A test server patch has been released! This one has a new theme dungeon for levels 185+ called Fox Valley, as well as some changes to professions and a few new features for the chat window!

It also has the Halloween events for this year, but I’ll cover those when this patch hits the official servers on October 26!

Fox Valley

A new theme dungeon, Fox Valley, has been added.

• Characters level 185 or higher will receive an invitation, asking them to become a member of the Pointy Ear Garrison.
• Visit the Pointy Ear Fox Village hidden in Grandis’ Miu Miu, and meet the prankster Maru. Together with him, you’ll have to save the village from the oncoming crisis and uncover the identity of the veiled Fox God.

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New maps have been added.

• Highest Fox Tree
• Fox Tree Trunk Side 1
• Fox Tree Trunk Side 2
• Fox Tree Trunk Side 3
• Fox Forest Entrance
• Above the Fox Forest 1
• Above the Fox Forest 2
• Above the Fox Forest 3
• Fox Forest Field
• Fox Forest Floor 1
• Fox Forest Floor 2
• Fox Forest Floor 3
• End of the Fox Forest
• Where the Fox Trees Touch
• Guardian’s Promenade 1
• Guardian’s Promenade 2
• Guardian’s Promenade 3
• Fox God’s Throne

New quests have been added.

• Flying Leaf Airplane From Somewhere (LV. 185, Leaf Airplane)
• Maru’s Dream Story (LV. 185, Maru)
• Garrison Recruitment Test (LV. 185, Maru)
• Welcome! First Garrison Member! (LV. 185, Maru)
• To the Pointy Ear Fox Valley (LV. 185, Maru)
• Operation Powder Powder (LV. 185, Maru)
• Master of Crafting, Maru (LV. 185, Maru)
• Pom Pom Leaf Fox Ears (LV. 185, Maru)
• Lightning Clouds Overhead (LV. 185, Maru)
• Pointy Ear Garrison’s Activity (LV. 185, Maru)
• Advance Through the Thorns! (LV. 185, Maru)
• Collecting Special Fertilizer Materials 1 (LV. 185, Maru)
• Growing Tree 1 (LV. 185, Maru)
• Collecting Special Fertilizer Materials 2 (LV. 185, Maru)
• Growing Tree 2 (LV. 185, Maru)
• Lightning Strikes and Pouring Rain (LV. 185, Maru)
• Failure and More Failure (LV. 185, Maru)
• To the Fox Tree (LV. 185, Maru)
• Obstructing Crowd (LV. 185, Maru)
• Can’t Give Up (LV. 185, Maru)
• Spirit’s Area (LV. 185, Cane)
• Fox God’s Throne (LV. 185, Fox God)
• Once a Member, Always a Member (LV. 185, Maru)
• Worried About Lang (LV. 185, Yourself)

New items have been added.

• Pointy Ear Garrison Member (9 all stats, 450 HP/MP, 1 attack/magic attack, 200 defense, level 185)
• Awkward Fox Ears (level 185)

New monsters have been added.

• Poison Frog (Lv. 190)
• Powder Butterfly (Lv. 191)
• Pom Pom Tree (Lv. 192)
• Thorny Tree (Lv. 193)
• Pang Pang Squirrel (Lv. 194)
• Pung Pung Squirrel (Lv. 195)
• White Long-Tailed Tit (Lv. 196)
• Transformed Long-Tailed Tit (Lv .197)
• Cloud Guardian (Lv. 198)
• Wind Guardian (Lv. 199)
• Sky Guardian (Lv. 200)

New NPCs have been added.

• Maru
• Sino
• Leaf Airplane
• Chestnut Tree
• Old Bag
• Cane
• Sky Guardian
• Fox God

Profession Reorganization

The following changes have been made to item combining and disassembling.

