Patch Notes List

• Blacksmith/Weaponsmith/Armorsmith NPCs will now carry more items for sale with differing stock selections from each other.

• Ethereal statue should no longer get stuck in your pocket if you cannot mount for one reason or another; if it does somehow get stuck, logging out completely and logging back in will move it to your backpack
• Fishing skill can no longer be gained above 70 while inside of town
• Fishing will no longer yield anything more than basic fish or loot while inside of town
• Plant harvesting amount has been adjusted and we will continue to improve spawns if needed
• An issue with clicking on a news notification from the list not opening the appropriate article
• Fixed system message showing when using runebooks referencing "a recall rune"
• Summoned creatures should now properly decay if they have lost their owners
• Fixed an issue with stealing from a stack causing multiple items to pile up in your inventory

• (QOL) Players that deliver the killing blow on a non-player mobile will automatically open the corpse backpack if they are within looting range.
• (QOL) New Right-Click Mutilate ability on non-player corpses will allow corpse pile micro-management by forcefully removing body piles while keeping the lootable backpack via the CTRL function.
• Using the Harvest ability before Mutilate is ideal, as Mutilate will now automatically open the corpse backpack too.
• Mutilate will also leave a bloodstain in the place of the body.

Power hour will no longer expire after 60 real-time minutes from activation, instead will expire after 60 minutes of in-game playtime, with the same 22-hour cooldown from the time you started it last

This means if you log out before using all of your Power Hour then you can log back in and use what's remaining before the 22 hours is up, after which Power Hour will be reset and you will be able to activate it again

An issue with Stablemasters not detecting pets from outside the region you're in has been resolved but will require a server restart to take effect.

Water definitions have been added to every town! In those areas:

• fishing should be possible around all of the towns now
• creatures will no longer spawn in water
• players will no longer be able to go swimming

• Can no longer mount while using a bola + bola target times out after 15 seconds if no target is selected
• Fixed issue with hitting escape after using a bola causing users not to be able to mount for some time
• Current target healthbar numbers will now update periodically
• Dead characters will automatically be set in combat mode during load
• Town vendors will keep only a small amount of used items after players sell things to them
• Nearby pets that are not attacking anything will automatically follow when owner dies
• Pet stable fees will no longer be charged until pet has been stabled for 24 hours or more
• Fixed issue with not being able to use "all aggressive" or "all passive" commands with pets, aka Pet Stance
• Help Requests are now attached to user accounts and will remain open when you log out/switch characters & if staff responds while you're logged out, you will be notified during next login of the response
• Added Events news type to News Window & Notifications
• Fixed issue with being unable to open someone else's paperdoll from a reasonable distance

All wandering healers have had their wanderlust reduced temporarily, until we can make them visible via map icons once again. The markers available via https://lou-map.herokuapp.com/ can be used to locate them.

• The Polymorph spell has had its bugs fixed and the spell is now reenabled

• The Incognito spell now properly changes the player's name to a fake one for its duration

• The in-game Macro system will be disabled as we research a performance issue with the system.
• Thank you for your continued patience as we isolate, find, and fix performance issues and bugs.

Fixed a bug where players could rename recall runes which were not in their own backpacks.

Patch notes for Test Center are being kept track of here: https://forums.legendsofultima.online/d/28-test-center-patch-notes

• Fixed stackables not stacking when dropping objects onto containers directly
  - Added prevention for dropping objects to healthbars, this is not intended
  - Added prevention for mounting pets you cannot control over 30 difficulty
  - Removed ability to use Stack Contents on containers within player vendors
  - Fixed some stationed guards not responding to combat
  - Added prevention for using Forensic Eval against invalid corpses, or corpses that are part of the world
  - Added Vendor Glue so vendors will stop wandering for short duration while players interact with them

The Vorpal Easter Bunny that spawns when opening an easter egg nest was not intended to be tameable and they have been updated to reflect that, and any existing tames removed. Subsequently, if you had tamed and stored one on a pet broker, the pet broker should now be updated as well. Sorry for the confusion! We'll try to be more careful about things like this in the future. grimacing

An issue was resolved with using the Restock Reagents option with town vendors, if they are sold out of one or more of the items, causing players to be charged without receiving items. Please let us know if you encounter any other issues with the vendors.

• An issue with torches not behaving consistently has been resolved; torches have all been moved over to a new Torch slot, and a button for it added to the paperdoll
  - Attempting to purchase items from player vendors will no longer only consume gold from the bank if the purchase is over 3000gp, instead all purchases will now check bank for gold or checks
  - Speech prompts, like when setting prices with player vendors, will now automatically activate chat so you can begin typing without needing to press enter first
  - An issue with players not being able to call Guards on players that have become hidden has been resolved
  - Stealing chance bonus added for thieves with 100 Stealing, a spreadsheet with chance calculation added at https://kutt.it/ZvCqDQ
  - An issue causing pack animals to become overfilled in some cases has been resolved
  - An issue has been resolved that was allowing players to mount while hidden and continue moving while mounted & hidden
  - An issue with fishing nets having duplicate tooltips should be resolved
  - An issue with bankers spamming "Guards!" multiple times in a row when a criminal interacts with them has been resolved
  - An issue with disguised name not appearing, instead showing the character's real name in several cases has be resolved
  - The chef/cook vendors should now buy items that they sell, including apples
  - An issue with getting stuck inside of campfires when using Camping skill has been resolved

