The following hotfixes have been deployed and are now live:

• Friends Window Toggle:
  Resolved an issue where pressing F (default keybind) or clicking the Friends button on the Button Bar did not open the Friends window as expected. The Friends window now toggles correctly.

• House Window Search Enhancements:
  The Search feature in the House window has been improved:

  • Clicking an item's name now opens a context menu for that item.
  • The Highlight Item button has been added and is visible for all items.
  • The Manage Lockdown button has been added and is visible only for items that are locked down. Note: Items inside containers are not locked down and will not display this option. However, you can still use the context menu to interact with the item, provided you have access to it.

• Mannequin Management:
  House owners can now use "I ban thee" on mannequins placed by others, provided the mannequin has been on the property for at least one week. Once banned, mannequins will move to the corner of the plot and begin to decay after an additional week. The house owner will be notified of this action, giving them time to retrieve any belongings from the mannequin before it disappears.

Halloween has officially come to an end for this year! We want to thank everyone who joined us for the festivities, smashing pumpkins, and collecting candy. Your participation made it all the more special, and we hope you had as much fun as we did hosting it.

If you have ideas for future events or activities, we’d love to hear from you—feel free to share them in-game. As we approach the upcoming holiday season, we’re excited to bring you more events!

Thank you again for spending your time with us, and we can’t wait to see you in the weeks ahead!

REMINDER: There is still ONE more Halloween Raffle drawing to occur on Nov 24th as outlined here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/final-2024-halloween-lottery

Ahoy, adventurers! 🏴‍☠️

We’ve got exciting news for all who’ve been helping us test the Boat Expansion on the test center. As a token of our gratitude, every player who participates in testing will receive an exclusive pirate hat—a truly rare treasure that will not be obtainable in any other way! 🎩

To everyone who has lent a hand so far, we cannot thank you enough. Your support and feedback have been invaluable in shaping this expansion and bringing us closer to launch. 🙌

But we’re not done yet! We still need more brave testers to help us fine-tune the systems, identify any lingering bugs, and ensure this expansion is shipshape for the live server.

⚓ Calling all testers! Now’s the time to hop on the Test Center (TC) and help us sail this Boat Expansion over the finish line. Your efforts will make all the difference, and you’ll be part of a legendary crew that made this happen!

Thank you again for your incredible support—let’s get this done together! 💪

Use your remaining Halloween raffle tokens to enter the final Halloween lottery for 2024. Find Raff, the lottery official, near Britain Bank to purchase your entries. Tickets cost 10 Halloween raffle tokens each. The draw will take place on Sunday, 24th November, at 9:00 AM UTC.

We've deployed a hotfix for an issue related to Smelting when targeting a lockbox (or other metal crafted containers) with items inside of it causing the container to be smelted but the items inside destroyed by mistake.

Now, it will smelt the items inside of the container as expected if there are any, but if the container is empty then it will attempt to smelt the container itself, if it can be smelted.

Sorry if you encountered an issue with this and incurred any losses.

This fix is now live effective immediately, but may require characters already logged in to log out and back in to receive the update. Thanks

To all veterans in our community and beyond, we extend our deepest gratitude for your service, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication. Today, on Veterans Day, we honor and remember those who have served and those who continue to stand ready to protect and defend. Your courage and commitment have paved the way for the freedoms we enjoy each day. Thank you for your service, and for inspiring us all. We stand with you, today and every day.

🎃 Halloween Discounts & Updates! 🎃

From now until November 11th at 9am, all items at the Halloween Vendors are slashed by 25%! 🔪 Don’t miss this chance to grab your favorites at a discount!

👻 Halloween Activities: The spooky festivities will continue until November 17th at 9am, and the Halloween Vendors will be available for at least four weeks afterward to ensure everyone has plenty of time to shop.

Thank You! To everyone who has joined us for the Halloween events – we appreciate your participation and enthusiasm!

🕹️ MOBA Arena Update: We’re hard at work on the new MOBA Arena game, but it’s taking a bit more time to perfect. Rest assured, we're aiming to launch it soon, themed for the current season. Once released, it will become a permanent addition to the game. Thank you for your patience!

