Land Grab

Dear Erisians,

The Land Grab update marks the beginning of true territorial conflict in Eris Online. With the introduction of a new playable race, formalized warfare, player looting, advanced professions, banking, and building protection, the world of Eris has taken a decisive step toward danger, consequence, and player-driven power.

As always, thank you for your continued testing, feedback, and patience. Eris Online remains in alpha, and this update focuses on establishing core systems that will be expanded and refined over time.

New Race: Spectre

Cursed, spectral scions of betrayal, unrivaled as mages due to their transcendent intelligence and formidable as fighters due to their relentless strength.

⚠️ Patreon Preview Content The Spectre race is currently available as Preview Content for Patreon supporters.

To reward early supporters, the entry tier has been temporarily reduced from $5/month to $1/month for the first 50 sign-ups. Supporters gain access to:

• All preview content (including Spectre)
• All character slots

You may cancel at any time and retain access to any Spectre characters you have created. Supporters who remain subscribed will be permanently grandfathered into this price.

This offer will end after 50 sign-ups; ongoing processing and banking fees make this tier unsustainable at this price in the long term.

Building Protection

Megalesius the Alchemist now sells the Seed of the Hesperides for 10,000 Gold.

When planted, the seed grows into the Tree of the Hesperides, which magically protects all buildings within a 100-meter radius from damage.

Placing a Seed in an unclaimed territory will also claim that territory for you or your guild, preventing others outside your guild from building there.

In this way, the Tree secures both your structures and your claim, unless that claim is taken by force.

Warfare System

Claimed territories may only change hands through a formal declaration of war.

Amykos the Innkeeper now sells a Siege Tent for 5,000 Gold. The tent contains a replica of the Club of Hercules, capable of temporarily piercing the protection of the Hesperides.

When a Siege Tent is placed inside a claimed territory:

• A war is declared
• Combat begins the following Saturday at 1:00 PM UTC, aligning with our regular weekend streams
• At the start of the hour, all buildings in the territory become vulnerable

Defenders must destroy the Siege Tent to end the war and restore protection. Attackers will attempt to destroy the defending Tree of the Hesperides and replace it with a Seed of their own, thereby claiming the territory.

Player Looting

Death now carries real consequences.

When a player dies, all inventory items and gold are placed into their grave. The fallen player has 15 minutes to return and recover their belongings.

If another player loots the grave first, the items are taken. If the grave remains untouched after 15 minutes, all remaining items and gold are permanently destroyed.

Banking

Arne the Banker now offers secure banking services.

Gold and items stored with Arne are shared across all characters on your account.

Professions

At level 10, players may promote into one of four advanced classes:

Warrior

• Toughness (Passive): Increases health by 1% per point
• Slam (Shield): Stuns the target for 6 seconds (Requires 10 Block)

Cleric

• Theurgy (Passive): Increases offense by 1 per point.
• Smite (Spell): Deals Holy damage (Requires 10 Theurgy)

Thief

• Thievery (Passive): Required for Thievery-based skills
• Steal (Thievery): Opens the target player’s inventory (Requires 10 Thievery)

Wizard

• Wizardry (Passive): Increases offense by 1 per point
• Illuminate (Buff): Increases target Intelligence by 40 (Requires 10 Wizardry)

Gameplay Updates

World & Systems

• Added a dense, impenetrable fog surrounding Red Caye
• Drastically reduced monster density (significant server performance improvement)
• Removed global “Player has Died!” broadcast
• Increased monster corpse duration from 30s -> 90s
• Increased monster respawn time from 60s -> 180s

Content & Visuals

• Added new underwater visual effects
• Added underwear to female Hierax models
• Added new Player Alchemist model and renamed to Enchanter
• Added a new Workbench, required for Enchanters and placeable only in Cottages

Fixes & Adjustments

• Fixed Light Crossbow requirement (5 -> 10)
• Fixed crossbow positioning
• Fixed a critical bug causing contracts and blueprints to be removed from all inventories when placing a building

Future Plans

In the short term, we will be deploying hotfixes addressing reported building placement issues.

We are also completing the integration between in-game guilds and forum groups. Each guild will receive:

• A private forum category
• A private chat channel
• Automatic membership syncing based on in-game guild status

The next major update will focus on item systems, including new production buildings that allow players to manufacture their own equipment.

Thank you for helping us shape the future of Eris Online.

David
Lead Developer