Arelith Updates!

[Irongron]

Just a small update form myself.

• 2 New Destination Portals (Including Temple of Silvanus - This will be adjusted to surfacer only when possible)
• 2 Exit Portals at dungeons that lacked that (Tallissians & Minmir Caves level 3)
• 3 of the Sencliff Henchmen updated to be mid/epic level (Given levelling speed 6 low level henchmen was unnecessary)
• Removed rapier drops from NPC pirates, and a few other monsters.
• Made the Gnoll Den in Arelith Forest slightly less punishing.
• Few minor placeable fixes I noticed while playing.

[MalKalz]

As a result of on-going issues, I have placed the servers into maintenance mode. The 2.1 GB increase to the server manifest is being investigated and the root cause is still being determined. There will be no impact to your characters or accounts. The only inconvenience right now is the inability to login. We do apologize for the extended delay with the down time, but we are attempting to contact someone to look into a process that was recently updated that may be causing this. Thank you for understanding

[Sincra]

From backlands

Inventory Weight Breakdown Readout:

• A new custom readout should go live next reset in the rest menu. This provides a sorted list of the weight of items in your inventory. This provides a breakdown per item / stack and should help with identifying things to drop in a pinch!

[Irongron]

From Myself:

Going live shortly...

The New Brogendenstein.

This is a massive update, one that many of you may have seem me streaming over the year. It vastly improves and expands the Earthkin start position of Brogendenstein, replacing many areas, and adding dozens of others. Naturally this includes many new creatures, dungeons, homes and much else.

As with an update this size I do expect there to be certain bugs, and there will be further additions in the coming days, as we add more creatures and NPCs in and around the town.

The new dungeons will be without writs until I've had a chance to playtest them, and I'd urge other players to do the same - this really is a great time to start playing a new dwarf, gnome or halfling.

I will make a formal news post, alongside screenshots and a more detailed write up in the course of the next day or two, but in the meantime - enjoy the addition!

[DM Starfish]

From Starfish

• Shark creatures now drop shark teeth and rarely, shark fins

• Vermin now drop ichor and tough shell

• Roughly 1/3 of killed spiders will now drop a silk gland

• Silk glands go in the hunting bag

• Hermit's Hut fishing spot has been fixed

• The fishing spots in Brog's Western Pass should also work

• New Tailoring recipes:

DC 32 CP 20
Input: 10 Spider Silk Glands, 1 Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)
Output: 8 Silk, 1 Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)

DC 32 CP 20
Input: 7 Ettercap Silk Glands, 1 Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)
Output: 6 Silk, 1 Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)

[Irongron]

Writ Work

• 15 New Writs added, mostly in and around Brogendenstein

(Development Notes - Brogendenstein starter writs are generally all low XP reward compared with the other starting locations, t
his is due to the fact there is a lot of content there to enjoy, and awarding large XP rewards would effectively mean that characters outlevel the surrounding areas before they have had time to enjoy it)

• A number of other (surface) writs have had their XP rewards reduced

(Development Notes: As I have done before, each time more writs get added, many others have their rewards reduced , given that together the total volume of XP should bring players close to level 30. Due to the above new writs, and many other recent additions currently one only needs to do a small faction of available writs to reach high epic levels. This is not the intention of the system.)

Procedural Loot Changes

• Magical Shields have been added alongside the Magical Bracers, Boots, Cloaks and Amulets currently being dropped by 'rare' encounters.

• Stat/Skill magical items (see above) have had their drop frequency significantly reduced, and as such should no longer flood shops on Arelith. In lieu of that some of the time these rare (named) creatures will drop treasure loot (items, weapons/armour) or increased gold.

Creature Work & AI Behaviour

• The addition of many new spawns sets, using many new creature skins.

• Many existing creatures (tigers, bears etc) now use improved updated skins

• More 'docile' animals added (rabbits, foxes, goats)

• With the addition of many new 'friendly' animals Hoodoo and myself are looking into the behaviour that is causing deer/rabbits etc to turn hostile to PCS, a temorary fix is in place which may solve the issue, this will require further investigation in coming days.

