News and Updates

We added 3 new quests to the “Novice” flyer on the Notice Board in the Mortal Crossroads: Runar’s Rumblings, Swirling Supplies and Tool Troubles. These are relatively easy quests that also help teach a few concepts or interactions in Legends. They are repeatable (at either 24 or 48 hour intervals) and are included in the Legends War now.

Another issue presented to us by users was the fact that attaining a first set of Iron Tools was an ordeal for a new player. We attempted to partially remedy this by introducing a cheaper set of Flint Tools. These tools cost about half as much as the Iron version, but also have half the Durability (50 total) and also do not harvest all the upper level resources that the metal tools do. Hopefully however they’ll be useful for a player just starting out.

Flint Adjusments + New Ingot:

As a result we had to make Flint Bricks (basically ingots) and to make those be easy enough to access for lower level players, we had to make an adjustment to the Flint resource.

To make Flint Tools easily repairable, we needed Flint to be a 1000 / Common level resource. It previously was at 350 / Rare however, and we realize that decimating the value by 2/3 would probably make some of you unhappy. So, we compromised by renaming the current Flint resource to “Slate” (keeping the 350 value) and creating a new Flint resource that is 1000 / Common, which can be mined on the Granite Mine.

We realize this may not be a totally perfect solution, but we did our best to preserve the resource wealth of current users while still adding this accessibility for new players.

We also are adding a “Flint Arrowhead” resource to the Level 1 map so that players can smelt those into Flint Bricks if they wish.

Other Quest Adjustments:

Due to sometimes challenging overlaps between quests like Flyer Flier and all the other quests that intersect with Olaf, we made the call to have a few quests now start with items nearby the NPC rather than right on them. So for example, Flyer Flier now can be started by going to touch the “Help Wanted” sign in Olaf’s. Secret Society now starts by touching an Elder Emblem sitting on a table next to Baron Kinross, and the Elusive Amulet starts by touching a framed picture of an Elder Amulet that Patrick Sawyer has inside his stall.

If this solution works for people, we might do some more of this over time so that you don’t get quite so many blue menu options when you run into certain busy NPCs.

In an effort to make the intro to the game smoother for new players, we did an overhaul of the Crossroads Tower Training quest. There are several new steps, teaching a wider range of things (crafting, spending coins, using the Compass, etc.) and there’s a new ingredient (Bubblegum Mushrooms) and a new crafting recipe (Minor Stamina Potion) presented in the quest. The potion recipe can be learned at the Research Station as well.

We also added a Tutorial HUD to the Legends crate. The Tutorial HUD has moving gifs that illustrate various operations of the HUD and help guide the path through the training quest.

We also moved the freebie mesh rewards (and updated / added to them) to a reward box delivery at the end of the Wizard Training quest.

The new Tutorial completes by sending the adventurer down to the new Crossroads Notice Board at the base of the tower. This board has most of the Midlands quests on it, divided up into “Novice”, “Middling”, and “Advanced” (Expert is there but no quests on it yet).

Try the board out! In addition to making it clear where to find quests, it vends the Quest Flyer to show the rewards. While we do want to still have some quests that people can just ‘find’ in the RP areas, it seemed a good idea especially at Crossroads to give an easier path for new players to find things to engage with.

If you’d like to get the HUD and check it out, you can redeliver your Legends HUD (or other BL race HUD) and it should be in the Legends HUD crate.

We’ve also opened up the Crossroads Tower Training quest for repeats until the end of the week, so if you’d like to be informed so that you can explain it to new players or family members, give it a try!

*Note: as a result of the new Notice Board however, the Rumor Mill quest is a bit obsolete. We’re going to take that quest down temporarily and update it with some new hints and quests, and then will re-release that likely around the first week of April. Thanks for your patience.

There’s luck in the air and adventure afoot! Charlie the Leprechaun banker at Angel Havens finds himself every year aglow with extra magic during the month of March, and he’d like to share the wealth. He’s got different Rare Luck events for you:

• Clover  Hunt – There are patches of clover all of Angel Havens, touch them and collect a 4-Leaf Clover to turn back in to Charlie’s Chest at the event landing to collect Leprechaun Gold.
• Map Hunts – Use Gold Coins or Stamina to purchase treasure maps that Charlie has hand-drawn. There are 25 randomized maps and each depicts a crude drawing of a specific spot somewhere in the 5 regions. If you can find that spot and wave your wand, a pot of gold should rise up, rewarding you with anywhere from 5 to 50 Leprechaun Gold.
• Gacha & Prizes – Head to the Piper’s Plunder mobile pirate ship store behind Charlie’s home to use Leprechaun Gold to take spins on Rare Container Gacha machines as well as use Leprechaun Gold to purchase mesh holiday items.

In addition:

• Seasonal Treat Quest – Find 50 (!) Stamina-building treat drinks scattered over the 5 regions. They’re hidden in random objects and decor, you just need to touch the right thing to find the drink. See the previous blog post.

A new landing has been created temporarily for this event here at Angel Havens.

The event will run through April 1st, so if you want any of that loot you’d best get hunting!

