Alter Aeon June 2017 Update
Our huge summertime event, the Summer Solstice Celebration, debuts on June 3rd
and lasts until the end of the month! It is scaled for all levels, so even if
you're a newcomer, you can jump right into the action! This year's theme is
“light and dar
Our big summer event recently concluded, but there is still tons of fun to be
had in Alter Aeon! We implemented new Death March event code to make them
easier to set-up and execute, so expect to see more deathmarch-style events in
July, where players and gods join forces to rampage through the
This month features the Alter Aeon Homecoming 2017 event, which begins
Saturday, August 5th! This world-spanning, high-level event showcases the
metarrexi, the plant monsters from the plane of Diurnus featured during this
year's Summer Solstice Celebration. Somehow they have managed to
s can be
found on our Youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNfBQL4VSs ) .
-Shadowfax
Alter Aeon ( http://www.alteraeon.com )
Last month we implemented a new combat system, introducing ranged attacks for
weapons like bows, crossbows, blowguns and slings, and we presented a number of
skills and spells to support this new feature, such as 'marksmanship',
'point-blank combat', 'quickloading', 'bowcrafting,' and 'fletching
r more information, please see our November update audio presentation on our
Youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rS-d27FZE ) .
-Shadowfax
Alter Aeon ( http://www.alteraeon.com )
ur latest monthly update on our: Youtube
channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwTgfBEeDLw )
-Shadowfax
Alter Aeon ( http://www.alteraeon.com )
Happy New Year, from the staff of Alter Aeon!
Our Winter Solstice event may almost be over, but there is still time to
participate! There are many special event quests and activities to do, and new
players are always welcome and can take part in the special events right away.
The event ends on
We started off the year right with a lot of great updates for our game!
We have been busy relevelling areas all over the world! This has been in
response to the increase of the maximum player level from 37 to 38. The
relevelling goals have been to provide high level content for new level 38
p
aised the
level cap earlier this year, we also plan on adding some new skills and spells
to help flesh out the abilities of each class a bit more. For more information,
check out our latest audio update on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPs-_NrTY3k
-Shadowfax
Alter Aeon ( http://www.alteraeon.com )
We're springing into the season on Alter Aeon with all new updates and zones!
Remember that during the month of April you can forage for special Easter eggs
items!
Last month, we made a lot of small improvements, with hints for wearing
equipment in empty slots, using the identify comman
please see our May audio presentation on Youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyNGp9DHIE
-Shadowfax
Alter Aeon ( http://www.alteraeon.com )
First thing we'd like to announce is the main mid-year event: the Summer
Solstice Celebration! This year's is the sixth such installment, and the epic
jubilation will begin on Friday, June 15th, running until Wednesday, July 4th.
Everything will be shut down after the fireworks are over!
For
Our sixth annual Summer Solstice Celebration has recently concluded. Having
both a group version and solo version of the Puzzlewood Forest seemed to be a
crowd-pleaser, so that will probably become standard procedure in the summer
events to come. We will work on making each version more distinct
This month we will be having a game event coinciding with Eid al-adha, or the
Feast of the Sacrifice. It will begin Tuesday, August 21st and conclude on
Sunday, August 26th. Players of all levels will be able to participate. Like
last year, there will be a raffle associated with the event, with
We just had an exciting month this past August!
Recently concluded was our Eid al-adha event, the Feast of the Sacrifice, where
players of all levels had the opportunity to perform quests to help feed the
hungry and poor!
We released the following two areas last month:
- The Tombs of the Forgo
expansion pack for playing Alter Aeon designed specifically for the visually
impaired. This new version features more sounds and filters for crafting among
its many improvements. You can download it now from http://www.mush-z.com (
http://www.mush-z.com/ ).
Improvements we saw last month incl
Our special Halloween-themed event - Halloween Havoc - is ongoing! Even if you
have never before played Alter Aeon, now is as good a time as ever to try us
out! Once you play through the starting areas, you can jump right into the
Halloween event! Now if you're one of our old-timers who h
Happy Holidays from all of us here at Alter Aeon! Now that it is December, we
are giving out our December Advent Calendar gifts. Make sure you log in every
day of the month to receive your gift!
