##### PATCH NOTES 03/03/2026 #####

----- ITEMS -----

A new star has appeared in the sky:

Varetyr Spear (Elemental Master)

----- INSTANCES -----

Tomb of Remorse:

No longer spawns hundreds of monsters.

Sara's Memory:

Now the Reward Chest works properly when initiated by the Instance Manager.

----- PETS -----

Added the following new pets and pet evolutions:

False Angel -> Solace;

Solace -> Garden Watcher, Holy Skogul;

Garden Watcher -> Dark Valkyrie;

Dark Valkyrie -> Zenobia;

Holy Skogul -> Valkyrie;

Valkyrie -> Randgris, Reginleif, Ingrid.

False Angels can be tamed using a [Holy Promise], which may be carried by some holy creatures from the past.

Evolution Imp -> Ifrit: Reduced the amount of Flame Hearts from 500 to 100.

My mistake! I forgot physics exist, what is weight!?

----- SYSTEMS -----

Card Slotting:

You may now slot cards directly on top of each other! Doing so will remove the previous card from the selected slot and return it to you, while slotting the new one in its place!

This even works for Star Aspects! Everything just got much more practical!

You can now swap your cards on the fly, with much more room for planning and strategizing!

The Card Remover NPC is still available in case you need to remove all cards from your item for some reason.

Star System:

Star Aspects have been injected into the Enchant Interface!

You can now upgrade your Stars directly, no need to unslot them or do complicated trades!

This also means the Star System NPCs have been reorganized slightly.

Enchant Interface:

No longer fully closes after attempting to enchant, upgrade enchants or reset enchants.

Instead of now reopens itself after playing the enchant animations.

Dim Glacier Smelter:

No longer smelts Dim Glacier Weapons with any kind of enchant.

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##### Everything above will be applied AFTER the maintenance by 03/03/2026 17:00 UTC #####

##### PATCH NOTES 02/24/2026 #####

----- INSTANCES -----

Now you can join instances by accessing the Instance Manager UI!

It's located in your menu under your character statistics, and you may access any non-story instances from there for you and your party!

Instances from Episodes still require episode completion in order to be entered.

You may notice there are two buttons at the bottom of the Instance Manager UI:

Normal: The common, official instance.

Eclipse: Our harder, custom difficulty, monster have 99% damage reduction and deal 5x damage! But everything also has +50% Drop Rate to compensate. Entering Eclipse Mode costs one [Eclipse Key] which may be acquired from instance MVPs.

Clicking any of these buttons while in a Party and confirming will attempt to warp ALL PARTY MEMBERS into an instance, this will only work if all party members are not currently in cooldown for said instance.

Instances with an item requirement (Like Villa of Deception Advanced) still require their item in order to enter.

Currently, Eclipse Mode only has +50% Drop Rate but we will soon add custom and cosmetic drops exclusive to Eclipse Mode.

All these informations can be accessed by clicking the Tip button in the Instance Manager UI.

----- PETS -----

Unlocked the following pets and evolutions:

Baphomet;

Orc Hero;

Dark Lord;

Gloom Under Night;

Kiel D-01.

Added the following new pets and pet evolutions:

Marin -> Garm Baby, Aqua Elemental or Gazeti;

Garm Baby -> Garm;

Aqua Elemental -> Knight of Windstorm;

Gazeti -> Ktullanux;

Ashring -> Volcaring, Phantom Wolf or Fire Frilldora;

Volcaring -> Imp -> Ifrit;

Phantom Wolf -> Hot Molar -> Burning Fang;

Fire Frilldora -> Salamander -> Detardeurus.

Imp: Is no longer tameable directly.

Marin can be tamed with a [Juicy Fruit], which can be found with some colorful, big-billed birds in tropical jungles.

Ashring can be tamed with a [Cooling Crystal], collected as trinkets by denizens of very cold places.

Hornets (who can be evolved into Mistresses) can be tamed with a [Beehive Box], found with unlikely hobby-beekepers in Suei Long Gon.

All above pets, including new, custom ones, have their stats added into the DNA system and will provide them to your pets upon being DNA-spliced. They also have their original (or custom, in case of the custom ones) evolution costs added accordingly.

----- SKILLS -----

Autocasts no longer consume catalysts, SP or AP.

----- SYSTEMS -----

Adventure Guide has been updated with custom information for AstRO!

Now you can check our Adventure Guide in order to learn about our custom systems and progression!

----- BUGFIXES -----

Fixed description of Sekienhou Star Aspect.

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##### Everything above will be applied AFTER the maintenance by 02/24/2026 17:00 UTC #####

##### PATCH NOTES 02/17/2026 #####

----- INSTANCES -----

- Sky Fortress:

 - Adjusted so the entrance is only done via Dimensional Rift.

 - The Warper now sends you to Dimensional Rift.

----- EVENTS -----

- Poring Hunter:

 - Starbot is no longer allowed inside the event.

 - Monster no longer leave loot behind.

- Event Shop:

 - Added the [Taming Gift Set] to the Event Shop.

----- PETS -----

- New pet system has arrived!

- You can now alter the DNA of your pets, adding bonus stats to your main pet using secondary pets!

- Each pet can have up to 4 DNA splices at maximum quality! This means your pet can have 4 times as much attributes!

- DNA splicing is completely harmless and will not affect your pet's health! It can even be reversed at will!

- Pets can be upgraded through Genetic Tiers: Basic, Advanced, Superior and Apex. Each Genetic tier allows for more DNA capacity.

