Module Changes

Puffy

v8440

20ish new animals and magical beasts added
Some current animals have had their appearances updates

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Versions 8449-8450:

Rolled out New Systems:

Trinity Flora Rollout:

Trinity is a homebrewed natural resources system that allows for a more randomized yet organize spread of resources through the game-world
The system is split into three sub-systems: Resource Nodes(Ore, Soil, Gems, etc), Flora and Fauna
We are slowly rolling out the second sub-system of the three: Flora
We are doing so gradually and over time, so you should see a change pretty soon
Each Flora will have its own unique look(And portrait!) as well as their produce(No more using the same leaf appearance for all plants)
For cutting down trees you will need to attack them to chop them down and must be using either Wood Cutter's Axe or Gardening Sickle to do so. While the sickle allows cutting of trees for more classes, bear in mind it's far less productive than the axe!
Flora unlike resource nodes are divided into two big groups: Wild Flora, which will spawn around the server on its own, and planted Flora which you can plant in planting zones. These planting zones will be visible in your minimaps.
Locations of planted Flora will be persistent and the same flora will appear there after a reset. This is not the case with Wild Flora.
A plant has multiple produce now. You will notice some of them also have flowers/fruits/nuts that have a unique use property. This means they serve as either seed pods(I.E Apple) or seeds themselves(I.E Almond). You can then plant them in dedicated planting zones when you find them. What planting zone matches, which Flora? That is for you to learn!
Most importantly: The Flora system employs a germination process. A plant will make its life from Seed all the way to mature. Some flora types will have a very short germination process(Mushrooms, Roots, and Flowers), while others much much longer(Trees).
A Flora placeable is no longer always there to give you produce and after a random amount of picking/harvesting the plant will die. If it's a Wild flora plant, after a short delay another Wild flora will start its germination process around the area. If it is a planted flora you will have to make sure to replant one from the seeds you have.
The new sub-system is also completely covered by our BI system so that we can monitor all numbers related to it
As with any new system - Please report any issues/exploits you find
If you have any questions feel free to ask me personally or in the #crafting channel in Discord

Echo

8449-8453
Areas updated to the new Trinity System (Resource nodes & Flora):

Outskirts: Calantar's Road
Calantar's Road: Blisterfoot Inn
Calantar's Road: Aunkspear
Arabel, Outskirts: East Way
East Way Road: Masoner's Bridge
Arabel, Outskirts: Moonsea Ride
Moonsea Ride: Slingdyke
Moonsea Ride: Stonebolt Trail
Moonsea Ride: Griffon Hill
Moonsea Ride: Gnoll Pass
Outskirts: High Road
High Road: Haunted Halls
High Road: Stonecliffs
King's Forest, Dhedluk
Dragon Trail, Drakewood
Bospir
East Way Road, Masoner's Bridge

Areas added to Trinity System for Flora (were already set up for resource nodes)

Under Passages: Ankheg's Pit
Under Passages: Depredate Drift
Under Passages: Mist Runner's Delve
Under Passages: Shepherds Den
Under Passages: Starwater Flow
Dragon Trail, Hillmarch
Dragon Trail, Hillmarch Mines
Helmlands, Mycelium Grove

Areas Set up for Flora but not yet for Resource Nodes

Helmlands, Hyphea
Helmlands, Lamella
Helmlands, Mycelium

Puffy

8467

Main Hullack Forest areas reworked, a mix of new areas and redesigned old ones
New fox variations added

Puffy

8472

Hullack Forest updated with some more features
Storm Horns now has a handful of secret areas to uncover
Added grapple hook points to some areas
More thematic loot added to nooks

Puffy

8478

CARES updated with more variation
Two new hidden locations in the Storm Horns
More lore added to the Storm Horns
More fishing spots added in the Storm Horns and Hullack Forest

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V8480:

Asset Changes:

Hak updated to introduce more creature appearances(+Portraits) for builders.

New XP System Rolled out:

After a long period of testing we are now rolling out the new XP system to all players.

What does it entail?

The new system is a single funnel through which all XP gain should go through. This gives the team control over XP distribution, monitoring and easy way to toggle it off for players(Aka XP gain toggle)
The system is much more informative(And will continue improving) - Telling you when you havent learned anything from a skirmish(Aka was too easy for you)
To prevent too-good to be true scenarios the system employs hard XP caps as well as the ability to cap XP on individual creature level(If needed)
The new system also has mechanism in place to support exiled characters and allowing them to still flourish despite lack of questing opportunities
As part of the roll out the double yield perk granted on quests in the range of 4-6 was changed:
- The perk is no longer based on the range of the quest but rather the level of the player(I.E until now if a level 4 went on a 4-7 quest they wouldnt get the double yield perk)
- The double yield perk slowly degrades as you level. You will get x2 the end XP at level 4, x1.5 of the XP at level 5 and finally no additional yield at level 6.