[DM Starfish]

Orog announcement V2, electic boogaloo:

From backlands

Bloodlines for Orogs

After some revisions we are going to release this again, now that new features have been implemented around bloodlines. The Orog race now has two new bloodlines available to them as of the next reset. These are available at character creation.

Existing Orog's WILL recieve a "bloodline token" which allows them to use the new -bloodline chat command to select a bloodline to be applied to their character. You will have 30 days from the next login on your Orog character after the reset to redeem the token. If you have an Orog and do not wish to use the token and remain the default spread you can ignore the reminder prompts.

Bloodline Details

• Bloodline of the Pact: CON +2, WIS -4, CHA +2
• Bloodline of the Seer: DEX -2, INT +2, WIS +2
• Default Orog for reference: STR +2, CON +2, WIS -4

Note: These bloodlines are available without an award and receive the same ECL as the base Orog. The base Orog stat spread remains unchanged.

[MalKalz]

Server Status Update:

The team continues to work on outstanding issues with the server. There will be some noticeable script errors every now and then and some uncooperative features such as notes, notebooks, etc. that are connected through the DB. I would encourage you to not invest into major writing if the behaviour of notes is not to our usual standard. We are working on identifying the issues and will continue to provide progress as we can. However, we are encouraging our staff to continue to prioritize their real life obligations first before tackling this.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Kalopsia]

From Kalopsia

MISCELLANEOUS:

• The NUI Armour Appearance Editor is now enabled for UI scales from 1.0 to 1.3, rather than just 1.0.
• The -loadoutfit command has been temporarily disabled, as its existing implementation causes problems with the latest NWN version.

BUG FIXES:

• Rest Menu: Fixed item mirroring and per-part color display values in the Appearance Settings.
• Cover: Cover status is once more determined correctly.

[Hoodoo]

Color tags and writing should be working fine now. You're safe to write again.

[Hoodoo]

Forum account creaton has been fixed, please see the following if you need information on how to create your forum account. (Courtesy of Miaou)
https://wiki.nwnarelith.com/Forum_Accou ... t_Creation

[Hoodoo]

/transfer has been fixed

[DM Starfish]

Next reset:

• Updated the silk recipe names to be Silk (Spider) and Silk (Ettercap) respectively
• Fixed the Silk (Spider) recipe

[DM Starfish]

Next reset:

• Fishing spot in the Great Grotto should be active
• Fishing spot in the UD slave pits should be active

[Sincra]

from sk

Manacles:

• An issue where directly casting Mordenkainen's Disjunction on the Runic Manacles item in inventory wouldn't proc the degrade check has been fixed. You should now be able to do it.

Update on -loadoutfit:

• We're working on some solutions related to this. I've got something pushed that prevents old outfits from being loaded but reenables the command, but that's our worst-case option. Sincra's actually in the lab trying to work on a way to make it backwards compatible. Should see this at least usable one way or the other, soon. Sorry guys.

Update on -loadoutfit:

• loadoutfit and appearance commands are reenabled. Old outfits that were saved before update .35 will be inaccessible indefinitely, but we are trying to find a solution to enable backwards compatibility. You can still replace your old outfits with updated versions.
• Head models will no longer change when using -appearance, except if you're a Rakshasa.
• Accessory models (rings, amulets, etc.) will no longer change when using -appearance.

From Sincra:

Fixes:

• Legacy outfits should update to new versions on being loaded.
  (Thanks to SK for helping me test)

Outfit changes:

• -Loadoutfit is now appearance once again, -a no longer does anything as this functionality is built into the base command.
• -Loadoutfit -list now is seperate from Loadouts.
• -Saveoutfit works as before.
• -Appearance still functions as normal.

Loadouts:

• -Loadout command, this only handles the swapping of items, not appearance.
• -Loadout -list is seperate from Outfits.
• -Saveloadout handles saving of loadouts, has the -d and -r operators like "-saveoutfit -r/d".
• -equip alias now applies to -loadout.
• -listloadouts applies to -loadout -list

[Sincra]

from sk

Pickpocketing:

• Fixed an issue where Pickpocket can be used on dead targets.
• Pickpocketing any NPC target will now proc an observation check for all players nearby. Previously this was only for when pickpocketing PCs.
• Fixed an issue where 1 rolls were counting as successes.

