Timeline of Vesteria Updates

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2021

  • January 1st, 2021: Paid access for Vesteria is removed, and the full version of Vesteria is available for free for the first time.
  • January 22nd, 2021: Pet Eggs (normal, great, and noble) available from Zacha’s Amazing Animal Gacha in Nilgarf. 18 new pets added, available from the pet eggs.
  • Feburary 8th, 2021: Pit Dweller added to prevent access from players below level 35 to the Pit.
  • February 14th, 2021: Pink Dye released and made available for a limited time for Valentine’s Day.
  • February 22nd, 2021: Redwood Pass reduced from maximum of 40 players to 15 players.
  • March 10th, 2021: Ability icons added to subclass abilities that were missing them.
  • March 11th, 2021: Simulacrum and Ricochet scaling fixed to be off of INT and STR respectively
  • March 12th, 2021: Missing badges re-introduced.
  • April 11th, 2021: Spider Queen Crown icon changed
  • April 12th, 2021: Headslime fixed to work with Headgear Scrolls. Wheel re-added to Mushroom Forest, allowing the Wheel Woes quest to be completed
  • April 14th, 2021: Death penalty removed from Vesteria, instead you respawn with low health and no MP. New UI released. Megaphone cooldown reduced from 2 minutes to 10 seconds. Boosters removed. Default keybinds changed, though this change was later reverted. Shadow Flurry fixed. Default potion consume time reduced to 1s from 2s, but 1.5s for Big Red Potions and Orange Potions and 2s for Mighty Sub. 4s potion cooldown (between potions) removed. Runes no longer work on Forsaken Isle or aboard the Wayfarer.
  • April 15th, 2021: Metaverse Champions event releases in Vesteria, featuring a new quest. Ancient Weapon ATK Scrolls changed from 10% to 15% and give +5 ATK, Ancient Stat Scroll icons adjusted slightly to have a tint showing the stat. Golden chest added to Mushroom Forest
  • April 16th, 2021: Fixed teleporting immediately after joining causing teleporting to break entirely. Screen discoloration from overkill properly resets on respawn.
  • April 18th, 2021: Testing Realm gamepass made available for 2499 Robux.
  • April 21st, 2021: Mushtown Runes drop model fixed (no longer uses Colosseum Rune model), Ethyr Crystal drop model/animation fixed to use proper model, Goblin Ears no longer soulbound, Artifact Aegis and Forgotten Helm icons updated, all stat potions set to stack to 16, Headslime transparency fixed after using Stealth, Depth Scryer Hat and Forgotten Staff interaction added, Snel hitbox increased, Cleric self-revive fixed.
  • April 25th, 2021: Knockback from the Bounceback perk from Mushroom Sword on Rebuke significantly reduced in PvP.
  • May 4th, 2021: Cursed Scrolls can now roll an additional stat if no Holy Scrolls have been used on the item. Cursed Scrolls buffed to be able to add +8 ATK or DEF. Dyeing fishing rods now changes the bobber color. Rare chance to fish up a Crabby while fishing, and extremely rare chance to obtain Snelly Pet when fishing. Pet icons fixed.
  • May 5th, 2021: Duplication bug fixed.
  • May 10th, 2021: drip changed to be no longer soulbound.
  • May 16th, 2021: Holy Scrolls removed from Shroompocalypse. Rebirthing at max level updated to provide a Holy Scroll. Barrage and Thundercall cast swapping (changing hats mid-thundercall to increase damage) fixed. The Stranger re-added as a traveling merchant NPC, and sells several new items, including Shadow Dye, Supermegaphone, Horsehead, Cursed Rune, and Wise Beard. A spiral is briefly added to a single Nilgarf server spawned in by a developer, taking between 2-3 hours to climb.
  • May 19th, 2021: First live event in Vesteria. World events/live events and other developer spawns will not be discussed in-depth here due to how frequently they occurred without being formally documented, unless particularly noteworthy.
  • May 20th, 2021: Another duplication bug fixed.
  • May 23rd, 2021: Spider Fighter quest added.
  • June 1st, 2021: 2x Inventory Space gamepass made available for pre-order.
  • June 6th, 2021: First announced World Event for Vesteria, with everyone in-game being teleported to Farmlands, now renamed “A Distant Memory”. A Spider Queen, renamed “Spider Queen Imposter” was spawned, dropping its normal loot as well as Drips, Great and Noble Pet Eggs, Cursed Scrolls and Cursed Runes.
