Release 127

RELEASE 127, JUNE 27, 2024

Greetings Fellow Avatars!

Release 127 goes live June 27th at 10:30 AM CDT.

Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 127 (R127), we offer large friends and sharp edges.

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.

Features

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Events

Lord British Birthday Livestream

Come one, come all! We will be having a special livestream on the 12th of July at 4 PM CT in honor of Lord British’s 63rd birthday. Lord British and other special guests will join us for some stories, updates, and monster mayhem in addition to our normal updates! The livestream is scheduled to last for four hours and will include details on recent releases, some information of what’s coming up, and (of course) SotA Q&A!

We have created a special Lord British item that is only available by purchasing a 10K COTO pack on the website through July 12th. This Brutal Battle-Axe shows the scars and blood of battle when equipped and magically becomes pristine when placed as a decoration. The battle-axe also has some special properties when wielded, so all should beware who go up against someone with this weapon!

This battle-axe will not be offered for sale at any other time, ever. This is the third item in our ultra-rare series, with more to come!

News

Titles of the New Britannian Empire

We have created a new physical certificate for those awarded the Order of the New Britannian Empire (ONBE) and Chaotic of New Britannian Empire (CNBE) honors going forward. The certificates will replace the Medals sent out in the past as medal supplies are exhausted.

We have completed an audit of the ONBE and CNBE awards given out over the last ten years and corrected some errors in the list currently posted on the player-run SotAwiki. The updated list will be posted on the Wiki soon. Part of this audit and clean-up also allows us to finally deliver in-game ONBE and CNBE medals to the members of these two prestigious groups.

Since the medals are not visible in game (we have no solid visual for the necklace slot), we have also created an in-game plaque displaying a version of the ONBE or CNBE award certificate. The in-game medals and plaques will be GM-named for the specific awarded player and delivered sometime during R127 via in-game mail.

Latest News and Q&A in the June Livestream

The post-release Community Livestream is Friday, June 28th at 4PM CT on Twitch! Join Stephen “Ravalox” Reinen and other members of the development team for a 1-hour community livestream!

There will also be a longer stream on July 12th, described above (Lord British Birthday Livestream).

To enter the prize drawings, type “Happy Birthday Lord British” into any in-game chat channel OR make a purchase on the website Add-On Store.

• Twitch/shroudoftheavatar
• Add-On Store

Please submit questions using in-game universal chat by typing “askadev” before your question. We’ll do our best to answer these questions live on the stream. Watch on Twitch, Friday at 4PM CT!

Members of the Shroud of the Avatar development team stream on twitch.tv/shroudoftheavatar — be sure to get the channel on follow for notifications so you can join us right as we go live! Also, if you’ve missed our latest streams, check out our archive of content at our YouTube Channel. Like! Follow! Subscribe! Prizes!!!

Don’t forget to also join the Shroud of the Avatar team and community over on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/shroudoftheavatarofficial and on Discord at https://discord.gg/shroudoftheavatar.

Release 127 Patch Notes

Below are a list of the updates that are live as of Release 127 in the game of Shroud of the Avatar! R127 is a polish month. Content, additional improvements, and bug fixes are inbound for R128 next month. We hope you enjoy the changes that are live today as of Release 127!

Crafting, Decoration, Gear, & Inventory Item Changes:

• The recipes for trophy mounts have been removed from the POT Pet Merchants. They remain on Arakius Endiki, the Etceter Housing Decoration Merchant, who now also has a dozen more recipes he’d been missing.
• Animal spawners have been removed from Housing Decoration Merchants and are now sold by Pet Merchants.
• Bay, Blanket, and Palomino horse and foal animal spawners, and placement-only decoration pets, are now on Pet Merchants (minus one we’re reserving for another use.) SOTA-72123

A blanket horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of blanket horses and foals in desert scrub.

A blanket foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of blanket horses and foals in desert scrub.

A bay horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of bay horses and foals in a grassy field.

