A new Ethereal Lizard Mount has been added to the Mount Donation Vendor. See #Staff Spotlight in our official Discord for pictures.

Public Vendor rentals have been set up at Santa's Workshop for the first time ever! Rentals cost 30k to start and are available until January 15th at 9am. Happy trading!

🎅 Write to Santa! ✨

Santa's Mailbox is now open at his workshop, eagerly awaiting your Letters to Santa!

🎄 How to Find Santa's Workshop: Santa’s Workshop can be accessed via the Cellar Doors at Windemere Bank, right next to the giant snowball.

Here's how it works:

• Purchase a Note from any Innkeeper or Provisioner.
• Write your heartfelt letter, explaining why you've been good this year and what you’re wishing for.
• Place your letter in Santa's Mailbox, and it will be delivered directly to Santa!

If you're lucky, Santa might even write back, so make it a letter worth reading! 🎄

Start writing today and share your holiday cheer! 🎅

We’ve deployed a hotfix to address the following issues:

• Mrs. Gobbles Summoning: Fixed an issue preventing summoning from the 2024 Thanksgiving Pet Cage.
• Holiday Feast Table Placement: Fixed placement issues. Please visit the "Item Fixer" NPC to resolve existing tables.
• Thanksgiving Potted Autumn Tree Hue: Corrected missing hue issue. UPDATE: If your autumnal tree is still missing color, please take it and visit the Item Fixer NPC and use the new option to fix your tree.

Thank you for your patience as we balanced project work with spending time with our loved ones. We truly appreciate you choosing to spend part of your holiday season with us!

A hotfix has been deployed to address an issue preventing some players from picking up the Thanksgiving Quest due to completing it last year. Please log out and back in to apply the fix, then try the quest again.

The results are in! The following characters have won the Halloween Raffle 2024:

• Taria
• Wyrx
• Tommesatan Congratulations to the lucky winners! 🎃

We will be in touch with your prizes soon, so keep an eye out!

A big thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Halloween events. It was an absolute blast, filled with fun, spooky surprises, and unforgettable moments. We truly appreciate the enthusiasm and spirit you brought to the celebrations.

Stay tuned for more exciting events in the future—until then, happy adventuring! 👻🕸️

• Hearthstone Usability Update: Fixed an issue where the Lord's Boon Hearthstone was unexpectedly unusable while the player was Paralyzed. As the Hearthstone is intended to be an 'uninterruptible' item, it can now be used even when under the effects of paralysis.

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.

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

• 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.

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.

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.

Dear players,

We experienced server issues during our recent event, which affected the overall gameplay experience. As a result, we will be rescheduling the event to the same time next week to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate as intended.

We sincerely apologize to everyone who attended the event. Unfortunately, these things happen sometimes, and we appreciate your understanding and patience. Rest assured, our team is working diligently to prevent such issues in the future.

For now, players can hunt Azureite Elementals to collect Halloween Azureite ore. Bring three pieces of ore to Spooky Marv at the Artists' Guild in Britain to receive exclusive Halloween paintings as rewards!

Also, be on the lookout for Puzzle Chests, which contain these Halloween paintings as well!

Stay tuned for more details, and we look forward to seeing you at the rescheduled event!

Thank you for your continued support, The Shards of Britannia Team

The chances of obtaining loot, such as decorative vines and other items, from moat fishing have been increased.

Join us soon for our Halloween event! Find all the details for time and date in our official Discord.

Here are some of the activities planned for the Halloween event:

• A treasure hunt for the rare version SOB 2000 flying broom.

• A Halloween raffle vendor offering prizes such as a Halloween Dragon Pet Dye, Dancing Skeleton, and Halloween Gauntlet.

• A treasure hunt for puzzle-locked chests containing rare paintings.

• A horse and cart Azurite collection event, where players team up to find and defeat Azurite Elementals. Collecting three pieces of Azurite ore and returning them to the art collector in Britain will reward players with rare Halloween-themed paintings.