Dreadnought

Stability Improvements

• Fixed a server crash that could cause queuing when trying to enter the game
• Optimized various UI components to reduce memory related crashes
• Reduced memory usage during startup to reduce potential for crashes during gameplay
• Reduced memory usage on consoles when using the Trovian Atlas and then switching worlds to further reduce potential for crashes
• Fixed several crashes that could occur in these situations:
  • In areas with lots of other players
  • When multiple light sources were present in the same area
  • While switching worlds
  • While performing the fishing action
  • Using the Dracolyte’s abilities
• Reduced the likelihood of crashing during the Darknik Dreadnought fight in the Shadow Tower
• Fixed various issues when trading at a trade post, including a crash that could occur when cancelling a trade

Gameplay Enhancements

• The drop rates for the new dragon fragments have all been increased to improve the experience for players attempting to acquire them
• The health of non-boss mobs in the Shadow Towers has been reduced by 30% (bosses are unchanged) due to their health scaling higher than the intended design

Additional Updates

• Flask Emblems have been updated to remove their effects from the player when swapped out to prevent stacking minions
• Fixed an exploit where players could get weekly Shadow Tower rewards more than once per week
• Added Shadow Tower Key Mold workbenches to the boss rooms in the Shadow Tower
• Griffon NPCs in the Shadow Tower will no longer do their best electric slide while attacking
• Sorry pink fans! The bug causing some player's names to appear pink has been resolved
• Improved the Gem Forge UI to make it easier to upgrade gems when using a controller
• The text in the Gem Forge UI should now stay inside the UI
• Crafting the Wings of Wizardry in the Chaos Crafter now unlocks the correct item in collections
• Crafting the Book Pile Base and Book Pile Top in the Highland Workbench will now create the correct items

Greetings Trovians,

With the Eclipse update we added a big batch of awesome new Shadow Tower rewards. To keep in line with the new loot we’ve increased the difficulty of enemies in the Shadow Tower.

New Rewards
Defeating the Daughter of the Moon grants Despoiled Divinity. Save up enough and you can pick up a brand new legendary dragon, Olhukoi, the Moonlit Muse.

You can also use Despoiled Divinity to purchase all new costumes for each of Trove's 15 classes.

More new items are also available for Hearts of Darkness (collected from Shadow Caches). All of these HoD items can be traded to friends or sold on the Marketplace! Heart of Darkness items include 4 mounts, 4 allies, 4 costumes, a sail, a boat, and a mag rider.

We've also added 13 all new rewards that are purchasable with Titan Souls. These new items include even more allies, sails, and costumes.

Defeating the Shadow Tower bosses directly can earn you gorgeous new mounts such as the Hewn Hydrakken Head, Hydrasnek, or Dreadnought Mk I Prototype!

Increased Difficulty
The difficulty of the newly updated Shadow Tower also brings challenge back to the end game. It shouldn’t be a trivial matter to solo clear the toughest content in the game in a few seconds.

Having tougher enemies in the Shadow Tower encourages players to group up. Also, using the Gem Forging system to power up your best gems will help add a ton of power and make things much easier over time. Less than 24 hours after the Eclipse update and well over 1,000 Trovians have successfully beaten Ultra mode Daughter of the Moon.

Leaving out the patch note that called out this change was not intentional and it has been added to the patch notes now.

• To fit with the new and improved Shadow Tower rewards we've increased the challenge to match. Players that were previously able to solo Daughter of the Moon on Ultra will now want to consider running with a group or starting on Hard mode. -Note added on 8/22[/*]

We’re discussing this oversight internally to make sure something similar doesn’t happen in the future.

This change is very new and it will likely take players some time to get used to running the Shadow Tower in groups again. We’ll evaluate the difficulty over the coming weeks as players adjust to working with ST teams and get newly updated gems. If things aren't where we want them to be we'll work on finding the best path forward.

Now that the solar eclipse has come and gone the real Eclipse has cast a shadow upon Trovians the world over. The Trove Eclipse ushers in powerful new enemies and the tools to fight for the light. Take part in the Shadow Escalation event and pickup daily login rewards. Use Gem Forging to raise your power to all new heights. Customize your Trovian with Subclasses, and that is just scratching this surface of this epic update!

Shadow Escalation
This is a new event with 10 missions to guide you through the newly revamped Shadow Tower. Take down all six bosses and earn mission rewards in addition to the epic loot you get from taking down these powerful forces of darkness.

Defeat the dreaded Darknik Dreadnought (the most brutal boss to ever set foot in the worlds of Trove) and earn your very own Shadow Panda mount.

Gem Forging
Gem Forging allows Trovians to increase the existing stats on gems and swap out stats that don’t work for a specific class. Make your gems as close to perfect as they can get with this powerful new system! Learn more about Gem Forging here.

Subclasses
Once you reach level 10 you’ll automatically unlock a Subclass. Subclasses give your character a bonus passive skill related to any other Trove class (even ones you haven’t unlocked). You can swap between Subclasses on the fly and level them up during your adventures. Get the full rundown on Subclasses here.

Dragons
Eclipse brings seven new Dragons to Trove! The materials to craft these gorgeous new dragons are scattered throughout the game. Visit the Dragon Crucible in the Hub to learn what materials needed for any/all the scintillating serpents.

• Voidwalker Dragon Egg Fragments for Indurion, the Unwavering, can be found in Shadow Caches.
  
