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Announcements

• Ahoy! Welcome to the Kraken's Wake expansion, one of, if not, the biggest update to ever hit The Legend of Pirates Online! We have been extremely hard at work to bring this content to ye all, and hope ye all will thoroughly enjoy it! Thank you all for being extremely patient while waiting for the game to open again!
• As compensation for the extended downtime, we have extended the Triple Materials event to last one more day! (we hope you realize why we decided to run a triple materials event during v1.13.7 - harr harr harr!)
• In celebration of our TENTH anniversary, double reputation gain and double materials are live until September 26th! (Double Materials will immediately begin after the Triple Materials event ends tomorrow!)
• To make up for lost bones, lonely Jumbees, and empty Town Halls due to the downtime, we have also extended Hollowed Woods until November 19th!
• In celebration of TEN YEARS of The Legend of Pirates Online, ye can now redeem the code: CROSSBONES for a free Crossbones Gaucho! (available until September 30th!)
• And the celebration just keeps on coming! Prepare yer crew for a special Double Loot Day on September 30th!

Features

• New Boss Sailing Event: The Kraken!
• The terrible beast of Davy Jones, the Kraken, is drawn with ravenous hunger to any unfortunate soul that has their palm stained by the Black Spot!
• The Kraken will randomly choose to attack any ship that sails with a pirate cursed by the Black Spot.
• New Story Quest
• The seas grow restless, and a dark stain covers the palm of any pirate who has stolen from Davy Jones! Seek help from anyone who may be able to help you rid yourself of the curse!
• The new Story Quest will be automatically added to your journal after completing the Raven's Cove Story Quest and being sunk by the Kraken.
• New Area: Kraken's Lair
• The barnacle-encrusted, fishpeople-infested home of the beast herself, the Kraken! Hordes of Davy Jones' men also call the lair their home! Er, home-away-from-menacing-cursed-ship!
• New Fleet Sailing Event: Kraken Hunters
• To counteract the threat of the Kraken, the Navy and EITC have begun sending fleets of powerful ships across the sea to vanquish the beast! Sink the escort ships, and board the Ship of the Line to plunder the vast riches carried by these ships! But be warned, where brave souls sail, doom follows closely behind...
• New Mechanic: Weather
• With the return of the Kraken upon the sea, and the rise of Jolly's magic, the winds and skies of the Caribbean have grown restless! Storms, cloudy skies, and choppy waves can now be seen across the ocean!
• Added over 150 new items to the Caribbean!
• Over 100 of these new items are weapons!
• There are 14 new enemy types across the Kraken's Lair and the Kraken Hunter Fleets!
• To fight the Kraken, the Navy and EITC have unveiled 12 new ship enemy types to sail in their Kraken Hunter Fleets! They're truly pulling out all the stops to fight the Kraken!
• Added a baker's dozen's worth of new brights across the Caribbean! All of them are exclusive to specific locations!
• In preparation for the many new weapons, clothes, and tattoos being added in this update, the Bankers of the Caribbean have added an extra page across all types of storage! There are now up to 5 pages for pirates to fil with their hard-earned plunder!
• Introducing: Themes!
• Ye can now select which background you want to display behind your pirates in the Avatar Chooser when you boot up the game! They are listed in their own tab in the settings page.
• To launch, we have the classic dock, Kraken's Lair, and the return of our Bilgewater theme from 2022! We plan to add new themes periodically in the future!
• We've also overhauled all holiday settings! All themes will have custom holiday decorations and effects for Halloween, Winter Festival, and St. Patrick's Day. You can also toggle off any holiday effects in your settings.
• There are lots of surprises still left that we will not list out in these release notes! Venture out into the game and discover them!

Enhancements - General

• Added new glow shaders to the game to be used in very specific instances! (Can you discover where?)
• Added Navy Veteran's Bayonet, Officer's Bayonet, and Brigadier's Bayonet to Navy Flagship loot.
• Lots of little improvements to the Bilgewater Avatar Chooser theme since it was last available in 2022!
• Under the hood, we've added extensive new quest mechanics and interfaces that will be incredibly useful going forward!

Enhancements - Enemies

• Every random boss in the game (besides creatures, skeletons, and the Crew of the Flying Dutchman) now has their own unique DNA! This means that every time you encounter a random boss, their appearance will be unique and stay the same!
• All enemy types in the game now have the chance to spawn a new, fifth miniboss.
• All members of the Crew of the Flying Dutchman now carry Cursed Blades into battle! Some of them ye may not recognize from before...
• Enemies now disengage when swimming to prevent them from running on water toward you!

Enhancements - Ships

• Captains now have the ability to ban certain players from using repair spots for the duration of the voyage or until the player in question leaves the ship.
• To do so, captains may go up to a ship repair spot being used by another player and can take it over, much like the ship wheel. Doing so will flag the player in question as banned from using repair spots. Before doing so, the captain will be given a pop-up confirmation box, warning them of the ban's functionality.
• There is now a 90-second hidden timer that will boot a player from a ship repair spot if they have not completed at least 1 task within that timeframe. However, these players will not be banned and may return to repairing should they wish.
• Explosives now use the powder keg model instead of the cannonball model, and now have a special flare effect around them. This should make them more unique, and even more visible to players, especially against ships such as EITC Corsairs and Navy Battle-Royales.

Enhancements - User Interface

• In celebration of 10 years of The Legend of Pirates Online, a new TLOPO logo adorns the game! See it in the Avatar Chooser and the options menu!
• The TLOPO logo now appears on the fancy (blue) loading screen when you enter and exit the game!
• Added more loading screen hints to the game. This includes hints for the Funesto / Poltergeist updates, the Kraken's Wake expansion, and various other hints too!
• News pop-up announcements will now only show up the first time you log into the game instead of every time you load a new server or join a lobby.

Bugfixes - General

• Fixed a bug with Jumbee bosses.
• Fixed a crash with storage chests.
• Fixed a misc. crash with Ship Repair.
• Fixed a rare crash with cutting wood in the Ship Repair minigame.
• Fixed a rare crash with boss nametags.
• Fixed a rare crash with NPC brushoff text.
• Fixed a rare district reset with enemies.
• Fixed a server crash with the Black Pearl Treasure Map.
• Fixed an engine-related crash with flagships for Mac users.
• Fixed grenades being able to damage your own ship.

Bugfixes - Quests

• Fixed a bug where brewing at a potion table that wasn't directly on a main island (like in Bernadette's shop or Myrna and May's Wagon) would not count toward potion quest tasks.
• Fixed a bug where quest task UI would become stuck on the screen if a player used the ESC key to exit a conversation with a quest-giving NPC.
• Fixed a bug with searchable containers.

Maintenance

• Fixed grammar and formatting for various loading screen hints.
• Misc. quest typo fixes.
• Tweaked some strings for some tutorial context pop-ups.
• WhiteList updates.
• And, of course... code cleanup!!!

Known Issues

• Some of the lootable tattoos may incorrectly appear as an anchor in your inventory and not load their info card, but they are still properly equippable!
• Foulberto Smasho is using a sword instead of daggers.