Publish 62.3

Technology Change

A key change was made to the way the Classic Client handles animation data:

"Please note that this client is 336 MB in size. While this is a larger than normal patch for legacy clients, we have modified the system so that future patches involving animation data can be smaller. We apologize for this temporary inconvenience." - Robert Mull

Deployment History

November 12, 2009 - Released to the TC1 shard.
November 17, 2009 - Released to the Origin shard.
November 18, 2009 - Released to all remaining shards.
November 19, 2009 - Update 1 released.
November 20, 2009 - Update 2 released.

Happy Thanksgiving

There will be a mini event for Thanksgiving please visit your local Town Crier for details.

Bug Fixes

Increased Navery’s hitpoints
Fixed an issue in Despise at the champ spawn where creatures were spawning under the water.
Fixed an issue with the 2nd year Anniversary bag, which had the wrong TID was being applied.
Fixed an issue with a few of the T2A Pumpkin Patches.
Retouched the Retouching Tool.
Fixed an issue with the Rotworm stew not being consumed when used.
Removed a sinkhole on Fire Island which was blocking access to players’ houses.
Retouched the Art on the 12th Anniv cake.
Fixed an issue that would not allow players to summon ethereal Reptalons or Hiryus in a house.
Fixed the missing floor piece from Tomas O’Neerlan’s toyshop.
Fixed an issue with Unraveling which allowed relic fragments from certain items.
Fixed an issue with the color maze that allowed players to bypass the maze.
Players can now use Mortal strike attack with a soul glaive.
Fixed an issue with several cave entrances that were blocking movement.
Fixed an issue with players being able to drop items into the backpack of their mirror images.
Removed a debug message when watering plants.
Players are no longer able to destroy Skull Totems in players houses.
Reinstated the web attack with Navrey, webs will now decay properly.
Fixed an issue with the death animation with the black cow in the enhanced client.
Promotional race tokens will now be blessed.
Fixed an issue with certain hued snakes having the “Oak” tag in their names
Made various materials stackable:
- Hollow Prism
- Barrel Taps
- Barrel Hoops
- Jeweled Filigree
Prism of light tickets will no longer be destroyed if placed inside a sub-container.
Fixed an issue with the line of sight on the Ogre Lord Bridge in Despise.
Fixed several wearable layering issues.
The pillars in Navrey's lair can now be activated when their switch is clicked in the correct order. But beware of falling rocks

Updates

Update 1 - November 19, 2009

Bug Fixes
- Giant Turkeys no longer teleport into houses
- Fixed an issue with cursed parchment will be deleted on login
- Fixed several exploits with Turkey Nests
- Turkeys AI was adjusted
- Fixed an issue regarding the top twenty (20) Turkey attackers
- Attackers on the aggressive list must be within 50 tiles of the corpse
- Unstabled Chicken will no longer be kicked from players houses.

Update 2 - November 20, 2009

Bug Fixes
- Added guard ignore to the Giant Turkeys
- Fixed the barding difficulty on the Giant Turkeys
- Bards will be added to the lawful attackers list for discording and provocation of the Giant Turkeys
- Turkeys AI was adjusted to keep it from teleporting so often.
- Harvest Wine and Cider will no longer lose their TID’s at maintenance.
- Age was removed from using the Retouching Tool*