Wurm Server Release Notes 2017

Main / Wurm Server Release Notes 2017

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170907 Patch Notes 7/SEP/17

Additions and changes

• A new rack can be crafted for the storage of empty Bulk Storage Bins.

• This rack can hold 30 empty bulk storage bins.

• You now have the ability to build high fences in arched walls.
• A new storage unit can be crafted which contains 4 bulk storage bins inside which can be filled.

• These units will require 50 fine carpentry to build.

• Planting catseyes off deed becomes faster as your paving skill increases.
• Blessed lamps on highways will no longer decay.
• We have disabled giving out the Key to the Heavens until the full Epic/Valrei update is complete.
• Enchant decay on tools when using them has been changed to a more linear system.

• Previously, every five seconds of an action had a chance to reduce the enchant by 1.
• With the new system the chance will only occur once per action, and be based on the length of the timer.

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Fix for error being thrown when attempting to level a ceiling if the floor below it was not level.
• Bugfix: Crates in a crate rack on deed with more than 30 days upkeep will not decay.
• Bugfix: Small chests can no longer be mailed if locked.
• Bugfix: Fixed some spelling and text errors.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused cooking tools to not take damage when used.
• Bugfix: Warmachines should no longer function between world layers.
• Bugfix: Mask of Rebirth has been removed from the Missions items list.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused cooking tools to not take damage when used.

4.0.8 Client Changes

• Dyed object colours will now correctly display with GLSL shaders disabled.
• Client resolution and fullscreen mode can now be changed again while in-game.
• Water reflections will no longer appear above the water.
• Distant trees will now have the correct texture in winter.
• Another issue causing duplicated players and objects has been addressed.

170821 Patch Notes 21/AUG/17

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with a few deed permissions which surfaced with highway release. Those who reported mining and tree cutting permission issues, please try again.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few issues with prying/bashing waystones in deeds and perimeters.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug with waystone creation and rarity.
• Bugfix: You can now plant catseyes inside a building if the house has a fence on a different floor.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue causing crashes when using the Find route function.

Client Changes (4.0.3)

• 4.0 Client Bugfix: Fixed an issue with the 4.0 client not installing on machines with no client at all.
• 4.0 Client Bugfix: Make stars move in the same direction as Sol
• 4.0 Client Bugfix: Fix opacity of custom color outlines on objects

A low memory usage unstable client has been added while we continue to work on performance issues. If you run multiple clients and would like less memory used per client or experience other performance based issues with the existing unstable client please use the following link:

170817 Patch Notes 17/AUG/17

New fences and parapets are now available

• The following fence types can now be built in Slate, Sandstone, Marble, Pottery brick, Rounded stone, and rendered.
  • Tall Stone Wall
  • Portcullis
  • High Iron Fence
  • High Iron Fence Gate
  • Stone Parapet
  • Chain Fence

Crate Rack

• Crate rack for storing large and small crates.
• The crate rack can hold 30 large crates or 51 small crates

New Highway System

• Overview
  • The new highway system has been enabled on PvE servers.
  • Paved highways of 2 or 3 tiles can be protected by the use of catseyes and waystones
  • Protected paved tiles cannot be destroyed, but can be terraformed with a limit of 20 slope (28 diagonally).
• Catseyes and Waystones
  • Blind catseyes are created with rock shards and a stone chisel, and then turned into catseyes with the addition of an eye.
  • Waystones are made with a chisel on a rock shard, and completed with a compass and a shaft.
  • Paved tiles that are two or three tiles wide can be protected by placing catseyes or waystones on adjacent tile corners.
  • A catseye may only connect to 2 catseyes or waystones and must be connected to one to allow planting.
  • Waystones will create junctions for multiple highway routes to connect and will require being connected to at least one catseye to allow planting off deed. Note: On deed a waystone may be planted without any connections.
• Viewing Protection
  • Possible protected tiles and links can be viewed before planting a catseye or waystone by activating the item and right clicking an eligible tile corner (one with a planted catseye or waystone on an adjacent tile).
  • Once planted, the protected tiles and links can be viewed by right clicking on the object and selecting it in the menu.
  • It is advised to use this to ensure the correct tiles will be protected when joining highway junctions.
• Finding Deeds
  • Deeds that have a waystone on deed may be found via the “find route” option on a waystone that is connected to the same highway.
  • If opted in, they may be found in the drop down menu, if they have not opted in they may still be found by inputting the exact deed name
• Village Settings
  • Village settings will be used for several purposes
  • Allowing highways to be built or connected on deed or within 3 tiles of the deed (in village perimeter).
  • KoS may not be used if the village is set to allow highways being built through the deed or within 3 tiles of the perimeter.
  • Allowing highways to be found via the drop down menu on any waystone connected to the same highway
    • Note, even if this is disabled, the village may be found by typing the exact name into the text box.

Existing highway rules will remain in effect until notice of their removal and reliance on highway mechanics is given.

Bug fixes

• Bugfix: Fixed the double text for build wooden plank floors.
• Bugfix: Fix for menu option to remove reinforcement when trying to mine a ceiling above a reinforced floor.
• Bugfix: Fix for planted items sometimes falling into a pile of decorations.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where mining out a vein at a cave entrance could cause undesirable results.
• Bugfix: Reworded mouseover text for village permission Mine Floor to indicate it also includes mining ceilings.
• Bugfix: Fixed a number of ceiling mining issues related to reinforced flooring.
• Bugfix: You can no longer bank locked items.
• Bugfix: You can once again rename tents.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to see through hedges and stone fencing.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with pushing items into doorways from all directions when there was a bridge overhead.

