What a Busy Launch
Heyo everyone! Ren here :D I figured it was time for our first weekly update—woo! Before getting waaaay into it, I want to show my gratitude and thank you all for choosing Runeteria as your hopefully forever home! It’s been an absolute joy seeing so many of you join the server and show appreciation for what we’re building. It’s been a bumpy first week and a half, but we’re finally nearing a state where most of our internal systems are almost sorted out. Inventory syncs across all our servers, instances, and portals should now be fully functional. Our base infrastructure is also in place, which should allow us to move forward without too many hiccups.
Now, let’s have a look at what we’ve been working on—and what’s hopefully coming out soon!
The Week in Review
The past week has been quite a ride! Almost daily, we scheduled maintenance windows to implement various stability fixes, which now means we can reliably hold 50–70 people on a single server. There have been various QoL improvements implemented, such as Homes, RTP, map tweaks, utility commands, increased spawns, chunk claiming, personal chest loot, and many other things—lots of these are still being refined daily and will continue to be!
Over the past week, we’ve also been hard at work on a range of upcoming features, including solutions for pets, economy, dungeons, and much more. Another thing we’ve been preparing is our NEW Realms for both European and North American regions. These will be going live and can be accessed via /servers when you read this post.
Anyway, let’s tease a few upcoming things!
Dungeons and the Grind Loop
Sometime this week, we’ll be releasing test versions of our dungeon system. This will be a loop to test a “Path of Exile”-style mapping (Fragment!) system as well as traditional dungeons. Our Fragment Dungeon test will be the Floati Islands, where the gameplay loop—for now—will involve mining a new crystal type that you can trade with a vendor. Our first instanced dungeon, The Hollow Crypts, will be an instanced dungeon with a boss fight, dropping various vanilla items that are currently lacking in the gameplay loop. It’s important to note that these two dungeons are tests for us and are subject to change, both in terms of design and loot. Their intended use is to test systems and establish a foundation for how we move forward with these features.
Do you like cute and fluffy things? We sure do, which leads me to the next topic, pets!
Cute Little Critters
Another thing we teased earlier last week was our first custom pet—a cute Kitsune! Our pet system is almost done and just needs a few minor tweaks, but it should be arriving in the coming week. Pets will function as combat companions that can assist you in battles and various other tasks. This system will continue to be developed and will serve as the general pets system we use moving forward.
Let's chat about something I know you've all been wanting!
New EU and NA Realms
We’re also very excited to announce that our first EU Realm is launching today—along with another one for NA! This is our first step toward becoming the biggest RPG SMP out there: multiple Realms across the globe that all share synced inventories, chat, and stats. We want Runeteria’s world to feel big and immersive—and not like you’re separated from everyone else, regardless of which Realm you play on. Our two new Realms are called Everroot NA and Everroot EU. You can find them in the newly added server selector by typing /servers.
And that’s it!
This sums up most of what’s been going on over the past week. There are a bunch of extra things we’re cooking up, but we feel it’s a little bit too early to talk about them just yet—perhaps next week’s update will be the one! Again, I want to give everyone a sincere thank you—both from myself and from the entire team. It’s truly been amazing seeing so many of you join in and show appreciation and excitement for what we’re building here in Hytale!
Thank you!
-Runeteria Management Team
