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Release 123

Went live 2/27/2024 · 79 change items · 3 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 123 is now live, bringing a wealth of improvements and fixes focused on crafting, player experience, and world polish. A significant portion of this release addresses issues with furniture and decorations – collisions have been adjusted on numerous items like teleporters, haystacks, and plesiosaurs to prevent interference with players and pets. Many crafted items have also received updates including resizability options for dressers and tents, as well as the ability to masterwork older clothing pieces for consistency. Several visual glitches have been corrected, affecting things like character models and item textures.

Beyond crafting, UI tweaks include clarifying skill descriptions and ensuring year-specific consumables appear in the correct inventory tab. Players will find several quest updates across multiple scenes, with fixes addressing stuck spots, incorrect dialogue, and task archiving. Notably, seasonal monsters are shifting; the Envy Angel is departing on March 16th to be replaced by the Arch Lapin. New maps have been added for Elysian Ruins, Plains, Moors, Norgard Fens, and Rumor Peaks.

Finally, Player-Owned Town players will find a new Holdfast available south of Brittany. The Crown Store has returned to standard sale percentages (20% off) after a period of increased discounts, though additional sales on deeds, upgrades, and Obsidian crowns are running from March 15th - 21st. A few humorous notes indicate ongoing investigations into strange color changes in New Britannia’s waters, but developers assure players these aren't related to past incidents.

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

Crafting & Items (33)

  • The deco teleporter to the Compendium of Pain and Suffering will no longer interfere with the spawning and navigation of pets, NPCs, or players attempting to use furniture in their vicinity.SOTA-67308
  • Haystacks decorations (both small and large) will no longer interfere with the spawning and navigation of pets, NPCs, or players attempting to use furniture in their vicinity.SOTA-68200
  • Removed mesh collision from Young Mounted Plesiosaurus. The adult may receive similar adjustment after some testing.SOTA-69248
  • Adjusted collision on the Castle Atos Teleporter.SOTA-71921
  • Adjusted the rain collision on the Red Stall Awning to stop errors.
  • Adjusted the Tavern Counter (Flipped) to stop errors.SOTA-70042
  • Hid visible deco surfaces on the Fancy Storage Shed and the Stone Five-Story Wizard’s Tower. SOTA-70740,SOTA-70740SOTA-71908
  • Modified the material for the crafted moondial base to display a solid bottom.SOTA-71394
  • Reduced the shininess of the existing Clover Pavers and adjusted the texture to make the clover more recognizable.
  • Made smaller scaling available to a few tents that almost fit on a Market Lot.
  • Made larger scaling available to the crafted Tent and the similar Welcome Tent.
  • Made the Renaissance Bedroom Dresser and Tall Bedroom Dresser resizable.SOTA-71822
  • Added vertical rotation capability to Bandit Spear.SOTA-71812
  • Fixed the appearance of Gentleman’s Riding Leggings when worn by female characters.SOTA-71614
  • Removed extra fingers from male Elven Elite Archer Bracers. I guess they weren’t useful for archery?SOTA-68944
  • Disabled non-functional dye slots on Leather Guard Boots.SOTA-71616
  • Disabled non-functional dye slots on Fortified Cloth Gloves.SOTA-71889
  • Normalized bound health and focus potion and unicorn poison names and fixed a typo in the poison’s description.
  • Normalized Fortified and Epic Cloth Leggings’ and their recipes’ names.SOTA-70771
  • Added a description with useful info on deco placement to Planting Areas.
  • Corrected Bloodstained Map #6 to show its hint in Runic.
  • Made many older, low-durability pieces of crafted clothing masterworkable and enchantable, as the newer high-durability versions are. (They don’t have the durability to do anything significant with it, but they are now consistent.)SOTA-71875
  • The Faerie Belt is no longer enchantable or masterworkable. (It wasn’t before, either, but it was possible to try.)SOTA-70162
  • Enabled salvage of Candelabra like similar looted lighting.SOTA-71879
  • Enabled salvage of Tin Foil Hats.SOTA-71559
  • Enabled salvage of Head Bandages.SOTA-71589
  • Changed the Judgewig to be salvageable at the tailoring table instead of the blacksmithing table.SOTA-71557
  • Created a new recipe book category under smelting for all the artifact combining recipes and moved them into it.SOTA-71807
  • Moved the recipe for the warlock chain into the rings and amulets section of the blacksmithing recipes and the recipes for its components into the components section.
  • Moved the recipe for burial coffin into the decorations section of the carpentry recipes.
  • Made many crafting ingredients (mostly cooking ones) show as valid (white) on their appropriate station(s) and only their appropriate station(s).SOTA-70773
  • Made artifacts that can be combined show as valid (orange) ingredients on smelting tables.SOTA-69780
  • Made unrevealed treasure maps show as valid (white) on alchemy stations only and revealed treasure maps show as valid (white) on no stations at all.

