A new patch has hit the official servers! This one is pretty much the same as the most recent test server patch, including the new theme dungeon Kerning Tower, Hard Von Leon, and a lot of QoL updates, along with some new events.

Here is the world select screen for this patch.

And here’s the update info centre video!

Kerning Tower

The new theme dungeon Kerning Tower has been added.

• On the stage of the high-rise shopping center Kerning Tower, producer Blake’s new challenge unfolds.
• Users level 145 or higher can receive an invitation to Kerning Tower from the Kerning City Subway Worker Jake.
• Help the changed producer Blake prepare the debut of his new group, and create memories at Kerning Tower.

New maps have been added.

• Kerning Tower Lobby
• Blake’s Office
• Rehearsal Room
• Sky Garden
• Penthouse
• Underground 1st Floor Electronics Store <1>
• Underground 1st Floor Electronics Store <2>
• 2nd Floor Cafe <1>
• 2nd Floor Cafe <2>
• 3rd Floor Fancy Shop <1>
• 3rd Floor Fancy Shop <2>
• 4th Floor Record Store <1>
• 4th Floor Record Store <2>
• 5th Floor Cosmetics Store <1>
• 5th Floor Cosmetics Store <2>
• 6th Floor Hair Shop <1>
• 6th Floor Hair Shop <2>
• Kerning Square Lobby
• 7th Floor 8th Floor Area A

New quests have been added.

• Kerning Tower Open
• Kerning Tower’s Lower Floor
• Kerning Square’s Superstar
• Irresistible Delightful Melody
• Be the Casting Manager Please!
• Casting Manager Activities Begin!
• Rewarded with Good Music
• Speaker Cables Required
• Star’s Gemstone Discovered <1>
• Gather Drink Materials
• … Casting, Failure!?
• Star’s Gemstone Discovered <2>
• Please Take Care of the Scattered Notes
• Runaway Train, Peri!?
• Star’s Gemstone Discovered <3>
• Find a Tape Recorder
• Ame’s Heart
• Star’s Gemstone Discovered <4>
• Who is the Writer of this Song?
• Find Dia
• Star’s Gemstone Discovered <5>
• Catch the Debut Broadcast
• Prepare for a Perfect Debut
• Makeup Artist Negotiations
• Hair Artist Negotiations
• The Day of the Debut
• The Rock Spirit in the Guitar
• Brilliant Debut
• Jackpot Enterprises Co-President?!

New items have been added.

• Equip: Medal <Jackpot Enterprises Co-President> (Lv. 150)
• Use: Unknown Owner’s Recorder
• Use: Kerning Tower Open Celebration Package
• Etc: Warm Support
• Etc: Speaker Wire
• Etc: Drink Capsule
• Etc: Note’s Sheet
• Etc: Ami’s Recorder
• Etc: High-End Cosmetics
• Etc: High-End Pharma
• Etc: Blake’s New Album

New monsters have been added.

• Greatest Oldies (Lv. 145)
• Latest Hits Compilation (Lv. 145)
• Latest Speaker (Lv. 146)
• Soda-Flavoured Jelly Juice (Lv. 147)
• Grape-Flavoured Jelly Juice (Lv. 148)
• Steaming Coffee Machine (Lv. 149)
• Green Note (Lv. 150)
• Blue Note (Lv. 151)
• Yellow Headphones (Lv. 152)
• Red Headphones (Lv. 153)
• Wild Makeup (Lv. 154)
• Wild Dresser (Lv. 155)
• Annoyed Hair Roller (Lv. 155)
• Annoyed Hair Dryer (Lv. 155)
• Rock Spirit (Lv. 155)

New NPCs have been added.

• Office TV
• Blake
• Dia
• Ruby
• Sapphi
• Peri
• Ami
• Ricotta
• Paneer
• Rehearsal Room’s Guitar

As you complete more quests, you’ll gather more members of the new group!

Here are the NPC illustrations for Kerning Tower~

Spring! Spring! Project!

Based on requests from users on the Voice of Mapler! page on the MapleStory website, more things have been added to the Spring! Spring! Project!

The kinds of potions that regular monsters drop will now scale based on the monster’s level.

Potential Stamps, Additional Potential Stamps, and Golden Hammers will now allow you to click the equipment you want to use them on after double clicking them, just like Cube items.

If you complete content from the Maple Tutorial and receive a stamp, you can now use the Maple Tutorial to teleport to that content regardless of your level.

Monsters’ buff and debuff icons will now be displayed all at once.

The maximum distance before a pet will teleport to you has been increased. In addition, the speed at which pets move towards items when picking them up has been increased greatly.

All jobs’ maximum down jump height has been increased. However, this does not apply to Mechanics.

You can now purchase more than one item at a time when using coins at coin shops. However, certain items will be excluded.

