Patch notes

Every change to the realm and this website, newest first. Game news and events are on the news page.

Sunday 15 November24 changes

Website

Strong QA test character

Created via the website's own register procedure and the vendor character-create procedure (no raw inserts). Login checked on the website.

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Gear (+15 set + wings): pending. Will be added with the vendor editor only (preflight + inventory read-back), after the current TEST boss kill frees the desktop.
Credentials stored privately; not posted.

Phones now always get the 600 px files~~~591 KB~~~230 KB

Desktop/roadmap no longer jumps while loading.~~0.26~~0.03

Lighthouse mobile/roadmap no longer jumps while loading.~~0.30~~0

GameplayLive

Faster pages on phones + no more jumping roadmap

The MU-life key art figures loaded at 1200 px on phones (fairy elf 335 KB). Phones now always get the 600 px files (~591 KB -> ~230 KB for the 3 figures). Desktop unchanged.

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Lighthouse mobile: before perf 0.76-0.79, LCP 5.0-5.6 s, images 692 KB (R3); after perf 0.80, LCP 4.8 s, images 419 KB.
/roadmap no longer jumps while loading. Before: CLS 0.30 (header added after the first paint + the heading font swapping in and re-wrapping the title). After: header and footer are part of the page, and the heading font no longer swaps in late. Desktop 0.26 -> 0.03, Lighthouse mobile 0.30 -> 0. Same fix on all 14 product pages.
Home images: phone-size copies (640 px, phone mock 390 px) + responsive sizes + lazy loading. Before 778 KB for these 11 images, after ~240 KB. Lighthouse mobile perf 0.74-0.81 -> 0.88, LCP 4.1-5.3 s -> 3.1 s.
HEAD answers 200 (shipped earlier today).
Footer said "Preview build · not indexed"; it now says mu-cms.com (the pages are live and indexed).

FixesLive

Console Features panel + site SEO/accessibility fixes

New per-realm panel: password/email change, character requests, web vault, event notifications, image uploads, hero equipment, each Follow install / On / Off with ON NOW / OFF NOW badges. Staff read-only; saves are…

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New per-realm panel: password/email change, character requests, web vault, event notifications, image uploads, hero equipment, each Follow install / On / Off with ON NOW / OFF NOW badges. Staff read-only; saves are audited.
Titles: before 9 pages shared "EmpyreanMU · Season 22", after "Rankings · EmpyreanMU", "Events · …", "Sign in · …", "Create account · …", "Search · …". "Download" -> "Download · EmpyreanMU"; "Privacy | …" -> "Privacy · …".
/login, /register, /account, /vault, /staff: before index, after noindex.
www.empyreanmu.com: before a 200 copy, after 301 to empyreanmu.com.
Security header: + object-src none, base-uri self, form-action self.
Default design: "Skip to content" is now the first Tab stop (before: THEMES).

WebsiteLive

3 new designs (Pearl Ascension, Abyss Broadcast, Celestial Codex)

21. The Empyrean Portal stays the default; players pick the new ones in the design switcher.

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Pearl Ascension (light): pearl glass, iridescent rims, arch hero slider, live siege countdown, arch champion cards, ring event countdowns.
Celestial Codex (our logo's language): centred nav with the logo, logo over a turning astrolabe, chapters I-III, coin medallions with roman seals, Almanac, Chronicle.
All three use the real class portraits and live data only (no sample names); every page of the site is restyled in each.

WebsiteLive

New main navigation (D4-nav) on the Empyrean Portal

A forged 64 px bar with a gold trim and centre gem, an MU item icon per link that lifts and glows on hover, and a raised gold plate on the current page.

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Right side: server-time chip (shows "your time" + offset only when yours differs), Discord pill with the live online count, Register, gold Play free.
Scrolling: a compact 52 px bar docks at the top (crest added); nothing jumps.
Phones: bottom tab bar (Home, Rankings, Events, Discord with online badge, Menu) + menu sheet (Play free, Register, Discord, all links, guides, server vs your time).

WebsiteLive

D4 "MU life" on the Empyrean Portal (heroes behind the panels, MU colours per panel)

Own colour per panel, an item in a socket in every header, an MU line over each title.

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Idle float on desktop only; phones get one hero banner per panel.
Theme builder > MU life: per panel colour, line, socket item, hero art (which hero, size, crop). Off by default for other MU-CMS sites.

WebsiteLive

Patch notes page + image-first news

Patch notes page, built from this channel every 5 minutes.

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Theme builder > Patch notes: page on/off, sources, public categories, pictures, panels, tester builds, Show exact rates (off), hide by id, per page.
Posts with their own picture are now wide banner cards (picture beside the text, full width on phones). Theme builder > News > Picture posts as wide banners (on).

