Chronic Rose

The Cave of Ulverick, and a desert made whole

4–5 October 2026 · Content

The spider cave under Desert of the Dead used to be a party instance. Now it's open to everyone.

• NewThe Cave of Ulverick. [Bone Warden] Ossian waits at its mouth in Desert of the Dead and lets you in for 10 Animal Leg Bones and 10 Animal Backbones, which the desert's own beasts drop. The cave's gate takes you back out.
• NewInside: camps of Ulverick's Minions (level 128) and a boss in each room. Ulverick's Leader (level 135), Ulverick's General (level 145) and, in the hardest room to reach, King Ulverick himself (level 151). Each has his own loot, and they're the first monsters to drop the new back items.
• FixedDesert of the Dead was half empty. More than 500 of its decorations and all six of its buildings never appeared in game. They're back.
• FixedThe gate between Anima Lake and Desert of the Dead works again.

A staff that hits like a staff

1–5 October 2026 · Fixes

• FixedThe Intrepid Staff and Intrepid Wand (level 210, sold by Huzam in Muris) dealt sword damage on normal attacks, so they hit like a weak club against armoured monsters. They now deal magic damage like every other staff and wand. Skills were never affected.
• FixedTorches and lamps on every map stayed dark until you died or changed zone. This bug is as old as the game.
• FixedAfter a server restart, monsters are there straight away. Before, a boss on a 30-minute timer was missing for the first half hour.
• FixedThree spots in Desert of the Dead and the Goblin Cave that could crash the game.
• NewA red item name, for boss loot. The first set of weapons is ready, but nothing drops it yet.

Maps made to order, and the light to see them by

2–4 October 2026 · Tools

This one is mostly for the map makers among you: two new tools, and two test maps to show what they can do.

• NewA map generator. You describe a map (a ravine, a village on a hill, an outpost hidden in the woods) and it builds the whole zone: terrain, ground painting, water, trees, villages borrowed from the original maps, and the lighting. It also checks that nobody can get trapped, that the roads connect, and that what should be seen from the road can be. For now it only does Junon-style grassland, up to 640 m square, with no monsters, NPCs or warps.
• NewA lighting tool for maps made or edited in the map editor. It covers the sun's direction and height, how deep shadows go, the shade under trees, the darkness in corners and the colour of the light. Out of the box it matches the original Junon. Torches and lamps aren't baked yet.
• NewThe map editor has a fullscreen view (F11) for clean screenshots, and opens packed game clients directly, read-only, including Wish Online's.
• ChangedEvery map file the game uses (ZON, HIM, TIL, MOV, IFO, LIT) now has a reader and writer behind it. Together they rebuild all 9,035 of the game's map files byte for byte.
• TipRelight a map after every edit in the map editor. The editor numbers object lighting by order and never renumbers it, so deleting one object shifts the lighting of every object after it, and can crash the game.

Dreadnaughts, and a longer chat

30 September 2026 · Update

• FixedThe Dreadnaughts on Luna's Freezing Plateau look like Dreadnaughts again. Since an old re-levelling of Luna they had been wearing the Mini Mammoth's model.
• ChangedThe chat keeps more history, and the new interface got a round of small fixes.

Shibuya becomes a hunting ground

29 September 2026 · Content

A level 60–80 zone, built as a tribute to the SECONDWALL collaboration.

• NewThe Deaders: twelve monsters with their own attacks and spells, including armed police. Deader Rex waits in the plaza.
• NewThe Rot Tracker, a rare spawn that can appear after any kill in the zone.
• NewSix quests from the band, ending with a hunt for Deader Rex once the first five are done. The rewards are SECONDWALL cosmetics.
• NewFences, foliage and railings no longer shimmer at their edges. This needs an NVIDIA card with antialiasing on. Toggle it under Options › Graphics › See-through edges.
• FixedA hit of yours that fell behind now lands together with the next one instead of trailing seconds later. Casting a skill no longer swallows the swing you were in the middle of.
• FixedMonsters no longer teleport, forget what they were told to do, or show a health bar below zero.
• FixedA monster spell whose animation was interrupted still applies its effect.

Shibuya opens; every skill explained properly

28 September 2026 · Content

• NewShibuya and Live House SEVEN: a Tokyo street walk and the survivors' shelter, with shops and storage. Ask Jones in Junon Polis for the way there.
• ChangedEvery skill description has been rewritten in plain English and checked against the real numbers. Tooltips now say whether a skill is a buff or a debuff, and give its true chance of working.
• ChangedStatus effect names and system messages are in plain English too.
• FixedDrain skills heal by the caster's INT, not the victim's.

A new interface, from top to bottom

23–27 September 2026 · Interface

Every in-game window, rebuilt. The login and character screens keep their classic look.

• NewStatus, buffs, skill bar, inventory (with costumes and cart parts), character sheet, party, quest journal, minimap, NPC conversations, shops, trade, storage, personal shops, upgrade, crafting, break down, friends and chat rooms, clan, options and chat.
• NewWindows can be moved, locked and scaled from 75 to 200%, and remember where you left them. There is a target frame now.
• NewThe skill tree is drawn from the game's own skill data. It shows fifteen skills the old artwork never had room for, including every Cleric buff and Vanish.
• FixedSaving your options no longer freezes the game for a second.
• FixedYour party sees your maximum HP rise the moment you level up.

A long list of small wrongs, righted

19–22 September 2026 · Fixes

• FixedSkill books carry the name of the skill they teach. A handful of books that taught nothing at all are gone from Darren's shelves.
• FixedThe walls around Junon Polis' fountain square no longer flash while the camera moves. The same fix covers two dozen other maps.
• FixedAngelic and Vengeance arrows fire a projectile again.
• FixedIn PvP, attackers no longer stop ten metres short of their target, area skills spare clan mates in clan fields, and Cure works on yourself.
• FixedOther players' attack speed shows correctly. Before, everyone around you appeared to swing at the same speed.
• FixedGolden, Saint and Demon item variants show their real names. Darren no longer offers the second job quest twice.
• FixedDouble-clicking a monster no longer cancels the attack, and a quest "!" only appears over NPCs that actually have one.

Oro rebuilt, Skaaj discovered

12–18 September 2026 · Content

• NewSkaaj, a small tropical island of cat-folk. There are no monsters, only townsfolk you won't understand until someone teaches you their language.
• NewOro has been rebuilt from a later version of the game: ten zones for levels 205–240, each species with its own drops. It is the only place the level 240 armour comes from.
• NewBosses cast their full spell lists: the Grand Master Devourer, the Terrasaurus King, Moon Sister Inguz and others.
• NewA second level 230 armour line with a different trade-off: more defence, less magic resistance.
• ChangedKarkia's two main maps have been thinned into camps. They were holding four times the monsters they were meant to.
• FixedA crash when leaving certain zones.