Release 110

RELEASE 110, January 26, 2023
Greetings Fellow Avatars!

Release 110 goes live January 26th at 10:30 AM CST.

Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 110 (R110), we offer a roadmap for 2023, a couple of new craftables, and more new event trophies.

For those wishing to participate in any community activities, upcoming one-time and recurring community events have been announced! Be sure to also review the Player Guide and Known Issues for additional information on recent changes and upcoming fixes.

State of the Game and Roadmap for 2023
The Road Ahead: A rider with a red cloak at the beginning of a winding road through a meadow

Happy New Year and welcome to 2023! This past year has certainly been a roller coaster for many of us, and Shroud of the Avatar (SotA) is looking forward to a much better new year.

In 2022, we added lots of Episode 2 content, including Grusk, Grusk Factory, Vikland, and Vikland’s Obsidian Valley adventure areas. We’ve also made many improvements, including offering many new items in our in-game store, removing the Heritage (“account bound”) flag from all store items, and adding a new Emote Hotbar to the UI. On our website, we’ve restored our “Make a Difference” Store — 20% of any purchase from our website charity store will be donated to the charity associated with each category. Shroud of the Avatar supports Water.org, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Breast Cancer, Movember, Children’s Miracle Network of Hospitals, and Doctors Without Borders. Our “Make a Difference” Store can be found here.

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New Lava-Fishing Trophies
To add to last month’s treasure-hunting trophies, Ravalox has made a shiny new set of trophies for lava-fishing contests! Details on requesting them for your events are here. (Thanks, Diablotine!)

Release 110 Patch Notes
Below are a list of the updates that are live as of Release 110 in the game of Shroud of the Avatar! R110 is a content month, but some of the content was snuck in early last month with Vikland’s Obsidian Valley. Polish, additional improvements, and bug fixes are inbound for R111 next month. We hope you enjoy the changes that are live today as of Release 110!

Crafting, Decoration, & Inventory Item Changes:

 * A pair of crafted chests: one with gold bands and one with copper
 * Recipes for new Gold and Copper Banded Chests are now on deco merchants along the Perennial Coast and will be on carpenters everywhere after the first patch.
 * Added the recipe for croctails to merchants fed up with the crocs in swampy areas: Merriweather in Solania, Zoe Cornelly in Aerie, the General Stores in Mud, Tanglemire, and Westend; the Innkeepers in Smaragar and Grumridge, and Shandy Chapman traveling along the Perennial Coast. SOTA-71004
 * Cloaks will again appear while mounted if the player is displaying their cloak. It was previously removed because the cloak would be seen cutting through the mount and created problems when starting to swim while mounted. Now the cloak will cover the back of the mount. (This has a few exceptions that will be corrected for individual cloaks going forward, but even these should no longer go THROUGH the poor horse.)
 * Created PaxLair 25th anniversary cloak. SOTA-71057
 * Corrected the reward bag for the Glowing Pink Dye. It will no longer supply Pirate Gear. SOTA-71064
 * Fixed LOD and z-fighting issues in the Stone Five-Story Wizard’s Tower (Village Home). SOTA-70179
 * Scootched the roof sections of several wood and plaster homes because they were offset and you could see a hole in them when looking up from the ground.
 * Corrected offset locations for sounds used by shutters of the Citizen Founder village home.
 * Set all wax cylinder music files to load in background instead of pre-load, which was causing performance issues when opening a container full of them. SOTA-71016
 * Removed weight from Player Guide book and Noble’s Magical Discourse Orb.
 * Removed weight from mounts.

User Interface, Store Information, & Lua Changes:

 * Town bans will now work properly. This was a bug created from a previous fix to stewards being able to ban a governor from their own town. SOTA-71013
 * The position of party nameplates will be saved after checking/unchecking “Show Party Member Effects Icon” in the Options > Interface. If any of you still have spacing problem between nameplates please click the Reset Position button then reset your “Show Party Member Effects Icon” option. *This will set them correctly.
 * Fixed an exception from the player feedback form while quitting the game without having logged in which prevented the user from quitting properly.
 * Fixed a typo in the message shown when two party members are not on same client version.

