Recent News List

The Easter Vendor now trades carrots for Easter items obtained from 2022 and 2023

An option has been added to the Easter Vendor to correct items that say Easter 2022 instead of 2023. Sorry for the oversight!

The Easter Egg hunt has commenced! Easter Egg Nests will be scattered throughout the overworld for you to find. Double click the eggs to try opening them for fun surprises and goodies! Monsters also have a chance to spawn as Easter Paragon which can also drop Easter carrots and goodies.

Collect Fabled Carrots to spend at the Easter Vendor who can be found on the Britain Bank Roof. They will also buy some of the items you may get from the eggs in exchange for more Fabled Carrots.

The Carrot & Egg Hunt will be live until April 24th and we will try our best to do some planned and/or spontaneous events throughout the week. The Easter vendor will be available until June 1st

Happy Easter!

We are aware of an issue with patron benefits reflecting in game at the moment and are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.

Update: This issue has been resolved (again) and Patron Benefits should start updating again momentarily, sorry for the interruption!

Fixed an issue preventing characters from joining a faction when they are in a guild that has a faction assigned already

For those of you that are still waiting for a Steam account transfer we have not yet completed it and don't have an ETA for you. If you are using a steam account please continue to play the Steam account until we have advised you otherwise thank you

Hello everyone,

We wanted to take a moment to reach out to our wonderful community of players and express our gratitude for your continued support of our video game project. We know that many of you have been patiently waiting for updates and improvements, and we wanted to address some of the concerns that have been circulating recently.

First and foremost, we want to remind everyone that we are a team of volunteers who work on this project in our free time. We don't have the luxury of spending every waking moment on it, but we are doing the best we can with the time we have. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to make this game the best it can be.

We also want to remind everyone that if you experience any issues or bugs while playing, please be sure to report them appropriately, if you're not sure check our Contact Us page for details https://shardsofbritannia.com/about/contact. We value your feedback and take all reports seriously. Please understand that it may take us some time to sort through and process all of the feedback we receive, but we promise to take action on anything that requires it.

We understand that some of you may be feeling frustrated or disappointed with the pace of our progress or perceived lack of action or progress, but we want to assure you that we are committed to making this game a success. We ask for your patience and understanding as we continue to work on it, and we promise to keep you updated on any major developments.

Finally, we want to thank you all for your passion and continued support of our project. Your enthusiasm and dedication inspire us to keep working hard and pushing forward. Please continue to be patient with us and know that we are doing everything we can to make this game the best it can be.

Thank you all, and happy gaming!

• Some items in the faction shop can now only be used by players assigned to a faction, this will not affect any current existing items. The new SL, MX & TB faction mounts, factions cloaks with a glow and the black faction cloak can now only be used by faction players.

• New loot has been added to dungeon and deep water fishing.

• Moat fishing loot has been updated.

Dynamic loot has been added to the Ancient Poison Elemental, Ancient Reaper and the Ancient King Crab.

West Britain Bank rooftop is now a protected space with no combat and no skillgains allowed. Happy trading and bank-sitting!

West Britain Bank rooftop is now a protected space with no combat and no skillgains allowed. Happy trading and bank-sitting!

Apologies for the extended maintenance window, the server is now back online.

The server will be offline for up to an hour during the next maintenance window at 9am UTC. Thanks for your patience.

We've fixed an issue causing the Skill Window's Skill Cap input to not handle cases where players enter a Comma instead of a Period for a decimal place, causing the Skill Cap to be set to 0 by error; now you can use a period or a comma.

We've improved House Packing for houses that have many items locked down, it will now pack the items in chunks over a short duration to avoid causing server stalls or lag. During this period you will see a progress bar and will be unable to log out instantly or switch server-regions to ensure that the packing is able to complete and you receive the deed.

Character Reflections will be going on sale very soon for 50% off, for a limited time, until July 1st. You can access Character Reflections from within the Skills window

We will soon be deploying a change that will allow users of Large Towers & Castles to decorate items inside their homes beyond the ceiling, allowing for more decorative freedom.

We will soon be deploying the following changes.

Resource/Durability Consumption:

• resources are no longer consumed in duels, including potions (now includes faction events), but players will still need to carry resources in order to use them
• equipment durability is no longer consumed in duels

Outfitter (Skill Rental):

• players can invoke the /outfitter command at any time to open the Outfitter menu, where you can manage the Outfitter system
• enabling the Outfitter system will attempt to use the selected custom skills & stats temporarily during Duels & Faction Events, for a small fee

As previously announced, we will soon be deploying the following Guild & Faction changes.