Our Fall Festival event recently concluded, but don't you worry because our
next one is on th
Happy New Year from the staff of Alter Aeon!
Last month we had some of the highest daily userloads since 2016, peaking at
110 players on December 23rd. Hopefully with the great events and new features
we have planned for 2019, we will continue to see those numbers rise.
Speaking of great events
s released last
month: - Cliffside Island, a level 43 group 4 zone for Gianasi - Ishi Province,
a level 41 zone for Suboria Our building teams are working toward a number of
new areas for all different level ranges. For more information, please see our
Youtube presentation at https://www.youtube
Happy March, everyone! We will be having a general game event this month called
the Spring Festival. It will begin on the evening of Friday, March 15th, run
through Saint Patrick's Day weekend, and end after the following weekend on
Monday, March 25th. The event will feature the metarrexi as ant
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
Here is some recent news regarding Alter Aeon:
The 'mystic projectile' spell has gotten a facelift, becoming the more
versatile 'mystic armament', which not only can be cast on blunt ammunition
like sling bullets but also blunt weapons, imbuing affected items with magi
ube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64NFyRiO2kA
Next, an interview with Morpheus, senior staff member of Alter Aeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-5Vn2TYfjQ
Follow us on our new blog created to replace the discontinued Google pages:
https://alter-aeon.blogspot.com
And finally, a list
The seventh annual Summer Solstice Celebration of Alter Aeon still ongoing! We
decided to extend it for another weekend so everybody has a chance to finish
the event quests! The summer event will now end the morning of Monday, July 8th.
Here's a summary of recent coding updates we did in
We are proud to announce our event for this month, the Feast of the Sacrifice!
This event will begin on Monday, August 12th and end on Friday, August 16th.
The event will feature special Eid themed quests, and it will be for players of
all levels!
Important updates in July:
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Additional runes
Last month we had the Feast of the Sacrifice event, which went off without a
hitch! The event was even extended a couple of days as per popular demand.
While we don't have an event planned for September, next month will see our
biggest event of the year, Halloween Havoc. Details about this upcom
As our first order of business: it is my pleasure to announce the dates of this
year's Halloween Havoc! This Halloween-themed event is something of an annual
tradition and is our biggest and best event of the year. If there is any event
on Alter Aeon that you do not want to miss out on, th
e price point as
splitting or combining metals, a significant discount.
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Seven new job types added: apothecary, wandmaker, clothier, custom retrieval,
forager, quartermaster and anointer.
Plans for November:
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Guild jobs: starting with the Cartographers' Guild. Venture into the
wildernes
Our fall festival event may have just concluded a few days ago, but our next
event is right around the corner! This year's Winter Solstice event will begin
on Saturday, December 21st and will end sometime on Thursday, January 2nd.
Expect New Year pk arena mob sets, the EPDS cannons, teleporting
This January marks the 25th anniversary of when the game went live to the
public, guided by a handful of college students in Fairbanks, Alaska. It has
been our pleasure to entertain you all these years. We have come a long way,
and we hope to go even further!
In honor of this momentous occasion
gration of mysterious angelic beasts moving from one
plane of light to another, and they pass through the world of Alter Aeon during
their journey. Log into Alter Aeon on or around Valentine's Day to meet these
creatures and see what they're all about.
Here are some highlights of last mon
We're pleased to announce the dates for our next global event: the Spring
Festival 2020! This event will begin on March 20th and end sometime on March
23rd. It will involve hunting down some teleporting mobs and have some special
quests to discover and complete.
Here is a list of some changes m
Alter Aeon will be having two mini-events in the near future!
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The first will be an Easter-themed quest that will begin on the morning of
Friday, April 10th and end on the evening of Monday the 13th.
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The second mini-event will begin on May Day, that is to say, Friday, May 1st.
It will
Our Mayday mini-event is in full swing! It is open to players of all levels,
new and old alike! Can you successfully pilot a mining robot against an
unrelenting army of plant aliens? Come and join us for a new and exciting take
on Alter Aeon gameplay! Don't wait too long to try out this
This month we will be having one of our big events of the year, the Summer
Solstice Celebration! It will begin on Friday, June 19th and end on Sunday,
June 28th. Returning will be the fan-favorite event areas, Starving Rock and
the Puzzlewood Forest. Each of these is a special area with its own
on harvesting from corpses.
