Went live 9/24/2024 · 41 change items · 1 interim builds · official notes ↗
In short
Release 130 is now live, focusing heavily on quality of life improvements and bug fixes across Novia and beyond. Players will find a significant number of adjustments addressing navigation issues – stuck spots have been resolved in areas like Mistrendur, Brittany, Blood River, and Highvale. Several environmental details have also received attention, including updated visuals for Troll’s Bridge with snowy effects and corrections to object placement within towns and landscapes.
This release includes some new content for players interested in housing and pets; tailors can now craft Bucket Hats, and pet merchants offer Animal Spawners featuring squirrels instead of carrots. Crafting has seen minor adjustments as well, including dye slot improvements for elven armor sets and scaling changes to the Ruined Stone Arch. Several NPC dialogues and journal entries have been corrected throughout the world, improving quest clarity and consistency.
Finally, Persephone’s Throne has become a new metropolis within Mistrendur, and Meadowbrook has upgraded to town status. The Crown Store is back at its standard 20% sale rate following recent promotional pricing. Overall, Release 130 aims to polish existing areas and provide small additions for those seeking customization options and continued world exploration.
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Crafting & Items (9)
- An Animal Spawner, Squirrel with Pine Cone (instead of a carrot) has been added to pet merchants.SOTA-71955
- A recipe for a Bucket Hat has been added to tailors in Ardoris and Brittany Estates.SOTA-72249
- A recipe for a Hanging Potted Red Ivy decoration has been added to housing decoration merchants in Verdantis.SOTA-71752
- A recipe for a Coal Pile decoration has been added to housing decoration merchants in Hidden Vale.SOTA-72291
- Extended the lower end of available scaling for the Ruined Stone Arch.
- Removed the right-click to repair option from four more drinks/mugs.SOTA-69782
- Lord British’s Brutal Battle-Axe is now repairable with carpentry repair kits.
- Improved texture import settings on the three elven elite armor sets to clean up dye slot artifacts.
- Adjusted valid crafting station flags for several stools.
UI, Store & Lua (2)
- Clarified crown store descriptions of dungeon entrance packs.
- Fixed spelling in the Obsidian Potion Crown Shop entries.
World & Quests (27)
- Mistrendur: Blocked off an area where players could get stuck.SOTA-72274
- Novia: Added snowy visuals to the Troll’s Bridge area.SOTA-72279
- Brittany Neighborhoods: Corrected a typo in responses related to Brittany Estates.SOTA-72266
- East Sanctus Forest and Snowy Mountain Road Encounter: When on the related quest, the Handcrafted Black King Chess Piece can be looted only once from each Naughty Brat toy chest.SOTA-72299
- Blood River Outskirts: Fixed a stuck spot wedged into a rock wall.SOTA-72262
- Brittany Fields: Applied ‘deep water’ consistently throughout Well’s Pond so that fishing and swimming performance is now more predictable.SOTA-72298
- Brittany Wharfs: Fixed a stuck spot by the tunnel to Central Brittany.SOTA-72297
- Brittany Wharfs: Lowered floating pitchers and mugs in the Garden Pavillion and replanted an azalea growing through the floor.SOTA-72295
- East Longfall Wetland: Moved forward a chest whose lid was clipping through wall behind it.SOTA-72296
- The Epitaph: Made several stools being used as nightstands non-sittable. Lowered a floating chair.SOTA-72260
- Graff Island: Updated the logic used by Brunhild Johnson’s “my name is” response.SOTA-72257
- Graff Island: Added collision to several tall chimneys.SOTA-72261
- Highvale Outskirts: Adjusted the shape of the collision used by all low-tier ore nodes. Blocked off a hole that allowed players to get outside the play area. SOTA-72283,SOTA-72283SOTA-72282
- Highvale Outskirts: Adjusted some of Huntsman Sven’s responses and a journal entry related to his copper golem task.SOTA-72285
- Inventory Tutorial: Updated the logic for completing the “Say Harvest to Automaton” task.SOTA-72300
- Midras Ruins: Fixed walls that had z-fighting.SOTA-72273
- Oracle Temple: Updated the final journal entry for Episode 1 to replace outdated company information.SOTA-72271
- The Outlaws’ Run: Fixed a typo in one of Miloslava’s responses.SOTA-72280
- Port Harmony: Fixed a typo in the “Mention Caravan to Jenkins” journal entry.SOTA-72231
- Solace Bridge Outskirts: Updated Kinsey’s dialogue and journal entry in which she references looking for missing guards near the nearby bridge.SOTA-72270
- Soltown: Ashton no longer says the bartender can supply potions that cure disease.SOTA-72269
- South Drachvald Spur: Adjusted many resource nodes to ensure they always spawn/respawn.SOTA-72276
- Tanglemire: Adjusted how water elementals spawn to help ensure they don’t get caught in the ground.SOTA-72277
- Ulfheim: Moved a floating stone altar to the ground.SOTA-72272
- Valhold: The town crier’s Amulet of Testimony quest has been corrected to ensure it is only offered once. Also, the amulet can now be destroyed and anyone who needs a replacement to complete the quest can mention “amulet” to the Valhold town crier.SOTA-72287
- Well of Aldur: Updated collision on an oversized wall.SOTA-72278
- Westend: Turned theft protection off for the fountain on the boardwalk.SOTA-72258
Player-Owned Towns (2)
- Meadowbrook: Upgrade to Town.
- Persephone’s Throne: Added new metropolis atop the ‘snake’s head’ area of Slangehodde in Mistrendur.
Interim builds (1)
Build 1740 — Oct 7, 2024, 6:45 PM
- Reduced Crown Store sales to their normal 20%.