All changes that were reverted as a result of the issues on Friday have been reimplemented. The offending change that caused server crashes has been corrected. The following changes were added back in:
New Deities
Re-modeled spell basin
Potential minotaur T-posing fix
As of this latest reset, shop sale records should now display 50 entries. This has been upped from the previous 25 entries. If there are any issues with this, please do let me know.
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As part of reviewing the crash loop, I have begun to put some of the offending work back. In this update, I added the following:
If the servers crash loops, we will know if it is this one. In a previous update, I put back the Half-Orc heads and determined they were not the cause.
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Following the crash loop investigation, all reverted additions were put back into the system. I corrected an error that I saw with respect to one of the changes, and the servers seem stable. We can move forward with more content / testing.
Thank you to everyone for their patience.
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Here is a summary of my larger announcement, feel free to read it all for full details:
The old support portal has been fully rebuilt to be a part of the Astrolabe! This includes login for your accounts which is needed for some future features we are looking at as well. Once logged in you can submit and review support tickets just like in the old support portal but hopefully with a bit better user experience.
The following things can be expected:
This was the biggest piece of work that I have done so far for Arelith and has been a labour of love for me for the last year to migrate the support system into Astrolabe. I hope you appreciate the effort that went into this and you can expect more new features (maybe quicker now) with the addition of players being able to login.
A new tool pulling from live game data to find information about deities. Allows for filtering by various details about the deity you are looking for: aspects, alignment, etc. Also includes a direct link for most deities to the Arelith Wiki.
Currently does not display domain information due to limitations around reading game data from the website.
The tool previously (and still) available on the website at nwn.quik.one for viewing chat logs has now been migrated over to also be included in the Astrolabe. This will version will be iterated on in the future with better parsing of Arelith specific elements.
That was a lot! Thanks for getting here, if you have any feedback or find bugs, please post them on their respective forum!
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We are aware of an issue with shapeshifting. We are investigating and I’ve informed the dev who was fixing werewolves. Thanks for the understanding.
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Hopefully with this round of resets players can polymorph / shape change again. If not, open a bug report. Thanks.
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Encircled by a never-ending thunderstorm, a castle floats aimlessly through the skies high above the island of Arelith and the Trackless Sea. It is Gyldenheim, the Cloud Palace, a new epic level dungeon.
Until Brogendenstein gets its airship in working order, there is only one way to access the castle, and that's somewhere else in the Dark Spires. You'll have to explore the mountain.
Thanks to Svrtr for some great descriptions!
New Weapons!
New pants!
Pant sets comes with:
2 Thighs (#95, 96)
3 Shins (#94, 95, 96)
2 Feet (#84, 85)
&
2 Pelvis (#65, 66)
New Arrow VFX!
From Sincra:
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Blessed Sickle and Special Ability:
* Fixes *
- Should now act as advertised and refresh 1 plant per rest immediately.
* Changes *
- Conditions for ability use have changed, to reiterate these are now:
-> Target must be a plant
-> Plant must have an inventory
-> Plant must have a resource it can produce
- Used to require Druid levels to activate the ability, even if you had UMD to use it while not a Druid.
Irongron wrote:I've literally never used -guard on anyone.
Hi Everyone!
It's that time again, another lore update just hit our wiki!
The Shadovar page on the Arelith Wiki has now been updated with helpful lore information for those of you playing a shadovar, or those who plan to play Shadovar. This one has taken quite a lot of time and effort from the team to edit and put together. We hope you find this information helpful!
Special thanks to BHR55 and Hadals for helping me out with research and editing!
As always, if you have lore/sourcebook related questions, you can always ping the lore channel in the official Arelith Discord for help or pm someone from the writing team!
Irongron wrote:I've literally never used -guard on anyone.
Item Properties and Matching up:
Bracers (Now match gloves):
Gloves:
Magic Staves:
Note:
Some of these were meant to come with the Dweomercraft update, but as that is taking me longer than expected it is harder to justify keeping them back.
Enjoy!
Irongron wrote:I've literally never used -guard on anyone.
