General improvements:
- Fixed an issue with 'phantom collision' being created at your character's position when using the Item Preview option
- Corrected the display names of the two commodity deeds sale listing on bank vendors to indicate which is blessed
- Fixed an issue with not being able to lockpick some decorative containers, in towns or dungeons, that are locked and intended to be picked and stolen from
Preparations are being made to expand the remainder of the world for boating and more deep water fishing! This will happen in phases and today we have a part of those changes being deployed.
Deep Water & SOS updates:
- Fixed an issue with some SOS maps not being fishable in some cases
- Improved fishing net progress bar to show "Fishing for Treasure" to indicate when you are fishing an SOS spot or regular fishing
- Improved Treasure Map image marker accuracy & increased the overall window size for better legibility
- SOS treasures are now enabled for deep water; starting out, about half of the maps will be in a deep water location, but we may transition to 100% deep water maps in the future as we open more water territory for boating
- Sunken Ships have been updated to a new Shipwreck scene using the new ship model with some nearby floating debris
- The chance to find MIBs has been greatly reduced for shallow water fishing
- MIB levels 3, 4 & 5 have been moved to deep water only and they can no longer be obtained from shore
- Deep water fishing may now yield different, potentially better, results than fishing from shore; expect to see more deep water content as we continue to expand the available water territory
- Monsters will now traverse to land from water if their combatant is not on the water or is onshore
- Many water-related monsters will now attempt to traverse into the water if their combatant should board a ship or go into the water
Ship Lockdowns:
- Large ships now allow locking down and unpacking objects to them, limited to 3 items, no containers allowed
Messenger Bottle:
- Added a new roleplay item: Messenger Bottle (appears as 'an empty bottle'), which can be purchased from Fishing vendors
- This can be used to send SOS (save our ship) messages or any message you should wish to write
- Dropping a Note to it, or double-clicking the bottle and targeting a note will insert the note into the bottle
- Filled bottles can be double-clicked to be thrown into the water where they will float away and be washed ashore someplace
- Notes that are discovered on the shore can be picked up freely if close enough with line of sight, or can be fished out with a fishing rod
- Note: this is just for role-playing purposes and is unrelated to SOS treasure hunting