Änderungen

Windows ships an updated JimsProxy bridge (5.1.8). Both packages were rebuilt clean.

Sending yourself gear or gold between characters used to mean waiting an hour. It does not any more. Attach whatever you like and it lands in the mailbox straight away. This was Council proposal #5: the Council supported it, and the keeper shipped it.

Fleeing mobs ran straight through houses, line of sight broke inside the Hillsbrad caves, things got stuck in scenery and evaded far too often. All of it came from one broken piece of collision handling in the server core. We are now on the newest vMaNGOS core, which rebuilt that part properly. Walls are walls again.

After a group roll finished, the corpse could end up with nothing in it. The item you just won was simply not there. Fixed in the new core. Roll away.

We brought the Booty Run chest back a while ago, but it turned out the chest itself refused to open. That is fixed now, so the arena is worth showing up for again.

Marlgen in Hillsbrad was throwing his net every 5 to 15 seconds. The net roots you for 10, so you could be chain-rooted with no way out. His twin Borhuin always used a 20 to 33 second timer; Marlgen was simply a bad data entry. He now matches his twin.

A player reported that as an Armorsmith he was able to finish a Master Axesmith quest, which should not be possible. He was right: the quests handed out the specialisation without checking anything, so an Armorsmith could take them, and a Weaponsmith could collect all three masteries at once. In real Vanilla you must be a Weaponsmith, and the choice between axe, sword and hammer is final. The quests now check that, exactly like the trainer dialogue always did. Credit to Frap for reporting a bug that worked in his favour.

How much critical strike and dodge you get per point of Agility was an approximation before. It is now the real per-class, per-level table from the original game data. Most characters will see their character sheet shift very slightly. This is not a buff or a nerf, it is simply correct now. Rogues and Hunters at some levels will notice it most.

Raid instance reset timers now work the way they did before patch 1.9: per player, not shared across the whole raid. If you know the old rules, they apply again.

Mage Mana Shield behaves the way it did before patch 1.12 again, and Breath of Fire has its proper chance to trigger instead of never firing. A wider batch of spell and creature data corrections came with the core update.

Fadeleaf and Grave Moss now share proper spawn pools instead of clumping, so gathering routes work as intended. The duplicate Gordok Tribute chests in Dire Maul are gone, a pile of leftover objects that should not have existed were removed, and several small areas respawn correctly again.

Some trainers that offer nothing but recipes were being treated as the wrong kind of trainer, which broke what they showed you. They behave correctly now.

The Tome of Valor quest NPC in Westfall was sunk slightly into the floor at her spawn: her collision position sat just under the ground you can see. She stands on it now.

Every Wednesday the server crashed while shutting down for its scheduled honour restart. Nothing was ever lost, because the crash happened after everything was saved, but it hid the log, so a real problem could have gone unnoticed behind it. The cause is fixed, and the server now shuts down cleanly.

Some creatures re-cast their crowd control roughly every second instead of on their proper cooldown. It hit nets, roots, Terrify and Thunderclap. It made several fights miserable and a few nearly unplayable. The server was retrying a failed cast immediately instead of waiting; it now waits properly.

Nefaru was respawning every few minutes instead of every few hours. The Poor Old Blanchy quest now has enough Sacks of Oats around the Furlbrow farm to go around, so you are not queueing for them. Small things, but they were annoying.

We are a faithful Classic realm, but a few things are deliberately not Vanilla, and we would rather say so plainly. Paladin and Shaman can now group, raid and run dungeons together. To keep that fair, the buffs that do the same job are made mutually exclusive: you get the Paladin one or the Shaman one, never both. The full list of pairs that do not stack lives at /cross-faction. Auction listings also run longer than retail Vanilla so the market of a small population actually clears, and respec cost is capped at 25 gold. Nothing else touches the balance of the game.

A regression in the core update we shipped today dropped private whispers server-side: sent messages never reached the other player and never echoed back to you. It is fixed, and whispers deliver normally again on both the 1.12 and 1.14 clients. Thanks to everyone who reported it.

Resetting your talents is cheaper now: the cost tops out at 25 gold instead of 50. The steep end of the curve is halved, so frequent respeccers feel it most. (From a community council vote.)

The maintenance today moved Stonetavern onto the latest vMaNGOS development core, the most up-to-date and accurate Vanilla 1.12 engine there is. That means the freshest bug fixes, closer-to-original behaviour across the whole world, smoother and lighter NPC and pet movement, and a more stable network layer underneath. It also brings the Eluna scripting engine online behind the scenes, which is the foundation for our progression content. About six minutes of downtime, no data loss, characters untouched.

