Updates

Mana for wands, the Mage class, your own horse, emotes, and a big round of town, dungeon and shop changes.

• Mana for wands: a bar of Rift Stars above your food bar, Mana Shards (Overworld stone, lapis ore, dungeon chests and /disenchant), Mana Crystals and Wellspring Sigils from Maela the Shardwright, the Wellspring and Rift Siphon Runes, faster mana by the Wardline pylons, the Cognis Relic as a mana relic and off-hand casting. The four Origins staffs keep their cooldowns.
• The Mage class and Rift Mage armour; class starter armour at the Armoury and its new Forge Yard; Farstrider and Rare set buffs; the Warden counts as class armour; custom armour lasts 3 times longer.
• The Origins staffs explained: Element Power doubles their spells, real numbers on the staff, and /inspect for staffs and wands.
• Your own horse from Bess the Stablemaster (/warp armorsmith), called with your Cavernbone Whistle; pet nicknames; tougher Gravepups.
• Emotes (/wave, /nod, /cheer for everyone, more with ranks), Emote Tomes and the Vote Shop (/voteshop).
• Chat auctions (/auc), Edda the Engraver, Rift-Corrupted gear and Purifying Tomes, the Rune Lexicon and the new /unsocket.
• Towns: the Lumbermill, Stone Yard, Iron Quarry and Sand Yard, Town Requisitions, /needtown, simpler town power, crates straight into supply chests, upkeep that grows with your town and 3 free days for new towns.
• Dungeons: every boss pays out, checkpoints in all seven, clean floors, glowing chests after the final boss and a 4-hour cooldown.
• The Buried Journals, the Valor ladder, bounty trophies and the Herald's Classifieds.
• /backpack, /fishbucket, /loot, /sort vault, /welcome, /news, /tpahere, /help topics and repairs for a friend.
• Mort buys mineral blocks; Dunstan the Engineer sells The Drill; Gloamtide's Wares; job pay raised for the casual jobs.
• The MVP tag, stars for playtime, and Valerian [V] before the rank with Vox Populi server brackets.
• Our own store: buy ranks by card, PayPal or Bitcoin (5% off) right on asperamc.com/store, gift a rank to a friend, and see the rank land in seconds.
• A new rules page: the Laws of Aspera, on the home page.
• Small things: one tip per join with clickable warps, job losses show as -24g, and town build sites show their stage and percent done.

Four new dungeons, towns that build, new trade screens all over Aspera Bay and a city that keeps score.

