• Performance improvements.
• Destard's loot has been improved.
• Destard spawner density has been decreased.
• Some low end Undead monsters have had their loot slightly increased.
• Low end monsters in Despise have had their loot decreased.
• Wrong's loot has been improved.
• Ice Dungeon's loot has been improved.

• Added a black smoke fizzle animation for spells.
• Updated messaging for Starving skill/stat gains.
• Added Recall Sound/Animations to UseCharge on Runebook.
• Added animations to Tracking skill use for in tracking window and switching creature types.
• Fixed an issue with Campfire overlap by increasing distance between active campfires.
• Fixed an issue with Kindling no longer working after trying to place a campfire inside town.
• Updated messaging on Kindling use when Mounted, In Town, and near another Campfire.

All wandering healers have had their wanderlust reduced temporarily, until we can make them visible via map icons once again. The markers available via https://lou-map.herokuapp.com/ can be used to locate them.

The following changes are now live on the Test Center:

• Lumberjacking has been refreshed to be more in alignment with UO

• Successful harvests will produce up to 20 logs per swing

• Trees now have a maximum amount of wood that can be harvested

• Harvest bonuses removed and Prospector's Tool disabled for now, needs redesigned

• Kindling/apples removed from normal lumberjacking routine

• Can now use blade to cut trees to gather kindling

• Can chop trees in town, but resources are halved

• Macro system re-enabled & window will now only show once instead of refreshing every time a macro repeats
• Issue with Stablemaster "Retrieve pet out of range" option has been resolved once more, this update was due to go out previously but mistakenly was not applied, now it is
• Issue with freshly tamed pets not attacking their targets has been resolved
• Fixed an issue with Young status not being ended when committing a criminal action
• Fixed issue with "your X will break soon" happening prematurely
• Prevented ability to resist beneficial spells, especially when casted on thyself
• Fixed issue with trees not regrowing in a timely manner in some cases

An issue with not being able to leave your group in some cases has been resolved. Please log out and back in to receive the update, then try right-clicking your character and choosing Leave Group to try once more.

Unidentified musical instruments will now properly identify

Patch notes for Test Center are being kept track of here: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/28-test-center-patch-notes

• Fixed stackables not stacking when dropping objects onto containers directly
  - Added prevention for dropping objects to healthbars, this is not intended
  - Added prevention for mounting pets you cannot control over 30 difficulty
  - Removed ability to use Stack Contents on containers within player vendors
  - Fixed some stationed guards not responding to combat
  - Added prevention for using Forensic Eval against invalid corpses, or corpses that are part of the world
  - Added Vendor Glue so vendors will stop wandering for short duration while players interact with them

The Vorpal Easter Bunny that spawns when opening an easter egg nest was not intended to be tameable and they have been updated to reflect that, and any existing tames removed. Subsequently, if you had tamed and stored one on a pet broker, the pet broker should now be updated as well. Sorry for the confusion! We'll try to be more careful about things like this in the future. grimacing

An issue was resolved with using the Restock Reagents option with town vendors, if they are sold out of one or more of the items, causing players to be charged without receiving items. Please let us know if you encounter any other issues with the vendors.

• An issue with torches not behaving consistently has been resolved; torches have all been moved over to a new Torch slot, and a button for it added to the paperdoll
  - Attempting to purchase items from player vendors will no longer only consume gold from the bank if the purchase is over 3000gp, instead all purchases will now check bank for gold or checks
  - Speech prompts, like when setting prices with player vendors, will now automatically activate chat so you can begin typing without needing to press enter first
  - An issue with players not being able to call Guards on players that have become hidden has been resolved
  - Stealing chance bonus added for thieves with 100 Stealing, a spreadsheet with chance calculation added at https://kutt.it/ZvCqDQ
  - An issue causing pack animals to become overfilled in some cases has been resolved
  - An issue has been resolved that was allowing players to mount while hidden and continue moving while mounted & hidden
  - An issue with fishing nets having duplicate tooltips should be resolved
  - An issue with bankers spamming "Guards!" multiple times in a row when a criminal interacts with them has been resolved
  - An issue with disguised name not appearing, instead showing the character's real name in several cases has be resolved
  - The chef/cook vendors should now buy items that they sell, including apples
  - An issue with getting stuck inside of campfires when using Camping skill has been resolved

• An issue with some players getting stuck inside of the ice fishing huts has been resolved
  - An issue has been solved with adding a large amount of potions to a keg resulting in improper amount of empty bottles being returned
  - Empty bottles have been moved out of potion recipes and instead will consume an empty bottle only upon successful crafting of a potion; this is to help solve edge cases of empty bottles not being refunded sometimes during crafting
  - An issue with mana being overly consumed when using quick-travel spells has been resolved
  - An issue with being unable to cut fish into fillets has been resolved
  - An issue with the pet broker window not re-opening after setting a price has been resolved
  - An issue with some objects not being unequipped on death has been resolved
  - An issue with some effects not ending and cleaning up properly if logging out and back in after the duration has expired has been resolved, most notably Incognito
  - An issue that would sometimes cause mobs to spawn or leash to locations on house plots has been resolved

• An issue with the winter hair dye not working for female characters has been resolved

• An issue has been resolved sometimes causing Fishing related actions to report "You are already Fishing"

• An issue with fishing nets not working when using one from a stack has been resolved
  - An issue with the Macro Creator overriding floating hotbar icons has been resolved
  - The Blacksmith model houses have been retired due to a bug which only affects newly placed houses. If you already have a blacksmith model house and it still works fine then you may keep it. They are no longer utilized or supported by LOA so the blueprints have been removed from architects, but they can be sold back to the vendors for a full refund.

• Agressive rats should now ignore mobile collision/shove mechanics, if there are other small critters that do not ignore please send bug reports
  - An issue with group messages sometimes referring to payers as "nil" has been resolved
  - Group members should no longer trigger "... has logged in/out" alerts when switching regions
  - Equipment circle buttons will now appear on player vendor paperdolls to allow owners to more easily manage the vendor's worn equipment
  - An issue that sometimes causes vendors/pet brokers to be ejected from the house plot immediately when being hired should be resolved
  - For privacy reasons, whispers are now restricted to friends only, meaning that you will need to have a player on your friends list in order to /tell them or whisper them
  - Known Issue: Some secured objects on plots may not show the "Security" option in the right-click menu, we are investigating. As a workaround, we've added a "Manage Object Security" option to the plot menu to allow you to target a secured object and change it's security level.
  - Known Issue: Some house blueprints are not displaying their dimensions in their tooltips. As a workaround, it will now display the dimensions required in a system message when trying to place a house and it does not fit.
  - To aid with house placements, you can now target the mailbox directly when trying to place a house to attempt placing directly on the center of the plot.

• An issue causing players to be unable to purchase pets from pet brokers has been resolved

• An issue causing some vendor interactions not to work, most notably with the stablemasters, has been resolved

• An issue that sometimes causes mobs to decay while fighting them should be resolved
  - An issue with Peacemaking not playing music sounds when succeeding has been resolved
  - You are no longer able to initiate a transfer for a pet that the target would unable to control
  - Player vendor interact window will now close properly when clicking "Goodbye" or "I change my mind" when deciding not to buy something
  - A skinning knife/blade is now required to cut heads off of corpses
  - Ghost players should no longer be able to shove or be shoved
  - Small creatures like rats, turkeys, etc should no longer trigger shove mechanics