Part of the lag source has been identified and resolved, and a hotfix has been deployed. Please log out and back in to receive the updates. We will continue to monitor for lag and work on any remaining issues that should occur. Thanks again for your patience through the rough patches!

Faction Town Stones & Faction Base Stones have been reset to try to resolve issues with capturing towns. Please let us know if you still experience issues with this

We're aware of ongoing lag issues, particularly in the Britain region. Please bear with us while we work through identifying the root cause and hopefully finding a fix ASAP. At this time, leaving the affected region and returning ~15 minutes later should result in a better experience in most cases.

Thank you for your patience.

• Creatures inside the Britain sewers now drop loot

• Three new faction mounts have been added to the faction shop (one for each faction).

• All MOBs in Deceit now have a chance to drop rare loot.

We have some exciting changes planned for Shards of Britannia, and as a first step, we will soon be 'launching' our own customised game launcher. More details on that will follow when it is time (When It's Done!).

Due to this change, Steam accounts will no longer work. If you are still using Steam to log into any of your accounts, then please read the following:

1. You need to be able to log into your account from the standard (non-Steam) client. If you can do this already, you can stop reading!
2. If you're not sure, log in to Shards of Britannia using Steam and type /accountid - it should show you an ID in the format "xx-xxxx"
3. Download the non-Steam client. We have a direct link available at https://shardsofbritannia.com/play - follow those instructions to get up and running
4. Try logging in using your account ID (the ID you found in step #2 above) and your password.
5. If none of this works, you will need to contact Citadel Studios to properly migrate your account. More details are available in our news article here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/legends-of-aria-steam-de-listing

Please help spread the word about this pending change with your guilds and other friends that play. We don't want anyone to be left behind on the Steam client! These are exciting times for us and this new launcher and associated technologies will open up many possibilities. Onwards and upwards!

Recent fixes and changes:

• Combat performance improvements, possible relief from combat-related lag
• Fixed an issue with being able to report a murder from a blue player that defended themselves against a criminal player, but the criminal player turned blue and died; defenders should no longer be counted as a murderer when criminals die after defensive combat
• Reduced spammy "Fingers Slipping" while bandaging
• Prevented Loading Cloak feature for dead players, they are already cloaked and don't need protection when crossing regions
• Fixed issue with pets seeming to teleport around following the Stablemaster or their owners when in the Cove/Minoc region
• Resolved issue with players dying and some of the equipment becoming stuck on the corpse preventing looting all of the items
• Added blank key to Tinker vendors
• Fixed issue with gold being consumed in fractional amounts when paying Pet Stable fees, also fixes an issue with stacking/working with piles of gold
• Fixed issue with being able to use an invisibility potion at the same time as casting a spell causing the player to be able to move around while invisible briefly
• Fixed issue with Animate Horse corpses not decaying properly
• Fixed a couple of AI issues causing some mobs like Sentinels and Boss mobs to sometimes freeze up and stop responding
• Added Guild Members List UI, similar to Friends List, use /guild to open it when away from the guild stone
• Fixed issue with some house decorations not being able to be decorated properly
• Fixed issue with some house decorations not being able to be placed: Santa's Workshop model, Snowy Holiday Tree
• Fixed issue with some older house decoration deeds or bags not working when trying to place them
• Fixed issue with Pet Hunger not being displayed consistently everywhere
• Changed the Stove craftable to be Iron-only due to the item not inheriting color nicely from materials

This is a reminder that Santa will officially be going on vacation starting on Feb 1st, 2023. Make sure to wrap up any pending trades or purchases, as Santa will be at his beach house until next season!

All of the awards have been delivered to winners & participants of the Winter House Decoration Contest of 2022. Thanks again to everyone for participating! We can't wait to see what you come up with next time. Until then, happy decorating!

The vote is in for the Winter House Decoration Contest!

Firstly, we loved ALL of your creations! You all have some fantastic scenes and designs and it was a blast to look through all the houses and decorations. Thanks for sharing your time with us and participating. Now let's get down to business.

