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• Fixed an issue preventing users from crafting items after the recent patch went live
• Fixed an issue with not being able to disenchant some items

We're excited to announce that we've picked 3 winners for the House Decorating Contest! Thanks to everyone who posted their submissions, it was great to see all of the creative designs people come up with.

The winners for this event are as follows:

• Cleanest Layout: Yew Crossroads Tavern
• Most Creative: Church of Pantism
• Best Use of Grouped Objects: Urk Den

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks again to everyone who participated. We will try to do more contests like this in the future and look forward to seeing what else you can create!

Winners: Please reach out to Gorgan to receive your rewards!

• Fixed an issue with not being able to harvest stone with a normal pickaxe & new pickaxes not having the toggle option
• Fixed issue with crafting equipment not applying any properties like Exceptional or others
• Fixed a few Crafting recipe issues for:
  • Cooking: Apple Pie Slice & Cooked Fish: issue fixed prevented cooking these items
  • Carpentry: Hitching Post: removed as this is moved to Veteran Rewards
• Added improvements to player vendor's Recent Sales tracking; the list will now keep track of how many similar items were sold instead of printing a new line for each individual item & improved the interface readability
• CAPTCHA has been added to plant picking (cotton harvesting)
• Added missing Spinning Wheels to all towns
• Fixed issue with Stone Masonry books being locked down in the backpack (if you have one stuck in your backpack please page for help)
• Fixed issue with older crafting tools not working in some cases since the addition of Bulk Orders

Britannia's first Housing Deco competition is underway for the next two weeks! If you think your house decorations are killer, check out the events channel for details and post your screenshots in the house-deco-contest channel. The winner gets a one-of-a-kind piece of deco! Show us what you got!

• Added the ability to dye the deeds of dyeable furniture, and placing and re-deeding the objects will retain their color
• Fixed an issue preventing player vendor owners from removing items from them, saying "you can't see that"

• Random pop-up camps should now avoid spawning on top of players
• Fixed an issue with pets that have just become tamed sometimes causing criminal action with their last combatant
• Fixed issue with player vendors bouncing around sometimes
• Player vendors should now be able to wear dresses
• Player vendors will now move Recent Sales to an archive when collecting gold, allowing you to see both Recent Sales and Previous Sales separately
• Fixed an issue with house storage and lockdown count sometimes being miscalculated
• Fixed an issue with the Vendor Sell menu for town vendors showing "nil" as the display name for some items
• Fixed an issue with town vendors running around inside buildings when they wander a small distance from where they spawned
• Using the stuck option to teleport to town has had its cooldown reduced from 30min to 20min
• Using the stuck option to teleport to town will now allow you to re-try the option if it failed for one reason or another, preventing you from waiting the cooldown period until you've successfully teleported out of the position you were stuck from
• Fixed an issue with the Split Stack window auto-closing too quickly in some cases. Note: this window has a 15-second timeout to auto-close if you do not respond in time
• The Tracking ability should now halt when the target dies

Our top Wizards have been working tirelessly, and we're happy to announce that the city of Skara Brae, as well as the mainland region to the east of it, will be available in game very, very shortly- and we mean REALLY shortly. While expanded landmass is awesome in and of itself, we wanted to give you a preview of some of the things that come with it:

• Housing will be enabled in the region on launch
• A new, mysterious puzzle questline will open up. Players are encouraged to seek out information about strange events in the area- one clue of which is already in the world today.
• A second faction pillar will be activated in the overland.
• A new automated/regularly scheduled miniboss will be activated.
• A celebratory Treasure Hunt Event (similar to the christmas elf's treasure hunt) will occur shortly after launch.
• A few new, never before seen mobs will be in the region
• More content in this region undoubtedly will follow.

We're excited to share the team's hard work with everyone VERY soon!

