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‹ Release Notes

Release 127

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Went live 6/25/2024 · 52 change items · 2 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 127 is now live, bringing a variety of fixes and adjustments across Shroud of the Avatar. A major focus of this release revolves around crafting and item accessibility; trophy mount recipes have moved from Pet Merchants to Arakius Endiki, while animal spawners are now exclusively available at Pet Merchant locations alongside new horse variations. Several decorative items have been added to treasure chests, and a craftable hitching post has been introduced in Drachvald.

The update also addresses numerous smaller visual and functional issues throughout the world, particularly in areas like Brittany Fields, Grusk, and the Moors of Northshore, with fixes for floating objects, terrain LODs, and stuck spots. Several NPC dialogues have received typo corrections, and a few quest tasks have been updated. Players will notice improvements to existing item visuals—including cloaks from past events—and functional repairs added to Darklamps.

Finally, several sales promotions have ended, including double XP and deed upgrades, with the Crown Store returning to its standard 20% discount. The Luminous Atavist has retreated from Drachvald until July 16th, when Pumpkin Head will resume his activities.

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

Crafting & Items (16)

  • The recipes for trophy mounts have been removed from the POT Pet Merchants. They remain on Arakius Endiki, the Etceter Housing Decoration Merchant, who now also has a dozen more recipes he’d been missing.
  • Animal spawners have been removed from Housing Decoration Merchants and are now sold by Pet Merchants.
  • Bay, Blanket, and Palomino horse and foal animal spawners, and placement-only decoration pets, are now on Pet Merchants (minus one we’re reserving for another use.)SOTA-72123
  • A recipe for a craftable single Hitching Post can be found on Decoration Merchants in Drachvald.SOTA-72140
  • A couple of previous reward deco pieces have been added to treasure chest loot, for chests that can have deco in them.SOTA-72086
  • Added an eternal pattern to the 10th Anniversary Cloak. …if you dare.
  • Made the Total Eclipse 2024 Cloak Eternal Pattern eligible for cloak reshaping.SOTA-72125
  • Reduced the weight of Hay Piles to match Leaf Piles.
  • Fixed the deco appearance of the Yellow-Red-Green Rocket Fireworks Box.
  • Corrected the output of the Yellow-Red-Green Fountain Fireworks Box.SOTA-71046
  • Added a display name and corrected the height and collision of the Celestial Wooden Chair, which can also now be used by NPCs.
  • Improved visuals of the Blade of the Avatar Cloak, the Autism Puzzle Cloak, and the Shardfall Cloak.
  • Made all the different Darklamps repairable with blacksmithing repair kits.SOTA-72111
  • Made Large Dark Pewter Bowls salvageable.
  • The fancy toilets of New Britannia are now flushing properly again. Please stop trying to flush your unwanted loot!SOTA-72118
  • Made candles built into two rustic village houses unstealable. (They weren’t actually stealable, but you could try and it would cause an error.) SOTA-70452,SOTA-70452SOTA-70453

UI, Store & Lua (7)

  • Added the restrictions on Property Manager use to the deed upgrade confirmation dialog.SOTA-72085
  • Removed erroneous crafting table flags on about 200 decorations.
  • Made 51 new icons for fireworks boxes that had incorrect ones.SOTA-72128
  • Fixed 99 more overly-large icons.SOTA-72117
  • The Crown Store pictures of the Wine and Beer Glass Sets will no longer make anyone feel like they just drank them all.
  • Fixed compression for the store thumbnails for Checkers and Heraldry Standing Banner Patterns.
  • Fixed grammar in the store descriptions of custom row lot markers.

World & Quests (20)

  • The Luminous Atavist will retreat to recover and Pumpkin Head will resume terrorizing Drachvald on July 16th.
  • Added seven new Pet Merchant NPCs within the vicinity of the Animal Trainer NPCs in Aerie, Braemar, Brittany Fields, Castle Atos, Desolis, Owl’s Head, and Port Harmony.SOTA-72124
  • Plains Encounter: Fixed issues where some resource nodes were overlapping with each other.SOTA-72103
  • Brittany Fields: Fixed LODs for a shack and two boats under construction so they could be seen from further away.
  • Brittany Fields: Fixed some rocks with bad distance LODs near the east crafting pavilion and along the lake.SOTA-72145
  • Brittany Fields: Added theft protection to the Alchemy Shop and the Food Store.SOTA-72146
  • Grusk: Replaced a tree cluster that was floating off a slope.SOTA-72148
  • Grusk: Fixed a typo in a shared kobold response for “human.”SOTA-72142
  • Harvest: Removed duplicate keyword from Rykesh’s responses.
  • Harvest: Fixed typos in rumors used by several NPC residents.SOTA-72101
  • Hallowed Plains: Fixed floating plus flags for the tier markers at each exit.SOTA-72137
  • Highvale Outskirts: Updated the logic used to archive the “Ask About Ghostly Echo” and “Talk to Esmeralda” tasks.
  • Jaanaford: Fixed typos in Thibodeaux’s journal entries related to Bunker T.SOTA-72100
  • Kas Ruins: Adjusted the ground around a crater. Removed objects outside the playspace.SOTA-72102
  • Moors of Northshore: Rotated a large rock to avoid showing that it doesn’t have a complete underside.SOTA-72116
  • Moors of Northshore: Performed tree-trimming and relocation in several spots.SOTA-72115
  • Moors of Northshore: Moved or removed several floating rocks.SOTA-72113
  • Norgard Fens: Fixed stuck spots along the pipes in the kobold camp.SOTA-72126
  • Serpent Spine Mines: Fixed issues with barrels and other objects poking through the bottom of several platforms.SOTA-72120
  • South Broken Road: Added collision to several low broken walls.SOTA-72131

Player-Owned Towns (1)

  • Vesper: Added new holdfast south of Port Harmony in Mistrendur.

Dungeons & Basements (2)

  • Removed the flat white plane above the water in the Icy Ancient Stone Room Fishing Grotto.SOTA-68283
  • Removed the non-functioning containers from all the Fine Oak Bookshelves built into the Sword of Midras Library and did another pass on removing spiderwebs.SOTA-71083

Interim builds (2)

Build 1724 — Jul 13, 2024, 12:00 PM

  • Turned off double XP.
  • Turned off the deed upgrade sale.
  • Reduced Crown Store sales to their normal 20%.
  • Turned off the Crowns of the Obsidians sale.
  • Ended the window for submitting discounted POT upgrade requests.

Build 1723 — Jul 12, 2024, 11:15 AM

  • Toned down some shiny terrain materials.