• An issue with some players getting stuck inside of the ice fishing huts has been resolved
  - An issue has been solved with adding a large amount of potions to a keg resulting in improper amount of empty bottles being returned
  - Empty bottles have been moved out of potion recipes and instead will consume an empty bottle only upon successful crafting of a potion; this is to help solve edge cases of empty bottles not being refunded sometimes during crafting
  - An issue with mana being overly consumed when using quick-travel spells has been resolved
  - An issue with being unable to cut fish into fillets has been resolved
  - An issue with the pet broker window not re-opening after setting a price has been resolved
  - An issue with some objects not being unequipped on death has been resolved
  - An issue with some effects not ending and cleaning up properly if logging out and back in after the duration has expired has been resolved, most notably Incognito
  - An issue that would sometimes cause mobs to spawn or leash to locations on house plots has been resolved

• An issue with the winter hair dye not working for female characters has been resolved

• An issue has been resolved sometimes causing Fishing related actions to report "You are already Fishing"

• An issue with fishing nets not working when using one from a stack has been resolved
  - An issue with the Macro Creator overriding floating hotbar icons has been resolved
  - The Blacksmith model houses have been retired due to a bug which only affects newly placed houses. If you already have a blacksmith model house and it still works fine then you may keep it. They are no longer utilized or supported by LOA so the blueprints have been removed from architects, but they can be sold back to the vendors for a full refund.

• Agressive rats should now ignore mobile collision/shove mechanics, if there are other small critters that do not ignore please send bug reports
  - An issue with group messages sometimes referring to payers as "nil" has been resolved
  - Group members should no longer trigger "... has logged in/out" alerts when switching regions
  - Equipment circle buttons will now appear on player vendor paperdolls to allow owners to more easily manage the vendor's worn equipment
  - An issue that sometimes causes vendors/pet brokers to be ejected from the house plot immediately when being hired should be resolved
  - For privacy reasons, whispers are now restricted to friends only, meaning that you will need to have a player on your friends list in order to /tell them or whisper them
  - Known Issue: Some secured objects on plots may not show the "Security" option in the right-click menu, we are investigating. As a workaround, we've added a "Manage Object Security" option to the plot menu to allow you to target a secured object and change it's security level.
  - Known Issue: Some house blueprints are not displaying their dimensions in their tooltips. As a workaround, it will now display the dimensions required in a system message when trying to place a house and it does not fit.
  - To aid with house placements, you can now target the mailbox directly when trying to place a house to attempt placing directly on the center of the plot.

• An issue causing players to be unable to purchase pets from pet brokers has been resolved

• An issue causing some vendor interactions not to work, most notably with the stablemasters, has been resolved

• An issue that sometimes causes mobs to decay while fighting them should be resolved
  - An issue with Peacemaking not playing music sounds when succeeding has been resolved
  - You are no longer able to initiate a transfer for a pet that the target would unable to control
  - Player vendor interact window will now close properly when clicking "Goodbye" or "I change my mind" when deciding not to buy something
  - A skinning knife/blade is now required to cut heads off of corpses
  - Ghost players should no longer be able to shove or be shoved
  - Small creatures like rats, turkeys, etc should no longer trigger shove mechanics

• An issue has been resolved with casting spells and then pressing escape to clear the target cursor not properly clearing the spell-loaded flag

• The missing messages for bard abilities has been added by popular demand

• Another issue with Discordance not working sometimes has been resolved
  - An issue that sometimes causes another player's name to be used for Maker's Mark while crafting items should be resolved. If you encounter this further please let us know.
  - An issue with the price tooltip not being applied to items newly added to player vendor has been resolved -- you can remove/re-add the item or just do "Change Price" to correct any items that don't have a price tooltip showing.
  

• Characters will now have a "Player Settings" right-click option to access the character's settings
  - A new option has been added to the Settings window, Other tab, "Show Target Previews" which will be disabled by default, when enabled will show object preview when unpacking deeds on a house plot
  - As a workaround for the known issue "Item Stuck To Cursor After Unpacking House Deeds," we've made the preview disabled by default, but if you wish to still use it you can re-enable it in the settings as described above
  

• An issue with mob AI causing mobs to sometimes freeze indefinitely after spawning should now be resolved

• An issue with Discordance being prevented from applying to some mobs erroneously has been resolved
  - Bard effect break range has been increased moderately to extend the distance allowed from mobs before the effects will break
  - An issue with monsters attacking the bard after being provoked should be completely resolved now, once monsters have been provoked they should no longer attack the bard at all, unless the effect breaks, let us know if this continues to be an issue
  - Patch Note Correction: The prior patch notes state that Provo/Peace will fall off if the bard dies, that was a typo and monsters should remain peaced/provo'd even if the bard dies, as long as they stay within range.
  - Clarification: Discordance does not have range check or hiding check, it only falls off after the timer ends.