A bay foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of bay horses and foals in a grassy field.

A palomino horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of palomino horses and foals on a flowered hill.

A palomino foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of palomino horses and foals on a flowered hill.

A bay horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A bay foal stands by the fence of a grassy paddock.

A blanket horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A blanket foal stands by the fence of a grassy paddock.

A palomino foal stands by the fence of a grassy paddock.

• A recipe for a craftable single Hitching Post can be found on Decoration Merchants in Drachvald. SOTA-72140

A simple black iron hitching post stands ready on a paved road outside a wood and timber row home.

• A couple of previous reward deco pieces have been added to treasure chest loot, for chests that can have deco in them. SOTA-72086
• Added an eternal pattern to the 10th Anniversary Cloak. …if you dare.
• Made the Total Eclipse 2024 Cloak Eternal Pattern eligible for cloak reshaping. SOTA-72125
• Reduced the weight of Hay Piles to match Leaf Piles.
• Fixed the deco appearance of the Yellow-Red-Green Rocket Fireworks Box.
• Corrected the output of the Yellow-Red-Green Fountain Fireworks Box. SOTA-71046
• Added a display name and corrected the height and collision of the Celestial Wooden Chair, which can also now be used by NPCs.
• Improved visuals of the Blade of the Avatar Cloak, the Autism Puzzle Cloak, and the Shardfall Cloak.
• Made all the different Darklamps repairable with blacksmithing repair kits. SOTA-72111
• Made Large Dark Pewter Bowls salvageable.
• The fancy toilets of New Britannia are now flushing properly again. Please stop trying to flush your unwanted loot! SOTA-72118
• Made candles built into two rustic village houses unstealable. (They weren’t actually stealable, but you could try and it would cause an error.) SOTA-70452, SOTA-70453

User Interface, Store Information, Inky, & Lua Changes:

• Added the restrictions on Property Manager use to the deed upgrade confirmation dialog. SOTA-72085
• Removed erroneous crafting table flags on about 200 decorations.
• Made 51 new icons for fireworks boxes that had incorrect ones. SOTA-72128
• Fixed 99 more overly-large icons. SOTA-72117
• The Crown Store pictures of the Wine and Beer Glass Sets will no longer make anyone feel like they just drank them all.
• Fixed compression for the store thumbnails for Checkers and Heraldry Standing Banner Patterns.
• Fixed grammar in the store descriptions of custom row lot markers.

World and Quest Changes:

Pumpkin Head and two of his henchgourds face off against a spearswoman in a field by a windmill.

• The Luminous Atavist will retreat to recover and Pumpkin Head will resume terrorizing Drachvald on July 16th.
• Added seven new Pet Merchant NPCs within the vicinity of the Animal Trainer NPCs in Aerie, Braemar, Brittany Fields, Castle Atos, Desolis, Owl’s Head, and Port Harmony. SOTA-72124
• Plains Encounter: Fixed issues where some resource nodes were overlapping with each other. SOTA-72103
• Brittany Fields: Fixed LODs for a shack and two boats under construction so they could be seen from further away.
• Brittany Fields: Fixed some rocks with bad distance LODs near the east crafting pavilion and along the lake. SOTA-72145
• Brittany Fields: Added theft protection to the Alchemy Shop and the Food Store. SOTA-72146
• Grusk: Replaced a tree cluster that was floating off a slope. SOTA-72148
• Grusk: Fixed a typo in a shared kobold response for “human.” SOTA-72142
• Harvest: Removed duplicate keyword from Rykesh’s responses.
• Harvest: Fixed typos in rumors used by several NPC residents. SOTA-72101
• Hallowed Plains: Fixed floating plus flags for the tier markers at each exit. SOTA-72137
• Highvale Outskirts: Updated the logic used to archive the “Ask About Ghostly Echo” and “Talk to Esmeralda” tasks.
• Jaanaford: Fixed typos in Thibodeaux’s journal entries related to Bunker T. SOTA-72100
• Kas Ruins: Adjusted the ground around a crater. Removed objects outside the playspace. SOTA-72102
• Moors of Northshore: Rotated a large rock to avoid showing that it doesn’t have a complete underside. SOTA-72116
• Moors of Northshore: Performed tree-trimming and relocation in several spots. SOTA-72115
• Moors of Northshore: Moved or removed several floating rocks. SOTA-72113
• Norgard Fens: Fixed stuck spots along the pipes in the kobold camp. SOTA-72126
• Serpent Spine Mines: Fixed issues with barrels and other objects poking through the bottom of several platforms. SOTA-72120
• South Broken Road: Added collision to several low broken walls. SOTA-72131

