The updates outlined here have been now been deployed: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/inscription-overhaul-patch-notes

Thanks to everyone that has helped to test the changes and provide feedback! We will work on drawing a winner for the Tester Reward as we described in the call-to-action for this patch here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/testers-needed-inscription-treasure-hunting and will announce the winner at a later time.

General notes:

• Dagger Isle terrain texture improved & snowy roofs added to Windemere buildings
• Fixed issue with new Miner's Aprons not having a tooltip
• Removed Tailoring recipes due to missing artwork: Blue Shirt, Blue Pants, Judge's Cloth Shirt
• Fixed issue with cloth Priest Legs recipe not working
• Random Orc Camps have been suspended temporarily
• Improved fishing from docks, should be able to fish from town docks again

Bulk Order balancing:

• corrected the gold value of low-end orders, was previously too low
• corrected Fame value of orders, was previously too high
• added option to receive 3 orders now with 24 hour cooldown, or you can still opt to receive 1 every 6 hours if desired

Fishing balancing:

• balanced availability of higher end fish types
• balanced chances to get fishing nets and MIBs while fishing & added fishing net chance to SOS treasure loot

Dungeon fishing:

• increased chance to receive general loot & MIBs in dungeons
• added special loot only available from fishing in dungeons (must be level 90 Fishing or higher)
• fishing in a dungeon may disturb monsters in the water now

Ice Fishing (coming soon):

• ice fishing is making a comeback and will be available on parts of Dagger Isle, more details soon

The server is coming back online now with the latest patch applied. Thanks for your patience!

The server is offline for approximately 15 minutes while we apply the latest patch. Please see the Patch Notes for details. We will post again when the server is coming back online.

Make sure to log in today to receive some Pink Champagne (per character) and Valentine's Day card with Rose (per account) to give to your special someone today. <3 The handout will be available until the daily restart at 9am UTC Feb 15th.

Hello everyone, we just want to give you an update about the team, as you may have noticed some changes.

• Beekel is taking time off right now, please avoid messaging him for support
• Quenton's role has changed to Moderator
• A new team-mate will be joining as Counselor, they will be introduced soon

Thanks to Beekel and Quenton for all of their dedication to the project and for sharing your free time with us.

The rest of us are still here! Some of us have been sick recently so development has slowed slightly, but we're still working on plenty of updates and are about to wrap up testing for some upcoming changes.

We're excited to announce that we've picked 3 winners for the House Decorating Contest! Thanks to everyone who posted their submissions, it was great to see all of the creative designs people come up with.

The winners for this event are as follows:

• Cleanest Layout: Yew Crossroads Tavern
• Most Creative: Church of Pantism
• Best Use of Grouped Objects: Urk Den

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks again to everyone who participated. We will try to do more contests like this in the future and look forward to seeing what else you can create!

Winners: Please reach out to Gorgan to receive your rewards!

Update: The outage has been resolved much more quickly than anticipated and we're coming back online within the next 15 minutes. Just a heads up, we will be rolling the world save back to the beginning of the crash, so if you did anything in-game while the outage was happening it will not have saved. Apologies for any inconveniences. Thanks again for your patience!

Firstly we'd like to thank all of our Patrons for their support, you help make this project a success and we can't thank you enough. Patron contributions are essential to keeping the project online and also give Patrons a chance to communicate directly with staff in a more intimate setting. Patrons also enjoy early-access previews and discussion about upcoming features, before the general public.

The time has come again where we must ask everyone to consider contributing if you are not yet, or increasing your level if you are, as the level of support has been declining for the past several months. We understand there has been a lot of life changes over the past couple of years with the pandemic and economic changes that have happened, so please only contribute if you absolutely can. Please spread the word to your friends and family that play here and help us reach our goal of increasing Patron contributions.

What do the donations go towards? Donations help pay the more than $450 monthly hosting bill for our network of host machines, website domains, and other services essential to the project. Occasionally there may be unplanned expenses where we have to adjust something, for example during the DDoS (hacking) that occurred last year or other circumstances. Donations are always used for the project, only.

Please know that we do not take this lightly, we don't like to ask for money, but it is a necessary task, and we sincerely thank you for your consideration! <3

Visit our Patreon page to manage your contributions here: https://www.patreon.com/shardsofbritannia

The major update known as the Inscription Overhaul is now available for public testing and Test Center is now open to the public to help us test these changes.

West Britain Bank has been set up with Test Vendors and a Moongate to be able to easily test the changes.

