Patch Notes - Movement overhaul, new dungeons, hunting, UI improvements, fixes

Added:

• Ability to Transfer watchtower ownership to another empire, can only be done when not currently being sieged, the receiving empire must accept watchtower transfer

• Sprint Changes

  • Removed the ability to toggle sprint mode, instead the character will always run (at nearly the previous sprint speed)

  • Running at the default move speed will no longer deplete stamina

  • Adjusted the speeds of moving and swimming to compensate for these changes

  • Adjusted the stats of roads to match or exceed the speed you would reach before while sprinting

  • Added the ability to toggle “RP Walk” which will cause you to move at a fixed low speed for roleplay purposes

  • Added a default ability (Sprint) to gain a boost of speed for a short duration

• Ancient Overgrown Mine Profession Dungeons (Carpentry + Masonry)

  • Carpenters: Gather Hexite Infused Roots, Saw them into timber and Deliver them to the minecart deposit

  • Masons: Gather Ancient Slabs from brick piles, Repair Archways to keep the path open for traversing the dungeon quickly

  • This more active activity gives improved EXP for both roles and items which can be used in crafting to obtain more desired materials

  • Hexite Wood Fragment can be used to craft amber or increase output of planks

  • Ancient Mortar can be used to craft gypsite or increase output of bricks

  • Dungeon icons are currently missing from the in-game map. While a fix is on the way, here are the coordinates for the dungeon locations in the meantime.

  • R7 - N 3683 E 3814

  • R8 - N 4096 E 6541

  • R9 - N 4031 E 9115

  • R12 - N 6344 E 3459

  • R14 - N 6440 E 8526

  • R17 - N 8895 E 3973

  • R18 - N 8754 E 6578

  • R19 - N 8584 E 8979

• New Prospecting Ability for T3 Hunting

  • Track down and hunt the Swift Cervus.

  • It’s damage reduction scales with more players

  • You must complete a certain amount of prospecting steps and damage to get loot

• Slayer, Tamer, Construction, Sailor level 40 outfits rewarded from lvl 40 Achievement (automatically unlocked if you already completed the achievement)

• Uggo can now be placed as a decorative building and can be interacted with to gain a very small buff which scales based on it’s rarity

• Added T3 Storehouse Building

• Traveler Tasks for Tiers 7 through 10 are now available and can be unlocked by completing associated quests.

• Mushrooms, berries, and sand can now all be packaged.

Changed

• Significantly boosted the amount of wispweave filaments that are output from processing wispweave plants

• Added an option to always show sign text in building worldspace labels

• Updated layout of login screen to allow for more info and easier readability

• Login screen announcements are now translated into target languages

• Active projects will now show in world labels (previous only completed and inactive would show)

• Added and option to see labels on buildings where projects are available for help

• Increased the HP of berries to match flowers

• Increased stacking of Starbulbs, Cut Gems and Legendary Stone Diagrams to be more in line with other items

Fixed

• Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing resources to override existing resources when respawning

• Fix for Argent ore sometime not spawning during prospecting

• Added several missing compendium entries

• Prospecting UI window has been updated (currently has an issue from translations which will be fixed soon)

• Profession Crits have been fixed in how they show in some parts of the UI (showing as a % in stats and other tooltips)

• Fixed a potential exploit where items could be collected from another dimension in some cases

• Adjusted the Titan Bed furniture model to reduce clipping when placed against walls

• Fixed the position of the Titan Table furniture model

• Adjusted the height of the Titan Hanging Pot furniture model

• “Military Time” in the settings has been renamed to “24 hours clock”

• Crafting Uggo now correctly uses the mallet instead of the smithing hammer tool

• Large quantity purchases from travelers was optimized to process smoother

• Fixed an issue with Empire name uniqueness not being case sensitive

• Fixed a few issues with clothing models

  • Some issues with the capes clipping

  • Level 80 smithing outfit using the wrong texture

  • Metal armor using the wrong glove mesh

• Upgraded to a new version of our internal UI framework which should solve a variety of small layout issues in the UI

  • We’re aware that this is currently causing some layout issues and are working to fix these in a hotfix patch asap

Premium

Homespun Series

• 2 New Outfits: Artisan, Dreamer (5000 Shards each)

• Homespun Outfit Bundle (7500 Shards)

  • 1 Artisan Outfit

  • 1 Dreamer Outfit

• Buttons Pet (7500 Shards)

• Emotes

  • Cloud Watching (1500 Shards)

  • Look at the Clouds (1500 Shards)

  • Folksy Dance (2000 Shards)

• Full Homespun Series Bundle (15,000 Shards)

  • 1 ArtisanOutfit

  • 1 Dreamer Outfit

  • 1 Buttons Pet

  • 3 Emotes

    • Cloud Watching

    • Look at the Clouds

    • Folksy Dance

Known Issues

• While Prospecting when another player does a different prospect near you it can cause the prospecting UI to show the wrong thing, but this is just a UI visual glitch and should fix the next time you use the prospect ability.

• Transfer watchtower doesn’t work through the map

• Emperors who receive watchtower transfer requests while offline will not see the request popup when logging in.

• Claim icons on the map appear greyed out, or have misplaced elements.

• Preset swap abilities are named incorrectly (off by 1).

• Prospecting UI has characters which shouldn’t be showing stemming from the translation system

• Several UI layout Issues stemming from UI framework upgrade which are being addressed The complete patch notes are available on the BitCraft website.