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16th Oct 2026 patchnote

October Changelog

New Changes (October 16th)

πŸŽƒ Halloween

  • Halloween items – masks, hats, kilts, cloaks, robes, Pumpkin Heads, decorations, paintings, vanity pets and Halloween mounts now show their Halloween year and a little flavour text, including ones you already own. A few names were tidied up too, such as the Halloween Priest Mask and the Skeletal Steed statues.
  • Halloween decorations – packed decorations keep their year when you place them and pack them up again.
  • Candy Vendor – Halloween robes, cloaks and runebooks no longer show their year twice.
  • Ghost Ship – she now rises just north of the Ocllo moongate, shows on your minimap when you're nearby, stays for an hour, and rises again if a restart sinks her early.
  • Riddle Scrolls – riddle letters, scrolls and the Ledger now explain where scrolls come from and how letters help.

🩹 Interface

  • Loot All – no longer stops partway through for groups with Shared loot.

Earlier Changes

πŸŽƒ Halloween

  • Halloween Metal Mask – now shows its Halloween year and a little flavour text.
  • Pumpkin Fight – the Ledger now explains how to start one: right-click a rotten pumpkin and choose Start a Pumpkin Fight.
  • Cursed Crypt – the chest now tells you when your household has already claimed today and when you can claim again.
  • Harvest Horde – announcements now say it's best with 3 or more players.
  • Halloween costumes – tooltips now mention the Candy Hoarder buys them for 25 candy.
  • Hedge Maze signs – new signs by the Night Watch Shrine and the Gauntlet Keeper explain Survive the Night and the Pet Gauntlet.
  • Halloween paragons – their cursed map drops work again after a server restart.
  • Candy Vendor – house dyes, the torture wheel, pillory, spike rack, hanging cage, carving knife and carving pumpkin are 25% cheaper.
  • The Restless Dead – the announcement now names the boss, where in the dungeon it rose, and that it leaves after 40 minutes.
  • Pumpkin King – the Ledger now says plainly when and where he rises: Sundays at 19:00 UTC in the Hedge Maze, with the room named in chat.
  • Cursed treasure chests – chests left in the world through a server restart keep their seal and guardians and no longer error when you take items.
  • Master Carver commissions – Exceptional Haunted Stone Weapon Racks now count, and racks keep their Haunted material and quality when placed and repacked.
  • Mirror Duel – your double is tougher, carries your weapon and swings at its speed, and you now have 5 minutes to beat it.
  • Nightdrake – it now really turns up when digging graves.
  • Event rewards – the Pet Gauntlet and Survive the Night now list everything you won in the chat box.
  • Pumpkin Fight – the Ledger now explains that a player from another household must join and you must land a hit.
  • Halloween Dress – now shows its Halloween year and a little flavour text.
  • Toxic Green Mushrooms – mature plants can now be turned into decorations.
  • Ledger Notices – the Ledger has a new Notices tab with today's reminders, and login now shows one short line instead of several.
  • Halloween Dungeon – once opened, the pass stays open for 24 hours, even through a server restart.
  • Sunday Harvest Horde – the Pumpkin King leading it is now as tough as the Grave Abomination.
  • Patient Zero – now stands out with a coloured name, and the Horde warns that hitting other players will flag you.
  • Candy Vendor – new mid-priced items: fiery standing and hanging lanterns, a rabbit mask and a skeleton decoration.
  • Haunted Waters – candy from haunted fishing now has a daily limit per household, like other Halloween activities.
  • Leviathan's Lantern – placed and locked-down lanterns now show the green flame too.
  • Witch's Cursed Pact – the Ledger now lists the towns where you can find the Halloween Witch.
  • Haunted Cauldron – you now get a message when a gift doesn't win a prize, and its tooltip no longer repeats itself.
  • 🎟️ New: Halloween Raffles – three raffles paid with Raffle Tokens open at the raffle vendor from October 11, all drawn with the Haunted House Raffle on Halloween night (October 31, 8:00 PM UTC): Midnight Stable (25 tokens a ticket, up to 8 per account) for the Halloween Skeletal Steed statue and the black and yellow SOB 2000 ethereals, Harvest Costumes (10 tokens, up to 12) for four pet costumes with 300 candy each, and Night Pets (5 tokens, up to 15) for four pet dyes and a Spectral pet costume with 150 candy each. Read more
  • Harvest Horde – the horde now lasts up to 90 minutes (was 75), and once the Grave Abomination rises you get a full 20 minutes to bring it down, with a warning when it rises and at 5 and 1 minutes left. Read more
  • Hallows' Eve Ledger – digging a grave, digging up a cursed treasure chest, opening the Cursed Crypt chest and the Witch's Cauldron now also count for group members from other households within 25 tiles. Read more
  • Pet Gauntlet – you're warned at 5 minutes, 2 minutes and 30 seconds left, and when time runs out no new wave starts but you get up to 90 seconds to finish the one you're fighting. Read more
  • Haunted Waters – haunted fish now weigh to one decimal, heavier fish of up to 20 stones can rarely be caught, and on a tie the earlier catch keeps the higher place.
  • Halloween costumes – the Ostard, Nightmare, Daemon, Dragon Rex, Drake, Dragon, Reaper, Ophidian, Wisp and Vampire Bat costumes work again, and a character left stuck "polymorphed" without a costume is freed at the next login.
  • Hallowed gear – the Hallowed Cloak, Mask and Shield keep their bonus when you change region, such as entering a dungeon, without re-equipping.
  • Drowned Boarders – a boarder left alive on your ship no longer heals itself every few hits after you sail away; it can be finished off normally.
  • Master Carver commissions – the lock box, chest and stone weapon rack commissions can now be completed.
  • πŸ“– New: Hallows' Eve Ledger – an account-bound book listing every Halloween activity: it ticks off what you've tried, suggests what to try next, and pays titles and candy at milestones plus a small daily bonus for trying two different activities in a day. Activities the game has a record of you finishing before it opened are added at your next login, and Hester replaces a lost book. Read more
  • Ledger button and pages – a jack-o'-lantern button beside the minimap opens the Ledger (drag it by its frame, or hide it in Settings), and clicking any activity shows where to find it, how it works and when it runs.
  • πŸ‰ New: Nightdrake – a rideable winged drake joins the rare Night pets you can dig from graves, with the same stats and pet slots as a Nightmare. Read more
  • Gravedigging creatures – the drake, draken, hell cat and ripper that graves sometimes give up are regular creatures of their kind in dark colours, not Night pets; the draken and ripper can be ridden. Read more
  • Riddle Scrolls – 38 Halloween riddles, each with a clue; guesses ignore capitals, spaces and punctuation; the scroll shows your tries left and a tray of your riddle letters to click; Halloween scrolls pay up to 5 candy per hidden letter (was 3), and common letters drop more often. Read more
  • Mirror Duel – it's just you against your reflection now: your pets and summons wait outside the gate, summoning spells don't work in the pits, and nothing can be stolen from the reflection or cut off it. Read more
  • Restless Graves – solving the gravestone puzzle now pays 20-35 candy (was 5-15).
  • Hungry Ghosts – about half the time, a ghost you feed gives a small treat back: 5 candy or a riddle letter.
  • Pumpkin seeds – spare Toxic and Bloodmoon seeds now sell to the Candy Vendor for 5 candy (plain seeds stay at 1).
  • Lost Soul – the soul you're leading to rest now follows you through Recall, just as it does through gates.
  • Leviathan's Lantern – it now burns with an eerie green flame, and lanterns in your backpack or bank turn green too. Read more
  • Horseman statues – the Doctor Plague and Snail statues now arrive packed so you can move them; a stuck one in your backpack is packed for you at your next login.
  • Cursed Crypt chest – its claim and already-claimed messages now appear in the chat box and tell you when your household has claimed today (it resets at 09:00 UTC).
  • Login reminders – the daily Halloween reminders (Agatha's Ghost Tour, the Cauldron, the Pumpkin King, the Horde, and your pumpkin needing water or being ripe) now appear in the chat box instead of floating text.
  • Haunted House Raffle – the prize house's sign now reads "Owner: Raffle Winner", and the house doesn't decay while it waits for its winner.
  • Witch's Pact – right-click the Halloween Witch and choose Strike a pact; the Ledger now says so too.
  • Cursed treasure chests – the Level 5 chest now has a harder lock (Deviously) and 8-10 guardians (was 6-8), keeps its tier name, and taking items from a Level 5 or Level 6 cursed chest can raise more guardians.
  • Cursed Bait – the fisherman's listing now shows the price per bait.
  • 🌱 New: Pumpkin Patch – plant a Halloween Pumpkin Seed in the Hedge Maze patch, care for it for five days, then have Wendell judge it for the shard-wide top-10 board. Read more
  • πŸ‘‘ New: Pumpkin King – he rises in the Hedge Maze every Sunday at 19:00 UTC, and the heaviest judged pumpkin makes his hoard richer. Read more
  • Hedge Maze – the maze is dressed for Halloween, with sticky webs to break and a travellers' corner with a moongate, bank gate, Halloween Dungeon gate and ankh. Read more
  • Hester's Trail and the Headless Search – Hester Hollowell outside Britain Graveyard sends you trick-or-treating, then on to a darker hunt at the Headless Horseman's grave. Read more
  • Graveyard Corner – Agatha Crowe's Ghost Tour (a daily login line tells you where she is), Hungry Ghosts that want candy, and lost souls to lead to rest. Read more
  • Gatekeeper's Watch – pass the Gatekeeper's trial of the day near Yew to open the way to the Halloween Dungeon for everyone. Read more
  • The Headless Horseman rides – every night at 19:00 and 20:30 UTC, and a 250,000 gold offering at his grave summons the far deadlier Vengeful Horseman. Read more
  • Harvest Horde – once a day the dead rise at a graveyard or in the Hedge Maze for a staged group fight, announced with a countdown. Read more
  • Haunted Cauldron – give candy or spare Halloween goods at the Hedge Maze and bank cauldrons to unlock shard-wide milestones and a visit from the Cauldron Crone. Read more
  • πŸͺž New: Mirror Duel – Madame Vesper opens a gate where a double of you, in your own gear, fights you for the title Mirror-Breaker. Read more
  • 🐾 New: Pet Gauntlet – the Gauntlet Keeper sends you and your pets against waves of undead in the Green Acres arena, where only your pets fight. Read more
  • πŸŒ™ New: Survive the Night – ring the Night Watch Shrine and hold out with up to eight players against rising waves of undead. Read more
  • Veteran Hunts – the Harvest Altar, nightly Bounty Hunts, the Cursed Crypt, Master Carver's Commissions and the Restless Dead. Read more
  • Ghost Ship – a spectral galleon rises off Ocllo three times a night. Read more
  • Pet Tonics and the House Raffle – the Pet Tonic Peddler sells 30-minute pet boosts, and Haunted House Raffle tickets are on sale for candy. Read more
  • Costumes – costume tooltips now remind you to Beg at any town vendor while you wear one.
  • Candy barrels – the 30-candy barrel now starts its 1-hour countdown only once you place it.
  • Large exploding pumpkins – the loot bag can now hold a 1,500-2,500 gold purse, and rarely a Grave-Sealed Ward, a Riddle Scroll or a Halloween garden seed (up to 20 bags per household per day).
  • Wild pumpkins – smashing one now has a small chance to drop a Halloween Riddle Scroll.
  • Pumpkin seeds – they drop from wild pumpkins less often now that the Patch is open, and spare seeds of all three kinds sell to the Candy Vendor for 1 candy each.
  • Pumpkin deadlines – seed tooltips now say exactly when: plant until the end of October 25 and judge until the end of October 31 (midnight UTC).
  • Gravedigging pets – rare pets dug up from graves are never paragons, so you can always tame what you find.
  • Keep your Halloween goodies – pet costumes, pet tonics, the Potion of Vampirism, the Reaper's Lantern and the Grave-Sealed Ward keep working after Halloween ends (against monsters only).
  • Leaderboards – the Halloween leaderboards open in a clearer, easier-to-read window, and the Haunted Waters board has a Close button.
  • 🌱 New: Halloween garden seeds! Bloodmoon Poppy, Toxic Green Mushroom Spore and Spectral Lily are on sale at the Candy Vendor for 150 candy each, and drop rarely from wild pumpkins. Grow them in house pots and garden beds. Halloween colours breed true with their own kind and never turn up from ordinary seeds.
  • Sunken Treasure Maps – sunken chests and their guardians now appear on the ship's deck instead of in the water, and guardians that wander off the deck are brought back, so chests no longer stay warded by guardians you can't reach.
  • Cursed Treasure Maps – the Witch no longer appears as a chest guardian.
  • Gravedigging creatures – rare creatures now turn up from graves far more often.
  • Drowned Boarders – boarders your pets defeat now count toward your candy.
  • Candy Vendor – you can now sell ectoplasm to the Candy Vendor (the sell window only offered a minus button before).
  • Daily limit icon – when you reach a Halloween daily limit, a buff icon now shows which activity it is and how long until it resets at 09:00 UTC. Read more about these limits here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/halloween-2026/whats-new-halloween-2026#daily-activities-and-fair-limits
  • Pumpkin candy – the daily pumpkin limit was counting candy from pumpkin monsters before anyone killed them, so heavy smashers hit it far too soon. You'll be able to smash many more pumpkins before it kicks in.
  • Gravedigging candy – the daily limit was counting every grave at its maximum possible candy, so busy diggers ran out very quickly (and monsters from their graves carried no candy for anyone). It now counts what you actually get.
  • Drowned Boarders – boarders that nobody defeats now sink back into the sea after 10 minutes instead of riding your ship forever.
  • Halloween Pumpkin Seeds – seed tooltips now explain how to grow them in the new Pumpkin Patch, which opens on October 8th.

