doors.SOTA-71594