Server Changelog

• New: Added a tree regrowth zone around the starter town on Guidance, increasing rate of tree spread and allowing trees to replace bushes.
• New: New title has been added for 100 skill in Toymaking. Congrats Hailiah!
• New: New title has been added for 100 skill in Axes. Congrats Rocklobster!
• Change: Portalling away from Defiance/Epic will no longer cause a 10 minute cooldown for portalling to other non-Defiance/Epic servers.
• Change: The Inspect Animal window now shows the same information regarding branding village, caretaker name, and taming loyalty that is shown when examining the creature.
• Change: Placing items now has the minimum 5-second timer regardless of item weight on-deed. This has the same requirements as the 1-second timer for Push and Pull: You must be within a village where you have Load permissions.
• Change: Goblin skulls, beer steins, skull cups, chess pieces, and bone fishing hooks will now decay. Goblin skulls, beer steins, chess pieces and skull cups have been made decorations, so they will not decay within settlements with at least 30 days of upkeep.
• Change: Cross-kingdom mail is now enabled on PvP servers.
• Bugfix: Fixed height clearance requirements for placing, pushing, and pulling items underneath bridges. You should now be able to move items underneath bridges as long as there is a reasonable amount of clearance between the item and the bridge.
• Bugfix: Fixed a cause of the “Could not find height to stop at” error when placing or pushing items to the north or south.
• Bugfix: Fixed the Tunnel action sometimes not warning that there is an open caves diagonal to the new cave exit, or warning when it shouldn’t.
• Bugfix: Dirt dug to a pile will now have normal pickup permissions applied as if the digging player were the one to drop it to the ground.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue that could cause uniques to not die when killed.
• Bugfix: Deities should no longer block Destroy Roof actions.
• Bugfix: Caring for a caged creature now checks for things in the way between you and the cage, not between you and wherever the creature was prior to being caged.
• Bugfix: Fixed grammar of message received when calling guards through chat.
• Bugfix: Lighting bee smokers now takes the appropriate amount of time and gives skill, and once again requires it to be fueled.
• Bugfix: Vynora priests are no longer warned against destroying floors, walls, or fences, and will no longer suffer any Faith loss from performing these actions, as intended by the 2018 priest update.
• Bugfix: Planting a hedge or flower bed from inside a cave will no longer result in a bugged hedge or flower bed that cannot be interacted with properly. Existing bugged hedges and flower beds have been removed.
• Bugfix: Fixed not being able to take over enemy vehicles on PvP after the vehicle owner has changed kingdoms.
• Bugfix: Can no longer dominate hidden creatures
• Bugfix: Village role “Drop” permission is now checked when dragging items to containers on the ground. This is not applied to locked containers or vehicles, or containers inside them, since those have their own permissions.
• Bugfix: Fixed items being impossible to place along the ground if there is an item between the cursor and the target floor or bridge.
• Bugfix: Location required for structure-building missions should now be much more randomized, instead of frequently requiring the same location many times in a row. A message is now sent on PVE servers when starting to build an Epic mission structure that would not qualify for any current mission. The message is only informative, and does not prevent creating the item.
• Bugfix: Fixed items not updating their models when contents are added or removed, when the container is placed on another item or the Take action is used on contents.
• Bugfix: Corrected “does not extend onto that tile” bug when placing an item on walls or fences.
• Bugfix: Removed the ability to plan buggy walls underneath the bottom level of a house built on top of a dock.

Client Changelog

• Change: Third person perspective will now cause the player to face the same direction the camera is facing, when the player is in combat.
• Change: Only movement related key presses will now quit out of board games, instead of just pressing any key. This should allow you to interact with the UI better while playing games, such as opening the chat by pressing a key.
• Bugfix: Fixed some particle effects attached to items scaling incorrectly, usually only visible when size runes are applied to the item.
• Bugfix: Fixed the camera spinning when entering board games in certain situations.
• Bugfix: Fixed player facing not updating in third person while mounted.
• Bugfix: Fixed mount movement being blocked when moving off surface floors onto cave entrances.
• Bugfix: Fixed some more instances of mount movement being blocked on floors incorrectly.

