Went live 12/12/2023 · 62 change items · 6 interim builds · official notes ↗
In short
Release 121 is now live, bringing a variety of fixes and improvements across Shroud of the Avatar. The most immediately noticeable change is the return of seasonal snow to many areas – though it has since ended for this winter! Players will find Krampus encounters have been restored in Snowy Mountains Road and East Sanctus Forest, alongside adjustments to timed events in that region. Several scenes received attention including Graff Island (with access to castle walls added) and Mistrendur, addressing sound issues and stuck spots.
A significant portion of the release focuses on quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Updates were made to virtue book turn-in logic in Ardoris and Savrenoc Stronghold, treasure map spawns in Libris Ruins, and NPC placement across multiple scenes including Yew and Owl’s Head. Crafting saw minor additions like placeable pumpkin pie and a renamed shovel for easier treasure hunting.
Finally, players can now find Clockwork Dragon heads available in the buy order system, and several dungeon issues have been addressed – notably restoring access to the Pristine Spider Room after a “leak between multiverse realities.” Numerous smaller fixes relating to visuals, clipping, and surface properties were also implemented across various locations, alongside adjustments to loot tables and event triggers.
AI-generated summary (google/gemma-3-27b) — may contain errors; the full notes below are authoritative.
Crafting & Items (7)
- Made slice of pumpkin pie placeable as deco.
- Modified the Antique Map of Novia so players can place items on it.SOTA-71794
- Increased the amount the candy cane wand can be shrunk when placing it as deco.
- Renamed the digging shovel to rounded shovel to reduce confusion about the right shovel for treasure-hunting.
- Edited text descriptions for some pet gear.SOTA-71763
- Corrected spelling in the secret message on Decrepit Treasure Map 2.
- Changed the text description on the R120 Subscriber Bundle.
UI, Store & Lua (1)
- Added the new clockwork dragon heads to the buy order list.
World & Quests (21)
- It’s snowing! Yay!
- Mistrendur: Corrected minor issues with some ambient sound effects.SOTA-71785
- Mistrendur: Fixed a stuck spot.SOTA-71790
- Snowy Mountains Road Encounter and East Sanctus Forest: Krampus should now show up again.SOTA-71777
- Snowy Mountains Road Encounter: Updated connections for timed events.SOTA-71777
- Multiple scenes: Added a small amount of scrap metal to Clockwork Dragons’ loot.SOTA-71791
- Ardoris and Savrenoc Stronghold: Updated the logic used by Martin and Gina to help ensure you can turn in virtue books to only one or the other.SOTA-71792
- Ardoris and Savrenoc Stronghold: Added extra logic to Martin and Gina’s responses to help archive lingering virtue book tasks after completed.SOTA-71792
- Graff Island: Added ladders and stairs to access the castle walls around Graff Estate.SOTA-71674
- Inventory Tutorial: Improved logic which clears the Take Chest Key and Loot Gate Key tasks when complete.
- Libris Ruins: Moved spawners away from each other to try to fix the treasure map wave battle not showing correctly. If this doesn’t do it please report again!SOTA-71793
- Necropolis Barrens: Envy Angel and her devotees return to her cottage on January 16th.
- Obsidian Panopticon: Updated the cold damage volumes to improve the ability to cast ranged spells nearby.SOTA-69313
- Owl’s Head: Fixed typos in Colman’s responses.SOTA-71787
- Port Graff: Moved the town crier bind/spawn target to be near the town crier.SOTA-71789
- South Broken Road: Swapped wagons for ones without canvas. Removed unused props. Regenerated path grid.
- Tartarus: Fixed z-fighting on top of a small section of the maze wall.SOTA-71760
- Valhold Palace: Fixed a bed that blocked usage from the one side.SOTA-70524
- Valhold Palace: Updated the logic which compels Grannus to sit wearily on his throne.SOTA-69833
- Vertas: All lot markers now share the same rotation with their paired lots. Some lots were moved to a better height above ground level. (There are more that need to be adjusted, but they are currently occupied.)SOTA-71764
- Yew: There are no longer two NPCs named Maxliao. The one on an upper platform is now named Jaanrae.SOTA-71761
Player-Owned Towns (2)
- AibohphobiA: Added new Holdfast to Novia east of Kiln.
- Corrected image resolution of Rajazel Loading Screen.
Dungeons & Basements (2)
- After discovering that there was a leak between multiverse realities, we closed the hole and the blocked passage in the Pristine Spider Room is once again passable.SOTA-71759
- Normalized item names regarding the Small Temple dungeon piece.SOTA-71756
Interim builds (6)
Build 1693 — Jan 7, 2024, 7:40 PM
- Snow has ended for the winter. It’s probably for the best; I haven’t seen a salt wagon out even once!
Build 1692 — Jan 3, 2024, 8:55 AM
- Turned off double XP.
- Crown Store Sale off (back to 20%)
- Turned off the deed upgrade sale.
- Turned off COTO sale.
- Moved the new tabletop snow family recipes to the carpentry decorations category of the recipe book.SOTA-71702
- Blood Bay: Set several meshes to read/write and updated some particles to fix related errors.SOTA-71810
- Eastreach Gap: Added a patrolling corpion to a side path.
- Graff Island: Large fountains in this scene are no longer under anti-theft protection.SOTA-71675
- Sequanna Colossus: Updated the props on one side of a rope bridge.SOTA-71808
- Spectral Mountains: Ensured chest lids don’t clip through tents.SOTA-71805
- Spectral Mountains: Added loot to a chest inside a tent.SOTA-71805
- Vauban Pass: Removed or updated grass clumps that were floating.SOTA-71809
- Haven Ridge: Upgraded to Municipality.SOTA-71817
Build 1691 — Jan 1, 2024, 9:00 AM
- Added January 2024 login rewards.
- Eastreach Gap: Blocked a niche players were scrunching into. Made slight adjustments to tornado pathing.
- Updated more deco surfaces in the Pristine Spider Room dungeon piece.
Build 1689 — Dec 23, 2023, 6:00 AM
- After a sound thrashing, the Queen of the Chickens has closed her portal to sulk plot.
Build 1688 — Dec 20, 2023, 5:10 PM
- Lights on the 2023 Tabletop Yule Tree now extinguish fully.
- Eastreach Gap: Fixed an issue where the tornado’s VFX weren’t always working properly and removed a green box from the center of the tornado.
- Removed more deco surfaces that were not in the expected places and cleaned up the whole Pristine Spider Room dungeon piece.
Build 1687 — Dec 19, 2023, 4:50 AM
- Increased the discount of the deed upgrade sale to 30%.
- Corrected the text of the Chicken Room Warning book when placed as deco.
- Corrected the store listing name of the 2023 Stocking 3-Pack.
- Added images of the 3- and 4-Story Mature Fall Oak Trees to their 3-Pack’s store listing.
- Snowy Mountain Road Encounters: Fixed an issue where the Snow Leopard, Barbarian, and Krampus wave battles wouldn’t trigger.SOTA-71798
- Libris Ruins: Adjusted faction and leashes for treasure hunt NPCs to help them not fight similar NPCs near them and to stay closer to the treasure.SOTA-71793
- Added a map card for the Chicken Room variants.
- Removed additional invisible walls from the Pristine Spider Room dungeon piece.