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Release 119

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Went live 10/24/2023 · 54 change items · 3 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 119 is now live, bringing a wide range of adjustments and additions to Shroud of the Avatar. A significant portion of this release focuses on improving the open world experience, with changes made to NPC spawning behavior – roving NPCs will now respect spawn protection zones before initiating encounters. Players will also notice the addition of tiny frogs (and occasionally frog goliaths) appearing in numerous scenes across many overworld locations, alongside sound improvements for various junction transformers and scene-specific audio like waterfalls and steam vents.

Crafting receives attention with the ability to upgrade POT Castle Lot Deeds to tax-free water lots, as well as fixes related to salvage output and cosmetic adjustments for player homes. UI updates include price changes for Player Owned Town buildings and corrections of typos in store descriptions. Several questlines have been tweaked; notably, Kortreek’s kite platform quests now feature more distinct journal entries, and Treasure Hunter Selleck has received expanded dialogue options.

Finally, the Well of Aldur wyvern battles have gained increased randomization with new enemy colors and loot adjustments. Arx Draconis Lowlands has been upgraded to a City status, and several bug fixes address issues ranging from elevator functionality to item trading restrictions and visual glitches. Seasonal monsters are also shifting – Pumpkin Head is departing, while Krampus will return in mid-November.

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

Crafting & Items (10)

  • Added the ability to upgrade a POT Castle Lot Deed to a be a POT Castle Tax Free Water Lot Deed.SOTA-71730
  • Adjusted some of the floor deco surfaces for the plain and golden variants of the Kobold Four-Story Great Hall City Home.SOTA-71732
  • Fixed frog goliaths not giving meticulous collection XP.
  • Salvage/combination of Daemon Tridents and salvage of Ice Hammers of Jotungrund, Shards of Night, Halberds of the Sun, and Xen Penetrators will no longer output a pattern per weapon for common and uncommon variants.SOTA-71707
  • Enabled dying the fabric cushion on the craftable Arched Wooden Armchair.SOTA-70431
  • The Magical Broom Pet will no longer be visually shouting at avatars.SOTA-58540
  • Added new icon to the Shard of Night.SOTA-71717
  • Corrected icon for book Theme for Rabbling.
  • Removed pink artifacts in icon for Fiona Fitzowen’s lute.
  • Removed pink background from icon for Pristine Patriarch Bear Head.

UI, Store & Lua (2)

  • The prices for POT NPC Buildings have been adjusted: buildings with special functionality are now 1200 COTOs and all others are 800 COTOs.
  • Fixed typos in 130 store descriptions.

World & Quests (31)

  • Overworlds: All roving NPCs will now respect Spawn Protection and wait until it’s gone before pulling the Avatar into a random encounter. This includes dogs, sheep, and stags.SOTA-66405
  • Seasonal Monsters: Pumpkin Head is packing it in for the year and Krampus will return to East Sanctus Forest and some Snowy Mountain Road Encounters on November 16th.
  • Desert Encounter: The Luminous Atavist will no longer appear out-of-season.SOTA-71726
  • Swamp Road Encounters: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs. A frog goliath might also spawn.SOTA-71570
  • Multiple Scenes: Reworked the sounds for all junction transformers used in kobold creations, placed in scenes as well as part of player deco, like moon towers, windmills, trolley stations, weather and time machines, and elevators. Also, shutting off both transformers in moon towers will turn off the moon tower completely.
  • Manor of Mystery and Tutorial Encounter: Adjusted sound effects for the Teleporter Pads and corrected their cloth accessories to be Return-to-Previous-Location purple.SOTA-71339
  • Blood Bay: Adjusted LODs on several rock types. Added and updated steam and lava sounds. Added waterfall sounds to a waterfall at a ruin.SOTA-40523
  • Blood River Forest: Tweaked the whirlpool VFX.SOTA-64690
  • Blood River Outskirts: Fixed typos in Captain Bearfield’s responses.
  • Brave Coast: Added more spawn location alternatives and ankhs throughout the scene.SOTA-71681
  • Brookside: None of the four wells should be protected by the anti-theft system any longer.
  • Castle Atos: Added ambient light options.
  • East Vauban Foothills: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Far Hinterlands: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Grannus Colossus: Added tiny frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Greymark Forest: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Grusk: The five daily versions of Kortreek’s kite platform quest now have separate initial journal entries, with better directions for finding the platforms.SOTA-70489
  • Jotungrund: Reverted scene worldbuilding and navmesh to its R117 state.
  • Lost Vale: Blocked off the end of a hallway in the Fall of the Epitaph area.SOTA-71731
  • Manor of Mystery: If you have completed his Inoperable Kobold Cloud Cannon quest, the High Magus will now accept an Inoperable Kobold Tesla Rifle even if you have a second Inoperable Kobold Cloud Cannon in your inventory.SOTA-71714
  • Naryad Moors: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Necropolis Barrens: Replaced a tree with odd collision that allowed players to slide up the sides.SOTA-71725
  • Paladis Shardfall: Added tiny frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Port Harmony: Removed grass poking through a planter. Moved several rubble piles to the ground.
  • Port Harmony: Updated the logic for Selleck’s treasure chest so avatars can get extra chances to dig it up if they wait too long to recover the trinket inside.
  • Port Harmony: Treasure Hunter Selleck now gives a proper response for the “lemon” keyword (as do the Junior Treasure Hunters.)SOTA-71719
  • Port Harmony: Fixed typos in Treasure Hunter Selleck’s responses, journals, and quest item.SOTA-71715
  • Rhun Ruins: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Spindelskog: Added tiny frogs.SOTA-71570
  • Tenebris Harbor: Added tiny frogs and poison dart frogs. A frog goliath might also spawn.SOTA-71570
  • Well of Aldur: Added extra randomization to the wyvern wave battle, which now includes additional large and huge wyverns of not-seen-before colors. Adjusted the loot for most wave enemies prior to the final wave.SOTA-71713

Player-Owned Towns (1)

Interim builds (3)

Build 1680 — Nov 7, 2023, 2:30 PM

  • Turned off Double XP.
  • Returned the discount for Crown Store sales to 20%.
  • Adjusted the footprint of the New You Pavilion NPC building: the placement collision has been reduced to size of the building’s stone foundation.
  • Updated Rajazel’s loading screen and message.SOTA-71742
  • Kas Ruins: Fixed an issue that was causing one of the elevators to disappear.SOTA-71744

Build 1677 — Oct 29, 2023, 1:00 PM

  • Player Dungeon Spawn Totems can once again be placed onto their pedestals.

Build 1676 — Oct 28, 2023, 9:50 AM

  • Female Magic Merchant POT NPCs are feeling better and are ready to conduct business again.
  • The Dark Gothic Padded Chair 2-Pack in the Crown Store is now actually a 2-Pack. (Additional chairs for players who already bought the pack will be delivered by mail.)
  • The Green and Yellow and the Orange and Black Baby Spider Pets are no longer set for no-trade.
  • Verdantis Foothills, Rumor Peaks, and Spectral Peaks: Adjusted a tree that was clipping through a treehouse and regenerated the path grid.SOTA-71734