Server Update v242

[color=#0000FF]HAPPY TWO MONTH LATE FIFTH BIRTHDAY TD!

Woooh update finally! Well, I don't have any real pretty pictures but here follows a list of things that were update:

You may have noticed that our Birthday Bunny has finally made a return and is giving a limited edition pretty present:


Then you would notice that our warper now warps to WoE1 guild dungeons (along with many lazy dungeons like toy and beach (comodo))


Added the quest for Black Butterfly by David:


Added the quest for Deviling and Balloon Hats by Machi:


WoE1 Castle (That's Saturday) Has been changed to Hohenschwangau per requests:


kRO Related Fixes:

TD now supports a fully functioning Thanatos Tower without summoning quest:


We also support Wedding Dress and Tuxedo:



TD Related Fixes:

- Strong herb will now show in inventory. - Memoing is now fixed for Manuk/Splendide fields and towns. - Blank cards and custom pet tames will drop at 0.3% (Resolved bug from v230) - The Kafra express in Izlude has been moved to a visible position - Poofring has been removed from Prontera for abuse of rule 3 (Please don't smite me Sam) - Updated both Bloody Branch and Dead Branches to spawn new monsters from Thors, Nameless (Excludes beelzebub), Manuk and Splendide

Alright, well, I believe that is it. I can't remember if there was more but I doubt it. Don't forget to pick up your limited present from Bunny. Remember, one per account. Hope you enjoy it

Server Update v241

This mostly fixes any bugs that occured due to the 240 update.

It is very important that you update your clients!
You will be able to connect without doing so, but you will see no npc's and nothing will work properly.
So go update your clients.

If you get setup boxes that keep opening over and over, update again.

When you log in for the first time, you will notice that all your characters are naked.
Do not panic, everything is still there, just re-equip your headgears and they will re-appear.

Server Update v240

Tadaa~~

Update has been released!

10 New hairstyles for each gender: (here's a few random ones)


New stylist:

Allows for fast browsing and enables access to new palettes.

New loading screens by Machi:


Full resolution:
1) http://i47.tinypic.com/2j1a4ja.jpg
2) http://i49.tinypic.com/2dbl9n9.jpg
3) http://i46.tinypic.com/ff0bcm.jpg
4) http://i46.tinypic.com/2vhz0bs.jpg

New Towns and maps:


New Client features:


A more complete list:

KRO related updates
Updated / Fixed:

- Core eAthena - DB eAthena - Episode 12.1 (Endless Tower) (Bugfixes) - Episode 12.1 (Moscovia Quests) (Bugfixes) - Episode 12.1 (Resurrection of Satan Morroc) (Minor Bugfixes) - Episode ? (Al De Baran Turbo Track) (Minor Bugfixes) - Episode ? (Izlude Battle Arena) - Episode ? (Hugel Minigames) - Episode ? (Official slot npc's)

New:

- Episode 12.1 (The Crow of the Fate) - Episode 12.1(Succession of the Prince) - Episode 12.1 (Sealed Shrine) - Episode 13.1 (Onward to the new World) - Episode 13.1 (New Surroundings) - Episode 13.1 (Attitude to the New) - Episode 13.1 (Finding a Fairy & Finding a Giant Tree) - Episode 13.1 (The Tripartite Union's Feud) - Episode 13.1 (Part-time Work) - Episode 13.1 (Persuing Rayan Moore) - Episode 13.1 (Report from the New World) - Episode 13.1 (Orc Instance) - Episode 13.1 (Cat Hand Agent) - Episode 13.2 (Cat hand Addition) - Episode 13.2 (Otherworld Language) - Episode 13.? (Enchantment Npc)

TD Related updates
Updates/Fixes:

- TD Dark Cards quest (Major bugfixes) - Faerie Quest (Bugfixes) - Master Ren - Alarm and Rideword drops (were missing some items) - Warper warps to new locations / instances - Major increase in blank card / pet tame item drops for custom monsters (0.3% on normal monsters instead of 0.10%) - Spare card now works with all skills/weapons - Prontera BGM *cough*

New:

- 15 new Palettes by Irene - 5 new Palettes by Machi - Default palettes increased to 499 - 10 new Hairstyles - 4 new Loading screens by Machi - TD now uses a RE client (including all RE client features) - Character Slots increased to 12 - Completely reworked stylist

The 3rd job dilemma:

Although TD supports 3rd jobs as of now, there will be no way to change into 3rd job yet...
There have been numerous requests not to add them yet.
I will open a discussion on these forums, where you can share your opinion about 3rd jobs,
which will greatly influence my decision on whether to enable them or not.
Discussion is here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1216


Please note:
- The 300mb worth of patches you get using the autopatcher are necessary to play. (doh)
- Your hairstyle and/or palette may change with the update, go back to the stylist and find the id for your old one.
- This topic is for update related discussion, not for discussion about 3rd jobs, there will be a special topic for that.