The realm now runs on a staged progression system, the way Vanilla actually unfolded. The raids and world bosses are sealed at launch and open in scheduled patches as the server grows: Molten Core, Onyxia, Blackwing Lair, Zul'Gurub, Ahn'Qiraj and Naxxramas. Phase 0 is where we start; the timeline is on the site under the progression page.

Cross-faction grouping now includes Paladins and Shamans in the same party or raid. The class buffs that would unfairly stack across factions (Salvation vs Tranquil Air, Blessing of Might vs Strength of Earth, and similar pairs) are now mutually exclusive instead of blocking the group entirely: you get one of the pair, not both, and you can finally raid together.

Hunter pet revive and call now use the correct cooldowns and timing, and Eyes of the Beast plays its animation on the beast instead of you. When you Mind Control, Enslave or otherwise charm a creature, its real abilities now appear on a clean action bar. Over 1,300 creatures and 2,600 abilities were mapped, which also makes the Razorgore encounter in Blackwing Lair completable. Pets follow correctly on the continents again, and the pet, Dire Maul door and Immol'thar stuck issues are resolved.

Riding the Grom'gol ↔ Undercity zeppelin no longer drops you from the server mid-flight. Inside Naxxramas, the missing inner teleporter is back in place, so movement through the instance works as intended.

The core update corrects world objects across the entire game against the original 1.2 to 1.12 client data. Highlights: the Felwood corrupted/cleansed plant quests (Songflower, Windblossom, Whipper Root, Night Dragon) and their "take the fruit" interactions; the Warlock Dreadsteed mount quest objects in Dire Maul; Zul'Gurub gem-boss summons and the Gong of Bethekk; the Ahn'Qiraj Ossirian crystal; ~40 world chests that open correctly again; cooking now working at far more campfires and braziers; auction houses in Darnassus, Gadgetzan and Ironforge; and Arathi Basin / battleground capture banners.

The anti-cheat used to read a fast burst of sell commands as suspicious and kick you, which is exactly what sell-junk and auto-repair addons do at a vendor. Selling many grey items at once is fine now; genuine packet floods are still logged and throttled.

The camp-able chest farm in Thousand Needles now respawns on an hourly timer instead of every few minutes (the earlier Arathi fix is fully live engine-side too), and the Wetlands digsite hands out quest fragments per-player so they cannot be ninja-looted. Daphne Stilwell is no longer stuck in the ground, and the Defias Dockmaster no longer respawns instantly.

A core bug made many objects (chests, mailboxes, ore and herb nodes, quest objects, fishing rods) only respond when you stood almost on top of them. They register from a normal distance now. The same update also fixes mage Blink landing on the ground instead of mid-air, pet cooldowns surviving a relog, wand shots using your weapon skill, and reorganising two full bags. Landed with the maintenance restart today.

The faction war chests at Go'Shek Farm and Dabyrie's Farmstead were spawning two per side on a five-minute timer, which made them a campable source of easy gold. There is now one chest per side and it comes back every hour. The content stays; the farm does not. Thanks to the player who reported it.

We moved the world server up about thirty upstream revisions (the gameplay fixes in this batch ride along) and gave the database a much larger memory pool: it was running on the stock 128 MB, now 8 GB. This is mainly for auction house load and busy moments.

We put the deliberate changes in one place: cross-faction play, the longer auction timer, and the guards that keep the economy of a small realm fair. Each one says what it does and why, and notes that it eases back toward Vanilla as the realm fills up. Read it under "Why we tune the realm".

Listings on the Auction House now stay up about seven times longer, so the 24-hour slot lasts roughly a week. It costs no more: the deposit is still charged on the duration you pick in-game, not the longer real time. The auction menu still shows the old 2h / 8h / 24h labels; your listing simply outlives what it says. It is a deliberate, temporary boost while the realm is still filling up, so items have time to sell on a quieter market. We will ease it back toward normal as more players arrive. Applies to new auctions only.

You can now connect your Discord account and use it to sign in, one click instead of a password, or register straight from Discord (you still set an account name and password for the game itself; 1.12 needs its own). Once linked, choose a main character under Manage account; we use it to grant Discord roles for your faction and a verified player. Linking is optional and you can disconnect it any time; your existing username-and-password login is unchanged.

