📣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: Coming Soon™️

⏫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. 🫶