🌱 Young Players

  • Young status reinstatement – until January 1st, 2027, Lord Seymour (the Lord's Boon quest giver in Britain) can reinstate Young player status once per account for a character that still qualifies.
  • Ocllo – Young players no longer lose Young status from fighting difficult monsters anywhere on Ocllo island, including the campfire.

🩹 Skills & Fixes

  • Dark Guardian – cast on a boat, it now appears on the deck instead of getting stuck at the edge.
  • Bless – Bless, including from Cocoon, now shows its remaining time.
  • Necromancy – necro buffs now show their remaining time.
  • Anatomy – can now study any living creature or NPC, not only players.
  • Forensic Evaluation – undead players get the lore window on any pet, and it no longer shows a stale "killed by" for a living pet or creature.
  • Magic Trap and Remove Trap – a trapped container gets its bag type back when the trap ends or is removed, and Remove Trap no longer turns its colour plain.
  • Vampiric Touch – reports the health it actually restores and stays quiet at full health.
  • Zarx – you can hand in the key and zombie hands straight from your backpack, and if your backpack is too full for the scroll you keep your items and are told why.

πŸ—ΊοΈ World

  • Mining caves – pets now leave a mining cave together with you, so a horse no longer shows standing on the ground while you're riding it.
  • South Sea Market – a healer and an ankh now stand in the market, and its bankers and notaries work again.
  • Dropping items – something that couldn't be picked up again can no longer be dropped on the ground, so it can't decay away.

🩹 Interface

  • Move Contents – works like dragging items by hand, and names anything it couldn't move.
  • Notifications – removing a notification now removes the one you clicked.
  • Hotbar – a chum slot now uses chum, even with cursed bait in your pack (drag it to the hotbar again once).
  • Quick loot – shows the item's real name, such as "Rare Halloween Candy".
  • Pets – you can now Inspect your pet to see its hue and colour code.
  • Move Contents – an item that can't be moved is left behind instead of stopping the whole move.
  • Journal – the Journal now shows one page at a time, always opening on the newest page.
  • Journal performance – having the Journal open during combat could drag your framerate down to single digits, because the window was being rebuilt several times a second. It now updates at most once a second, skips updates for log categories you've filtered out, and doesn't redraw at all when nothing visible has changed.

πŸ”Ž Tracking

  • Hide Party Members – a new option in the Tracking menu leaves your own party members out of the Players, Hostile Players, Friendly Players and Thieves lists, so you only see the people you're looking for. The setting is saved on your character.
  • Hunting Mode – now locks on to the closest target it finds instead of the farthest, and reliably skips your party, guild, faction and your own pets.

πŸ’Ž Mastery Gems

  • Group loot – with Shared group loot, Mastery Gems now reach the looter whole; before, a looted gem could arrive blank or merge into a different gem (plant pollen and repair deeds were affected too).
  • Install Gem – tells you if you're missing Shard Essence or gold before asking you to pick a gem, and goes straight to the confirmation when you carry just one Mastery Gem.
  • Gem Mastery XP – the necklace tooltip updates right away instead of after a relog, and Hester's Trail and the Headless Search tell you the XP you gained just once.
  • πŸ’Ž New: Gem Book! An account-bound book that stores your Mastery Gems on named pages: 1,000 Donation Tokens, or 250,000 gold at the Jeweler. The Candy Vendor sells a Halloween-hued Haunted Gem Book for 1,500 candy.
  • Blank gems – gems that dropped with no bonus and nothing under the name are repaired automatically when you log in.
  • Stored gems – gems kept in commodity deeds or storage now come back as separate gems, each with its own fair roll.
  • Resource chests – house and gardener resource chests no longer accept Mastery Gems, since storing them there wiped and re-rolled their bonuses.

πŸ“œ Quests & Gardening

  • Toxic Green Mushrooms – decorations now keep their full name.
  • Gold rewards – quest and Thief Hunter gold rewards now show their reward message.
  • Horse Cart – the Horse Cart quest can now be repeated once every 20 hours.
  • Plant crosses – crossing rare-colour plants no longer fails.

🎣 Fishing

  • πŸ† New: Halloween Fishing Contest! Every Sunday the heaviest haunted catch of the week gets a shout-out, and at the end of the season the top anglers win titles (Leviathan's Bane, Master of the Haunted Waters), the Leviathan's Lantern, hued fish trophies and rare candy, delivered at their next login.
  • 🎣 New: haunted fish dishes! Cook Ghostfin Chowder, Drowned Eel Stew and Pumpkin Carp Pie for 30 minutes of help against monsters. Details on the wiki.
  • 🎣 Bait icon – while the fishing rod in your hand has bait on it, a Bait icon now shows on your buff bar with the bait type and its catch bonus. No more checking the paperdoll!
  • Cursed Bait – each catch now gets its own 12% chance at the Halloween catches, and the bait is eaten less often.
  • πŸŒ™ Night at sea – a moon or sun icon above the minimap now shows whether it's night while you're at sea, when the rarest Haunted Waters catches bite.
  • Haunted Waters – haunted catch tooltips now read "Fished up by [name] during Halloween 2026", and rare catches (sunken chests, relics, lanterns) now have a daily limit per household like other Halloween rewards.

βš”οΈ Combat & Creatures

  • Leashing – a creature heading home turns and fights again if you hit it while it's still in range, and creatures that chase too far now reliably go home instead of freezing.
  • Waking creatures – a creature you wake now goes for you instead of heading home, and entering combat mode with a creature selected wakes it.
  • Ranged creatures – archers and casters back away from their attacker instead of running toward their spawn, and fight for a few seconds between retreats.
  • Patrols – patrolling creatures return to their route after a fight instead of chasing forever.
  • Bosses after a restart – an untouched boss no longer stands passive and invulnerable for a minute after each server restart.
  • Seasonal paragons – paragons, including the Halloween titans, now pay paragon gold (titans up to 3,000) instead of ordinary monster gold.
  • Necromancer pets – undead pets no longer cause other players' pets to attack them.
  • Kill credit – monsters with special death rewards now credit the player who actually killed them.
  • No more surprise full heals – Drowned Boarders, and monsters and bosses in general, no longer heal back to full in the middle of a fight just because nobody hit them for a few seconds. They only recover once they've truly left combat.
  • Necromancer pets – undead pets no longer provoke harmless animals (chickens, boars, turkeys) into attacking them after a fight.
  • Transfusion – its cooldown now works as intended.

β›΅ Boats

  • Pets on ships – pets ordered to attack a sea creature now move to the closest spot on deck and fight it instead of ignoring the order.
  • Boats – boats now sail straight through corpses in the water instead of being stopped by them. The corpse stays where it fell, so you can still loot it.
  • Fixed a bug where teleporting to your boat with its key (or logging in while aboard) could leave you swimming beside it, with "a strong current" dragging you to shore and your pets moved off the deck.
  • Fixed boats sometimes refusing to move ("something is blocking the way") when someone was standing in the middle of the deck.
  • Fixed items occasionally being refused when dropped onto a boat's deck, with a "You can't throw stuff into the water!" message.
  • Boat keys – teleporting to a boat in another region no longer shows the "doesn't seem to exist" message twice.