  
• Iridescent Dragon Egg Fragments for Baesmuth, the Shaper's Gift, can be found randomly while mining.
  
  
• Spinner Dragon Egg Fragments for Rachnaphon, the Silent Spectator, can be found as a rare drop from spiders in the Fae Forest biome.

• Floral Dragon Egg Fragments for Petallura, Nature's Beckoning, can be found randomly from planted harvests.
  
  
• Preserver Dragon Egg Fragments for Miraldis, the Primordial Preserver, can be found as a rare drop from dinosaurs in the Jurassic Jungle biome.
  
  
• Ice Dragon Egg Fragments for Wyntegra, Galenor's Pride, can be found while mining ice shards in the Permafrost biome.
  
  
• Kami Dragon Egg Fragments for Crisopeia, The Crucible of Souls, can be found as a rare drop from robots in the Neon City biome or from Shadow Vaults.

The Hub
Begin your daily adventures in Trove with gorgeous new additions to the Hub. Look up in awe at the glimmering Sun Goddess Statue which provides a home for the Trovian Atlas, Radiant Merchant, and the Radiant Dayspring bench.

The Trove Atlas is a simple yet elegant tool for transporting Trovians through far flung worlds. Simply interact with the Atlas, pick the world you want to visit, and be transported with the greatest of ease.

Eclipse Pack
This pack includes items imbued with light as well as those shrouded in shadow. Pick up 6 majestic mounts, 3 ascendant allies, and 18 sizzling styles!

The Eclipse casts a long shadow, but the night is always darkest just before dawn. Join the fight today!

Patch Notes

Gem Stat Augment and Reroll System

• Improve or change a stat on a gem using the new Gem Forge!
• The recipe to craft a personal Gem Forge can be found in an Adventurer's Crafting Bench under the “Gem & Gear Improvement” section.
• New crafting materials to support this system have also been added:
  • Bound Brilliance, which can be found in Boons or collected from events. (What’s a Boon? See the note on “Daily Reward Chests” below!)
  • Binding Darkness, which can be found in Gem Booster Boxes and Empowered Gem Boxes, or can (rarely) be dropped by mini bosses in the open world.
• Four additional recipes have also been added to the Adventurer's Crafting Bench in the “Gems” section:
  • Builder's Rough Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brilliance, 4 Hearts of Darkness, and 2,000 flux to craft.
  • Builder's Precise Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brilliance, 3,000 water gem dust, 3,000 fire gem dust, 3,000 air gem dust, and 4,000 flux to craft.
  • Builder's Superior Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brilliance, 30 Diamond Dragonite, 3 Titan Souls, and 150,000 flux to craft.
  • Contained Chaos Spark: Can be used to reroll any stat on a gem. (Be aware that gems can’t have both the Physical Damage and Magic Damage stats simultaneously.) Requires 3 Lunar Souls, 4 Binding Darkness, and 2,100 Eyes of Q'bthulhu to craft.
• The Health Regeneration stat will no longer appear on newly obtained gems! Existing gems with Health Regen will continue to function and may be improved with the new system. However, if Health Regen is removed from a gem via rerolling, it can never be replaced. (The Health Regen stat on equipment remains unchanged.)

Gem Booster Boxes have been rebalanced:

• Binding Darkness has been added to the drop table.
• Gem dust has returned to the drop table.
• The drop rates for Jade Clovers, Glittering Horseshoes, Golden Gem Keys have been reduced.
• These changes were necessary to ensure the drops from Gem Booster boxes support a wider range of players.
• Daily Reward Chests have been rebalanced and are now called Boons of a Celestial Paragon:
  • There are 12 boons in total, one for each month of the year.
  • They now have a very rare chance to drop the 18-token monthly reward.
  • Bound Brilliance has been added to the common drop table.
  • The number of Dragon Coins that drop from one roll has been increased. (MOAR RAWR!)
  • The number of Jade Clovers that drop from one roll has been decreased.
  • These changes raise the overall value of drops from daily chests. Err, Boons. They raise the value of drops from Boons. Because that’s what daily chests are called now.
• The Book of Bound Brilliance is now available to craft at the Adventurer’s Crafting Bench! This Legendary Tome will grant 5 Bound Brilliance once a week.
• Loot collecting leveled gems just got a whole lot better! The amount of Gem Dust obtained from deconstructing a leveled gem has been increased by up to 300% at Level 5, 700-1200% at level 10, up to 2000% at level 15, and up to 1000% at Level 20+. Transitioning from an older gem to a shiny new one will now be MUCH less expensive.

