Publish 56

Deployment History

• September 5, 2008 - expected late September or early October 2008.
• September 19, 2008 - Ever so slightly delayed, now expected early October 2008.
• September 26, 2008 - Based on a FoF update, expected late October 2008.
• October 21, 2008 - Published to Test Center shard.
• October 27, 2008 - Published to Origin shard.

New Content

War of Shadows

• Factions cities will come under attack in Trammel by the forces of the Shadowlords
• Capturing a town sigil in Felucca allows the Trammel city to be invaded
  • Sigil must be captured by Chaos (Shadowlords or Minax)
  • Up to three towns can be invaded at a time
  • Additional sigil captures will queue those cities for attack, but will not occur until another city’s invasion ends
• A city’s guard zones will disappear in Trammel when invaded, becoming a warzone
• All Felucca faction cities will have their guard zones will be removed, becoming warzones
• Affected cities for the invasion:
  • Britain
  • Skara Brae
  • Magincia
  • Minoc
  • Moonglow
  • Trinsic
  • Vesper
  • Yew
• Players logging into a town under invasion will be relocated to Jhelom
  • Teleportation attempts into danger zones will be rerouted to Jhelom when possible
• Invading forces comprised of three types
  • Shadowlord allied monsters (new alliances, beyond just daemons)
    • Britain: Dragons
    • Skara Brae: Elementals
    • Magincia: Undead
    • Minoc: Plague
    • Moonglow: Void
    • Trinsic: Orcs
    • Vesper: Rogue Ophidians
    • Yew: Daemons
  • Army of Shadows (Humans and Elves)
    • Ranking and promotion system similar to the Ophidian Invasion
    • Four basic types
      • Warrior
      • Ranger
      • Mage
      • Healer
    • Ranks
      • Recruit
      • Scout
      • Corporal
      • Lieutenant
      • Captain
      • General
  • Corrupted townspeople
    • Hatred
      • NPCs aggressively attack players and other NPCs
    • Falsehood
      • NPCs attempt to steal from players
      • Each NPC can only steal one item, normal theft checks apply
      • Item is returned to the player if the NPC dies or is purified when the invasion ends (player must be in the city)
    • Cowardice
      • NPCs flee from players
• Invasion of a town ends when the sigil is recaptured by Order (TB or CoM), or the local invasion is completely defeated
• Loot
  • All invasion monsters and army members drop faction silver
    • 1 to 5 normally, up to 25 for special mobs like the Shadow Knight
    • Silver is multiplied by rank within the army
    • Rare bonuses possible
  • All invasion monsters have at least double the normal loot
  • Army members drop special weapons and spellbooks with properties based on their rank
  • Army members drop exceptional loot at higher ranks
• Crimson Dragons introduced as allies to the Shadowlords, appear as the final stage in the invasion. Shares similar loot to “The Six,” such as Myxkion
• Platinum Dragons introduced as allies to Britannia, enemies of the Crimsons
  • Both dragon races are intelligent, and cause all dragons to go wild in their presence
• Siege Perilous and Mugen will have all the content available, but will have the invasion proceed in Felucca

Factions

• Added new equippables and consumables
• Added a community collection chest inside each stronghold to collect silver, and give faction equippables and consumables as rewards
• Donated silver will be tied to the faction system at a later date
• Sigil corruption time dropped to 2 hours
• Faction Thieves will now receive 100 silver and 10 kill points for successfully capturing a town sigil
  • Sigil must complete full circuit of corruption: from town pedestal, to stronghold, back to town pedestal
  • Interruptions will not count against the original thief, as long as the original thief’s faction finishes the corruption process
  • Thieves must be online to receive their reward
• Killing faction enemies inside warzones results in bonus kill-points and silver

Halloween

• New quest starting in the Yew Courthouse: talk to Jasper and read the book on the table
  • Can be done completely in either Felucca or Trammel
  • Every step required in the chain, skipping steps will keep you from completing the event
  • Event can be done once per character
  • Participating characters must be 15 days old (except for Test Center)
  • Khaldun temporarily available in Trammel for the duration of the event
    • Shadowfiends now perfom the life drain attack
    • General increases to HP and stats for Khaldun creatures
    • Slightly increased the spawn rate of Shadowfiends, Spectral Armors, and Zealots
    • Note: Shadowfiends and Spectral Armor drop loot onto the ground instead of leaving a body
    • Note: Players cannot resurrect inside Khaldun
  • New Trick or Treating rewards
    • GM Beggars also have a new reward

Old Magincia

• Three new quests to help heal the land by releasing the spirits trapped in Magincia’s ruins
  • The quest giver is a mage near the Magincia moongate
  • Quest rewards are three types of rubble, one for each quest (total of 12 pieces)
    • Trees
    • Broken furniture
    • Building pieces
  • Rubble rewards are all unique - they do not overlap craftables or Magincia Invasion rubble. You can see the possible rewards in the quest gump.
  • Quests are non-repeatable
• Three types of ghosts now reside in Magincia
  • Restless Souls
    • Invulnerable, unmoving
    • Notices player movements
    • Can be released by using Spirit Speak nearby
      • Drops Threads of Life
  • Forsaken Souls
    • Constantly wanders the streets of Magincia
    • Can be released by casting Exorcism nearby
      • Drops Threads of Thought
  • Corrupted Souls
    • Red, aggressive
    • Calls other Corrupted Souls nearby for help when attacking
    • Can only be released by being killed
      • Drops Threads of Fate

Fixes/Changes

Combat

• Disarm will no longer affect shields
• Hiryus will only use the dismount special attack on mounted players
• Killing Solens with a pet will properly remove friendship with the nes
• Ranged attacks on slimes will no longer cause acid damage to your weapon
• Successfully taming an aggressive animal will stop its attack
• Tamers can no longer aggro with their pets and stay hidden
• Mounts under the effect of Nerve Strike will not be able to be mounted
• Wandering healers will no longer attack players who drink a refresh potion
• Wraith Form will not lose pass-through ability when crossing server boundaries

Blessing/Insurance

• Blackrock of all sizes can now be insured
• Blessed items will remain blessed after being traded
• Public trash cans will no longer accept blessed items. This does not affect personal trash cans in your home.