🧰 Items, Crafting & Vendors

  • Crafted deeds – repacked furniture keeps its material name, such as "Haunted Stone Weapon Rack Deed".
  • Sacred Runebook – Mark and Gate charges are only used when the spell works.
  • Cursed Crook – now shows as "a Cursed Crook" instead of looking like a plain shepherd's crook.
  • Lord's Boon – a buff icon now counts down until your Lord's Boon is ready again.
  • Repair – target one of your bags with Repair to repair everything repairable inside it.
  • Item condition – an item's condition now updates as soon as it wears or is repaired, including after a failed repair, and the low-durability warning shows once at 25% and again at 10% instead of on every hit.
  • Masterwork Catalyst – no longer lowers the durability of items that were already above its bonus.
  • Repair contracts – contracts stolen from a stack keep their skill and level.
  • Resource chests – clearing the search no longer resets the amounts you typed.
  • Bag organizer – pouches inside locked chests keep their type and colour.
  • Hats and hoods – if one breaks while you're wearing it, your hair comes back.
  • Cart horses – using a regular horse dye on one now tells you to use a Horse Cart dye.
  • Exceptional crafting – the Cleverly Locked Box, Chest and Stone Weapon Rack can now be crafted at Exceptional quality.
  • Holiday item names – Halloween torches and a few other holiday items that showed "#year#" in their name now show the year; ones you already have are fixed at the next restart.
  • πŸ‘€ New: try before you buy! The Preview button on town vendors, veteran and patron rewards and bulk order rewards now places the item at your feet for 3 minutes, visible only to you. A small window lets you raise, lower, rotate or remove it, so you can see exactly how that furniture or decoration will look before you spend a coin. Pets and mounts for sale can be previewed too: a copy appears next to the vendor for 30 seconds.
  • Pillows – every pillow (furniture, packed and treasure-chest pillows) can now be cut into 3 cloth with scissors, one at a time or with cut-all.
  • Wooden Buckets – buckets from shipwrecks can now be chopped into boards with a hatchet, including the ones you already have.
  • Repair contracts – repair contracts from Halloween rewards no longer come out blank ("take this to a nil shop"). Use a blank contract and choose a trade, and it becomes a Grandmaster repair contract for that trade. Blank contracts already in your bags work too.
  • Weapon durability – some items re-rolled their maximum durability every time the game checked them, so a barely used weapon could suddenly claim it needed repairs. The "needs repairs" warning now also matches the tooltip ("Rather battered").
  • Vendors – fixed an error when an item sold out while it was in your shopping list.

🩹 Buff Bar

  • Buff bar – fixed more buff icons that could stay on your bar after their effect had ended

Fixed a bug where bandage icons could get stuck on your buff bar and pile up in a row. This happened when a bandage was interrupted at just the wrong moment, or if you logged out or changed areas while bandaging. Bandage icons now clear themselves once the bandage ends, no matter how it ends. If you already have stuck bandage icons, they will disappear on your next login. If any other buff icon stays on your bar after its effect has worn off, please let us know which one. Hover over the icon to see its name.

Monster behavior

  • Monsters now turn back at the same distance every time instead of giving up at random.
  • A monster stays on whoever has done the most to it. A single hit from someone else, or a player walking past, no longer pulls it away. Tanks and pets hold aggro reliably.
  • Monsters that ignore you on sight keep ignoring you, and they always go for the nearest player first.
  • Monsters eventually forget players who stopped fighting them.
  • Healing only draws attention from monsters fighting the person you heal.
  • Fleeing monsters run away from you instead of in a random direction.
  • Idle monsters stay near where they belong.
  • Monsters that lose sight of you will look around for a few seconds before giving up.
  • Creatures left stranded far from home now return to where they belong once the area is clear.
  • Lord Grargh the Warchief no longer resets constantly and can be fought properly again.

Pets

  • Caster pets such as drakens now keep chasing their target instead of stopping to cast from out of range.

Factions

  • Fixed a bug where a sigil placed in a Sigil Holder could be returned to its town early, leaving a second copy behind in the holder.

Crafting and items

  • Your carried weight now updates correctly after milling logs into boards, and after anything else that changes the size of a stack, such as smelting, crafting or splitting stacks.


27th Sep 2026 announcement

πŸŽƒ Halloween 2026: A Sneak Peek πŸŽƒ

Halloween returns October 1st, and this is our biggest Halloween yet. Here's a taste of what's coming:

🏠 Homes, Pets & Style

  • House Dyes! A brand-new feature: give your home a spooky new colour for the season, and wash it off whenever you like.
  • Pet Costumes that truly transform your pet. Turn a chicken into a dragon, or your dog into a hell hound, until you take the costume off. Your pet always gets its own look back.
  • Mount Costumes for rideable pets, so your steed can join the fun too.
  • Temporary Pet Styling Potions. Give your pet a temporary monstrous makeover, with a little something extra in battle.
  • New colourways for Halloween masks, robes, cloaks and more, plus lots of new masks, cloaks and pet dyes at the Candy Vendor.
  • Spooky house decorations, including gnarled graveyard trees, tabletop mini trees and the Harvest Scarecrow.
  • Four new Night pets waiting to be dug up while gravedigging.

πŸŽƒ Pumpkins, Candy & Classic Fun

  • The Pumpkin Patch. Grow your own giant pumpkins, carve them into keepsakes, and see how they measure up at the judging stand. Rumour has it the Pumpkin King himself pays a visit at the end of the season.
  • Rotten Pumpkins and the Pumpkin Fight. Grab a rotten pumpkin and start a messy battle.
  • The Trick-or-Treat Trail returns with Hester Hollowell, and her story doesn't end there: The Headless Search picks up where the Trail leaves off.
  • The Ghost Tour. A wandering chronicler has tales to tell, if you can find her.
  • Hungry Ghosts. Trick-or-treating in reverse: these ghosts want your candy.
  • The Haunted Cauldron. The whole shard donates candy together to reach community milestones.
  • Lost souls need an escort to their final resting place.
  • The Restless Graves, a spooky new puzzle.
  • The Mirror Duel. Gaze into a haunted mirror and face the one who stares back.
  • The Witch's Cursed Pact. Make a deal with the Witch, for a price.
  • The Haunted House Raffle. One very lucky winner will call it home.
  • A Halloween login gift with prizes that have never been available before.

βš”οΈ Monsters, Bosses & Treasure

  • The Headless Horseman rides again with new tricks, and something even worse waits for the bold: the Vengeful Horseman.
  • New creatures stalk the night: Possessed Pumpkins, Pumpkin Ghouls, and a Candy Mimic that's not what it seems.
  • The Restless Dead. A themed boss rises in a different dungeon each night. Defeat them all for a season title.
  • The Harvest Altar. Uncover its secret and face what rises from the earth.
  • Nightly Bounty Hunts. Take a contract and hunt down the night's most wanted.
  • Cursed Treasure Maps, including a new sea variety. Follow the map, raise the chest, and deal with whatever guards it.
  • New Hallowed weapons, rare trophies, and handy charms like the Grave-Sealed Ward and the Reaper's Lantern.

πŸ‘₯ Group Adventures

  • The Cursed Crypt. Work together to open its sealed door, but be careful: guess wrong and the crypt fights back.
  • Survive the Night. Ring the Night Watch Bell, gather your friends, and hold the graveyard against wave after wave of the dead.

βš“ On the Seas

  • The Ghost Ship haunts the waters after dark. Board her, fight her spectral crew, and face her captain for a chance at the treasure in her hold.
  • Drowned Boarders. Sail at night and the drowned may climb aboard.
  • Haunted Waters. Strange new catches lurk beneath the waves.
  • The Ferryman offers quick crossings, for a toll.

πŸ”¨ For Crafters

  • Haunted crafting materials: seasonal ore, wood and granite.
  • Master Carver's Commissions. Special orders for skilled crafters, with rewards and a rare title.

βš”οΈ Mastery Chain is coming too!

Mastery Chain launches alongside Halloween. The spookiest corners of Britannia may hold a few Mastery surprises for those who go looking.

πŸ› οΈ And More

  • A tidier Candy Vendor with category tabs, and it'll now buy back your leftover event junk.
  • Year-round extras: House Paint and premium outdoor fountains, Guild Colours for guild leaders, and a selection of pet dyes at the Stablemaster.
  • Buff bar icons are far more reliable, and plenty of other bugs have been squashed along the way.

We can't wait to see you out there. Happy haunting! πŸ‘»


16th Sep 2026 announcement

πŸŽƒ Halloween 2026

Halloween opens October 1 at 9:00 UTC and runs through November 7 at 9:00 UTC.

What is happening

  • Pumpkins return across the world, along with trick or treating, the Halloween dungeon, gravedigging, seasonal fishing and paragon hunting.
  • The Halloween vendors stay open until December 1, so there is plenty of time to spend what you gather after the event itself ends.
  • A login gift is waiting for every account from October 24 until the event closes.
  • We are running a property raffle this year. Tickets go on sale when the event opens and the draw is on Halloween night, October 31 at 8:00 PM UTC. Anyone who has won a house in a past raffle sits this one out, so the keys go to someone new.
  • There are a few new faces to hunt down among the rare pets.

What we have been working on

We went back through years of your suggestions, bug reports and thread posts and used them as the to do list.

A good part of this year went into the unglamorous half: pieces of the event that had quietly stopped working, drops that were not landing the way they should, prices that had drifted, and rewards that nobody could actually reach. The short version is that the season should feel closer to how it was meant to feel.

There is new content on top of that, including a few small additions that came straight out of requests from players.

What comes after

  • Thanksgiving: November 7 to December 5
  • Christmas: December 5 to January 2
  • New Year: December 31

Thank you for the ideas, the bug reports and the patience. Keep them coming. A good number of this year's changes started as a message from one of you. πŸ‘»


11th Jul 2026 patchnote

A small patch has been released for the launcher. If you don't immediately see the offer to restart the launcher with the patch, exit from the launcher and reload.

Fixes:

  • An issue where the launcher could sit at 'connecting to server' indefinitely
  • An issue preventing access to 'accounts.db' when the game client is installed in the \Program Files\ path on Windows


28th Jun 2026 patchnote

Your bound items are now protected from accidental loss.

✨ What's New

🎁 Automatic Item Rescue Soulbound, account-bound, and Patron reward items will no longer be destroyed when they would normally be lost. The server now catches them and delivers them safely to your bank instead.

This now protects items lost to:

  • 🏚️ Houses falling into IDOC / decaying
  • ⏳ Items left on the ground long enough to decay
  • πŸ’€ Items left inside a monster corpse that rots away
  • βž• Plus other cases of decay or deletion

Account-bound & soulbound items return to your account vault β€” claim them from any character the next time you open your bank. Character-bound Patron items return to the specific character they belong to.

πŸ“¬ Rescue Notifications You'll get a message letting you know when an item has been saved so you know to check your bank. During big events like a house collapse, these are bundled into one summary so you're not spammed.

πŸ—‘οΈ Destroy Bound Item Need to get rid of a bound item on purpose? Right-click it and choose Destroy Bound Item. You'll always get a confirmation prompt first β€” no accidental deletions.