Subclasses

• The new subclass system is unlocked ~automagically~ at level 10!
• Any unlocked class can now be equipped as a subclass using the new 5th ability slot on the Character Sheet.
• Each subclass provides a unique passive ability along with a stat boost! The effectiveness of the passive increases based on the active Power Rank of the subclass, while the stat boost improves based on the level of the subclass.
• An active class may not be designated as its own subclass.
• Subclasses are now also displayed on the “Select a Class” window, along with the class's level and power rank.
• Each class gives the following bonuses when selected as a subclass:
  • Gunslinger: Provides extra jump and increases all damage done to enemies while airborne.
  • Neon Ninja: Provides extra jump and grants a chance to deal bonus damage to enemies at less than 20% health.
  • Dino Tamer: Provides extra Attack Speed and grants Critical Hits a chance to briefly root targets.
  • Lunar Lancer: Provides extra Attack Speed; during combat, grants a chance to briefly transform into a Lunar Lancer and receive some of its power.
  • Ice Sage: Provides extra Magic Damage; activates a shield that absorbs incoming damage when successfully attacking foes. The shield is equal to 5% of Max Health.
  • Dracolyte: Reduces cooldowns and grants Physical Damage a chance to set enemies on fire.
  • Knight: Provides extra flask capacity and increases movement speed while riding ground-based mounts.
  • Pirate Captain: Provides extra magic find and has a chance to drop a cannon ball from the sky when damaging enemies.
  • Chloromancer: Provides extra Maximum Health; damaging enemies grants a chance to activate thistles and reflect incoming damage.
  • Tomb Raiser: Provides extra Critical Hit and has a chance to spawn a random minion from a fallen foe. Only one minion of this type can be active at any given time.
  • Revenant: Reduces incoming damage and grants basic attacks a chance to trigger a taunt.
  • Shadow Hunter: Provides extra Magic Damage and grants magic attacks a chance to activate Searing Light, which deals damage over time.
  • Candy Barbarian: Provides extra Stability and has a chance to drop candy when damaging an enemy. The candy increases attack and either movement speed or healing.
  • Fae Trickster: Increases gliding speed and grants Critical Hits a chance to spawn bombs that damage and stun enemies.
  • Boomeranger: Increases Critical Damage and spawns a fae companion that provides healing if its master falls to low health.
• Note that the subclass passive for the Dracolyte is designed to support players who primarily play magic damage classes and want to experiment with physical damage classes. The subclass passive for Shadowhunters is designed to do the opposite. These may be swapped if they prove too confusing.

Shadow Tower Foyer

• Players entering the Shadow Tower via the Atlas spawn into the new Shadow Tower Foyer:
  • The foyer contains three separate platforms indicating desired difficulty level, allowing players to easily find other adventurers to partner with. The platforms may or may not also provide random pools to fish in.
  • Entering the foyer automatically adds players to the "ShadowTower" chat channel. Leaving the foyer automatically removes them.
  • Players entering the Shadow Tower via a portal now have the option of entering the tower directly or heading first to the foyer.

Shadow Hydrakken

• The fearsome Shadow Hydrakken has awakened on the Shadow Tower’s fourth floor! This ancient, multi-headed beast spews vile acid on its foes--talk about morning breath!
• Watch out for parasites!
• Hisssssssssssss. Don't heck with him. 5x Wall Snek.

Darknik Dreadnought

• The Darknik Dreadnought, Dr. Darknik's latest mechanical machination, now guards the fifth floor of the Shadow Tower. A battle robot bristling with armaments, it’s ready to give Trovian invaders a very, VERY warm welcome!
• You won't like him when he's angry.
• Adventurers wishing to avoid their curtain call had best employ a better defense than Cubic Curtain.

Additional Shadow Tower Updates

• Daughter of the Moon has relocated to her new penthouse on the sixth floor of the Shadow Tower.
• Higher-quality keys can now be used to open Shadow Vaults. Moon Keys can open Normal and Hard Shadow Vaults, while Eclipse Keys can open Normal, Hard, and Ultra Shadow Vaults.
• Titan and Lunar Souls now drop from Shadow Vaults instead of being directly awarded after defeating a Shadow Titan.
• Daughter of the Moon now drops a new resource called Despoiled Divinity in addition to Lunar Souls. One Despoiled Divinity can be earned for each Shadow Tower difficulty, up to a maximum of 3 per week.
• Many new rewards have been added to the Shadowy Market for Hearts of Darkness, Titan Souls, Lunar Souls, and Despoiled Divinity.
• The amount of Flux dropped from Titan's Treasures has been significantly reduced.
• The number of Titan Souls dropped by Shadow Titans has been adjusted as follows:
  • Spikewalker Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/2/3
  • Weeping Prophet Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/2/3
  • Vengeful Pinata God Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
  • Shadow Hydrakken Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
  • Darknik Dreadnought Mk II Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
• Previously, explosions only damaged Shadow Titans if they occurred near the center of the Titan. This bug has been fixed, and explosions now damage Shadow Titans if they hit any part of them.
• Elite enemies can now spawn in the Shadow Tower. Each drops a guaranteed Shadow Shard, with a chance for one extra shard in Hard mode and two extra shards in Ultra.
• An assortment of new enemies have migrated to the Shadow Tower.
• Shields no longer prevent being killed by the Daughter of the Moon's one-shot attack.
• Elemental worlds now drop Shadow Key Fragments, Moon Key Fragments, and Eclipse Key Fragments. These all have a chance to drop from clearing 1-star and 3-star dungeons, similar to how gem boxes currently drop in Prime Worlds. Patron status gives two such chances (which may result on any given chest as 0, or 1, or 2 of the drops that a Prime World chest of the same Uber level would drop.)
• Prime Worlds now drop more Shadow Key Fragments, Moon Key Fragments, and Eclipse Key Fragments. 1-star Dungeons will see their drops increased by approximately 50%, while 3-star dungeons will see their drops increased by variable amounts. Patron status doubles such drops.