Manacles:

• "-observe" now works on Manacle release attempts, such as the ones provided using "-uncuff".

[DM Starfish]

From Party in the Forest with a little help from Starfish

66 NEW OR IMPROVED FOOD ITEMS!
Recipes will be added continually over the next few days.

RECIPES:
Cinnamon roll
DC 12
Produces 4

• 4 flour
• 2 spices
• 2 sugar
• 2 water

Checker Cookie
DC 19
Produces 4

• 3 flour
• 2 sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 milk
• 1 cocoa

Honey Sesame Cookie
DC 10
Produces 4

• 3 flour
• 2 honey
• 1 egg
• 1 nuts
• 1 spices

Paella
DC 15
Produces 3

• 3 rice
• 6 jewel shrimp
• 1 garlic
• 1 wine
• 1 spices

Lobster Bisque
DC 18
Produces 3

• 1 small meat
• 2 milk
• 1 wine
• 1 yarrow
• 1 garlic

Croissant
DC 15
Produces 3

• 3 flour
• 3 milk
• 1 salt

Cream Slice
DC 18
Produces 3

• 1 flour
• 2 milk
• 2 sugar
• 2 eggs

Crème Brûlée
DC 15
Produces 3

• 2 milk
• 2 sugar
• 3 eggs
• flare scroll

Fried Rice
DC 5
Produces 3

• 2 rice
• 2 water
• 1 small meat
• 1 egg
• 1 flask of oil

Honey Glazed Ham
DC 9
Produces 3

• 3 medium meat
• 2 honey
• 2 salt
• 1 spices

Tiramisu
DC 21
Produces 3

• 2 flour
• 2 sugar
• 1 cheese
• 4 egg
• 2 coffee beans

Mushroom Quiche
DC 15
Produces 6

• 2 flour
• 3 milk
• 6 eggs
• 2 cheese
• 4 ripplebark mushrooms

Calishite Lamb
DC 10
Produces 3

• 2 medium meat
• 2 rice
• 2 spices
• 1 fruit
• 1 mint

Eclair
DC 18
Produces 3

• 3 flour
• 3 milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 sugar
• 1 cocoa

Strawberry Cake
DC 21
Produces 6

• 5 flour
• 1 egg
• 1 milk
• 3 sugar
• 6 berries

Chocolate Cake
DC 21
Produces 6

• 5 flour
• 1 egg
• 1 milk
• 3 sugar
• 3 cocoa

Marbled Halva
DC 10
Produces 4

• 6 nuts
• 3 honey
• 2 cocoa

Honey Spiced Nuts
DC 5
Produces 4

• 6 nuts
• 3 honey
• 2 spices
• 1 salt

Stuffed Peppers
DC 10
Produces 3

• 3 fruit
• 1 rice
• 1 small meat
• 1 cheese
• 1 salt

Rice Pudding
DC 5
Produces 3

• 3 rice
• 3 milk
• 1 spices
• 2 sugar

Candied Spider
DC 10
Produces 3

• 3 small spiders (from the bug jar)
• 1 sugar

Rat-on-a-stick
DC 2
Produces 3

• 3 small meat
• 1 salt

Crispy Toad Legs
DC 9
Produces 2

• 2 toad leggs
• 1 flour
• 1 spices

Garlic Snail
DC 12
Produces 4

• 4 aquatic snails
• 1 wine
• 1 garlic
• 1 milk
• 1 yarrow

Crab Cake
DC 10
Produces 4

• 4 crab legs
• 1 flour
• 1 egg
• 1 yarrow
• 1 oil

Grilled Shark
DC 8
Produces 4

• 4 shark fins
• 1 milk
• 1 salt

Grilled Cheese Sandwich
DC 5
Produces 3

• 1 bread
• 1 cheese
• 1 oil

Cheese and Herb Focaccia
DC 10
Produces 4

• 3 flour
• 1 salt
• 1 cheese
• 1 yarrow

Roast Mushromms
DC 8
Produces 4

• 5 ripplebark mushrooms
• 1 oil
• 1 garlic
• 1 salt
• 1 yarrow

Sorn Toast
DC 5
Produces 3

• 1 bread
• 1 cheese
• 1 sorn fillet

Sausage Bun
DC 2
Produces 3

• 1 bread
• 3 sausages

Cheesecake
DC 18
Produces 6

• 3 cheese
• 3 sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 flour
• 6 berries

