The second patch of the MapleStory V update has been released! This one contains the second area of Arcane River, Chew Chew Island, as well as the V Core Maker system and a few other changes.

The next patch will be on August 18, containing the third area, the City of Dreams Lacheln, and a new boss, commander Lucid.

Here’s the logo for this patch.

And here’s the Update Info Centre video!

Arcane River: Chew Chew Island

The new area Chew Chew Island has been added.

Colourful! Chaotic! Your journey in the second world encountered in Arcane River, Chew Chew Island, begins. When something strange has caused the river to stop flowing, you’ll need to save a village in crisis and move one step closer to the Black Mage.

• After completing the Arcane River: Road of Vanishing quest line, characters level 210 or higher can access Chew Chew Island by jumping off the cliff in the Foggy Falls map.
• After completing the Chew Chew Island quests, you can acquire the Arcane Symbol: Chew Chew Island. You can get more of them by hunting monsters (Chew Chew Island does not have daily quests like Road of Vanishing).
• In Chew Chew Island’s special field, Air Valley, instead of Runes, Bait will appear underwater which can be used for special benefits.
• In Chew Chew Island’s special field, Sky Whale Mountain, experience a new style of combat as you move through the air.

New maps have been added.

• Chew Chew Village
• Garden Entrance
• Colourful Woodlands 1
• Colourful Woodlands 2
• Colourful Woodlands 3
• Deep Autumn Garden
• Stretched Round Forest 1
• Stretched Round Forest 2
• Round Forest 1
• Round Forest 2
• Deep Chewrup Forest
• Chew Chew Village Entrance
• Torrential Area 1
• Torrential Area 2
• Torrential Area 3
• Below the Falls
• Whale Mountain Valley
• Whale Mountainside 1
• Whale Mountainside 2
• Whale Mountaintop
• Giant Tail
• Secluded Village
• Sealed Muto

New quests have been added.

• Blocked Arcane River
• Welcome to Chew Chew Island
• The Best Chef, Master Lick
• This Taste?!
• A Delicious Smell
• Kitchen Aid Simia
• Find the Autumn Garden’s Taste 1
• Find the Autumn Garden’s Taste 2
• Find the Chewrup Forest’s Taste 1
• Find the Chewrup Forest’s Taste 2
• Find the Air Valley’s Taste 1
• Find the Air Valley’s Taste 2
• Find the Sky Whale Mountain’s Taste 1
• Find the Sky Whale Mountain’s Taste 2
• Collect the Missing 2% Taste
• Gula’s Invasion
• Muto’s Choice
• Goodbye Chew Chew Island

New items have been added.

• Arcane Symbol: Chew Chew Island
• Monster etc. items

New NPCs have been added.

• Lyon
• Simia
• Master Lick
• Bibik
• Bimi
• Bidol
• Muto
• Papa Budding
• Madame Popo

New monsters have been added.

• Pinedeer (Lv. 210)
• Big-Horned Pinedeer (Lv. 211)
• Sheenana (Lv. 210)
• Ramnana (Lv. 211)
• Flion (Lv. 212)
• Angry Flion (Lv. 213)
• Unripe Wolfroot (Lv. 212)
• Ripe Wolfroot (Lv. 213)
• Green Catfish (Lv. 214)
• Blue Catfish (Lv. 216)
• Rhiturtle (Lv. 215)
• General Rhiturtle (Lv. 216)
• Crilla (Lv. 217)
• Chief Crilla (Lv. 219)
• Bishark (Lv. 218)
• Chief Bishark (Lv. 219)
• Chewrup Tree (Lv. 219)

Here’s a video showing off the area!

5th Job

The V Core Maker Mode has been added.

• When you disassemble V Cores, you will receive V Core Pieces. Different types of V Cores will give different amounts, and higher level Cores will give more pieces.
  • Enhancement Cores: 10 pieces (level 1)
  • Skill Cores: 40 pieces (level 1)
  • Special Cores: 50 pieces (level 1)

• You can talk to the NPC Achelle in Road of Vanishing to use these V Core Pieces to create V Cores of your choice or Core Gemstones.
  • Core Gemstone: 35 pieces
  • Enhancement Core: 70 pieces (you choose the base skill, the two other skills that will be enhanced will be randomly chosen)
  • Skill Core: 140 pieces
  • Special Core: 250 pieces

The maximum ranks of V Cores have been increased from 20 to 25.

• Skill Core skills can now reach level 25.
• Enhancement Core skills can now reach level 50.

The maximum level of Arcane Symbols has been increased from 10 to 15.

UI Reorganization

The main UI has been improved.

• The character status information window’s gauges and numbers have been adjusted to be more visible.
• When you hover over your character’s name on the status information window, your job will now be shown on the tooltip.
• The experience gauge and its numbers have been adjusted to be more visible.
• When the quickslot has been expanded and you enter a scene or the Cash Shop, it will no longer automatically collapse when you return.

Quick Growth

Certain party quests’ experience rewards have been greatly increased and their beginning levels/recommended levels have been changed.