The details are outlined here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/inscription-overhaul-patch-notes

The first ten people to submit detailed feedback after testing these changes will have their names put into a drawing to receive a special gift after the testing has been completed.

Happy testing, please let us know if you have any troubles in Discord #test-general-feedback

• Bulk Order Books re-enabled with back-end improvements
• Added notification category for Casino Alerts
• Fixed an issue with Granite statuettes being the same model
• Fixed an issue with salvaging tailored items with scissors not returning the correct amount of resources in some cases
• Fishing Leaderboard re-enabled
• The maximum amount of fishing nets required to fish up an SOS treasure has been reduced slightly
• The chance to find SOS maps while fishing has been increased slightly

As a reminder of a couple of key server rules:

• If you encounter what is obviously a bug, for example, a mob you can hit endlessly that does not fight back, do not exploit the bug. Please report it using /bug in game and we will address it.
• Tools which help you macro by injecting into the client are prohibited. Tools which do not inject, such as LOUHelper, are permitted.

These rules are in place, ultimately, for the long-term health of the server. Violating these rules may result in a jail sentence or being banned from the server. Thanks for playing fair.

• Basic Fishing Leaderboard feature added
• Talk to any Fisher vendor to view & have your fish weighed and added to the leaderboard
• The leaderboard is global and results are shared across all regions
• Only the top 30 results will be shown
• There are no rewards or benefits right now, this is just for bragging rights

• You can now add Exceptional equipment to Non-Exceptional Small Bulk Orders
• Fixed issue with Fruit Pie Platter being crafted as a deed
• Removed the "Booze" crafting category for Cooking since there are no active recipes for it right now
• Sewing Kits added to Tailor & Tanner vendors
• Sewing Kits added to new character start items
• Renamed Platemail to Platemail Tunic
• Fixed issue with the incorrect crafting tool being used in some cases
• Fixed issue with Cooking not requiring a Cooking Pot
• Fixed not being able to place Large Green Rug (warning: this rug will not fit in a small house)
• Fixed issue with the "Total Items" tooltip not appearing on locked down containers
• Fixed issue with Sentinel monsters AI becoming stalled in some cases
• Pets should have their faction icon cleared if the owner is not in a faction now

Housing has been enabled on Dagger Isle, on both the island containing the Honesty shrine and the island northeast of the city.

The Item Fixer NPC was added recently as a temporary on-demand fixer but they have been promoted to full-time and relocated to Counselor Hall buildings in Britain, Minoc and Yew, to remain permanently.

They can now fix the following issues:

• Cloaks fitting in the wrong slot
• MLK Book handout not opening
• Halloween Masks fitting in the wrong slot

If you had crafted any pieces of equipment (armor, weapons, clothing) anytime between today's restart 9 am UTC until about 11:25 AM UTC, these items are unfortunately bugged and cannot be accepted by a Bulk Order Deed even though they match.

Apologies for the issue! This is related to an issue that has been resolved, newly crafted items will work as expected.

• Fixed an issue with not being able to harvest stone with a normal pickaxe & new pickaxes not having the toggle option
• Fixed issue with crafting equipment not applying any properties like Exceptional or others
• Fixed a few Crafting recipe issues for:
  • Cooking: Apple Pie Slice & Cooked Fish: issue fixed prevented cooking these items
  • Carpentry: Hitching Post: removed as this is moved to Veteran Rewards
• Added improvements to player vendor's Recent Sales tracking; the list will now keep track of how many similar items were sold instead of printing a new line for each individual item & improved the interface readability
• CAPTCHA has been added to plant picking (cotton harvesting)
• Added missing Spinning Wheels to all towns
• Fixed issue with Stone Masonry books being locked down in the backpack (if you have one stuck in your backpack please page for help)
• Fixed issue with older crafting tools not working in some cases since the addition of Bulk Orders

• Fixed an issue with not being able to add Ornate Rugs or possibly other items to matching Small Bulk Orders
• Fixed an issue with loot from monsters or treasure chests being off slightly
• Fixed an issue with the "Linen Helm" Tailoring recipe not being available

• We're aware of and investigating issues with some items like rugs that cannot be added to matching Small Bulk Orders

• We're aware that the Cloth stack is missing an icon so when you see Cloth in the inventory list, like in your backpack, it may show the icon of another object. This does not affect the ability to use the Cloth, however. This is currently out of hands to resolve, and there are many other items missing icons as well, one day we hope to have the ability to fix that in the client.