28th Jun 2026 announcement

New Changes

Bound Item Rescue β€” Soulbound, account-bound, and Patron reward items are now auto-saved to your bank instead of being lost to house/IDOC decay, ground decay, or monster corpses; adds rescue notifications and a right-click "Destroy Bound Item" option.

Changes

  • Faction members ranked 3 or above can now place deeded decoration items inside their faction bases, with a maximum limit of 30 items.
  • The Gardener's Chest now handles seeds correctly, with a single entry per plant/color pair.
  • The Gardener's Chest now provides the correct storage limits. Limits and other characteristics are described in the player guide: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/gardening_gardeners_tools
  • Mobile repair kits have been added to the game
  • Magical items can be bulk disenchanted now
  • Fix has been applied for existing mage bucklers so they can be used
  • Tamed pets can now gain points in meditation -The Black Goods Vendor issue has been resolved. A previous bug prevented players from receiving their rewards. If a player doesn't have enough space in their backpack, the rewards will now drop to the ground and they will be notified.
  • The Faction Dungeon is now no-mount.
  • A craftable gardener's resource chest has been added. It requires a recipe that can be purchased from the gardening quest giver.


5th Jun 2026 patchnote

Faction Pillar Conflicts have received their largest update in years. Events are no longer locked to a single thirty-minute ruleset at a random site. Faction players can now configure almost every aspect of a match from their faction stone before it goes live, choose where it is fought, and pick one of three distinct game modes. Portals still open in major cities when an event starts, and the classic pillar arenas remain the battlegrounds β€” but how you fight there is now largely up to you.

To schedule an event, use Activate Pillar Event on your faction stone. A setup window lets you pick duration, respawn rules, player limits, combat mode, base protection, mounts, bolas, and location. When you are ready, press Schedule Event for a Team Pillar or Free-For-All match using those settings. Capture the Flag is started separately with the CTF Mode button, which applies fixed CTF rules on top of your chosen duration, respawn, mount, bola, and location options. You must select a location before anything can be scheduled. The server also checks that enough players are online; team and CTF events normally require at least two factions represented, while FFA events can be scheduled when only one faction has members online, as long as the minimum total player count is met. A short countdown follows approval, then the announcement goes out and the portals open.

Duration and reward scaling now follow the length you choose. Team and FFA events can run ten, twenty, thirty, forty-five, or sixty minutes. Capture the Flag requires at least twenty minutes; if you had ten minutes selected for a pillar event and switch to CTF, the duration automatically bumps to twenty. Rewards scale with time, using thirty minutes as the baseline at one hundred percent. A ten-minute event pays roughly a third of that, a twenty-minute event about two-thirds, forty-five minutes one and a half times, and sixty minutes double. Team events capped at one player per faction pay twenty-five percent of the scaled amount on top of that. FFA gold payouts use the same duration scaling.

Respawn and stat loss can be set to Zerg (instant respawn, no stat loss), Fast (light stat loss and quicker healer cycles), or Standard (classic delay and heavier stat loss). This applies to all three modes. Player limits for Team and FFA range from Open (everyone can fight), Balanced teams (overpopulated factions may bench extra players as inactive standby), or hard caps from one-versus-one through five-versus-five per faction. CTF always uses balanced teams with a plus-one standby slot. Combat mode for scheduled pillar events is either Team battle, where only rival factions score kill credit and a faction wins by total points, or FFA, where everyone can damage everyone and the top individual player wins the announcement. Faction bases can be Safe, with guards protecting spawn areas as in classic events, or Open, allowing fighting inside enemy spawns. CTF always uses open bases. Mounts can be allowed or disabled; when disabled, players are dismounted on entry and cannot use mounts or ethereal mounts for the duration. Bolas can be allowed or turned off entirely. Locations include Spiritwood Outpost near Skara Brae, Vraal's Mausoleum near Minoc, Deep Forest Ruins in Yew, Samlethe Pass in Wind, and Dragon's Peak on Dagger Isle.

When an event goes live, faction members who enter the arena receive the Faction Event buff automatically if they are eligible. While under that effect you do not consume reagents, bandages, or arrows, though you must still carry them. On death you drop only magical equipment and volatile spellbooks. Recall and gate travel are blocked, skill gains are paused, and after a short delay you teleport to your faction's event healer, which resurrects on a timer depending on the respawn mode you chose. Bonded pets teleport with you; healers generally will not resurrect pets unless they are mountable. If death teleport fails, the /basereturn command sends your ghost and pets back to your faction base while you are dead. Players suffering event stat loss are not worth silver and cannot earn kill silver until it wears off. Under Standard respawn, expect roughly ninety seconds of reduced stats and slower movement, scaled by the selected preset. Factions with more active players than the smallest faction may suffer increased stat loss over time. If safe bases are enabled, enemies who enter a guarded enemy spawn are killed by guards; that protection does not apply in CTF or when open bases are selected.

A draggable event HUD shows the mode, faction standings, your kills, deaths, and captures where relevant, the options in effect, and in CTF the flag status including a respawn countdown when the flag is returning to the pillar. The plus button opens the leaderboard. When balanced teams are active and one faction is overpopulated, extra members join as plus-one Inactive standby. Standby players are in the event but cannot fight for score and cannot pick up the CTF flag; they are activated automatically when team sizes even out. Balance benching does not apply when fewer than three players are in the match. Please note that Minax characters are temporarily blocked from joining live pillar and CTF events, though staff may still spectate; this restriction may be lifted in a future update.

Team Pillar remains the default classic mode. Every thirty seconds the pillar ticks if at least two factions have active fighters present. One faction controlling the pillar earns two faction points and two individual points for nearby members. Two factions contesting earn one point each. Three factions present, or nobody holding the pillar, earns nothing. Kills steal a portion of the victim faction's points when that faction has points to lose, with the top damager credited on the leaderboard. Same-faction kills do not score. Kills between characters on the same machine do not score. Repeat kills on the same opponent within two minutes do not score, except in one-versus-one team events where that cooldown is skipped because there is only one enemy. Valid rival kills during the event pay kill silver through the pillar system rather than normal overworld faction payouts. The faction with the most points when time expires wins.

End-of-event rewards for Team Pillar and CTF require meaningful activity in the match: at least two total kills across all players for team events, or at least one flag capture plus two opposing factions having been present for CTF rewards. If the gate fails, everyone is told that no rewards were given. Winning faction members receive faction coins and silver scaled by duration, with bonuses if your faction controls Cove. Losing faction members who earned individual points receive a participation silver payout. The top five players by individual points receive tiered silver bonuses if they meet presence and participation requirements; team mode requires sufficient combat involvement and, for top rewards, kills on multiple unique opponents (one unique opponent suffices in one-versus-one team events). The number-one player by points also has a ten percent chance at a rare faction pillar prize, but only on events scheduled for thirty minutes or longer. Presence requirements are fifty percent of the event for team pillar and twenty-five percent for CTF. Standby players generally do not receive win or lose payouts unless activated onto the fighting roster. You must still have the Faction Event effect when rewards are processed at the end.

Free-For-All mode removes faction victory. There are no pillar faction points and no kill point stealing between teams. Individual score comes from your share of damage on kills, and same-machine and repeat-kill restrictions are relaxed so scrimmages flow more freely. The top individual player wins the end announcement, with ties possible. FFA does not pay faction coins, silver, or the rare prize, but it now pays gold to the top five players deposited into your bank. At a full thirty-minute event the winner receives fifteen thousand gold, with second through fifth place receiving twelve thousand, nine thousand, six thousand, and three thousand respectively, following a five-four-three-two-one split. Shorter or longer events scale those amounts with the same duration multiplier used elsewhere. FFA requires at least two total kills in the match for any gold to be paid, and eligible top players must have scored points or sufficient combat participation and meet the twenty-five percent presence requirement. Scheduling an FFA event only requires one faction to be online rather than two.

Capture the Flag is a entirely new way to fight at the pillar. Use the CTF Mode button on the faction stone rather than Schedule Event. CTF uses balanced teams with plus-one standby, open bases, flag captures as the only scoring, no pillar control ticks, and no kill-based point stealing. Kills still matter tactically because they drop the flag, and rival kills during an active CTF now pay kill silver the same way team pillar kills do, without affecting capture points. The flag spawns at the central pillar. An active fighter uses the flag to pick it up, wearing it as a flag quiver on their back, and carries it to their faction healer base within capture range to score. Each capture awards ten points to your faction and to you personally. After a capture the flag respawns at the pillar after two minutes, with a countdown shown on the HUD. If the carrier dies the flag drops where they fell. If the carrier leaves the event the flag returns to the pillar after two minutes. Carriers can pass the flag to a teammate through the quiver's transfer target, but cannot mount, and sigil or siege key holders cannot carry the flag. Standby players cannot pick up the flag. To prevent solo abuse, the flag cannot be picked up or captured until at least two different factions each have one active fighter on the roster; the HUD will show when the flag is waiting for another faction. End rewards follow the same coin and silver structure as team pillar, with CTF-specific presence and participation rules tied to captures and roster membership rather than kill counts.

When an event ends, the pillar deactivates, healers are removed, rewards are calculated, leaderboards are shown, and the Faction Event effect remains briefly so payouts can finish before normal rules return. Staff who stop an event early end it with no rewards for anyone.

Whether you are organizing a quick ten-minute skirmish, a full-hour siege for maximum payout, a free-for-all gold hunt, or a capture-the-flag grudge match, the faction stone is now your war table. Rally your faction, choose your rules, and meet your enemies at the pillar.


30th May 2026 announcement

New Changes

  • Faction players who log out in rival faction bases for 20 minutes will now be sent to Limbo.
  • Faction Challenge Stones are now live.
  • Auto ballistas have been fixed.
  • The Fortune Favor loot message now works correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where Thieves Court stealing did not result in the player being killed by guards.
  • Fixed a bug with Faction Challenge chests not opening and the countdown timer not displaying.
  • Battering rams no longer regenerate health.