Candied Eyeballs
DC 12
Produces 3

• 5 small meat
• 3 sugar
• 1 fruit

Animated Fish Soup
DC 15
Produces 3

• 1 mackerel chunks
• 1 sorn fillet
• 1 shark fin
• 2 bone broth
• 1 animate dead scroll

Tentacle Cocktail
DC 10
Produces 3

• 3 spirits
• 3 tentacles
• 2 sugar

Frog Parfait
DC 11
Produces 3

• 3 milk
• 2 sugar
• 1 ice berries
• 3 toad legs

Icecream Sundae
DC 12
Produces 3

• 3 milk
• 2 sugar
• 1 ice berries
• 1 cocoa
• 3 sweetberries

Mint Chocolate Icecream
DC 12
Produces 3

• 3 milk
• 2 sugar
• 1 ice berries
• 3 mint
• 1 cocoa

Berry Icecream
DC 12
Produces 3

• 3 milk
• 2 sugar
• 1 ice berries
• 2 berries
• 2 sweetberries

Golden Bread
DC 5
Produces 3

• 1 bread
• 1 milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 sugar
• 1 spices

Ham Sandwich
DC 2
Produces 3

• 1 bread
• 1 honey glazed ham
• 1 cheese

Fryhard
DC 10
Produces 3

• 1 flour
• 2 small meat
• 2 spices
• 1 cheese
• 1 fruit

Jar of Jam
DC 9
Produces 3

• 3 glass bottles
• 3 fruit
• 3 sugar

Duergar Rothe Roast (Duergar racial recipe, poisonous)
DC 12
Produces 3

• 1 large meat
• 2 nitharit
• 2 spices
• 1 salt

Curry
DC 10
Produces 3

• 1 medium meat
• 1 milk
• 2 spices
• 2 fruit
• 1 rice

Teriyaki Rice Bowl
DC 10
Produces 3

• 3 small meat
• 1 honey
• 1 garlic
• 1 rice

Spicy Pepper Popper
DC 10
Produces 3

• 3 fruit
• 1 cheese
• 10 spices
• 3 fire berries

Marruth (Elven racial recipe)
DC 10
Produces 3

• 2 flour
• 4 fruit
• 1 spices
• 3 yarrow

Vaervren (Elven racial recipe)
DC 13
Produces 3
-2 rice

• 4 ripplebark mushrooms
• 1 wine
• 1 milk
• 1 cheese

Pide
DC 13
Produces 3

• 2 flour
• 1 water
• 3 fruit
• 1 cheese
• 2 small meat

Grilled Sardine
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 sardine
• 1 salt

Grilled Mackerel
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole mackerel
• 1 salt

Roast Sorn
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole sorn
• 1 salt
• 1 fruit

Roast Cod
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole violet cod
• 1 salt

Roast Gulper
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole gulper
• 1 salt

Grilled Gloweye
DC 3
Produces 1
-1 whole gloweye

• 1 salt

Roast Trout
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole rainbow trout
• 1 salt

Roast Bass
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole bass
• 1 salt

Smoked Mullet
DC 3
Produces 1

• 1 whole mullet
• 1 salt

New platters:

Fruit and Cheese Platter
DC 12
Produces 2

• 3 cheese
• 3 fruit
• 3 berries
• 3 sweetberries

Savoury Cheese Platter
DC 12
Produces 2

• 3 cheese
• 3 sausage
• 3 small meat
• 1 ham
• 1 fruit

Bread and Cheese Platter
DC 12
Produces 2

• 3 cheese
• 2 bread
• 1 honey
• 3 nuts
• 1 fruit

Grilled Seafood Platter
DC 12
Produces 2

• 5 jewel shrimp
• 1 fruit
• 2 sorn fillet
• 2 medium meat

Shellfish Platter
Produces 2
DC 12

• 4 jewel shrimp
• 1 fruit
• 4 small meat
• 1 medium meat

Deluxe Seafood Platter
Produces 2
DC 12

• 4 tentacles
• 8 crab legs
• 1 fruit
• 2 medium meat

Item adjustments:

• Everything that used to grant 20% food now grants 25%.
• All platters now grant 50% food and no water as well as a Well Fed buff. Well Fed lasts for 16 hours or until next rest.
• Existing seafood platters will act like the new ones but will not change appearance. All newly crafted platters will have the new appearance and name.