- *Your summoned pet no longer gives passive stats.* All stats are now decided by their spliced DNA.

- This also means you may use the pet that better suits your style, or a Super-Poring!

- This system also comes with a few changes to the base system:

 - Intimacy no longer drops and is intead fixed at Loyal. No more fleeing pets!

 - Pet hunger now decays from 100% to 0% through the span of 24 hours. Meaning you got to feed your pets at least once a day!

 - Pet hunger now only affects the bonus stats given by your pet. If your pet is under 20% hunger, it may refuse to help you until you feed it!

 - All pets can be autofed now. Also all pets now eat Pet Food.

- Genetic Material may be acquired by "salvaging" unwanted pet eggs.

- Genetic Material can be used to upgrade your pet through Genetic Tiers or to acquire some pet-related items.

- This system may be accessed at the Genetic Guild in Lighthalzen or simply by speaking to the Warper -> Special Areas -> Pet Area.

----- WORLD BOSS -----

- Increased effectiveness of Lunar Beacons at lower levels.

*We have been observing the Unknown Darkness is either instantly killed or unkillable. We will adjust the Lunar Beacons to be more effective when there's less people around.*

----- BUG FIXES -----

- Adventurer's Guide is no longer bugged!

 - It's still kinda outdated, though. We will be updating it with information about the server soon!

##### Everything above will be applied AFTER the maintenance by 02/17/2026 17:00 UTC. #####

##### SOMEWHAT EARLY PATCH NOTES 02/10/2026 ##### ----- INSTANCES -----

• Sky Fortress:
• Removed the requirement for tickets in order to start the instance.
• Fall of Glast Heim:
• Removed the Story mode.

----- DUNGEONS -----

• Illusion Dungeons:
• Removed the mechanics to spawn all Illusion Dungeon MVPs.
• Now all Illusion Dungeon MVPS have a 2-hour spawn time.
• Illusion of Luanda:
• Now has both monster types spawned, no longer requiring you to kill an MVP in order to change the monsters.

----- NPCs -----

• Added a new NPC [Bond Recycler] next to all Reputation NPCs that will trade your bound Tier3 equipment from Reputation Rewards into Reputation Coins.

----- WORLD BOSS ----- There's something weird happening in the night sky! I swear I could see shadows moving on the moon!

• Added new World Boss: Unknown Darkness!
• After a randomly-selected amount of monsters are defeated globally, the darkness in the moon stirs!
• Varmundt will appear in Prontera to teleport players there in order to fight the threat.

• Mechanics:
• As the time passes, the Unknown Darkness grows bigger and stronger;
• Players may operate Lunar Beacons around the arena in order to fire weakening beams of light to reduce it's mass and size.
• Coordination is required for this, however! A Lunar Beacon by itself doesnt do anything, they must be operated in pairs!
• Players must coordinate to activate the Lunar Beacons at the same time, activating two will fire a small beam, while activating all 6 at the same time will strip the Unknown Darkness to it's core, leaving it extremely vulnerable!
• Upon operating all 6 Lunar Beacons, the Lunar Cannons may be fired, each dealing 10% of the Unknown Darkness' Max Health per shot.
• Upon activation, Lunar Cannons will go dormant until the 6 Lunar Beacons are activated correctly again.

• If one hour passes without being defeated, the Unknown Darkness will attempt to engulf the moon, becoming too dangerous to fight. This marks the failure of the event.
• If defeated, a Reward Chest spawns in the middle of the map for 60 seconds, rewarding all participating players.
• Currently the rewards include only Event Coins, but more are planned to be added.

This marks the initial implementation of a World Boss system to our server. It's still very early in testing and we want to see how you deal with it so we may adjust it further. Balancing may be off at first, but we will refine it with time. ----- REFINING -----

• Added a new confirmation window when attempting to refine without Blacksmith Blessings.
• Clicking "Refine" without Blacksmith Blessings will prompt a big red message in the chat window. Clicking "Refine" again quickly will proceed to refine without using Blacksmith Blessings.
• This will prompt a "Failure Window", but won't cost any materials or Zeny. The actual refine will only happen upon confirming. This is due to a game limitation to the refine system.
• This whole system will NOT appear if you ARE using Blacksmith Blessings or are doing a refine without a Break Chance (Up to +7 for Lv4 and below Weapons and Lv1 Armors, Up to +10 for Lv5 Weapons and Lv2 Armors, also for Star Elunium and Star Oridecon uses)

----- SYSTEMS -----

• Monster Information:
• Added a new system to show Race and Element information above monsters' names.
• This includes a custom icon for every monster based on their Race and Element.

----- PATCHER -----

• We got a new patcher!
• This new patcher is more sophisticated and less prone to bugs.
• This also comes with the added benefit of correctly opening the game upon clicking "Game Start".
• Download for the new patcher will be available with the new update.

============================================ ##### Everything above will be applied AFTER the maintenance by 02/10/2026 17:00 UTC (2 days ago)#####

The Unknown Darkness

"Ancient scriptures spoke of an eclipse that would bring not darkness, but an awakening... In recent nights, the astronomers of Zodiac Temple noticed the Moon has not only changed its hue, but seems to be... breathing. Giant shadows cross the lunar surface and a silent roar echoes through the vacuum of space.

The Astral Seal has weakened, and what was trapped on the dark side has finally found its way back. Prepare yourselves, heroes, the night will offer no sanctuary until the beast is cast back into the void."

Event Details:

• Location: Lunar Surface
• Threat Level: Catastrophic
• Warning: Bring your best gear, the vacuum of space does not forgive.