  • June 12th, 2021[1]: Double inventory gamepass officially launches. Level cap increased to 50. All scrolls changed to give 3x ATK/DEF compared to what they previously gave. Tiers changed appropriately (grey for 0 - 2.9 points, blue for 3 - 29.9 points, purple for 30 - 62.9 points, red for 63 - 95.9 points, gold for 96 - 146.9 points, green for 147+ points). Points provided by stats changed (1 ATK/DEF = 1 point, 1 STR/DEX/INT/VIT = 1.5 points, 1% crit/block = 1.5 points, 1 stamina = 6 points, 10 MP/HP = 1.5 points, no points for MP/HP recovery or XP). Dark Scrolls introduced, giving +9 ATK/DEF with a 70% chance of working, with a 7.5% chance of destruction on failure (22.5% safe fail). Cursed Scrolls changed to be obtainable from Mo Ko Tu Aa, Scarab and Possum. Dark Scrolls obtained from Beggar, SQR Shop (30 eggs for DEF, 50 for ATK), Colosseum Shop (75 for ATK only), and Dunes minibosses. 2% damage per level bonus reduced. Base damage multiplier increased from 1.5 to 2. Resurrect cooldown reduced to 10s, Heal cooldown reduced to 3s and max range increased. Items show how many Holy Scrolls were used on them. Giant color tint becomes more intense the closer you get to a giant enemy. Mobile UI improvements. Tuaa Shield perk replaced with 25% block chance, Hobo Armor defense significantly reduced but 10% block chance added.
  • June 26th, 2021: Variants no longer drop from mobs, and the extra stats no longer count towards item tier. Taximan Dave changed to be able to teleport players to any map they have been to previously. XP orbs added to visually show XP being received by a player. Several changes to Stamina, including sprinting consuming stamina unless on a cobblestone path, which also doubles stamina regeneration, new UI, jumping no longer canceling consumables, but stamina exhaustion does, and jumping is disabled while consuming a potion, STR adds 0.05 Stamina per point, taking non-suppressed damage deducts 0.5 Stamina and prevents regen for 1s, and warrior abilities require stamina. Buffs to Execute, Shadow Flurry, Shunpo, Switch Strike and Blink, nerfed Frostcall. Spin Slash replaces Quick Slash, Meteor Storm replaces Meteor Strike. Rock Throw and Magic Missile changed to require stamina/being rooted respectively but gain increased damage. A number of UI changes were made including allowing interact prompts to be clicked, dark mode, and draggable UI. Mo Ko Tu Aa and Possum loot tables adjusted to add Dark Scrolls and for Possum, to buff gear drop chances by roughly double but remove Holy Scrolls.
  • July 1st, 2021: Mobile UI improved.
  • July 2nd, 2021: Vesteria Day event launches, featuring a quest from a new Uncle Bam NPC in Nilgarf to deliver a Box of Fireworks item to Warrior Stronghold in order to receive a new Fireworks item.
  • July 9th, 2021: Barrage, Combat Roll, Magic Missile, Ferocious Assault and other abilities no longer break on first use. Double Casting fixed. Fixed abilities using stamina that were not supposed to. Blink updated to have no casting animation and 1s cooldown, but much shorter distance and higher MP cost. Ferocious Assault buffed, Combat Roll damage block buffed during animation.
  • July 16th, 2021: Cursed Scrolls buffed to be more likely to give higher end rolls. Respawning in a safe area restores full HP & MP, and temporary invulnerability added on respawn until the player attacks. Players can no longer deal damage while dead. Dying removes all status effects, including those that are beneficial. Abilities and monsters no longer target NPCs. Runes can be used on Forsaken Isle again. Base stamina increased to 5 from 3. Content Creator Megaphone added. Cosmetic Reset Scrolls sold by Monsieur Fred in Nilgarf. EXP orbs no longer spawn at max level. Nearby players now show up at the top of the screen. UI changes for leaderboard and settings menu. Pillage Vitality hit registration improved. Shadow Walk heavily nerfed. Tab lock behavior changed to follow the cursor.
  • July 30th, 2021: NPC markers updated. Rootbeard added, including Uprooted Blade, Fungi Staff and Root Bow, as well as several misc items. Stranger shop updated to provide more consistent number of each categories of items. Cat Girl NPC added to Nilgarf, selling the Catgirl set. Chicken hitboxes improved. Items can be picked up by anyone after 2 minutes, despawns after 3 minutes. Tab loc behavior from previous update reverted. Overbite perk on Incisor nerfed to bring critical damage bonus down to 30% from 50%. Shadow Flurry made parryable. War Cry buffed but duration lowered, Prism Trap adjusted, Horsehead stats implemented. Various bug fixes.
  • July 31st, 2021: +8 Slot gamepass made available.
  • August 6th, 2021: Who’s Da Boss quest added to the Catgirl NPC. Tier colors for pets added. New starter pack available for Roblox Premium players. Chicken EXP and drop rates buffed. Giant (and other giant variants) contribute more towards Mo Ko Tu Aa and Rootbeard spawns on kills, Mo Ko Tu Aa fixed to despawn on kill, Possum fixed to no longer despawn randomly, 12 hour Spider Queen spawn changed to be more difficult based on average lobby level as originally implemented and at high levels may have Cursed Scrolls, equipment sell costs reduced. Cube added to Whispering Dunes, kills on contact.