New Dragons

• Seven new dragons have landed! Recipes for each can be found in the Dragon Crucible, and their egg fragments have been scattered throughout the game.
  • Voidwalker Dragon Egg Fragments for Indurion, the Unwavering, can be found in Shadow Caches.
  • Iridescent Dragon Egg Fragments for Baesmuth, the Shaper's Gift, can be found randomly while mining.
  • Spinner Dragon Egg Fragments for Rachnaphon, the Silent Spectator, can be found as a rare drop from spiders in the Fae Forest biome.
  • Floral Dragon Egg Fragments for Petallura, Nature's Beckoning, can be found randomly from planted harvests.
  • Preserver Dragon Egg Fragments for Miraldis, the Primordial Preserver, can be found as a rare drop from dinosaurs in the Jurassic Jungle biome.
  • Ice Dragon Egg Fragments for Wyntegra, Galenor's Pride, can be found while mining ice shards in the Permafrost biome.
  • Kami Dragon Egg Fragments for Crisopeia, The Crucible of Souls, can be found as a rare drop from robots in the Neon City biome or from Shadow Vaults.
• A new category, Ancestral Dragon, has been added to Collections to break up the large Legendary category and more accurately reflect the different methods of acquisition.

Trovian Atlas

• The Portal Tower in the Hub World has been replaced with the Sun Goddess Statue!
• The Sun Goddess Statue is surrounded by:
  • A Radiant Merchant, where Radiant Sovereigns can be spent on great rewards!
  • A Radiant Dayspring, where amazing new items can be earned with Daily Login tokens!
  • Three copies of the new Trovian Atlas (details below)!
• The Trovian Atlas is a new visual representation of all the worlds in Trove, including the Prime Worlds, Drowned Worlds, Cursed Skylands, Igneous Islands, Shores of the Everdark, and the Shadow Tower Foyer. It’s basically an easy-to-use overworlds map that grants access to any world. (Yo block, we heard you like maps, so we put some maps in your map…)
• Simply open the Trovian Atlas, select the desired world, select Enter, and let the adventure begin. (Power Rank requirements still apply!)
• All existing Adventure World portals are still functional. However, going forward, none will be located in the hub. A personal copy of the Trovian Atlas may be obtainable in the future, but for now it only exists in the Hub World.

Fae Trickster Updates

• The duration of Faerie Dance staves has been increased to 15s from 10s.
• Faerie Dance staves now use player health and take 75% less damage.
• The attack speed of Faerie Dance staves now shoot 20% faster.
• Ego Blast now deals 20% more damage.
• Glitterbomb now has a 0.5s stun and deals 33% more damage.
• Glitterbomb no longer knocks back enemies.
• The explosion radius on Glitterbomb has increased to 3.5 from 3.0.
• The Fae Trickster class gem, Faerocious Facsimile, has been temporarily removed from the class gem loot table until it can be improved. Existing copies of Faerocious Facsimile can continue to be used.
• A completely new class gem has been added for Fae Tricksters! This new gem shields Ego Blast for one additional hit before the bonus damage is temporarily removed. It can be found in the Shores of the Everdark with a class gem key. Enjoy!

Store

• The Progression Weekly Deal has been reborn as the Turboriffic Weekly Deal! It now offers 25 Golden Gem keys, 10 Double Experience Potions (2x the previous) and 20 Bound Brilliance! This blockalicious bundle will appear in the Store every four weeks.
• The Eclipse Pack is here! Sun? Moon? Darkness? Why not all three at once thanks to this new pack that's stuffed with Radiant, Lunar, and Shadow goodies! Contains 3 awesome allies, 6 magnificent mounts, and 18 slick styles.

