Llir

Tech Update - Triage Team

Many of you may have seen my recent posting looking for applicants for the Triage Team. I am happy to announce that the team is now assembled, @MCVDK and @Deer__ have been full trained and are happy to help you with any bug reports or issues you encounter in-game.

Note that they are unable to help with any refunds, password/auth issues, or issues with the forums or Crowns at this time. They also will not be working on any code, plugins, or node setup. However, they will be the first to look at any /treqs that come in, and will be helping keep an eye on issues or suggestions that pop up through Discord. Many thanks to them for helping out!

Map and Lighting Issues

Thanks to our maintenance tonight, all issues including rendering maps, raining indoors, and (most) lighting issues should be resolved. If you encounter a lighting issue (absence of light or strange lighting in an area) in the next week, please make a /treq.

Now, onto the patch notes. Note that a few of these things were done through hotfixes earlier this week, but have been documented here for info.

Vortex 0.2.1 Patch Notes

Legend
[+] Addition
[~] Change/bugfix
[-] Removal
[#] Work in progress
[!] Note

Added Bears
[+] Bear nodes are located at30 different locations across the map. Bears prefer mountainous areas, and seem to have an affinity for yellow alum. Bears nodes spawn one group per successful spawn attempt, with 1-3 bears in a group.
[+] For tiles with the ranching improvement, two groups are spawned instead of one.
[+] Bears have a 100% drop chance for Bear Hide and Bear Steaks.
[+] Bears are passive until attacked, but hit hard and have plenty of health! Avoid going at them alone, and be careful around any cubs if the momma bear is around!
[+] Bears have a chance to deal Bleed Damage. This is reduced with certain armors

[!] This will allow players to make the necessary crafts to progress to Ferrum tier blacksmithing (LOTC equivalent to iron).

[#] Another mob should be added over the weekend.

Item Editing

[+] Editing of Vortex items is now possible. If you find any odd behavior with this, please report it on our issue tracker.

Nuggets and Blocks

[+] Gold and iron nuggets and blocks can now be crafted from Ferrum and Aurum. Note, that like coal blocks, this is an irreversible craft.

Nodes

[+] Black dye nodes have been added to the Garden of Idols.

Tweaks to the Textile Bench
[-] The hunting and farming clothes have been removed until these mechanics can be fully implemented.

Blacksmithing
[~] A few metals have been renamed to better fit roleplay and lore.

Archery
[~] A dupe-glitch with arrows was fixed.

Ranching
[~] An exploit to obtain unlimited fleece was fixed.

Make sure to join the Tech Discord to get involved in discussions, and submit bugs on the issue tracker.

Cheers,

The Tech Team

Vortex 0.2.0 Patch Notes

Legend
[+] Addition
[~] Change/bugfix
[-] Removal
[#] Work in progress
[!] Note

Nodes

[+] Sugarcane has been added to Eastfleet.

[~] The amount of resource nodes for basic building blocks has been greatly increased.

[!] If you feel as if a basic resource is still too hard to get, please shoot me a DM on Discord.

Added Hunting
[+] Added hunting mobs spawn in certain tiles. These tiles each have five ‘spawner nodes’, which will attempt to spawn a group of mobs every 5 seconds. If successful, nearby players will receive a text and audio cue, and the node will be placed on cooldown for 10-30 minutes.
[+] For tiles with the ranching improvement, three groups are spawned instead of one.
[+] Boars are currently the only configured mob, they have a chance to drop Tough Hide, which can be used to craft Hardened Leather. This drop chance increases with the tier of your weapon.

[+] By default, Boars are passive mobs, but if you attack one, watch out, as the whole drove will be after you!
[+] Boars have a chance to deal Stun Damage. This is reduced with certain armors.

[!] Bring gear and friends, these mobs hit hard!
[!] We will be looking for feedback on Boar spawning and attributes in the coming week, please join the Tech Discord to give feedback in #vortex-suggestions.
[#] More mobs will be added next week.

Major Overhaul to Textile Bench
[~] The interface has been completely redone to be more user-friendly.
[~] Unavailable items will now show more helpful tooltips
[~] Selected items will now show a glow effect rather than becoming an emerald
[~] All clothing recipes have been redone, with profession and tier-specific naming schemes and colors.
[~] Start-tier clothing recipes now required fleece instead of cotton.

[-] Remove clothing for unimplemented professions until they are ready.
[!] Similar reworks will come to other workstations moving forward.

Ranching
[+] Added a ‘vortex-ranching’ WorldGuard flag to designate the tile-improvement.
[+] On high-load, mobs can be put on a lead to temporarily re-enable AI.
[+] Added a lead recipe that is similar to vanilla, though uses copper instead of smile.
[+] Added fleece, which can be gotten by shearing sheep and spun at the Spinning Wheel.

