Work in Progress, upcoming small features and fixes

Hello Paxians,

Before sharing more details on the essential features of the upcoming Verse 5, we wanted to let you know about some of the smaller (but essential!) features and fixes we are also working on:

Adding party members' visibility on the compass
Adding Gold round-robin to party members by default
- We will add party settings for this later, no ETA on that
Changing Weapon cooldown so the 20-second cooldown only triggers when appropriate.
- Only triggers when you equip a weapon that is a different type from the last one you equipped.
- Equipping an Iron Mace when your Bronze Mace breaks won’t trigger a cooldown. Equipping bows, tools, and shields won’t affect weapon cooldowns.
Adding slash commands for switching chat channels, inviting and managing members of parties and Clans, as well as performing emotes.
Torches and lanterns should come back.
Making some crafting components slightly faster to craft at first and very fast to craft as you approach mastery in their recipes.
Making some plants larger so they can be better spotted (Strawberries, Blueberries, Cotton, and more).
Update all NPC and Animal loot tables, fixing a lot of loot drops and replacing old common drops. Also, updates to hide drops from skinning.
Update the Hunters’ Blessing to yield bonus raw materials, such as Antlers, Wool, etc.
New building pieces, decorations, and signs.
Balancing XP modifiers of recipes to encourage crafters to craft a variety of recipes when leveling.
Update to all mining and woodcutting yields.
Combat balance passes for equipment, spells, and NPC encounters.
Ability to repair equipment at multiple crafting benches.

All this should be part of the upcoming content update(s) and be in-game before the end of the year. The list is obviously not exhaustive. More details will be shared at a later date.

Eager to test the changes before they get to the live shards? Join our Public Test Shard, Arcadia!

Pax vobiscum, The Mainframe Team