Player-Owned Town Changes:

• Vesper: Added new holdfast south of Port Harmony in Mistrendur.

R127 Map of Mistrendur POTs

Player-Owned Dungeon and Basement Changes:

• Removed the non-functioning containers from all the Fine Oak Bookshelves built into the Sword of Midras Library and did another pass on removing spiderwebs. SOTA-71083
• Removed the flat white plane above the water in the Icy Ancient Stone Room Fishing Grotto. SOTA-68283

An ice-fishing hole among snowy rocks in a skylit stone cave.

Sales, Rewards and Crown Store

Lord British Birthday

To commemorate the birth of Lord British, from June 27th through July 12th:

• Double XP wil be turned on.
• Crown Store sales will be 30% off.
• Crowns of the Obsidians will be 20% off.
• Deed Upgrades will be 20% off.
• Player Owned Town upgrades for Crowns of the Obsidians will be 20% off. These upgrades may only be initiated by an email to Support (support@shroudoftheavatar.com)

Release 127 Subscriber Login Rewards

It’s too hot for mowing the lawn! You should let your horse out to forage. The Rewards Program login items for Release 127 are a Horse Decoration Pet (Choose One), an Ornate Single Hitching Post, and a set of 2024 Cupcakes (not for the horse.)

• Rewards Program

Six horses of various colors sun themselves in a small grassy paddock attached to upscale stables.

A dun horse at the door of a stone tower approaches a watering trough next to a single wooden hitching post with steel hardware and a coil of rope looped to one side.

A stone porch hosts a golden tray with a celadon tea service and four large light pink cupcakes on a glass coffee table between two light pink chairs far enough from the edge of the porch to be out of reach of greedy horses.

Subscribers to the Rewards Program must log in during Release 127 to receive these special login items.

July Login Reward

This year, July brings us Lord British’s birthday AND the year 700 Post Cataclysm. Each account that logs in during the month of July will receive a one-time gift of the title Septecentarian and a half a dozen each Blue Sparklers, Red Sparklers, White Sparklers, and slices of Lord British Birthday Cake.

Fireworks over Brittany

Crown Store Updates

New in the crown store for today’s release:

• Replenishing Lord British Birthday Cake 2024

A a pink and white Replenishing Lord British Birthday Cake 2024 on a display table with a platter of the cupcakes it produces.

• Animal Spawner, Horse (Choose One)

Six horses of various colors wander by a small pond in grassy hills.

An appaloosa horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of appaloosa horses and foals on a grassy plain.

A black horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of black horses and foals in a snowy wood.

A buckskin horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of buckskin horses and foals on a tropical beach.

A dun horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of dun horses and foals on a road through a swamp.

A roan horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of roan horses and foals in a mountain meadow.

A white horse stands over a small pile of hay in front of a river with a herd of white horses and foals along the opposite bank.

• Animal Spawner, Foal (Choose One)

Six foals of various colors wander through grassy hills.

An appaloosa foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of appaloosa horses and foals on a grassy plain.

A black foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of black horses and foals in a snowy wood.

A buckskin foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of buckskin horses and foals on a tropical beach.

A dun foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of dun horses and foals on a road through a swamp.