• Four new dungeons since Oct 8, seven in all: The Ashen Crypt (Apprentice), The Shifting Sands and The Lost Delve (Veteran) and The Maw of Mordukos (Champion).
• Loot at your own pace after the final boss, [Resume] after a disconnect, and a lives count after every death.
• Towny Structures 1.0: buy a schematic from Professor Sparkwright aboard the Brass Kettle (/warp TownyBuilds) and raise an Oil Pump, Oil Refinery, Grain Silo or Redstone Generator, even underground.
• Town Charters (/towns charter) hang your banner in the castle's Hall of Charters, and Bayward Seals (/lock) keep your chests and doors yours.
• New trade screens in almost every shop, themed to each building, with 3x, 5x and 10x buttons, plus selling screens for Mort, Hagrid, Orla, the Smuggler and Benny, and the Counting House at /warp bank.
• The Enchanter is rebuilt as a purple mage spire with twelve new books, and the Black Crucible and Aerin the Wingkeeper open below and above the Archeology Hall.
• The Cavern bosses' full makeover: new signature attacks with clear warnings, their own armour and weapons, and far fewer summoned mobs.
• A living city: the Wardline (/wardline), Garrison Orders (/orders), the weekly Aspera Herald (/herald), Market Day and First Stone Day.
• Slayer bounties now pay single Combat and Magic Runes and Ashgrave's own armour, and claiming a player bounty in the Wilderness takes their head as a trophy.
• Stacked Runes: Broadplough, Delver's Pull and the Endless Furrow wake once five are on one tool. Socket Gems work on all gear, and /unsocket lets you start over.
• Sentients grow in two stages, two tank shields carry Provoke, and Enma, Judge Beneath the Rift, waits in the deepest hoards.
• Classes made clear: Healer, Ranger, Duelist and Bastion, with a perk at three pieces and a set bonus at four.
• Oil hides under every ocean and river; the Oil Seeker and Oil Gusher Runes and the Blackwater Prospector help you find it.
• New Armorer job, and the Guild Exchange (/jobs shop) sells each trade's own goods for Jobs points.
• A free Advanced rank after 24 hours of play and a purple Veteran star at 30 days, new colours for Donor, Contributor and Backer, and /ranks and /buy menus.
• The Wayfarers' Atlas (/pw): every public warp in one book, with search, categories and ratings.
• Master Archeologist field work for Fossil Dust and Rift-Etched Sherds, his Curio Cabinet of cosmetics, and rarity words in /arch info.
• The Rift Journal, Volume II, /repairall, a free /disposal for everyone, and a /vault tip the first time your inventory fills up.
• Hallow's Eve: six ranged monsters, a Rift-light wave every 2 hours that refills chests and raises bosses, experience from every monster and new pet looks.
• A bigger Shifting Sands desert, Khaurath's jackal coat, and the wrapped dead now wade the flooded halls.
• Dungeon rewards rebalanced, boss-fight tipped arrows at Little Fen's, skill gates for the OmniBlade and OmniPick, and starter gear with Unbreaking V.
• Nights of Noel: fixed dates (Black Friday to New Year's Day), a 50,000-point Great Tree and six new places for this winter.
• Every dungeon now has checkpoints, and most dungeon callouts moved to the action bar.
• /repairall <player> mends an online friend's worn gear with your gold.

Hallow's Eve is here, plus a new job and a pile of new gear from the last few days.