New emote style: Auto Novel
-emote_style 2.Examples:
Hello there, my old friend. He smiles. It's been too long.
-->
"Hello there, my old friend." He smiles. "It's been too long."
Due to an unforeseen issue with an update, I had to bring it down and issue a rollback of about 8 hours only on players characters. All other aspects were not touched.
I do apologize for the inconvenience.
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With the recent rollback that happened on the 18th, I wanted to be open with the community about the future of backups as a rollback does impact players, their time commitments to the game and the loss of effort over that rollback period.
So, going over the 18th - we had an unforeseen outage that was a result of a change that went in. This change unfortunately impacted characters by removing item properties off key items (or rather just any item). With reverting the change, it did not reapply those properties so we had to extract from the latest backup the entire server vault and put characters back that to a good state again. The extract took a long time as the server vault is majority of the backup. But, in the end, players lost about 8 hours of playtime from their characters. This is not something we want to do ever - we know it can make people upset, and the community has a right to be upset about the losses suffered during a backup. Our intent is to ensure you have a playable game. But, this leaves us with room for improvement.
Currently our system for backups functions on a twice daily backup. So, in a 24 hour period, we take a backup every 12 hours. So if issues happen and we need to restore something from a backup, we can be sometimes lucky with a backup happening just recently, but in most cases there will be a large difference. This is not ideal in any situation. Immediately after restoring everything, I've been speaking with individuals who will be spearheading our backup strategy to improve upon this. The immediate band-aid solution is to push the backups to 4x a day (this means every 6 hours instead of every 12 hours). Also we discussed enabling a manual backup option in our back end process before an update rolls out that may impact character files (ie. things that will change a file and require a rollback if broken [stat adjustments, item changes, other related hak content directly related to your character or items]). This means that we will run a backup that takes about 25 minutes or more before releasing the update so if we have to fall back that it would only be minutes of rollback versus several hours.
We have some future proposals down the road that we will be considering as well for backups, such as taking backups on an hourly basis in a local disk versus a remote server every 6 hours. There has been some good feedback from some very technical members of the staff and contributing groups we chat with regularly. However, at the moment, the backups do remain at 2x daily until we have some cycles to sit and make the quick bandaid solution. But we do intend to do this sooner than later.
The individuals that are going to be assisting in this project are myself, Hoodoo and backlands. We will make an announcement once we have progress on this.
Thank you.
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Are you unnerved by eight legged arthropods? Worry no more with this shiny new override which does away with all of the legs and eyes, letting you focus on what's most important. Killing spiders!
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(Covers all variants of vanilla spiders as well as our very own custom variations)
From Aellowyn
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As part of an ongoing project to improve our existing heads, a handful of female human heads have been given a facelift, with enhanced profiles and improved textures.
In addition, two new hairstyles have been added, #94 & 93.
From Sincra
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Cooldowns and Domain Powers:
- The following domain abilities have been moved to the unified cooldown system so are now able to be checked and fixed by the -cd command:
* Air
* Cold
* Earth
* Fire
* Water
* Storm
* Forge
* Strength
* Animal
* Ooze
* Vermin
* Death
* Destruction
* Sun
* Moon
* Magic
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From Sincra
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Two sides of the same divinely coin:
* Cure Minor Wounds:
- No longer has d6 vs Undead.
- Still damages Undead but at d3.
- Now respects maximised state when under Divine Favour for Healer Path Cleric.
* Inflict Minor Wounds:
- No longer has d6 vs Undead.
- Still heals Undead but at d3.
- Now respects maximised state when under Divine Favour for Defiler Path Cleric.
Note:
If the numbers seem too low please leave feedback on the forum, but bear in mind these are cantrips and as such should not be able to completely replace or out class actual spells.
Bless Weapon and Offhand Shields:
- Casting Bless Weapon on someone already with a blessed weapon normally targets the offhand.
- This was causing issues where certain Cleric domains (Sun/Moon) trying to share their bonuses with someone else who already has bless weapon on their primary hand would incorrectly target the shield.
