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

Today we're releasing client version 1.73 there we fixed a few glitches that made the client unable to open text windows such as labels, books, and more.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today we're releasing version 1.72.

This update brings new communication schemes to the game and client that's required for the planned major update coming soon.
Due to the communication changes, the CAMs up to the release of 1.72 will not be viewable by client 1.72 and above.

We have made a small exception that will enable you to use the 1.71 Wine-Client to watch CAMs recorded in 1.71 and below.
If you wish to watch older CAMs, you can download the previous Wine client 1.71.

The good news of this update, is that it's likely to be the last before we release our major update!
we will take a few days to monitor how this update works out and that everything is in place.
If nothing goes wrong, we will start compiling the major update and getting it ready for release.

The major update is quite complicated and will take some time to get straight, so we have no way of knowing exactly how long it will take to get ready.
But hopefully, we'll be able to release it now in March.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today we're happy to announce that we've upgraded our forum smileys!
  We've removed our old smiley box that looked like this
  And replaced it with this


With categories and higher variety, it will be much easier to find the smiley/icon that fits your needs.
Additionally, you have the category of "recent" (clock on top) there you'll find your most recent smileys so you don't have to search for those you use often.

We've also built-in an automatic-smiley mode in the forum that will convert signs into smileys automatically.
By clicking the gear you'll enter the settings there you can enable/disable the auto-smiley, you'll also find a list there of available smileys and their signs to conjure them while writing.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff