For some time, there's been a hidden system-leak in RetroCores that has had a way of slowly crashing certain worlds.

The problem would occur in random worlds, at random times, but due to the nature of the glitch, no errors or logs could pinpoint where the root cause was hiding.
After multiple attempts at fixing it last week, it appeared to have vanished on Wednesday, no more crashes were apparent.
Only to reappear yesterday, which of course was with a horrible timing!

Empera and Harmonia were the worlds that suffered the most, with some other worlds having very few crashes.
After much digging, inventing new systems trying to get enough information about this leak, by a happy chance, the root issue was accidentally discovered.

And now we can happily announce that the annoying piece of zombie-walking bug is out of RetroCores!

We hope you'll enjoy RetroCores and that the problems of late haven't affected your feelings for us too drastically!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Welcome to all RetroCorians who have waited a long time for a fresh launch!

After the major update, and this year's summer update, you know you're up for a lot of fun in RetroCores!
With a few 8.0+ places, wands and rods, new and fun spells, addons, imbues, and runes easily obtainable in every city, you're not looking at any dead-time of just sitting around!
No, you're looking at being busy, having fun, and enjoying the new era of RetroCores.

Out with rune makers, in with thrilling experiences!

And not only that, RetroCores is specifically being designed to be fun for you, whether you're level 8 or level 1,000!
A game there you don't have to worry about "end content" after level 100, because at level 100 you're only getting started on what RetroCores can offer you!

We sincerely hope that all of you will enjoy both the summer and RetroCores, finding a good balance, and of course, have a lot of fun!
 

• Empera - USA, Miami

 

• Ability to play for free
• Automatic Experience Share in Party
• No protection zone on boats/carpets
• Classic premium system
• Wands & Rods available
• Runes available in NPCs in every city
• Both 7.4 and 8.0+ content available
• Balanced but powerful formulas of spells and melee
• Fun and interesting spells for all vocations
• Large map
• Great and improved monster systems
• Monsters can be lured anywhere
• Loot & Task Message that's fully configurable by player
• No stairjump exhaust
• Possibility to make UH traps
• Bank system, deposit/withdraw/transfer and pay NPCs with balance
• Many and random raids with possibility to loot raid-rare items
• Anti-lag systems to ensure smooth gameplay

For further information about RetroCores features, have a look at the information page!

Rates:

• 2x Experience*
• 2x Regen
• 1x Loot
• 1x Magic
• 2x Skills

*1x gain, but half as much experience required to level up.
See: Experience Table

Anti-lag system:

Today we're happy to present you with update 1.77, which is a followup of the summer update.
After feedback and investigation of the summer update, we've made a few changes and improvements to make RetroCores even better!

Client Improvements
We added the ability to completely mute Loot and Damages channels

This option is found in Options > Console.
It will make Loot and Damages channel stop blinking when new entries are added!

We've also added an option that will completely hide all damage messages.

Of course, only do this if you know what you're doing,
as it will hide all damages, even from players or bosses!
This option is also found in Options > Console.

Exercise Weapon changes
We've changed the exercise dummies of houses to allow all invited players to use them, and not only the owner.
However, only one player can train on a dummy at the same time.

We've adjusted the training speed of exercise weapons to the following:
Distance: 5x
Melee: 7x
Magic: 45x

Druid Improvements
After careful consideration, we've switched places of Eternal Winter and Wrath of Nature, there power, size and cost now is opsit.
This means that Wrath of Nature is now the more powerful one, costing 1,200 mana, while Eternal Winter is slightly weaker and cost 700 mana.
This is to adjust the vocation to have the same fair advantage as sorcerers have with their two UE's.

Paladin Improvements
We've slightly increased the level yielding damage of burst arrows.
We've improved the formula of Divine Calera, making it slightly stronger
We've added diamond arrows that do 5x5 circle physical damage based mostly on skill, but a little on level as well.

