Went live 1/27/2022 · 18 change items · 5 interim builds · official notes ↗
In short
Release 99 is now live, focusing on a wide variety of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes across New Britannia. A significant change players will notice immediately is the removal of the ground shamrocks contaminating the water – waters are once again clear throughout much of the game world. Player Island owners should find that water sources for their Player Online Towns now appear above the surface, resolving a common visual issue.
This release also addresses several smaller but impactful problems reported by the community. Huntmasters in Castle Atos will now acknowledge Outlander characters, and tamed Sabertooth Tigers will display their correct names. Fixes have been implemented for the Fox-and-Rabbit game in Castle Atos to prevent glitches, as well as improvements to the Journal UI including scrolling functionality. Several scenes with puzzles now allow interaction with treasure chests even after claiming the initial reward.
Beyond these highlights, Release 99 includes numerous world fixes – floating objects have been grounded in locations like Grunvald and Resolute, resource nodes have been rescaled in West Veiled Swamp, and loot tables are receiving targeted attention, particularly within player dungeons. An emergency patch for Windows client issues was also included, demonstrating the team’s responsiveness to critical problems.
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Interim builds (5)
Build 1517 — Mar 28, 2022, 12:00 AM
- The contaminated waters of New Britannia have been cleansed.
Build 1516 — Mar 17, 2022, 12:00 AM
- Water for island POTs will now be above the surface.
- The Huntmasters in Castle Atos will now respond to Outlanders.
Build 1514 — Mar 17, 2022, 12:00 AM
- The water in much of New Britannia has mysteriously been contaminated with ground shamrocks.
- Tamed Sabertooth Tigers will now show the correct name in whistles and when summoned.
- The Fox-and-Rabbit game in Castle Atos will no longer glitch if you fail to complete it within the set time period the first time you play.
Build 1512 — Feb 28, 2022, 12:00 AM
- Added ability to place bottom-mounted young fish on other decoration surfaces than the floor.SOTA-70226
- Journal UI Fixes: The scrollbar for entries should scroll back to zero upon first-time switching. When selecting a filter, typing letters and pressing backspace or deleting it should now clear it correctly. The X will no longer be visible in the filter box if it’s empty. Mousewheel scrolling in the item lists of active or completed tasks should now scroll in between items too.
- Random Encounters: The display name of the roving snow leopard that appears on Novia has been corrected to read “Snow Leopard” (instead of “Wolf”). Fixed fixed incorrect sound controller for big cat overworld prefabs.SOTA-70221
- Multiple Scenes with Puzzles: Puzzle-reward treasure chests with special loot in Brittany Sewers, East Longfall Wetlands, Eastmarch, Elysium Mines, Penmawr Island, and Tenebris Harbor will now be interactable even after the avatar obtains that special loot (although they can still collect each puzzle’s special loot bundle only once). SOTA-69806,SOTA-69806SOTA-69764
- Blood River: Attached a floating hanged body to a wooden post.SOTA-70228
- Castle Atos: Using the wishing well will no longer be considered stealing.
- Northern Grunvald Barrens: Moved floating stones to the ground at one of the exit archways.SOTA-70223
- Resolute: Fixed an issue where only the main gate guard would open their respective gate when asked.SOTA-70224
- Tenebris Harbor: Dekker’s Room Chest will now have a minimum loot offering.
- West Veiled Swamp: Corrected the scale of many incorrectly sized resource nodes.SOTA-70222
- Attempt at Player Dungeon Spider Rooms Loot Table fixes.SOTA-70229
Build 1511 — Feb 24, 2022, 12:00 AM
- Emergency patch to fix issues with the windows client