Additional Updates

• Legendary and Primordial Dragons now unlock directly into Collections when crafted.
• Diamond Dragon Eggs can now be loot collected in to 250 diamond dragonite.
• The “Select a Class” window can now be sorted by level, power rank, or availability. Sorting the same category a second time reverses the display order, making it easy to find classes with the lowest level or power rank.
• Fixed an exploit with the Loot Collected leaderboard.
• The prevalence of the Peaceful Hills biome has been increased in all worlds. Sunlight Bulb harvesters rejoice!
• The spawn rate of Sunflower Shrines in Peaceful Hills biomes has been increased.
• Added a message letting players know they cannot fish without a lure.
• Added the Regal Eagle, Water Goat, and Wolfrik Hat Styles to Stash Exclusives. Get them with Super Style Unlockers!
• They skitter, they squeak, they have cubular feet! Rat mounts have been added to the Adventurer's Crafting Bench. Rat Talismans can be found very rarely in Uber 8 and higher adventure worlds.
• The rewards for completing the Golden Thread have been revamped for new players.
• Three new maps by xandllu (fire and ice, spring bellowing, Valley of Colors) and 2 new maps by Nuxus1 (Hotel, MetalWorld) have been added to the PvP rotation.
• New spear styles by Zayth and Rosain have been added to the game!
• ”Daily Loot Chests” have been renamed “Leaderboard Reward Chests” to reduce confusion, since they are now only available from the XP Weekly Leaderboard.
• The “Show Challenges and Objectives” menu option no longer requires a restart to take effect.
• Fixed the "Any" category in the Marketplace.
• Fixed an issue where some Chaos Chests could not be claimed as currency on sold auctions.
• Fixed a bug where pressing the “locate” button on a crafting item claim directed you to the Adventure Inventory instead of the Crafting Inventory.
• The Trolling Trawler now grants 100 mastery and requires 3 Ancient Scales to craft rather than 200.
• Fixed the gem border for an ability in adventure mode sticking around in build mode.
• The Triumphant Troveblade weapon style, a special blade obtained by purchasing a $100 pack, is now in the "Store" sub-category in Collections/Styles/Melee.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when quitting the client after loading the game for the first time.
• New biome-specific craftable benches have been added to the Builder's Crafting Bench for every biome. The biome-specific recipes previously found in the Workbench have been moved to these individual benches. Generic recipes remain on the original Workbench.
• Unlocking Selene the Celestial via a Golden Dragon Effigy will now grant the Lunar New Year Dragon Spirit Badge.
• Attempting to replace a gem with another gem that won't fit in the socket will now result in the correct error message.
• Removed a duplicate item from the Medieval Highlands recipes.
• Fixed inconsistencies with the item and collection names of the following, per community feedback:
  • Shuffling Shrimp Nigiri
  • Cygnus_01 Speedcycle
  • Snowfest Log
  • Trovian Tumbler
  • Personal Pop Parade
  • Pink Gummy Barbearian
  • Blue Gummy Barbearian
  • Pink & Blue Gummy Barbearian
• Fixed the Shadow Fridge Bottom referencing an incorrect blueprint. Thanks, Etaew!
• Wings can now be opened with 0 jumps remaining during minigames.
• Improved the report spam feature.
• Fixed Chloromancer heal VFX for seedlings when using a skin.
• Minigame elements no longer appear in PvP maps or incompatible minigame maps.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the currency selection to change unexpectedly when searching the Marketplace.
• The Ice Towers dungeon in the Permafrost biome has been removed to reduce FPS issues.
• To prevent a client crash, the Marketplace can no longer be opened while a dialog popup is visible.
• Scaled down all dragon allies to prevent them from appearing larger than some player characters.
• Dino Tamer minions now show combat numbers.
• The issue with the Knight rapidly swinging the primary attack after a charge has been fixed.
• The Floral Fantasy aura will now correctly unlock when crafted in the Chaos Crafter.
• When Cursed Skulls are active, they are now transparent and no longer block projectiles.
• The Vial of Unleashed Power now has a 10 second cooldown.
• The client no longer captures the mouse immediately upon starting and waits until the world has loaded.
• Crafting recipes which unlock collections will now display x1 if the collection hasn't been unlocked and x0 if the collection has already been unlocked.
• Fixed the A.M.O.K. Aimbot torso and left shoulder and the Royal Ranger left shoulder.
• Projectiles in the Dracolyte's Burning Ward ability now match the theme of the equipped costume.
• The Neon Ninja Ultimate no longer displays Fae Trickster VFX.
• Fixed the duration of the Reboot Ult VFX to match the duration of the power.
• Various optimizations and client crash fixes

You’ve heard about the coming of a total solar eclipse, but that is only part of the story. Empowered by seething darkness, the forces of shadow will invade Trove on August 22, bringing about Trove’s very own Eclipse. New agents of destruction arrive in the Shadow Tower and Trovians around the world will receive powerful new tools in the fight for the light!

Trove’s Shadow Tower will rise to new heights with two new floors that house powerful agents of chaos – the Shadow Hydrakken and the Darknik Dreadnaught.

• The Shadow Hydrakken is a massive, five-headed serpent that comes to the Shadow Tower to chew bubblegum and destroy the hopes of all Trovian kind…and he’s all out of bubble gum.[/*]
  
  
  
  
  
• The dastardly Darknik Dreadnought is unlike anything you’ve ever faced in Trove. This unfathomably fierce foe will challenge your team like never before. Bring all your cunning, guile, and health pots because this Dreadnaught will not go gentle into that good night![/*]
  
  
  

While the forces of shadow rise, the light has revealed new sources of tremendous power to aid in our fight.

• Once your Trovian reaches level 10 you’ll be able to select a Sub Class. This new Sub Class will grant you a passive skill based on another Trove class. You’ll also receive bonus stats that will increase as you power up in levels and Power Rank.[/*]
  
  
  
  
  
• Gem Forging allows the stats on any gem to be modified to better suit your class. Turn every gem into a powerful tool in the fight against darkness![/*]

But wait, there’s more!

• The Hub’s portal tower has been replaced with a gilded, glimmering, glorious Sun Goddess Statue. Find the Radiant Merchant, the new Radiant Dayspring vendor for trading in Daily Login tokens, and the gorgeous Trovian Atlas to help you travel through the worlds of Trove.[/*]
  
  
  
  
  
• Gems discovered after the Eclipse will no longer have the Health Regeneration stat.[/*]
  
• Daily Reward Chests have been updated and will now be known as Boons of a Celestial Paragon. These new daily rewards will commonly give Bound Brilliance and drop more Dragon Coins.[/*]

Over the coming weeks we’ll share more info on all the spectacular new hotness coming to Trove with Eclipse so be sure to join us for our livestreams every Friday, follow us on Twitter @TroveGame, Like us on Facebook, and bookmark our official Trove site to stay in the know on all the latest news!

Hey all,

This week's livestream is going to talk about the upcoming Eclipse (read our Producer's Letter here) with a focus on the dreaded Darknik Dreadnought coming to the Shadow Tower.

Ask questions about anything and everything, we'll do our best to get to as many as possible on stream or here in the thread.

See you there!

Trovian Atlas

• The Portal Tower in the Hub World has been replaced with the Sun Goddess Statue!
• The Sun Goddess Statue is surrounded by:
  • A Radiant Merchant, where Radiant Sovereigns can be spent on great rewards!
  • A Radiant Dayspring, where amazing new items can be earned with Daily Login tokens!
  • Three copies of the new Trovian Atlas (details below)!
• The Trovian Atlas is a new visual representation of all the worlds in Trove, including the Prime Worlds, Drowned Worlds, Cursed Skylands, Igneous Islands, Shores of the Everdark, and the Shadow Tower Foyer. It’s basically an easy-to-use overworlds map that grants access to any world. (Yo block, we heard you like maps, so we put some maps in your map…)
• Simply open the Trovian Atlas, select the desired world, select Enter, and let the adventure begin. (Power Rank requirements still apply!)
• All existing Adventure World portals are still functional. However, going forward, none will be located in the hub. A personal copy of the Trovian Atlas may be obtainable in the future, but for now it only exists in the Hub World.

Gem Stat Augment and Reroll System

• Improve or change a stat on a gem using the new Gem Forge!
• The recipe to craft a personal Gem Forge can be found in an Adventurer's Crafting Bench under the “Gem & Gear Improvement” section.
• New crafting materials to support this system have also been added:
  • Bound Brilliance, which can be found in Boons or collected from events. (What’s a Boon? See the note on “Daily Reward Chests” below!)
  • Binding Darkness, which can be found in Gem Booster Boxes and Empowered Gem Boxes, or can (rarely) be dropped by mini bosses in the open world.
• Four additional recipes have also been added to the Adventurer's Crafting Bench in the “Gems” section:
  • Builder's Rough Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brilliance, 4 Hearts of Darkness, and 2,000 flux to craft.
  • Builder's Precise Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brillance, 3,000 water gem dust, 3,000 fire gem dust, 3,000 air gem dust, and 4,000 flux to craft.
  • Builder's Superior Focus: Can be used at a Gem Forge to improve a gem’s stats. Requires 1 Bound Brilliance, 30 Diamond Dragonite, 3 Titan Souls, and 150,000 flux to craft.
  • Contained Chaos Spark: Can be used to reroll any stat on a gem. (Be aware that gems can’t have both the Physical Damage and Magic Damage stats simultaneously.) Requires 3 Lunar Souls, 4 Binding Darkness, and 2,100 Eyes of Q'bthulhu to craft.
• The Health Regeneration stat will no longer appear on newly obtained gems! Existing gems with Health Regen will continue to function and may be improved with the new system. However, if Health Regen is removed from a gem via rerolling, it can never be replaced. (The Health Regen stat on equipment remains unchanged.)
• Gem Booster Boxes have been rebalanced:
  • Binding Darkness has been added to the drop table.
  • Gem dust has returned to the drop table.
  • The drop rates for Jade Clovers, Glittering Horseshoes, Golden Gem Keys have been reduced.
  • These changes were necessary to ensure the drops from Gem Booster boxes support a wider range of players.
• Daily Reward Chests have been rebalanced and are now called Boons of a Celestial Paragon:
  • There are 12 boons in total, one for each month of the year.
  • They now have a very rare chance to drop the 18-token monthly reward.
  • Bound Brilliance has been added to the common drop table.
  • The number of Dragon Coins that drop from one roll has been increased. (MOAR RAWR!)
  • The number of Jade Clovers that drop from one roll has been decreased.
  • These changes raise the overall value of drops from daily chests. Err, Boons. They raise the value of drops from Boons. Because that’s what daily chests are called now.
• Loot collecting leveled gems just got a whole lot better! The amount of Gem Dust obtained from deconstructing a leveled gem has been increased by up to 300% at Level 5, 700-1200% at level 10, up to 2000% at level 15, and up to 1000% at Level 20+. Transitioning from an older gem to a shiny new one will now be MUCH less expensive.

Subclasses

• The new subclass system is unlocked ~automagically~ at level 10!
• Any unlocked class can now be equipped as a subclass using the new 5th ability slot on the Character Sheet.
• Each subclass provides a unique passive ability along with a stat boost! The effectiveness of the passive increases based on the active Power Rank of the subclass, while the stat boost improves based on the level of the subclass.
• An active class may not be designated as its own subclass.
• Subclasses are now also displayed on the “Select a Class” window, along with the class's level and power rank.
• The “Select a Class” window can now be sorted by level, power rank, or availability. Sorting the same category a second time reverses the display order, making it easy to find classes with the lowest level or power rank.
• Each class gives the following bonuses when selected as a subclass:
  • Gunslinger: Provides extra jump and increases all damage done to enemies while airborne.
  • Neon Ninja: Provides extra jump and grants a chance to deal bonus damage to enemies at less than 20% health.
  • Dino Tamer: Provides extra Attack Speed and grants Critical Hits a chance to briefly root targets.
  • Lunar Lancer: Provides extra Attack Speed; during combat, grants a chance to briefly transform into a Lunar Luncer and receive some of its power.
  • Ice Sage: Provides extra Magic Damage; activates a shield that absorbs incoming damage when successfully attacking foes. The shield is equal to 5% of Max Health.
  • Dracolyte: Reduces cooldowns and grants Physical Damage a chance to set enemies on fire.
  • Knight: Provides extra flask capacity and increases movement speed while riding ground-based mounts.
  • Pirate Captain: Provides extra magic find and has a chance to drop a cannon ball from the sky when damaging enemies.
  • Chloromancer: Provides extra Maximum Health; damaging enemies grants a chance to activate thistles and reflect incoming damage.
  • Tomb Raiser: Provides extra Critical Hit and has a chance to spawn a random minion from a fallen foe. Only one minion of this type can be active at any given time.
  • Revenant: Reduces incoming damage and grants basic attacks a chance to trigger a taunt.
  • Shadow Hunter: Provides extra Magic Damage and grants magic attacks a chance to activate Searing Light, which deals damage over time.
  • Candy Barbarian: Provides extra Stability and has a chance to drop candy when damaging an enemy. The candy increases attack and either movement speed or healing.
  • Fae Trickster: Increases gliding speed and grants Critical Hits a chance to spawn bombs that damage and stun enemies.
  • Boomeranger: Increases Critical Damage and spawns a fae companion that provides healing if its master falls to low health.
• Note that the subclass passive for the Dracolyte is designed to support players who primarily play magic damage classes and want to experiment with physical damage classes. The subclass passive for Shadowhunters is designed to do the opposite. These may be swapped if they prove too confusing.