In addition to these improvements, we've fixed some system glitches that had the power to freeze and crash the game when the right conditions were met.

We appreciate all the feedback we've gotten from both the forum and in the game!
And we hope you're enjoying RetroCores!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today, we're happy to present you with update 1.76!

NPC Improvements

• Fixed so items are taken from containers first in all cases, from equipment second if none other exist in inventory.
• Fixed so you cannot sell containers that have items inside them.
• Fixed so you cannot sell items that have imbuements on them.
• Fixed so you cannot sell items with charges/duration that have been used.

General fixes

• Improved food drop of many monsters that were supposed to drop multiple meat/hams, but only dropped single items.
• Fixed the drop of essence of vampire, which vanished after the major update (1.74).
• Fixed Laguna Islands boats that didn't accept bank balance.
• Fixed a bunch of walls that couldn't support hangables such as tapestries.
• Made so players get full health and mana at level up.
• Fixed a glitch that sometimes could add bought items as "used supplies" in Loot stats window.

Imbuement fixes

• Fixed so you cannot add multiple weapon element imbues to the same item.
• Fixed so items that are commonly transformed cannot be imbued, such as worn soft boots, helmet of the ancients, and a few others.
• Fixed a glitch where skill-point imbues would remove skills when dequiped, even if the skill was not added due to level limitations.
• Fixed a glitch where health-points imbues in some situations would remove twice the health when dequiped.
• Fixed a glitch where some imbues would cause a block for refreshments after out-leveling a current imbue.
• Fixed a glitch that caused mana point imbues to not reset the current amount of mana on dequip.
• Fixed a glitch where items that used to have imbues, will send warnings about level limitations even when the imbues no longer exists on them.
• Fixed NPC Arcil that wouldn't remove certain imbues.

Depot Anti-Trashing
We've created a system to make it harder for players to trash depots of other players.
The one standing at the depot, has no limits, while players standing further away, can put max 12 items on the depot per minute (avg 5 seconds between each item).
This applies even if there's multiple players trying to trash, giving the victim 5 seconds for each item, which will make it much easier to keep up, clean and collect the item he may have hidden under the trash.

Channels, damage statistics window

• Added option to hide/show player levels of messages in channels.
• Added an option to have loot messages sent to Default or Loot channel.
• Added an option to have damage messages sent to Default or Damages channel.
• Added an option to highlight damages and player names in damage messages.
• Improved loot messages to absorb multiple of the same item into one item with a total count for clearer messages.
• Added option to hide the entire loot message if no highlighted items were present.
• Added statistics window for damage taken/dealt during a session.

Now you can finally choose if you want to see the level of players who talk or not.

You find the option in Option > Console


And your default channel can be clean, if you want..
You have full power to have the loot and damage messages in a traditional way, or if you prefer having separate channels for them!
Notice that you can open/close those channels on your own terms!


These options are found in Options > Console


This is what it looks like if you highlight the damages and player names in your damage messages


In Options > Messages, you find this option!
What it means is that only loot messages with active highlights will be visible!
Which means that if you for example disable all highlights, and then put a custom highlight specifically for dragon shield, you will not get any loot messages at all, unless it contains a dragon shield!
This works with default highlights (based on values), and by custom highlights where you set highlight color on specific items.


And the mothership of damages!
The damage statistics window!
In this window you will be able to keep track of your power!
Along with it you'll know what damages your enemies uses, and will greatly help you from an opinion of what equipment might be fitting!

Exercise weapons
In this update, we've added exercise weapons and exercise dummies, allowing you to train your skills 10-20 times faster than traditional training, depending on the chosen skill.
These weapons are not purchasable from the client store, but are bought exclusively from NPCs.
The price of these weapons is 100,000 gold per hour, and they are available as 30 min, 6 hour and 12 hour weapons.
They will serve as a great way to boost your skill, while cleaning the world of excessive gold.
Thanks to that they're not purchaseable from the client store, and the price is fairly steep, they are auto-balancing, making them quite rare in fresh worlds, for the reason that there wouldn't be enough gold for players to use on boosting skills.