When Demon Avengers receive the Hero’s Gloves, Mu Gong’s Gloves, So Gong’s Gloves, Teacher’s Gloves, or Student’s Gloves from the Mu Lung Dojo, their all stats option will be changed to HP.

Mechanics can now choose which colour they would like to change to instead of it being random.

Angelic Buster’s cosmetics specifics have been relaxed.

• You can now wear Cash overalls, tops, bottoms, eye accessories, earrings, shoes, and capes. Weapon and ring Cash equipment will apply to both your transformed/non-transformed looks.
• You can now see both your before and after transformation equipment at the same time on the existing Angelic Buster-only Coordi and the Cash tabs.
• You can change your transformed equipment freely through the Cash tab on the equipment window. The existing Coordinate skill has been deleted.
• In the Cash Shop’s preview area, you can transform using the Dress Up button and freely change your outfits before and after transforming.

On multi-level terrain, to make acquiring items easier, the location where items are dropped after a monster is defeated has been changed.

The duration of Soul Skills will now be displayed on the right side of the screen.

Items received from the MVP Daily Pack will now be shown in the chatting window after exiting the Cash Shop.

Items that have an expiry date have been changed to be easier to see in the inventory.

The readability of NPC names in maps has been improved.

The Cross Hunter UI‘s shop tab has been changed to match the items sold by the Cross Hunter Hideout’s NPC shop. You can now buy Scroll Traces and other items through the Cross Hunter UI.

If you choose to return a character to normal if it was previously deleted and is in the ‘ghost’ state, you will now receive a confirmation message before it is returned to normal.

When you exit the game, you will now receive any rewards that you did not receive. This includes items from PC Room Connection rewards, Daily Gifts, and MVP rewards.

  

The icons of Epic Potential Scrolls and Unique Potential Scrolls have been changed to make them easier to distinguish from regular Potential Scrolls.

You can now right click character names in the chatting window to receive the following options:

• Save Name
• Whisper
• Add as Buddy
• Party Invite
• Guild Invite
• Report

In the chatting window, meso and experience numbers will now display separators for every thousand, to make it easier to know how many units you have received.

Pet buff skills’ activation/deactivation messages will now be shown in the Battle tab.

You can now place the Screenshot and Settings shortcuts on other keys instead of them being locked to ESC/Scroll Lock. Consequently, you can now use the ESC/Scroll Lock keys for other shortcuts.

Game Related

Boss Von Leon’s Hard mode has been added.

• You can enter 1 time per day (not shared with Easy/Normal mode).
• Hard mode Von Leon is level 150, and has 10,500,000,000 HP with 90% PDR.
• Hard mode Von Leon can drop Royal Von Leon equipment and the Ifia accessories.

Easy/Normal mode drop will now drop Lion King’s Royal Medals instead of Lion King’s Medals.

Lion King’s Medals no longer require Purification Totems to be changed to Lion King’s Royal Medals. When used, you can now trade 2 Lion King’s Medals for 1 Lion King’s Royal Medal.

In all profession-related recipes, any required Lion King’s Medals/Purification Totems have been changed to Lion King’s Royal Medals.

The [Von Leon] Knight’s Scroll quest can now be completed 2 times per day.

After completing the Rose Garden quests and collecting Ifia’s Ring, Ifia’s Earrings, and Ifia’s Necklace, you can exchange 10 of the accessories for the Noble Ifia’s Ring (5 all stats, 200 HP/MP, 2 attack/magic attack, 2 slots). It is also part of the Boss Accessory set.

The personality trait experience given by Royal Von Leon equipment, Ifia’s Ring, Ifia’s Earrings, and Ifia’s Necklace have been adjusted.

Every evening from 8pm to 9m, clearing Urus will now give 2x the mesos.

After changing channels, you will now be invincible to attacks for 3 seconds. You can now change channels after being hit by a monster’s attack.

The Rare Reward Box after defeating an Elite Boss will no longer give Accelerators.

A button that allows you to change your Quick Slots has been added to the Keyboard Settings menu. You can now change your Quick Slots through both the Options menu and the Keyboard Settings menu.

Maple Admin’s SP Reset menu has been removed.

Boss monsters who did not award Charisma experience upon being defeated will now do so, and existing boss monsters’ Charisma experience has been adjusted.

Skill Related

The following errors have been fixed.

• An error where certain buff skill’s durations would sometimes display incorrectly has been fixed.
• An error where Dual Blades would repeatedly perform the casting action if affected by a status effect while using Asura has been fixed.
• An error where Kinesis’ Psychic Grab would not damage certain monsters has been fixed.

Quest Related

An error where Demon Slayers and Demon Avengers could not complete their level 200 quests after completing the 5th job advancement has been fixed.

Certain quests in the Temple of Time have had their beginning levels changed to level 140.