• Fixed an issue preventing moving/using objects inside secured containers
• Fixed issue with Friends, Co-Owners, Ban List not being retained properly when relocating a house
• Fixed issue with house sign not updating properly when relocating a house
• Added prevention for being able to add items to the trade window when it would put either party overweight
• Fixed issue with items being dragged out of a player vendor's backpack sometimes being removed from the sale but moved back to the vendor, causing the item to become stuck
• Fixed issue with not being able to pick up items on player vendors that have been erroneously removed from the sale and moved back to the vendor, now vendor owners should be able to pick these items up and move them to backpack
• Fixed issue with stablemasters not being able to find pets in some cases when using the Retrieve Pet Out of Range option
• Added heat source functionality to Stove decoration to be used for cooking
• Fixed issue with not being able to place 2020 Holiday Hearth & 2020 Winter Throne (from Celador)
• Reduced cooldown for Pet Stuck option
• Fixed issue with some AOE spells not damaging hidden players
• Fixed issue with losing typing progress in the Whisper Reply window if a new whisper is received while typing a response
• Fixed issue with some secure house containers not having the Security option causing issues with using/opening them; you can now say "i wish to secure this" target the affected container and it will be re-secured

An issue preventing placing houses in some designated housing spots due to "you cannot claim that land" has been resolved. This was due to a designated Treasure Map location being nearby blocking placement, which has now been optimized. In some cases, this may open up a piece of land that previously could not be claimed. This hotfix will go live after the daily restart

• Areas outside of Britain, Minoc, and Cove are now open for house placement
• A new "Pack and Relocate" option has been added that will allow you to pack your house up and move it to a different location

Relocation details:

• Initial cost is 20,000gp which is doubled each subsequent move
• Packing a house for relocation will move all of the house's contents (lockdowns & secures & vendors) to a deed which you can use to re-place the house again somewhere else
• You will have 2 days to complete the move, after which the house and its contents will decay automatically
• House relocations have a cooldown of 2 days after a relocation occurs (make sure you are happy with your spot when moving!)
• In the rare event that it will take someone more than 2 days or an emergency comes up, we will do our best to accommodate players' needs

We've got an update regarding the landrush announced earlier this month https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/housing-plan

The landrush will begin at 2:00 pm UTC on 1/1/22 and to see this in your time zone please see the time listed on the Discord Event: https://discord.gg/CuwaP9sbep?event=919129668781748256 as it is reflected in your local time.

At 2:00 pm UTC on 1/1/22 we will restart the server with the update to allow housing around Britain, Minoc & Cove.

We hope this accommodates most people's time zones and you're able to attend and secure the spot of your dreams!

Happy holidays from the Shards of Britannia staff!

Twelve days of Xmas is about to commence. Santa has set up shop outside of Britain in Paws town. For naughty Britannians, Evil Santa has set up shop outside of Minoc next to the Buccaneer's Den archway teleporter. You will be able to talk to Santa each day, per account, to receive a gift. There may be appearances of Krampus or other evil holiday spirits throughout the event as well, stay tuned for more updates.

Note: Santa will not start handing out presents until 9am UTC Christmas Morning, but if you are logged in starting at midnight UTC on Christmas Eve you will get a gift to open early! :)

Event details from Discord: https://discord.gg/CuwaP9sbep?event=922085498011398165

• Fixed an issue preventing skeleton keys from receiving their decay timers, this was an unintended side effect of another hotfix recently
• Fixed an issue with being able to use objects inside of secured containers when you don't have permission to
• Fixed an issue with being able to open Lottery Boxes when they are not inside your backpack
• Fixed an issue with not being able to use/decorate locked down objects that are stacked on top of each other due to line-of-sight, you should now be able to use/decorate objects up to the ceiling

• Fixed an issue causing players to see "you can't do that so quickly" erroneously, as well as preventing players from teleporting in quick succession
• Tracking distance is now greatly reduced when inside of a Dungeon as part of the ongoing balancing

On Christmas Eve, the gravedigging vendor will cease to sell Santa's Candle, the item used to trigger the Santa Claws boss event. After Christmas Day, he will be gone for good, along with his Ethereal Reindeer.

We've deployed a hotfix for the issue preventing players from releasing objects with collision. The full fix requires a server restart, until then, you can say "I wish to move this" to bring up the Decorating Tool and use the release button from there and it will work.

The following changes have been made to help prevent getting items stuck inside of house walls causing them to be unable to be retrieved.

• Can no longer drop items in places that are blocked or that you cannot see
• Can no longer release locked down items that are in blocked locations or in a spot you cannot see

Note: In some cases, to decorate and move objects on top of each other you may be required to place items in an open spot first and then use the house Decorate Tool to move them to the desired place

Item Collision issue:

• Fixed an issue with object collision not being updated/removed when moving or picking-up items that have collision

Soon you will begin seeing server alerts for ongoing miniboss events that will occur in various areas of the overland on a regular basis. At this time, there will be four different miniboss events available. You should see one happening every day or two once they've been implemented. These events will require a decently sized group to complete.

