😨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.

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📚Contest Winners and Clarification

Hey again everyone. Time to announce the winners of the Greenhouse contest, and one clarification regarding the Parkour Rush.

🪴Greenhouse: Build Contest Winners

• 🥇1st Place: @Starmarsh™, @J_, and @໓คriค! Your warp is set as Rafflesia, as requested.

• 🥈2nd Place: @J1mbers, @Krashafa, and @ElectricSparx! I've set your warp as SerraLontana, but LMK if you want it changed!

• 🥉3rd Place: A tie!

  • @Hollow and @jpguitar27! Your warp is set as Eden, as requested.

  • @Maidl, @TroyTheCrafter, and @Shotdown01! Your warp is set as Greenhouse4, though feel free to request a rename!

Thanks so much to the submitters. We've done the prizes a bit differently this time, using voucher items to redeem your silver, Trial points, and/or charm slot. These vouchers are in the reward bundles, which are in your ender chest, or in your inventory if your ender chest is full.

‼️Parkour Rush Notice

Just wanted to make something clear about the Parkour Rush now that it's over - the loot chest reset from the rush is permanent, not just for the rush. If you've already beaten any parkours, you can now go beat them again whenever you feel like it! Only catch is Raceway won't give a charm slot again. Apologies that this was unclear.

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📣Charms, Lucky Rush, General Updates

Hey everyone - big weekend ahead! Aside from the PvP events, there's new charms, the Lucky Rush, and general updates with an upcoming build contest FYI.

📿Charms

There are 12 new charms to find:

• 💎The Valor Shop has 5 new charms. They are listed in-game in ‘/valor charms’, but a few examples:

  • 🗿Bobblehead: Gain the Luck effect permanently while wearing your own head.

  • 💧Prince Rupert's Drop: Your hazard enchants activate with massive power when struck from behind.

  • 🗝️Spare Key: Your first charm slot can be modified even while your charms case is locked.

• 💀The Crypt Trial Shop sells the Metal Detector, which extracts scrap in place of junk when brushing suspicious sediments.

• 🎈The Boardwalk sells Balloon Animal, which causes allied mobs to pop on death, applying a radial stun and damage. Tragic!

• There are 5 other charms findable either around spawn or via gameplay, including the Sanguine Phial. Keep an eye out!

Some old charms have also been updated:

• 🍵Coffee Beans: Reworked! Gain speed, haste, and double experience during sunrise.

• 🏌️Golf Club: Reworked! Your attacks gain range, ignore some mob knockback resist, and deal double knockback to small targets.

• 🔻Nerfs: Reduced Adventurer's Tricorne boss payout to 250 silver. Made Hourglass Sands only work on utility items. Reduced Runic Compass proc rate.

✨Lucky Rush

The rush starts in just a few! In addition to the Core Bonuses, this rush has two main benefits:

• +3 Luck all weekend. Simple but effective - and good for hunting for charms!,

• Lucky Events can randomly activate to amplify certain events. Keep an eye out!,

📝General Updates

• ⚒️FYI, we'll announce a new build contest Sunday night PST which awards a Charm slot. We're delaying the start to avoid distracting from weekend events.

• 🔨Impetus of Hephaestus gem stats decay when striking with a non-artisan weapon, and Luck caps at 8 stacks.

• ⚡Impetus of Zeus grants charge from landing shots, has improved slow down physics, and slows you while aiming a spyglass.

• ☁️Terados's maps have waypoints for A Vexing Situation's quest locations, and a subtle leaf trail guides the path between them, to aid players new to the quest.

• 🐶More allied mobs grant mcMMO taming XP and benefit from taming passives. This ignores most humanoid allies, like Paradigm of Greed contractors, but works for an Avatar of Phantoms horde, for example.

⏫Rush Weekends

Rush Weekends are a permanent feature designed to help you make the most of your weekends in Silver Springs. They run every weekend for the full 24 hours of Saturday and Sunday, in Pacific time.

Each rush activates a set of shared Core Bonuses, as well as a random Wild Bonus from a list. Below are the Core Bonuses of each rush (every weekend!), and the list of known Wild Bonuses which have occurred so far.

