Runeteria Update 5 Changelog

Update 5 Changelog

★ New Hub & Intro Quests
★ Custom Combat abilities
★ New Dungeon (Boomshroom Plague)
★ Mounts
★ Homesteads
★ Daily Quests & Rewards
★ Gravestone rework
★ Wallet & Economy rework
★ Guild Claims — Claim rework
★ Server Selector — Region Aware + more
★ Player Shops - Currently in Maintenance

Full Changelog:

★ New Hub & Intro Quests

We have launched our brand new Hub! When you next log on, explore everything there is to find!

• New Buildings

• Larger hub

• Starting area

• Parkour

• NPC's

• Easter Eggs

• Particles & Ambience

• Trigger Volume tech

  • Music

  • SFX

  • Automatic doors & more!

★ Custom Combat Abilities

8 base Hytale Weapons have gotten new abilities and actions.

• Sword & Shield

  • E - Taunt

    • Pulls all nearby mobs in front of you. Pulling aggro.

  • R - Charge

    • Gain movement speed and significant damage reduction for 2s. Stuns enemies you run through.

• Battleaxe

  • E - Chains

    • Drags all enemies in front of you to your position

  • R - Bloodrage

    • Roar, pulling all nearby enemies towards you, Gain increased movement speed, health regen and stamina regen.

• Two Handed Mace

  • E - Smackdown

    • Execute an upward attack that throws targets hit and yourself forward. Swing downward and slam targets to the ground upon landing.

  • R - Earthshatter

    • Roar, pulling all nearby enemies towards you, Gain increased movement speed, health regen and stamina regen.

• Daggers

  • E - Crippling Daggers

    • Flip in your current movement direction and throw 3 knives. Hits slow target by 50% for 1.5 seconds.

  • R - Hemorrhage

    • Dash forward, damaging every enemy you pass through.

  • RmB - Stealth

    • Turn mostly invisible. Enemies are less likely to aggro on you. Attacking and taking damage removes stealth.

• Shortbow

  • E - Disengage

    • Leap backwards and fire a shot.

  • R - Entangle Shot

    • Plant a thorny field on the ground. Enemies who step in are rooted for 3s and take damage over time.

• Life Staff

  • E - Sacrifice

    • Sacrifice 50 HP to heal an ally for 100 HP. Requires direct line of sight.

  • R - Inspire

    • Grant nearby allies bonus stamina and movement speed.

  • Q - Circle of Healing

    • Place a healing zone that gradually restores HP, stamina, and signature energy to all allies inside.

  • LmB - Auto-Attack

    • Shoot a projectile that deals low damage on hit. Hits reduce Flash Heal CD by 5 seconds.

  • RmB - Flash Heal

    • Heal all allies in a straight line. 30 second CD.

• Fire Staff

  • E - Hod Rod

    • Ride your Fire Staff through the air, damaging enemies in your path.

  • R - Fireball

    • Hurl a large fireball that deals AOE damage on impact. Ignites targets on direct hit.

  • Q - Solar Annihilation

    • Ascend into the air and channel energy for 3 seconds; then unleash a devastating plasma beam that pierces targets and deals significant damage.

  • LmB - Cinder Bolt

    • Shoot a bolt of fire that deals single target damage on hit.

  • RmB - Flamethrower

    • Hold to unleash an inferno of flames that deals consistent damage over time.

• Frost Staff

  • E - Frozen Spirit

    • Channel for 1 second before transforming into a frozen spirit becoming immune to all damage for 5s.

  • R - Frost Nova

    • Quickly spin around releasing a blast of ice in an AOE freezing all nearby enemies for 3s. Gain icy feet to slide away after spinning.

  • Q - Blizzard

    • Summon a icy storm that deals damage over time and slows enemies inside.

  • LmB - Frost Bolt

    • Shoot a bolt of ice that deals single target damage on hit.

  • RmB - Ice Chunk

    • Hurl a chunk of ice that deals AOE damage and slows all targets hit.