[~] A dupe-glitch with breeding materials was fixed.
[-] Leather drops have been removed, but animal hide drops have been increased. Four hide can be crafted into one leather at the Workbench.

Fishing
[+] Added proper fishing loot tables for each of the respective fishing flags.
[~] The fishing pole recipe has been made available.

[~] Modified rarity of various fish in the fish registry
[!] Different biomes give you different fish (based on the main biome in a tile), fish-around to figure out which!

Default Workstation

Miscellaneous Fixes
[+] Durability will now work correctly for weapons and armor. Any weapons or armor crafted before this patch will update on your first use.
[+] Coal blocks are now craftable, however they can not be uncrafted back into coal.
[+] Added more item internal item modeling to allow for custom texturing of Vortex items.

[+] The Loom, Stonecutter, and Blast Furnace, when crafted using Vanilla recipes, will no-longer automatically convert to Textile Benches, Sawmills, and Alloy Furnaces. If anybody finds their Vortex workstations converting into their vanilla counterparts, please make a bug report.
[~] Durability mapping to MC durability will now round-up to be better represent Vortex durability
[~] Many under-the-hood improvements have been made.
[~] Modified descriptions of various fish in the fish registry.
[~] Reworked item names and descriptions for upper Alum variants.
[~] Added various flavour-text to resources.
[~] Needles will no longer till ground.
[~] Improved several periodic tasks to improve performance.
[~] All Vortex recipes that use the vanilla crafting bench should now show up in the Recipe Book.

[~] The Book recipe has been made three paper, removing the leather requirement.

[~] The Writable Book recipe has been made one book and one feather, removing the black dye requirement.

Known Issues/Features to be Fixed
[#] ItemEdit doesn’t allow tools or weapons to be edited
[#] Gold and Iron nuggets cannot be crafted

Greetings Denizens of Arcas!

Today I am happy to announce the official opening of our Transfer Vaults, your way to bring a travel trunk of  trinkets to the next map. Inventories, mina, and certain persona attributes will be wiped going into next map, so this will be the only way to bring items over. Things like rename tokens and soulbind tokens will carry over. This time around we have upped the limit to 54 items, and made some improvements to the plugin to prevent abuse. Pack your bags everyone, Almaris in on the horizon, and the boat leaves soon!

What are Vaults?

Vaults are a way for players to cache their special items, books, and maps from this map to bring them over to the next map. We have an in-house plugin to make this process as smooth as possible, though there are some restrictions as outlined below.

How Vaults Will Work

Vaults for many years have been under the use of a plugin, and this map is no different. For Vaults, here is the list of commands and how it functions:

/vault will open up a storage vault where you may store up to fifty-four (a double chest) of items to be carried over to Almaris (per account, not persona). You will be eligible to use this command from now up until 11:55 PM EST on Monday, November 23rd.

In 8.0, to have your vault reviewed, you will type /vault once more, where it will bring up a ticket like system for vault reviewers to go over. One the request is finished, you may freely access and open your vaults.

Books and Maps
All signed and unsigned books and maps will be allowed in unlimited transfer, and do not count toward the 54-vault slot limit. There is a separate command, /storebook or /storebook all to store all in your inventory. After transition books and maps may be restored with /restorebook

Vault Guidelines

Here are the listed limits, information, and guidelines upon the upcoming vaults.

General Guidelines

Vaults will be 54 slots per-registered-account

There will be no Shulker Chests in Vaults

Diamond armor and swords will not be allowed, if you have an important relic that is diamond, contact me on Discord.

Any banners, player heads, RP food, or RP drinks may be stored freely (no signature required).

Unsigned or Material items will not be transferred (except as mentioned above).
An Unsigned item is simply with no signature. Material items are things like a PVP kit, non-RP food/tools, etc, alongside Botany Herbs, Salves, or Oils.

Exception: ST-approved mineral-node materials will be permitted (thaunium, boomsteel, lunarite, etc.)
 

Tools, weapons, and armor may be stored, though must be nerfed before being put in your vault. This will make them do no damage beyond half a heart.

This is to not interfere with the new Surge PVP and Vortex Skills system, which can be done with /vault nerf (item in your hand) or /vault nerfall (to nerf all in your inventory). Any unnerfed items should be automatically detected, and will be rejected from your vault automatically by the plugin so you can nerf them first.

Most Shop of Wonders/admin shop items may be transferred (should they also be RP items too), but will be nerfed to lose all special effect using the above command. Spawn eggs, mob cages (tokeballs), greater soulstones, Soulweaving tomes, lockpicks, bolt-cutters, and siege-ladders are all not permitted.