Store improvements

• Fixed a glitch that allowed you to put house tiles "in the air" around your house.
• Fixed house furniture remover that didn't work on some newer items.
• Made tile packages stackable.
• Added owner attributes to store items (some store items can only be used by owner account, while others can only be unpacked by owner but used by all who are invited).
• Made it possible to "pack" store furniture using a house furniture remover.
• Made it possible to "pack" and recover store tiles using the tile removal package.
• Made it impossible to move house-items with owner properties outside the house.
• Added hundreds of new house items to the store.
• Upgraded the store's supply section to better fit with the new nature of RetroCores (changed amounts and made cheaper for most items).
• Dummy scroll will now be sent to the depot if it was despawned by training-player being pushed away by another player.

Store specifics -House

• The number of available house-tiles has more than doubled.
• Added home depot that enable you to access depot, inbox and market from your house.
• Added sales mailboxes (Common, Djinn, Rashid), that is used to instantly sell single items, or backpacks filled with random items.
• Added specials section on website that shows more detailed info on home depot and sales mailboxes.
• Added exercise dummies for those who wish to train in the comfort of their home.
• Added more beds.
• Added quite a few furniture options such as chairs, tables, cabinets and more.
• Added a new category "House Others" which contains tapestries, various decorations, statues, plants and more.

Forbidden islands
As to further add content to the game and interesting things to explore, we have added a 8.0+ styled forbidden islands!

Important notes about Forbidden Island before rushing into it:

• Require traditional boat access (Liberty Bay > Weston "accident").
• No further access is needed for island access.
• Mountain has modified spawns more fit for mid-high levels.
• Mountain caves have spawns fit for high levels.
• The south surface-cave entrance leading to deeper cults is traditional.

Other

• Battle list window will now remember which hide-buttons were pushed when the client is restarted.
• Skills window will now remember which progress-bars were hidden when the client is restarted.
• Added Morgaroth & Ghazbaran.
• Added assassin outfit and addons.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today, we're happy to present you with update 1.75, which brings many fixes and improvements!

To begin with, these are the fixes that were released after update 1.74 (major update) and before this update (1.75):

• Fixed NPC Bron that didn't take green cloths as intended.
• Loot messages didn't show the colors of items with default values.
• Fixed a typo in Rashid, which prevented him from buying 2 items.
• Fixed conjuring explosion runes that had the wrong mana cost.
• Gave back lost "manaspent" to all known players who suffered a total loss of magic level progression after the update.
• Fixed a glitch in NPC Maryza.
• Fixed a few earth spells that couldn't do any damage.
• Fixed a crash bug that was discovered in Harmonia.
• Fixed Draken Abomination, which accidentally healed players.
• Fixed Pirate Cuttthroat, which had a typo that caused it to spam attacks.
• Fixed so leeching imbues does not give anything if there was no creatures being targeted with attacks.
• Fixed support imbues that remove stats rather than give them.
• Fixed a glitch that caused the character to be unable to activate equipped items (mostly known for "bugged" soft boots).

General fixes released at 1.75 update:

• Fixed ingame detection for CEST/CET (date messages).
• Health and Mana points imbues will now add/remove the corresponding amount of points they modify.
• Fixed a glitch in imbues that could disable imbue items upon being equipped in certain situations.
• Fixed an issue that made moving mysteries get caught in floor saves.
• Fixed gate djinns NPCs that had an issue that made it impossible to continue the djinn war quest.
• Fixed a glitch in light shovel.
• Fixed NPC Captain Fearless, who had trouble selling a certain item.
• Fixed a glitch that made some looted items not being highlighted when there was more than one being dropped.
• Fixed a problem that prevented you from imbuing items with certain stats (most common on containers).
• Fixed a glitch in Didgeridoo, which made you unable to play it.
• Improved Hellgorak so he's more balanced with what he's supposed to be.
• Added haunted blade to NPC Alesar.