• Chryse’s Xerxes (beginning level: 110, recommended levels: 110~129)
• Dimensional Crack (beginning level: 120, recommended levels: 120~139)
• Pirate Davy Jones (beginning level: 130, recommended levels: 130~149)
• Escape (beginning level: 140, recommended levels: 140~159)
• Dragon Rider (beginning level: 150, recommended levels: 150~169)
• Kenta in Danger (beginning level: 160, recommended levels: 160~179)
• Resurrection of the Hob King (beginning level: 170, recommended levels: 170~189)

New World: Arcane

The new world, Arcane, has been added! The Arcane World Open event has begun and will run until August 17.

During this event, you can collect Arcane Meso Bags while hunting monsters around your level. Collecting them will give you additional mesos. In order, you will receive 5x/10x/50x/200x additional mesos.

You can only receive a total of 300 million mesos per character over the course of the event from these additional mesos.

All characters in Arcane will receive the following rewards.

• 5 Character Slot Expansion Coupons (once per world)
• 4 8-Slot Storage Expansion Coupons (once per world)
• 32 Slot Equip/Use/Etc/Set-up Expansion (once per character)

In addition, all characters in Arcane that were created after June 30 will receive the following rewards at certain levels.

• Level 140: Star Force 10 Star Enhancement Scroll (once per world)
• Level 170: Star Force 12 Star Enhancement Scroll (once per world)
• Level 200: Star Force 15 Star Enhancement Scroll (once per world)

 

Until August 3, there will be 2x experience and 2x drop 24/7 for Arcane.

Finally, the last part of the event is the Arcane World Leap, which runs until August 3.

It has the same specifications as previous World Leap events, except for the fact that you can only transfer to Arcane. In addition, you cannot transfer out of Reboot or Reboot 2. Characters who have moved to Red/Aurora after July 14 cannot participate.

Game Related

The maximum number of slots per item category have been increased to 128. In addition, all characters created before the patch have had their Equip/Use/Set-up/Etc slots increased by 32 automatically! (this is compensation due to the delay in adding the expanded slots)

The Auction House has been improved.

• The commission fee for bundled sales and individual sales will now match.
• The minimum item selling price has been changed to 50 mesos.
• When searching, if there are many results, you will now receive a message informing you.

The following items’ maximum number of items per slot have been increased by up to 10x.

• Recovery items

An error where Hyper Stats were not being given out has been fixed. All characters who were affected have had their Hyper Stats reset.

The V Diary‘s mission that requires you to complete the Birth of the Alliance quest has been changed because certain jobs do not receive it. The complete list of quests that will now complete this mission are:

• Phantom: I’m Not Fighting Alone
• Luminous: Swirling Wind Invitation
• Kaiser: Alliance’s Invitation
• Angelic Buster: Alliance’s Invitation
• EunWol: Empress, Meeting with Cygnus
• Other jobs: Birth of the Alliance

Certain bosses have been added to Murmur’s Soul Collector.

• Captain Black Slime
• Xerxes
• Rex
• Pianus
• Dragon Rider

Captain Black Slime
“I washed up onto Gold Beach.”
“My sound will reach Gold Beach!”

Xerxes
“Do not ignore your pet again.”
“I am generous.”

Rex
“Rush forward!!!”
“Yeah, I’m Rex. A man that knows only to race…”

Pianus
“I want! Escape!”
“A lowly being like you dares to summon me…!”

Dragon Rider
“Revenge on the town of Leafre…”
“Before, the most handsome guy in the town of Leafre.”

An error where monsters in Kritias before an invasion would not be affected by the experience penalty based on the difference in levels has been fixed.

An error where Adventurers could not complete certain story quests after advancing to 5th job has been fixed.

When upgrading Lapis/Lazuli 7 to Lapis/Lazuli 8, Zero now requires 1 Absolabs Essence instead of 5 Absolabs Coins. Absolabs Essences can be purchased in both the Absolabs Coin Shop and the Stigma Coin Shop.

Twilight Perion’s hunting grounds and quests will now begin at level 180. In addition, the spawn rate of the area’s monsters has been increased.

 

An error where the Fallen Demon Shield Soldier would not receive damage if attacked during its hit animation has been fixed.

In Stone Giant Colossus, the Kapu’s riding minigame‘s attacking skills’ ranges have been increased.

An error where potential scrolls and potential stamps could not be used on the Vengeance Ring has been fixed.

Skill Related

 Archers’ 5th job skill, Guided Arrow, no longer consumes arrows.

The following errors have been fixed.

• The hit effects of skills that only hit once will no longer overlap.
•  An error where thieves’ 5th job skill, Venom Burst, would sometimes not activate has been fixed.
• An error where any attack after using Night Lord’s Spread Throw would be a critical hit has been fixed.
• An error where the sound would continuously play after dying while using Captain’s Bullet Party has been fixed.
•  An error where the client would sometimes exit after Flame Wizard’s Flame Barrier had been used has been fixed.
• An error where using any action immediately after using Evan’s Elemental Blast would activate another Elemental Blast has been fixed.
• An error where an incorrect Wild Hunter’s Jaguar would be summoned has been fixed.
• An error where Crossroad’s cooldown did not apply when using Jaguar Storm while riding a Jaguar has been fixed.
•  An error where Xenon would take damage from damage reflect while using Mega Smasher has been fixed.
•  An error where Kaiser’s Guardian of Nova summons would not attack and simply teleport repeatedly has been fixed.
•  An error where Angelic Burster’s Energy Burst would not explode after disappearing has been fixed.