Client changes (4.01)

• General performance improvements.
• The general lighting brightness in daytime, night time and underground has been increased.
• Meat material name will show as a prefix if ‘show material name’ is disabled in settings.(this will appear on both 4.0 and stable)
• You can now customize your hover outline colors via the game settings.
  • Customisation options will be available for neutral objects (tiles, neutral creatures, objects), hostiles, friends, and allies.
  • Transparency can also be adjusted to fade the border.
  • Standard colours will stay the same.
• Fixed an issue with painted items and transparency.
• Bugfix: Fixed select bar mining issues.
• Bugfix: Fix for bloated keybindings.txt file.

170731 Patch Notes 31/JUL/17

Changes and additions

• 100 shield smithing title added.
• Eyes have been added to the huge spider butchered item list.

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with pushing items onto cave bridges as well as pushing items out of doors which had bridges above.
• Bugfix: Cooked meat has been removed from the list of valid mission items.
• Bugfix: Wells and fountains should auto-fill again if they are on a water source tile.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with destroying house walls on underground buildings even though you were the owner.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with building permissions when trying to move items into a planted bins.
• Bugfix: In Game wiki links have been fixed.
• Bugfix: Reduced fuel usage runes now work as intended.
• Bugfix: Fixed rune power loss with item use.
• Bugfix: Enchanted arrows will no longer go into bulk bins.
• Bugfix: Removed epic structures from the Create Items mission lists.
• 4.0 Client: Fixed the issue with hitched creature placement.
• 4.0 Client: Fixed the issue with disappearing embarked players.
• 4.0 Client: Adjusted the brightness on building doors.

170720 Patch Notes 20/JUL/17

Changes and additions

• Added the name of the Capital City of the Alliance in the Village Info screen.
• Secured/Planted forges and ovens will no longer take decay ticks on deed.
• Removed the taming difficulty modifier on Black light kingdom players.
• Epic structure changes on freedom.

• Deeds can now be placed and resized over Epic structures.
• Epic structures no longer require a mission to create them.
• Missions have a chance of generating at any off deed Epic structure.
• Ritual missions will pick a random structure type before picking a random structure of that type.
• Epic structures now report helpers and percentages correctly.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Metallic liquid will require and use up only the base weight of the liquid when imbuing.
• Bugfix: Changed the description of metallic liquid as it can be used on other things, not only weapons.
• Bugfix: Increased tower guard pathing range, addressing instances in which tower guards did not respond when called in range.

Creature movement changes

• Disabled champions fleeing on all servers.
• Reverted a change that made bred seals constantly flee on all servers.

Client changes

• The game clients have been updated and should now work correctly with the latest java version 8u141
• This update also includes a change to how the memory management system works, and should reduce “stuttering” when running the client for an extended period.

Unstable client changes:

• The memory limitation has been swapped to a dynamic memory usage system, which will allocate RAM depending on the available amount system-wide. Systems with larger amounts of memory will see an increase in the amount that Wurm takes up, but will scale down if it does not require it.
• Bugfix: Corrected issues in which cave dwelling walls did not render
• Bugfix: Butterflies and fish will no longer glow at night
• Bugfix: Removed the swimming sound when embarking a boat from water.

170720 Client update to address Java issues

The game clients have been updated and should now work correctly with the latest java version 8u141 This update also includes a change to how the memory management system works, and should reduce “stuttering” when running the client for an extended period. The unstable client also carries the following changes: The memory limitation has been swapped to a dynamic memory usage system, which will allocate RAM depending on the available amount system-wide. Systems with larger amounts of memory will see an increase in the amount that Wurm takes up, but will scale down if it does not require it.

• Bugfix: Corrected issues in which cave dwelling walls did not render
• Bugfix: Butterflies and fish will no longer glow at night
• Bugfix: Removed the swimming sound when embarking a boat from water.

170706 Patch Notes 06/JUL/17

• Wurmian dendrologists have noted that the girth of Olive and Chestnut trees has diminished. (olive and chestnut tree trunks are now thinner by 60%)
• Cave entrances can now be reinforced, prepared, and paved like other cave floors.
• Priests that can dig without going faithless can now dredge.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where keys ended up in a bugged state if they were inside a bank or mailbox when the lock was destroyed. Now the keys should be destroyed as well.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused cave ceilings to examine as floors and requirement remove reinforcement permissions when above a reinforced floor.
• Bugfix: Fix for some underground bridges causing errors resulting in players rubberbanding as they travel across the bridge.
• Bugfix: Hota should no longer break if there is a server restart during an active event – remaining pillars should spawn seconds before the shutdown.
• Bugfix: Fixed the issue causing decayed organic material from being stuck in a your bank taking up a slot until server restart.
• Bugfix: Metallic Liquid will now come in a potion bottle when looted and will actually work when ‘smeared’ onto an item.
• The imbue will start with 100 power, no matter what your actual skill is as long as the action succeeds.

• Protect against items “cracking” 5 times, lose 20 power from the imbue every time it “forms cracks”
• Protect against a single shatter. As long as the power of the imbue even exist listed on the item, it will be protected.
• You can NOT smear another potion to “refill” the lost power, effect must be gone.

Client updates

• 4.0 Client fix: Straightened out reinforced walls next to veins with cave detail set to high.
• 4.0 Client fix: Wild hive message on screen should now appear again if you do not have it hidden in settings.
• 4.0 Client fix: Rangefinder numbers are again visible when using a spyglass.
• 4.0 Client fix: Corona position (glow) for some items was fixed from hovering above to a center position.
• 4.0 Client fix: Fixed orientation issues of embarked players.
• 4.0 Client fix: There should be no more ‘lightning’ flashes on animals, people and items.
• 4.0 Client new: Added a post-process tab in client settings to to add or remove some effects.

