Notes:

• Escorts and pop-up Orc Camps have been re-enabled & town vendors are vulnerable again
• Vendors & dungeon chests have been respawned

Fixes:

• Fixed issue with SOS treasure not being created in some cases
• Fixed being able to drop items into other beings' backpacks in some cases
• Fixed Fame & Karma values not being rounded
• Fixed Meditation being interrupted when switching targets
• Fixed issue with Magic Reflection not causing notoriety actions in some cases
• Fixed issue with some Ostards not being able to traded, bought, and/or controlled by players with no or low taming skill
• Fixed issue with being able to loot equipped items from dead NPC paperdolls (special items obtained this way are subject to removal)
• Fixed issue with skeleton key being used inadvertently in some cases
• Fixed issue with not being able to trade Fire Beetles or other pets in some cases due to "having items on them"
• Fixed issue with stacked objects not showing the count in it's name in some cases
• Attempted to fix edge case with releasing a pet sometimes causing notoriety action erroneously

Changes:

• Increased leash distance for pop-up Orc Camp mobs
• Pet abandonment time limit increased from 3 days to 7 days
• Blank Scrolls inventory minimum increased from 20 to 333 on Scribe vendors
• Create Food spell now creates food directly in your backpack if you have room instead of requesting you to target the ground
• Escorts will now show how much time is left before you can accept another one
• Armored Saddles now have durability that decreases with each successful bola hit you take
• Removing saddles from pets will no longer refund the deed
• Warhorses now have passive bola resistance due to their built in armor
• Players will now be kicked off their mount if they somehow manage to mount while the pet is paralyzed or disabled; it is not intended to be able to mount & move on a paralyzed pet

The Halloween Candy vendors will be available until January 1st, so be sure to spend your candy as soon as possible!

Soon you will begin seeing server alerts for ongoing miniboss events that will occur in various areas of the overland on a regular basis. At this time, there will be four different miniboss events available. You should see one happening every day or two once they've been implemented. These events will require a decently sized group to complete.

These bosses potentially drop several brand new rare items created by team member Transcendence. Some are decorative, others are useful.

An exploit causing faction players to receive quite a lot of silver upon depositing silver into a controlled town stone has been fixed. This exploit has existed since factions were released. As a result, upon next restart, all players' faction silver will be reset to 0. This exploit was only recently reported to us despite being around for so long- to avoid future wipes, please report anomalies promptly so that we can fix them immediately.

Additionally- purchasable faction guards have been beefed up a bit.

• Bonded pets will no longer release themselves when starving
• Pet hunger rate has been decreased greatly, now starvation will occur at 72 hours without feeding, instead of 16 hours

Note: Bonded pets will still continue to experience hunger, but it has no effect at this time. In the future, hunger may factor into controlling your pets.

As you may be aware, we're working to isolate the root cause of the recent crashes. Through the process of elimination, we are making a change to the town vendors, and they have are now invulnerable again for the time being. As a result of this change, the Escort NPCs are disabled, as well as the pop-up Orc Camp spawns.

This change is temporary while we monitor the servers for a short period of time. We appreciate your patience and support!

Occasionally a visual client bug occurs when using Organize Backpack option where it organizes the items but they continue to appear in the old position inside your backpack. If that happens to you, you can simply pick up the bags to refresh the items and show them in their correct position.

• The time to capture a town once the sigil is deposited into a faction stone has been reduced from 24h to 8h
• The time between when a town is captured until it is once more vulnerable has been decreased to 36 hours to compensate

The True Britannians faction mob has been changed from Drakes to Dragons.

Britannians: prepare to win it big! Buck E. Bees has opened a franchise of his famous casinos in Minoc! Located just south of the Minoc tinker shop, several games are available to play:

• A weekly lottery: 1,000gp per ticket. The winner takes home 50% of all collected gold.
• Slot machines - A possible payout of 100,000gp!
• Casino dice - A cheaper game with better odds and a chance to win 2,500gp!

We are excited to share that housing is going to be enabled in all online regions at the end of the month/beginning of the new year. This means you will be able to place houses around Britain, Minoc, and Cove regions.

