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‹ Release Notes

Release 128

‹ R127R129 ›

Went live 7/23/2024 · 68 change items · 2 interim builds · official notes ↗

In short

Release 128 is now live, bringing a wide variety of fixes and improvements across the world of Shroud of the Avatar. A significant focus of this release is quality-of-life enhancements to player towns, with several upgrades – Arx Draconis Lowlands and Valor reaching Metropolis status, and new villages added at James’s Isle of Hope and Saxon’s Landing. Players will also find Crafting Supplies Merchants now available in all Player-Run Towns, alongside butchery and cooking stations where they were previously missing.

Beyond towns, numerous smaller issues have been addressed across many scenes, including terrain corrections, object placement adjustments (like floating garlic nodes on the Plains Encounter), and fixes to NPC dialogue and shop inventories. Several buildings received updates to address rain penetration or blocked access points, while others had visual improvements like corrected dye setups or properly placed items.

Finally, this release includes additions for crafters – eleven new book patterns are now available from merchants throughout the game, alongside rustic bookshelf and kitchen wall rack recipes in Longfall. The Ancient Stone Room Fishing Grotto has been moved out of the vault and into the main Crown Store, and a handy /patchnotes command has been added to chat for quick access to the full patch notes on the official website.

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

Crafting & Items (20)

  • Recipes for a rustic bookshelf and a plain kitchen wall rack can be found on deco merchants in the Longfall region. SOTA-72164,SOTA-72164SOTA-72163
  • Made and hooked up a new pattern and a corrected icon for the Cutlasses of the Swashbuckler.SOTA-72159
  • Added eleven book patterns to book merchants everywhere. SOTA-72167 Bestiary Book Pattern Brothers Grimm Book Pattern Essays Book Pattern Fable Book Pattern Fairy Tales Book Pattern Flora Book Pattern La Fontaine Book Pattern Mushrooms Book Pattern Novel Book Pattern Poetry Book Pattern Prophet Book PatternSOTA-72167
  • Corrected the names of the Brothers Grimm, Estgard, and Graff Island book patterns.
  • Blank books patterned before being written in will now actually be blank.SOTA-71694
  • Increased the available scaling on the Large Wooden Awning and Large Snow-Covered Wooden Awning so they can fit on row lots.SOTA-72026
  • Set all five flowerbeds to be scaleable.SOTA-71984
  • Moved a stray rose flower arrangement recipe to florists with all the rest of the arrangements and bouquets.SOTA-72208
  • Fixed two panels on the Ornate Wooden Throne with Velvet Panels that missed dye setup.SOTA-70431
  • Bestiary Book Pattern
  • Brothers Grimm Book Pattern
  • Essays Book Pattern
  • Fable Book Pattern
  • Fairy Tales Book Pattern
  • Flora Book Pattern
  • La Fontaine Book Pattern
  • Mushrooms Book Pattern
  • Novel Book Pattern
  • Poetry Book Pattern
  • Prophet Book Pattern

UI, Store & Lua (2)

  • Moved the Ancient Stone Room Fishing Grotto out of the vault and into the main store.
  • Corrected the spelling of Fionwyn in the store entry for the Painting of the Novian Film Stars.

World & Quests (25)