As any new feature - Please let us know if you see anything out of the ordinary and report any bugs and exploits.

The DM team retains the right to continue adjusting the system for balancing purposes in the future

Echo

I havent been posting my work but... let's see:

8455

Trinity set up in Helmlands areas
new crafting shops in hillmarch and irondrake rock
made a bunch of new creatures for an upcoming project

8457

Bugs Fixed
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65365/historic-farmlands-quest-transition-is-missing https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65362/missing-transition-historic-to-south-gate
worked on a new quest

8459

Mountain Orcs

removed fear aura from scrimshawer again (it got lost in the rollback)

added mountain orc head to their inventory that will be pay a bounty

More work on new quest
Trinity system work on Roads/outskirts, and king's forest areas
Fixed the Haunted Halls xp markers

8463, 8465, 8470, 8471, 8473, 8479

more work on new areas/new quests
added more new creatures

8476

more work on new areas/quests
Fixed bug: https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65402/do-not-get-bone-bolts-on-successful-craft
Implemented suggestion: https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65404/make-small-bones-stackable
Also made chicken eggs stackable
Updated the appearance of graveyard dirt so it doesnt look the same as gem dust
Fixed issue: https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/64649/new-fungal-quest-pathfinding-issue

8481

fixed a transition issue in the hullack
more work on new areas/quests

8483-8484

some creatures have been adjusted
fixed issue: https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65447/trinity-system-areas-not-updated-yet
Trinity flora & ores for a bunch of areas as needed (I made it to "M" in the alphabet of areas)

Puffy

8486

Various new shadow creatures created and added to Tessaril's Tower
Added more variation to the power level of Tessaril's end boss
Minor loot tweaks to Tessaril's Tower and Gnoll Peaks, adding value to some and balancing other too good to be trues
Corrected Sewer's trinity tag
Fixed https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65451/map-placeable-partially-hidden-kingdom-of-ice
New hidden area added to the Stonelands
New harpies created

Puffy

8488

Updated Earth Drakes and Earth Drake Younglings
Added power level variation to Radiance
Added death events to thematic monsters
Minor tweaks to the new areas
Added aggro to more fishing spots

Strife and Discord

V8491:

Bug Fixes:

Adjusted the Hunter's Thirst Spell script to allow players to cast on items in their inventory and not have to swap hands and then cast

Trinity Flora Related Changes:

Added additional safety measures to avoid database corruption
Added support for builders to limit planting zones to specific flora category or specific plants

Toolbar Changes:

Modified the Diceroll tool(For both DMs and Players) to have the skills appear in an ascending alphabetical order. Please let me know if there are any issues there
Added a new button to the Player toolbar - XP toggle

Survival System - Campfires:

Tinder and Oil Flask items were removed from all stores. Code yet remains so if you still have these items you can use them until they are used up, but then you wont be able to get new ones.
The new survival system introduces 2 new ways to light campfires, which are both dependent on your Survival skill:
1. Twigs - You can grab twigs from trees(Oak, Hickory and Mahogany) and use one twig on another to generate a campfire. This is considered less expensive but also requires more survival skill
2. Flint Stone - You can buy those at stores and they give you easier access to firestarting. You will need to use them however on a burning material(Twigs, Branches, etc). Flint stone is more expensive but requires less survival skill to succeed with

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V8495:

Trinity Flora Related Changes:

Added the following missing flowers/seed pods so that these plants can also be planted by players:

Peppermint Flower
Sage Flower
Witch Hazel Flower

**If you see anything else missing let me know

Asset Changes:

Added 88 new small item appearances (Courtesy of @Puffy ) to be used by builders to give more variety to items
Added 60 new avian creatures for builders and DMs to use(Predator and others)
Added new appearances for Orcs

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V8505:

New Skill Focus Feats Introduced:

Thanks to the amazing @TheMinionOfArabel we are rolling out additional support to the new skills we recently added - Skill focus feats.

All new skills now have their relevant skill focus feat for you to choose from.

Puffy

8507

Bone Charm appearances updated
Mountain Orc Appearances updated
New Hell Beast added
New Zombie Hound Added
Tempest Valley now possible to camp in
Updated the planting zones in urban areas to urban
Reduced the amount of planting zones in most urban areas to encourage more planting in the wild
Reduced the amount of spawning plants inside urban areas to encourage more harvesting in the wild
Fixed the planting zone in Immersea
Hullack Forest lighing given more contrast, still dark bring a torch/light, confirmed it is easier to see with good bright light!
Removed some old left over plants/placeables from the old system

Puffy

8508-9

Fixed Dragon's Trail, Hillmarch and Slingdyke flora spawn rate
Updated Hullack Areas to avoid crashes for MAC/Android users
Made a missing Tempest Valley map point accessible
New quest WIP in the King's Forest, coming soon!