Leading up to or at that time we will be enabling the Large Patio house option. We're still working out some kinks with another house model, the Small Workshop, and hope to have that ready by then as well. There's currently no news on any other house models becoming available.

To aid with moving we are also working on some tools to help with packing up house contents and making moves easier for players that don't have another house to use for storage and wish to relocate.

You may be asking yourself, "when is the rest of the map going to open?" We don't have any news at this time in terms of opening up the rest of the map, but we would love to expand the world as quickly as possible.

We will continue to keep you informed of any news that becomes available and we appreciate your support and patience.

• Fixed an issue preventing players from reporting player murders if a monster or NPC gets the killing blow
• Fixed an issue with treasure chests in dungeons not decaying if untouched for a period of time; additionally, random Orc Camps now spawn in overland with a chest of difficulty levels 3 to 5 (overland chests do not offer uncommon items like dungeon chests)
• Fixed an issue with the Stuck Menu not responding to button presses in some cases
• Fixed an issue with not being able to place the decoration Tattered Green Banner

Orcs have been spotted setting up camps around the world and taking human hostages. Keep your eyes out for suspicious activity.

The Santa Claws boss is now player triggerable. You must purchase Santa Claws' Candle from the gravedigging vendor, then place it under the Christmas Tree on the western side of the Yew area (where the spawn previously was). It takes 6 players nearby to activate. Once you've assembled, double click the candle.

After the restart, the following items have been addressed:

• A bug causing Faction Mages to persist beyond 24h has been resolved.
• Several faction sigil system bugs have been squashed. As a result, you may encounter the following scenario: 1. You steal a town sigil and deposit it in your faction stone 2. Someone else steals that sigil from your faction stone 3. Before they can deposit in their faction stone, you try to deposit a DIFFERENT faction sigil. You will be prevented from doing so until either they deposit that stone or you take it back.

Pending a restart, a new Necromancer spell has been added. It requires GM Forensic Evaluation, Spirit Speak, and Magery to unlock.

The spell is called Death Ward, and may only be casted on yourself. For its duration, if you are killed/ brought below 0 health, you will instead be returned to 1 HP (at which point Death Ward will be expended and you will once again be vulnerable).

Pending a restart:

• A stolen town sigil will now show the town's name.
• Faction mobs to kill for faction silver have been added. Drakes are associated with True Britannians, Daemons with Shadowlords, and Ogre Lords with Minax. Killing an opposing faction's mob grants you 30 silver. Faction mobs will still attack their associated faction players.
• Other random bugs with the town sigil system have been squashed.

The Faction Pillar / King of the Hill is now in game. It activates once every 80 hours, and you will receive a server alert when it does. It can be found in Destard Level 2.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions

Hail citizens of Britannia!

I will be producing a 2 to 3 minute promotional video for SOB.

I would like to show player's in-game recorded video's showcasing everything we have to offer.

I would like to get a collection of videos showing people mining, lumberjacking, fighting, stealing, faction wars, etc, etc

If you could upload it and post in stream-and-media I would be very thankful

I will try to get a dropbox or something similar sorted ASAP

-Transcendence

A new automated King Of The Hill style Faction event is coming soon to Britannia. The following details outline its basic ideas, but are subject to tweaks before release:

Every 80 hours, the Faction Pillar becomes active. This event is a King Of The Hill style event. Faction players must stay near the pillar and ward off other faction players nearby. This event lasts 30 minutes.

Every 30 seconds, the pillar ticks and determines what Faction players are nearby. If only one faction is nearby (controlling), that faction and each individual player receives 2 points. If two factions are nearby (contested), each faction and player receives 1 point. If 3 factions are nearby, nobody receives points.

At the end of the 30 minutes, the points are tallied up, both total faction points and individual player points. Every player in the winning faction who participated receives 750 Faction Silver. The top 5 players with regard to points, regardless of faction, receive 250 Silver (which may be in addition to winning faction silver). You must be online at the end of the event to receive your reward.