World and Quest Changes:

 * Snow has ended for the winter. Here comes the rain again…
 * Mistrendur: Adjusted some collision, mostly for mountains on the eastern island. SOTA-66425
 * Hills Encounter: Improved the logic which causes unicorns to spawn. SOTA-70925
 * Devotional Caretakers: Mentioning Truth, Love, or Courage will give avatars broad feedback as to their current scores in those respective Virtues. The caretakers have responses for extremely low, very low, low, neutral, high, very high, and extremely high scores. SOTA-71038
 * Aerie, Ardoris, Resolute: Fixed an issue where the devotional caretakers were not giving avatars feedback related to their respective Virtues. SOTA-71077
 * Red Sash Bandits: Applied variant colors and “sash” motif to the melee, ranged, and caster “bandit” versions of these NPCs. SOTA-22089
 * Aerie: Corrected Venatus’ dialogue so he now refers to South Longfall Wetland being east of Aerie. SOTA-71020
 * Ardoris: Fixed a typo in the “Mention Keystone to Min Liang Tan” task. SOTA-71082
 * Blackblade Foothills: The peaceful oasis campsites now have anti-theft protection. SOTA-71037
 * Blood River: Toned down the river sounds to better suit a slower river. SOTA-60421
 * Blood River Outskirts: Adjusted compass marker discover position and renamed to “Spider Lair Entrance.” Added POI music to the cave lair. SOTA-59088
 * Braemar: The Town Crier icon should now show correctly on map and compass. SOTA-70882
 * Brittany Fields: Fixed a typo in Dupre’s rumors responses. Updated the path grid to accommodate larger NPCs. SOTA-71019, SOTA-71028
 * Brittany Graveyard: Added compass marker to the Brittany Sewers entrance. SOTA-71044
 * Broochash: Umberjack no longer asks for the wrong item when you say “package” to him. SOTA-71039
 * Castle Atos: Updated the logic for the Bakery Chef and Grill Chef so you can’t bypass their conversations if you are on their quest.
 * Castle Atos: Yebin the guild master should now be able to register new guilds. SOTA-71054
 * Castle Atos: Added Mylo the dog to castle area.
 * Central Brittany: Added ladders to access balconies in a large hall. SOTA-71032
 * Central Brittany: Closed a hole in the castle wall. SOTA-71043
 * Central Brittany: Travelers will now give their names when asked. SOTA-71040
 * Central Brittany: Shopkeeper Tarassa Rohandas no longer suggests players buy an item that she doesn’t sell. SOTA-71058
 * Central Brittany: Phoebe’s favorite has changed from cinnamon rolls to lemon buns. SOTA-71035
 * Crooked Shank: Re-added visibility to a river section above a waterfall. You can now collect more than one of the IOU notes from the mayor’s house. SOTA-71059, SOTA-71060
 * Desolis: Corrected a typo in Martella’s responses. SOTA-71049
 * Grusk: Fixed a stuck spot. SOTA-71030
 * Grusk: Corrected an issue with the beggar’s conversation prefab.
 * Harvest: The watchtowers in Harvest should no longer allow precipitation to come through their roofs. SOTA-71041
 * Highvale: Fixed a typo in one of the bandit leader’s responses. SOTA-71014
 * Highvale Outskirts: The Woodsman’s house is now protected by anti-theft. SOTA-71048
 * Highvale Outskirts: Fixed a typo in the “commander” response from Cyannis. SOTA-71015
 * Jotungrund: Barbarians now have a chance to drop a Jotungrund Runestone. The runestones can be used to activate either of two special teleporter sets within the scene. Groups of barbarians may now spawn alongside polar bears that are friendly to them (but not to avatars). The path grid has been regenerated.
 * Jotungrund: The runestone teleporters now properly consume Jotungrund Runestones. Also, added compass marker discoveries for each teleporter pad. SOTA-71075
 * Libris Ruins: Fixed a stuck spot. SOTA-71033
 * Malice: Improved the logic for completing the “Find Samael in Malice” and “Talk to Yama Outside Malice” tasks. Players that have completed these tasks but still have them as active journal entries should say “hello” to Samael in Spite to archive them. SOTA-71021
 * Necropolis Barrens: Envy Angel and some of her Imps are now being managed by a “Timed Events” script and became active on January 16th. SOTA-70127
 * Northwood: Improved Rhonwyn Pendragon’s mention of the gold she gives newcomers and fixed it so she actually gives the gold she mentions. SOTA-71023
 * Opalis Vault: Fixed a pile of rubble that was shiny. SOTA-71080
 * Owl’s Head: Added ambient sound effects along the river. SOTA-2295
 * Solace Bridge Outskirts: Fixed location of bad iron ore node. SOTA-71079
 * Spite: Fixed z-fighting on the floor of the mortuarium. SOTA-71029
 * Tanglemire: Blocked sight of a bad material at a cliff base. SOTA-71078
 * Verdantis Mines: Male Archers incorrectly labeled as fighters now have the correct names. SOTA-71027
 * Vikland: Added “sour revenge” quest, including crates within the village. SOTA-71002
 * Vikland: Increased the drop rate for the treasure hunt instructions and keys. SOTA-71036
 * Vikland: Improved logic which removes “Search Area for Yellow Vikland Crystal” while on the Erica’s Amulet quest. SOTA-70986
 * Vikland: Fixed typo in Nechtan’s “New Britannia” response.
 * Vikland: Fixed an issue where children had no response for “Hagen.” SOTA-71076
 * Vikland: The virtue monoliths in this and other scenes can no longer be triggered with ranged attacks.
 * Vikland: Fixed typos in the treasure hunt instructions related to the troll statue. SOTA-71018
 * Wyrmsands: Updated the path grid at a water well. SOTA-71042

