Patch notes

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

Saturday 14 November21 changes

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New download page

Top Players and rankings podium now show grand resets (e.g. "1 GR 0 RS"), so a hero with a grand reset at #1 is clear.

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New download page (/download) in all 18 designs (the team request):
Hero with our dragon and the real client facts: v100, 2.17 GB, released 13 Nov 2026, and one big Download full client button.
Full client and update patch cards with file, size, version and SHA-256 with a Copy button.
Install in three steps (download, unzip, run the launcher), what you need (Windows PC, about 6 GB free disk, internet), what the launcher does (auto-update, self-repair, Companion).
What's in v100 (v100 back to v97) and a short troubleshooting list (antivirus, game won't start, firewall, broken download), plus Discord help.
The download links, file sizes and checksums are exactly the same files as before.

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More events in the schedule

These events (not the siege battle) also appear in the calendar export (subscribe /.ics) and send event alerts like the others.

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Added to the Events page and calendar (read from the live server settings):
Crywolf: weekly, Sunday 09:30 server time (shown under "This week").
Acheron Guardian: 23:00 server time every day except Wednesday.
Arca Battle: weekly, Wednesday 22:00 server time.
Doppelganger: 7 times a day (00:30, 02:30, 12:30, 16:30, 18:30, 20:30, 22:30).
Castle Siege battle: day 7 of the 14-day siege cycle, 08:00-10:00 server time. Next: Mon 23 Nov. (Shown on the calendar with the next website update today.)

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New event calendar

The earlier week grid was not released: it was too dense to read.

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Events page, new Calendar tab (/events?view=calendar), built for phones first:
Every day: one line per event with its schedule in words (e.g. Blood Castle: every 2 h 05:10-19:10, every 30 min 21:10-03:40), a live countdown and the next start in server time and your own time.
This week: only what does not repeat daily (today: the Castle Siege window).
"Next up" and the calendar export (subscribe /.ics) are unchanged.

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Hero pages, guild pages, event calendar export, theme gallery

New hero pages (/heroes/<name>): class art, level, master level, resets, guild, and the hero's rank on the Resets, Master level and Killers boards with day and week movement. Every hero name in rankings, search,…

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New hero pages (/heroes/<name>): class art, level, master level, resets, guild, and the hero's rank on the Resets, Master level and Killers boards with day and week movement. Every hero name in rankings, search, guild members and the top-players box now opens it.
Guild pages upgraded: big guild mark, board rank and movement, castle status, class mix, and members linked to their hero pages.
The game keeps no guild-war history, so the record starts today (guild board + live castle holder).
Add events to your calendar: on the Events page, subscribe (Google, Apple, Outlook) or download an .ics file. Times follow the game server clock.
Theme gallery: every design, live on a realm's own site and data, desktop or phone, before choosing. Previewing changes nothing for players.
Staff console guide in the help center, plus a clearer sign-up wizard (readable steps, no Back on step 1).

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Privacy page, event alerts ON

New Privacy page (/privacy): what we store, why, where it comes from, how long we keep it and how to have it removed. Operator the EmpyreanMU team; no payments today; tickets and account-change records kept 12…

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New Privacy page (/privacy): what we store, why, where it comes from, how long we keep it and how to have it removed. Operator the EmpyreanMU team; no payments today; tickets and account-change records kept 12 months; contact our Discord.
Privacy link in the footer of all 18 designs and on the Create account page.
Event alerts ON (was built but off): the "Notify me" button on the Events page sends a browser notification when Devil Square, Blood Castle and other events start. Opt-in only, one tap to turn off.
Stored per opted-in browser: only its push address and keys, kept until turned off. No account, no name, no tracking.
Notices carry no content through Google/Mozilla/Apple; the browser fetches the text from our own site.
Kalima Abyss and Neon Arena now show "Your Data" on the privacy page header.

