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| − | ===Explore The Valour Rift=== | + | ===[{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=531 Recent Maintenance]=== |
| − | ''{{date|8|October|2019}}''
| + | ''{{date|23|February|2021}}'' |
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| − | ''The first Archduke/Archduchess area''
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| − | ====Valour Rift Entrance Stabilized====
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| − | After much careful and diligent research from Gnawnia's finest scientists, a means of stabilizing an entrance into the Valour Rift has been discovered! Hunters ranked Archduke/Archduchess and above who have recovered 2,000 Rift Distortions and acquired a map of the Valour Rift can now enter this new area within the Rift Plane.
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| − | If you have not yet obtained a map of the Valour Rift, doing so requires the rank of Grand Duke/Grand Duchess and access to the Bristle Woods Rift. Visit the Cartographer at the Bristle Woods Rift to purchase a Rift Chronometer which will allow you to recover the 2,000 Rift Distortions the Cartographer needs to issue you a map. Accessing the Valour Rift is outlined as the first step in the new Archduke/Archduchess adventure "End the Total Eclipse".
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| − | ====Preliminary Rift Gauntlet Research====
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| − | During the stabilization research, the King's scientists collected some preliminary information on what awaits hunters within the Valour Rift. The Rift Gauntlet is an expansive area with powerful mice and no doubt rewarding secrets to discover. Although there's still much to learn about this new area within the Rift Plane, one thing is for certain: It's going to take a while to explore everything there!
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| − | '''Endless Tower'''<br>
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| − | The Valour Rift is an especially twisted version of our reality, mirroring the King's Gauntlet in a sinister way. The tower appears to endlessly stretch into a starry abyss with no end in sight. The interior of the tower presents an even more baffling paradox. Early attempts at navigation revealed 8 uniquely themed floors within the tower. However, upon exiting the eighth floor, these early navigators found themselves back where they started, yet further from their destination. A truly confusing experience!
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| − | '''Gauntlet Elixir and Champion's Fire'''<br>
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| − | Early attempts at navigating the Valour Rift Gauntlet revealed a timid, yet critical character -- The Terrified Adventurer Mouse. Despite a clear lack of prowess, this battle-hardened adventurer is determined to conquer its fear by climbing to the top of the tower!
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| − | This mouse appears throughout the tower and carries knowledge of shortcuts which can be utilized by hunters to traverse the tower more quickly. Capturing the Terrified Adventurer Mouse will grant x2 progress within the tower, helping you reach greater heights! However, the Terrified Adventurer has a very specific cheese taste. You'll need Gauntlet String Cheese which can be purchased from the local Cheese Shoppe by exchanging Gauntlet Elixirs collected outside the tower.
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| − | Champion's Fire can be used to light your way both inside and outside the Rift Gauntlet. Burning this fire provides +1 to many loot drops both inside and outside the tower. Additionally, while ascending the Rift Gauntlet, lighting Champion's Fire will move you forward +1 step with each capture.
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| − | *'''250 Gauntlet String Cheese'''<br>
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| − | :Attract the Terrified Adventurer within the Rift Gauntlet
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| − | *'''250 Champion's Fire'''<br>
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| − | :Adds +1 to loot drops and +1 step with each catch
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| − | '''Syncronizing with the Tower'''<br>
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| − | The Rift Chronometer has revealed some secrets on how the Gauntlet Tower within the Valour Rift keeps itself out of sync with our timeline. Although the Chronometer will allow you to enter the tower, you'll fall slightly out of sync with the tower after each hunt. Eventually, the stairs below your feet will cease to exist in your timeline, sending you back down to the tower entrance.
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| − | '''Floor Caches'''<br>
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| − | The hordes of Rift Stalkers within the tower appear to be guarding items of great value! Each floor within the tower contains a cache of gold, magical sigils, and other artifacts attuned to the energy of the tower.
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| − | Ascend to greater heights to reveal greater quantities of treasure!
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| − | '''Tower Augmentations'''<br>
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| − | The magical markings on the Tower Sigils revealed some of the secrets of how the mice have managed to distort reality.
