Hub World

Clubs have received a major upgrade in the Trove – Adventures expansion. Here are some details to help you and your mates get started.

Existing Club Owners

1. Designate a club President. There can only be one! All other leaders will now have the Vice President (VP) rank. This is to ensure there’s a level of accountability and ownership now that clubs are much more than just a building space and a chat channel.
2. Evaluate club permissions per member rank. Ensure that all ranks have the permissions that are appropriate for your club. We assigned them by default but now you can fully customize them.
3. Ensure your members have the correct rank. Builders and newly appointed administrators may need to be promoted.
4. Get started with the new Adventures and Fixture systems by placing your Rally of Heroes and Trovian Clubit Union in your Club World. Once these fixtures are placed members can start taking adventures, earning adventurine, converting it to clubits, and donating them to the club vault. Remember, clubits can be used to buy new fixtures and upgrade existing ones. Your club will also earn experience every time someone completes an adventure from an NPC so rally your troops and get started!

Existing Club Members

1. Designate your main club. This is the club you’ll receive benefits from. You can change your main club every 24 hours.
2. Start going on Adventures for your club, and other clubs you’re friends with! You can take 3 adventures from your club and 3 from other clubs simultaneously. Stack similar ones for maximum profit! $$$
3. Convert some of your adventurine to clubits and donate it to your club’s vault. This will help your club buy new fixtures and upgrade existing ones. There are also some great rewards to buy with your adventurine inside the Club HQ at the Hub World.
4. Beef up your POWER RANK. Your Club’s Power Rank is equal to the combined total PR of its top 50 members. Help boost your club on the leaderboards today!

Non-Club Members

1. Join a club today! Visit the new Club Headquarters (HQ) building in the Hub world by the Sun Goddess statue. Travel through active portals in the Club HQ to visit the club worlds of other players. You can take adventures from their NPCs to help them earn Club Experience and gain Adventurine for yourself at the same time!
   1. Portals in the club world will take 24 hours to populate so check back later if they’re deactivated!
2. Make your own club! There’s no better time to get started than right now. Explore all the great new club features by becoming a Club President. You can craft a Club Card on the Builder’s Crafting Bench for a small amount of resources.

Advanced Club Tips
The fixture system incorporates a deep layer of economic management for club administrators. Your club will need to achieve a delicate balance of accumulating and spending clubits. There are twice as many fixtures than slots available to activate them all simultaneously. Plan ahead and stay on the same page with your members so you can work toward a common goal!

• A club may only hold 3000 clubits in its vault with a tier 1 Clubit Union fixture. Upgrade it to tier 2 to hold 9000, and tier 3 to hold an unlimited amount of clubits.
• Be careful when spending clubits to wake or remove NPCs. While these processes seem affordable, clubits spent this way add up quickly!
• You must have enough clubits to pay rent each week to receive benefits from fixtures. It’s possible to remove fixtures to avoid paying their rent if your members think they’re too expensive. Remember that every time you place a fixture down, you pay its full week worth of rent.
• Fixtures are designed to be incorporated into your club world designs. Empower your builders to use them in new and creative ways. The interior space of utility fixtures is mostly unfurnished so you can make them your own.
• Fixtures may clip into existing blocks during the placement process. If an interaction point on a fixture is blocked by terrain you can lasermancy it to freedom.
• If you place décor atop a fixture, please be aware that it will be destroyed during the upgrade process if the geometry of the new structure overlaps the placement of the existing décor. It’s better to be safe than sorry by removing all décor prior to the upgrade.
• If you intend to terraform a club zone, consider removing fixtures prior to doing so otherwise you might find yourself in a situation that requires a lot of clubits.
• Placing the Repose of Heroes fixture changes the pool of NPCs that can spawn at your Rally of Heroes. Each tier adds 3-4 new NPCs to the spawn tables and ensures existing heroes will provide better adventures.
• Make sure to collect Daily Clubits if you have the Travelling Merchant fixture placed. Any club member that has the FixtureInteract permission can do so.
• The weekly rent value for fixtures can be reduced by placing the “Shrine of Efficiency” (Combat), “Scenic Belltower” (Utility), or “Effigy of Frugality” (Ultimate) fixtures. The downside is that rent reduction fixtures occupy a placement slot. These fixtures will stack their bonuses, so feel free to place an “Effigy of Frugality” and “Shrine of Efficiency” to really cut down that Combat rent!
• It’s not possible to upgrade or remove the Rally of Heroes while NPCs are spawned on it. You’ll have to remove them first.
• We’re working on adding a way to see how much a fixture costs to upgrade if you don’t have enough clubits in your club’s vault. We also plan to add a way to see what club level is required to buy a new fixture from an NPC at the Clubit Union.

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

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.

Arriving on 3/18/15!

This patch features four new mounts, including two new crafted corgis and two colors of FriedSushi's excellent Cookiephant mount. There's also a few new Knight skins in the chaos chest this week from player submissions (Bone Knight and Elysian Guardian) which will come to the store the following week. Both have some great new VFX, helms, and weapons. Overall this week we've really taking adventuring up a notch with more lairs and more loot. There's the adventure box, more loot from dungeons, and just a ton more lairs in general. Read on for the full list of changes!