UI, Store & Lua (10)

  • The green nameplates of hostiles well below your level will no longer turn cyan when night vision is used.SOTA-71904
  • Added earth specialization effects to the skill description for Torpor.SOTA-70048
  • Added information on pugilism to the descriptions of the skills it affects.SOTA-71877
  • Made all the year-specific cupcakes show on the consumables tab of the inventory.SOTA-70912
  • Changed outdated text in lot stones’ home picker UI that referred to House Deeds.
  • Fixed the icon size for the six creature essences.SOTA-71905
  • Fixed a typo in the Ancient Sextant’s feedback.
  • Updated the description of the existing Property Marker set in the Crown Store to note that Market Property Markers are not included.
  • Updated the store name for Scott Jones Painting to add his alias.SOTA-71917
  • Fixed some blurry and/or misproportioned store images.

World & Quests (22)

  • Seasonal Monsters: The Envy Angel will go dormant and the Arch Lapin will return on March 16th.
  • The Path of the Oracle: Added extra logic to ensure Speak with the Oracle tasks properly archive when complete.SOTA-71909
  • Multiple Control Points: Corrected a typo in the Mages of Mystery’s cost for crossing to the opposite side of the scene.SOTA-71910
  • Multiple Scenes: Crates you can sit upon now display the name “Upturned Crate.”SOTA-71903
  • Aerie: Fixed a pair of shields in armor shops that were rotated and clipping into counters.SOTA-71892
  • Approach to the Shuttered Eye: Fixed a stuck spot.SOTA-71895
  • Ardoris: Fixed a typo in the help mouseover for the “Defeat all 4 Anti-Love Cabalists” task.SOTA-71888
  • Blood River Outskirts: Updated the logic used to remove the “Collect Scalps for Vigilantes” task from the UI.SOTA-71871
  • Desolis: Samuel Ruf no longer implies he has a quest.SOTA-71923
  • The Epitaph: Removed door functionality from a fallen wooden door.SOTA-71907
  • Ferig’s Battle Camp: Updated the logic used by the guards for when they say ambient barks.SOTA-71880
  • Harvest: Greatly simplified Guard Stella’s responses.
  • Port Harmony: Players saying “name” to Preston the News Hawker will now properly unlock his name.SOTA-71913
  • Port Harmony: The papers on the front desk in the town hall no longer have anti-theft protection.SOTA-71912
  • Port Harmony: Fixed a typo in one of Corbyn Sallow’s “valve” responses.SOTA-71914
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed a typo in one of Velma’s “rumors” responses.SOTA-71911
  • Created map for Elysian Ruins.
  • Created map for Elysian Plains.
  • Created map for Naryad Moors.
  • Created map for Norgard Fens.SOTA-59610
  • Created map for Rumor Peaks.
  • Created map for Whispering Woods.

Interim builds (3)

Build 1704 — Mar 22, 2024, 12:00 AM

  • Reduced Crown Store sales to their normal 20%.
  • Turned off the deed upgrade sale.
  • Turned off the Crowns of the Obsidians sale.
  • The Rabbit Tailed Skirt is now showing its true rabbity colors.
  • The waters of New Britannia are back to normal. That’s not necessarily great; have you SEEN Grusk harbor?

Build 1701 — Mar 15, 2024, 7:00 AM

  • These sales and bonuses will be in place March 15th through the 21st: Crown Store Sales 30% off Deed Upgrades 20% off Crowns of the Obsidians 20% off
  • The waters of much of New Britannia have mysteriously turned green again! Nothing to do with the sabotage of previous years, I’m sure. We took care of that. /akimbo
  • Champagne: Added new Holdfast to Novia south of Brittany.
  • Crown Store Sales 30% off
  • Deed Upgrades 20% off
  • Crowns of the Obsidians 20% off

Build 1700 — Mar 2, 2024, 3:00 PM

  • Fixed Row Basement deco.SOTA-71936
  • Disabled scaling of Market Lots.
  • Allowed new lot deeds to show in the Recently Added items category of the Crown Store.