Update General Patch Notes: Anniversary 2025

Welcome to the general Patch notes for our 10th Anniversary event!

This patch is very substantial, thus the client notes will be in their own separate thread.
Additionally, as usual, our Balance changes can be found in their separate thread as well.


General Changes

• The 10th Anniversary Event is now active! A post detailing its specifics will come soon.
  • The Freemarket Entrance has been reverted to its vanilla appearance.
  • Relevant changes from last year will be highlighted in the Event thread, but there are also a few points worth noting here:
    • Retro Coins dropped outside of the Retro World are now resized, to better fit regular gameplay.
      
      Spoiler

      
    • Obtaining a Retro Box from PQs no longer prevents the player to also obtain the regular PQ prizes.
      • Prize rates are unchanged.

• Boss entry log revamp has been completed, and is now available.
  
  • With the command !bosslog, players will be able to browse their current daily/weekly standing on boss entries.
  • New bosses will be added as they get released in the future.

• The monster experience distribution formula has been rewritten.
  While the experience is unchanged, and players should not notice any difference during regular gameplay, this fixes a few issues and inconsistencies:
  • Switching parties while damaging a monster will no longer grant experience multiple times, once for each unique party.
  • Monsters that grant event points will no longer give them multiple times, based on the same party switching.
    • Technically this was already fixed, albeit with a workaround.
  • The player "whiting" the monster should now more consistently be the player who actually dealt the most damage to it.
  • The main reason for the priority given to this rewrite is the fact that it is a prerequisite for features such as party-based experience bonuses, which may be included in upcoming content.

• A total of 81 new Monster Cards have been added to the Monster Book. Not all of them are yet available.
  • Spoiler: List of new Cards

    Frog
    White Rooster
    Coke Snail
    Coke Slime
    Stray Dog
    Stylish Stray Dog
    Demon Slime
    Toad
    Yellow Lizard
    White Baby Monkey
    Coke Mushroom
    Coketump
    Coketump Lite
    Sakura Cellion
    Indigo Eye
    Crystal Boar
    Angry Stray Dog
    Clown Monkey
    Red Bubble Tea
    Yellow Bubble Tea
    Green Bubble Tea
    Yeti Doll
    Jr. Pepe Doll
    Red Lizard
    Wild Monkey
    Coke Pig
    Coke Seal
    Play Seal
    Igloo Turtle
    Red Slime
    Biker Monkey
    Yeti UFO Catcher
    Jr. Pepe UFO Catcher
    UFO Catcher
    Doll Vending Machine
    Python
    Mama Monkey
    Coke Golem
    Ice Golem
    Transformed Blue Perfume
    Transformed Yellow Perfume
    Transformed Pink Perfume
    Cheap Amplifier
    Fancy Amplifier
    Latest Hits Compilation
    Kid Mannequin
    White Mama Monkey
    Yeti and Coketump
    Jonin
    Greatest Oldies
    Female Mannequin
    Male Mannequin
    Red Goblin
    Blue Goblin
    Strong Stone Goblin
    Crocky the Gatekeeper
    Reindeer
    Blood Reindeer
    Bearwolf
    Grey Vulture
    Prison Guard Boar
    Prison Guard Rhino
    Demon Gargoyle
    Red Crocky
    Bodyguard A
    Bodyguard B
    Blue Mushmom
    Kacchuu Musha
    Castellan Toad
    Geist Balrog Phase 3
    Bob
    Spirit of Rock
    Ravana
    Prison Guard Ani
    Castle Golem
    Von Leon
    Margana
    Red Nirg
    Rellik
    Hsalf
    Heron
  • Additionally, the design of 457 existing Monster Cards has been polished; all the cards should now be consistent with each other.
    • While most of the polish refers to slight alteration in the drawing design, some of the changes are done for the sake of clarity.
      
      Spoiler: Examples of updated designs

      
      Dunas 1 and Dunas 2 are now marked with a number.
      
      
      Maverick cards display the letter type on the design.

• Our next content release, the Lion King's Castle, has entered internal implementation and testing phase.
  