You can, however, make flesh beasts from the corpses of fish type mobs now.
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We spiced up a few warrior skills with fatality strings!
For more information, please refer to our latest Youtube update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EznEtVBkrvA (
https://www.youtube
This year's Feast of the Sacrifice event has just concluded and was a rousing
success. We hope that everybody was able to have lots of fun participating in
the event quests!
Our next event will be the Labor Daybor mini-event in early September. Its
theme will revolve around saving lost pets.
N
Happy Autumn! Our September event is due to begin on Saturday, September 12th
and end on Saturday, September 19th. During this week you'll be able to do a
simple quest to find lost pets and reunite them with their owners. Our next big
event will be Halloween Havoc at the end of October.
Here's
vious event, Thanksgiving 2020, featured the false god of pestilence,
Chalcuihtotolin, making a bid for power by unleashing plague-infested turkeys
across Alter Aeon. Players slaughtered them by the thousands, but not before
avatars and later, aspects, of Chalcuihtotolin were able to manifest. I
Welcome one and all to the latest monthly update for Alter Aeon!
This update comes on the heels of the recently concluded Winter Solstice event.
The extravaganza provided fun and activities for players of all stripes.
This month we celebrate Alter Aeon's 26th anniversary! In honor of thi
We are pleased to announce that level 39 is officially out, with a new spell or
skill for each class!
- Mage spell, greater ice elemental. Ice elemental don't hit hard but are
effective against enemies weak to cold. They are capable of soaking up lots of
damage and are effective tanks.
- Cler
and readable.
More information can be found in our latest Youtube audio presentation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTNCMvH8_Pk (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTNCMvH8_Pk )
Want to get caught up on our latest D&D campaign dramatization set in the world
of Alter Aeon? Try here: http
*Hello one and all! We at Alter Aeon are pleased to announce our next game
event: the Mayday mini-event, which will begin on Saturday May 1st and end on
Wednesday, May 5th. It will once again feature the crashed starship zone with
players piloting mining spiders! Players both new and old can
Hello there! This month on Alter Aeon we’ll be releasing a couple of high level
group zones for the Nightmare Plane. Next we’ll be having this year’s Summer
Solstice Celebration in June! We also continue to work on building a soundtrack
for our client.
Here’s an overview of key updates from
Happy Summer Solstice! Here’s the June 2021 update of Alter Aeon!
Usually we do a game event around this time but it’s going to be a little later
this year. Right now we’re shooting for middle of July, so we’ll offer a more
precise timetable in next month’s update. The plan is to release event
Hope you’re having a great summer so far!
Our highly anticipated next big game event is scheduled to begin on Monday,
July 19th. The main questline will center around the origins of the Order of
the White Knights and will feature several single player zones. The event also
heralds the return of
Hello there! Alter Aeon’s big summer event has just come to its conclusion, but
the next game event is right around the corner! In three weeks, we will have
our Labor Day event, where we will present a continuation of the story areas
from the summer event, along with level 5 fortuitous notary. T
Time for a quick update! Our summer event was so jam-packed with stuff to do
that we ended up splitting it into to two separate events. The latter part, the
post-Labor Day event, has recently concluded, thus wrapping up the story of the
Order of the White Knights.
With the event over, we can ex
Happy harvest season, from the staff of Alter Aeon! It is October once again,
and in Alter Aeon that means it’s time once again for Halloween Havoc! This
year’s event is called the Day of the Dead will start on Friday, October 29th
and end on the morning of Tuesday, November 2nd. In addition to
Our Day of the Dead event went great, so it’s time for our next event! The
Alter Aeon Thanksgiving 2021 will start on November 23rd and end on November
29th or 30th. We’ll be re-introducing the turkey shoot game along with numerous
other quests for players new and old alike.