Server Changelog

• Change: Small axe skill gain will now function as other weapon skills do, instead of how tool skills do.
• Change: Planning bridges now properly check for dock floors and planning a bridge over/under them is blocked.
• Change: Issues with skill checks on docks and floors:
  • Bugfix: Fixed an issue where planning a supported floor over a slope wasn’t properly checking skill versus the height off the ground of the planned floor.
  • Bugfix: Fixed skill checks for wall and floor plans using carpentry instead of the skill related to the type of wall/floor being built.
  • Change: Building a floor directly on a support will now have a lower skill requirement than it usually would for building at that height.
  • Some more info on this to clear up any confusion:
    • Skill requirements for planning supports over slopes is the same requirement as if you were building a house that tall – total height being calculated from the lowest corner on the tile.
    • Because building a support uses masonry or carpentry depending on the support material, and floors use paving or carpentry, this lets you build a support that you don’t have the skill to build a floor on.
    • Skill requirement for floors on supports will now be effectively the same as building a house half the height of the support. This skill mismatch scenario can still occur, but should be easier to overcome.
    • Houses extending upwards from a support will still have skill requirements the same as building a house the full height to the ground (lowest corner on the tile).
  • Change: Error messages for needing skill to build at a certain height will now tell you the skill required.
• Change: Goblin Camp Tweaks:
  • Bugfix: Founding or expanding a village now requires at least one tile in between the planned village perimeter and any Goblin Camp.
  • Bugfix: Goblin Camps will no longer spawn over tiles that already have Goblin Camp items that have not been looted. This prevents scenarios where a new Goblin Camp, along with its spikes and watchtowers and other items, would spawn over existing spikes, watchtowers, etc., leading to confusion.
  • Change: Founding or expanding a village requires that none of the planned village tiles have Goblin Camp items on them which have not been looted. This prevents deeding over the remains of a Goblin Camp in order to claim the items.
  • Change: Goblin Camp items that have not been looted now have significantly increased decay, to help clear the land faster after the camp is defeated.
• Bugfix: Fixed ctrl-dragging an empty bulk storage bin or food storage bin into your inventory being blocked even though the ‘take’ action would work.
• Bugfix: Fixed some cases of ctrl-dragging a non-empty item, allowing you to move it into your inventory when the ‘take’ action would block it, such as a filled pantry cupboard.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue with some new cave entrances not updating the surface height of the tile properly.
• Bugfix: Fixed some cases of being able to drop multiple one-per-tile items on the same tile.
• Bugfix: Fixed some staircases requiring a trowel instead of a mallet/hammer.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the ‘plan ceiling’ action wasn’t correctly seeing walls that would support the ceiling.
• Bugfix: Fixed some cases where a bridge consisting of only a single tile may linger in the client even after being destroyed.
• Bugfix: You can no longer pick up crude tents from Goblin Camps or hitch animals to them, before picking their original locks. This also fixes a problem where picking up a crude tent was possible with animals hitched to it.
• Bugfix: While spear fishing, fish will no longer swim underground, instead preferring to swim closer to the surface of the water.
• Bugfix: Fixed some guards getting stuck when trying to path to a target very far away.
• Bugfix: Items created when mining should now appear on the floor or bridge you are standing on, instead of dropping to the ground and potentially creating piles with over 100 items.
• Bugfix: You can no longer mine cave ceilings which are already close to maximum height.
• Bugfix: Fixed disembark action not working on dock floors inside caves.
• Bugfix: Opening a map in the atlas via clicking a link from another map will no longer visually duplicate stamps on that map.
• Bugfix: You can no longer stamp a cartography map with an opal stamp linking to itself. Existing maps with stamps linked to themselves will no longer show those stamps.
• Bugfix: Improved grammar when blocking a goblin projectile with a shield.
• Bugfix: It is no longer possible to lockpick inside a Goblin Camp while the camp is awake on PvP servers.
• Bugfix: Attempting to lockpick Goblin Camp items will no longer be blocked in situations where you have village permissions to pick locks, or anywhere outside a village, as long as the item has the original lock and it has not been replaced by a player yet.
• Bugfix: Water depth and tile slope no longer block the construction of fences when building the fence on a floor connected directly to land.
• Bugfix: Fences no longer block players erroneously when built on a floor connected directly to land.

Client Changelog

• Bugfix: Players should no longer see a phantom fishing line when another player is spear fishing.
• Bugfix: Fixed fences sometimes displaying as being aligned to terrain, instead of the floor they were built on.

Server Changelog

• New: Easter egg exchange. Add 100 Easter eggs to the Delightful Easter Basket and opt to exchange them for a Draconic or Serpentine Egg selected at random. The egg will be the same size as one of the exchanged eggs.
• New: A new title has been added for 100 skill in Shortsword. Congrats Llawnroc!
• New: A new title has been added for 100 skill in Longsword. Congrats Llawnroc!
• New: A new title has been added for 100 skill in Swords. Congrats Llawnroc!
• Bugfix: Draconic and Serpentine Eggs will now fit inside the Delightful Easter Basket.

Client Changelog

• Bugfix: Light glare effects will again be less intensive. This does not affect light range or intensity.

Server Changelog

• Change: Stable master NPCs will now have the exclamation point indicator over their heads if they have a creature or vehicle you can reclaim from them.
• Bugfix: Creatures that should have been hidden at starter deeds as of the last update but were not will now be hidden.
• Bugfix: Creatures hidden by the local stable master will no longer try to target players or other creatures in combat.

Client Changelog

• Change: The beam pointing to New Dawn on Guidance was adjusted for improved visibility.
• Bugfix: Fixed an issue causing poor performance in areas with a high density of mountable creatures.
• Bugfix: Pickaxes renamed with magical ink will now properly show slopes on mouseover.

Art Changelog

• Bugfix: Bouquet of Easter Flowers will now face the correct way up when placed.

Server Changelog

• Bugfix: Fixed the weight of some inventory items, which were being doubled when calculating movement speed limits.
• Bugfix: Fixed an error causing the ‘Preview building’ and ‘Deploy building’ puzzle box actions to fail if the building was copied to the puzzle box prior to the addition of ceilings to the game.
• Bugfix: Bashing deeds outside of a raid window on Defiance is now fixed.
• Bugfix: Reduced server lag caused by certain player actions.
• Bugfix: Some management windows may now prepare themselves in the background for a moment, instead of appearing immediately. In most cases, this should not take more than a few seconds.

Client Changelog

• Change: Animated models should use up less client memory.
• Bugfix: Fixed distant trees flickering in certain circumstances.
• Bugfix: Fixed the client occasionally freezing during combat.
• Bugfix: Ceilings are now rendered properly when previewing a building with an ornate puzzle box.