- Shields are now exempt from offhand checks, it will instead apply it to the mainhand if a shield is present.
Note:
I have also redone the logic for how Sun and Moon are calculated, if something seems amiss please let me know notably it should now correctly apply vfx reliably as well as the damage types.
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Coming very soon!
The Haunting
Event: 2/11/2023 to 6/11/2023~
(DD/MM/YYYY)
Horrible spectres have appeared across the isle of Arelith to possess creatures. Killing a possessed creature will cause the spectre to pop out and attack. When killed, the spectre will drop treasure based on its power.
Recipes:
Headstone B: Art
CP: 11 DC: 2
4 Marble
Output: 1
Headstone C: Art
CP: 11 DC: 2
4 Marble
Output: 1
Wooden Coffin (Open): Carpentry
CP: 1 DC: 1
1 Wooden Coffin (Closed)
Output: 1
Wooden Coffin (Closed) A: Carpentry
CP: 1 DC: 1
1 Wooden Coffin (Open)
Output: 1
Wooden Coffin (Closed) B: Carpentry
CP: 8 DC: 4
1 Bronze Ingot
3 Softwood
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern A (Lit): Herbalism
CP: 1 DC: 1
1 Jack-o'-lantern A (Unlit)
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern A (Unlit): Herbalism
CP: 8 DC: 4
1 Pumpkin
1 Wax
1 Cotton
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern B (Lit): Herbalism
CP: 1 DC: 1
1 Jack-o'-lantern B (Unlit)
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern B (Unlit): Herbalism
CP: 8 DC: 4
1 Pumpkin
1 Wax
1 Cotton
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern C (Lit): Herbalism
CP: 1 DC: 1
1 Jack-o'-lantern C (Unlit)
Output: 1
Jack-o'-lantern C (Unlit): Herbalism
CP: 8 DC: 4
1 Pumpkin
1 Wax
1 Cotton
Output: 1
Angler's Lantern: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Iron Ingot
1 Bioluminescent Gel
1 Quartz
Output: 1
Alchemical Lantern: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Quartz
1 Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)
1 Silver Ingot
Output: 1
Forge Lantern: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Glass
1 Copper Ingot
1 Wax
1 Cotton
Output: 1
Golden Skullhook: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
2 Rubies
1 Skull
1 Gold Ingot
Alchemical Catalyst (Lesser)
Output: 1
Crypt Lantern: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Iron Ingot
1 Scroll of Chill Touch
1 Wax
1 Cotton
Output: 1
Verdant Candle: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Hard Wood
1 Wax
1 Cotton
1 Green Dye
Output: 1
Skull Candle: Art
CP: 12 DC: 8
1 Skull
1 Charcoal
1 Wax
1 Cotton
1 Scroll of Daze
Output: 1
Sugar Skull: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
5 Nuts
20 Sugar
Output: 20
Mint Swirl: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
20 Sugar
2 Mintspear
Output: 20
Fruity Chews: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
1 Light Green Dye
1 Light Orange Dye
1 Light Red Dye
20 Sugar
2 Fruit
Output: 20
Toffied Apple: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
10 Fruit
20 Sugar
Output: 20
Candied Kernels: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
10 Fruit
20 Sugar
Output: 20
Wrapped Lolly: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
10 Berries
20 Sugar
Output: 20
Candied Toe: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
10 Small Meat
20 Sugar
Output: 20
Cocoa Ingot: Herbalism
CP: 4 DC: 2
20 Sugar
4 Milk
6 Cocoa
Output: 20
Multibuy Store NUI & Rest Settings:
Toggling the Enable option to ACTIVE will enable the popup appearing on stores being opened.
Irongron wrote:I've literally never used -guard on anyone.
The Eldritch Skullcandle and Ruby Skullhook lanterns will be available to craft next reset. My bad on naming them wrong in the announcement.
Special thanks to THEFACE, and Shemsu-Heru for their magnificent works.
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For clarity, pirate and outcast characters can no longer trade with the merchants at Port Azoun.