  • August 8th, 2021: Mushroom Forest merged into Mushtown as a single map. The Clearing removed, Mushtown leads directly to Great Crossroads. Brutus changed to prevent anyone under level 20 from entering Nilgarf and deals 100 damage instead of instakilling. Cows added to the game in Mushtown and Great Crossroads. Breakable objects introduced in Mushtown, Apple Trees able to run out of apples (respawn every 5 minutes). Hermit Crabby Pet added to the game, exclusive to a Twitter giveaway.
  • August 21, 2021: Giants now drop Giant Tokens, and Bounty Hunter shop added to Nilgarf. Contribution changed to take into account tanking and healing, and only provides credit for damage dealt by players (no longer able to let mobs fight each other and get the last hit). EXP and drops reduced for players with more than a 10 level difference compared to the mob. Party members gain bonus XP from a nearby party member killing mobs. Party members can no longer be targeted by attacks. Basic attack hitboxes changed to align more closely with animation. Cannon Pet added. Marauder Dagger and Marauder Bow added.
  • August 28, 2021: Previous update reverted due to a number of bugs and balance issues. Giant Tokens continue to be dropped by giant mobs, but without loot decay and EXP decay. Bounty Hunter shop moved to Great Crossroads, basic scrolls removed, and all shop prices reduced. Marauder items and Cannon Pet kept in game. Shops can now be sorted by item category. Can no longer change equipment while in combat. Testing watermark added to Testing Realm items. Thundercall changed to fire a number of bolts per cast but rooting the player in place. Storm Surge condenses all of the bolt damage into a single bolt, Eldritch Thunder causes all enemies in an area to be hit at the same time. Meteor Strike buffed with better aim and DPS. Double EXP weekend.
  • September 3rd, 2021: Rebirth roman numerals added. Level squish update, max level reduced to 30. Anyone above level 30 set back down to level 30, anyone between level 31-35 starts at life II, anyone from 36-42 at III, 43-49 IV, 50 V. Forsaken Isle content reduced to level 21-25, Whispering Dunes content reduced to level 23-30, Pit content reduced to level 21-25, Shroompocalypse scales by level. A number of perks have changed. Spider Giant Spiderlings in SQR guarantee one-shot. Rangers capped at 600 HP max. 2 adventurer skill points provided at level 1, and all adventurer skills set to have 3 points assigned to them. Subclasses available at level 20. Upon picking both a faction and subclass, start out with 3 skill points available to assign. Sell price of all equipment significantly reduced due to the lower levels. Minor UI changes. Barber Streisand has moved to Great Crossroads. Archmage Egoisme removed, replaced with ??? (the NPC) in Warrior Stronghold. Attack removed from fishing rods. Later on during the day, the level squish update would be reverted. However, all other changes made during this update stayed.
  • September 9th, 2021: Private servers introduced for free. Save data from private servers is completely separate from main game.
  • September 10th, 2021: Woodcutting and mining added to Mushtown and Great Crossroads.
  • September 11th, 2021: “Overseer’s Gaze” provides 3x EXP, bonus EXP and bonus Giant Token drops.
  • September 18th, 2021: Vesteria’s 3rd Anniversary Event runs until September 21st, 2021. Daily “Mushroom Hero” quests are available, requiring killing various Shroom enemies to get Birthday Gifts which randomly award Mushroom Hero items (with new sets available for all factions) as well as Party Hats. Giants drop the new Birthday Cake consumable item, and all mobs have a chance to drop Birthday Fireworks. Various additions for tags, including showing staff roles and rebirth count. Golden Eye cosmetic unlocked at 20 rebirths. Various world events occur throughout the event.
  • October 1st, 2021: Mo Ko Tu Aa spawn requirements reduced (from 500 kills per totem to 350 kills per totem). Anti-exploit improvement. Bag of Sugar properly drops when doing the Baker’s Assistant quest. Content Creators given CC tag and freecam.
  • October 8th, 2021: Halloween Part 1. Orange Dye added and made available from Barber Streisand. All mobs drop Candy Corn, mobs over level 30 have a chance to drop Chocolate Bars, Hard Candies, or Green Lollipops, with different mobs dropping different candies. Map decorations in various early game maps (Mushtown, Great Crossroads, Nilgarf) for Halloween.