• Hallow's Eve opened: a spooky world of its own, the Hollow, with the Headless Horseman every day at 7 PM Eastern, thirteen mini bosses, trick-or-treat and gear you can only get once a year (/warp HallowsEve).
• New job: Cook, the 14th job (/jobs join cook). Get paid for cooking, baking and stews, with two daily quests and Hearthkeeper Tilda Cinderladle at the Mason Jar's hearth.
• Cooks unlock the Plank-Smoked Leviathan Fillet and the Rift-Aged Tomahawk Ribeye in /jobs shop, which now also sells all four baits to Fishermen and shows the real item for everything.
• The Bulk Wharf behind the Farmer's Market sells Bulk Crates of 500 blocks for Export Vouchers, so you can build big without stripping the Wilderness.
• Slayer Master Ashgrave in the Knights' Hall hands out monster bounties for Slayer points (/slayer), with five new Wilderness monsters to hunt.
• Rift Attunement: mcMMO milestones now pay a one-time reward, from Dowser Runes for Mining to Conquest Tokens at power level 500, 1000 and 2000.
• Healers, Rangers and Duelists get a perk of their own at three class pieces: Lanternheart, Hawkmark and Counterwaltz.
• Sentients get sockets about as often as enchantments, reach their main enchantments at X by max level, and no longer burn in lava or fire.
• The Demon Helm can be worn now: the monsters you slay burst in soulfire and burn the ones around them.
• Big bosses no longer let you hide out of reach: hit one from a ledge, a pit or a nook and it hauls you back in front of it.
• Champion dungeon foes and the Cavern and raid bosses now bite through armour, so bring food and healing to big fights.
• Friday raid bosses give every fighter who earns Merit a Riftsealed Raid Crate, with a Prestige Token in every one.
• Twelve new dungeon and Cavern weapons, and Demonic, a built-in red socket: when a hit leaves you badly hurt, that weapon hits harder and heals you.
• Two new Mythical swords, Ashpinion and Whitegrave, from Calcified Demon Wings and Rimebound Ender Ice, plus Shiverstring, the first ice bow.
• Mythical swords and Legendary bows now animate on Java and show off in a fight, and /inspect power explains what a Mythical sword's power does.
• Fossil trinkets have small powers of their own, like the Book Of Greed's gold nuggets and the Winterheart's ice walking.
• Orrin Tidewhistle joins the Lure & Lantern with angler clothes, two picks forged from the sea and Tidepounce the harbour kitten, all paid in fish.
• Call of the Deep and the Mariner's Staff are real 3D tridents now. They drop from the Abyssal Titan and the Storm Wraith, and a thrown one always comes back to its owner.
• Broadplough now works a 3-wide row across the way you face, and the OmniPick comes with Fossil Touch.
• Crawling is off inside dungeons, so no more hiding from bosses in 1-block gaps.
• The Nights of Noel now run every year from Black Friday to January 1, and the Cozy Cabin market stays open to January 8.
• The Hidden Arts (/guide) opens with Paths of Aspera, your next two gear steps and their prices, and has a new chapter on the seasonal events.
• Helper Bot answers most town questions now, outposts included.
• New /calc does sums as you type, in stacks too.
• AFK players count as a yes in restart votes, so one idle player can't hold a restart up.