Changes

  • You cannot use the bank while on the Britain Bank Roof. You must be standing on the ground. The Bank roof is still a safe zone!
  • The faction boss in the Minax base has had its loot table updated.
  • Players can now assign their faction to their houses and configure faction security options.
  • Alchemists can now craft poison and explosive catapult rocks.
  • A donation chest has been added at the Chicken Fighting Tournament area inside the Moonglow Zoo. Players can drop items into the chest, but only staff members can take items out. All donations will be used for the event winners.
  • Catapults now have an option in their UI to select the default ammo type.
  • Catapults now deal damage to battering rams.
  • Newly crafted catapult ammo can now be stacked.
  • Fixed magic scrolls sold by the Chicken Fighting Tournament NPC.
  • Faction monsters now drop 3Γ— the normal amount of silver when Moonglow is in control.
  • Faction bases now feature Sigil Holders. Players can place a second town sigil in these holders to secure it for 24 hours. Rival factions can steal sigils from them. -Faction MOBs now spawn out-front of the Faction Bases. -Reflections can now be edited. -Faction players now earn silver for killing faction mobs. The amount is doubled if your faction controls Moonglow. Final fix for the Bounty Hunter Seeker Raven: -If you have harvested or done PvE within the last 10 minutes, the raven will have a 5min cooldown after every use. -If you have not harvested or done any PvE in the last 10 minutes, there is no cooldown. -Tracking a murderer prevents you from fast traveling for 2 minutes.
  • Faction base treasure chest now have a "View Chest Log" option this will allow faction member with Rank 3 or higher to view the last 4 people to access the chests and time.
  • Catapults will now auto fire after 2minutes when loaded.
  • Faction Dungeon and Minax Base bosses have had more faction siege loot added.
  • Faction guards and base MOBs can now be killed by catapults.
  • Town stones will now turn orange when their sigil is being captured by a faction.
  • The faction with the most towns under its control can now siege the Minax base, which is now used for PvE content. Only this faction’s battering rams can damage the siege gate.
  • The Talisman of the Unpickable Vault can now be purchased from the Black Goods Thief Guildmaster using Thieves Coins. This talisman can only be used by players with Grandmaster Lockpicking. It allows them to lockpick newly ingeniously locked chests.
  • Players in the faction that controls Cove earn +50% more silver worldwide (this bonus applies to all silver gains, not just pillar events).
  • Faction guards can now be placed inside faction bases using the command "I wish to place a guard". If your faction controls Britain, you can also use "I wish to place an archer guard". Both commands will deduct silver from your faction stone.
  • Siege gates can now be fortified by a faction GM blacksmith using 50 Valorite ingots. This doubles the gate's strength for 4 hours. You can extend the fortification for another 4 hours by re-fortifying the gate within the last 10 minutes before it expires.
  • A new seasonal prize has been added to the Faction Pillar Events! Complete 20 events to receive the prize. This challenge can be completed multiple times per season, and the prizes will rotate with each new season.
  • Faction Base House Portal Deeds have been added to the faction coin vendors.
  • Players can now deposit silver into their faction stone. The silver can be used to activate a force field at the front of the faction base.
  • There are four different types of force fields. The more expensive ones are stronger and take more hits to destroy.
  • While a force field is active, attackers must first use catapults to destroy the guard tower generating the field before they can use a battering ram to breach the base.
  • Once a force field has been destroyed, another one cannot be activated for 1 hour.
  • When the guard tower takes initial damage, an alert is sent to all faction members warning them that their base is under attack.
  • The guard tower can be repaired using siege repair tools. -The sigil capture time has been reverted to its original system: a base of 8 hours, plus an additional 4 hours for every town already captured by that faction.
  • When player-placed faction guards are attacked by rival factions, a faction-wide alert is now sent to all members.
  • Factions that own Yew now receive a 50% increase to lumber harvesting, while factions that own Minoc receive a 50% increase to ore harvesting.
  • Loot inside faction dungeon treasure chests has been significantly improved.
  • A stablemaster, banker, and mage NPC have been added inside the faction bases.
  • The bounty hunter alert for when a murderer logs in now has a random delay of 5–15 minutes "The dread ravens bring word, a murderer has recently entered the world!".
  • Faction players whose faction controls Cove will receive +25% silver from pillar events and +2 faction coins.
  • Siege gates can now be repaired with siege repair tools.
  • You can now pick up Town Sigils that have been dropped on the ground.
  • Factions that own Skara Brae can now purchase Faction Shark mounts. The vendor can sell one every 24 hours for 500 faction coins.
  • Faction gazers inside bases have had the amount of faction coins in their loot increased.
  • Added Undead Pack Beetle scroll to the Necromancer vendor.
  • Reduced Undead Pack Wraith control slot usage from 3 to 2.
  • Fixed an issue where siege repair tools did not work on battering rams.
  • Runic Instruments added to the game
  • Faction players now receive 3 faction coins (+50%) for killing a rival faction player inside a faction base.
  • Gazers inside faction bases now drop faction coins and will respawn every 4 hours.
  • A smaller, cheaper version of the faction battering ram has been added and can now be crafted. It is designed for attacking faction bases to steal town sigils. The larger, more expensive version is required for Siege Events
  • Faction Bless Deeds have been removed and deactivated, Faction players can now use insurance as an alternative.
  • Factions that control Moonglow can purchase the faction mage in Moonglow for 50% cheaper than normal.
  • A new system has been implemented to summon the Faction Dungeon boss. Players can obtain volatile dragon shards by mining them or as drops from monsters inside the faction dungeon, as well as from treasure chests. These shards decay after 10 minutes, so they must be forged into a more stable form before they expire. Once you have a stack of 100, you can use them to create an activator that summons the boss in the faction dungeon.
  • Forges have been added inside the Faction Dungeon.
  • Loot from the faction boss and the dungeon cache has been improved.
  • Factions that control Minoc will now yield 2–3 times more catapult rocks when mining in the faction dungeon.
  • Faction archer guards now use poison arrows and can destroy dark guardians.
  • The faction flag will now deploy at the town stone once the town has been captured.
  • You can now repair broken Easter tree deeds using the item fixer.
  • Fixed a bug where players could cross-pollinate and create a new color even though the plant and the pollen did not match.
  • Easter riddle phrases have been made a little easier, riddle letter drops have been increased (a little).
  • If a faction controls Britain, they can now use the command "I wish to place an archer guard" to place a stronger archer guard inside any town they control. These archer guards cost 1,000 silver each. The original command "I wish to place a guard" still works for placing regular faction guards.
  • Faction players will no longer turn grey during pillar events.
  • Faction siege gates now regenerate to full health after 1 hour of taking no damage.
  • Capturing a faction town now takes 24 hours after depositing the town sigil into your faction stone (the multiplier has been removed).
  • Factions now capture towns for 6 days instead of 3.
  • Bless deeds in the faction store have been reduced in price.
  • Faction mages from the faction store are now available for 48 hours.
  • Faction sigil guards are now cheaper to purchase and they have been buffed!
  • You can now resign from your faction at the front gate by saying: "I wish to resign from this faction"
  • Faction gazers have been placed inside the faction bases around the faction stones.
  • The amount of resources required to build a battering ram has been reduced.
  • The pirate invasion will now reset after 8 hours instead of 3. A countdown will now be visible in the Moonglow graveyard when the event is active.
  • A magical rabbit has been spotted in Yew! Players who have completed the Easter quest can use their magic wand on the rabbit to receive gifts.
  • The troll event activator now properly drops from the guardians in Level 5 Despise.
  • The growth speed of fertile dirt has been increased.
  • The drop rate of Easter riddle letters has been increased.
  • This has now been removed from faction pillar events: --Minimum Combat Participation: Players must have at least 2 combat actions (kills + deaths) during the event to be eligible for faction coins and rewards--
  • Pets will now follow in and out of the solen nest (the nest is part of the Greenthorn activities).
  • Pets will now follow through the teleporter between Britain and New Haven/Ocllo.
  • The Easter riddle scrolls have been made a little more challenging for you and your AI assistant :-).
  • A new Easter activity has been added: guess the word phrase and win! Full documentation is available on the wiki.
  • The Paragon Puzzle Chest will now only drop in the Daily Dungeon, and only if the player is wearing the Fortune's Favor amulet.
  • Added resource maps to Magic Chests, Treasure Maps, Fishing Treasure Chests (SOS), and Paragon Puzzle Chests.
  • Improved the loot for Paragons in the Daily Dungeon and increased the chance to drop Puzzle Chests.
  • The Faction Dungeon boss is now live, along with faction mining for catapult rocks.
  • Fixed a bug where summoning creatures subtracted a charge from talismans.
  • Resource maps are now live!
  • Infected Gazers are now undead.
  • Increased the number of faction coins in the faction dungeon treasure chests.
  • For all gardeners: when you grow plants, they will produce more seeds and resources in the future (up to 5).
  • New items have been added to the Easter drops
  • New Quest: Tails the Easter Bunny’s helper can now be found near Britain Bank. Help recover the stolen magical golden eggs from the dragons in Destard or find them in exploding wells and Easter puzzle chests and return them to earn a magical Easter wand!


29th May 2026 announcement

βš”οΈ Faction Challenges Are Here! βš”οΈ

Tired of random skirmishes? Ready for real faction warfare with actual stakes? Faction Challenges let you call out a rival, defend your base (or hit theirs), fight for a prized chest, and climb the server-wide scoreboard. Stack up enough wins and your whole faction unlocks rare rewards at the Faction Coin Vendor.

The Challenge Stone

Every faction base has a Challenge Stone β€” this is where it all begins and where you answer when someone else throws down the gauntlet.

Glance at the stone to quickly see what’s happening:

  • Red β€” A challenge has been issued and is still waiting for someone to accept it.
  • Blue β€” A challenge was accepted. The fight is live (countdown, chest phase, or full battle window).

You can also open the Challenge Scoreboard directly from the stone to view wins, upcoming faction rewards, and recent results.

Issuing a Challenge

Rally enough of your faction members at your own Challenge Stone.

Choose Start Faction Challenge. The whole server hears about it. A rival faction then has 20 minutes to accept at their stone (not yours).

If nobody accepts in time
The challenge simply expires. You’re not stuck waiting for hours β€” you can try again whenever you’re ready.

If you want to cancel early
Use Cancel Faction Challenge. Your faction then has a short 5-minute cooldown before you can issue another one.

Accepting a Challenge

When another faction has thrown down the gauntlet, gather enough members at your own Challenge Stone.

Choose Accept Faction Challenge. Everyone gets the news β€” it’s on. You cannot accept your own faction’s challenge; only a rival can answer the call.

Once accepted, both sides have 10 minutes to prepare before the Faction Challenge Chest appears at the issuing faction’s base.

How the Fight Plays Out

  1. The Call (up to 20 minutes) β€” One faction issues the challenge. Rival stones glow red while they wait for a response or for time to run out.
  2. The Rally (10 minutes) β€” Challenge accepted. Stones turn blue. Both factions know the clock is ticking and prepare.
  3. The Chest β€” A Faction Challenge Chest spawns at the issuing faction’s base. A fresh alert goes out so everyone can converge.
  4. The Hour (60 minutes) β€” The challenge stays fully active. Stones remain blue for the entire period.
  5. The Finish β€” Someone claims the chest, or time and chaos decide the outcome.

Who Can Open the Chest?

This is the heart of the fight.