Player-Owned Town Changes:
Solaris: Added new crossroads village south of Brittany. SOTA-71056, SOTA-71055

Sales and Bonus Events
For Valentine’s Day, these sales and bonuses will be in place:
 * Double XP February 10th through the 13th
 * Crown Store Sales 30% off February 10th through the 19th
 * Crowns of the Obsidians 20% off February 10th through the 19th

Release 110 Subscriber Login Rewards
Bring your heart to the table: the Rewards Program login items for Release 110 are a Heart-Themed White Coffee Table and a pair of Heart-Shaped *White End Tables! Subscribers to the Rewards Program must log in during Release 110 to receive these special login items.

February Login Reward
Spring is not here yet so here’s some blooms to tide you over: each account that logs in during the month of February will receive a one-time gift of a Fancy Vase of Red Roses!
 * Fancy Vase of Red Roses

Crown Store Updates
New in the crown store for January 26th:
 * Heraldry Gustball Jersey Pattern Pack
 * Chest with Copper Bands Full of Gold
 * Chest with Gold Bands Full of Gold
 * Treasure Chest with Copper Bands
 * Treasure Chest with Gold Bands

…for a patch soon after release:
 * Fancy Vase of White Roses

…for February 1st:
 * Fancy Vase of Red Roses

…and for February 10th: The Valentine store items are available from Friday January 27th through Wednesday March 6th:
 * Heart-Themed White Coffee Table with Two End Tables
 * Heart-Themed White Coffee Tables
 * Heart-Shaped White End Tables

List of Valentine items:
The Winter Holidays store items are available until Wednesday February 8th:

Upcoming Release Dates
Be sure to check out the Upcoming Events page for spotlighted events plus links to various areas to post or find events on our forums. The upcoming 2023 Release Schedule is as follows:
 * This Release 110 – January 26 (Content)
 * Release 111 – February 23 (Polish)
 * Release 112 – March 30 (Polish)
 * Release 113 – April 27 (Content)

Additional Information

 * Player Guide
 * Known Issues
 * Quick Reference Card