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Faster first paint, livelier designs, event alerts ready (off)

Faster hero images: every design now tells the browser about its big hero art right away, so it starts loading together with the page instead of after the styles. Empyrean Portal home went from 82 to 96 and Grimoire…

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Faster hero images: every design now tells the browser about its big hero art right away, so it starts loading together with the page instead of after the styles. Empyrean Portal home went from 82 to 96 and Grimoire from 83 to 92 in the run right after.
Lighter pages: news and vault styles now load only on the pages that show news or the vault; other pages carry less.
Motion polish on six designs (switched off for visitors who prefer reduced motion):
Warehouse: Excellent and Ancient items shimmer.
Guild War Table: the banners sway.
Trading Post: the awnings breathe.

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Live updates, installable app, themed error pages

Live updates: online counts, castle owner and top heroes now update on their own while you watch, in every design, with no reload. The site keeps a light live connection; it falls back to a check every 30 seconds…

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Live updates: online counts, castle owner and top heroes now update on their own while you watch, in every design, with no reload. The site keeps a light live connection; it falls back to a check every 30 seconds where streams are blocked, pauses in background tabs, and never refreshes while you are typing or on a form.
Installable app (PWA): the site can be installed on phone or desktop (Add to Home screen) with our crest as the icon and quick links to Rankings, Events and Download. Without a connection it shows a clean offline page instead of a browser error. Account, support and sign-in pages are never stored on the device.
Themed 404 / error / maintenance pages in all 18 designs, each in its own voice (Grimoire: "This page is not in the book", Warehouse: "Empty slot", War Table: "Off the campaign map" and so on). Wrong links now return a proper 404.
Kalima Abyss and Neon Arena no longer show a mistyped link as the page title.

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Round 2 complete, Trading Post and Guild War Table (18 designs)

New selectable design Trading Post: a light, warm market square at golden hour. The header is a wooden signboard over a striped awning, with a live ticker strip (top hero, online, next event, throne, guilds, client).…

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New selectable design Trading Post: a light, warm market square at golden hour. The header is a wooden signboard over a striped awning, with a live ticker strip (top hero, online, next event, throne, guilds, client). Every part of the site is a market stall; there is a chalkboard price board of the top heroes and a caravan schedule.
New selectable design Guild War Table: a war council in a commander's tent. Banner standards hang from the beam as the menu. The home page is a painted campaign map with the top 5 heroes as tokens and the castle flag, plus orders of the day (events), the war council (guilds, crown) and dispatches.
On phones the War Table map shows a crown flag, and the castle owner is listed under the map.
With these two, all 10 round-2 designs are live: Chaos Castle, Devias Ice Citadel, Teleport Hub, Grimoire, Blood Castle, Warehouse, Chaos Machine, Elbeland Grove, Trading Post and Guild War Table, plus Skyforge HUD and the 7 earlier designs = 18 designs in the switcher.

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Two more designs, Chaos Machine and Elbeland Grove

New selectable design Chaos Machine: an alchemist's workshop around the Chaos Machine. The menu is a rail of cut jewels. The home page is a combination bench: four live ingredients (champion, heroes online, next…

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New selectable design Elbeland Grove: a light design, a fairy grove in morning light with a glass leaf header. Also: organic cards, the path of the hero (first steps, ticked when you are signed in), hall of heroes, today's events and chronicles.

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Two more designs, Blood Castle and Warehouse

New selectable design Blood Castle: a gothic crimson chapel under a blood moon. The menu is an arcade of pointed arches. On the home page, candles carry live numbers (top resets, next event, castle, guilds, online,…

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New selectable design Blood Castle: a gothic crimson chapel under a blood moon. The menu is an arcade of pointed arches. On the home page, candles carry live numbers (top resets, next event, castle, guilds, online, client); each candle opens its page. Also: the three steps of the altar for the top 3, the blood-moon event schedule and scrolls (news).
New selectable design Warehouse: the whole site is an in-game leather-and-brass window with brass hotkey tabs. The home page is an inventory grid where each part of the site is an item (Excellent green, Ancient gold, Set blue) with a live line and an MU-style tooltip, next to a character paper-doll of the top hero.
Both cover all 23 pages at desktop and phone sizes; phones get a menu sheet.

