Patch Notes List

Houses placed prior to July 16th, 2022, will now reflect the original storage limit that was in place before the most recent housing changes.

This will be in effect until August 26th, 2022 which coincides with the same time that the House Price refund amount will change, as stated here: https://shardsofbritannia.com/news/release-notes-july-16th-2022

After August 26th, 2022 all houses will be subject to the new storage limits so please be prepared before then.

Housing-allowed territory has been added in Yew allowing placement around the Yew bank and Moongate. Run, don't walk!

We are releasing a large update that includes exciting features for PvM, dungeons, vendors, and a large housing expansion. A slew of new housing options are now available along with additional quality of life for legacy housing options. Among are new housing options are massive homes such as the castle and large tower. Stay tuned for more options as we will be releasing many more in the future!

A few changes to note for the housing update.

• Housing pricing has been re-balanced.
• Housing walls now include conditional transparency.
• Legacy housing has been automatically migrated.
• The housing refund percentage has been reduced to 50% from 80%, however this change will not take effect until August 26th, 2022. If a house is refunded before the cut off date the current 80% rate will be refunded.

Along with new housing we are also re-vamping the way vendors work by coupling them with housing itself. This system replaces the current fee based system.

• The amount of vendors that can be placed at a house is now determined by the type of house. Each house now has a vendor limit associated with it.
• Vendor Inventory is now limited to 125 items
• Vendor fees are now weekly instead of daily
• For legacy housing, if you have too many vendors working out of your house they can continue to work there but you would be unable to add more vendors

In addition to housing we are introducing the first iteration of our questing system in the form of daily bounty quests. Each day a player will be able to obtain up to two bounty quests from the taskmaster Lady Eliana at Britain Bank. These quests are given dynamically based on your character's skill level and will require you adventure all throughout Britannia to complete them. Quest rewards range from gold to rare items and equipment.

Upon logging in players will be greeted with a message stating the 'Daily Dungeon' which is a new bonus players will be able to take advantage of. Players who kill monsters within the daily dungeon will receive an additional 15% gold in loot.

More detailed notes will be released soon!

• Fixed an issue with the Sacred Runebook's Gate Charge ability trying to consume reagents
• Fixed the cost of Sacred Charges displaying incorrectly inside the Runebook window in some cases
• Fixed an issue with player vendors always saying "that is outside the bounds" when trying to reposition them after using the Relocate option and placing them at a different house

Fees are being waived at the moment for retrieving items leftover from vendors in the Account Vault. If you have vendor items in the vault now would be the time to retrieve them :)

Necromancy has had some major updates!

Necromancy relates to the study and casting of dark magic, which deals mostly with death and the dead. With a Necromancer Spellbook, called a Necronomicon, you can curse your foes, animate the dead, and more.

Check out all the deadly details here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/Necromancer

Shipwright Vendors have been spawned in Britain & Cove and boats & ships are now available to purchase and use. See all of the details here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/Boats

Some new creatures have been spotted at the Compassion Desert: Sand Vortex & Efreets

A collision issue at the Ancient Elemental Boss location has now been fixed.

Holiday trees and a number of pot plants are now allowed to be placed outside your house for decoration.

Trapped containers can no longer be used for crafting/harvest/loot/organizer container operations.

Two new rare crystal resources have now been added in game. Ancient Reaper Fragments can be found while lumber jacking and Ancient Elemental Fragments while mining. These fragments can activate two new world bosses.

These events will require a minimum of 4 players (with unique IP’s) and they can be activated with the fragments while standing at the spawners which players will need to find in the overworld.

The zone for the Britain moat fishing rares has now been extended. This now starts at the Britain Blacksmith runs down south to Britain Bank and then west behind the guard tower.

The zone for the Britain moat fishing rares has now been extended. This now starts at the Britain Blacksmith runs down south to Britain Bank and then west along the moat.

The loot tables for Lich King and Ancient Hydra have been updated.

New fishing rares have been cycled into the Britain Bank Moat. This will come into effect after the next restart.

House Rotation has been added! Now, when you use the Pack & Relocate option on your house, upon placing the house again you will be able to choose which orientation you wish the house to face.

Note: This feature will be available on June 25th after the daily restart at 9am UTC

• Fixed Stuck option for Cove + fixed issue with staying frozen if Stuck teleport is interrupted
• Fixed issue with being able to hide/invis to avoid damage from delayed spells
• Fixed issue with not being able to lockdown the following items: Fabric Rack, Red Rug & several legacy items
• Digging with a shovel will now check for Harvesting Bags in your inventory
• Improved Veteran Rewards tooltips, all veteran rewards items should have missing tooltips added & will now show the age requirement
• Fixed Arms Lore display issue after using Fortification Powder & improved window layout
• Fixed issue with Market Rack furniture items not inheriting the color of wood used to craft them
• Added support for paying from bank for hireling mercenaries
• Fixed issue with tooltips on hotbar icons for weapons or other objects not showing the full tooltip details
• Fixed issue with stealing from dungeon containers triggering criminal action
• Added Remove Trap scroll to Mage buy data & added missing scrolls buy data to Scribe vendors
• Fixed Ferrymaster not consuming gold from checks in the bank
• Fixed button layout on house deco window
• Fixed issue with tinker traps exploding for the player that applied the trap when they open the container in some cases
• Fixed issue with not being able to fully feed pets, causing them to seemingly eat forever
• Fixed issue with pets not regenerating stats after being resurrected
• Fixed double-click to mount not working after resurrecting a bonded pet
• Fixed issue with using "Toggle Default" option on regular runebooks causing the Sacred Runebooks options to be applied to them by mistake
• Improved runebook hotbar icons, icons will now obey the Default Rune at the time of dragging the runebook to the hotbar, please re-create your runebook hotbar icons

Rental properties that have permanent containers will now be secured and usable for renters. This fixes an issue with getting items stuck in the containers previously due to them being unusable.