Guild Faction Assignment:

• guilds will be required to have a faction assigned in order for members of the guild to be part of a faction
• Officers & Guildmasters can assign a faction to a guild, but only the Guildmaster can un-assign the faction once it's been assigned
• upon logging in, if you are in a guild and in a faction and your guild does not have one registered or it is registered to a different faction then you will begin the Faction Resignation process and be kicked from your faction after 7 days unless you leave the guild or your faction is assigned to the guild
• if you are in a guild and trying to join a faction, your guild must be assigned to a faction and you must join the assigned faction
• it's optional for guild members to be in the faction or not, but players wishing to be in a faction must be in the same faction as the guild
• if you are trying to create a guild while in a faction, you will be warned that the guild will become registered to your current faction when you form the guild

We have implemented a new dynamic loot system.

• Currently it is only active for the "Ice Dragon King", as a test.
• Loot will scale based on mob difficulty and how many players have dealt damage, plus some other factors.
• There is a limit cap on maximum drop amounts and limitation for multi-box.

We will look to implement this into other mobs over time and after evaluating this first outcome.

Have fun!

A fearsome clicking sound resonates from within the mountains North of Minoc where Lolthi the Weaver was last spotted.

Have an issue with the game? Make sure to report your feedback using the /bug command so the development team receives it. Feedback sent other ways may not be received!

We've fixed an issue causing unexpected or no behavior with the use of Speech/Custom Action commands inside macros. If you have this happen, please re-create the part of the macro that is giving you trouble and it should work now

• Fixed an issue with multiple Passive Animal Taming chances occurring at once when killing beings with multiple pets, this was only intended to happen once per kill, not once per pet
• Fixed an issue with Passive Animal Taming gains from killing beings not being attempted at all if one of your pets is out of points

In-game Macro Tool improvements:

• removed icons from Macro Option buttons for legibility
• adds new options: Use Object, Use Object by Type, Target Object & Target Object by Type
• fixes issue with the default Sleep delay input field not matching the global macro cooldown (currently 750)

Please logout and restart the launcher to fetch the latest updates.

• We have added Ping Milliseconds display in the debug window when you press F12. This will display your ping return time in milliseconds to the server and will help to identify actual network lag issues and separate them from client or server issues.

• Now you can set the radius for the objects to be displayed when you hold CTRL. Just use the command "/setobjhandleradius 5" and you can set a number between 1 and 30 (Default is 5). NOTE: This can be overridden by the server for certain areas.

We've added Location-based Releasing for houses, so now when you use "i wish to release this" you can target the ground, and you will be presented with a list of locked down objects at the location you've targeted to be able to release them. This is especially useful for objects that cannot be targeted directly.

• fixed a rare case with trades sometimes becoming interrupted potentially causing a loss of some or all of the items being traded; going forward if there are ever any issues with trades, all items will end up going back to their owner so there should never be any losses
• fixed an issue with being able to interrupt another person's trade in some cases, now it should always prevent trade attempts if someone is already trading

Dear citizens, we have some great news to share with you today!

We have been working hard on developing a method for transferring characters from your Steam accounts to new standalone accounts. We understand how frustrating it can be to have an account that is stuck on Steam, so we're here to help.

If you are still using a Steam account and cannot login with the Shards of Britannia launcher please continue reading:

Firstly, only new & unused accounts can be used to transfer to, any pre-existing accounts will not be eligible

If you have a new & unused account ready, please continue the following:

1. Make sure you have filled out the Steam Account Issues Form
2. Some of you have filled out the form already but have filled out the Transfer-To part with an account that already has characters, please make sure you update that with a brand new account instead
3. Contact Us after you have filled out or updated the form to let us know you are ready for the transfer

A few things to keep in mind:

• Account age, veteran rewards, and all other account-related information will carry over
• Patrons will need to update the Patron Registration form to reflect the new Account ID there, if applicable: https://forms.gle/5gdsrX13PVYHnv9QA
• We will only be transferring characters that are coming from Steam accounts

Transfers will need to be completed during server down-time and will be coordinated during a time when staff is available to complete the transfers. We kindly ask for your patience and understanding throughout this process, thank you!

FINAL THOUGHTS: We will allow several days for everyone to update the Form and also to perform some testing. We will be reaching out to some of you to help us test soon

We've setup a clean Forum instance again at https://forum.shardsofbritannia.com/

It's currently setup for players to post picture of their house decorations. Periodically, as you know, we run House Decoration Contests, and often the decorations go on display for a few weeks and then they get put into the Recycle Bin.

Let's change all that! From now on, we're going to encourage players to post their creations on the forum, at any time, even when we're not doing a contest.

You all put so much time and effort into designing your spaces, we want to make sure your work can be seen by all, and stays around indefinitely if you decide to change things later.

We will probably organize future House Decoration Contests on this forum as well to keep it all in a central place. Discord gets too crowded over time to hold everything, so we hope this works well.

Thanks for spending your free time with us and for sharing your creations. Happy decorating!

Bank Check features being added:

• bank checks are now gold colored
• dropping checks onto another check will now give you the option to combine them
• dropping gold coins onto a check will now give the option to combine the gold with the check
• right click option "Split" added to split the check into two without having to deposit it first
• attempting to deposit a check now gives the option of depositing as coins to bank box or directly to secure deposit account, for convenience