Here’s a review of
Happy December, everybody! First of all, we want to announce the dates for this
year’s Winter Solstice event. This game event will start on Monday, December
20th and will end on Monday, January 3rd. There will be the Emergency Package
Delivery Systems, and the New Year vs. Old Year and the Chris
Happy New Year! Our Winter Solstice event concluded about a week ago, and our
next game event will commemorate the 27th anniversary of when Alter Aeon went
live to the public. This event will begin on Friday, January 21st and end on
Monday the 24th. Content will be available for players of all
Happy February to all! Alter Aeon is once again the midst of another
flutterheart migration! Taking out one of the weird little floaters can yield
a special reward, so be sure to visit before the migration is over.
We are proud to announce that we now have music on the Dclient! The official
a
fully scored soundtrack, with ambient sounds and background music! More music
continues to be added in order to diversify and beautify the world of Alter
Aeon.
For more information, please refer to our latest Youtube presentation here:
https://youtu.be/7dGa0W8HbL0
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will soon be coming to fruition. One is the city of
Port Crimsonia, a level 42-43 zone on the eastern shore of the continent of
Ramanek when finished. The level 34 zones of Dreahul and Thuoduhr should also
be available soon.
For more information regarding Alter Aeon latest developments, please
Happy May, everybody! We on Alter Aeon have been really busy reorganizing our
crafting skills and guilds. Here’s an overview of what we’ve done recently:
There are now three more crafting guilds in addition to the Smiths Guild: The
Woodwrights Guild, The Rangers Guild and The Lapidarists Guild
Happy summer, everybody! We’re proud to announce our tenth annual Summer
Solstice Celebration! The main questline will consist of a series of gladiator
matches held in the Naginag arena. This will be a single player scenario that
pits you against enemies that present radically different challeng
We hope everyone was able to enjoy this year’s recently concluded Summer
Solstice Celebration! Let’s review recent additions to the game:
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new woodcrafted weapon: lance
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easier to create mastercrafted woodcraft objects with rare types of wood
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aggro mobs should be slightly tough at very h
Hi there! As we transition from summer to fall and students return to school,
we hope everyone is doing well. We here at Alter Aeon have been very busy!
In addition to opening two new areas, many minor quality of life updates have
been added to Alter Aeon centering around jobs recently
Alter Aeon will soon be having a game event centered around the autumnal
equinox, starting on the afternoon of Friday, September 16th and ending on the
night of Saturday the 24th. This event will feature the Puzzlewood scenario.
For the uninitiated, the Puzzlewood is a special event area which
Happy harvest season from the staff of Alter Aeon!
We are excited about this month’s game event: Halloween Havoc! We can expect
all of the usual amenities, including pumpkin cannons, monster pk arena
battles, and seasonal prizes, as well as special zones made just for the event.
Activities are
Happy Veterans’ Day! I’m here to tell you about the various updates to Alter
Aeon last month and our plans for the future!
In October:
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The “show debuff” command will now tell you if you are hypothermic, dazed,
stunned, burned by acid, poisoned, nauseated, unbalanced, bleeding or on fire
Happy holiday season, everybody! We here at Alter Aeon wish to share that our
next game event will be the Winter Solstice celebration, beginning next week on
Tuesday, December 20th and ending on Wednesday, January 3rd. Animated trees
roam the world for players to harvest. We can expect the
Happy New Year, everybody! We’re getting new people all of the time, so let us
tell you a little bit about our game:
Alter Aeon is a multiplayer player-vs.-environment hack-and-slash text
adventure game with an original medieval fantasy setting. Characters are
multiclass and have a choice of
We hope everyone wanted to celebrate Alter Aeon’s 28th anniversary had the
chance to do so! Our next game event will be the Valentine’s Day-themed “Love
is a Battlefield!”, which will begin on Friday, February 10th and end on
Wednesday the 15th. This event will feature a team-based PK arena ques
Alter Aeon is springing into action with new updates and plans for the game!
We will be running an spring themed event the last weekend in March, beginning
on Friday the 24th and ending on Monday the 26th. Details are still
forthcoming, but there will be activities appropriate for players of
Hello, everyone! We hope everyone who was able to participate in this year’s
Spring Festival event last month had fun doing so. We at Alter Aeon have been
very busy!