• You can now combine and disassemble items by learning any of the three advanced professions (Alchemy/Equipment Crafting/Accessory Crafting).
• When combining items with a certain potential rank, the produced item will now have a higher chance to have the same potential rank as the items used to make it.
• When combining items that have no potential, the produced item will now have no potential as well.
• You can now combine and disassemble Pocket equipment.
• The Premium PC Room benefit of ‘2x chance to acquire Rare potential’ has been changed to ‘2x chance to increase potential rank when combining’.
• Item combining no longer gives profession experience.
• When combining items while Craftsman or Meister rank, the additional option rank chances will be changed.
• You can now combine or disassemble items anywhere in Meisterville.
• You can now disassemble multiple items at the same time.
  • Characters who have learned Equipment Crafting or Accessory Crafting can disassemble up to 5 items at once.
  • Characters who have learned Alchemy can disassemble up to 10 items at once.

   

When you achieve Craftsman rank or higher in Equipment Crafting or Accessory Crafting, you can now learn and use new Enhancement Skills.

•  Weapon Smelting: With the skills of a weapon craftsman, use Magic Whetstones to sharpen your weapon. This skill is not affected by buff duration increasing effects or cooldown resets. [Reboot World]: Cannot be used at the same time as Advanced Weapon Smelting, Accessory Enhancement, Advanced Accessory Enhancement, or while using 2 Elixirs. (requires Weapon Crafting Craftsman rank)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1 Magic Whetstone. Increases critical damage by 3% for 40 minutes, if you unequip or switch weapons, this skill’s effect will disappear. Cooldown: 60 minutes.

•  Advanced Weapon Smelting: With the skills of a weapon craftsman, use Magic Whetstones to sharpen your weapon to the max. This skill is not affected by buff duration increasing effects or cooldown resets. [Reboot World]: Cannot be used at the same time as Weapon Smelting, Accessory Enhancement, Advanced Accessory Enhancement, or while using 2 Elixirs. (requires Weapon Crafting Meister rank)
  • Level 1: Consumes 2 Magic Whetstones. Increases critical damage by 5% for 40 minutes, if you unequip or switch weapons, this skill’s effect will disappear. Cooldown: 50 minutes.

•  Accessory Enhancement: With the skills of an accessory craftsman, extract the magic from Magic Power Stones to add defensive effects to your accessories. This skill is not affected by buff duration increasing effects or cooldown resets. [Reboot World]: Cannot be used at the same time as Weapon Smelting, Advanced Weapon Smelting, Advanced Accessory Enhancement, or while using 2 Elixirs. (requires Accessory Crafting Craftsman rank)
  • Level 1: Consumes 1 Magic Power Stone. Defend against death 1 time for 20 minutes. Cooldown: 60 minutes.

•  Advanced Accessory Enhancement: With the skills of an accessory craftsman, extract the magic from Magic Power Stones to add powerful defensive effects to your accessories. This skill is not affected by buff duration increasing effects or cooldown resets. [Reboot World]: Cannot be used at the same time as Weapon Smelting, Advanced Weapon Smelting, Accessory Enhancement, or while using 2 Elixirs. (requires Accessory Crafting Meister rank)
  • Level 1: Consumes 2 Magic Power Stones. Defend against death 1 time for 30 minutes. Cooldown: 50 minutes.

The time required to craft, combine, and disassemble items has been decreased.

New profession related items have been added.

• Magic Whetstone (can be crafted by Equipment Crafters using 10 Superior Item Crystals, 10 Twisted Time Essence, and 10 Advanced Scroll Essence)
• Magic Power Stone (can be crafted by Accessory Crafters using 300 Scroll Traces, 10 Philosopher’s Stones, and 10 Twisted Time Essence)

Chat Window Improvements

The Chat Window has been improved to make in-game conversations easier to use. You can now move the Chat Window anywhere inside the game screen. The size you see in the second picture is the biggest you can expand it.

You can now use the new External Chat Window feature to move the chat window outside of the game screen. You can move it around separately from the MapleStory window as well.

• You can enable this feature Settings/Option menu.
• The External Chat Window feature is only supported while in windowed mode.
• In the External Chat Window, system messages and megaphones will be displayed in separate sections from regular messages.

You can now add tabs in the Chat Window and change the Chat Filter settings.