• Bloom
• FXAA (antialiasing)
• Vignette

• Bugfix: Changed the orientation of pavement on bridges to match terrain paving.
• Bugfix: Fixed the bumpy cave floor pavement as seen with cave detail set to high.
• Deed planner exporter changes:

• New wall/fence types and bushes as well as floors are now exported properly
• Deed borders are exported as DeedPlanner border
• If deed is coastal, all height values on map will be accurate. Otherwise, lowest point on plan will have height 5 when imported into the DeedPlanner

170622 Patch Notes 22/JUN/17

• Can use keybinds FLATTEN or LEVEL on tile borders resulting in the raising or lowering of the tile border.
• Less random slopes when mining forward, depending on skill level.

• skill less than 50, +-3 (current)
• skill = 50, variance is +-2
• skill = 70, variance is +-1
• skill = 90+ no variance

• Tile corners are now available on bridges.
• Champion changes

• Kingdoms will no longer require the player god to favour them in order to ascend a champion
• Each kingdom may have one champion per god, with a maximum of three champions

• Courier and dark messenger no longer have cooldowns
• Genesis now has a cooldown of 30 seconds

• Bugfix: Creatures without bodies should play a proper death animation before being deleted.
• Bugfix: Strange devices courier casts can now be improved while in the correct spirits domain
• Bugfix: Fixed the bug that caused the pave option to show on packed dirt with floor boards, resulting in a gravel tile.

170617 HOTFIX 17/JUN/17

• Bugfix: The issue causing underground fence gates and doors to lose locks has been identified and fixed. All underground houses and fence gates that were locked prior to yesterdays update will again be locked, but permissions will need to be recreated. Unfortunately to address this bug all new underground houses and fence built since yesterdays update will lose their locks. PLEASE ensure to re-lock any doors or fences built underground in the past day.
• Bugfix: Bridges can now be properly built from underground dwellings (addressing walls too weak message).
• Bugfix: Reinforced walls now have flat visual on high cave detail

170616 Patch Notes 16/JUN/17

Bridges 2.0

• Bridges can now be planned and built inside caves.
• Pottery, slate, sandstone, rendered and rounded stone bridges can now be built.
• Minimum height from water level has been reduced to 1 dirt above water.
• You can now pave bridges to match your roads by preparing them with mortar then paving them as you would a normal surface tile.

• This does not apply to rope or wooden bridges

Other changes and additions:

• The weight of an almanac has been reduced to .25 weight empty
• Cooking times have been tweaked so that they are a bit faster than the previous patch. Lag will be monitored with this setting.
• When shearing sheep, the wool will now go directly into inventory instead of on the ground.
• Spawn of Uttacha will now have more unique combat features on the Epic cluster.

Client Changes:

• New combat log will colour code messages according to your relationship with the subjects.
• The colours may be set by using the text colour options in the client settings.
• (Unstable)New player texture compression has been added to improve performance in large gatherings.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Fixed the issue with not being able to improve metal mine doors when lump quality and skill should have allowed improvement.
• Bugfix: You can now dig near pavement without having to remove and replace it again.
• Bugfix: Restricted prospecting on reinforced floors.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to surface mine next to bridge entrances/exits.
• Bugfix: Contents from decayed Easter Eggs will have the same last owner as the egg itself.
• Bugfix: Disembarking on a bridge should no longer make you stuck.
• Bugfix: Erupt ability should again work on sandstone and other veins.

170608 Patch Notes 8/JUN/17

• Clearing crops that have turned to weeds will now return one seed.
• Bugfix: Possible fix for the ‘stuck’ mine issues and invisible items.
• Bugfix: Blessed lamps should stop consuming fuel when planted on the new pavement types in mines.

170601 Patch Notes 1/JUN/17

DNS issue compensation. This week we encountered some issues when our name server hosts migrated to a different platform. As some were unable to connect during this time we will be extending premium time on all existing premium accounts by 3 days to thank you all for your patience.

We will also be adding 5 hours sleep bonus to every account, up to a maximum of 10 hours. Sleeping in a bed, or doing anything that calculates sleep bonus will not reset this to 5 hours.

Changes

• Increased chance for reed and kelp tiles and reduced chance of grass overtaking a tile next to tundra.
• Map annotation limits have been raised to 100 for village and 150 for alliance.
• Harvest seasons which were changed in the last update may still be harvestable during their old season until that is finished and will then follow the changed season harvest.
• In an effort to reduce some server lag recipe and cooking polling has been slowed. You may notice that when cooking, all meals may not be ready at the same time.
• Grape and Rose trellises can now be crafted with their respective sprouts.

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Camera freezing issues (commonly known as the embark bug) when embarking a vehicle or mount after reconnecting have been addressed.
• Bugfix: Spells can again be cast on open helms.
• Bugfix: Certain bugged sandwiches should now work correctly.
• Bugfix: Trellises should now show an almost ripe message when examined and the time is right.
• Bugfix: Cave-in fix so that rock should not change to rock salt or sandstone.
• Bugfix: Trellises can now have sprouts and seedlings picked when available and can also be pruned.

170512 Patch Notes 12/MAY/17

• Material quantity and weight for floor boards has been reduced.

• Floorboards will also have their weight and volume adjusted

• Added the /almanac command to the /help list.
• Added a method of removing the mortar from a prepared reinforced floor with a stone chisel.
• Studying a harvestable tree, bush, or trellis now requires the harvest permission on deed.
• Bugfix: Fix for removing reinforcements from cave floors.
• Bugfix: The /almanac command will now work even if the almanac is in a group or in a container in your inventory.
• Bugfix: Fixed issue with paving floorboards over marsh
• Bugfix: Mortar will consume 2kg when preparing a reinforced floor for paving instead of consuming the entire combined lump.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which prevented mine_forward on veins on deed without add/remove reinforcement permission.
• Bugfix: Corrected text when moving an object to center.
• Bugfix: Corrected some issues with kingdom specific help on Epic servers.

170518 Patch Notes 18/MAY/17

• The Almanac!
• Crafted with sheet of paper and string + 2 leather strips, the almanac will hold reports you create about the nature of the tree, bush or trellis and estimate the harvest times.
• Reports are created by studying a harvestable tree, bush or trellis during its harvest season.
• You then can write down the record using a reed pen with ink or dye on paper.
• Forestry skill will determine how much information is collected.
• Resulting quality of the report will determine how far in the future you can see harvest times.
• These reports may then be stored inside the almanac.
• The almanac can then be used to check on harvest times and read up on information about the reports they have stored inside.
• The command /almanac will tell you what is in season as long as you have the applicable reports.

Catapult tweaks

• Tweaked distance for crowded message when using siege weapons. Shouldn’t be able to use 3 rams on a single wall anymore.
• Increased skill gain from using catapults.
• Tweaked damage output from catapults upwards, should be a bit harder to hit the 20 damage cap at 10 winches now.
• Damage from catas/trebs over the 20 damage cap that is currently ignored will now increase the splash radius, and deal a small amount of the extra damage (the ignored damage over 20) to things in that increased radius.

Cooking affinity adjustments An option to fix players missing certain available cooking affinities has been added to your character profile.

• This is a ONE TIME TOGGLE which will switch your character to the new affinity system.
• The new affinity calculation will not take rarity of cooker into account for determining affinity
• This will recalculate affinities gained from existing meals as well as all future meals.

New characters created after this update will automatically be on the new system. Repairing changes

• Changes to fence, floor and wall repairing and improving.

• Base timer for repairing and improving these is now 4-8 seconds, depending on your repair or building skill.
• This applies to all building material types.
• Timer is doubled if there is an enemy presence nearby.
• Damage repaired per action is now between 5 and 10 damage, depending on repairing skill and the quality of the item you’re using to repair.

Cave building

• Clad reinforced cave walls introduced, created by activating a trowel and building on a reinforced wall.

• Pottery brick
• Sandstone brick
• Slate brick.
• Rounded stone.
• Marble brick.
• Plain brick.
• Wooden clad (uses mallet or hammer).

• Paved reinforced cave floors introduced.

• Created by preparing a reinforced cave floor with mortar and then applying paving.

Epic CA Help changes

• Epic now has 3 global CA help grouped by kingdoms; JK help, MR help, HotS help.
• These Channels are visible globally by all members of the kingdom.

Harvest time changes

• Harvest times have been adjusted slightly.
• Changes:

• Olives: Starfall of Fires, Week 1
• Lemon: Starfall of Ravens, Week 2
• Orange: Starfall of Ravens,Week 4
• Walnut: Starfall of Dancers, Week 1

• Additions:

• Raspberry: Starfall of Dancers, Week 1
• Blueberry: Starfall of Shark, Week 3
• Lingonberry: Starfall of Dancers, Week 3

• Harvest times will still vary slightly to the actual starting week
• Olives have been reduced to once season now that multiple olives can be harvested.

Other changes and introductions

• New transmutation liquids have been added to change moss to tundra and tundra to dirt.

• Copper and Orange juice transmutes moss to tundra.
• Iron and Raspberry juice transmutes tundra to dirt (tundra will still disappear when packed and dug).

• 3 new fruit bushes have been added – blueberry, raspberry and lingonberry.

• Blueberry and raspberry sprouts can be found by foraging so that you can plant your own bushes.
• Lingonberry bushes will spawn on tundra and will not have sprouts for planting.
• All three berries can still be found via foraging.

• Skillgain for anything that produces liquid has been scaled by the amount of liquid created.
• Tundra will now spread faster and more often.
• Metal sheets in the crafting window now properly reference the material they are from in crafting recipes.
• Decorative pillars can now be built inside buildings.
• Path of Insanity Random Teleport menu option now has a confirm to help prevent erroneous clicks.
• Move to Center has been added to the move items menu.
• Weight of paper has been reduced from 0.50 to 0.01.
• Trellis ages have now been added.
• Currently despite having sprouts they cannot be picked or pruned.
• Tile borders and corners now show in caves
• This allows the building of fences and gates on deed only
• Higher fences may require mining the roof higher to provide sufficient clearance.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: Fixed examine description for slate slabs.
• Bugfix: Fixed examine description for sandstone shards.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where loadable items which were planted/secured off deed could still be loaded.
• Bugfix: Tarring a corner tile floorboard should no longer change the tile to a full tile floorboard.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which prevented fences from being built on the south and east sides of buildings with the new arched walls.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which gave masonry skill for building wooden fences.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where you were not disembarked from animals which could only be ridden when tamed when they became untamed.
• Bugfix: You are again able to use rename on chairs.
• Bugfix: Battering Ram now checks destroy fences permission when being used to destroy fences instead of destroy buildings permission.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the level command would dig a dirt instead of reporting that you needed dirt in your inventory to fill the corners.
• Bugfix: You can now use a mallet/pliers to add or remove trim from underground plain stone walls.
• Bugfix: Build option was removed when right clicking on complete walls with a mallet activated.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused replaced locks to become bugged and not reusable.
• Bugfix: The snake and the woman HotA statue is now available.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused single use spell runes to not work properly
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug where decorative pillars never decayed off deed.
• Bugfix: Fixed the double nature menu on mycelium tiles.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue preventing some gates in underground structures from opening properly.
• Bugfix: Rock salt can now be analysed.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where vehicle passengers entering a cave could not distinguish veins and reinforcements from regular cave walls.
• Bugfix: Fixed the issue where some passenger seats of some boats could not access the hold because of distance.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue preventing dragging items through arched walls.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few problems related to underground error messages when performing tasks if a bridge was above ground on those tiles.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which sometimes caused an error message when improving items in carts.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which caused you to log in on a vehicle as a commander even though you logged out as passenger.
• Bugfix: Tackled more spelling and text errors.
• Bugfix: Levelling with a dredge should now give an error when the dredge is full.