• Fixed issue with Fabled Net spawning the wrong sea creatures sometimes
• Fixed issue with attempting to buy a Bulk Order from a Bulk Order Book taking the gold but not completing the transaction
• Fixed issue with dragging the last item from an organizer pouch and dropping it to the hot-bar causing the item to be dropped in the world or disappear, now the item will go to your backpack if the origin container no longer exists
• Fixed issue with crafting repairs failing 100% of the time if your skill level exceeds 100 from bonuses like the Tailor's Apron
• Fixed issue with Veterinary being used when bandaging hired mercenaries
• Fixed issue with Disarm Trap skill requirement not matching Lockpicking's skill requirements
• Fixed issue with Ethereal Bones not stacking with other Ethereal Bones in some cases

Static Crystals, server performance improvements, Maim re-worked, and additional balance changes! Check out the full notes here.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-14-2022

The Moonglow rental apartments have had their prices reduced and they have also been updated to allow vendors to be placed on the exterior wall around the doorway for your selling needs.

Unique fishing rares can now be fished up in the water right next to Britain Bank.

You will require 65 Fishing Skill for this.

We've released some fixes and an additional pvp mechanic, spell fizzle windows. Read the full details on the wiki!

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-3rd-2022

We've released an extensive balance update along with some new Faction Pillar Conflict balancing mechanics! Loot has also been overhauled with much more consistent and rewarding gold drops. Check out the full notes here.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-june-2-2022

The server's first rental properties have been setup and are now available for renting. There are 9 units available just Southwest of Moonglow Bank. More properties will be setup throughout the world as time permits with different shapes and sizes. You can see more details about how rental properties work here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/housing#rental-property

• Fixed an issue with being able to tame human mercenaries, this was not intended
• Fixed an issue with torches preventing meditation in some cases
• Fixed an issue with Gravedigging not working in some cases
• Fixed an issue with Peacemaking not being prevented properly for invulnerable targets

Make sure to log out and back in to receive all of these updates, thank you!

Vendor Rental deeds have been added to Moonglow's Lycaeum where you can rent a vendor until July 1st (deadline extended to August 1st) for a one-time fee & we will plan to host more Bazaar events periodically in the future.

These vendors do not charge daily fees or commission and are only available until July 1st (deadline extended to August 1st), after which they will pack their worn equipment & for sale contents into your account vault. If you have a vendor that has been packed up, you will receive a notification immediately or the next time you log in.

The Account Vault is where packed goods from Rental Properties and Player Vendors will be stored if you fail to pay rent or vendor fees. At any time you can use the /vault command to retrieve any stored rental or vendor property

Note: Non-Bazaar player vendors will now also handle their equipped objects when being dismissed, previously the equipped objects would vanish when the vendor did. Now, when packing to the vault, any equipped objects on vendors will be packed along with the for sale items, or if the owner is dismissing the vendor, any remaining equipped objects will land on the ground to prevent deletion.

Hotfixes:

• Fixed an issue preventing Bazaar Vendor owners from collecting gold from them
• Fixed an issue preventing Bazaar Vendors from appearing on the Vendor Search results
• Changed the color of Bazaar vendor names to Yellow for better legibility

Moonglow is now open for business!

• You can visit Moonglow from the Public Moongate & Ferrymaster destinations
• Visitors of Moonglow on launch day will receive a fireworks wand!
• Check out the Housing Map on our wiki: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/housing#moonglow-territory

Player Vendors

• Player Vendors & Pet Brokers now have an option called Relocate which will allows owners to pack them to a deed for moving to another house or another location, this option costs 5,000gp
• House owners now have the ability to upgrade the Vendor Limit from 1 to 2 for a one-time 50,000gp fee, this extra slot can be useful for people who wish to own both a Player Vendor & Pet Broker while keeping the house Private, and it only applies while the house is Private
• Vendor & storage upgrades to houses will now persist when Relocating a house

Bards & Bands

• Equipped instruments now have 2 ability buttons: Play Music & Use Last Bard Ability
• Playing music using this new ability will offer a continuous stream of music, depending on your skills; activating the Play ability again while mid-stream will attempt to gain skills, just like using the instrument does normally (you can still use the instrument like normal to gain)
• Bards that are playing music can optionally have others listen to them; To listen, right click a bard that is playing music and use Listen To Music
• Bards that are in a group with each other can play together, get all 3 instruments going for a full band!
• Note: Only the bamboo flute, lute & drum can be equipped, regular flutes cannot

Campfires

• Kindling will now work when inside guarded areas but will be unable to upgrade for camping unless out of town
• The base fire built from kindling is now a smaller version until it is reinforced via Camping & this smaller fire can be used for cooking

General

• The Q & E button slots are now hidden when no abilities are present in them

Several updates to faction pillar conflicts are now live. Check out the full notes here.

https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/updates/release-notes-may-30-2022

Each faction now has a faction base in Britannia and each faction's faction stone has been moved to their base. Shadowlords can find their base, Stonegate, to the north east of Yew in the Deep Forest. Minax can find their base, Castle Minax, to the east of Skara Brae in Spiritwood Forest. True Britannians can find their base, Castle Britannia, to the north east of Britain along the road to the swamp.

These bases are still under construction and will be increasingly important to factions as development progresses.