Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Fetid Water Fishing Contest Livestream Today!
• 8/16 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• August Login Reward: Fire Potions 
• Release 68 Reward Program Items: Lord British!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 68 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Shogun City Water Home
• Community Event: Release 68 Dance Party
• Community Event: CHAOS CHECKERS Tournament
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Fetid Water Fishing Contest Livestream Today!

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is today, Friday August 16, at 4 PM CT on Twitch! This week we are going to have a Fetid Water Fishing Contest in South Fetid Swamp!

To participate in the contest go to South Fetid Swamp and start fishing at 4:15 PM (you can also try whispering one of the devs for a teleport). The best trophy fish (longest) caught by 5 PM will win a prize! NOTE: We will be verifying location and time!

FISHING CONTEST PRIZES:

• Runners Up (2): Ornate Fish Throne + Desktop Fish Trophy
• 3rd Prize: Ornate Fish Pavers + Bronze Fish Trophy
• 2nd Prize: Shogun Lighthouse Village Water Home (digital) + Silver Fish Trophy
• 1st Prize: Player Owned Town Village Water Lot Property Deed (digital) + Gold Fish Trophy

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Housing & Mannequins Livestream Today!
• 8/9 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• August Login Reward: Fire Potions 
• Release 68 Reward Program Items: Lord British!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 68 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Shogun City Water Home
• Community Event: Release 68 Dance Party
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Mannequins & Housing Livestream Today!

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday August 9, at 4 PM CT on Twitch! This week Travis “List Rostov” Koleski and Keith “Sannio” Quinn are going to show off the new mannequins, some basics of how our housing system works, and, if there’s time, some examples of how our players have used the housing system to do some truly creative things.

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• New Scenes Livestream Today!
• 8/2 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• August Login Reward: Fire Potions 
• Release 68 Reward Program Items: Lord British!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 68 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Shogun City Water Home 
• Community Event: Shogun Ridge Chronicles – Savage Assassinations Event!
• Community Event: Release 68 Dance Party
• Resources: Players Helping Players

New Scenes Livestream Today!

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday August 2, at 4 PM CT on Twitch! This week Travis “List Rostov” Koleski and Keith “Sannio” Quinn are going to talk about some of the new scenes they have been working on like the rework of Ulfheim!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Play Release 68 Now!
• Release 68 Livestream Today!
• 7/26 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• Last Week for July Login Reward: Lord British Cake Slices with Unique Buff 
• Release 68 Reward Program Items: Lord British!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Tech Talk & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Turreted City Home
• Community Event: Party In Club Zero
• Community Event: Lily’s Summer High Tea in the Garden
• Community Event: Shogun Ridge Chronicles – Savage Assassinations Event!
• Community Event: 2019 Summer Fashion Show Contest!
• Project to Support: Avatars Radio
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Play Release 68 Now!

Release 68 successfully launched yesterday, July 25, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:

• New Brittany Graveyard Quest
• Mannequins
• Crafting Masteries
• Persistent State for Lights
• Free Camera Mode for POT Stewards
• More Top Tier Tameable Creatures in Scenes
• Fishing Trophy Length Display Increase
• Combat Balance
• Consumable Leaderboards
• Player Lot Permissions Restructure
• New User Experience Polish
• Release 64 Livestream Items: Dark Spring
• R68 Rewards Program Items: Lord British Theme!
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

Check out the Release 68 Instructions update for detailed information about all the new content.

If you have not downloaded the game yet, go to www.shroudoftheavatar.com and click the “Play Now” button. The game is also available on Steam.

Release 68 Player Instructions

Release 68 Known Issues

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 68 On QA
• Tech Talk Livestream Today!
• 7/19 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• July Login Reward: Lord British Cake Slices with Unique Buff 
• Last Week for Release 67 Reward Program Items: Heroes!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Deck Building & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Turreted City Home
• Community Event: 2019 Summer Fashion Show Contest!
• Community Event: Lily’s Summer High Tea in the Garden
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 68 On QA (Live next Thur)

An early version of Release 68 is on the QA server. Release 68 is full of new content and fixes, some of which is now on the QA server for early testing. An early version of the Release 68 Instructions is also available for review. We could really use everyone’s help to test all of this amazing content before it goes live next Thursday June 27!