• The One Who Walks Down the Road of Regrets 1
• The One Who Walks Down the Road of Regrets 2
• The One Who Walks Down the Road of Regrets 3
• The One Who Walks Down the Road of Regrets 4
• The One Who Walks Down the Road of Regrets 5
• Frozen Emotions
• The Sorceror Who Sells Emotions
• The One Who Walks Down the Road to Oblivion 1

Adventurers’ 2nd job advancement quest’s difficulty has been decreased.

The Sorceror Who Sells Emotions quest has been modified.

• You can no longer drop the Sorceror’s Potion.
• You can no longer use the Wheel of Destiny after using the Sorceror’s Potion.
• You will now complete the quest even if you heal your HP after using the Sorceror’s Potion.

Cash Shop

In this month’s Royal coupon rotation, you can get the same hair and eyes as Lucid!

Her outfit has also been added to the Royal Style Coupon prizes, along with the new Shadow set (I want that sword!!).

Events

Kerning Tower Open Celebration

The Kerning Tower Open Celebration event has begun and will run until October 26.

To celebrate the opening of the new theme dungeon, everyone who completes the quest line at Kerning Tower will receive the Open Celebration Package which can opened to receive the following prizes:

• Finding Your Roots medal (2 all stats, 150 HP/MP)
• Note Earrings (2 all stats, 5 slots)
• Free Spirit Piercing (1 all stats, 4 slots)
• Kerning Tower’s Memory Chair

Here’s what the chair looks like 🙂

Clear Fall Hangul Day

The Clear Fall Hangul Day event has begun and will run until October 12. This event celebrates the invention of of Hangul, the Korean alphabet.

Help Cassandra find the missing characters 가, 을, 꽃, 가, 람 by collecting 100 Hangul Bags from monsters around your level. Each time you complete the quest, you’ll get 1 character so you need to finish it 5 times for the entire phrase.

For completing this quest, you will receive 10 Hangul Bags, which can be opened for przies. This quest can be completed up to 5 times per day per character.

• 10 Power Elixirs
• 10 Reindeer Milk
• 10 Sunset Dew
• Intermediate Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• Advanced Hunter’s Medal of Honor
• Strange Cube
• 20 Scroll Traces
• Personality trait items

In addition, based on the total number of times you have completed Cassandra’s phase (i.e. complete the quest 5 times), you’ll receive bonus prizes! They can be claimed only once per world.

• 2 times: 2 10% Clean Slate Scrolls
• 4 times: Scattered Hangul! Riding Voucher (90 days)
• 6 times: 2 Craftsman’s Cubes
• 7 times: 2 Powerful Rebirth Flames
• 8 times: Hunminjeongeum Chair
• 11 times: 2 Meister Cubes
• 12 times: 2 Eternal Rebirth Flames

From October 7 to October 9, you’ll receive a quest from Cassandra. Meet her in town and talk to Delly beside her, who wants your help in fixing their spelling. If you can do so correctly, you’ll get the Hangul Day Protector Box which can be opened for the following prizes:

• Hangul’s Protector title (10 all stats, 10 attack/magic attack, 10% boss damage, 10% defense ignore, 400 HP/MP, stats expire in 14 days)
• 3 2x Exp Coupons (1 hour)
• Serious Nametag Ring Voucher
• Serious Chat Bubble Ring Voucher

Finally, from October 8 to October 10, everyone’s damage skill will be changed to the Hangul Damage Skin!

Hunting Boost <Haste>

The Hunting Boost! Haste event will begin on October 13 and run until October 26. 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
• Sudden Missions’ daily limit will be increased to 6
• Polo & Fritto’s appearance rate will be increased
• Flame Wolf’s experience reward will be increased by 100%
• 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 999 monsters around your level
• Hunt 20 Elite Monsters
• Hunt 1 Elite Boss
• Clear Polo & Fritto 3 times
• Clear Flame Wolf 1 time
• Activate 5 Runes
• Clear 3 Sudden Missions
• Achieve 500 Combo Kills
• Achieve 100 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, a 1 hour 2x Experience Coupon, 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

Each week of the event, if you can complete all 9 daily missions in a single day, you’ll unlock the weekly hidden mission. By completing these hidden missions, you can receive extra prizes!

• 1st week (October 13 ~ 19): kill 44,444 monsters
  • Experience based on your level
  • Powerful Rebirth Flame
  • Autumn Lake Chair
• 2nd week (October 20 ~ 26): kill 88,888 monsters (55,555 if you completed the first week)
  • Experience based on your level
  • Eternal Rebirth Flame
  • Maidenhair Tree Damage Skin

Here’s what the chair looks like!

If you complete both weeks’ hidden missions, you’ll be given the I’m Completely Hasted title which gives 50 all stats, 20 attack/magic attack, 30% boss damage, 30% defense ignore, and 2000 HP/MP. However, the stats will expire in 30 days.