== FEATURES==

COOKIEPHANT ADVENTURE BOXES
* Cookiephant adventure boxes are live!
* These are a new type of loot box that will rotate over time. Once they rotate out they may come back in the future, but likely not for some time!
* They drop relatively commonly from monster kills, and only slightly more often from quest chests.
* They commonly drop glim, flux, and other adventure resources. Uncommonly drop random style boxes and eyes of Q’bthulhu. And finally, they rarely drop the Blue and Pink Cookiephant mounts!


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* Players now have 2 jump by default!
*Update to hub! Added a pirate store building, and updated the trending world building.
* You will now enter a hub world at the start location.
* Ally: Samantha has leveled up, and now has more stats.
* Fixed a bug where some players received "World not found" when invited to a world by a player marked as Offline.
* When leaving a world, you will now relinquish your claim to any cornerstones.
* We'll now drain the login queue a little more slowly after server updates to prevent what appear to be client lockups.
* Sick of your old, tired cornerstone? Use /clearcornerstone to get rid of all of the clutter and get a new, shiny, blank cornerstone! (Note that all items, blocks, and everything else on your cornerstone will be permanently deleted and will not be refunded!)


STORE UPDATES
* Chaos chests have been randomized. Open some up to see what is new this week!
* Chaos chests feature early access to two new knight costumes this week: Bone Knight and Elysian Guardian!


CLUBS
* Clubs logs will now be listed with the most recent logs last in the console window.


CLASSES
* Base attack damage for basic attacks has been notably increased. This should make early levels easier if you’re mostly using basic attacks to defeat monsters.

KNIGHT
* Smash now applies a brief stun.


SHADOW DUNGEONS AND ARENAS
* Shadow Vendors should now accept interactions from all players, not just those who opened that particular Shadow Portal.


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES
* Many more lairs now spawn!
* Recipe lairs now only spawn at U1 and up.
  - Note: The exception to this is Permafrost biomes, where recipe lairs still spawn at any level. This will be corrected in a future update.
* Recipe lairs now spawn more often!
* Dungeon chests now drop two pieces of equipment! Rejoice!
* Random signs should no longer show up in Frontier lairs and dungeons.


BOSSES
* Fixed bug where the teleporter boss affix was incredibly broken and triggered all the time.


CRAFTING
* Pemborg and Infinium Pemborg are now craftable!


UI AND SETTINGS
* You can no longer use middle mouse button in place of the left mouse button in the UI.
* Switching worlds when in builder mode will no longer result in the placement object showing, even though you're in adventure mode.


VISUALS
* Lots of visual love for the hub!
* Contact shadows and block damage now fade with fog.
* Fixed an issue where sometimes the sun would draw in front of clouds.
* Fixed clipping issue with sky when deep underwater.
* Sovereign Spire hat style should now sit more centered on character heads.
* Minor issue with Rod of Northern Skies's model was fixed.

AUDIO
* Fix s bug where wind sounds sometimes stop while gliding.


COMMUNITY CREATIONS
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Lazy_Kyu.
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Stedms and Zoe.
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Yeron.
* New melee weapon styles by Kratori, Rercon, Neverlast, Fizzinc, Erudito, Aodahn, 0R305, TNT_101, Shjohn, Equinoxide, Byoo, Sotilis, magicbat, AceGonzalez, Kukui, Kariaro, Rokiux, Horrormallow, Revoniel, Volfide, DaveOverload, Thunderised, and Vinyll have been added to the game!
* New hairstyles by PinkNekoGirl, Cechoo, Fhilian, and tmahwk have been added to the game
* Plasma Fences, Hedges, Pipes, Formicite Ore, Ladder, and the Diagonal Rope decor pieces have all had their models fixed. Thanks Elpix!
* New decor by Ocgineer, Cutterx, Mikabella, Blinky, Insaint, Meowsifer, Qoaleth, CloBunny, PsicoVoxeL, Doberman, Gooball, TehRedReaper, and Demondice has been added to the game!

Originally Posted by LastProtagonist

'The hub world is temporary' is not a valid defense to avoid addressing this problem. If these people could destroy the hub, wouldn't it stand to reason that they could potentially destroy cornerstones, griefing a LOT of players in the process?

We're aware of the problem -- this is a known bug which involves zone boundaries.

Originally Posted by DragnHntr

A player who I will not name here spawned a house in the hub world that caused everyone logging into that hub to appear in his house. He of course made this room of his house a tiny inescapable enclosed area with spikes in it.

This is pretty bad! It will be fixed in this week's patch. Thanks for reporting this, and all of the other bugs you listed in your original post.

Originally Posted by sasha

im wondering why there is a que at all.
when a hub world gets full a new one is created, this is the way the game works or have they put a limit on how many hubs can be created now.
or the servers are full and if thats the case then something needs to be done, like add more servers.

We do have a limit given the total amount of hardware set up to run the game. If we have sustained queues (i.e., more than just this opening weekend), we will definitely be looking at additional hardware.

We are also increasing the queue overall - we want to make sure we can handle the load and so we have a number we're keeping an eye on and adjusting behind the scenes.