The staff and the public have voted and here are the winners:

• Taria: Staff Choice (holiday)
• Spacestripe: Staff Choice (general)
• Goldfinger: People's Choice (holiday)
• Zarnack: People's Choice (general)

Participants get:

• special house sign with engraving

And winners get their choice of ONE of the following:

• Customized Reindeer Antlers, three special colors to pick from (wearable deer mask with engraving)
• Customized Santa Chair (candy cane chair furniture deed with engraving)
• choice of 1 item from Santa vendor, not customized

Winners: The staff will open a private thread with you in Discord to arrange the award of your choice

Participants: The staff will lock down your custom sign at your house soon!

We've set up a Housing Display Area which you can access via the stone teleporters at each of the Architect shops around the world.

• All the undead invading Paws now have a chance at dropping Rotting Hands.

This faction pillar has been split into its own region as a test case. It's in the same location, however you'll now transition out of Minoc proper and into this new region when going to this Faction Pillar.

Please let us know of any weirdness, however we expect this should greatly improve the performance of this pillar. All going well, we will look to do the same for other pillars in the future.

We're working on a couple of improvements for Factions:

• Separation of Faction Bases into their own server regions to isolate the Faction fights from Housing in the adjacent areas

• Guild Faction Assignment:

  • guilds will be required to have a faction assigned, determined by the guildmaster, in order for members of the guild to be part of a faction
  • upon logging in, if you are in a guild and in a faction and your guild does not have one registered or it is registered to a different faction then you will begin the Faction Resignation process and be kicked from your faction after 7 days unless you leave the guild or your faction is assigned to the guild
  • if you are in a guild and trying to join a faction, your guild must be assigned to a faction and you must join the assigned faction
  • only the guildmasters can assign a faction to a guild
  • it's optional for guild members to be in the faction or not, but players wishing to be in a faction must be in the same faction as the guild
  • if you are trying to create a guild while in a faction, you will be warned that the guild will become registered to your current faction when you form the guild - you cannot form the guild with players of another faction

We're giving you some time in advance to prepare for the Guild Faction Assignment changes, so please adjust your characters accordingly to prevent being forcibly removed from your faction later on

These changes are still being worked on and they will be released separately & we'll post patch notes with all of the details when they go live.

• Rotting hand drop rate has been adjusted

• New items have been added to the lottery boxes

Winter Holiday House Decoration Contest voting has begun for the People's Choice categories, please cast your votes in https://discord.com/channels/369023244038045697/1054518657411190864/1065067764458467388

Are you looking for Donation Vendors? They have set up shop inside the Yew Bank, Empath Abbey.

This is a reminder that the following events are coming to an end at 9:00 AM UTC on Jan 15th:

• Winter Bazaar (vendors next to Windemere bank)
• Christmas Candy Cane Conundrum (Elf camps & Xmas Paragons)
• House Decoration Contest (deadline)

If you still have a vendor rented at the Bazaar when the deadline passes, the vendor's equipment, gold & contents will be moved to your account vault, and you will receive a notice in-game to retrieve it.

Santa will remain at his workshop until the end of the month to give players time to wrap up any pending trades & purchases, however, the Elf Camps and Christmas Paragons will no longer spawn.

The staff will take 1 week after the House Deco Contest deadline to vote on the winners & to do a public People's Choice vote, please stay tuned for more about that.

We hope you've enjoyed this season's activities, and thanks to everyone who has participated.

Good news, we're extending the deadline for the Xmas Event & House Deco Contest by 1 week, from Jan 8th to Jan 15th. A lot of the team and players have been extra busy through the holiday season and we want to make sure both the staff is prepared and players have had time to participate. We hope you've all had a good holiday season & thanks for spending some of your time with us, cheers to the new year! :)

The Necromancer's spell cocoon, blocks the first incoming damage before breaking (The shield has 60 seconds cooldown before it can be re-applied). This is how the spell was originally intended to work.