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| − | Recover Tower Sigils and other powerful artifacts from within the Rift Gauntlet to distort the tower to your own advantage. As you learn more about the tower, you'll be able to utilize this power in the form of augmentations that will transform the tower before entering it. However, these augmentations will only persist until you exit the tower.
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| − | '''Ultimate Umbra'''<br>
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| − | Perhaps the most powerful tower augmentation is '''Ultimate Umbra'''. This augmentation will wrap the tower in utter darkness and summon more powerful mice which are sure to lead to greater rewards! Take warning: The pitch dark of an Ultimate Umbra will embolden the mice within the tower, giving them the ability to push you backwards on the stairwell.
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| − | ====Valour Rift Trapsmith and General Store====
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| − | The intrepid Trapsmith and General Store owner at the Valour Rift have used the preliminary research to acquire a stock of powerful hunting equipment utilizing resources found within the Valour Rift.
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| − | '''Celestial Dissonance Trap'''<br>
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| − | 3,500 Rift Power, +10 Luck
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| − | A powerful upgrade for the Timesplit Dissonance utilizing Eclipse Cores. This formidable trap is the most effective Rift Weapon yet discovered!
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| − | '''Prestige Base'''<br>
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| − | ??? Power, ??? Luck
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| − | The Prestige Base is a truly unique (and potentially powerful) piece of hunting equipment. Although its stats appear meager at first, its special attunement to the hunter which owns it and the Rift Gauntlet itself will provide permanent stat bonuses based on how high you've climbed the Rift Gauntlet during Ultimate Umbra.
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| − | The Prestige Base stats increase based on '''the highest''' floor you've reached during Ultimate Umbra. The base will permanently maintain these stats throughout the entire Kingdom!
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| − | '''+10 Power per floor reached and +1 Luck for every 8 floors reached during Ultimate Umbra'''
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| − | '''Two Celestial Dissonance Skins'''<br>
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| − | The Trapsmith has two unique trap skins for the Celestial Dissonance Trap. However, the exact schematics have been lost in the Rift Gauntlet. Search the tower for 1,000 Tattered Celestial Skin Patterns and exchange them at the Trapsmith for either of the unique skins. Both trap skins can be traded on the Marketplace and shared with friends.
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| − | '''Codex of Valour'''<br>
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| − | Completing the '''End the Total Eclipse''' adventure will reward you with the Codex of Valour. This book binding is initially empty, however, the General Store owner sells 8 unique pages to add powerful power type bonuses that work throughout the entire Kingdom. Fully stock your codex to unlock different sets of 5% Power Bonuses and +1 Luck bonuses depending on the power type of your armed trap.
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| − | ====Gift Baskets and Supply Kits==== | |
| − | *'''500 Gauntlet String Cheese'''<br>
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| − | :Jump start your tower exploration
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| − | *'''Valour Rift Gift Basket'''<br>
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| − | :30 Gauntlet String and 20 Champion
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| − | *'''Valour Rift Supply Kit'''<br>
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| − | :250 Gauntlet String and 250 Champion
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| − | *'''Valour Rift Large Supply Kit'''<br>
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| − | :1,000 Gauntlet String, 1,000 Champion
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| − | '''This research is only the beginning! The endless Rift Gauntlet is full of secrets to discover and rewards to unlock for hunters with the persistence to ascend to the greatest heights!'''
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| − | ===Partial Scoreboard Recovery===
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| − | ''{{date|3|October|2019}}'' | |
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| − | ''Some scoreboards recovered from backup''
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| − | ====Some Scoreboards Recovered==== | + | ====Recent Maintenance and Downtime==== |
| − | Greetings once again hunters. We have another update on our efforts to restore scoreboard data that was lost during last week's infrastructure problems with the game.
| + | Today shortly after the Lunar New Year event came to an end the game began to experience issues including trap setups and hunt results changing. Upon the issue coming to our attention we confirmed there was an issue and decided to put the game into unscheduled maintenance due to the severity of the problem. |
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| − | Yesterday afternoon, after some more research, we were able to recover some scoreboards in their entirety. Although the scoreboard data backups were corrupted, we discovered that each scoreboard in the backup was either entirely lost or entirely present. This means we are able to restore a few of the scoreboards as they were on September 21.