The realm-wide "World" channel is reliable again on every client: one channel for everyone, both factions, and it mirrors to our Discord. We dropped a server-side workaround that could leave it broken and unwritable. Type /join World if it is not already in your chat tabs.

Every chartered guild now has its own hall on the site. Open a guild to read its full roster: who leads it, every member by rank, class and level, and who is at the hearth right now. Guild masters and officers can post raid days and dungeon runs; members sign up in a click (attending, tentative, or benched when the roster is full), and anyone who opts into web push gets a quiet nudge thirty minutes before the muster. Each event also opens a war table: drag your signed-up players into the eight raid groups and sketch the plan on a shared tactics board the whole guild can see. Sign in and look for "Your guilds".

Horde and Alliance now share world chat and channels, can group together, and run dungeons and instances side by side. That covers guilds, trade, the auction house, mail, who-list and friends too. This is a deliberate departure from blizzlike: in real Vanilla the factions stayed apart. We open the door because a small community is one table, not two empty halls. One exception keeps the balance honest: a Paladin and a Shaman cannot be in the same party, as their combined buffs never coexisted in Vanilla. Everything else stays untouched.

While we were down for maintenance we swapped the host CPU (E5-2620 v4 to E5-2680 v4: more cores, higher turbo, larger cache) and pinned the world server onto its own dedicated, isolated CPU cores so nothing else on the machine can steal its cycles. The database and every other service now run on separate cores. The performance governor is locked on for full clock speed. A Vanilla world is single-threaded at its core, so an undisturbed, high-turbo core is exactly what it wants: the result is a steadier tick under load and more headroom for big gatherings.

In Whelgar's Excavation (Wetlands), one of the four tablet relics was accidentally faction-locked and would not respond, so the Ados fragment could not be looted and the quest stuck at 3 of 4. The relic is neutral again and the quest completes. Thanks to the player who reported it.

The same kind of faction lock hit the tome for this Scarlet Monastery quest, so it could not be read. Fixed the same way, and the tome responds again.

The number of debuffs that can sit on a target is now 8, the value that matches the current content phase. You will notice it most in raids and group play.

Pulled 11 upstream refinements into the world: corrected NPC positions (Ironforge guards and several quest givers, from sniffed data) and cleaned up a few stray spawns. Small world, more accurate.

The booty chest in the Gurubashi Arena pit was not spawning, because it was never wired to its event. That is sorted now; it comes back with the next maintenance restart and runs on its regular ~3-hour cycle. Thanks to the player who flagged it.

Horde and Alliance see the same auction listings and can mail each other gold and items. Everything else stays blizzlike: groups, guilds, trade and chat.

We turned on the engine that flags speedhacks, fly hacks, teleports and botting patterns. It only logs and notifies a GM. A human still decides every ban, as promised.

The collection NPCs that were standing around in Stormwind, Ironforge and Orgrimmar are gone. The War Effort is not running, so they should not have been there.

We loosened the server-side name reservations. Pick the name you actually wanted. The client still caps you at 12 ASCII characters.

A ticket you open in the game with ? now shows up for the keeper on the website, and a reply gets sent straight back to you in-game mail. Ask once, in whichever place is easier, and you get an answer.

A public status page now shows whether the realm, login, and the site are online, so you can tell at a glance before you log in.

Got a code? Sign in, go to your account, pick a character, and claim it. The reward lands in the in-game mail of that character a minute later.

A Council page records who has a say in realm decisions. Plain credit, out in the open.

Vote for the realm with your website-registered account and you get a one-time six-slot bag in the mail. It is the same for everyone: no gold, no gear, no in-game edge, just a bit of bag space.

You can now open a support ticket from the website and follow the conversation in one place instead of chasing it across Discord. The keeper gets notified when a new ticket comes in.

A clear donate page (Ko-fi) explains that chipping in only helps cover server costs and never buys an in-game advantage. Entirely optional.

Browse the gear of any character on the public armory, search the full player roster, and appeal a ruling by mail. More of the realm is now visible from the website without logging in.

A running ledger of what has changed on the realm, so you can see at a glance which patches and tweaks have landed.

Four boards: PvP, the level race, gold, and server-first kills, so you can see who is chasing what. Top holders are called out by name.

You can now sign in to your account before confirming your email; verification only gates the armory and character pages. Less friction to get started.

Change your password and email yourself from account settings, and use the self-service "find your way home" option if a character gets stuck. No ticket needed.