• New Brittany Graveyard Quest
• Mannequins
• Persistent State for Lights
• Free Camera Mode for POT Stewards
• More Top Tier Tameable Creatures in Scenes
• Fishing Trophy Length Display Increase
• Consumable Leaderboards
• Player Lot Permissions Restructure
• New User Experience Polish
• Release 64 Livestream Items: Dark Spring
• R68 Rewards Program Items: Lord British Theme!
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Deck Building Livestream Today!
• 7/12 Crown Shop Updates
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• July Login Reward: Lord British Cake Slices with Unique Buff 
• Release 67 Reward Program Items: Heroes!
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 67 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Turreted City Home
• Community Event: Release 67 Dance Party Today (last one on Avatars Radio!)
• Community Event: Lily’s Summer High Tea in the Garden
• Community Event: Chateau du Lys Picture Contest!
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Deck Building Livestream Today!

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is today, Friday July 12, at 4 PM CT on Twitch! This week we are going to give some tips on how to build decks! This is invaluable in advanced combat as Shroud has an unconventional combat system. Don’t forget to join the Release 67 Dance Party after the livestream!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Last Day for Lord British Birthday 20% Crown Sale and Lord British Rares!
• Lord British’s Birthday Make a Difference and Episode 2 Stretch Goal Stores 50% Price Drop!
• R67 Livestream Today! (Lord British Birthday)
• July Login Reward: Lord British Cake Slices with Unique Buff 
• Release 67 Reward Program Items: Heroes!
• 7/4 Crown Shop Updates
• In the News: Arcade Attack Interviews Starr Long
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• New User Experience & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Turreted City Home
• Community Event: Release 67 Dance Party
• Community Event: 2019 BMC Fair
• Community Event: Gustball Games (Rescheduled)
• Project to Support: Avatars Radio
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Last Day for Lord British Birthday 20% Crown Sale and Lord British Rares!

Today is the last day to buy Crowns for 20% off! In celebration of Lord British’s birthday on July 4th we are putting all crown packages on sale for approximately 20% off through July 5th! This is the deepest discount we offer on crowns and crowns only go on sale rarely so get them while you can! Read more…

Players really loved our hero themed stretchgoals from Release 65 so we decided to make the Rewards Program items for Release 67 be some of the items we did not reach during Release 65. Reward Program members will receive them immediately upon logging in during Release 67!

• Dragonfly Wings
• Round Striped Shield with Star
• Golden Jeweled Gauntlet

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 67 On QA
• Lord British Birthday 20% Crown Sale!
• Final Week for June Login Rewards
• Freshwater Fishing Contest Livestream Today
• 6/21 Crown Shop Updates
• Rewards Program Update (+ R66 Rewards)
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• New User / New Dungeons  & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win an Stone Dragon Statue – Town Size
• Community Event: Midsommarblot Events (heavy RP)
• Community Event: NBTT Presents — Daggers In The Dark – The Video!
• Community Event: Grandmaster Tutoring Event for PRIDE
• Community Event: 5th Annual Soldier’s Memorial Ball
• Community Event: Shroudoftheavatar.net’s Monthly Raffle
• Project to Support: Avatars Radio
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 67 On QA (Live next Thur)

An early version of R67 is on the QA server. R67 is full of new content and fixes, some of which is now on the QA server for early testing. An early version of the R67 Instructions is also available for review. We could really use everyone’s help to test all of this amazing content before it goes live next Thursday June 27!

• New User Experience Polish
• “Always Open” option for Doors
• Free Camera in POTs and Player Dungeons
• Material Bonuses for Crafted Rings and Necklaces
• Loot with Components & Enchantments
• Outskirts Loot Improvements
• “Hide Cloak” Option
• Patterns from Rusty Weapons
• Fishing Leaderboards
• Chat Text Color Polish
• R67 Login Rewards: Hero Theme!
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

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250,000 Adventuring XP + Obsidian Potion of Guidance!

As a special limited time promotion we are rewarding all players who login by the end of June with two rewards! Every player who logs in will receive an Obsidian Potion of Guidance (increases how fast your skills use experience out of our experience points pool) and 250,000 Adventuring Experience Points!

To receive the rewards simply login to the game before the end of June and check your rewards tab!