You notice a small envelope slipped under your door! Opening it up you find the following message scrawled in strange cramped writing:

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Hello friend,

—This has been my favorite time of year since I was just a wee spright of a fellow. I always feel my magic flowing strongly through my veins and as such I decided this month (and only this month) I will share the wealth, so to speak. I’ve hidden some of my favorite potions throughout the lands, ten in each area. They’re mostly outside, hidden away in little places, I hope you can find them all!

Yours in Magic and Mirth,

Charlie

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Wow! Sounds like a really nice guy, you better get out there and start looking for the potions he shared, it doesn’t sound like they’ll be around for long!

NEW MESH CRAFTING + NEW DEFAULT RESOURCES & RECIPES
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We added a new mesh crafting recipe, “Gift Boxes #1”, which can be learned about a the Research Station.

To build it we also opened up some new default recipes on the Paper Press and Tincture Table:

– Fine Cardboard
– Wrapping Paper
– Straw Paper
– Gift Ribbon
– Palm Wax

WIZARD TOWER BACK DOORS
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We added ‘back door’ TP shells to the bases of all the wizard towers. Now if you’d like to craft a wand but don’t want to deal with climbing stairs, you can touch one of these shells (usually somewhere outside the tower by the ground or on a wall) and it will zip you right up to the top:

POCKET ADJUSTMENTS
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To create less confusion (and free up space in packs and chests) we’ve decided to make the pocket stack situation much more uniform. Unless something is money (Copper Coins, Tokens, etc.) or a Stamina Pack (Humanity Pod, Ichor Ember, etc.) then items should have a stack size of 25.

This means that dozens of resources will be more stackable (iron cauldrons, buckets, idols, figureheads, etc.) but also mean that a few resources came down in stack size (Dust, Holiday Cookies and Treats, etc.). We hope that having things a uniform 25 will create less confusion for players and our quest-writers going forward.

We’ve released a set of new Cooking Station recipes. These recipes do not deliver mesh items, but they do give back more % of stamina when they are consumed. These recipes are all sold in shops around the various 5 RP sims, just ring a vendor’s Service Bell and see if they have one you want!

We’ve put out a Valentines themed Legends Satchel. If you take your wand to the dome at Bloodlines Midland (or any of the other four domes) you can summon one for yourself before they go away!

We wanted to let you all know about a change that we made with the way that the all-time Legends Achievements are tracked for families.

When we released Legends War at the beginning of January, we started tracking Legends Achievements by Family as well. Before January, we were just tracking Legends Achievements for individuals, for all time. With the release of Legends War, we added three new categories of tracking:

1. Monthly individual stats for the Legends War monthly contest.
2. Montly family stats for the Legends War monthly contest.
3. All-time family stats.

Family achievements are recorded as the aggregate of the progress and levels of the family members. That is, the progress doesn’t accumulate to achieve the levels, the progress just accumulates, and the family gains a count on a level when an individual reaches that level. For example: if two people in one family each get 5 on an achievement that requires 10 for level 1, this progress won’t accumulate to win level 1 for the family. The family will just get a progress of 10. Then if they each get 5 more and both reach Level 1, then the family will have a progress of 20, and two instances of Level 1.

So, levels for monthly family achievements (for Legends War) were triggering when family members gained levels in the monthly counting, and levels for all-time family achievements were triggering when family members gained levels in the all-time counting. But, if family members had already gained levels in the all-time counting before family tracking started, there was no way to earn those levels again. It’s all-time, you can only earn them once. However, if you hadn’t gotten the achievements before and did them for the first time after we started recording family achievements, then you could earn them for your family. This caused a lot of confusion, because when looking at the stats, achievements were showing up in the monthly counting, but not in the all-time counting for members that had already earned the all-time levels before Legends War started.

This seemed unfair, and here is the solution that we have come up with for this: if you earn an achievement level in the monthly counting for Legends War, and your family isn’t marked as having that level earned in the all-time stats, it will set it as earned. This has been retroactively applied to the beginning of January from our logs. What this means is that any levels that you earned for your family in the monthly counting, should now also be earned for your family in the all-time counting.

If you have any questions about this, or anything still doesn’t look right in your stats, please create a support ticket. Thank you!

UPDATE 1/8/21: Because this quest was only able to run for about a week, we’ve decided to re-open it for another week.

Greetings Legends! We’re excited to announce our another quest for the winter season.

Patrick Sawyer, the Midlands baker wants to treat his customers to some delicious delights for the holidays. Help him by going to some friends and asking them to pitch in for the cause.

The quest rewards are listed on the flyer.

This quest starts with Patrick in Bloodlines Midland.

Seasonal Winter quests will be available through 12/31/20.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added a small new feature to Legends – the Research Station! At these stations you can look up recipes to learn where you can unlock them, and also sometimes just immediately learn new crafting recipes at the Research Station itself. We kicked the stations off by immediately adding a new recipe, the Rustic Cart, which can be immediately learned and then crafted at a Carpentry Counter.

For now the stations are just on our own sims, but if they prove useful we may eventually release them for home use. You can find them at our landing domes, as well as in our main stores next to the crafting station displays:

.:[ Vampire Islands ]:. ~ Bloodlines East

.:[ Mortal Crossroads ]:. ~ Bloodlines Midland

.:[ Lycan Woodlands ]:. ~ Bloodlines West

.:[ Haunted Domain ]:. ~ Bloodlines South

.:[ Angel Havens ]:. ~ Bloodlines North