Update January 2024

Hello and happy New Year, Illarionites!

To bring in the new year, today we bring you an update on the larger side, with the following changes:

• Housing is here bringing more autonomy to you, the players. All you need to get started is a construction trowel, obtained from blacksmiths or blacksmithing merchants, and a property where you have rights to build.
  
  Property deeds are now in place for each property, providing information about tenancy.
  
  Tenants of existing houses and flats can now change the furniture on their property by hiring another player character with the relevant skill to do so, or even do it themselves if they have the skill. Some other minor features can be discovered in game.
  
  There are also ten new estates added. Three for each realm, and an additional one for outlaws somewhere in the wilds. While existing houses can't be torn down, these estates will allow for completely free building of walls, stairs, basements, etc. for a total of four layers of housing (basement, main floor, upper floor, roof). Only items such as depots, resources, static tools and permanent lights are currently inaccessible.
  
  To allow for this kind of autonomy, we've had to sacrifice some levels of immersion. In such cases, they will be relatively obvious, and we are trusting our players to use appropriate discretion to make it immersive for you and those around you.
  
  
• Cooking improvement: All food can now reach higher rarities. Previously those that did not provide stats were excluded, this is no longer the case.
  
  
• Messenger costs have been lowered.
  
  
• You will now receive an inform upon login if there are unread messages at a bulletin board relevant to your character.
  
  
• Both in preparation for the teleportation magic in the upcoming magic system, and for pvp and pve balancing purposes, teleportation pedestals, ferries and teleportation books now have a casting time.
  
  
• Repair kits now have multiple uses, and are scaled based on the value of the item being repaired. Using repair kits as close as possible to the level of the item being repaired is still the most efficient.
  
  
• The fishing system has been expanded. It now includes a total of 11 kinds of fish, and an additional tool in the form of a fishing net.
  
  
• Three new fish dishes are added with more to come in future updates.
  
  
• New rose bush graphics have been added, available via the housing systems building menu.
  
  
• Glyph shards have received new graphics so that they are all visually distinct from one another.
  
  
• The client now has support for Azerty style keyboards.
  
  
• The colour palette used for text in the client has been updated to a more user friendly one.
  
  
• Redundant NPC health status text has been hidden.
  
  
• There is now the option to hide NPC speech from either your chat box in game, your chat log out of game, or both.
  
  
• You can now turn on an alert that lets you know if a player is trying to communicate with you when you are AFK. This alert only activates when you have been afk for 5 minutes, so it will not spam you during roleplay. If you want to use your monitor for something else while waiting for roleplay, however, this function will alert you of any player communication happening near your character!
  
  
• Many minor bugs and typos have been resolved.

Have fun!
~Brightrim

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