If your faction issued the challenge (Defenders):
You cannot open the reward chest during the first 60 minutes. Your job is to defend your base and stop the other side from looting it. After the hour passes, the restriction lifts β€” but a fast-moving rival may have already taken everything.

If your faction accepted the challenge (Attackers):
You are the aggressors. During that same first hour you can fight for and open the chest (after its short initial lock period expires to give both sides time to arrive). You do not have to wait the full hour β€” strike while you have the advantage.

Winning the Chest (and the Scoreboard)

The standard path to a scoreboard win:

  • A member of the accepting faction opens the chest during their allowed window.
  • That faction completely empties the chest (not just a quick peek).

When the chest is emptied, the accepting faction earns the win on the scoreboard, the server announces the victory, and the event ends.

Issuing a challenge and then waiting out the full hour before you can even touch the chest is a gamble β€” a determined attacking force can often loot it long before your access opens.

Cooldowns in Plain English

  • Nobody accepted your challenge? β€” No cooldown. You’re free to issue another one whenever you’re ready.
  • You cancelled before anyone accepted? β€” Short 5-minute faction cooldown, then you can try again.
  • Someone accepted your challenge? β€” Your faction gets an 8-hour cooldown before it can issue another challenge.
  • Any challenge was accepted on the server? β€” For the next 1 hour, no faction can start a brand-new challenge. This stops wars from stacking on top of each other.
  • Your faction won and emptied the chest? β€” The fight ends early so life on the shard can get back to normal sooner.

The Scoreboard

At your Challenge Stone, choose View Challenge Scoreboard to see:

  • How many challenges each faction has won
  • Special Item Unlocks β€” the progressive rewards your faction can earn at the Faction Coin Vendor as wins add up (you only see the next unlock until the previous one is claimed)
  • Recent history of who challenged whom and who claimed the chest

Worth checking before your next war council.

Rally your people, pick your rivals, and let the challenges begin. Which faction will rise to the top?


29th May 2026 announcement

Tired of random skirmishes? Ready for real faction warfare with actual stakes? Faction Challenges let you call out a rival, defend your base (or hit theirs), fight for a prized chest, and climb the server-wide scoreboard. Stack up enough wins and your whole faction unlocks rare rewards at the Faction Coin Vendor. The Challenge Stone Every faction base has a Challenge Stone β€” this is where it all begins and where you answer when someone else throws down the gauntlet. Glance at the stone to quickly see what’s happening:

Red β€” A challenge has been issued and is still waiting for someone to accept it. Blue β€” A challenge was accepted. The fight is live (countdown, chest phase, or full battle window).

You can also open the Challenge Scoreboard directly from the stone to view wins, upcoming faction rewards, and recent results. Issuing a Challenge Rally enough of your faction members at your own Challenge Stone. Choose Start Faction Challenge. The whole server hears about it. A rival faction then has 20 minutes to accept at their stone (not yours). If nobody accepts in time The challenge simply expires. You’re not stuck waiting for hours β€” you can try again whenever you’re ready. If you want to cancel early Use Cancel Faction Challenge. Your faction then has a short 5-minute cooldown before you can issue another one. Accepting a Challenge When another faction has thrown down the gauntlet, gather enough members at your own Challenge Stone. Choose Accept Faction Challenge. Everyone gets the news β€” it’s on. You cannot accept your own faction’s challenge; only a rival can answer the call. Once accepted, both sides have 10 minutes to prepare before the Faction Challenge Chest appears at the issuing faction’s base. How the Fight Plays Out

The Call (up to 20 minutes) β€” One faction issues the challenge. Rival stones glow red while they wait for a response or for time to run out. The Rally (10 minutes) β€” Challenge accepted. Stones turn blue. Both factions know the clock is ticking and prepare. The Chest β€” A Faction Challenge Chest spawns at the issuing faction’s base. A fresh alert goes out so everyone can converge. The Hour (60 minutes) β€” The challenge stays fully active. Stones remain blue for the entire period. The Finish β€” Someone claims the chest, or time and chaos decide the outcome.

Who Can Open the Chest? This is the heart of the fight. If your faction issued the challenge (Defenders): You cannot open the reward chest during the first 60 minutes. Your job is to defend your base and stop the other side from looting it. After the hour passes, the restriction lifts β€” but a fast-moving rival may have already taken everything. If your faction accepted the challenge (Attackers): You are the aggressors. During that same first hour you can fight for and open the chest (after its short initial lock period expires to give both sides time to arrive). You do not have to wait the full hour β€” strike while you have the advantage. Winning the Chest (and the Scoreboard) The standard path to a scoreboard win:

A member of the accepting faction opens the chest during their allowed window. That faction completely empties the chest (not just a quick peek).

When the chest is emptied, the accepting faction earns the win on the scoreboard, the server announces the victory, and the event ends. Issuing a challenge and then waiting out the full hour before you can even touch the chest is a gamble β€” a determined attacking force can often loot it long before your access opens. Cooldowns in Plain English

Nobody accepted your challenge? β€” No cooldown. You’re free to issue another one whenever you’re ready. You cancelled before anyone accepted? β€” Short 5-minute faction cooldown, then you can try again. Someone accepted your challenge? β€” Your faction gets an 8-hour cooldown before it can issue another challenge. Any challenge was accepted on the server? β€” For the next 1 hour, no faction can start a brand-new challenge. This stops wars from stacking on top of each other. Your faction won and emptied the chest? β€” The fight ends early so life on the shard can get back to normal sooner.

The Scoreboard At your Challenge Stone, choose View Challenge Scoreboard to see:

How many challenges each faction has won Special Item Unlocks β€” the progressive rewards your faction can earn at the Faction Coin Vendor as wins add up (you only see the next unlock until the previous one is claimed) Recent history of who challenged whom and who claimed the chest

Worth checking before your next war council. Rally your people, pick your rivals, and let the challenges begin. Which faction will rise to the top?


16th May 2026 announcement

Chicken Fighting Tournament of Britannia – Organized by Mooses

Hail, noble citizens of Britannia!

The time has come to prepare for one of the most anticipated spectacles on the shard β€” the Chicken Fighting Tournament of Britannia!

Mooses, a dedicated player of Shards of Britannia, is organizing and running this grand event. The town criers have already begun spreading the word across the land. Now is the moment to begin training your dastardly and dangerous chicken and register it for glory!

How to Prepare

  • Register your chicken at the Moonglow Zoo NPC (target your feathered companion to sign up β€” one chicken per player).
  • Necromancers, rejoice! The Moonglow Zoo NPC sells the Undead Chicken Scroll (10,000 gp). Use it to transform your chicken into an undead champion worthy of the arena!
  • Customize your chicken’s size and color with special rescaling and chroma scrolls available from the same NPC.
  • Protect your champion β€” purchase a Chicken Bonding Deed before training to ensure your little friend survives any unfortunate turns of fate until the big day.

Prize Pool

The prize pool is already shaping up to be legendary!
Players are warmly invited to donate prizes to the growing pool.
Our staff will also be contributing unique and exciting prizes to make this tournament truly unforgettable.

Dates for the main event will be announced soon, but preparations start NOW!

For more discussion, updates, strategy talk, and to coordinate prize donations, check out the dedicated thread in the official Discord channel #Chicken-Fighting-Tournament

Train hard, customize boldly, bond wisely, and may the fiercest fowl claim victory!


16th May 2026 announcement

Chicken Fighting Tournament of Britannia – Organized by Mooses

Hail, noble citizens of Britannia!

The time has come to prepare for one of the most anticipated spectacles on the shard β€” the Chicken Fighting Tournament of Britannia!

Mooses, a dedicated player of Shards of Britannia, is organizing and running this grand event. The town criers have already begun spreading the word across the land. Now is the moment to begin training your dastardly and dangerous chicken and register it for glory!

How to Prepare

  • Register your chicken at the Moonglow Zoo NPC (target your feathered companion to sign up β€” one chicken per player).
  • Necromancers, rejoice! The Moonglow Zoo NPC sells the Undead Chicken Scroll (10,000 gp). Use it to transform your chicken into an undead champion worthy of the arena!
  • Customize your chicken’s size and color with special rescaling and chroma scrolls available from the same NPC.
  • Protect your champion β€” purchase a Chicken Bonding Deed before training to ensure your little friend survives any unfortunate turns of fate until the big day.

Prize Pool

The prize pool is already shaping up to be legendary!
Players are warmly invited to donate prizes to the growing pool.
Our staff will also be contributing unique and exciting prizes to make this tournament truly unforgettable.

Dates for the main event will be announced soon, but preparations start NOW!

For more discussion, updates, strategy talk, and to coordinate prize donations, check out the dedicated thread in the official Discord channel #Chicken-Fighting-Competition

Train hard, customize boldly, bond wisely, and may the fiercest fowl claim victory!


11th May 2026 patchnote

Greetings, adventurers!

We're introducing a new balance feature to the Seeker Raven, the bounty hunters' trusty tool for tracking murderers and orcs.

What's New:

The Seeker Raven now enters a 10-minute cooldown after engaging in harvesting activities or PVE combat. Affected Activities: Harvesting: Mining, lumberjacking and fishing. Combat: PVE fights with monsters (excluding PvP and pets). During the cooldown, attempting to use the Seeker Raven will display a message explaining the restriction. Why This Change: This encourages strategic use of the Seeker Raven, preventing spamming after resource gathering or monster slaying, while maintaining its role as a powerful tracking tool for bounty hunters.

Happy hunting! πŸ¦…


13th Apr 2026 patchnote

The Faction Siege Warfare patch is now live. We will be scheduling the first siege event in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, faction players can begin preparing by harvesting resources to build siege equipment.

Faction players can now mine catapult rocks inside the Faction Dungeon. These rocks can be loaded into catapults and fired at opposing faction players, siege equipment, and protection towers.

GM Alchemists can apply Greater Poison Potions to catapult rocks to create Poison Rocks. These deal initial damage and release poison that affects surrounding players. GM Alchemists can also apply Greater Explosion Potions to create Explosive Rocks, which leave puddles of fire on impact.

Players can now kill pigs and harvest their corpses. These can be fired from catapults. On impact, they cause affected players to start vomiting and the effect is contagious.

Siege bolts can be looted from monsters inside the Faction Dungeon. These bolts are required to craft siege weapons such as battering rams and catapults.

A new boss has been added to the Faction Dungeon. It drops a Magic Scroll that opens a cache filled with siege bolts, as well as Faction Bless Deeds.

Faction bases now have several ballistas installed. These can be used to shoot at battering rams that are attacking the gate.

Ladders have been installed in faction bases. These provide an additional way to enter and exit the base, allowing players to avoid using the main gate during a siege.