Cash Related

The following items, which are not usable anymore, have been removed from all inventories and Cash Wardrobes. In the near future, you will be refunded the purchase price of the item.

• Neat Wedding Ticket
• Sweetie Wedding Ticket
• Premium Wedding Ticket
• Maple Auction Silver Ticket
• Maple Auction Gold Ticket
• Maple Auction Red Ticket

  

The Baby Fold pets have been released, and will be sold until August 17. They include Baby Fondue, Baby Sasha, and Baby Coco!

Events

Hunting Boost! Haste V

The Hunting Boost! Haste V event has begun and will run until August 17. During this event, there will be a few extra benefits to encourage hunting.

• Elite Monsters’ appearance rate will be increased
• Daily limit on Mileage Packages dropped by Elite Monsters will be increased to 10
• Runes will spawn more frequently and their cooldowns will be decreased
• Runes’ experience buff effect will be increased
• Daily limit on Sudden Mission clears will be increased to 6
• Polo & Pritto’s appearance rate will be increased
• Flame Wolf’s experience reward will be increased by 2x
• Boss Party UI’s buff effect will be increased

Every day, you’ll have a total of 9 misions that you can complete. When you complete each one, you’ll get experience based on your level and a Haste Box (based on the number of missions you’ve done).

• Hunt 555 monsters around your level
• Hunt 15 Elite Monsters
• Hunt 1 Elite Boss
• Clear Polo & Fritto 5 times
• Clear Flame Wolf 1 time
• Activate 5 Runes
• Clear 5 Sudden Missions
• Achieve 555 Combo Kills
• Achieve 55 Multi Kills

The Basic Haste Box will be given for your 1st/2nd/3rd missions. It can be opened to get some experience and a random item.

• 100 Scroll Traces
• Strange Cube
• 10 Power Elixirs
• Basic Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• Silver Potential Stamp
• 100% Chaos Scroll
• 5% Clean Slate Scroll

The Medium Haste Box will be given for your 4th/5th/6th missions. It can be opened to get some experience and a random item.

• 200 Scroll Traces
• 5 Strange Cubes
• 20 Power Elixirs
• Medium Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• Gold Potential Stamp
• 100% Chaos Scroll
• 50% Golden Hammer
• 10% Clean Slate Scroll

The Advanced Haste Box will be given for your 7th/8th missions. It can be opened to get some experience and a random item.

• 500 Scroll Traces
• 10 Strange Cubes
• Medium Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• 50% Golden Hammer
• 50% Epic Potential Scroll
• 10% Clean Slate Scroll
• 50% Innocent Scroll
• Strong Rebirth Flame

The Ultimate Haste Box will be given for your 9th mission. It can opened to get some experience and a random item.

• 800 Scroll Traces
• 20 Strange Cubes
• Advanced Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• 10% Clean Slate Scroll
• Strong Rebirth Flame
• Eternal Rebirth Flame
• Craftsman’s Cube
• Meister’s Cube
• 2x Experience Coupon (1 hour)

Let’s.Party.Quest.

The Let’s.Party.Quest. event has begun and will run until August 17.

During this event, the clear experience of all party quests will be increased by 50%!

Every day, you can complete 3 missions to get V Coins.

• Clear 1 party quest: 10 V Coins
• Clear 3 party quests: 10 V Coins
• Clear 5 party quests: 20 V Coins

In addition, there are 6 achievements that you can complete over the course of the event, that will reward V Coins.

• Clear 50 party quests: 100 V Coins
• Clear every different party quest 3 times each: 70 V Coins
• Complete the ‘Clear 1 party quest’ daily mission 15 times: 70 Coins
• Clear 5 party quests as party leader with 2 or more party members: 30 V Coins
• Clear 5 party quests with a 6 person party: 30 V Coins
• Level up 5 times during a party quest: 30 V Coins

HOT! VVeekend

The HOT! VVeekend event will take place every Saturday until August 13. Each time, there will be special benefits!

On July 30 and August 13, the following benefits will apply.

• 100% success rate for Star Force enhancements when enhancing to the 5th/10th/15th star
• 3x the number of acquired coins and daily coin limit from V Boxes
• 50% Honor cost reduction when resetting Abilities
• 5x the chance to get Magnificent souls when combining 10 Soul Fragments

On August 6, the following benefits will apply.

• 30% discount on all items in the V Coin Shop
• 3x the number of acquired coins from V Boxes
• 50% Honor cost reduction when resetting Abilities
• 5x the chance to get Magnificent souls when combining 10 Soul Fragments

Extended Events

The Mesoranger V and Beat the Heat V events have been extended until August 17. The V Diary event has been extended until August 31.