| + | The dev team got to work investigating what the cause of problem was. After some time we identified a network configuration issue isolated to a group of servers that were brought online shortly after the Lunar New Year event came to an end. This network issue caused connectivity problems between the web server and a data server causing the problem with trap setups not saving or changing. |
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| − | :'''Scoreboards we were able to recover'''
| + | '''We have now removed these faulty servers which appears to have corrected the issue''' |
| − | ::*Relic Hunter: Treasure Maps Completed
| + | Thanks for your patience and understanding while the team investigated the network issue at our hosting provider. Unfortunately during the period of instability hunters may have experienced strange events or side effects such as their trap setup or hunt results changing. If you experienced a major issue please contact us via support with a screenshot of the issue and description of what you experienced. We appreciate your patience as our response times may be slower due to an increased quantity of support requests. |
| − | ::*Relic Hunter: Season 3 Treasure Maps Completed
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| − | ::*Relic Hunter: Season 4 Treasure Maps Completed
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| − | ::*Relic Hunter: Season 5 Treasure Maps Completed
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| − | ::*Iceberg: Best Run
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| − | ::*Living Garden: Ultimate Charm Catch Streak
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| − | ::*Sunken City: Farthest Distance Traveled
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| − | ::*Fort Rox: Highest Monster of the Meteor Catch Streak
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| − | ::*Queso Canyon: Nachore Mined
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| − | These scoreboards should now appear as they were on September 21 and will actively update as hunters contribute to them.
| + | '''Glitchpaw Mice on the Loose''' |
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| − | ====Rebuilding Mouse Scoreboards====
| + | Glitchpaw mice have been spotted on the loose! These computer-snacking, bug-causing, networking-clogging vermin can be encountered in a variety of locations throughout the Kingdom and carry bonus loot! Glitchpaws will go back into hiding on Friday, February 26. |
| − | Scoreboards that track the number of times hunters have caught a specific type of mouse can technically be rebuilt by using hunters' catch statistics. This data was effectively being stored in two places, meaning we can use that redundancy to repopulate scoreboards for specific mouse catches.
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| − | We're a bit stretched for developer resources while working on infrastructure stability and wrapping up work on the upcoming Valour Rift release. However, once the Valour Rift is released and the infrastructure upgrade work is completed, we'll be looking into repopulating these mouse scoreboards.
| + | These mice can be encountered in Balack's Cove, Acolyte Realm, Bazaar, Calm Clearing, Cape Clawed, Catacombs, Claw Shot City, Derr Dunes, Muridae Market, Dojo, Dracono, Elub Shore, Forbidden Grove, Gnarled Tree, Jungle of Dread, Habour, Laboratory, King's Gauntlet, Meadow, Lagoon, Meditation Room, Mousoleum, Mountain, Pinnacle Chamber, Seasonal Garden, S.S. Huntington, Town of Gnawnia, Training Grounds, Town of Digby, Windmill, King's Arms, Tournament Hall, Zugzwang's Library, Furoma Rift Training Grounds, Fort Rox, Queso Geyser (not during an eruption), outside the Valour Rift Gauntlet Tower, Floating Islands Launch Pad, Bristle Woods Rift Gearworks Chambers, Toxic Spill below Archduke level, and Moussu Picchu. |
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| − | ====Restarting Other Scoreboards====
| + | -- {{MHP|502041253|Dave Vanderburg}} |
| − | The final decision to make is what to do about all other scoreboards. We can either restart these scoreboards from scratch or retire them from the game. This is a decision we're looking for feedback on, so please let us know your thoughts in the comments section. If we were to restart these scoreboards, we would most likely place an asterisk next to those boards and note the date at which the scoreboards started on.
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| − | Some hunters may also view a subtle difference between scoreboards which may be worth feedback and discussion. Some lost scoreboards tracked one off "feats" while others tracked an accumulating stat over time.
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| − | Example: Sunken City: Highest Dive Catches tracked a "best record" of sorts from a single dive, while Oxygen Canisters Depleted tracked an accumulating stat across '''all''' dives. Due to their nature, re-obtaining the best record is feasible while accumulating stats will technically always be inaccurate.
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| − | If restarting some scoreboards is something you're in favour of, let us know if you think both feats and accumulating stats should be restarted, or if only feats should be.