Players can craft Battering Ram Kits. These kits can be used at the siege mechanic inside your faction base to purchase a battering ram. Battering rams are used during sieges to smash open the opposing faction’s siege gate and gain entry into their base.

Important note: Battering rams can only take damage from ballistas, catapults, and player weapons. Magic spells and pets cannot damage them.

When a siege event begins, one faction will act as the Defenders while the other faction or factions will be the Attackers. The defending base will have a force field protecting the siege gates, generated by a Protection Tower.

To breach the gate, attackers must destroy the force field by firing catapult rocks at the Protection Tower and destroying it. Once the force field is down, they can use the battering ram to smash open the siege gate.

Defenders can use Siege Repair Tools on the Protection Tower to keep the force field active. All faction players can use the same Siege Repair Tools to repair catapults, ballistas, and battering rams. Defenders can also use the installed ballistas to attack and damage incoming battering rams.

Mages can summon Water Elementals to extinguish fire puddles, which is very useful when trying to repair the Protection Tower. Up to 5 defenders can brace the siege gate at once. This significantly reduces the damage taken from the battering ram.

Recipes for faction bombs can be found in siege warfare rewards and faction pillar rewards. These bombs can be crafted and thrown at enemy siege weapons to inflict damage.

Special items can also be obtained from Siege Warfare rewards and Faction Pillar rewards, including talismans that reduce catapult reload time and a drum that increases the battering ram’s damage output when played.

If the attacking faction breaches the gate and enters the base, they must locate the Faction Chest. It takes 60 seconds to open the chest. Inside is a Key that functions similarly to a sigil. The carrier of the key cannot fast travel and is visible on the minimap. If the key carrier is killed, the key is automatically transferred to the killer.

The first faction to secure the key and return it to their faction’s Siege Warfare Stone wins the event and receives a chest full of loot. This includes the defending faction if they win.

The event lasts 1 hour. If the defenders successfully keep the attackers out for the full hour, they can open the chest inside their own base to claim victory and receive bonus loot for a successful defense.


13th Apr 2026 patchnote

The Faction Siege Warfare patch is now live. We will be scheduling the first siege event in the coming weeks. In the meantime, faction players can begin preparing by harvesting resources to build siege equipment. Preparing for the Siege

Catapult Rocks: Faction players can now mine catapult rocks inside the Faction Dungeon. These rocks can be loaded into catapults and fired at opposing faction players, siege equipment, and protection towers. Enhanced Rocks: GM Alchemists can apply Greater Poison Potions to catapult rocks to create Poison Rocks. These deal initial damage and release poison that affects surrounding players. GM Alchemists can also apply Greater Explosion Potions to create Explosive Rocks, which leave puddles of fire on impact.

Pig Corpses: Players can now kill pigs and harvest their corpses. These can be fired from catapults. On impact, they cause affected players to start vomiting β€” the effect is contagious. Siege Bolts: Siege bolts can be looted from monsters inside the Faction Dungeon. These bolts are required to craft siege weapons such as battering rams and catapults. A new boss has been added to the Faction Dungeon. It drops a Magic Scroll that opens a cache filled with siege bolts, as well as Faction Bless Deeds.

Faction Bases & Siege Equipment

Faction bases now have several ballistas installed. These can be used to shoot at battering rams that are attacking the gate. Players can craft Battering Ram Kits. These kits can be used at the siege mechanic inside your faction base to purchase a battering ram. Battering rams are used during sieges to smash open the opposing faction’s siege gate and gain entry into their base.

Important Note on Battering Rams: Battering rams can only take damage from ballistas, catapults, and player weapons. Magic spells and pets cannot damage them. How a Siege Event Works When a siege event begins:

One faction will act as the Defenders, while the other faction(s) will be the Attackers. The defending base will have a force field protecting the siege gates, generated by a Protection Tower.

To breach the gate, attackers must:

Destroy the force field by firing catapult rocks at the Protection Tower and destroying it. Once the force field is down, use the battering ram to smash open the siege gate.

Defenders can:

Use Siege Repair Tools on the Protection Tower to keep the force field active. All faction players can use the same Siege Repair Tools to repair catapults, ballistas, and battering rams. Use the installed ballistas to attack and damage incoming battering rams.

Additional Mechanics:

Mages can summon Water Elementals to extinguish fire puddles β€” very useful when trying to repair the Protection Tower. Up to 5 defenders can brace the siege gate at once. This significantly reduces the damage taken from the battering ram.

New Items & Rewards

Faction Bombs: Recipes for faction bombs can be found in siege warfare rewards and faction pillar rewards. These bombs can be crafted and thrown at enemy siege weapons to inflict damage. Special items can also be obtained from Siege Warfare rewards and Faction Pillar rewards, including: Talismans that reduce catapult reload time. A drum that increases the battering ram’s damage output when played.

Winning the Siege If the attacking faction breaches the gate and enters the base, they must locate the Faction Chest.

It takes 60 seconds to open the chest. Inside is a Key (functions similarly to a sigil). The carrier of the key cannot fast travel and is visible on the minimap. If the key carrier is killed, the key is automatically transferred to the killer.

The first faction to secure the key and return it to their faction’s Siege Warfare Stone wins the event and receives a chest full of loot (this includes the defending faction). The event lasts 1 hour.

If the defenders successfully keep the attackers out for the full hour, they can open the chest inside their own base to claim victory and receive bonus loot for a successful defense.


3rd Apr 2026 announcement

This Easter, all faction players who participate in 10 Faction Pillar events and meet the requirements to receive a reward in each match will receive unique Easter loot at the end of the 10th match. This ends on the 28th of April.


2nd Apr 2026 announcement

7th Annual Easter Events

We’re excited to announce our 7th Annual Easter celebration in-game, packed with festive activities and rewards for everyone to enjoy.

Event Highlights

  • πŸ₯š Egg Hunt: Eggs can be found throughout Britannia and contain Fabled Carrots or other surprises, redeemable at the Easter Vendor.
  • πŸ‘Ή Easter Paragon Monsters: These may randomly spawn in place of normal monsters, offering bonus chances to earn carrots and special items.
  • πŸ₯• Previous years’ Easter Carrots can continue to be used in all Easter events going forward.
  • ✨ A few new and rare drops have also been added for this year’s Easter activities.
  • 🏦 Note: The Easter Vendor is on duty at Britannia’s bank.

Additional Features

  • πŸ‡ Killing regular rabbits may trigger a Vorpal Bunny spawn, which rewards additional carrots and loot.
  • 🧩 Egg Riddles remain updated with quality-of-life improvements:
    • You can request a Hint to help solve a riddle.
    • A Skip option lets you bypass a riddle once per egg.
  • πŸ₯š New for 2026: A new Golden Egg Hunt quest is now live. Speak to Tails near Britain Bank to begin collecting stolen golden eggs from greater dragons in Destard, Exploding Wells, or Easter puzzle chests, and earn a magical Easter wand when the quest is complete.

ℹ️ Ongoing Updates

We’ll continue adding more items and activities as time allows, so keep an eye out for additions during the event.

Event Dates for 2026

  • πŸ“… Event begins: April 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
  • πŸ“… Event ends: April 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM

We hope you have time to log in, participate, and enjoy the festivities. See you there!


2nd Apr 2026 announcement

Tails, the Easter Bunny’s helper, is offering a special Easter quest.

He can be found near Britain Bank. He needs your help to recover the magical golden eggs that were stolen by a mischievous pixie and given to the greater dragons in Destard.

Slay the dragons, retrieve the eggs, and deliver them to the Easter Bunny’s helpers to restore balance to the Easter celebrations. Once you have delivered all the eggs, return to Tails to claim your reward, a magical Easter wand! The magic wand can change the color of any rabbit in the world.

Alternatively, if you prefer not to fight dragons, you can find the golden eggs by blowing open wells during the Exploding Wells event and opening unique Easter puzzle chests. However, you still need to have the quest active!


29th Mar 2026 announcement

New Changes

  • All faction pillar locations now have chests inside each faction’s base. Players can store items in these chests to use in the events.
  • Paragon monster gold now has a cap of 6,000. Wearing the Fortune Favor amulet increases the cap to 8,000.

Changes

  • Added training weapons to the game
  • Fixed a big with unwavering stance that would allow infinite stat gains
  • Modified the chance of armor pieces to be hit so the chest is hit slightly less
  • Updated herding to be a passive skill
  • Added secondary skill bonuses for melee skills Macing and Fencing
  • Added PvE Bonuses to the Arms Lore skill to make it more useful overall
  • Fixed an issue with players not receiving items from the Black Goods Vendor.
  • The item fixer now repairs broken exploding barrels.
  • Loot for the Ancient Reaper Boss has been updated.
  • The Moonglow Pirate Invasion event has been completely refreshed! It now features new visual effects, catapults, new mobs, and improved loot.
  • Added a second Blackgoods vendor in Bucc's.
  • Murderers can now use Luke the Wizard in Despise.
  • Thieves can now steal from monsters in the spider cave near Wind, and Kolthi the Weaver (spider miniboss) has now relocated here.
  • Clockwork golems can now be stabled.
  • Horned Pack Beetles have been changed to require 2 control slots.
  • The Moonglow Pirate Invasion event has been refreshed! It now includes catapults that players can use to attack the invaders. The pirates now bring with them special rock giants that can only be killed from catapult rocks!
  • Increased PvE stealing drop rates for thief coins.
  • Arms Lore Identification Fix : Fixed an issue where heavily repaired items would incorrectly display as "brand new" when inspected. The skill now correctly accounts for an item's repair history and maximum durability loss.
  • Bounty Hunters and Murderers are now equally restricted from all forms of teleportation for 5 minutes after engaging in combat with each other. The Bounty Hunters' bola has been nerfed and no longer grants an increased chance.
  • Tommy's Lost Apron Quest (young players) fixed: Rewarded horses can now be stabled.
  • Bear Hunter Quest (young players) adjusted to 10 black and 10 brown bears.
  • Drop rate of skull tokens in the new player dungeons increased.


18th Mar 2026 patchnote

Attention all faction players! As part of the upcoming Factions Siege Warfare patch, we've pre-released faction mining inside the faction dungeon!

Faction Miners with 80+ skill can now harvest catapult rocks β€” stockpile them now and be ready for your first siege event! Mining has a chance to spawn Rock Giants, which drop both faction coins and additional catapult rocks. The dungeon now features a new boss: the Ancient Wyrm. Defeating this powerful foe grants a magic scroll that unlocks the weapon cache inside the dungeon. The weapon cache contains essential parts needed to craft siege weapons!

Stay tuned for more siege-related updates coming soon. Make sure your faction characters are trained up and ready for battle!