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Two more designs, Teleport Hub and Grimoire + exact names everywhere

New selectable design Teleport Hub: the home page is a ring of 8 portal gates around our dragon. Each gate opens a part of the realm and shows a live hint (top hero, next event countdown, castle owner, client…

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New selectable design Teleport Hub: the home page is a ring of 8 portal gates around our dragon. Each gate opens a part of the realm and shows a live hint (top hero, next event countdown, castle owner, client version). On other pages a waystone bar of gates is the menu; phones get a Gates button in the header. Plus boards for top heroes, departures (event schedule) and dispatches.
Fixed: the hidden "Skip to content" link showed a sliver at the top of some new designs.

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Two new designs, Chaos Castle and Devias Ice Citadel

New selectable design Devias Ice Citadel: a frozen citadel under the aurora with falling snow. A frosted spire rail holds the menu, glass "shards" show live stats, and the Hall of Frost shows the top 5 as ice pillars…

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New selectable design Devias Ice Citadel: a frozen citadel under the aurora with falling snow. A frosted spire rail holds the menu, glass "shards" show live stats, and the Hall of Frost shows the top 5 as ice pillars that grow with their resets. Also: expedition timeline and chronicles.
Both cover all 23 pages (rankings, events, castle, guilds, news, download, account, vault and support), at desktop and phone sizes.
Both are in the design switcher and the MU CMS template gallery. The 8 earlier designs are unchanged; the gallery also gets its missing Skyforge HUD screenshot.
Small fixes: phone minimap in Skyforge HUD now 12 KB instead of 61 KB; event chips readable on the light designs (Icarus Sky, Elven Sanctuary).

no longer jumps while loading (layout shiftEvents page (all designs)~~0.3-0.6~~fixed

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Pixel-perfect pass on every design + Events page fix

Checked every page of all 8 designs at desktop (1440, 1280) and phone (390) with real screen-size shots, plus automatic checks for overlapping, cut-off or clipped text.

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Events page (all designs): no longer jumps while loading (layout shift 0.3-0.6 -> fixed).
Rankings (all designs): on phones the class / level / resets line is shown in full (it was cut); tabs fit on screen (3 + 2 grid, "Killers" was cut).
Download page: file names and SHA-256 shown in full. Story pages and support tickets: titles no longer cut.
Skyforge HUD: rankings note no longer covered by the GUILDS plate.
Icarus Sky: "waiting" title no longer cut at the bottom; event names in full on phones; phone dock labels no longer touch.
Castle Siege War Room: "GUILD LEADERBOARD" title in full; phone header no longer cut.

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New design "Skyforge HUD"

New selectable design Skyforge HUD: the website as a game screen. Realm frame with live status bars, a painted event minimap (castle pin + next-event ping), quest tracker, world chat from real news and events, party…

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New selectable design Skyforge HUD: the website as a game screen. Realm frame with live status bars, a painted event minimap (castle pin + next-event ping), quest tracker, world chat from real news and events, party frames for the top heroes, and a hotbar to move between pages (keys 1-8 on desktop, never while typing; can be turned off).
Rankings: raid-leader frames for the top 3 plus party frames for everyone else. All 23 pages use the new look.
Art: our white and teal serpent dragon over a sky citadel; phone view shows the dragon's head above the title.
Phone: bottom hotbar (Home, Ranks, Events, Guilds, Play + More), compact realm frame.
The 7 existing designs are unchanged and still selectable; the default design is unchanged.

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Lighter pages (per-design stylesheets)

Each page now downloads only its own design's styles instead of all 7 designs' styles: 199-235 KB instead of 354 KB per page (35-44 % less).

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No visual change: checked by comparing screenshots of all 7 designs (home, rankings, news; desktop and phone) before and after: identical (largest difference 0.03 %, a ticking clock).
The design switcher still works and loads only the chosen design's styles.

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Page polish from the full design review

Empyrean Portal: inner pages now use a compact banner (phone 380 px -> 168 px); the home page keeps the full banner, so content starts much higher on phones.

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Full review: every page in all 7 designs at desktop and phone sizes (483 captures), then these fixes:
Rankings: the tabs (Resets, Master level, Gens, Killers, Guilds) are one swipeable row on phones instead of two lines.
Neon Arena: the live pill shows the player count in full on phones (LIVE · 1, was cut off).
War Room: the header shows the full next event on phones (Devil Square, was "Blo...").
Account page: the account bar no longer squeezes on phones.
Every page now has a proper main heading (guilds in all designs, home in Empyrean Portal and Season 6 Legacy).