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| − | '''Once again, we want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we work through this unfortunate loss of scoreboard data. We've taken the positive comments and constructive feedback to heart and going forward will endeavour to build a better scoreboard system for this amazing community of players.'''
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| − | ===Stability Issue Update=== | + | ===[{{MHdomain}}/newspost.php?news_post_id=530 The Lunar New Year Event Has Ended]=== |
| − | ''{{date|2|October|2019}}'' | + | ''{{date|23|February|2021}}'' |
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| − | ''Scoreboard and team changes''
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| | + | '''Thank you for celebrating the Year of the Ox!''' |
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| − | ====Update on Recent Stability Issues==== | + | ====All Good Things...==== |
| − | Greetings, MouseHunters. We've been working through problems caused by the infrastructure issues we faced last week and would like to share our progress and results.
| + | The Lunar New Year event has come to an end but the Year of the Ox rages on! |
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| − | :*Lost Scoreboard Data
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| − | ::The infrastructure issue last week primarily affected the server we use for tracking scoreboards. The data became corrupted and upon attempting to restore from a backup we noticed the backups were also corrupted. Our technical research into restoring from a corrupt backup had mixed results. We were able to restore some of the data, however, due to the nature of scoreboards only having a partial set of data is not useful.
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| − | ::For the time being, we've taken down these affected scoreboards, which are unfortunately the majority of scoreboards in the game. The scoreboards which remain are: Points, Gold, Catches, Library Points, Map Clues Collected, and Scavenger Hunt Hints Collected. These scoreboards will automatically update the '''next time''' you contribute to them. For example: If you're currently unranked for Map Clues Collected, finding a Treasure Map Clue will place you back on the scoreboard with your total number of clues found.
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| − | ::We'll be continuing work to reinstate other scoreboards in a way which will minimize the chances of similar instability occurring in the future. Unfortunately, any other scoreboards we bring back aside from the ones mentioned above will come back in a reset state, meaning hunters will have to compete again from scratch. The scoreboard system needs an extensive overhaul to make it easier to maintain and scale better with a large number of active scoreboards.
| + | You are no longer able to light your lunar lantern candles or make any more progress on the reward track. |
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| − | :*Lost Team Trophy Data
| + | However, '''for one more week''', you will still be able to claim any unclaimed track rewards and spend any unused candles on the Lunar New Year specific items in the shops of stockpile locations. |
| − | ::The collection of Tournament Trophies and Badges earned by a specific team was unfortunately lost. We've replaced the section on team profiles to instead show the total collection of Trophies and Badges held by '''current''' team members. This means the trophy and badge count will change when players join or leave a team.
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| − | ::We've also removed any restrictions on unlocking new team slots based on trophies and badges collected. Instead, all teams will now be able to add the maximum number of hunters without first earning trophies or badges.
| + | Any candles that you have not lit and choose not to spend '''will remain in your inventory''' along with any unused Dumpling Cheese and Nian Gao'da Cheese. |
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| − | ::We've restored as much team tournament history as we could from the corrupted backup and new tournament scheduling will resume soon.
| + | ====Still Working on an Event Map?==== |
| | + | You still have the rest of this week to find those last few event mice to complete your map and earn its full rewards. Just head to any of the stockpile locations and arm your Dumpling Cheese or Nian Gao'da Cheese to attract the regular pool of Lunar New Year event mice. |
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| − | :*Difficulties Remaining Logged In
| + | Stockpile Locations |
| − | ::The same infrastructure used to host scoreboards is also used to keep hunters logged in. Before the instability we were already in the process of refactoring this system to not use scoreboard infrastructure. The infrastructure issues certainly boosted the priority of this project. We've completed refactoring, however, with the scoreboard infrastructure now stabilized we'll be allowing ourselves more time to do testing to ensure a smooth transition.
| + | Town of Gnawnia |
| | + | Laboratory |
| | + | Great Gnarled Tree |
| | + | Dojo |
| | + | S.S. Huntington IV |
| | + | Claw Shot City |
| | + | Muridae Market |
| | + | Gnawnia Rift |
| | + | Fungal Cavern |
| | + | Moussu Picchu |
| | + | Queso River |
| | + | Floating Islands (Launch Pad) |
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| − | '''Understandably the loss of scoreboard data is upsetting and further more, our inability to restore from a backup is disappointing.'''