WebsiteLive

D3 Portal look live (real class portraits, new rankings, hero and nav)

Class portraits: Painted set -> Real client portraits (all designs, rankings + heroes + home).

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Rankings: tabs Pills -> Segmented, podium + table Classic -> Sapphire, rank badges Shield -> Medal, class filter Shield -> Tile.
Hero page: frame Chamfer -> Rounded, header Classic -> Sapphire, equipment title Engraved -> Clean.
Nav + phone bar Classic -> Sapphire, buttons Forged -> Sapphire, live counters Glass -> Sapphire, news cards Classic -> Sapphire, download button Crystal -> Gold, footer titles Classic -> Cinzel.
Every option is in the theme builder (Portal look); "Classic (all back)" restores the old look.
News: posts without a picture are clean text cards (live since 14:02Z, now in the D3 build too).
Theme builder text limits: legal section 600 -> 4000, FAQ answer 400 -> 1200, legal intro up to 1200. The API keeps its current limits until the next API update.

WebsiteLive

News posts without a picture are clean text cards (no letter tiles)

Those posts are compact text cards, with no picture slot, a thin colour line per category, a larger headline and more of the summary. Posts with their own picture are unchanged.

Details 1

Before: every post without its own picture showed a big letter tile (S, C, R, N...) as its picture: 28 tiles on /news.

WebsiteLive

3D hero item effects v2 / v2.1 (game-accurate)

V2 game-accurate rules from client-content: per-item glow colour (classic MU colour tables), +3/+4 and +5/+6 tints, chrome / metal passes by level, excellent colour cycle, ancient pulse, +15 weapon flares. No stars…

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Before: b44 approximated effects (generic sphere-map shine, star sparkles at +13/+15, risk of white blow-out).
Website fix in the port: the +15 flares showed a black square on the transparent stage; now additive only.
Faces, hair and skin never shine (as before).

WebsiteLive

New side panels (D3a) + rankings class filter, Hall of Champions, server clock

Sapphire / Clean / Sapphire (D3a).

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All 8 side modules rebuilt on the same live data. Sign-in: labelled fields, show-password, error state, 2FA code step (before: 2FA players could not sign in from the side panel).
Other designs / other MU CMS sites keep the classic look; all options in the theme builder.
Class filter on every ranking board (18 designs), Hall of Champions home block, server time + your time in the nav. Banner slider built, OFF.

WebsiteLive

Discord button + #updates on the news page

The 11 posts were checked and approved (no mentions or private data) and the #updates source is auto-publish: new #updates posts appear on the site by themselves (importer runs every minute, pictures copied to the…

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Counts now come from our own bot's feed (before: Discord's public invite lookup, kept as fallback).
Theme builder > Discord: dock off / strip at the top / floating button + label.

WebsiteLive

Legal pages, cookie notice, footer links fixed

Notice on first visit, two equal buttons Accept / Essential only.

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/terms, /refund, /cookies before: 404 (not published). After: live, wording exactly as the approved draft.
Footer links to the 3 pages added next to Privacy in all 18 designs.
All text editable in the theme builder > Site & widgets > Legal pages & cookies.
The site still sets 0 cookies before a choice. "Essential only" = the design choice is kept only until the browser closes; "Accept" = 1 year.
Before: the Play / Realm / Community columns showed titles with 0 links (saving the footer on 15 Nov emptied the stored links). After: 17 links restored from the defaults; still editable in the theme builder.

WebsiteLive

Random page errors fixed + sitemap/robots

No visible change to any page or design.

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Cause: every page request on empyreanmu.com was sent through a second internal connection inside the web server; under load that connection sometimes reset, giving a random error 500 (19 hits in the log since 13 Nov).
/robots.txt before: no rules. After: public pages allowed; staff, account, sign-in, register, vault, support tickets and search blocked, plus the sitemap line.
The MU CMS host and test hosts (next.*) are not listed and are blocked for crawlers.

WebsiteLive

Hero page "Equipment window", new titles + buttons, flying 3D heroes with item effects

New in-game style Equipment window: the 3D hero stands on a glowing rune pedestal in the middle, armour slots on the left, wings / weapon / off-hand / pet / pentagram on the right, accessories below. New banner with…

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New in-game style Equipment window: the 3D hero stands on a glowing rune pedestal in the middle, armour slots on the left, wings / weapon / off-hand / pet / pentagram on the right, accessories below. New banner with gold portrait ring and stat plaques.
3D motion: winged heroes take the fly stand, float and flap their wings; other heroes idle; slow turn. The full figure always fits (no cut at the bottom).
Item effects: equipped items shine by +level / excellent / ancient (e.g. +15 gold-white shine with sparkles). The 2D slots glow in the same colours. Faces and hair do not shine. Weapon glows are toned down so the blade stays visible.
Phones: lighter rendering; slow devices drop the sparkles automatically.
Panel titles: centred on an engraved plate with gold flourishes (the blue gem box is gone).
Theme builder: Hero page look, Title bars and Buttons can be switched back at any time.

