Went live 1/23/2024 · 49 change items · 2 interim builds · official notes ↗
In short
Release 122 has arrived, bringing a variety of improvements and fixes across Shroud of the Avatar. A significant focus this release is on quality of life for players engaging with housing, including new basement annex scenes and standardized merchants offering one-time teleports to Hometown for easier home viewing. Several towns have also been upgraded in size or status – Meadowbrook is now a Crossroads Village, while Duanor has reached Metropolis level.
Crafting sees several recipe book organization changes, moving previously unclassified items into their appropriate categories like alchemy and carpentry. Players who enjoy mage fashion will find new walking stick drops and patterns available, alongside the R1 10th Anniversary cloak. The Sneak Scene has received considerable attention with bug fixes addressing timer issues, sentry pathing, and key acquisition logic – making it a more reliable training experience.
Beyond these highlights, numerous smaller tweaks have been implemented throughout the world, including adjusted random encounters, corrected NPC dialogue, and icon updates. Store sales have returned to their standard 20% discount. Overall, Release 122 is a solid update centered on refining existing systems and improving player experiences in core areas like housing and crafting.
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Crafting & Items (10)
- Low-level human mages who cast with walking sticks will now drop them as loot instead of lesser staves. These can be salvaged for a pattern for those who prefer to display fewer skulls.
- Created tabletop trophies for fashion and related contests.
- Created the R1 10th Anniversary cloak.
- Moved the various reveal map recipes from unclassified to the alchemy miscellaneous category of the recipe book.
- Moved a few stray dungeon piece recipes from unclassified into the dungeon category of smelting in the recipe book.
- Moved all versions of Xen Bow construction recipes from unclassified into the weapons category of carpentry in the recipe book.
- Removed two obsolete loading screen tips and updated the text in another.
- Disabled autostart for decorative flame trap VFX to fix Windows clients seeing frozen fire when the deco is placed.
- Added detail to the descriptions of the R101 and R102 Sub Reward Bundles.
- Made an icon for pumpkin pie slice.
UI, Store & Lua (2)
- Added cat claws, withered baby flesh flayers, and the various baits to the vendor buy order list.
- Adjusted Spooky Blue Flame Urn 2-Pack store listing to actually deliver 2 urns.
World & Quests (13)
- Hometown: Added annex scenes called “Hometown – Basements” and “Hometown – Legacy Homes” for house and decoration overflow.
- Most housing merchants now offer a one-time teleport to Hometown to help players review a large amount of example homes.
- Housing Merchants: Standardized their titles to be “Housing Merchant” for all.
- Random Encounters: Altruist Pilgrims now have improved responses for Port Harmony, may give a prayer card as part of that response, and will give correct directions to the Altruist Monk in Port Harmony.SOTA-71839
- Siege Encounters: Updated the manner in which scouts ask for arcane catalysts to help avoid confusion on how many is being asked for.
- North Paladis: Added the tabletop snow family recipes to deco recipe merchants.SOTA-71833
- Broken Echoes Silver Mine: Fixed a typo in one of Teris the foreman’s “hello” responses.
- Broochash: Updated Albreda’s response for key/keys.SOTA-71824
- Eastreach Gap: Adjusted control point tornados’ paths.SOTA-71831
- Highiron: Updated this scene’s template so certain trees no longer overhang into some lot areas.SOTA-71823
- Sneak Scene: Updated logic for limiting Sneak Scene Key acquisition to hourly. Enlarged first warehouse room to remove the chance that Sentries will see you before starting the training exercise. Fixed a logic issue that allowed the second room to open its exit door without requiring all of its chests to be looted first.SOTA-71866
- Tutorial Encounter: Added extra logic to help archive the “Unlock Gate” task after completion.SOTA-71867
- Vertas Pass: Added a tornado at the control point that activates when it achieves the repeating wave.SOTA-71832
Player-Owned Towns (8)
- Meadowbrook: Renamed from Le Port-Marly and upgraded to Crossroads Village.
- Shirehall: Added new Holdfast northeast of Kiln.
- Crossroads Alleys: Changed size from Metropolis to Municipality.
- Crossroads Estates: Changed size from Metropolis to City.
- Duanor: Upgraded from City to Metropolis.
- Fidra: Upgraded from Holdfast to Hamlet.
- Lained: Upgraded to Village.
- Wolves Den: Upgraded to Town.
Interim builds (2)
Build 1697 — Feb 6, 2024, 7:20 PM
- Reduced Crown Store sales to their normal 20%.
- Updated icons for the two Scott Jones paintings with special frames.
- Fixed patterns for Ravalox’ Halloween cloaks.
- Multiple Scenes: Fixed a typo in the “reagents” responses some NPCs use.
- Ardoris: Fixed a typo in one of the “Scott Jones” responses by the art dealer Caravaggios Wolf.
- Eastreach Gap: Made adjustments to the tornados.
- Harvest: Stella now shows a paper with her name when “name” is mentioned to her.SOTA-71887
- Hometown: The boat teleporter for the Grasslands templates no longer includes the left, right, and 180 variants.SOTA-71884
- Port Harmony: Burchard the baker now has a unique conversation which includes sharing his name with outlanders.SOTA-71886
- Sneak Scene: The “Access Hatch for Sneak Scene” task has been renamed “Enter Hatch, Ask About Key” and its instructions have been improved.SOTA-71882
- Sneak Scene: Improved some of the logic used by the timers that end the training exercise when any timer runs out. The exit to room 2 should now only open when all chests in that room are looted, not just one.SOTA-71870
- Sneak Scene: Adjusted the pathing for some sentries to help them avoid stopping. Regenerated the path grid. Fixed an issue where looting the chests updated virtue changes too frequently. Fixed an issue that cause the third warehouse room to instantly end the timer and fail the training simulation.SOTA-71891
Build 1696 — Jan 29, 2024, 10:15 AM
- Fixed Tiramisu cake and sigil plaque placement issues. SOTA-71872,SOTA-71872SOTA-71873
- Ardoris: Caravaggios Wolf the art dealer now will trade a Painting of Scott Jones with Special Frame for a Painting of Scott Jones with Alternate Special Frame, and vice versa, using the “Scott Jones” keyword.SOTA-71862
- Celestis: Linh the innkeeper has arrived and is ready to give Sneak Scene keys to some who ask about them.SOTA-71874
- Sneak Scene: Overseers will no longer reference Courage Club when trading for Sneak Scene coins.SOTA-71883