13th Mar 2026 announcement

Pirates are invading Moonglow again this weekend! Warriors, rally together to push them back! Launch catapults to crush their trained rock giants and break through their heavy armor. Defeat the boss for tons of awesome loot and plenty of bag pops! All event times, dates, and details are in our official Discord.

https://discord.com/invite/shardsofbritannia


13th Mar 2026 announcement

This weekend, pirates are invading Moonglow once again! Warriors, unite to fight back and drive these invaders out! Use catapults to take down their trained rock giants and smash through their extremely powerful armor. Tons of great loot and bag pops await when you defeat the boss. Check our official Discord for all the details on times and dates. Alternative slightly more polished version: Pirates are invading Moonglow again this weekend! Warriors, rally together to push them back! Launch catapults to crush their trained rock giants and break through their heavy armor. Defeat the boss for tons of awesome loot and plenty of bag pops! All event times, dates, and details are in our official Discord.

https://discord.com/invite/shardsofbritannia


7th Mar 2026 patchnote

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Bounty Hunter Distress System. This feature provides innocent players with a reliable way to call for help when under attack by murderers.

Innocent players who are being attacked can summon assistance in one of two ways. They can use a Conch Shell of Distress, which is available for purchase from the Bounty Hunter Guildmaster in Britain Castle. This option is specifically for players who do not have an active Lord's Boon β€” you cannot use a Conch Shell if you currently have a Lord's Boon. Alternatively, players can switch their Boon to Distress Call mode. Switching to Distress Call mode prevents the use of Lord's Boon for the next 24 hours.

When a distress call is placed, eligible Bounty Hunters receive a dialog prompt asking if they wish to respond. If a hunter accepts, they teleport to the victim's location after a brief 5-second delay. If the Bounty Hunter successfully defeats the murderer or murderers and turns in their head or heads to the guild, the victim who placed the call automatically receives 20% of the bounty reward as a token of appreciation.

If no local Bounty Hunters are available and the player used their Boon to make the call, the system falls back to the standard Lord's Boon teleport β€” assuming the player has a bound location set.

To maintain balance, Bounty Hunters have a 10-minute cooldown between accepting summons, while victims have a 5-minute cooldown between placing distress calls.

  • Distress Kill Points

To further reward participation, we've introduced the Distress Kill Points mechanic.

Bounty Hunters earn 1 Distress Kill Point each time they successfully respond to a distress call and turn in a murderer's head to the guild. These points acknowledge their vital role in protecting the innocent and upholding justice.

On the flip side, if a murderer kills a Bounty Hunter who has accumulated points, the murderer steals 1 point from the hunter's total. This adds meaningful risk and consequence for both sides, promoting skilled and strategic gameplay.

Players can check their current Distress Kill Point balance at any time by speaking with the Bounty Hunter NPC in Britain Castle.

These points will soon unlock access to exclusive items and rewards available only through the Bounty Hunters Guild and the PK Gear NPC. Stay tuned for more details on what you can purchase as the system continues to expand.

The Bounty Hunters Guild welcomes new members. If you're interested in protecting the innocent, earning rewards for taking down murderers, and building your point total for unique gear, head to the Guildmaster in Britain Castle to join today.


5th Mar 2026 announcement

Hail, Adventurers! A new raffle event is now live! The Catapult Raffle offers one fortunate participant the opportunity to acquire a unique, placeable catapult fixture for their home.

Prize: One Catapult (Includes a starter supply of pig-manure projectiles)

Winners: 1 lucky player

How to Enter: Please visit Raff, the raffle coordinator, located near Britain Bank to purchase your entries. Each ticket costs 10 raffle tokens. Raffle tokens can be obtained as loot drops from Paragon-level monsters. Participants may purchase as many tickets as desired to improve their odds of winning. Don’t miss this chance to claim a distinctive and conversation-starting addition to your home. Purchase your tickets today and best of luck to all entrants!

THIS RAFFLE WILL BE DRAWN IN 1 MONTH!


3rd Mar 2026 patchnote

We’ve recently implemented a series of updates to how gear wears down and how repairs work. Our goal is to create a more dynamic world where high-end equipment remains valuable, but eventually needs replacement, keeping our crafters busy and our materials in high demand.

βš”οΈ Combat Wear (PvE) We’ve increased the rate at which your weapons and armor wear down while fighting monsters. Weapons: Now have a higher chance of losing durability per hit when fighting creatures. Armor & Shields: Now take increased durability loss per hit in PvE.

πŸ› οΈ The New Repair System Repairs have been moved to a percentage-based system. Instead of losing a fixed amount per repair, your item’s maximum durability will now decrease by a percentage of its current total.

The Crafting Advantage: High-level expertise matters more than ever. A Grandmaster (GM) crafter will incur a minimal penalty to your item's lifespan, while unskilled repairs will cause a much more significant reduction. Repair Deeds: Deeds still work, but they carry a slightly greater penalty to the item's maximum durability compared to a direct repair from a live player.

πŸ’° Why These Changes? (The Economy) This update is a major boost for the game's economy:

Steady Demand: High-end "Vanquishing" and "Invulnerability" gear now has a finite lifespan. This means players will always be looking to trade for or craft new top-tier equipment. Value for Crafters: Because skill level drastically reduces the repair penalty, high-level Blacksmiths and Carpenters are now more essential than ever. Keeping your gear in the hands of a GM is the only way to maximize its lifespan. Materials Cycle: As gear is retired and replaced, raw materials like Valorite, Verite, and Agapite will maintain their value and importance on the market.


2nd Mar 2026 patchnote

New Changes

  • The new update for Tinkerers' clockwork golems is now live!! Blacksmiths can now craft the items that Tinkerers need to build the golems. Tinkerers can also purchase power crystals for the golems directly from Tinkerer vendors. If you are currently logged in at the time of this news, you may have to relog to see the new assets.

Changes

  • Players can now purchase a magic hammer from the blacksmith vendor. When this hammer is used to craft weapons on the anvils at the Britain blacksmith, you will get a bonus to crafting a slayer weapon.

  • The miniboss Talornia has had its assets and abilities updated.

  • Bounty hunters and thief hunters will now be kicked from the guild if they acquire a single murder count and will be unable to rejoin for 7 days.

  • The meditation skill now works based of your skills percentage, eg: With 50 meditation skill your meditation will work 50% of the time and 100 skill 100% of the time.

  • Reduced the spawn rate of Paragons

  • Increased the drop rate of Puzzle Boxes from Paragons

  • Implemented a fix for PvE resource/item stealing from Paragons (please provide feedback on whether this issue has been resolved)

  • Ocllo: Added a camp of orcish scouts not far from the town

  • Ocllo: Added an alligator spawn for tamers

  • Added a Thunderstrike pet bonding deed to the Bounty Hunter Guildmaster in Britain Castle.

  • The Spider Queen now spawns inside a nest/cocoon; players must blow it open with exploding barrels before they can fight her.

  • Ranger Shadow Cloaks can now be blessed.

  • Another new and challenging quest for young players in Ocllo: The Eight Seers [https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/ocllo-quest-seers]

  • Ocllo has gained a new quest for new players that encourages them to travel to and from Britain. It rewards the player with a tame horse.

  • A magic fountain has also been added in Occlo for young players. They can use it once to receive a free welcome gift.

  • The Spider Queen has gained a deadly new abilityβ€”she can ignite clusters of explosive barrels to devastating effect. Her defeat now yields far greater rewards! A cunning master of explosives, she uses barrels to protect her lair. Search her remains for abundant materials to craft your own explosive barrels.

  • Added a new deco item to the Valorite Cotton Vendor.

  • Updated the loot in the magic chests.

  • The exploding wells event has been enhanced with new loot, MOBs and effects.

  • Player-crafted shields can now be dyed with enamel dye.

  • Vendor search stones have been added to all towns, including Buccaneer's Den.

  • The bounty hunter's shoulder crow effect when teleporting has been changed to ravens flying. -Rare seeds have been added to tentacle plant loot. -Crafting chance for explosive barrels has been increased to 100%. -The magic water fountain is now permanently located at Brit bank.

  • See last month's changes here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/changelog-for-january-2026


30th Jan 2026 announcement

Hi all,

New servers have been provisioned and built, so we'll be migrating to them at 9am UTC today (usual server downtime.) This means we'll be offline for up to 4 hours while this takes place.

Apologies for the late notice, however we need to progress this ASAP to avoid a billing event for the old servers and have them decommissioned in time. Keep an eye on #news for updates, and thank you as always for your patience!


24th Jan 2026 announcement

The Exploding Wells event has had some updates: new loot has been added to the puzzle chest and to the MOBs that spawn from the wells, plus a few other little surprises! Have fun!


1st Jan 2026 patchnote

Season 7 has officially started! We know some of you were caught off guard by the transition and didn't get a chance to claim your Season 6 rewards. No worries – we're making some improvements to prevent this from happening again.

What's New:

  • Season Countdown Timer – A new countdown display in the Challenge System window shows exactly how much time remains in the current season, so you'll never miss the deadline again.
  • Grace Period – Starting today, players with unclaimed rewards get 7 days after each season ends to claim them. Your prior season rewards will remain available during this grace period.
  • Note: these changes will be available after the daily restart on Jan 2nd at 9am UTC

Season 7 Reward Additions:

  • Shadow Leather Equipment – New armor pieces and shields
  • Dragon Dyes – Swamp, ice, and fire variants for your pets
  • Decorative Items – New birdcages, masks, and fishtanks
  • Rare Plant Seeds – Banana plant, carnivorous plant, dragon tree, and more

For Season 6 Players: If you had unclaimed Season 6 rewards, a hotfix will deploy later today. After tomorrow's daily restart (Jan 2nd @ 9am UTC), log in and your Season 6 progress will be automatically restored – just open your Challenge System window and claim your rewards!


23rd Dec 2025 announcement

πŸŽ„ Frostfang's Cave Christmas Challenge! πŸŽ„

A magical boulder has sealed the entrance to Frostfang's Cave! Only those who complete the festive Candy Cane Puzzle can break the seal.

How to Participate:

  1. Find and activate 8 candy canes in the correct sequence
  2. Once solved, the boulder becomes vulnerable to magic and explosions
  3. Destroy it using Earthquake, Meteor Swarm, explosion potions, or exploding barrels
  4. You have 60 minutes from your first activation to complete both phases!

Location: Near the entrance to Frostfang's Cave
Reward: Open the dungeon for everyone to hunt!

Event Details:

  • Challenge resets if not completed within 60 minutes
  • Once the boulder is destroyed, the dungeon stays open for 3 days
  • After 3 days, the puzzle and boulder reset for a new attempt
  • Work together or race against the clock!

Happy Holidays, adventurers! πŸŽ…πŸŽ