All vaults will be received post-review, post-transition.

Removal Guidelines

Old or Expired lore items will be removed and wiped from Vaults

An “Expired” or “Old” lore item is one which has had it’s lore removed or rewritten. Common magics will include Transfiguration, Runesmithing, and Bloodmagic. If an item bears a green “ST-Approved” signature, it is almost certainly fine to take in a vault, excluding aforementioned herbs/salves/oils or items from lore that has been shelved or denied.
Examples may include https://prnt.sc/uc88xq , https://prnt.sc/uc89hd , https://prnt.sc/uc89tj , https://prnt.sc/uc8ad9 , https://prnt.sc/uc8cdd . 

Items with unallowed PVP attribute, such as some snuck in from Athera, will be removed, and may result in a wipe of your vault. 

These weapons or armors will have special tags on them to indicate they are abnormal. (Ex. +24% arrow velocity, +4 protection -2 movement speed, etc.)

Examples may include https://prnt.sc/uc8e37 , https://prnt.sc/uc8e71 , https://prnt.sc/uc8eqk , https://prnt.sc/uc8et6

Items of the same genre or type in multiple amounts will be removed (Above two in amount).
To prevent resource inflation going into the next map. This involves things like herbs, node materials, event resources, and so on. This does not mean you cannot have twelve swords or twelve event items. It is just putting a limit on raw resources such as raw materials, or stacked event items.

Vaults FAQ

Q: Can I get my friend to take things for me?
A: Yes, but everyone’s vault is their own responsibility. This means items will be removed, and players may be disciplined as if the items were their own.

Q: Will we be waiting for months on end like the last map?
A: No, Vaults are working on a much easier and more lenient system than before. Aswell, there is far more than just one person looking over everyone's vault. It will not be instant, but it will not take long.

Q: What if I forget an item or lose an item from vaults?
A: The item will be irrecoverable post transition.

Q: I’ve nerfed an item but it still won’t let me put it in my vault, or conflicts with another rule, what should I do?
A: If it is mechanics-related, contact me on Discord, if it is lore/magic related, make an /sreq.

Q: I have additional questions regarding a specific item I want to vault. What should I do?
A: Make an /sreq, unless the item is Faded Bluesteel/Diamond Encrusted, for those contact me on Discord.

Q: I am banned for the next two weeks! Does this mean I lose all my items?
A: Please contact me on Discord, depending on your scenario I may be able to help make special arrangements.

Q: Will there be compensation for old/shelved or expired lore items?
A: No.

Q: I never got my vault from the last transition! What's do I do?
A: We are aware some players had difficulty claiming their vaults the last time we moved due to the manual (non-plugin) system, please contact me on Discord ASAP, as these old vaults will be wiped in two weeks.

Q: Why can’t I take my unnerfed tools/weapons/armor or Shop Of Wonders items?
A: Simply to prevent unfair advantage from the beginning of next map - the same goes for raw resources and food. A fresh slate, particularly granted the upcoming economy granted from Vortex and Surge PVP.

Q: So will my RP weapons/armor be useless next map?
A: Partially, we will add a way to 'combine' them with a Surge PVP weapon/armor piece next map to copy the name and lore onto a PVP-usable weapon.

Q: My glowing item lost it's special effect!
A: This is a bug, message me on Discord with them items in your inventory and I can fix them.

Any other questions? Please DM me on Discord, Llir#5410. Read the FAQ first!
 

Hello,

Some people were asking me if I had a save of Axios that included JBurg, I took a look and found this backup from January 1, 2017, about a month before the city was destroyed. Coords to the city are 1054 86 -382, though this download does include the entire Tahn section of Axios.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LBBrlmw-j5v0HQGitQvmRJr5FxbJ4ra3/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

- Llir

Greetings Denizens of Arcas,

Today, we are announcing the departure of Braxis as an Administrator. Although we are very sad to see him go, we thank him tremendously for the time and work he has put in since the New Year, as well as him sticking around to help us select and transition his successor. As he is helping with the transition, you will still see him sporting the stylish red tag for another week or so before he retires into the ex-admin crypt. He will definitely be missed, but we wish him the best on his future endeavours.

When Braxis announced his departure, the selection process began for the next Moderation Administrator, which we are very happy to announce the results for. BasketWeaver (Anore) will be taking the reigns and leading Moderation on our server. Basket first worked on staff back in 2011 and rejoined the Moderation Team when he returned to the server a year ago. Since that time, he has been a valuable member of the team and has done excellent work as a Moderation Manager the past few months. 

For a detailed explanation of the selection process, you can read the spoiler below:

We are very excited to work with him and can’t wait to see where he takes Moderation and the server as a whole as an Administrator.

Cheers,
LotC Administration