WebsiteLive

3D hero fix - capes on the back, no white heads

Wings of Soul / Wings of Dragon sit on the back.

Details 1

68 model files + the model list updated; the other ~2,750 models are unchanged.

WebsiteLive

"Join the realm" footer band removed

The "Join the realm" band (Create account / Download / Join Discord + Online now / Realms / Client / Next event) is removed from the footer, in all 18 designs.

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Done in the CMS, not in code: theme builder > Footer > Join band: off and Live realm strip: off (before: both on).
The footer link columns, socials and copyright stay as they were.

Golden SentenceHigher chance

Ability CrystalHigher chance

DropsLive

T5/T6 materials: drop rows x1.25

Drop chances were adjusted; the details are in game.

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Maps: T5 136, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142 and T6 143-146 (all monsters on each map).
Materials only, 1,152 rows, each Rate x1.25 (rounded):
Artifact Enchantment Stone, Spider Artifact Fragment, Ability Crystal higher chance (Blaze Kethotum)
Uriel's Feather, Seed Spheres, Seed Capsules, Sphere (Tetra), Miracle Coin: each x1.25
T6 Imperial / Temple Guard / Divine Spirit / Soul Horn / Ability Enhancement rows higher chance

WebsiteLive

Hero equipment, 2D + 3D

New Equipment section: the hero's worn gear in an in-game style equipment window (weapon, shield, helm, armor, pants, gloves, boots, wings, pet, pendant, rings, pentagram, earrings).

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Tap/hover a slot for the in-game tooltip with the item picture.
3D hero: the class body wearing the equipped armor, weapons, wings and pet, built from the game client's models. Drag to turn. Loads on its own on desktop; "View in 3D" button on phones.
Rankings: Gear link next to heroes in the top 100.
My account > new "Equipment on hero pages" choice: follow the website setting / hide / show.
Hide is checked on every request. Only worn gear is shown: never bags, warehouse or Jewel Bank. No item serials, no account names. GM characters are never shown.
Theme builder > Hero equipment: on/off, who is shown (all / top N / opt-in only, default top 100), 3D on/off, button text, title, hidden-hero text.

WebsiteLive

Phone tap fix (THEMES side tab)

On phones, the closed THEMES side tab had an invisible area of about 260 px x 70% of the screen on the right edge that swallowed taps on every page (since the b38 footer change).

Details 1

Now only the tab itself (and the panel while open) takes taps; everything under it works again.

WebsiteLive

My vault with real item pictures + in-game tooltips

Every item now shows its own picture, rendered from the game client's 3D models (4,822 items; 75 keep a family icon).

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Warehouse grid: pictures fill their cells like the in-game inventory (1x1, 2x2, 2x3). Also in the item list and on top of each tooltip.
Excellent / ancient / +level items get a subtle glow.
Built from this server's own item files: damage, defense, speed, durability, requirements, classes, real excellent options, ancient set + Stamina, harmony, sockets.
Values the game rescales for level/excellent show "(base)".
Jewel Bank (Bless / Soul) and item counts on the vault page.
MY VAULT in the menu for signed-in players (Empyrean Portal, in place of Register). Rune steel panels.

WCoinRegular reset rewards (Gremory Case), every reset~~20-200~~0

DropsLive

Reset rewards: no more WCoin

Regular reset rewards (Gremory Case), every reset: WCoin 20-200 -> 0 (was 20 per step: 20/40/60/.../200).

Details 1

Unchanged: GP 100-1000 and Ruud 2000-20000 per reset, milestones (already 0).

God of DarknessPure Wing Core (Type 1) PatternHigher chance

NixPure Wing Core (Type 1) PatternHigher chance

Lord of FereaPure Wing Core (Type 1) PatternHigher chance

God of Darkness5th Wing RelicHigher chance

DropsLive

Wing materials: higher boss drop chance

Pure Wing Core (Type 1) Pattern: God of Darkness higher chance, Nix higher chance, Lord of Ferea higher chance

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5th Wing Relic: God of Darkness higher chance, Nix higher chance
No other boss drops these. Real per-kill rolls.

ShopLive

X-Shop: single-item listings can be bought again

Fix: those 40 listings now use the vendor form. No client update needed.

Details 1

Cause: 40 of the 84 X-Shop listings (every listing with one option: Special, Tickets, GP Specials / Buffs singles, the 4 GP boxes) had the wrong option value on the server, so the server refused the buy. 1-day / 7-day listings were not affected. Nothing was charged.