News
Old Tree, New Grind
2014-02-03
Today's update includes bug fixes for the
Christmas Event (thanks to Chay).
Also the famous Hurnscald tree is back to its usual form.
Southeast of Tulimshar, in the caves, you will find the
new map 043-4 which was designed to give you a
better possibility to train your character at the levels
around 60-80. Besides well-known monsters you
will find three new mobs there: Trolls, Undead
Trolls and Undead Witches. Thanks to Fother for
the great Troll graphics!
Have fun with this update!
-Cassy and a bunch of lunatics with magic markers
Christmas Season in The Mana World
2013-12-25
Happy Holidays!
This year has been horrible for Santa.
Nothing turned out as it was intended, in fact he didn't
even make it at the usual date.
Gladly, Avalia, Santa's utterly attractive apprentice stepped in
to make Christmas happen for all of the children and lonely
people around the mana world. Go to his workshop and see if
you can help to make the magic of christmas happen,
... or make it a complete disaster,
Orum has some helpers hidden in Nivalis who will guide your
way sabotaging christmas.
This release is very late, so we are going to change reward
and event time accordingly.
The good thing is that you will now be able to visit
Santa's Inn throughout the year.
Cassy breathed life into all those reinboos of last
years Holidays.
Fothers Candied Slimes are going to cause the sweetest nightmares
you have ever had. Not sure if you are cruel enough to kill
a Pollett.
- The Mana World Development Team
Icon and Weapon Updates
2013-11-30
With this update we ship new and better item icons.
Those have been done a long time ago and we
finally finished reviewing them all.
The behavior of items when you do not meet their
requirements has changed.
As a result, a new type of ranged weapon has
been introduced: the Sling Shot. You can get it
somewhere in Tulimshar. We are aware of some
small graphical glitches.
The behaviour of the happy-curse
for dark mages has been changed.
You might want to try it out. ]:-)
-TMW Development Team
Halloween 2013
2013-10-30
Happy Halloween!
Also, some minor bugs have been fixed with Waric and Rossy.
Alas poor Waric, Will he ever learn to behave properly?
-MadCamel
Fixes in Server Code
2013-09-28
As you might have found out we had another restart yesterday.
Most of the changes for this restart are under the hood: this was
a Server Code release. Meaning the server's software was
changed but not the content. Hence user-facing changes are minimal,
but we'll outline below what's relevant.
The restart didn't work as smoothly as expected but we
are working hard on fixing all the issues which turned up.
Currently known bugs that affect players:
- None
- GM logs are now full-buffered (faster) instead of line-buffered.
- Admin documentation is wrong.
- Problems with startup speed (possibly not new, fixed anyway).
- Guildbot wouldn't start.
- Some accounts and storages with corrupted items were deleted.
- You can turn every direction except right.
- Inability to trade, except when naked.
- Warp bug related to the new Orum/Waric quest.
- Elemental bonus/malus not applied to magic.
- Update stats from the new CDN.
- Script bug with Kylian and checkweight.
- Drop order was wrong.
- Rossy caves now notice when you win fights.
- Fix an incorrectly marked assertion, which could fail.
Astral Magic Extension
2013-09-14
We have a small content release today.
A witch in Tulimshar has found some daunting spells
for mages who are experienced in Astral Magic.
Talk to her about that. Maybe she is willing to teach you.
With this update, we have added some minor bugfixes for the
Waric script, Bluepar sprite and Wicked Mushroom sprite.
-TMW Development Team
Announcing Code update - Introducing Dark Magic
2013-09-03
First, a technical announcement. During a future
restart, TMW will start requiring your username
to exactly match the case that you signed up with.
Previously, this was enforced erratically, and led
to people losing access to their accounts. If, after
the update, you are unsure of the case of the account
and have already tried lowercase, UPPERCASE, and TitleCase,
please contact o11c or Frost.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled content news.
Today we have introduced two new pieces.
First of all, the Orum extension is finished.
Orum and his master Waric have set a new base
to mess with Sagatha. Seek them out! They
hide somewhere in the Caves north of Sagatha's
Forests.
Someone has seen a few new spells being used.
No one is yet sure what exactly it is but a dark aura
has been percieved somewhere north of Hurnscald.
Find it! Maybe you can gain something useful!
Last but not least we have to announce bad news
for the project but good news for her:
Jenalya has, after finishing the Orum extension,
resigned from her position as Lead Content
Developer. We dedicate this news to her and
wish her only the very best for her future. She
contributed beyond words and her leaving
will leave a spot we will have to work hard to fill.
Wushin and tux9th took over as Lead Content Developers
and give their best to bring quality content to you,
like Jenalya did.
-TMW Development Team
Wushin overhauled caves, Ferry now goes to Nivalis
2013-06-29
This release brings a few new additions to the game:
Wushin overhauled the desert caves with an awesome
new cave tileset. Also the sewers below Tulimshar are
now accessible. Make sure to check them out!
Malivox took the occasion to stop camping in the
desert and moved into a small house south of
Tulimshar.
Frozenbeard has expanded his ferry service in
Nivalis. You can now go between Nivalis and
the other major docks both ways. Proper docks for
Nivalis are being worked on.
With a ferry now serving Nivalis, Dyrin will send you
somehwere else in Kaizei instead, away from Nivalis.
As usual there are also a lot of smaller fixes and
changes. Thanks to everyone who reported issues
and helped fix these things!
-TMW Development Team
Double Exp and Drop Weekend
2013-06-07
This weekend we're temporarily doubling both the
experience rate and the drop rates for all monsters,
to give the chance to recover from the rollback
we had due to filesystem corruption.
There are also some bug fixes and new content:
The craftsmen of Tulimshar have finally moved to the
renovated Forge at the Northern Market, so the
Wizard's Inn is back to offering a calm stay for visitors.
In the woodland area the mysterious Evil Obelisk which
summons beings from the astral plane for the mundane
price of gold has drastically reduced its demands.
On the technical side, in case of network congestion,
you will no longer be kicked with an invalid packet error.
- TMW Development Team
Server Crash and Rollback
2013-06-05
We had a server crash, and had to restore everything from offline backup.
34 hours were lost, from about 17:30 (UTC) on 4 June to about 03:30 on 6 June. This affects the game, the forums, and the wiki.
We're going to set up hourly offsite backups of game, forum, and wiki data so that future outages are less painful.
-Frost
Small Bugfixes
2013-04-28
We're having a bugfix release today.
The main areas that have been fixed are Brodomir's PvP Cave
and Orum's quest, both in the
caves below Hurnscald.
Additionally, there were a lot of small fixes
on maps, spelling and grammar, and more.
We'd like to thank all the people who reported issues and helped
testing!
-Jenalya
Easter Event and Miley's Hero
2013-03-21
Today we have a content release.
As always there are a number of bugfixes,
but also two new quests.
One of them is an annual Easter event created by Pjotr Orial.
It lasts from March, 22th to April, 25th, and can be
repeated every year.
Watch out around Hurnscald for some hidden Easter Eggs!
The other quest is about the admiration of a little
girl in Hurnscald that sees you growing from an
inexperienced adventurer to an impressive hero.
Backstage, this was also about a great community effort.
veryape conceived of the idea for this quest and was able
to make it happen with the help of many people who were
assisting with the graphics, scripting, spell checking,
testing and giving valuable feedback.
Lastly, Brodomir's cave under Hurnscald has been made
easier for attracting fighters from all over the world.
-Jenalya