A roan foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a herd of roan horses and foals in a mountain meadow.

A white foal stands over a small pile of hay in front of a river with a herd of white horses and foals along the opposite bank.

• Ornate Brass Hitching Post

A dark wood double hitching post with brass hardware waits ready with a water trough and a pile of hay outside a tavern. The appaloosa in frame looks reluctant to use it.

• Ornate Single Brass Hitching Post

A dark wood single hitching post with brass hardware waits ready with a water trough and a pile of hay outside a tavern. The appaloosa in frame apparently just didn't want to share.

…and the return of some sparklers that have not been available:

• Replenishing Blue Sparkler Fireworks Box

A bright blue box of blue sparklers on a wooden floor, safely away from any flame source.

• Replenishing Red Sparkler Fireworks Box

A bright red box of red sparklers on a wooden floor, safely away from any flame source.

• Replenishing White Sparkler Fireworks Box

A light grey box of white sparklers on a wooden floor, safely away from any flame source. I do hope it is also away from any roof leaks.

• Replenishing Sparkler Fireworks Box Mega Set

Six varicolored boxes of sparklers on a wooden floor and an ominous pair of feet approaching. I don't think that's the merchant.

…and for July 12th:

• Horse Decoration Pet (Choose One)

Six horses of various colors sun themselves in a small grassy paddock attached to upscale stables.

An appaloosa horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A black horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A buckskin horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A dun horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A roan horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

A white horse stands in a grassy paddock outside upscale stables.

• Ornate Single Hitching Post

A dun horse at the door of a stone tower approaches a watering trough next to a single wooden hitching post with steel hardware and a coil of rope looped to one side.

The Lord British store items will be available through Monday August 5th:

List of Lord British items:

• 2014 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2016 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2017 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2018 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2019 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2020 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2021 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2022 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2023 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• 2024 Lord British Replenishing Birthday Cake
• Lord British Basement Entrance Eternal Pattern
• Lord British Cloak
• Lord British Fur Collared Cloak
• Lord British Moondial
• Lord British Pavers
• Lord British Round Table
• Lord British Salute Emote
• Lord British Shield
• Lord British Shield Pattern Pack

The seasonal fireworks store items will be available through Monday September 23rd:

List of seasonal fireworks items:

• Replenishing Aerial Fireworks Box Pack
• Replenishing Aerial Palm Blue Fish Combo Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Aerial White Chrysanthemum Combo Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Blue Elysium Candle Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Blue Fountain Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Blue Pinwheel Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Blue Sparklers Box
• Replenishing Elysium Candle Fireworks Box Pack
• Replenishing Fireworks Mega Set
• Replenishing Fountain Fireworks Box Pack
• Replenishing Oracle Eye Sparkler Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Pinwheel Fireworks Box Pack
• Replenishing Red Elysium Candle Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Red Fountain Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Red Pinwheel Fireworks Box
• Replenishing Red Sparklers Box
• Replenishing Sparklers Mega Set
• Replenishing White Elysium Candle Fireworks Box
• Replenishing White Fountain Fireworks Box
• Replenishing White Pinwheel Fireworks Box
• Replenishing White Sparklers Box

The Summer Seasonal store items will be available through Monday September 23rd:

List of Summer Seasonal items:

• Firedancer Outfit
• Fire Dance Emote
• Fire Dance Cross Emote
• Flame Scimitar
• Flame Shield
• Flame Stained Glass Table Lamp 3-Pack
• Flaming Bagpipes
• Hula Emote
• Island Spear
• Island Flower Crown
• Island Dress

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 2024 Release Schedule is as follows:

• This Release 127 – June 27 (Quality of Life)
• Release 128 – July 25 (Content)
• Release 129 – August 29 (Quality of Life)

Additional Information

• Player Guide
• Known Issues
• Quick Reference Card

See Also

• Release 125
• Release 126
• Release 127
• Release 128
• Release 129
• Release Features 2024
• New Britannian Calendar