Here’s a summary of recent updates to the game:
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The crushing bite attack from called druid hyenas now has a minor debuff
our Tumblr blog, we restarted it with a
slightly different address: alter-aeon.tumblr.com (
https://alter-aeon.tumblr.com ). We’ll be doing some updating to the Alter Aeon
website to modernize it and more heavily promote our preferred social media
platforms.
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It is our pleasure to announce our next game event will be the Summer Solstice
Celebration, one of the biggest events of the year! This event will begin on
first day of summer, Wednesday, June 21st, and will end on Tuesday, July 4th.
We will be re-opening both the Puzzlewood and Starving Rock zo
This year’s Summer Solstice Celebration event was a rousing success! We saw
much more player participation and successful completion of event quests over
the prior two years.
The event may be over, but we here at Alter Aeon are keeping busy. Many new
developments continue to unfold, including
Happy August, everybody! Alter Aeon will be having a weekend game event later
this month, beginning on Friday the 18th and ending around noon the following
Monday, the 21st. The event quest is designed for both newcomers and old-timers
alike, so everyone can enjoy!
Here’s a summary of recent
Happy fall, everybody!
We hope everyone enjoyed the One Summer Night event held last month. Our next
game event will be Halloween Havoc, which we’ll talk about more in next month’s
update.
Here’s a summary of recent updates to Alter Aeon:
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Updated the Angels’ Cry area, changing mobs and
Happy harvest season from the staff of Alter Aeon!
At the end of this month we will be celebrating this year’s sixteenth annual
Halloween Havoc event! There will be activities for players of all levels to
enjoy, including pumpkin cannons, the Halloween pk mob arenas, the release of
new areas
We have recently concluded this year’s wildly popular and successful Halloween
Havoc event. Alter Aeon’s next game event will be Thanksgiving, which will
start on Wednesday, November 22nd and end the following Monday, November 27th.
Veteran world builders Draak and Morpheus will be re-opening th
Happy Holidays from all of us here at Alter Aeon! Currently we are giving out
our December Advent Calendar gifts. You can log in every day throughout the
month to receive more varied and powerful gifts than the rest of the year.
Also, trees are roaming across the world, which many say make
Hello and happy New Year! Our Winter Solstice event is now concluded, but we
have another game event coming up soon!
Our next event will our 29th anniversary event! This is a celebration of when
Alter Aeon first went public on January 15th, 1995. Dates are still tentative,
but right now we are
Spring is in the air, and that means it’s almost time for the Alter Aeon Spring
Festival event! You can expect event quests, leprechauns and a whole lot of
fun. This year’s spring event will be held over the Easter weekend.
The hunting command should now be unlocked! Like fishing, it is a
Happy Spring, everybody! Here is what has been happening in Alter Aeon lately:
Two new level 40 zones for were released in March, the Valmor Mine mini-area
and the Salt Pan wilderness area. Both are located on the continent of Suboria
between Elborat and the City of Kings. Because of the level
Happy May, everybody! It’s time for the Alter Aeon May 2024 Update!
Our game is always growing, and as such we have a number of areas currently in
development. These include:
* Castle Ket, a level 13 area for the island of Kordan
* Winnowing Hall, a level 15 area
* The Hinterlands, a level 32
Happy Summer! It is nearly time for this year’s Summer Solstice Celebration!
This game-wide event is scheduled to begin on Friday, June 21 st and end on
Thursday, July 4 th.
We will be re-opening both the Puzzlewood and Starving Rock zones for the
event. For those unfamiliar, the Puzzlewood is
Hello and welcome to the July 2024 update!
First of all, the Summer Solstice Celebration has been extended to Saturday,
July 6th! That gives everyone more time to complete the challenges!
In addition to event preparations, last month a new object type called CLOTHING
was added for wearable item
Here’s the latest news about Alter Aeon!
We will be running an “End of Summer” event the last weekend of the month,
starting on Friday, August 30 th and ending at noon on Monday, September 2 nd.
Port Crimsonia, a high level city located on the continent of Ramanek, will be
opened at the end of
Happy Fall, everyone!
Our End-of-Summer concluded last week, and our next game event will be
Halloween Havoc at the end of October. More details in next month’s update!
The Port Crimsonia areas have been opened, which are level 42-43 zones located
on the east side of the northern continent of R
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