| + | As of March 2, all of the Lunar New Year mice, rewards, and shop items will be gone until next year. |
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| − | '''We've made the difficult decision to leave several scoreboards removed to make sure that when we rebuild the system we create one we can maintain with the limited resources our small team has and provide the type of scoreboard system hunters deserve.'''
| + | -- {{MHP|2818486648263450|Norm Hussey}} |
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| − | ====iOS 13 Issues====
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| − | After some more technical research, we have identified the issue causing some buttons in the mobile app to be unresponsive or register as a double tap on devices running iOS 13. The update was recently approved by Apple. Keep an eye out for version 1.84.0 (or higher) in the App Store.
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News
23 February 2021
Recent Maintenance and Downtime
Today shortly after the Lunar New Year event came to an end the game began to experience issues including trap setups and hunt results changing. Upon the issue coming to our attention we confirmed there was an issue and decided to put the game into unscheduled maintenance due to the severity of the problem.
The dev team got to work investigating what the cause of problem was. After some time we identified a network configuration issue isolated to a group of servers that were brought online shortly after the Lunar New Year event came to an end. This network issue caused connectivity problems between the web server and a data server causing the problem with trap setups not saving or changing.
We have now removed these faulty servers which appears to have corrected the issue
Thanks for your patience and understanding while the team investigated the network issue at our hosting provider. Unfortunately during the period of instability hunters may have experienced strange events or side effects such as their trap setup or hunt results changing. If you experienced a major issue please contact us via support with a screenshot of the issue and description of what you experienced. We appreciate your patience as our response times may be slower due to an increased quantity of support requests.
Glitchpaw Mice on the Loose
Glitchpaw mice have been spotted on the loose! These computer-snacking, bug-causing, networking-clogging vermin can be encountered in a variety of locations throughout the Kingdom and carry bonus loot! Glitchpaws will go back into hiding on Friday, February 26.
These mice can be encountered in Balack's Cove, Acolyte Realm, Bazaar, Calm Clearing, Cape Clawed, Catacombs, Claw Shot City, Derr Dunes, Muridae Market, Dojo, Dracono, Elub Shore, Forbidden Grove, Gnarled Tree, Jungle of Dread, Habour, Laboratory, King's Gauntlet, Meadow, Lagoon, Meditation Room, Mousoleum, Mountain, Pinnacle Chamber, Seasonal Garden, S.S. Huntington, Town of Gnawnia, Training Grounds, Town of Digby, Windmill, King's Arms, Tournament Hall, Zugzwang's Library, Furoma Rift Training Grounds, Fort Rox, Queso Geyser (not during an eruption), outside the Valour Rift Gauntlet Tower, Floating Islands Launch Pad, Bristle Woods Rift Gearworks Chambers, Toxic Spill below Archduke level, and Moussu Picchu.
-- Dave Vanderburg
23 February 2021
Thank you for celebrating the Year of the Ox!
All Good Things...
The Lunar New Year event has come to an end but the Year of the Ox rages on!
You are no longer able to light your lunar lantern candles or make any more progress on the reward track.
However, for one more week, you will still be able to claim any unclaimed track rewards and spend any unused candles on the Lunar New Year specific items in the shops of stockpile locations.
Any candles that you have not lit and choose not to spend will remain in your inventory along with any unused Dumpling Cheese and Nian Gao'da Cheese.
Still Working on an Event Map?
You still have the rest of this week to find those last few event mice to complete your map and earn its full rewards. Just head to any of the stockpile locations and arm your Dumpling Cheese or Nian Gao'da Cheese to attract the regular pool of Lunar New Year event mice.
Stockpile Locations
Town of Gnawnia
Laboratory
Great Gnarled Tree
Dojo
S.S. Huntington IV
Claw Shot City
Muridae Market
Gnawnia Rift
Fungal Cavern
Moussu Picchu
Queso River
Floating Islands (Launch Pad)
As of March 2, all of the Lunar New Year mice, rewards, and shop items will be gone until next year.
-- Norm Hussey