General improvements of the game:

• Updated great axe to regain its 55 attack, and increased the level requirement to level 150.
• Spell NPCs have been upgraded to not have keyword conflicts and to be a little more detailed.
• Travel NPCs have been upgraded to not have keyword conflicts.

Free account player improvements:
Free account players can now travel with boats to FACC places (boats, carpets, and more).
The following spells were made purchasable for free account players:

• Energy Strike.
• Flame Strike.
• Ethereal Spear.
• Whirlwind Throw.
• Groundshaker.

Spell NPCs improvements:
Spell NPCs are now less sensetive when asking for spells.
Spell NPCs now recognize all existing spells, and will tell you when asking for spells they cannot teach.
Improved spell NPCs of Ab'dendriel and offer spells to sorcerers and knights.
Irea no longer sell spells.
Shanar no longer sell spells.

NPCs that used to offer spells to druids and paladins are now vocation-exclusive spell teachers:
(Ab'Dendriel NPCs)
Elathriel -Paladins
Eroth -Sorcerers
Faluae -Knights
Maelil -Druids

Made the following Edron Spell NPCs into vocation exclusive:
Puffels -Druids
Ursula -Sorcerers
Gundralph -Paladins & Knights

Kazordoon improvements:
Added a steamship in Thais connected with Kazordoon and Cormaya.
Added a magic carpet in Kazordoon.
Added railway travel in Kazordoon (ore wagons).

Finally, Kazordoon is more easily accessed and you can move more freely and quicker!

To make things better, the "ticket" you have can be obtained through a physical item (ore wagon ticket voucher).
Which make it much easier to obtain, and be ready for when your current ticket runs low! (tradeable on market)

Other improvements:
Spells NPCs are now available on the website, and you can find/search for spells that each NPC sells. (example: haste)
Asking NPCs for offer will reveal items they sell/buy/trade, additionally, they will reveal if they offer other things such as bank, spells, blessings, boat and more.

Almost every NPC will reveal their common services if you ask them for "offer"

Other fixes:
Updated Golden Account information on the website about travel.
Made extensive system improvements of NPCs.

Today we're thrilled to finally present you with version 1.74... The Major Update!

This update has been planned, prepared, and worked on since the fall of 2024, and contains thousands of hours of hard work!

In this update, we have reviewed the total state of RetroCores, and how to keep it relevant and interesting!
We all love 7.4, that's the truth, however.. after so many years it gets very stale and there's only so much you can do if you must respect every aspect of 7.4, RetroCores was for too long stuck in a phase of "barely anything new".

To keep the game interesting, ensure that it can keep offering both new and old players as much entertainment as possible, especially our most loyal players who have stayed for years, who have insane levels and have been suffering from a lack of content that keeps them busy,  lack of areas worth to visit, we are now adding new dimensions to RetroCores!

Enough chatter, let's see what happened in this update!

Isolated 8.0+ styled island, Svargrond
We have added Svargrond, with 8.0+ styled map, to give a whole new dimension to those who love the 7.4 mapping, but wish to take a "break" from 7.4's limited details.

With Svargrond comes scenery of another world!




And of course, it's not Svargrond if there's no arena!


With Svargrond, we've also removed the "old" Okolnir and replaced it with the new one

A new 7.4 styled Island for very high levels
In addition to the 8.0+ Svargrond, we've also added a brand new 7.4 styled island intended for very high levels.


