Tensions at Sea
Big news from the major ports. Fishermen have been hauling in treasures from the old World. These sunken city treasures have been seen arriving at city docks from Trinsic to Britain.
With such wealth to be found, it is only natural that others have taken notice. The oceans are becoming active once again. Fears of encountering the Leviathan have passed. Soon, that name will be just another story for the taverns.
New Content at Sea
Stranded NPC Ships
These are immobile boats containing an NPC and a locked chest. Pick the lock and loot quickly. Once the first item is lifted from the chest, the ship begins a short countdown and sinks a few minutes later.
These can be found throughout the open ocean.
Pirate NPC Crews
Roaming pirate ships that actively hunt players. Crews can include mages, archers, and scouts that reveal hidden players. When all pirates are killed, the ship stops moving, becomes unlocked, and can be boarded to loot the bodies and the ship’s treasure chest. The boat will sink a few minutes later.
These ships can be found near trade routes outside of Britain and Trinsic and over the sunken cities.
Water Debris and Trash Islands
Floating debris clusters that act as small island encounters. Each one contains a few monsters, an escortable NPC, and a locked treasure chest. Once the first item is lifted from the chest, the island begins a short countdown and sinks a few minutes later.
These can be found throughout the open ocean.
2 New Sea Bosses
The Deadly Leviathan and Nessy are two new boss monsters who spawn in the ocean.
New Items
Ocean Doubloons
Ocean doubloons can be found on merchant boats, pirate ships, trash islands, as loot from the new water monsters, or in pirate chests recovered from deep-sea fishing nets. You can trade your ocean doubloons in at Britain Customs.
Deep Sea Fishing Net
A rare net found on pirate ships, trash islands, stranded boats, and new ocean monsters. It works like a standard fishing net but with far more dangerous results. Using one can surface dangerous beasts, including an ancient sea serpent, an aboleth, or Cruul.
You may pull up a locked and trapped pirate chest containing new items such as:
- Bowl of Fish (+8 Str, Dex, and Int for 2 minutes)
- Sea Lute (new instrument ID and sound)
- Bottle of Hooch
Ocean Fishing Net
A utility net that drags nearby arrows, bolts, and monster corpses toward your ship.
Metal Containers
New container types, including rusty metal chests, barnacle-covered chests, golden metal chests, and pirate chests.
Deep Sea Fishing Rod
A fishing rod with extended reach, crafted through Carpentry or Fletching with Fishing skill.
Rapid Fishing Rod
A speed-focused rod that pulls fish from the water in half the normal time. Crafted through Carpentry or Fletching with Fishing skill.
Wizard’s Fishing Pole
A lightweight pole that stays equipped even while casting spells. Crafted through Carpentry or Fletching with Magery skill.
Ocean Doubloon Rewards
- Avatar Decor: a sword belt (blessed)
- Avatar Decor: a mace belt (blessed)
- Avatar Decor: an octopus necklace (blessed)
- Home Decor: a broken bottle
- Home Decor: a spilling bag of coins
- Home Decor: a ship in a bottle.
- New Container: an oak barrel container with an 800 stone capacity.
- Avatar Decor: a shoulder parrot (blessed)
- Boat Hold Upgrade Deed: Increase your ship’s maximum weight from 400 to 1,000 stones.
- Ship Mate Deed: Similar to a house butler, your ship mate will refresh the boat if it reaches greatly worn status (and then self-destruct… man overboard!).
Updated Systems
- The BOD Book has a new sorting option available.
- The Wand Smelter can now view items in sub-containers. Unidentified wands will not be detected.
- When you’re low on stamina, it will drain slower than before. This fixes an issue where it was difficult to naturally recover from low stamina.
- A broadcast will go out in-game and to Discord 10 minutes after a boss spawns.
- Castle owners can now clear all recall runes marked in their courtyard. This costs 500,000 gold. It will move all users in your courtyard to the ban location.
- Strongbats now spawn with slightly increased Intelligence.
- Strongbats are now part of the Mongbat Pack Instinct.
- Ledgers now highlight your top data points at the top of the page.
- When you are interrupted while casting, you will now receive the standard spell recovery delay.
- You can no longer mark runes, or use existing runes that lead into the 5 Guard Posts associated with an upcoming Order/Chaos system release. This consists of the post near the Water Walk and posts on the road between Britain, Yew, and the Compassion desert.
- Support code for renting public spaces in Britannia. This system is ready to go and will start to show up over the Summer.
New Monster Statues
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the Animal Lore menu was not showing Pack Instinct for mongbats.
- Fixed a bug where removing single-stack items from a treasure map chest had a chance to spawn a monster.
- Fixed a typo on the Moonglow telescope replica.
- Crafting a potion barrel or keg will now only consume empty containers.