Last month we celebrated Saint Patrick's Day and the Spring Equinox with the 
Spring Festival 2019 event! Players had a great time, and circumstances 
throughout the event led us to discover some bugs to fix and inspired us to 
code some additional building tools to make events and death marches in the 
future run more smoothly.

 

Code updates in March include:

 

- A new level 33 necromancer skill 'soulsmith'. Necromancers adept at the 
gemcutting skill can learn to add soulstones to crafted jewelry as if they were 
gemstones. High-level soulstones are difficult to mount, but result in more 
powerful jewelry.

 

- Rune-based channel casting options - these changes allows mages to add 
blasting damage to spells, focus them into cutting beams, increase the cast 
level and more, at the cost of additional mana. Help pages now show if a spell 
can be channel cast.

 

- Lapidary, leathercraft, woodcraft and bonecraft check can now be used on 
crafted items to determine what additions can be added to them. A 'check' 
option has been add to 'metalurgy enhance' for check what enhancements can be 
used on objects.

 

- The 'climb' command has been deprecated. Players will automatically use their 
climb skill when moving through climb-only exits.

 

- Small tweaks to luck to make luck checks more internally consistent.

 

- The option of adding more details to heraldic symbols, such as them being 
wreathed in flame or covered with armor.

 

In March we released the third and final Tower of Learning on the east side of 
Dragon Tooth.

 

There are three areas that we should have finished within the next two months:

 

- the Valley of the Sacerdotes, a level 41 area on Crepuscula

 

- the Heliacal Moors, a level 42 area on Diurnus

 

- the Pool of Radiance, another level 42 area on Diurnus

 

Expect more refinement in crafting skills coming up in the next couple of 
months.

 

We are once again working toward making naval combat and trade a reality. It is 
our hope to have naval encounters ready some time in May and naval trade ready 
before the summer event in June.

 

Watch for Easter Eggs when foraging this month: now with improved colors!

 

For more information can be found at our April Youtube audio presentation here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_uQITu4mBo

 

-Shadowfax

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