These bosses potentially drop several brand new rare items created by team member Transcendence. Some are decorative, others are useful.

• Fixed an issue preventing players from reporting player murders if a monster or NPC gets the killing blow
• Fixed an issue with treasure chests in dungeons not decaying if untouched for a period of time; additionally, random Orc Camps now spawn in overland with a chest of difficulty levels 3 to 5 (overland chests do not offer uncommon items like dungeon chests)
• Fixed an issue with the Stuck Menu not responding to button presses in some cases
• Fixed an issue with not being able to place the decoration Tattered Green Banner

After the restart, the following items have been addressed:

• A bug causing Faction Mages to persist beyond 24h has been resolved.
• Several faction sigil system bugs have been squashed. As a result, you may encounter the following scenario: 1. You steal a town sigil and deposit it in your faction stone 2. Someone else steals that sigil from your faction stone 3. Before they can deposit in their faction stone, you try to deposit a DIFFERENT faction sigil. You will be prevented from doing so until either they deposit that stone or you take it back.

A new automated King Of The Hill style Faction event is coming soon to Britannia. The following details outline its basic ideas, but are subject to tweaks before release:

Every 80 hours, the Faction Pillar becomes active. This event is a King Of The Hill style event. Faction players must stay near the pillar and ward off other faction players nearby. This event lasts 30 minutes.

Every 30 seconds, the pillar ticks and determines what Faction players are nearby. If only one faction is nearby (controlling), that faction and each individual player receives 2 points. If two factions are nearby (contested), each faction and player receives 1 point. If 3 factions are nearby, nobody receives points.

At the end of the 30 minutes, the points are tallied up, both total faction points and individual player points. Every player in the winning faction who participated receives 750 Faction Silver. The top 5 players with regard to points, regardless of faction, receive 250 Silver (which may be in addition to winning faction silver). You must be online at the end of the event to receive your reward.

The Lithos necromancy event will end tomorrow. Its spawn rate has been increased until then.

Necromancy is now live in Britannia! A method of procuring the Necronomicon has been introduced and players are encouraged to discover it.

For a short time, a boss event featuring Lithos, titan of Earth, is also active and is another possible way of obtaining the Necronomicon.

Please read the following articles which outline Necromancy- some changes have been made.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/necronomicon

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/skills/forensic_evaluation

Relics of Lithos, titan of Earth, have been sighted in Britannia- a dark omen of evil events on the horizon.

Necromancy is coming to Britannia and is currently in testing! Shout out to Stimwalt who designed the ideas behind much of this system before he departed the team. The following wiki articles will give you a good idea of what to expect. It is a more hardcore lifestyle than your average blue build.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/skills/forensic_evaluation

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/necronomicon

Some more decorations have been fixed in terms of an issue preventing placing them, included but not limited to:

• Wooden Display Case
• Small Three Shelf Market Rack
• Large Two Row Market Rack
• Arena Bleachers (these have been reduced in size to fit better)
• Medium Display Rack
• L-shaped & Large Bar with Brace

An issue has been solved preventing people from buying mounts like the Fire Ostard that can be ridden by anyone if their skill level is too low.

• The Strange Gazer summon has been tweaked. A bug preventing it from casting has been fixed and it is now a caster as intended. It has been beefed up a bit.
• The War Horse mount will stop being a ridable human skeleton the next time it dies. New War Horses will not have this issue.
• Pets will no longer follow a target they're attacking if the target hides.

If you have a Halloween Mask that still equips to the "Head" slot preventing you from wearing armor on your head simultaneously, you may now talk to the Candy Vendor to get it fixed.

The evil mages summoning Arcadion are growing increasingly desperate and frenzied as their power appears to be waning!

The Arcadion miniboss event for procuring a Summoner's Tome will be ending after this weekend. The Arcadion spawn rate has been greatly increased until then.

We have a new addition to the team! Please help us welcome Transcendence to their new role. They will be starting out helping to triage GM Pages and also helping with events and general gameplay design. Welcome, @Transcendence#6283!