Two new dungeons, thirty spells and a lot of fixes from the last couple of days.

• The four elemental staffs now fight like their Black Ops 2 Origins namesakes: Fire looses three fireballs, Ice freezes a foe on the third shard, Wind throws a whole group back and Lightning leaps to a second foe.
• 17 new wands: an Uncommon and a Rare for every element and the Rift's arcane line, plus five very rare Epic wands that only drop.
• The Wands keeper now sells wands up to Rare. The Wellspring, Witherthorn and Riftheart only drop, very rarely, from bosses, dungeons and Rift tears.
• Every spellbook now says what its spell does, how hard it hits and its element, and several spells cost a fitting fossil.
• Bosses fight with everything they were meant to have: Cavern bosses enrage when badly hurt, and each one has its own signature attack.
• Shields look like shields again, and the Cavern Guards and dungeon foes carry crests of their own (monster shields never drop).
• New /joinrun lets you join a friend's dungeon run that has already started, once someone inside lets you in.
• The Farmer Bread stall at /warp food sells four new foods, up to the Rift-Aged Tomahawk Ribeye, the best food in the game.
• Town land now comes in three tiers: town claims at 50g, bonus plots at 250g, and premium plots at 1000g for ranked players with /plotpass.
• Helper Bot knows a lot more, from the leaderboards to town upkeep, and answers moderators too.
• Handy commands now show up in the tips, /help and the guide books: /link, /partyinvite, /towny map, /mcability, /di toggle and more.
• Two new dungeons: The Lost Delve (5 lives) and The Maw of Mordukos (3 lives), the hardest one yet.
• The Dungeons menu lists all five from easiest to hardest, each shown by the head of a foe waiting inside.
• Unopened dungeon chests sparkle gold until you loot them, so you can see what's left.
• Spare dungeon keys crumble when you leave the dungeon instead of cluttering your inventory.
• Teleporting out of a dungeon now just ends your own run, and your party keeps going.
• Whole parties go into the Crimson Catacombs together now.
• Dungeon party invites are a menu of player heads, so no more typing names.
• The Sanctum and the Underworks are rebuilt as one clear path each, no more doubling back.
• The Ashen Warden is now a towering construct of ash and embers instead of a plain iron golem.
• Dungeon slimes don't split anymore, and dungeon zombies wear their dungeon's armour.
• Thirty spells now: every school of magic has five, including a full Darkness kit and Holy spells that hit back.
• Every boss and dungeon foe has an elemental weakness and resistance, and your first hit tells you which.
• 16 new Runes for magic, weapons and tools, plus six new fishing Runes.
• Class set bonuses: wear four pieces of one class to unlock its own bonus.
• Aspera's custom gear no longer shatters: it goes Broken until you repair it, sockets and all.
• Upgrading gear at the smiths now keeps your Runes and the best of your enchantments.
• Dowser Runes now wake only during a real mining session, and they work at every depth.
• Exotic Shards are now Rune Shards, the Exotic Enigma is the Rune Enigma, and /disenchant gives more of them.
• New gold Exotic Shard: a rare /disenchant drop for something not found in Aspera Bay yet, so hoard them.
• New /codex: one book for everything you can collect, with 2 Conquest Tokens for each finished page.
• New /inspect shows any held item in plain numbers.
• New /sort tidies your inventory, and middle-click sorts chests and vaults.
• New /refer: invite a friend and you both get 2 Conquest Tokens and 250 gold once they've played 2 hours.
• A Helper Bot answers common questions in chat, and /helperbot off hides it.
• Restarts are asked now: everyone online has to click Yes first.
• Rift monsters now roam the Wilderness at night, and the rare Rift Herald pays 3 Conquest Tokens and gold.
• Bosses can't be cheesed from corners or ledges anymore, and they go after whoever hurts them most.
• Hits on bosses now and then land a critical for huge damage.
• Cavern invasions happen twice a day now, at 1 PM and 9 PM Eastern, with slightly easier bosses.
• The Putrid Goo drags hiders back into the sludge with its new Gulping Tide.
• Aspera Bay's waters now hold the full range of fish, not just cod and salmon.
• Rare and Epic fish sell for double, and Legendary fish for 1.6x.
• Worldhook, the First Riftline, is on Bram's rack for 999 Legendary fish.
• Fishing can now bring up Fossil Dust and, very rarely, a Socket Gem.
• Captain Morrow takes 3 Epic fish or 1 Legendary fish for a Gold Doubloon, and fishing gives up to 4 doubloons a week.
• Crude Oil now comes from under the sea, and Oliver's Refinery pays 32 gold ingots per Oil.
• Pets now react to your fights, and /pets quiet turns that off.
• Bedrock players now see Aspera's custom items, armour, portals and fires the way Java players do.
• Click any player's name in chat to open their /profile.
• The Roll of Renown board on the piazza shows the top players for Merit, fish, gold and towns.
• Weekly highlights get posted in the Discord every Sunday.
• The Rune of the Endless Furrow replants crops for you, and only Export Co. sells it.
• Flying machines stop after 4 blocks in the Wilderness, and big mob farms yield less over time.
• Chat anti-spam is on, so repeat messages get held back.
• The six magic bows have new names, like Emberwrath and The Hollow Call.
• New Nights of Noel places for this winter: Gearheart Toyworks, Gryla's Cauldron Hall, the Glimmerfrost Rink, Hexbroom Coven, the Wardfire Beacons and the Strayhoof Post.
• The Great Tree's goal for the Nights of Noel is now 50,000 points.