Game changes

• All creatures now have strengths and weaknesses against various elements
• Mana regen of characters has been increased by 2x (About -Vocation Information)
• It will now take twice the amount of mana to advance a magic level.
• Runes/Ammo require twice the mana to be conjured.
• Mana fluids mana gain has been increased from avg 48 to avg 100 (price remains at 100 gold/vial).
• Rings, boots, and other items that offer increased mana regen now also give twice the mana.
• Instant spell 'exura vita' has been changed from 80 to 120 mana.
• Melee damage has been slightly modified, resulting in all vocations melee-based damage will be slightly higher.
• Hundreds of new equipment have been added to the game, including weapons for all vocations.
• A rebalance between axe/club/sword has also been made, there clubs/swords have gotten a lot more alternatives.
• With new possibilities for all vocations, many spells damages have been modified slightly to balance out the game, while the general exp/h is the same or even better than pre-update.
• Light healing is now slightly stronger
• Intense healing (instant) is slightly stronger.
• Strike spells such as energy/fire strike and similar can now be cast in front of the character, and onto targets up to 3 sqm away, the exhaust has been increased from 1.2 seconds to 1.8 seconds.
• You can now shop and travel using gold in inventory, and from your bank balance.
• Runes are now available in NPCs in all cities.
• Removed world quest "The Rune Accords".
• Introduced wands/rods for mages.
• Introduced a lot more ammo alternatives for paladins (arrows, bolts).
• Burst arrow has also become paladins new AOE ammo, as it will consider skill for the damage, rather than magic level (still has to be made).
• Spears, stars, knives and similar no longer lands on the floor, but break with a chance in your hand instead.
• For balance purposes, a lot of items have level limits, and some vocation limits, spells remain limited by magic level alone.
• Renamed all Zarec items to Zaoan.
• Rashid has had slightly modified prices on certain items for balance purposes.
• Made it possible to buy multiple parcels at the same time from mail-NPCs.
• NPC's now have much better replies to words such as "offer", "buy", "sell", "trade" and a few more, and will properly tell what they sell/buy/trade.
• Client network system has been upgraded and will now be much more stable for players with weak internet, such as WIFI.
• Imbuments has been added!

Website changes:

• Improved the quest list to allow searching by area, search character/world status, which is done or not, and more.
• Fixed an issue that caused tasks to show as completed while the player was having a task active.
• All official items NPCs/Monsters have are now available on website.
• Information about NPC's items is much more detailed (buying/selling/trading).
• Added a list of the recently added items.

Knights
New Spells:

• Whirlwind Throw
• Groundshaker
• Front Sweep
• Fierce Berserk
• Mass Challenge
• Direct Challenge
• Charge
• Blood Rage

Worth mentioning, each of the challenge spells will make affected creatures unable to change target for a small period of time, which varies between the spells.

Paladins
New Spells/Runes:

• Holy Magic Missile
• Swift Foot
• Sharpshooter
• Ethereal Spear
• Divine Missile
• Divine Caldera

Mages
New Spells/Runes:

• Terra Wave (druid only)
• Terra Strike
• Stone Shower Rune
• Thunderstorm Rune
• Stalagmite Rune
• Wrath of Nature (druid only, replaces poison storm)
• Eternal Winter (druid only)
• Rage of the Skies (sorcerer only, replaces ultimate explosion)
• Hell's Core (sorcerer only)
• Stone Shower Rune
• Thunderstorm Rune
• Stalagmite Rune
• Earthed Crystal Mace (druid spell)
• Iced Crystal Mace (druid spell)
• Fired Crystal Mace (sorcerer spell)
• Energized Crystal Mace (sorcerer spell)

New creatures

New tasks

• Chakoyas.
• Frost Giants.
• Sea Serpents.
• Ghastly Dragons.
• Lava Golems.

Other fixes:

• Fixed glitch that made equipment-panel not saving/loading properly.
• Fixed glitch that made cancel invisibility spell not work as intended.

Due to the size of this update, there may be hidden issues, a few map bugs, or other things.
Additionally, for balance purposes, we may need to modify certain things.
We appreciate all feedback and reports of possible problems/bugs.


Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff