Azuras on the Horizon | 10.0 Release Details

[Daisy 9725]

 

Azuras on the Horizon | 10.0 Release Details

Hey all,

 

Just a quick update that Azuras will be released on Friday, October 17th. Maintenance will begin around 7 PM CST on Thursday, followed by a midnight release. I understand this sucks for a large portion of players, but experience has taught me that it is preferable to launch during off hours to avoid potential performance issues during primetime and to iron out any immediate issues. Logins may be rate-limited over the weekend and the server cap may be decreased from 500 depending on performance, as our plugins have extra load on them during player logins for a new map as data is initialized.

 

A reminder that free LC will be available for one week following launch for folks to decorate. Vaults will be available a few weeks after launch following ST review.

 

Also, since a few folks asked me, although /card details changed during temp map will not persist, your personas have continued to age noramlly. The persona slots you had configured at the end of Azuras will be identical, with the exception of the age - this is because age is tracked via current year minus birth year, and the year has progressed normally during Kalldur.

 

Patch notes and a resource map are available below.

 

Cheers,

Daisy

Patch Notes

- All mining tiles will have mines by default (unowned) with 4 nodes (or 4 of each for gems) on a 24 hour personal cooldown.

- Nation-owned tiles will have 2x drops on an 8 hour personal cooldown.

- Gem mines will no longer produce amethyst, it can now be found at resource island.

- Ranching, horse breeding, and farming have been combined into 'fertile' tiles, bonuses remain the same. The fertile bonus will only be active on nation-owned tiles.

- Food / saturation decay while outside of combat has being significantly reduced.

- Addition of food expiration and food bags - see this post for details. I did want to add that for example, bread and wheat will be on a 28 day expiration, which resets when crafted from wheat to bread, so a harvest could stretch up to 8 weeks. Other vanilla foods have similar expiration times - they are on the order of weeks, not days. The system was designed to be fully adjustable, and will be reviewed after map launch.

- Addition of biome effects, tunable bells, and painting -- see @Crunchiest_Leaf's posts for details.

- Items that have the reverse-crafting restriction, such as gem / iron / gold blocks, now display a warning when crafting.

- Gem / iron / gold blocks will only take 4 of the material to craft instead of 9.

- Addition of 4 new herbs and removal of 4 old ones - ask ST for details this aint my job. Herb item display has also been adjusted to be prettier.

- Fishing loot tables have been adjust for the new custom biomes.

- Addition of a soulstone pillar directly at resource island, and a soul beacon for it at spawn.

- Warhammers will now use the mace item for display purposes.

- Netherite nodes now yield netherite scrap, which is smelted 1:1 to netherite ingots.

- Only coal can now be used as a fuel source.

- Ore blocks can be crafted with the raw ore / gem + cobblestone or cobbled deepslate.

- Ore blocks cannot be smelted into ingots / gems.

- Animal breeding limits have been increased from 4 to 8 per restart.

- Armor trims in ItemEdit, a post with more details will be made for this.

- Surge PVP: removed buckler and berserker axe.

- Tiles are approximately 3x larger than those on Aevos. As a consequence, acquisition costs are now 10k for exterior, 5k to core, and upkeep is 100 for exterior and 300 for core tiles.

 

Immediate Planned Additions

These didn't quite make the cut but should be available within a couple of weeks.

- Road navigation / road speed plugin, just working on final touches.

- Vassal support for realms.

- Bundles for generic materials and herbs. Signed RP items and PVP gear will not be placeable in bundles, and they cannot be soulbound.

- Better shop support for food items (unfortunately right now you will have to remake the display for different expirations, we're working on this).
- Distant Horizons support.
- Cloud temple - navigable from the main world -- CT is placed on an island south of Azuras, though remains in a separate world for technical reasons, though we plan to make it warp you to/from the main map when approaching / leaving by water.

- Hooked will be disabled for a few days following launch.

- Tutorial island update.

- Chiseled bookshelves usable with BetterBooks.

- Surge PVP recipe adjustments.

Resource Map

 

 

[SaviourMeme 968]

New map wowee

[Aesopian 1639]

Hi

[Wyrvun 1808]

how will you guys be celebrating trans friday?

[Nen 347]

i am columbusing my christopher rn

[StingyParrot 1595]

the umbral heath place should produce echo shards (do nothing)

[tcs_tonsils_ 3666]

BOAT WARPS! WOO HOO!

[Security_ 2287]

by azura(s) by azura(s) by azura(s)!

[Jihnyny 5233]

still wont forgive you guys for cucking orcs and giving them a useless tile (again), knowing we were landing there, and knowing that we were interested in the idea of gold (as explained to me when I was NL, which point was gonna be TILE REDUCTION) which was removed. From what I understood from @Kaiser, the reason why gold is there in the first place is because you guys expected us to have a vassal like state. Now what tf are orcs supposed to do? Seethe as theyre damned by more useless tiles. 

fix your ******* server and stop adding more grind. 

[LoTC's Next Top Model 1626]

imagine waiting this long and your nation's resource is ******* coal lmao

[0mnip0tent 338]

FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY 

 

[MunaZaldrizoti 8037]

[Pearlescent 585]

I love you daisy <3

[PolarLoLs 984]

FINALLY

[hatter 51]

JOY