Crafting

• Crafting with dull copper will no longer exceed the 255 durability cap
• Skullcaps can now be crafted with a higher durability than 12

Display Issues

• Granite will now display the color of the granite on mouse-over, rather than just saying “granite.”
• Guild tags can no longer be made to imitate Faction abbreviations (Min, CoM, TB, SL)
• Player crafted Parasitic Poison will display its name correctly, instead of “Deadly Poison”
• Pet summoning ball will no longer give an error message when crossing subserver boundaries
• Plants will no longer mystically say “I’m here” when they reach a specific stage of growth
• Savage paint effect will remain visible even after logging out and back in
• Quivers will no longer lose their color on server startup

Factions

• Faction members in the Hero/Evil system on Siege Perilous and Mugen will no longer be able to grief their teammates by causing them to lose kill-points when auto-defending
• Faction vendors from the losing faction will now disappear from a conquered city
• Non-faction players cannot block the entrances to the Shadowlord and Minax strongholds
  • Shadowlord entrance area can no longer be teleported into, repels non-factioners
  • Minax stronghold boundaries have been extended to the entire mountain pass, and the recruiting stone placed outside the mountain
• The bridge and outer entrance to the True Britannian stronghold can no longer be trapped

Housing/House-Addons

• Secured bags can no longer be dyed by anyone in a public house
• Spinning wheels will no longer be lost if re-deeded while in use

Resources

• Blank scrolls can be added to commodity deeds
• Empty bottles can now be added to commodity deeds
• Gargoyle pickaxe will now dig up dull copper ore

Spawning

• Healer added to Nujel’m
• Horde Minions summoned by Young players will decay properly
• Interred Grizzles will no longer spawn in Paroxysmus’s Lair
• NPCs in Heartwood will no longer spawn without clothes
• Orders of Minax will no longer spawn outside of players’ reach

Stacking

• New stackables:
  • Granite
  • Sand
  • Dough/sweet dough
  • Sushi platters
  • Savage kin paint
  • Pan of cookies
  • Baked quiche
  • Pristine dreadhorn
  • Smoke Bombs
  • Egg Bombs
  • Arcane Gems

• Fixed:
  • Lesser poison potions will now stack with player crafted lesser poison potions

Test Center

• Test Center welcome window reflects Publish 56
• New test center command: “give seeds”
  • Gives the player a bag of fertile dirt and various seeds

Quests

• Abandoned quests should no longer cause the quest to fail in the player’s log
• Chance to get three new colors of seeds in the Naturalist quest for the Flowery Cactus: fire, white, and black
• Cooking quests will now accept all types of flour
• Escort NPCs will now properly handle following players onto boats
• Ocllo has been removed from the Escort Quest list
  • This will not interfere with escort quests in New Haven

Vendors

• Instituted a new Vending Penalty for players who attempt to circumvent the daily vendor charge for their items
  • Vending Penalty is the same as the daily charge for the item
  • Penalty is applied if the item is removed by the owner before 24 hours has passed since it was added to the vendor
  • Penalty is noted on the object as an item property
  • If the item is added to a vendor again, the vending penalty is automatically deducted from that vendor’s account, or given back to the player if funds are insufficient
  • There is a 30 minute grace period after adding an item to a vendor to prevent accidents: any item removed before 30 minutes passes will not have a vending penalty
  • Once 24 hours pass, the item may be removed at any time by the owner without penalty. Re-adding it to the vendor starts the process over again, however
• Added commas to vendor prices

Misc

• A tamed sheep can only be shorn by the owner
• A tamed cow can only be milked by the owner
• All bows can now be used on archery buttes
• Animal Lore can now be used on morphed Imprisoned Dogs
• Begging will properly give the player gold when the message states they should have received some
• Books should now copy properly from one size (in pages) to another
• Casting a spell on an invalid location will no longer consume reagents or cause skillgain
• Cows will replenish their milk supply 24 hours after being exhausted
• Fire Beetles will no longer work as a forge when ghosts
• Fixed a macro to equip last weapon while meditating
• Full suits of Virtue Armor no longer lose Self Repair on server startup
• Gems from the Gem Cart can no longer be used to recharge a communication crystal
• Ghosts can no longer remove runes from runebooks
• Left-facing War Forks can now be sold to vendors
• Morphed forms will now check for the correct skill and skill amount
• Banking skill in a Soulstone will check your resultant skill level, and return you to normal if you can no longer maintain your morphed form
• Casting from a scroll will return you to normal in three minutes
• Plants can have resources added to them after the seventh stage, without having to unlock and relock them
• Players may now join the Thieves’ guild one week after character creation, and be removed one week after requesting to quit
• This was previously tied to one week (each way) of actual gameplay
• Public trash cans are no longer magically locked
• Players will no longer be able to move while using the “Help/Stuck” option as a ghost
• Weapon Switch macro will work properly with spellbooks
• Young players will now get the proper warning when entering Ilshenar dungeons

Updates

None available until after publish goes live

See Also

• Publishes
• Factions
• Halloween 2008
• Magincia
• Shadowlords
• Warriors of Destiny