  • Essential assets, the full questlines, majority of the related scripts and some required system updates have been prepared.
  • Our internal tools have been upgraded to support the DXT3 image format used by various assets of this area, Von Leon included.
  • Currently, our plan is to schedule its full release in four main parts:
  1. Lion King's Castle questlines and maps, featuring new monsters and grinding spots.
  2. Von Leon boss fight, a new raid-like boss akin to Pink Bean, with new mechanics, equipment and challenges.
  3. Rose Garden area and questline, a new prize-collecting and farming area.
  4. Escape Party Quest, a new high-level PQ.

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  • While there is still a lot of work required before a release, you will already notice hints available in game, such as a World Map update, Monster Card designs, and new soundtracks available via !music .

• Our Prestige Shop NPC design has been updated!
  

• Monster debuff icons design has been updated, to better fit above a monster's head.
  
  • The main goal of this redesign is to allow all the icons to coexist above a monster, instead of alternate flickering with other big icons (such as Damage Reflect), for better clarity.

• New character buff types have been introduced.
  • Enrage: supports the effect of Hero's Enrage skill.
  • Shadow Shifter: supports the effect of Shadower's and Night Lord's Shadow Shifter.
  • Fixed Damage Buff: alters the damage dealt to a monster that would normally expect a fixed amount.
    • This effect is currently only available in the Retro World event.

• Our first new custom weapon, "Maw of the Dungeon", has been added to the Cash Shop.
  
  • It is a regular Cash weapon cover, for all weapons, purchaseable for 5000 NX, and lasts 90 days.
  • Please report any issue relative to its animations, as it will help us bugfix our tools for future imports.

Changes and Bugfixes

General:

• Mapowner command can no longer claim maps 1 and 2 (beginner training field).
• Blue Mushmom's average respawn time has been reduced (23 hours >> 4 hours).
  
• Dropping a high number of Silver Coins can no longer trigger a false autoban.
  
• A longstanding issue with Neo Tokyo 2 bosses scripts has been fixed.
  • If a party completes/leaves the fight before the timer runs out, said timer no longer carries forward and silently reopens the entrance, if it reaches its natural end during the next party fight.
  • This fixes an issue where multiple parties could be present in the same boss fight on the same channel, but on different instances.
  • As a consequence, it is expected that the following scenarios are now fixed:
    • Dunas 2: Crystal and/or Shining Fragment would not spawn upon Dunas defeat.
    • Core Blaze: Chandelier mechanism would fail to trigger or reset, due to instance scheduler mismatch. Also, Crystal would not spawn upon Core Blaze defeat.
    • Aufheben: Crystal would not spawn upon Aufheben defeat.
• CWKPQ instances now correctly register the activation of potion logging.

Items:

• "[Mastery Book] Maple Warrior 30" has been renamed to "[Mastery Book 30] Maple Warrior", for consistency with all other Mastery Books naming scheme.
• "Canned Peach" : fixed a typo in the item description.
  
• "Lovely Sugar Hat" : sitting animation no longer crashes the client on display.
  • As a result, the item is no longer blocked from use.
• Super Antenna hair no longer crashes the client upon jumping.
  
• Poppet Lollipop pet equipment now correctly has 7 upgrade slots.
  • Players who upgraded it beyond 7 slots have had their slots and stats reverted to the 7th upgrade, and any extra used scrolls refunded.
• "Hogul" (Korean Folk Town tiger monster's card) has been correctly renamed as "Hogul Card".
• 100 and 250nx cards have been added to Golden Temple monsters.
  #JusticeForGoldenTempleMobs

Maps:

• Aufheben boss map footholds have been correctly relayered.
  • This fixes an issue with the Entrance Lock NPC being incorrectly placed.

NPCs:

• Sleepywood Hotel Receptionist no longer giggles at every customer approaching her.
• Mesos amount in Fredrick's dialog, displayed while a merchant is still open, now includes comma thousands separators, for better readability.
  
• Lock Picking Lawyer (Mr. Pickall) Magic Box exchange now includes a yellow tip + player note (if applicable) for a White Scroll prize.
  
• Cheng Xin completed his Duolingo course.

Quests:

• "Coupid's Courier : Pirate" is no longer repeatable.
• "A Father's Love" (Haunted Mansion quest) : fixed a grammar mistake in the quest info.
  
• "Gao Qing's Letter" : fixed Xu Zhu's name spelling in the item description.
  
• "Searching for the Master Key" : fixed typos in the quest starting dialogue.

Skills:

• "Holy Arrow" (Cleric) : fixed a grammar mistake in the skill description.