• Tabs can be added using the Add Tab button at the top of the chat window.
• You can right click the tab to access the Tab Settings menu. Through this menu, you can change the tab’s name or its filters.
  • Filters include Normal, Buddy (can be specific groups), Party, Guild, Alliance, Whisper, and System.
• Unwanted tabs can be deleted.
• Tab names cannot be duplicated.
• The All and Battle tabs cannot be edited or deleted.

A Help button has been added beside the chat input box.

• You can view the list of available /commands by using the Help button.
• The Change Group command has been added. You can type /group groupname to change the group of friends your message will be sent to.

Maple Achievements

An error where certain achievements could not be completed properly has been fixed. Achievements which were not awarded due to these errors can be acquired by using the Achievement Renew button.

Certain achievements are no longer able to be achieved. They will be move to the Memories category.

• [Combining] 1+1 is 1+
• [Combining] 1+1 is 1++

New achievements have been added.

• [Theme Dungeon] Once a Member, Always a Member: complete the theme dungeon Fox Valley (20)

Game Related

When fighting the boss Cygnus, you can now re-enter the boss if you defeat the Awakened Chief Knights without defeating Cygnus. The Chief Knights and Awakened Chief Knights will no longer drop items.

 

When hunting monsters, item drops will no longer fall onto platforms which the character cannot reach.

The required level for the Stone of Eternal Life has been changed from level 0 to level 10.

In the World Merged Party Quest, Moon Bunny’s Rice Cake, you can now talk to the NPC to receive additional seeds after collecting 6 of them from monsters. This allows you to continue the party quest even if a party member holding a seed disconnects or leaves.

Energy Swords included in the Thief sets have been added.

• Necro Shaft Head (Lv. 120)
• Jaihinn Energy Chain (Lv. 130)
• Utgard Energy Chain (Lv. 140)

To make hunting monsters more convenient in Morass, certain platforms in the Past’s Trueffet area have been removed.

You can now use Master Label set effect ridings without consuming MP.

• Fairy Wings Riding
• Blue Pony Ridnig
• Lantern Butterfly Riding
• Black Angel Riding
• Card Master Riding
• Alicia’s Flower Wings Riding
• Frozen Night Riding
• Devil’s Flower Riding

Not mentioned in the patch notes but they cleaned up the oversized images of the Core Gemstone and Powerful Strength Crystal!

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error in the Auction House where searching for % damage options would include % boss monster damage.
• Fixed an error where binding Papulatus in its sleeping state would cause it to use skills from both the sleeping and regular states at the same time. Papulatus can no longer be bound while in the sleeping state.
• Fixed an error where the Lucky item effect would be applied for a certain equipment type while already wearing the set equipment of that type.
• Fixed an error where other characters could sit in chairs while sitting in the Papulatus’ Clock Chair’s arms.

Skill Related

The following errors have been fixed.

• Fixed an error in Urus where you could use unregistered skills if they were linked to registered skills.
• Fixed an error where when using Unstable Memorize while using other Adventurer Magician skills would cancel the action of the first skill.
• Fixed an error where Guided Arrow’s duration was not applied normally when used with a reduced cooldown.
• Fixed an error where Marksman’s Distancing Sense did not properly apply to True Sniping.
• Fixed an error where Marksmen using Piercing, Sniping, and Steig Eisen would use the bow action instead of the crossbow action.
• Fixed an error where Cannon Shooter’s Critical Fire had the same effects at level 9 and 10.
• Fixed an error where Flame Wizards could not use Flame Discharge in certain content.
• Fixed an error where Blaster could not use Revolving Fire after using Revolving Bunker while using Bunker Buster.
• Fixed an error where Mechanic’s Multiple Option: M-FL’s missiles did not deal damage.
• Fixed an error where Kaiser’s Morph Gauge would only increase once after hitting several Will of Swords at the same time.
• Fixed an error where Cadena’s A.D Ordnance did not deal damage while charging.
• Fixed an error where Cadena’s Chain Arts: Takedown did not deal damage to certain monsters.