  • Hidden Vale and Mistrendur: Fixed fireworks schedule. Added them to Grusk and Lord British’s Castle.
  • Mistrendur: Flattened terrain at several POTS to fix buried and z-fighting foundations.
  • Plains Encounter: Moved several floating garlic nodes to the ground.SOTA-72103
  • Player-Run Towns: All PRTs now have a Crafting Supplies Merchant who stands near the butchery and cooking stations. If the PRT didn’t have a butchery or cooking station at its crafting pavilion, it does now.SOTA-72154
  • The Brave Coast, Estercove, and Port Mirren: Corrected the sign text for the banking stalls.SOTA-72170
  • Ardoris, Harvest, Kingsport, and Xenos: Lowered the nameplates of the wood scrap storehouse containers.SOTA-72161
  • Vaults: Fixed shiny rubble in the various ruins’ vaults.
  • Aerie: Fixed issues with several responses from Zach Corey the fisherman.SOTA-72199
  • Aerie: Fixed the internal reference for the town crier, enabling compass discovery.SOTA-72171
  • Brittany Alleys: Speedy Nick now sells fishing supplies. Sir Robert Flury is now a Decorative Fish Merchant. Updated their responses to better match their updated professions.SOTA-72177
  • Brittany Fields: Updated a building (and others of that same style) so that rain no longer comes through the roof.SOTA-72147
  • Brittany Wharfs: Replaced the shop the adventuring trainer works from with a home. Added functionality to the doors of a certain warehouse. Moved a sunken wagon to ground level. SOTA-72198, SOTA-72203,SOTA-72198SOTA-72203SOTA-72202
  • Castle Atos: Converted the stone building near the entrance to a book shop with a printing press and a Book Merchant.SOTA-72193
  • Castle Atos: Replaced a partially-blocked window with a plain wall.SOTA-72178
  • Castle Atos: Fixed some baskets and pots set too low, some barrels without collision, and a very shiny stone wall for the grill chef’s firepit.
  • The Clink: The chest in the warden’s office once again uses the proper key.SOTA-72156
  • Estercove: Corrected location of the Town Crier’s compass marker.SOTA-72155
  • Grusk: Fixed a collision issue with palisade stairs that was blocking smooth progress up the stairs.SOTA-72068
  • Grusk: Fixed a typo in one of the journal entries for Kortreek’s experiments.
  • Lord British’s Castle – Enabled taking water from the two hedge maze fountains.SOTA-72185
  • Northwood: Fixed a crossbow in Britannia Manor that was tilted into the wall.SOTA-72165
  • Port Harmony: Fixed typo in one of Winifred’s “fancy jar” responses.SOTA-72179
  • Psilocybin Lair: The Boletusporis Regem has been moved to a location that should allow it to attack consistently and has had some loot added to it which will keep its corpse from disappearing as soon as it’s killed.SOTA-72141
  • Tanglemire: Fixed an error when trying to recall to this scene. Also, the town crier now explains that he does not have the ability to bind someone to Tanglemire.SOTA-72194
  • Valhold: Fixed an error when trying to recall to this scene.

Player-Owned Towns (5)

Interim builds (2)

Build 1727 — Aug 3, 2024, 11:15 AM

  • Reduced Crown Store sales to their normal 20%.
  • Turned off the Crowns of the Obsidians sale.

Build 1726 — Jul 30, 2024, 10:45 PM

  • Players may now use the /patchnotes command in chat to open the shroudoftheavatar.com patch notes page.SOTA-72236
  • Corrected icons for several trophies.SOTA-72160
  • Mistrendur: Fixed mis-scheduled fireworks.
  • Plains Encounter: Moved a floating garlic node to the ground.SOTA-72103
  • Brookside: Renamed a misnamed letter and fixed an issue with the letter’s decoration version pointing to one from another scene.SOTA-72220
  • Central Britanny: Fixed two overlapping barrels.SOTA-72230
  • Central Brittany: Fixed a typo in Lee Stevens’ job response.SOTA-72197
  • Central Brittany: Zoe the merchant no longer claims to sell meat.SOTA-72200
  • Central Brittany: Capped off tall towers that had no exits.SOTA-72196
  • Ruined Keep: Fixed a number of large rocks that had z-fighting issues.SOTA-72201
  • Mud: Janni the merchant now has a pointy tin hat as he claims.SOTA-72205
  • Dr Wiz’s Marketplace: Renamed from DrWiz’s Place. SOTA-72233,SOTA-72233SOTA-72218
  • Saxon’s Landing: Fixed an issue that was blocking players from teleporting to this scene.SOTA-72232
  • Saxon’s Landing: Fixed an issue where this POT’s siege visuals weren’t showing up on Novia during a siege.