Food naming and description adjustments:

• Roasted Rothe Ribs are now Roasted Ribs, description made more generic
• Squig Sausages are now Sausages, description made more generic

[MalKalz]

Custom Classes Missing Spells

We are aware of the issue where classes like Warlock, Hemomancer and such display having no spells or unknown feats. We are still looking at root cause. However, if you do a -relevel it will appear and work.

Update: This only appears to have impacted characters who were on when the issue happened. If it’s happening to old characters that weren’t on in the past day and a bit, let us know.

Please continue to report issues to respective bug forum channels. Thanks!

[Sincra]

From Sincra:

Scrollcases and Scroll Filters:

• The Filter is now uncapped as the system has been moved to a better storage architecture.
• Your existing filters have or will be moved to the new format automatically upon login, no action is needed on your part.

From Zaphiel:

Toolbar NUI - Bug Fix

• Non-self targeted feats were disabled due to an exploit. This is now fixed, and they can once again be used through through toolbar NUI.

[DM Starfish]

From Starfish

• Glimlures tell you when they run out.
• Coffee beans no longer come from fishing crates.
• The old Roast Rothe Ribs, Squig Sausages and Hearty Salmon (Sorn) Steak recipes updated to reflect their actual items. Now more generic.
• Hearty Sorn Steak now takes 3 sorn fillet and outputs 3 for the same amount of points and DC.
• Continued addition of the new food recipes.

[MalKalz]

Empty Spellbooks

I am not aware of what caused hte issue; however, it will continue to be looked into when able. However, those impacted by the loss should use -relevel. If there are issues, please post it to the bug forums and I will point individuals there to help resolve. Thank you.

[MalKalz]

Empty Spellbooks and Spellswords

I've been made aware that there is an issue with the Spellswords and -relevel where it could be removing all learned spells. I am unable to confirm what is happening or take a look at it - though if this is the case, and you do not wish to risk it, please do not -relevel as a Spellsword. Either way, we will find a way to resolve it for players.

[DM Starfish]

Next reset from Starfish:

• More recipes in, we don't have many more to go
• Animated Fish Soup has a soft Lore requirement of 15 (For the scroll)

[Kalopsia]

From Kalopsia

BUG FIXES

• Spellbound Wands: Improved the reliability of their spell DC calculation, particularly in regards to cleric domain spells.
• Delayed Blast Fireball: Now also applies metamagic when cast directly at an enemy.
• Arcane Flux: Correctly replenishes harmful radial spells such as Shadow Storm.
• Dehydrate: Now affects the intended target, rather than the caster.
• Maelstrom Pike: No longer prevents the use of instant special attacks like Whirlwind Attack.
• Warlock Summons: Now respect Banishment / Dismissal summoning limitations.
• Protection Domain: Increases the Shield spell's Force Damage Resistance to 3/- if lower.
  • This replaces the non-functional immunity against Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm.

From Kroatius and Kalopsia

GLOAMING WINGS

• Gloamings can now choose between three wing options on character creation.
• Existing characters are unaffected, but may contact the DM team to alter their wing appearance if desired.

[MalKalz]

Soundset Issue

Kalo has identified the issue with the soundsets being lost. After this reset they should hold to your character and not be impacted. If you have lost your soundset, please work with the DM team by utilizing support tickets online to assign them again. Thank you.

https://support.nwnarelith.com/

From whitewinggeddove and Twohand

SENCLIFF STORAGE

Pirates now have storage they can access in the Sencliff bank.
Storage based on pirate rank, with 2 slots being granted at Shipmate and capping out at 12 slots at Dread.