Client updates

• New players (under 15 farming) will be able to see the state of growth of the farm field they are currently on, range will increase as usual as skill goes up.
• Added borders and tile corners to caves.
• House floors now have tile corners.
• Keybind for MOVE_CENTER added in settings (Move to center under keybindings – Items)
• (4.0 Client) Dyes have been tweaked closer to current stable look.
• Bugfix: (4.0 client) Fixed an issue on flooring tile borders which did not allow you to select the item on that border.
• Bugfix: (4.0 client) Fixed tunneling animation when switching from equipped to unequipped pickaxe.
• Bugfix: (4.0 client) Fixed ghosted model images when pushing and pulling items.

170420 Patch Notes 20/APR/17

• Oleander can now be used as a herb in cooking
• Siege Weapons Bugs and Fixes Post-Live
• Fixed up the message for what buildings you hit.
• Added fail message on cata/treb.
• Lowered the damage variance for battering rams, a fail will now deal 1/5th damage instead of none.
• Capped damage given to projectiles when they land – should now be the same as whats dealt to whatever you hit.
• Fixed cata/treb projectiles not hitting fences sometimes.
• Lowered difficulty for using the battering ram – fences are also now lower difficulty than walls.
• Planned floors/walls should now be properly ignored by cata/treb.
• Rewrote how the checks worked for roofs and floors

• A projectile that clearly passes through a roof now should hit it and land there.
• The box it uses for this isn’t exact to the model, so if the projectile is going over the roof, try lowering your angle or power slightly
• landing closer to the bottom of the roof than the top of it will be more accurate.

• Lowered damage of archery towers and turrets
• Turrets should now be able to fire from the top of a house or bridge
• Archery towers now have a damage falloff, the further they fire, the less damage will be dealt
• Gates and doors that both players can move through will no longer block attacks
• Bugfix: Corrected text when prospecting sandstone veins
• Bugfix: Sandstone slab floors can now be built

170413 Patch Notes 13/APR/17

Changes and additions:

• New method for getting rid of unwanted hedges:

• Hedges can now be cut down similar to trees and bushes with a cut down action or the CUT_DOWN keybind.
• Destroying hedges on deed is tied to the “destroy fences” permission.

• Dredging additions and changes:

• You can now flatten and level with a dredge.
• You must not be embarked when using flatten or level.
• When dredging from a boat, the dirt/sand/clay will go directly into the hold if there is room. (You must have room in the dredge for this to happen).

• The spawning of Valrei mobs has changed so that they spawn spread out across the server instead of in groups of 10.
• Keybind MILK added.
• Underground housing will now be enabled on PvP servers.
• Happy Easter! Hot cross buns have been added as a recipe, you’ll have to find out how to make it yourself though!

New housing addition

• SANDSTONE INTRODUCED:

• Will act like marble or slate vein.
• Will spawn randomly out of rock tiles across the server.
• Can be created with a transmutation rod.

• NEW ITEMS:

• Sandstone bricks (Sandstone shard + chisel).
• Sandstone slabs (Sandstone shard + chisel).
• Slate bricks (Slate shard + chisel).
• Slate slabs (Slate shard + chisel).
• Round stones (Rock shard + chisel).

• CHANGED ITEMS:

• Slate slabs now are created with 88kgs of slate shards and a chisel.
• Pottery bricks now require 5kgs of clay instead of 15.
• Pottery brick floors will have new textures.
• Stone slab house floors will have new texture.
• House stone slabs will be changing to sandstone slab flooring to retain the same texture (if this is not immediate it will be addressed).
• Round cobble roads are now paved with round stones.
• Rough cobble roads are now paved with colossus bricks.

• NEW WALL TYPES:

• Left arch.
• T arch.
• Right arch.

• NEW WALL TEXTURES:

• Rendered wall – Plain stone wall + 20kgs of clay
• Sandstone wall – 20 sandstone bricks and 20 mortar.
• Pottery brick wall – 20 pottery bricks and 20 mortar.
• Slate wall – 20 slate bricks and 20 mortar.
• Rounded stone wall – 20 round stones and 20 mortar.
• marble wall – 20 marble bricks and 20 mortar.

• NEW PAVEMENT TYPES:

• Sandstone slab pavement.
• Sandstone brick pavement.
• Slate slab pavement.
• Slate brick pavement (existing slate slab pavement will become slate brick pavement).
• Marble brick pavement.
• Pottery brick pavement.

• NEW FENCE TYPES:

• Pottery brick fence.
• Pottery brick iron fence.
• Pottery brick iron fence gate.
• Sandstone fence.
• Sandstone iron fence.
• Sandstone iron fence gate.
• Marble fence.
• Marble iron fence.
• Marble iron fence gate.
• Rendered fence.
• Rendered iron fence.
• Rendered iron fence gate.
• Slate fence.
• Slate iron fence.
• Slate iron fence gate.
• Round stone fence.
• Round stone iron fence.
• Round stone iron fence gate.

Siege weapon changes:

• CATAPULTS AND TREBUCHETS:

• New algorithm now used for Catapults/Trebuchet projectiles that properly takes into account starting power, gravity and firing angle of the siege weapon:
• Starting power determined by number of winches for catapult, and loaded amount for trebuchet – power directly relates to starting velocity (so 20 winches is 20m/s).
• Arc of the projectile is checked along it for any walls, floors, bridges or fences it hits, otherwise it will travel the full arc until it hits the ground.
• Anything within a small radius of the landing position will take damage, radius depends on the size of the thrown projectile.
• Weight, quality, and final velocity of the projectile all add into how much damage it deals to the things it lands on – metal and stone projectiles do the most damage.
• Projectiles still have a maximum of 20 damage per shot.
• Added new actions to catapults and trebuchets to allow changing of the firing angle.
• Firing angle defaults to 45 degrees, can be changed to be between 5 and 85 degrees.
• Added messages when winching and changing the firing angle of a catapult or trebuchet that will give an approximate firing distance of the projectile.
• Action time for winching now takes skill into account, will be 33% faster at 100 skill.
• Projectile landing messages now give a full breakdown of everything they hit, and how many of each thing – as well as naming which structure(s) received damage.