Shadow Tower Foyer

• Players entering the Shadow Tower via the Atlas spawn into the new Shadow Tower Foyer:
  • The foyer contains three separate platforms indicating desired difficulty level, allowing players to easily find other adventurers to partner with. The platforms may or may not also provide random pools to fish in.
  • Entering the foyer automatically adds players to the "ShadowTower" chat channel. Leaving the foyer automatically removes them.
• Players entering the Shadow Tower via a portal now have the option of entering the tower directly or heading first to the foyer.

Shadow Hydrakken

• The fearsome Shadow Hydrakken has awakened on the Shadow Tower’s fourth floor! This ancient, multi-headed beast spews vile acid on its foes--talk about morning breath!
• Watch out for parasites!
• Hisssssssssssss. Don't heck with him. 5x Wall Snek.

Darknik Dreadnought

• The Darknik Dreadnought, Dr. Darknik's latest mechanical machination, now guards the fifth floor of the Shadow Tower. A battle robot bristling with armaments, it’s ready to give Trovian invaders a very, VERY warm welcome!
• You won't like him when he's angry.
• Adventurers wishing to avoid their curtain call had best employ a better defense than Cubic Curtain.

Additional Shadow Tower Updates

• Daughter of the Moon has relocated to her new penthouse on the sixth floor of the Shadow Tower.
• Higher-quality keys can now be used to open Shadow Vaults. Moon Keys can open Normal and Hard Shadow Vaults, while Eclipse Keys can open Normal, Hard, and Ultra Shadow Vaults.
• Titan and Lunar Souls now drop from Shadow Vaults instead of being directly awarded after defeating a Shadow Titan.
• Daughter of the Moon now drops a new resource called Despoiled Divinity in addition to Lunar Souls. One Despoiled Divinity can be earned for each Shadow Tower difficulty, up to a maximum of 3 per week.
• Many new rewards have been added to the Shadowy Market for Hearts of Darkness, Titan Souls, Lunar Souls, and Despoiled Divinity.
• The amount of Flux dropped from Titan's Treasures has been significantly reduced.
• The number of Titan Souls dropped by Shadow Titans has been adjusted as follows:
  • Spikewalker Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/2/3
  • Weeping Prophet Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/2/3
  • Vengeful Pinata God Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
  • Shadow Hydrakken Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
  • Darknik Dreadnought Mk II Normal/Hard/Ultra: 1/3/5
• Previously, explosions only damaged Shadow Titans if they occurred near the center of the Titan. This bug has been fixed, and explosions now damage Shadow Titans if they hit any part of them.
• Elite enemies can now spawn in the Shadow Tower. Each drops a guaranteed Shadow Shard, with a chance for one extra shard in Hard mode and two extra shards in Ultra.
• An assortment of new enemies have migrated to the Shadow Tower.
• Shields no longer prevent being killed by the Daughter of the Moon's one-shot attack.

Fae Trickster Updates

• The duration of Faerie Dance staves has been increased to 15s from 10s.
• Faerie Dance staves now use player health and take 75% less damage.
• The attack speed of Faerie Dance staves has been reduced to 1.0 from 1.25.
• Ego Blast now deals 20% more damage.
• An Ego Blast crit is now 51% of base damage.
• Glitterbomb now has a 0.5s stun and deals 33% more damage.
• Glitterbomb no longer knocks back enemies.
• The explosion radius on Glitterbomb has increased to 3.5 from 3.0.
• The Fae Trickster class gem, Faerocious Facsimile, has been temporarily removed from the class gem loot table until it can be improved. Existing copies of Faerocious Facsimile can continue to be used.
• A completely new class gem has been added for Fae Tricksters! This new gem shields Ego Blast for one additional hit before the bonus damage is temporarily removed. It can be found in the Shores of the Everdark with a class gem key. Enjoy!

Store

• The Progression Weekly Deal has been reborn as the Turboriffic Weekly Deal! It now offers 25 Golden Gem keys, 10 Double Experience Potions (2x the previous) and 20 Bound Brilliance! This blockalicious bundle will appear in the Store every four weeks.

New Dragons

• Five new dragons have landed! Recipes for each can be found in the Dragon Crucible, and their egg fragments have been scattered throughout the game.
  • Voidwalker Dragon Egg Fragments for Indurion, the Unwavering, can be found in Shadow Caches.
  • Iridescent Dragon Egg Fragments for Baesmuth, the Shaper's Gift, can be found randomly while mining.
  • Spinner Dragon Egg Fragments for Rachnaphon, the Silent Spectator, can be found as a rare drop from spiders in the Fae Forest biome.
  • Floral Dragon Egg Fragments for Petallura, Nature's Beckoning, can be found randomly from planted harvests.
  • Preserver Dragon Egg Fragments for Miraldis, the Primordial Preserver, can be found as a rare drop from dinosaurs in the Jurassic Jungle biome.
  • Ice Dragon Egg Fragments for Wyntegra, Galenor's Pride, can be found while mining ice shards in the Permafrost biome.
• A new category, Ancestral Dragon, has been added to Collections to break up the large Legendary category and more accurately reflect the different methods of acquisition.