A big batch of new stuff from the last few days, mostly aimed at making new players' first week better.

• Voting is live on 7 sites. Use /vote for gold and sometimes Conquest Tokens, plus streak bonuses.
• Added /pets, a collection menu for every companion you can find or buy.
• Lost your pet summoner? Click the pet in /pets to get a new one, soulbound to you.
• Capt. Morrow Gloamtide now drops anchor in the harbour every weekend and trades for Gold Doubloons.
• New Prestige Shop (/warp prestigeshop) with 8 keepers selling class sets and Sentient gear for Prestige Tokens.
• The Warden now picks its sockets based on the class set you're wearing with it.
• Weekly fishing tournament every Saturday at 7:30 PM Eastern, top 3 win doubloons.
• New tackle shop on stilts (/warp TackleShop): Maribel sells bait and Bram sells 4 new rods for gold or fish.
• Better rods hold more bait (1, 3, 5 and 7), and you add bait by dropping it onto the rod.
• /fish works as a shortcut for /emf.
• Every fish now has its own custom texture, and the fish journal is cleaned up into one neat grid.
• Christmas fish are now called Nights of Noel fish.
• Buy a round for the whole tavern at the Mason Jar with /round.
• Show off your held item in chat with /link, or by typing [item] or [link] in a message.
• Added Farmer's Bread.
• Aspera Bay feels more alive: bells ring the hour, lamplighters come out at dusk, and NPCs walk around and look around more naturally.
• Hidden Rift Journal pages are tucked around the city for you to find.
• Rift Incursions: small Rifts now rarely tear open in the Wilderness, with waves of mobs and loot for whoever seals them.
• Bosses got a big rebalance: less health and damage, longer attack warnings, and shields now block more.
• Arrows actually hit big bosses like the Putrid Goo and the Colossus now.
• Boss chat messages are capped so they don't spam.
• The Piglin General isn't a walking tank anymore.
• Dying in the Cavern brings you straight back to /warp Cavern.
• Your hunger stays the same when you die, so no more dying for a free refill.
• Nether portals light properly in the New Wilderness now.
• Dungeon armour can (rarely) show up in Wilderness structure chests.
• Archaeology finds are rarer so they feel special again, and the fossil seller pays more for each one.
• Hand of Midas gets Midas Touch and Gold Gutter gets Gilded Tithe, both now and then turn up bonus gold nuggets.
• Buy extra vaults with gold using /vault buy, up to 9 total.
• Daily /rewards are fixed and rebalanced, and now include Conquest Tokens, socket gems, runes and bait.
• New /ledger: a first-week checklist with small rewards for learning the ropes.
• New town board in the square, and /towns lists towns that are looking for members.
• Link your Minecraft and Discord accounts with /discord link for a one-time gift.
• New /profile card showing your boss fights, dungeons, pets, relics, fish, gold earned and more.
• Type [profile] in chat to share your card.
• Say hi to Aldric by the fountain, an old stonecutter who's happy to chat about anything.
• /skills now opens your mcMMO stats.
• /buy links to the store.
• Shelves, bookshelves, pots and lecterns in protected builds can't be messed with anymore.
• The chat filter actually works now.
• Way fewer bats in caves.
• Rank stars now sit after your rank tag, and mob health bars no longer replace mob names in death messages.
• Join and leave messages are quieter when someone reconnects a lot.
• Placing items by hand in shopkeeper trades works properly everywhere.
• Mort pays 10 per diamond now.

New armour. 24 Rift-salvage sets from every boss and 12 relic sets from the dungeons.

The Knights' Hall. The Delvers' Wall takes you into every dungeon, with fastest-clear records.

Merit milestones. Titles and tokens at 10, 50, 100, 250 and 500 boss fights.

New looks. Fresh textures for the OmniPick, OmniBlade, Crushy, Stix and the Sentients, and darker dungeon armour.

Aspera Bay. A brand-new spawn city replaces the old spawn: a castle gate, a harbour with a ship and an airship, a Mage Tower, Toolworks, Forgemaster, Farmer's Market, Prestige Hall and a sleeping volcano.

The Rift moves into the volcano. The nightly bosses now rise from a Rift inside the volcano beside the city: walk through the castle gate to the balcony above the arena.

Long days. Aspera Bay's day now lasts two hours, and the sun sets just as the Rift's boss rises.

Global Market. Our own market: /gm list <price> sells what you hold; buy at the market chests in town.

Fair trade. Minerals and mob drops sell only to Mort the Miner and Hagrid the Hunter.

Crimson Catacombs. A third dungeon: one life, two hours, and Vharos the Crimson Hierophant at the end.

Dungeon armour sets. Gutterwarden, the Unquiet Legion and Bloodseal Regalia, with four-piece bonuses.

Disenchanting and Exotics. /disenchant turns spare gear into Exotic Shards; Exotic Enigmas hold runes.

Guide books. Two new starter books, Starting Out and The Hidden Arts, and 39 new tips.

The server is now Aspera SMP. New name, new address: asperamc.com. The old address keeps redirecting for now.

Armour textures. Real textures for every custom armour set.

More magic. New Epic and Legendary wands, more spellbooks, and runes for bows, rods and tools.

The Mason Jar's drinks menu. A dozen custom drinks.

Custom fishing. Dozens of new fish, the Riftmaw, and lava and void fishing.

Friday raids. Lord Varkon joins the Abyssal Titan and the Wither Lord.

Pets rebuilt. Pets are now our own plugin: companions that follow, chatter and fight.

Minecraft 26.2. The server moved to Minecraft 26.2.

New site and store. The site was rebuilt with a live map of the Wilderness at /map/ and the rank store moved here, with checkout still on CraftingStore.