• BATTERING RAMS ADDED:

• Minimum 21 body strength to use it.
• Uses the War Machines skill for skill checks – action time is 33% faster at 100 skill with a base timer of 30 seconds.
• Checks a short area in front of the ram for anything to hit, first thing it hits will take damage. Area should be closely lined up with the model.
• Can only be used by one person at any time, user must be quite close to be able to use it.
• Damage dealt increased by the ram quality and the skill check result.
• Ram does double damage to walls underground.
• Citizen or ally with destroy wall permissions will deal bonus damage.
• Cannot be used on steep slopes.

• ARCHERY TOWER AND MAGIC TURRET CHANGES:

• Turrets and archery towers now have increased range based on their quality – up to 5x their base range at 100ql.
• Turrets and archery towers will now shoot faster based on quality – up to 33% faster at 100ql.
• Turrets that fail to fire anything when they have a chance to will now do a firing animation without sending out a projectile.
• Changed the projectile starting positions of turrets and archery towers to line up with their models – This should allow them to fire from anywhere they have proper line of sight to a target.
• Added a 3x bonus to damage when bashing arched walls manually.

Bug Fixes

• Bug fix: Fix for negative quality rift resources as participation reward.
• Bug fix: Fix to prevent most unique creatures from spawning inside a deed.
• The green, blue, black, and white dragon types use a different spawn mechanic and may still spawn in a village.
• Bug fix: Christmas trees and snowmen were removed from the mission items lists.
• Bug fix: Fix for offline tamed/charmed pets sometimes not logging back online with their owner.
• Bug fix: Addressed a few spelling and text errors.
• Bug fix: Hot stills can now be picked up from the ground if empty.
• Bug fix: You can now properly use the /join village command even if the village which recruited you has more than one word in its name.
• Bug fix: Some recipe fixes:
• Eggnog can no longer use itself to make more eggnog.
• Sausage skins can no longer be nested inside each other.
• Bug fix: Improved checks to allow pushing items from a house floor onto a bridge and from a bridge onto a house floor.
• Bug fix: Improved bridge checks, if a bridge is destroyed or decays, planted items on that bridge should no longer give the error message ‘You need to be on the same bridge’ when interacting with them.
• Bug fix: Addressed infrequent issue in which roof and floor damage exceeded 100.
• Bug fix: Fixed dual faith issues between Chaos and Freedom PvE servers.
• Leaving Libila on Chaos and joining no other deity will now properly set you to no deity when crossing back to Freedom servers.
• Bug fix: Deity colossi can now be destroyed by owner and/or mayor on a deed.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Deed export system is not currently configured for new pavement and house types. Will be addressed in the coming updates.

170323 Patch Notes 23/MAR/17

Changes and additions

• Dye requirement for large and small crates has been reduced to 2.50kg and 1.50kg respectively.
• Merchants who move on due to poor business (self-dismiss) will now return their goods and coins inside a backpack through the mail system instead of returning each item individually.
• Cultivate option is now present on grass, steppe and mycelium tiles.
• You will now be able to forage and botanize on mycelium tiles.
• Planter racks will no longer fit in large storage units. Plants inside planter racks currently in large storage units will no longer grow.
• God conversion changes:

• HotS template kingdoms (default and PMK) can follow Libila or any player god. All others can follow anyone except Libila.
• As per the option for PMK libila priests in 1.3, Libila priests will be able to use the /transfer option to change to a player god deity without a faith loss until the 10th of April

• Epic terraforming events have been removed from the endgame of Valrei scenarios.

Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: More text issues addressed.
• Bugfix: Changed a number of recipes that were using HFC instead of baking.

170317 Patch Notes 10/MAR/17

• Changed examine message on small egg to indicate fertility.
• Dye amounts for bulk storage bins and food storage bins has been reduced to 3kgs needed.
• Change: Removed merchant contracts from mission items list.
• Mailing costs for liquids and combined resources is now calculated at 1 copper/5kg weight.
• Bloodthirst Changes:

• Fix:

• Bloodthirst now properly gives 30 on a killshot.

• Change

• Changed how the power is gained on the BT weapon. Can cast on it to increase it up to 1000, increasing it to 1000 will be along the same difficulty of a normal cast to 100.
• Each cast with a power higher than the current power/10 will add that power to the cast. This will naturally cap it at around 1000, maybe a really lucky 1100ish before casting to increase is impossible.
• Power increase is now also gained when killing creatures as well as other players.
• Killing creatures will now increase the power equal to the creature’s CR. Between 5000 and 7500 power this will scale down to half the creature’s CR.

• Stun times and frequency from creature combat moves has been reduced.