★ New Dungeon (Boomshroom Plague)

Venture into our brand new dungeon! Save the Kweebecs from their burning village, and investigate the Boomshroom Plague affecting the Trorks.

• 2 New bosses

• 4 new craftable weapons

• Smart mob aggro system

• Loot rolls

• Legendary Trork Two-handed Mace

• New HPS meter

★ Mounts

With the launch of Update 5 and our new Hub, you can now purchase your first horse mount! Giddy up and race across the wilderness at speed!

• Use /mounts to access your mount collection

• Set favourite mounts

• Use ALT or /mount to mount up

• More mounts coming soon

★ New Homestead System

Every player can now claim a personal piece of land - no guild required, while can also own or participate in a guild.

• One homestead per player, network-wide. Pick a server, pick a spot, that's home.

• Free starter Homestead Ward.

• 4 chunks per homestead, expandable one chunk at a time.

• Smart pricing: base 100 copper, spawn-proximity surcharge (prime spots cost more), and exponential expansion - chunk #4 costs ~4× the first chunk.

• /homestead to purchase another ward if you lost it for 5 Silver.

• Cross-server teleport - /homestead. 10-min cooldown after warp.

• Marks your Homestead on the map.

• 3-tab management page (Overview / Expansion / Permissions) - left-click/interact with your Ward to open.

• Dismantle returns your deed so you can re-place elsewhere.

★ Daily Quests & Rewards

Every day you will have a selection of Daily Quests you can complete, turn these in for rewards and Silver!

• Use /Quests to open your Questbook.

• Track quests on your Quest UI HUD.

• Turn in for Lootbags and 1 silver each.

• Lootbags can drop dungeon keys, and other rewards.

• More quests coming soon.

★ Gravestone Rework

When the inevitable happens and you die. We've got you covered.

• Return to your Gravestone to claim your dropped items

• Brand new Runeteria UI

• Gravestone expire and can be looted by anyone after a certain amount of time.

• Use /grave menu to view your current gravestones, change your gravestone design and aura.

★ Wallet & Economy rework

A proper network-wide currency rework - built from scratch so homesteads, shops, mail, and guild claims can all share one trusted economy.

• Gold / Silver / Copper - real denominations with their own coin art, sounds, and tooltips.

• Cross-server /pay.

• Full transaction history.

• Live wallet refresh - balance updates instantly if someone pays you while your wallet's open.

• Reworked how Gold is calculated - 1 Gold = 1,000 Silver. 1 Silver = 100 Copper.

★ Guild Claims — Claim rework

Guild territory rules were rebuilt to be consistent, predictable, and balanced - and to synergize properly with the new homestead system. This is a clean baseline ahead of a much larger guild overhaul.

• New size rules: 4 base chunks + 2 per guild level, hard cap 20.

• Adjacent-only, per world - new chunks must touch an existing claim in the same world. No more disconnected island claims. (You can own claims on separate worlds, but all adjacent per-world)

• New pricing: base 500 copper, each additional claim costs more. First claim cheap, fifteenth expensive.

• Chunk buffers with homesteads - guild claims can't crowd homesteads and vice versa (2 chunks both ways).

• Inter-guild buffer dropped 5 → 2 chunks - old value left huge dead zones on starter servers.

• Live claims map rebuilt and improved.

★ Server Selector — Region Aware + more

With (NA-West) servers joining the network, server selector received an update to make regions more obvious.

• Each NA server has an indicator to show you which coast its located on.

• Maintenance label when a server is down for maintenance.

• Live heartbeat-driven status - selector reflects real server state in near-real-time.

★ Player Shops - Currently in Maintenance (temporary)

The new shop system rework is nearly ready to launch, but currently is disabled on the live network while the team finalizes rollout.

• Existing shops open a new temporary UI, allowing you to remove your for sale items from the old shop system.

• One-click "Get my items back" drains every catalogue item and till balance back to your inventory + wallet.