✅Core Bonuses

• 1.25x multiplier on Trial Points, mcMMO XP, Boardwalk tickets, and Rune drops

• All Valor quests have only a 4-hour cooldown

• mcMMO diminishing returns cap at 0.5x XP instead of 0.25x

⁉️Wild Bonuses

• 🐟River Rush: Rain lasts longer, and fish are hooked a bit quicker.

• ✨Lucky Rush: Gain +3 Luck. Lucky Events will randomly activate.

• 🪙Gold Rush: Gold drops more from ores, scrap, or striking it rich. Paradigm of Greed is innately active.

• 🪶Parkour Rush: Parkour item rewards are reset. Gain +1 innate Rocket Boosting and Blitz level. Grasshopper/Orbweaver have -50% cooldown and reset rocket boosts when used successfully.

• 🚽Void Rush: All possible locales are corrupted and drop slightly more runes, and rarely, something else... Eldritch Inclination is innately active.

• 😱Ominous Rush: Ominous Vaults, Pillager raids, and Tier III+ Surges can award Badges of Valor.

• 🧠Experience Rush: XP drops are doubled and Mending repairs quicker.

• 🥖Lunch Rush: Mobs that drop food drop 1 more. Taste Test is innately active. During lunchtime in the main overworld, food grants +50% saturation and Silver Springs Village vendors are 25% off.

⏫Rush Weekends & General Updates

Greetings everyone! It’s time to formally announce our Rush Weekends and give a few fun general updates!

Rush Weekends

Rush Weekends are a new permanent feature of Silver Springs. They run every weekend for the full 24 hours of Saturday and Sunday, in Pacific time. The first will begin this Saturday, June 21st.

Each rush activates a set of shared Core Bonuses to help you enjoy the weekend, as well as a random Wild Bonus from a list. Below are the Core Bonuses of each rush (every weekend!), as well as the Wild Bonus for the first rush this weekend - the River Rush!

✅Core Bonuses

• +25% to earned Trial Points, mcMMO XP, and Boardwalk tickets, and to rune drop rates

• The quest A Vexing Situation has only a 4-hour cooldown

• mcMMO diminishing returns cap at 0.5x XP instead of 0.25x

🐟Wild Bonus - River Rush!

• It’s not SSS without rain and community fishing! During this rush, rain lasts longer and you’ll hook fish a bit quicker.

General Updates

🧍Armor stands:

• Updated the Armor Stand Customizer which is accessed by sneak right clicking armor stands:

  • The smallness toggle has been replaced with +/- buttons to modify the armor stand's scale between 0.2x and 2x.

  • Added a "Swap Armor" button to swap all armor the armor stand is wearing with your own.

  • Added a lower interface with editable slots to control equipment. This lets you put anything in their slots, including the hand slots for ones with arms.

• Added ‘/rotate info’, which allows punching an armor stand to view all of its current rotations.

📖Runecrafting balance, largely in preparation for the PvP tournament this weekend:

• Reduced the PvP damage of the Avatar of Wardens sonic blast from 5 ❤ to 1.5 ❤.

• Reduced the damage of Gatling's additional arrows by 50%.

  • This is harsh, but we believe justified. It too quickly outscales options like Multishot, and some of its power comes from the sheer projectile count, which increases reliability and proc rates, so it doesn't need best-in-class damage within a few shots. It still scales into being the strongest DPS spread enchant.

• Halved the duration of Adrenaline Rush's reduced speed and gravity in PvP.

• Fixed Ice Aspect and Plague Aspect applying their effects even when the hit was blocked.

✏️For those who were interested in the design behind the Arcanum expansion, a large post detailing the process is available here: Designing Boundaries of the Arcanum

✨Added the ‘/paragon’ command for viewing info about the existing Paragon items.

🪲Fixed mcMMO XP diminishing returns going down to 0.05x instead of our intended 0.25x. mcMMO was bugged and ignoring our config for this field.

Thanks, friends! Please leave feedback for any of this in ⁠#💌feedback-and-suggestions as usual. 🫶