We're excited to announce two new members are joining the team! Pueblo & Fluffy have volunteered to contribute to the project in their free time. Pueblo will be focusing on Architectural Designs and World Building and Fluffy will be focusing on Community Management & Counselor duties so you may see them around in chat, and in the future you may see them assisting players in-game and even running Events from time to time. Please give Pueblo and Fluffy a warm welcome to the team and thanks for offering to share your free time with us! <3

The Halloween House Decoration Contest deadline has been extended to Nov 17th

Entries will be accepted starting immediately, and the drawing will take place soon after Nov 17th.

Prizes will include Halloween Candy plus a customized Halloween item!

Submit your entries in https://discord.com/channels/369023244038045697/1294438287921905725

• The server-wide alert for when players start and stop horse and cart quests has now been removed.

• An issue preventing players from placing the fowl cannon decoration in their houses has been fixed.

• Loot from the Fowl Frenzy event will no longer spawn too far away from the location of the exploding animals.

This is a reminder that Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the United States ended today, November 3, 2024. Clocks have been set back by one hour, which may affect how game times, events, and restarts appear in your local timezone.

Please remember that our servers run on UTC timezone, and neither the server time nor in-game activity schedules change with DST. All events and restarts will continue to occur at the same times in UTC. However, due to the DST change, the time at which these activities appear in your local timezone may have shifted.

As DST adjustments happen at different times around the world, we recommend checking your local time against UTC to stay on track with event schedules.

Thank you for your attention and understanding, and we look forward to seeing you in-game!

Fixed a bug that prevented the webmap to be opened if the region was changed.

Close and reopen the launcher to fetch the update and then you can use /webmap in game at any time now.

NOTE: Dungeons are not supported yet, so you will see yourself in a random location in the britannia map.

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Halloween Lottery! Taking 1st place is Felonious Monk, followed by StainedSoul in 2nd, and Helldon in 3rd. Each of these players will receive a special Halloween prize filled with rare and spooky items to enhance their adventures in Britannia.

Thank you to everyone who participated and made this event a success! We’ll be in contact with the winners soon to arrange prize delivery. Keep an eye out for more exciting events in the future!

• Corpse explosion:

  • Now can be cast without corpses around, will hit once only (nearest target).
  • Damage gets reduced if spammed, scaling on a 6 seconds timer.
  • Now exploded corpses will grant souls.

• Haunt:

  • Now on the first ghost appearance will cause a stun. (1 Second for players/pets, 2 Seconds for mobs).

• Ghost Blade:

  • Increased: Speed, Str, Dex, Health, Damage, Armor, Tactics, Wrestling, Magery, EvalInt
  • Reduced: ControlSlots (4 > 2)

• Blood Siphon:

  • Cursed Crook will not be unequipped during the spell.

We're back early. Go play!

During our next maintenance window at 9am UTC, we will be running extended maintenance on the server for approximately 2 hours. Thank you for your patience.

The server has been online and steady for the past 5+ hours and is ready to play! Sorry again for the interruption this morning :)

~~ The server is experiencing an unexpected outage, sorry for the interruption! We're working diligently to try and restore it as soon as possible. We don't yet have an ETA but we expect to be offline for some time still. Please check back here periodically for updates, as we will update this post with news as it arrives. Thanks for your patience, and once more sorry for the interruption! ~~

Ever lose or misplace an item in your house? Now you can search for it! Available immediately, you can find the Search magnifying glass button in the house menu and search for locked down/secured items for the house. Clicking on an item in the list will play an arrow and circular highlighting effect over the item's position in the house so you can locate it. Hope this helps you track down your items!

• The necromancer vendor now sells a scroll that turns a horse and cart into an undead entity.

• The range of the telekinesis spell has been increased, and it can now activate exploding barrels.

• Undead players can now use vanity pets.

• Grave diggers can now find undead dragon bones, though they are rare. Once you have collected 100, you can transform them into an undead ethereal dragon mount.

Just a reminder that Season 4 is coming to an end soon.

It was originally scheduled to end Oct 22nd but we are going to extend it by an additional couple of weeks through the Halloween season, and we will plan to start Season 5 shortly after Halloween ends (specific date will be announced as we get closer)

For the next season we plan to add in some additional season goals related to the upcoming holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year to make seasons even more fun and rewarding.

Thanks for participating and thanks for being here!