Patch Notes - Roots and Ruins

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 LvL 32 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
- Several UI layout Issues stemming from UI framework upgrade which are being addressed (We are currently aware that the in-game chat functionality is broken and are actively investigating a fix)
- 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