Echo

8500-8502
Wyvernwater quest work
Wyverwater dungeons work
Travel set up to the islands
monster edits
bug fixes

https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65485/cant-light-a-campfire-in-south-horn-area
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65487/gurt-bortzch-in-collinwood-missing-his-store
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65486/yenner-lake-in-collinwood-missing-her-shop

8504
Bug fixes

https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65520/snaking-tunnels-rest-area-not-working
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65517/getting-stuck-in-tunnels/4

8511
Made Wyvernwater areas more profitable (more loot options, more chests available)
Toned down some of the pirates
new monsters added
fixed varibles on fishing spots

will work on quest loot/rewards Soon^TM

Strife and Discord

V8513-8514:

Bug Fixes:

https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65537/unrechable-gem-node-misty-river
Corrected discrepancy between planting zone terrains and their map notes(I.E A planting zone was set as Urban terrain but still showed as Plains in the Mini-map)

Trinity System Related Changed - Flora:

Added support for a new terrain type to be used by builders - Orchard
Made all Non-corrupted Mushrooms to act as seed pods and you can now extract spores from them for planting
Adjusted the weight of all spores and seeds to not exceed or be equal to their pod seeds
Adjusted some of the feedback messages to be more grammatically correct
Corrected an issue with some plant seeds not appearing as a stack when you open the seed pod, but rather as individual items that can be stacked later
Plants will regenerate their leaves/flowers/etc even if you pick the flowers but leave the leaves untouched - They will only regenerate their missing parts!
Added a new logic for detecting wild flora:
- Utilizes a combination of Survival, Knowledge Nature and spot skills to make together flora detection. For every 5 combined ranks your range of spotting flora in the wild will increase by 1 meter
- Night time will now make it harder to spot flora in the wild unless closer, and things like Darkvision/Low-Light vision/Ultravision will either reduce the penalty or negate it fully

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V8515:

Ranger/Druid Related Changes:

Rangers and Druids should not longer see the ability to choose an Animal Companion in the creation/level-up screens, which was redundant and misleading for new players
Rangers should now get the Animal Companion feat at level 3 instead of 6. Additionally the feat will no longer be single use per day, but unlimited. These actions are prep work to move .compan dot commands to a dedicated UI

Asset Changes:

Added 7 new creature portraits for builders to use
Added 30 new misc item appearances to be used by builders for various things such as: Trinity, new Bard song appearances, new Barbarian rage appearances

Movement Skills System Changes(Swim/Jump/Balance/etc):

System was adjusted to account better for items that have those movement skills bonuses assigned to them, and must be equipped. Please let us know if you see any issues or if things are too good to be true.

Trinity System Related Changes:

Added missing Skullcap flower so players can extract seeds to plant it
Introduced additional key feature to resource nodes that will be revealed in future versions
Added support for individual flora detection penalty(For better concealed flora) to be used by builders
Began laying the groundwork for Rare/Bounty Flora to spawn using this system(Rare spore/Fungus, Rose Skull, etc)

Echo

8516

Removed old plant placeables from Hullack Forest Webbed Maze
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65570/enter-the-caves-is-not-a-transition
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65568/boat-captain-doesnt-charge-you-money-to-cross-the-wyvernwater
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65569/not-charged-for-booking-a-ship
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65567/druid-can-t-read-druidic
Lowered % chance of aggro on wyvernwater isles fishing spots

8518

fixed sewer treasure map trigger
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65576/alchemy-table-returning-old-plant-materials
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65566/add-bonecrafting-merchant-to-collinwood
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65546/bonecrafting-suggestions
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/65562/increase-pp-for-unused-pelts
Pelts added: black boar, gray wolf
pelt weights adjusted (several)
pelt prestige adjusted (a few)
edits to thunder wolf - should be able to skin it now instead of inventory drop
prep work for future Trinity: Fauna

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Version 8527:

Trinity Related:

Trinity: Fauna:

Development work for phase 1 of Trinity-Fauna has been completed and will now move into implementation phase by builders. This will focus on slowly migrating all our Animals to work with Trinity, and all their drops will be managed by the system. This will also solve issues like Earth Drakes using their scales etc.

Trinity: Flora:

Development work for adding rare Flora to be served via Trinity(Skull Rose, etc) has been completed and we are now moving into testing phase before we implement it.

Asset Changes:

Added new creature appearances for builders to use
Added additional portraits to be used by new creatures
Added additional small misc item appearances to be used by builders

Bounty System Refactoring:

Bounty system has been refactored to be more dynamic and not require builders to hardcode items in the code, when adding new items
System will now also give builders the ability to have specialty/unique Bounty Hunters.
Entire experience is much more 2024 so give it a try. Its a surprise :)

**As everything new please report any bugs/exploits/too good to be true things