😨An Ominous Weekend
Hey everyone! The Arcanum research team has been quietly investigating some recent ongoings, and we have news from them to share with you. Something ominous is stirring in Silver Springs, bringing both danger and new possibilities!
🌀Surges & Boundaries
All content listed here launches Saturday, July 26th, 2025 at 12:00 AM PDT, alongside the Ominous Rush.
The ominous energies have paved the way for the return of Runic Surges, allowing for the acquisition of Boundary Shards, small pieces of the condensed Boundary Fragments we collected during the Runic Shift event.
These Surges are mostly similar to those from the Runic Shift, but with a few key differences. A full overview of this system can be viewed here.
😨 Entering an uncorrupted Rune Locale with Bad Omen active consumes it to trigger a Runic Surge. Multiple locales can surge at once.
🔋 Surges have 5 difficulty Tiers, determined by the initiating Bad Omen level, increasing the general danger and difficulty of the event.
⚔️ If the apex is slain, all participants receive Runes and 1-5 Boundary Shards, scaling with the Surge Tier.
💎Boundary Shards have many uses, such as:
⚫ The boundary void below the Arcanum accepts offerings, consuming Shards to corrupt certain items, such as Runic Tomes into Corrupted Tomes.
📖 Use Shards at the Arcanum to wipe enchants from items.
... And more! Read the full post for details.
⚠️ As you may expect, it's hard for our small team to properly playtest content like this, so please be patient with the early balance of Surges, and work with us to make them an enjoyable, permanent feature of SSS.
⏫Surges will begin alongside this weekend's Ominous Rush, which has the following bonus effect:
Ominous Vaults, Pillager raids, and Tier III+ Surges can award Badges of Valor.
📝General Updates
Impetus of Dionysus now gives 50% mcMMO XP for hand brewing.
Ear Collector no longer gives ear stacks for non-hostile mob kills. This was never really intended, but we let it go on too long, so apologies there.
