Early Access v0.8.6

source: https://www.legendsofaria.com/point-release-5-april-23rd-2019/

* Plot re-size commit cost significantly increased ( 5  600  for 12×12 / 315  30×30)
* Land Deed purchase price increased to match commit cost of minimum land size
* House blueprint purchase price doubled
* House resource build cost doubled
* Plots with negative balance will be foreclosed on Mondays at server noon instead of Saturdays
* First Plot auctions now start one hour after foreclosure
* Plot auctions last 4 days up from 30 minutes, allowing bidding opportunity for all
* Plot auctions starting bid is calculated from cost of plot land size
* Plot taxes can now only be paid by Plot Owner/House Co-Owners
* Plot taxes can be paid directly from bank balance

### New Death System

* Ghost players enter the Astral Plane and are unable to see other mobiles with the exception of abilities that grant sight at great limitation
* Upon death a player will not instantly release to their ghost. When released, the player will be moved to the nearest resurrection shrine
* Returning to the site of your player corpse will offer an ability to resurrect with minimal resource pools and all remaining belongings returned
* Players can choose to resurrect at a shrine following their death, which will leave all belongings on the corpse
* You can now Resurrect a player’s corpse while said player is in a different region
* Pets will be partially released upon player death and will resume ownership on resurrection within range of your body
* Added Spirit Walk; a cooldown ability which teleports a ghost player to the nearest applicable shrine
* Added Ephemeral Projection; an ability that allows a ghost player to see other mobiles near their corpse and for a short period when activated
* Map indicators now show dungeon entrance if corpse is inside

### New Mount System

* Standard mounts can no longer be dismissed to statues
* Mounting a horse is no longer instant / being dismounted no longer carries a debuff
* Mounting a horse simply requires an interruptible short channel
* Engaging in combat, casting spells or engaging in standard actions will dismount the rider
* Ethereal mounts are now available with summon/unsummon straight to player inventories that will wear over time and eventually break from normal use
* New Spell! Etherealize will allow the caster to turn their targeted mount into a statue
* New Reagent! Ether will allow the casting of Etherealize, crafted by an Alchemist from items obtained from: liches, skeleton mages.
* Legacy mount statues may be used to summon a horse which cannot be dismissed.

### Allegiance Improvements

* The Allegiance system now has seasons. Rankings reset at the start of each new season
* Players are now ranked directly against their peers
* Allegiance ranking is updated upon server restart
* New ranking information added to the Allegiance window
* Joining allegiances now requires new members to have attained maximum stats (150/150)
* Adjustments made to the transfer of Favor (rank points) on kill

### Crafting

* Chances to receive specific crafting orders based on your skill level has been adjusted
* Some new crafting order rewards are now accessible that were not previously. This includes some new dye colors, furniture and bless deeds
* Iron blacksmith table is now craftable (added recipe)
* Colored hatchets and mining Picks are no longer rewards and are instead craftable by different materials.

### Miscellaneous Improvements

* Doubled the duration of Hamstring from 6 to 12 seconds and increased the cooldown from 20 to 60 seconds
* Updated Kryss secondary ability to bleed
* Updated Poniard secondary ability to Mortal Strike
* Adjusted bow difficulty to improve skill progression
* Adjusted Obsidian crafting difficulty to improve skill progression
* Adjusted difficulty on boards to allow crafters to GM on high end materials
* Hunter spider now has the appropriate pet slot assignment
* Fixed Black Forest town chest that was stuck in a wall
* Dice rolls are now System Messages
* Range increased on Destroy Foundation to allow players to destroy foundations
* Fixed an issue that always counted owner’s guard protection when protecting pets
* Higher skill characters are no longer offered low skill missions
* Fixed missions being given based on incorrect skill level
* Mission difficulty level for tamers now uses AnimalTaming instead of Beastmastery
* Lockboxes can be opened via lock picking
* Players affected by Chilled debuff will be immune to Frost damage for the duration
* Disabling effects such as stun now set to lowest speed vs locking in place, also applies to casting
* Fixed Stasis removing Immunity when effect was ended early
* Opening the map in a region you have not memorized will open the zoomed world map instead
* Founder Mount Statues have been temporarily disabled; on use player will be given a system message
* Allegiance leaders’ default interaction when out of combat is now converse instead of attack
* Stablemaster added to Black Forest Outpost
* Escape Scrolls now sold in Oasis and Black Forest
* Catacombs Wraith Knight now has the appropriate amount of health
* Run speeds across monsters have been slightly reduced
* Female bandits now have the same HP as male bandits
* Reduced overland spawn in The Barrens
* Updated descriptions on Manifestation and Evocation
* Ogre bosses now drop ability books
* Vile spiders now drop vile leather instead of beast leather
* Hearths located in Inns are now a heat source
* Wilderness Mission Dispatchers have returned!

## Hotfix – April 26th, 2019

Source: https://www.legendsofaria.com/point-release-5-april-23rd-2019/

* All players can earn one ethereal horse statue per day from logging in during the weekend (April 26- April 28)
* Players are now lootable immediately upon death
* Player corpses no longer disappear on logout before release
* Regular horses can now be dismissed to stable
* Players are no longer dismounted for the following actions:
	+ Manifestation Spell: Portal
	+ Manifestation Spell: Mark
	+ Manifestation Spell: Etherealize
	+ Manifestation Spell: Ward Evil
	+ Activating Hearthstone
	+ Activating Escape Scroll
	+ When using the Atlas
* Increase activation time on hearthstone and escape scrolls to match portal spell.
* Stuns/Disables now much slower snare, casting movement speed unchanged
* Blocking with shields is fixed
* Empty corpses will turn into a skeleton on death.
* Fixed individuals that are dead, but not released can teleport through doors in dungeons.
* Ethereal horses are now slightly less transparent
* Etherealize Potion added (Difficulty: 90 – 100)
* Potion of Mending added removing bleed and mortal strike (Difficulty: 75 – 100)
* Cure Potion now requires 0 – 25 skill.
* Increased Crafting Order rewards drop rates
* Ether now requires 5 essence to create instead of 10.

## Hot Fix May 1st, 2019

* Fixed an issue with plot auction times not working properly.
* When turning in a craft order, player now receives a system message to tell them what they got
* Vile Leather is now called Vile Leather (not Fabled Beast Leather)

## Hot Fix May 4th, 2019

* Fixed an issue that caused pets to disappear when player dies