  • October 15th, 2021: Halloween Part 2. Candy Cartel added to Nilgarf. Scarecrow Scythe, Vampiric Dagger, and Accursed Edge added to the game, sold at the Candy Cartel for Hard Candies, Green Lollipops and Chocolate Bars respectively. Black Cat pet added to the game, purchasable from the Candy Cartel for a large amount of Candy Corn. Candy stack sizes changed to 99. Loot tables updated in Bounty Book to show candy. Boss loot tables updated to also drop candy. Additional Halloween decorations added. Cursed Scrolls added to Whispering Dunes beetle shop. Broken Crystal Beetle conversion requirement lowered from 9 to 5.
  • October 16th, 2021: Crystal Beetles added to Azariah and Auktufiti drop pool. Candy Cartel prices reduced. Scarab candy drop rate increased to 100%, Spider Queen candy changed from Green Lollipop to Hard Candy. Caustic Wounds and Mana Thief perks buffed, Accursed Flame perk description updated, Copper Ore available from Copper Nodes, Catgirl Armor XP buffed. Spider Slayer quest fixed.
  • October 22nd, 2021: Trading and bank temporarily disabled.
  • October 23rd, 2021: Halloween Part 3. Trick or Treating added, requiring masks. Mushtown Pumpkin Patch quest added, providing the Jack O’ Lantern mask. Yeti, Spider Queen, and Mo Ko Tu Aa updated to drop their respective masks. Candy Cartel updates to sell Shroom Mask and Brutus Mask. Witch’s Broom, Meat Cleaver, and Bone Sword added as rare rewards from Trick or Treating. Complete Warlock overhaul, adding Desecrate, Blood Plague and Chain Binding, updating Dark Ritual, Pillage Vitality and Dark Pulse, and removing Simulacrum. Tree Branch Staff fixed. Scarab Hard Candy drop reduced, Ancient DEF Scroll price at Stranger reduced, Possum and Reanimated Slime XP increased. Guild names are now visible beneath players. Pets no longer pick up items dropped by other players. 90 STR perk disabled. Bank access restored.
  • October 26th, 2021: Private servers updated to show owner with a crown on the leaderboard and to provide admin commands, the first of which being the “give” command, enabling players to spawn in items. Private server price increased to 120 Robux.
  • October 31st, 2021: Halloween Part 3.5. Scarecrow, Vampiric and Accursed armor sets added to the game, sold through the Candy Cartel for the same currency as their respective weapons. Sinister Hat, Mysterious Tophat and Starshroom Cap also added to the Candy Cartel for Candy Corn. Candy Cartel available in both Great Crossroads and Nilgarf. Stranger temporarily set to spawn throughout the week as opposed to just on the weekend due to the 3 day Roblox outage. Bounty Book updated to count kills after bounty completion (previously kill count disappeared after claiming the last bounty).
  • November 2nd, 2021: Halloween Part 4. Dullahan NPC added to Nilgarf, providing the ability to teleport to a Badlands preview for 99 Candy Corn. Skeletons spawn throughout Badlands and have a rare chance to drop rare candies as well as Ancient Skulls, which can be used to summon the Skull Boss (later renamed to Zho’lok). Halloween set to end November 12th.
  • November 9th, 2021: Taximan Dave updated to cost money when teleporting. Rather than teleporting to individual checkpoints, temporarily changed to only teleport to the map itself. Forsaken Isle and Wayfarer removed from Taximan Dave travel list. Trading re-enabled.
  • November 13th, 2021: Halloween removed. Ancient Skull vendor price updated. Taximan Dave prices reduced, and all prices set to 5 silver inside a Tier 3 Guild Hall. Monster Book now shows XP from mobs. Stranger inventory updated. Cow health reduced.
  • November 18th, 2021: Ethyr shop menu introduced into Nilgarf servers (as opposed to be being through Monsieur Fred), selling Mush Armor, Ink & Quill, Name Tag, Megaphone, Stat Reset Tome, Skill Reset Tome, Monster Lure and Cosmetic Reset Scroll.
  • November 26th, 2021: Black Friday sale for essentially all Robux products.
  • November 28th, 2021: Blacksmith hammer sound in Warrior Stronghold reduced.
  • December 10th, 2021: Christmas event. Advent calendar added, giving various rewards, including the new Festive Hat, Festive Robes and Festive Boots. Santy Claws quest added, requiring collecting Festive Presents which drop from bosses, and rewarding Christmas Presents, which can provides a number of rewards including the new Ornamental Branch, Toy Sword, Candy Cane, and Frostbite items. Gingerbread Man, Cookies and Glass of Milk added, available for purchase from an NPC near Santy Claws.
  • December 13th, 2021: Scruffs Farm added as a tutorial area new players spawn at.
  • December 17th, 2021: Fountain Pen added to the global Ethyr shop. Item splitting added.
  • December 19th, 2021: Bank storage upgrades added, purchasable for gold or Ethyr.

  1. Technically, this update apparently released on June 2nd, 2021. However, the final changelog for the update was only posted on June 12th, so that is the date used for consistency. ↩︎

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