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Support tickets

New: empyreanmu.com/support (signed-in players, all 7 templates)

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Open a ticket (topic: account, bug, donation/payment, report a player, other) with a subject and message, and follow the answers on the ticket page.
Text only (no attachments), up to 3 open tickets, rate-limited. Discord stays the fastest way to get help (the page says so).
Queue (Waiting / Answered / Closed / All), reply, close or reopen. A closed ticket takes no replies until a staff member reopens it. Owners also get a link to the player's account lookup.

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Drop finder (where does an item drop?)

New: empyreanmu.com/items (all 7 templates)

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Search any item by name; each item page lists every place it comes from: monsters on each map (with the monster names), any monster of a level, bosses and where they spawn, event rewards and seasonal event drops, and boxes that contain it. Box pages also list what the box can contain.
Chance shown as Common / Uncommon / Rare / Very rare with the % per drop roll from the server files.
Built only from the live server drop files (551 files; 2,543 items with a drop source). Shop, quest and crafting sources are not included (the page says so). Rebuilt after drop changes.

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Maps by level, Server status, share images, search fix

Each page points to its own address.

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/maps "Maps by level": the six map tiers from the owner's progression guide (Lv 1-150 up to 1500-1700+), every map with its level/set note. Page notes that entry rules in game can differ.
/status "Server status": live check on every visit: website, website API (response time), game link, players online per realm, current client.
Before: links to the site had no preview image.
Before: every page told Google it was the home page (one site-wide "canonical" link), so inner pages could not rank.

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Account security page (two-step sign-in + sign-in history)

New: empyreanmu.com/account/security (linked from My account)

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Two-step sign-in (optional) for the WEBSITE login with an authenticator app (Google/Microsoft Authenticator, Aegis, 2FAS...): QR code, plus the key as text and a phone link as fallback. The game client login is not changed.
Recent sign-ins: website and Companion sign-ins, wrong passwords and two-step events. No IP addresses are stored or shown.
Before: no security settings on the website.
The secret is stored encrypted; each code works once; wrong codes are rate-limited. The QR code is made on our own server (no outside service).
Nobody's login changes unless that player turns two-step sign-in on.

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Server info, Beginner guide, more rankings, Castle Siege page

Tabs Resets / Master level / Gens / Killers / Guilds.

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/guide "Beginner guide": 8 steps from sign-up to first reset and events. Reset cost wording: "see in game for the cost". Owner review requested.
/castle "Castle Siege": who holds the castle, guild master, siege window with progress, chaos and shop tax.
Before: one heroes list (resets) + guilds.
Menus no longer cause a browser warning on every page (menu highlight mismatch); site icon added (was missing).
Links to the new pages added to each template's menus/footers.

Friday 13 November3 changes

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My vault (read-only) + groundwork for web vault and character requests

Every signed-in player sees their own warehouse: item grid with in-game tooltips, searchable item list, filters (jewels, excellent, ancient, gear), stack totals. Read-only: nothing can be moved or changed from the…

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Staff preview moved to /staff/vault.
Web vault claims (items waiting on the web, claimed in game) and character requests (e.g. "unstuck", applied by the game) are built on the website side, both OFF.

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New class portraits (all 7 templates)

New high-resolution portraits for all 16 classes, each redrawn from that class's real in-game portrait (same face, hair, armor and colours), requested by the team.

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Before: the small in-game portrait images from our client, upscaled.
Site rule updated: class images must come from our client or be redrawn from it (this set only).

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New News design (all 7 templates)

Featured lead story with artwork, category filter (Live change / Update / Fix), version badges (v95-v98), "4 h ago" times, story grid; each template in its own style (War Room dispatch feed, Sanctuary gazette, Arena…

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Before: a plain text list (tag, date, title, excerpt, all the same size).
New story pages (/news/<story>) with a reading layout and older/newer links.
The news section on every template's home now shows the lead story with art plus cards or compact rows (was a text list).
Only the real news feed (7 stories); nothing invented. 4 new category artworks made for us (Live, Update, Fix, Event).