Bugfixes

• Bugfix: Removed Gift Pack from mission item list.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where rift resources were not rewarded properly based on participation over 60.
• Bugfix: Description for Red Dragon Madness achievement fixed.
• Bugfix: Felled trees should now decay on deed.
• Bugfix: Fix for client crash when managing citizens when a role name was blank.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug which changed the state of cakes as candles were added – This does mean cakes can no longer be wrapped however.
• Bugfix: A few mailing issues regarding paper products were fixed. (details below)
• Returned paper/papyrus items cost changed from 1 copper to 1 iron.
• Second mailing screen text changed to reflect that paper/papyrus return costs are 1 iron.
• Inscribed paper/papyrus now shows as inscribed while in the mail (and not as just paper or papyrus.
• Bugfix: Fix for cookbook display of nameable recipes for those who already have one named for them and make another recipe which has not been named yet.
• Bugfix: Fix for artifacts not dropping properly in some situations upon logging out.
• Bugfix: Possible fix for time stopping issue in game. (Hotfixed March 5)
• Bugfix: “You cannot dig in such terrain” error should now check the correct tile. (Hotfixed March 5)
• Bugfix: Restored examine message that went missing from floorboards.
• Bugfix: Change the order of focus loss in combat logs so that it appears after damage text to prevent confusion.
• Bugfix: Citizens no longer blocked from freezing lava on deed if not part of an alliance.
• Bugfix: When improving roofs, floors and walls, material is removed from inventory at the end of the action instead of at the 5 second point.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with checks for digging skill and slopes in some situations.
• Bugfix: 100 Plate armour smithing title should now work correctly on Epic.

170224 Patch notes 24/FEB/17

• Bugfix: Gold and silver horseshoes now use Jewelry smithing for improving.
• Bugfix: Storage unit shelves will now be the same wood type as the external container (last wood type used in creation).
• Bugfix: Remove internal components of items from missions.
• Bugfix: Add to crafting window option was removed from completed cupboards and storage units.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where built-in internal components of a storage container did not reflect the rarity of the external container if the container turned rare upon improving.
• Bugfix: Planted banners and flags limit per tile increased to 4.
• Bugfix: Fix for items taking a massive decay tick when removed from a decay reduced container after a period of time.
• Bugfix: Gold rune of Fo will now correctly have a 10% chance of an extra item per harvest for Forestry and Milking actions as opposed to the 10% bonus to skill.
• Bugfix: Fixed attaching runes to boats. Manage permission is required.
• Bugfis: Corrected an issue where some skills were not using the correct Skill knowledge value for checks when non-prem, allowing them to perform skill limited actions over the 20 skill cap. If non premium all actions requiring higher skill should not be possible.
• Bugfix: Fixed the Area of Effect for a random prayer heal to the 3 x 3 area intended.
• Bugfix: Planted herbs and spices will only grow while planted on the ground or in planter racks.

170217 Patch notes 17/FEB/17

• Wide tunnel entrances

• Tunnel entrances can be up to 3 tiles wide.
• To widen a tunnel entrance, the tile you mine must only be connected to ONE open tunnel only.
• Mine doors cannot be placed on tunnel entrances that are 2 or more tiles wide.

• Alchemist Cupboard

• Created with Fine carpentry.
• Contains 10 2kg liquid containers.
• Slows decay on contents.

• Storage unit

• Created using Carpentry.
• Has 3 racks which can hold large items like fishing rods, and saddles.
• Does not slow decay.

• Unicorn Improvements

• Gold and silver horse shoes can now be created with Jewellery smithing
• Unicorns can now be equipped with saddles, bridles and gold/silver horse shoes
• Body strength of unicorns has been boosted to 30 (horses are 20 and hell horses are 35)
• This means that unicorns may also be hitched, but unhitch when no longer tame

• Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Fix to disable teleporting if artifacts are equipped.
• Bugfix: Various grammar and spelling fixes.
• Bugfix: An issue with picking up items on deeds and within buildings with the proper settings has been fixed.
• Bugfix: Wand of the Seas will now correctly form an island when used.
• Bugfix: Lava spawned with the Wand of the Seas is no longer permanent and will turn back to rock.

170209 Patch notes 09/FEB/17

• Changes:

• Changed Rift rewards to be more in line with final ranking.

• Light of Fo will give a max of 15 participation points per cast, as long as it hits that many creatures to heal them.
• At the end of a Rift, if you have more than 60 participation (phenomenal), the lump you receive will be less random ql and weight, and more dependent on your participation score (with a slight amount of random on top of it).
• Also at the end of a rift, if you have more than 60 points, you’ll get an amount of rift resources scaling to your participation points (up to a max of 20 at a participation score of 360). Each of these items will be random between the three rift materials, and the ql will scale based on participation too.
• Higher participation generally will mean more rift material bits at a higher ql (though there is a slight random added to the final ql of each bit).

• Changed the resulting location of lamps planted using the corner tile.

• Lamps previously planted using the tile corners if on tile corners that bordered deed and perimeter may have actually been ‘located’ on the perimeter tile rather than the deed tile for lighting and decay. If you have lamps planted in this manner, pick up your lamp, stand on the DEED tile and replant in the corner to assure that the lamp is located on deed and not in the perimeter.
• Lamps in the past could not be planted on certain tile borders if there was a house or fence on that border as well. You can now plant and interact with lamps on tile corners even if there is a house or fence intersecting that tile corner.
• Blessed lamps will auto-light off deed when planted on pavement tiles. When planting, please be certain you are standing on the pavement tile if planting using the tile corner method.

• Feature: New behavior for off deed blessed lamps.

• Blessed lamps planted off deed on pavement tiles will auto-light in the evening and consume no fuel as long as they are fueled and lit initially.
• Blessed lamps planted off deed on bridges will auto-light in the evening and consume no fuel as long as they are fueled and lit initially.
• Blessed lamps planted off deed on reinforced cave floor tiles will remain lit all the time and consume no fuel as long as they are fueled and lit initially.

• Base boat speeds have been tweaked upwards as a percentage of their base speed:

• Corbita: +26%
• Cog: +75%
• Knarr: +2.5%
• Caravel: +33%

• Wind bonus has remain unchanged, and speed differences will be most noticeable in little wind.

• Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix: The changes in 1.3 to multiple harvests depending on skill and age for Forestry and Milking were affected by a bug that increased skillgain per harvest exponentially per tick during one action, this has been rectified and the skillgain per tick will be the same across the whole action. This fix also affects Botanizing as that is where the original bug was.
• Bugfix: Sealed barrels properly reflect the weight of the contents while in inventory.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few issues with sealed barrels and contents behavior.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where you would not get the nature-meditate option on the context menu if you had something activated in inventory and there was a glow rune on your rug.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which prevented loading of items with glow runes attached.
• Bugfix: Internal components of items can no longer be loaded into war machines.
• Bugfix: Fix for not receiving normal stance fight skill.
• Bugfix: Recipe fixes for mayo not mixing with other items or leading to unknown recipes in lore.
• Bugfix: Various spelling and text errors fixed.
• Bugfix: Added a few layer and obstruction checks for interaction while above and below ground.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue which prevented clay shingles from being dragged into a kiln from a bulk container.
• Bugfix: When planting a flower in a pottery flowerpot or a marble planter, the planted pot will have the same quality/damage as the empty planter.
• Bugfix: Another fix to prevent fog spiders from spawning on deeds.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few issues to properly block building or continuing structures inside blocked zones.
• Bugfix: Rebalanced damage done to tools when destroying unfinished fences and building walls as well as completed fences and walls.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few cooking achievements that were not working properly and added a few new ones to be discovered.
• Bugfix: Fixed various text descriptions for recipes and ingredients.

170126 Patch notes 26/JAN/17

• Changes and Features:

• Lootable Rift creature recipes will now go directly into the inventory of a participant rather than drop on the corpse of the creature.
• The deity transfers for Nahjo and Libila PMKs offered with the 1.3 patch will end on February 1. /transfer will be disabled and GMs will no longer accept in game requests for transfers.
• Show Village Plan via the settlement token will mark perimeter and underwater tiles differently to village tiles to allow mayors to identify the village borders easier.

• Bug Fixes

• Bugfix: Completed barrel racks will no longer have the add to crafting window option in the right click menu.
• Bugfix: Removed rarity from milking.
• Bugfix: A player will no longer get stung by bees when boarding a vehicle containing an active hive, even if they do not have a lit smoker. However, a commander will still get stung as bees do not take kindly to being relocated.
• Bugfix: Fillets of fish will no longer lose weight after being placed in bulk containers.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few issues with marking and writing recipes.
• Bugfix: Beehives will no longer be productive in mines, nor can they be pushed underground.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with a few ‘pasta’ recipes.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where fireworks were not giving the proper number for ‘uses left’.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few issues with bee hives and smoker mechanics.

• Dormant hives will only sting if you try to load or unload them without a lit bee smoker.
• Dormant hives may be opened without the use of a lit bee smoker.
• Active Domestic hives will now sting regardless if they are locked or not without a lit bee smoker.

• Bugfix: Fixed so that wild hives on deed abide by deed permissions for removing both honey and wax.
• Bugfix: Fixed triggers for a few achievements which were not working properly.
• Bugfix: You can no longer milk using sealed containers.
• Bugfix: Fix for wild hives not being removed in winter and thereby reappearing in the same place the following spring.
• Bugfix: Fix for capitalization issues with missions.
• Bugfix: Honey inside a domestic hive will properly average after the hive has been improved.
• Bugfix: Fix for single queens in domestic hives migrating to other domestic hives – no matter what quality.
• Bugfix: Due to the large size of some vegetables and the inability to squish them and other ingredients into pottery jars, you may also try pottery bowls for some of those recipes.
• Bugfix: Removed certain creatures from kill missions and adjusted kill quantities of other creatures.
• Bugfix: Corrected an issue with mission respawning on Freedom when missions are completed or failed. This should resolve the issue, but we will continue to monitor for any missing missions.
• Bugfix: Fix for a few items not taking decay on deed when they should. This includes:

• Animals on a spit
• Christmas trees
• Snowmen

• Bugfix: Removed additional means of teleporting with artifacts in inventory.
• Bugfix: Removed mission ruler and added a title for the Won the Game achievement.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the taste option on food would not appear if nothing was activated.
• Bugfix: Fix for vinegar recipes not properly being added to the cookbook in some instances.
• Bugfix: Removed goat cheese from any recipes that used it as an ingredient as it was too rare (from easter eggs).
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where newly discovered named recipes were not updating some cookbooks.
• Bugfix: You can no longer unload internal cargo from loaded vehicles as it resulted in ghosted containers taking up space.
• Bugfix: Resource gathering rune now works correctly with surface mining.
• Bugfix: Fixes for a few text and spelling errors.
• Bugfix: Fighting in defensive stance will no longer give occasional aggressive fighting ticks.
• Bugfix: When planting an herb or spice in a pottery planter, the planted pot will have the quality/damage as the empty planter.
• Bugfix: Fix to prevent rank gain from all mission types, battlecamp conquering, and HotA pillar conquering. Guard tower conquering now gives 1 rank, the rest trigger rank decay prevention.
• Bugfix: Flags should no longer take damage while in inventory or on merchants.
• Bugfix: You will no longer be able to plan a bridge which spans perimeter tiles unless you have village permissions to do so.
• Bugfix: Addressed an issue with the timer and messaging for conquering battle camps.
• Bugfix: Changed the way a number of recipes were updated and sent to the client.
• Bugfix: Recipe fixes for the distilled liquors so that they are correctly recorded in the cookbook.

• This means that some existing recipes will need to be deleted from cookbooks due to bad recipe data, the recipes affected are the fruit and berry gins and brandies.

• Bugfix: Planter racks were intended to hold 30 planters so the size has been reduced as was intended.

• If your rack currently has more than 30 planters, if you remove one it will not go back in and when you plant in one, it will fall to the ground.

• Bugfix: Fixed a number of cooking recipe and ingredient issues:

• Creams and butter have their milk type in names.
• Split fruit juices into individual recipes.
• Corrected some unnecessary specifications of raw ingredients.
• Removed some optional ingredients from recipes, as they were unable to be used.