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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.
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:
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
As a reminder of a couple of key server rules:
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.
Housing has been enabled on Dagger Isle, on both the island containing the Honesty shrine and the island northeast of the city.
Dagger Isle is live in Britannia!
Thanks for your patience! The server is coming back online with the recent updates outlined here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/bulk-orders-crafting-updates
At approximately 5:00 AM UTC (about an hour from now), the server will come down for a few major updates. We expect the server will be offline for less than an hour. Thanks for your patience as always, and we're excited to share some new content with you!
Due to the nature of the issue that caused the recent downtime, we have had to roll the server back to 9pm UTC/4pm US eastern in order to preserve data integrity. We apologise for this and do not do it lightly - however we have identified the bug and do not expect a recurrence at this time.
The server will be online again shortly, and we will be monitoring things closely. Thank you as always for your patience.
The server will remain offline while we track down an elusive bug. We are working on it and will restore service ASAP. There is no ETA at this time.
Thank you for your patience.
Britannia's first Housing Deco competition is underway for the next two weeks! If you think your house decorations are killer, check out the events channel for details and post your screenshots in the house-deco-contest channel. The winner gets a one-of-a-kind piece of deco! Show us what you got!
The Skara Brae faction town stone is now active! While holding the sigil, you can use the boats at the docks to teleport back to the mainland and run to your faction stone. Go capture it!
At 11pm UTC/6pm EST tonight we will bring the server back online and Skara Brae, as well as the mainland region near it, will be available for all players! Give us just a couple minutes after it's back up to get the moongate running.
There is one bug in the region currently to be aware of- You cannot lumberjack any trees in the Skara region. We will have this fixed in the coming days.
We hope you're as excited as we are to have the map expanded!
The server will be coming offline at 10pm UTC/5pm EST for some major updates. This may take up to one hour.
Thank you as always for your patience.
Our top Wizards have been working tirelessly, and we're happy to announce that the city of Skara Brae, as well as the mainland region to the east of it, will be available in game very, very shortly- and we mean REALLY shortly. While expanded landmass is awesome in and of itself, we wanted to give you a preview of some of the things that come with it:
We're excited to share the team's hard work with everyone VERY soon!
The landrush updates have been applied and the server will be coming online at 2:15 pm UTC (in about 5 minutes)!
Some maps have been added to the wiki page https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/housing#housing-allowed-areas to reveal what areas are Housing Allowed for each region.
We've got an update regarding the landrush announced earlier this month https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/housing-plan
The landrush will begin at 2:00 pm UTC on 1/1/22 and to see this in your time zone please see the time listed on the Discord Event: https://discord.gg/CuwaP9sbep?event=919129668781748256 as it is reflected in your local time.
At 2:00 pm UTC on 1/1/22 we will restart the server with the update to allow housing around Britain, Minoc & Cove.
We hope this accommodates most people's time zones and you're able to attend and secure the spot of your dreams!
We'd like to welcome the newest member of the team, Wize! He has extensive software development and unity experience, and will be focusing primarily on Unity for the moment (as we heard some of you wanted to see the map expand....). Please give him a warm welcome!
Happy holidays from the Shards of Britannia staff!
Twelve days of Xmas is about to commence. Santa has set up shop outside of Britain in Paws town. For naughty Britannians, Evil Santa has set up shop outside of Minoc next to the Buccaneer's Den archway teleporter. You will be able to talk to Santa each day, per account, to receive a gift. There may be appearances of Krampus or other evil holiday spirits throughout the event as well, stay tuned for more updates.
Note: Santa will not start handing out presents until 9am UTC Christmas Morning, but if you are logged in starting at midnight UTC on Christmas Eve you will get a gift to open early! :)
Event details from Discord: https://discord.gg/CuwaP9sbep?event=922085498011398165
As you may have seen, an article was published today announcing a business deal between Citadel Studios and another game company. This was also the first we have heard of this news at Shards of Britannia, as we find out news the same time the general public does. There's been no mention of what this means for the future or if any changes are expected for community servers. Due to that, we are continuing business as usual. We will, of course, keep you updated if we learn of any other news or updates, but for now we don't know anything more than what's been said in the article posted. Rest assured, our work will not stop and we will continue to push forward. That's all for now, thanks for reading!
The server will remain offline for up to 2 hours during the next restart window (9am UTC on 21st December) while we conduct some extended maintenance.
Thanks for your patience.
On Christmas Eve, the gravedigging vendor will cease to sell Santa's Candle, the item used to trigger the Santa Claws boss event. After Christmas Day, he will be gone for good, along with his Ethereal Reindeer.
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.
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:
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.
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