PTS only

• A special login event just for PTS has begun! Each daily login for the next four days will grant:
  • 1 Gem Forge
  • 500 Bound Brilliance
  • 500 Binding Darkness
  • 15 Level 25 XP coins
  • 15 Level 20 XP coins
  • 1,000,000 Flux
  • 9999 Eyes of Q’bthulhu
  • 500 Hearts of Darkness
  • 500 Diamond Dragonite
  • 100 Titan Souls
  • 100 Lunar Souls
  • 25 Stellar Empowered Gem Boxes
  • 100 each of yellow/red/blue Shadow Gem Boxes
  • 1,000,000 each of yellow/red/blue gem dust
  • 500 Ninth Lives
  • 5 Builder's Rough Focus
  • 5 Builder's Precise Focus
  • 5 Builder's Superior Focus
  • 5 Contained Chaos Spark

Additional Updates

• Legendary and Primordial Dragons now unlock directly into Collections when crafted.
• Fixed an exploit with the Loot Collected leaderboard.
• The prevalence of the Peaceful Hills biome has been increased in all worlds. Sunlight Bulb harvesters rejoice!
• The spawn rate of Sunflower Shrines in Peaceful Hills biomes has been increased.
• Added a message letting players know they cannot fish without a lure.
• Added the Regal Eagle, Water Goat, and Wolfrik Hat Styles to Stash Exclusives. Get them with Super Style Unlockers!
• They skitter, they squeak, they have cubular feet! Rat mounts have been added to the Adventurer's Crafting Bench. Rat Talismans can be found very rarely in Uber 8 and higher adventure worlds.
• The rewards for completing the Golden Thread have been revamped for new players.
• Three new maps by xandllu (fire and ice, spring bellowing, Valley of Colors) and 2 new maps by Nuxus1 (Hotel, MetalWorld) have been added to the PvP rotation.
• New spear styles by Zayth and Rosain have been added to the game!
• ”Daily Loot Chests” have been renamed “Leaderboard Reward Chests” to reduce confusion, since they are now only available from the XP Weekly Leaderboard.
• The “Show Challenges and Objectives” menu option no longer requires a restart to take effect.
• Fixed the "Any" category in the Marketplace.
• Fixed an issue where some Chaos Chests could not be claimed as currency on sold auctions.
• Fixed a bug where pressing the “locate” button on a crafting item claim directed you to the Adventure Inventory instead of the Crafting Inventory.
• The Trolling Trawler now grants 100 mastery and requires 3 Ancient Scales to craft rather than 200.
• Fixed the gem border for an ability in adventure mode sticking around in build mode.
• The Triumphant Troveblade weapon style, a special blade obtained by purchasing a $100 pack, is now in the "Store" sub-category in Collections/Styles/Melee.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when quitting the client after loading the game for the first time.
• New biome-specific craftable benches have been added to the Builder's Crafting Bench for every biome. The biome-specific recipes previously found in the Workbench have been moved to these individual benches. Generic recipes remain on the original Workbench.
• Unlocking Selene the Celestial via a Golden Dragon Effigy will now grant the Lunar New Year Dragon Spirit Badge.
• Attempting to replace a gem with another gem that won't fit in the socket will now result in the correct error message.
• Removed a duplicate item from the Medieval Highlands recipes.
• Fixed inconsistencies with the item and collection names of the following, per community feedback:
  • Shuffling Shrimp Nigiri
  • Cygnus_01 Speedcycle
  • Snowfest Log
  • Trovian Tumbler
  • Personal Pop Parade
  • Pink Gummy Barbearian
  • Blue Gummy Barbearian
  • Pink & Blue Gummy Barbearian
• Fixed the Shadow Fridge Bottom referencing an incorrect blueprint. Thanks, Etaew!
• Wings can now be opened with 0 jumps remaining during minigames.
• Improved the report spam feature.
• Fixed Chloromancer heal VFX for seedlings when using a skin.
• Minigame elements no longer appear in PvP maps or incompatible minigame maps.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the currency selection to change unexpectedly when searching the Marketplace.
• The Ice Towers dungeon in the Permafrost biome has been removed to reduce FPS issues.
• To prevent a client crash, the Marketplace can no longer be opened while a dialog popup is visible.
• Scaled down all dragon allies to prevent them from appearing larger than some player characters.
• Dino Tamer minions now show combat numbers.
• When Cursed Skulls are active, they are now transparent and no longer block projectiles.
• The Vial of Unleashed Power now has a 10 second cooldown.
• The client no longer captures the mouse immediately upon starting and waits until the world has loaded.
• Crafting recipes which unlock collections will now display x1 if the collection hasn't been unlocked and x0 if the collection has already been unlocked.
• Fixed the A.M.O.K. Aimbot torso and left shoulder and the Royal Ranger left shoulder.
• Projectiles in the Dracolyte's Burning Ward ability now match the theme of the equipped costume.
• The Neon Ninja Ultimate no longer displays Fae Trickster VFX.
• Fixed the duration of the Reboot Ult VFX to match the duration of the power.