Client Update

The autopatcher will automatically download a fully updated rdata, which will be necessary for the next update.
I do not want to disclose much more information about the update right now, except that it's being worked on (actually, it's pretty much finished).

The rdata update is ~162mb, so it may take some time to download depending on your connection.
The patch server usually throttles the connection down to ~1mb/s, so if you have a fast internet line, it'll be a very quick download.

Another update (approx 30-50mb) will follow as soon as the server is updated.

Edit: A 15mb patch containing new bgms will be downloaded as well.

New Teamspeak Server !

After years of development, a Teamspeak 3 Server has eventually be released. Sooo we used the opportunity to set up a new TS server for TD, which is now up and running. There's a lot of new community features in there, and the voice transmission codecs are now similar to the ones used for Skype, which means that the sound quality is pretty nice.

If you're interested, you can download the new client here:
- 32bit Windows client: http://ftp.4players.de/pub/hosted/ts3/r ... beta11.exe
- 64bit Windows client: http://ftp.4players.de/pub/hosted/ts3/r ... beta11.exe
Other clients, like for Mac or Linux are available here :
http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads

All you have to do is download the client, install it, and connect to the server "twilightdestiny.com". See you in there

Forum Update

I updated the forums to phpbb3.
The update went smooth, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any bugs hiding around.

If you notice any bugs, please report them in this topic.

If you don't like the theme, or feel that something should be modified, feel free to make a suggestion.

[Genesis] Server Update v232 (released!!!!!)

Figured it was about time to announce what's going to be in the next big update, since some people have been nagging me about it nonstop.



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~ Custom Pet's
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Yup, as promised, all the custom pet's that have been requested on the forums are now available:








Each one has a custom egg and custom taming item, and requires a specific food.
Taming items can be obtained from monsters, or by trading with Master Ren (new npc) who can be found next to the old Pet merchant.
Of course the custom pets are going to have skills, however, since we did notwant to copy official pet skills (that would be boring) we gave them new ones.
Since those skills require some more balancing and fine-tuning, the skills will be enabled shortly after the update (they won't work immediately).

Additionally a new tameable custom monster named Sparky has been added.
He will spawn on random field maps.


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~ Custom Gears
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Along with this update, new Headgears will be released.
Although a few of them exist on Kro, all of them have completely custom stats.
You can obtain them by completing custom quests that were written specifically for these items.
Some of these quests make use of the TD questmonster system (sometimes referred to as TR reset system) which is unique to TD.



Can be made inside Lighthalzen.




Can be made in Prontera.




Can be made inside Yuno.




Can be made on Lutie field.




Can be made on morocc field 02.


More informations, such as item stats, and where the quests are will follow later.

A total of 110 custom items will be added with this update.




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~ New Features
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~ Spare Card System
This system was actually suggested by Terrijoo, and Iro player's will probably be familiar with it.
Completing a custom quest, you will be rewarded with a new equipment that goes into the lower headgear slot:


Spare Card, is a card deemed defective, as it does not possess a monster's ability.
However, wearing the Spare Card, you have a change of finding Blank Cards when killing monsters.

Blank cards may be traded in for interesting rewards (not all of them have been decided yet), but they will for example enable you to access some of the Kro Cash shop items which wouldn't be available otherwise (since we do not accept donations)

The quest to obtain a Spare card starts in Prontera.


~ Monsters
and can now be found on some maps. Since they had no official stats I improvised (some of you know where this is going )

is a beginnerfriendly monster, and can be found on some maps around Prontera.

is a different story. I'd advise you to consider some preparations before going into battle against them
He can be found deep down in bialan dungeon.


~ WoE
As requested, Castle flags have been added to:
- Comodo
- Morocc
- Aldebaran
- Izlude
- Geffen



~ ETA 'n stuff
No ETA yet
It's obviously going to be soon(tm), since I posted this.
We're mostly at the testing / bugfixing stage now, few minor things missing, so it shouldn't take much longer.
At this point I want to say that this update wouldn't have been possible without the Contributors team. (originally, only the custom pets were planned to be released with v232)
When first launching the Contributor idea, I didn't anticipate that it would have such a success.
Not having to do everything on my own makes things just go sooo much faster, plus, having more people work on an update results in better and more ideas.


As always, I suggest to check if you're not running an ancient sakray.
If you haven't updated your sakray for half a year, you'd probably be better off getting the full 4.0 client, or you're going to crash on the new headgears and Pourings.

I'll update this post with more informations before I release the update.

Client Update

I fixed a few issues with our new client.
The most important one was, that when you created a new account, the first time you logged in, you were unable to create a character.
The second one was that it crashed during character creation if you went past the hairstyle limit (for some reason it couldn't find a limit).

This means that you cannot use the custom hairstyles during char creation any longer.
You can still get them for free at the stylist though.