Version 1.20

1.20, also known as the "Gavel Reborn" update, was a major update to Wynncraft released on January 20th, 2021. It was first announced in a trailer video.

Raids

 * Team focused dungeons
 * 3 new raids
 * Nest of the Grootslangs (Lvl 54+)
 * Found near Olux and requires 3-4 players
 * Orphion's Nexus of Light (Lvl 79+)
 * Found in The Realm of Light, a team of 4-6 required
 * The Canyon Colossus (Lvl 95+)
 * Found near Kandon-Beda, a team of 4 required
 * Must clear 3 randomly selected challenges and defeat a strong boss at the end.
 * Challenges require teamwork. They can't be done solo.
 * If too many players die, the raid is failed.
 * Buff Rooms
 * After each challenge room, there is a buff room for a temporary bonus until the raid is completed.
 * Rewards include Emeralds, XP, Crafting Materials, and also Tomes, a new accessory introduced in 1.20.
 * Adds basic buffs such as Damage, Defense, Mob XP Bonus, Dungeons XP Bonus, and Gathering XP Bonus along with some extra stats.
 * Compass shows buffs after completing The Worm Holes. Tomes can be placed here.
 * Only a limited number of tomes can be active and must be unlocked.

Housing

 * Hot air balloon in most towns.
 * Houses can be purchased for 750 Emeralds
 * Other player's houses can be visited as well.
 * House will be floating above where it was purchased.
 * Can be moved from town to town for 750 Emeralds.
 * Block Merchant sells starter blocks for your house.
 * Sells blocks in exchange for Crafting Materials
 * Price increases up to 4 if the same kind of block is repeatedly purchased.
 * Block Bank to store blocks.
 * Works just like the normal bank, but only stores blocks.
 * House NPCs to spawn NPCs at your house.
 * NPCs include Identifier, Blacksmith, Powder Master, Bank, Trade Market, and Crafting Stations, as well as a new Build Stand NPC.
 * Build Stand can be used to switch out gear quickly, but they are exclusive to Champion Rank.
 * Ranked users can have a bigger housing plot.

Champion Rank

 * Yellow name and tag
 * 5 Reserved Slots
 * Won't kick active players.
 * Character Nickname
 * Chat only. NPCs and invites will also use this nickname.
 * Merchant Booths
 * Allows you to set up special shops on the map to sell Trade Market items.
 * Ability to convert old classes to reskinned classes.
 * Available to Hero and Champion Rank
 * command to quickly switch your server.
 * Available to Hero and Champion Ranks
 * Instant class deletion
 * Ability to purchase the Build Stand NPC in your house.
 * Class Backups
 * Bomb Bell
 * Notifies when bombs are thrown.
 * Exclusive Housing Locations.
 * In addition to towns, The Void, Legendary Island, The Realm of Light (Location).
 * to show a lower-tier rank tag.
 * Available to all ranks.
 * +80 Pet Max Levels.
 * 8x Daily Mob Totems.

Pets

 * New Pets
 * Aledar Cart, Colossal Rat, The Eye, Top Hat Alligator, and Death.
 * Pets can be petted by you and other players if their level is at least 24.
 * Pets can combat and have levels.
 * Having multiple pets active does not increase their total damage.
 * Pet tasks
 * Available for higher levelled pets.
 * Can be sent to towns to sell/bank/scrap stuff for you.
 * Projectiles now go through pets.
 * Pets vanish during cutscenes.
 * Pet speed matches owner speed.
 * Improved pet page.
 * On release day, a free pet will be offered on the Store.

New Quests and Discoveries

 * New Quests
 * The Feathers Fly Part I
 * The Feathers Fly Part II
 * The Hero of Gavel
 * Improved Quests
 * Heart of Llevigar
 * Clearing the Camps
 * Green Skinned Trouble
 * Rise of the Quartron
 * The Maiden Tower
 * Crop Failure
 * Master Piece
 * Death Whistle
 * The Shadow of the Beast
 * Shattered Minds
 * Memory Paranoia
 * The Hidden City
 * Remade quests
 * The Worm Holes
 * An Iron Heart Part I
 * An Iron Heart Part II
 * Reclaiming the House
 * Taproot
 * Headless History (Formerly The Headless Hunt)
 * From the Mountains
 * Lazarus Pit
 * Finding The Light
 * Forbidden Prison
 * Lexdale Witch Trials (Formerly Eye of the Storm)
 * Acquiring Credentials
 * Aldorei's Secret Part I
 * Removed Quests
 * Hollow Sirene
 * A Fighting Species

General

 * New Tier 4 Crate.
 * Removed common items from Tier 3 Crate.
 * Attack effects save and load properly.
 * Scrapable Black Market Rewards
 * Get 7 Epic Items back.
 * Scrap menu has pages.
 * Bomb stacks show their quantity in the name.
 * 4 new hats.
 * 10 new weapon models.
 * New Boss Altar in the Silent Expanse.
 * New item restriction type: Soulbound.
 * Items with this restriction will only be usable on the specific class that first identified the item.
 * Added a quick-travel system to Cinfras.
 * Added a new language: High Gavellian.
 * Added more diversity to Wynn cities.
 * Added popup notifications when certain events happen.
 * Can /toggle it off.

Gavel

 * New Discoveries throughout the whole province.
 * 99 Total Discoveries, including 3 Ultimate Discoveries.
 * Roughly 6 per region.
 * Reworked Builds.
 * New Boss Altar - The Bottomless Pit
 * Early Game Improvements.

Guilds

 * Guild Bank to share items with other Guild members.
 * One for everyone, one for high ranked members.
 * Switching Guild Ownership is much easier.
 * Guild creation process improved.
 * New Guild menus
 * Member list, territory list, compass shortcut.
 * Guild tags can now be 4 letters long.
 * Guild creation price is now 20 LE (81,920 Emerald)
 * Strategist Rank
 * New rank between Captain and Chief.
 * Can upgrade your Guild towers and territory bonuses.
 * Guild notification popups.
 * Can be disabled with Commands/toggle.
 * Guild Badges
 * Let you set a theme for your Guild such as Traders, War Hungry, Social, etc.
 * Improved level up messages.
 * Fixed an issue where Guilds wouldn't level up until you joined a world.
 * Reduced Level XP Requirements.
 * May change during beta.
 * Improved Level Up Rewards.
 * Updated Wars.
 * Will no longer spawn up to 100 mobs to fight.
 * Instead, you have to defeat the war tower.
 * Guild members can upgrade towers with defenses, resources, and special abilities.
 * Must continually pay to keep defenses up.
 * Trade Routes
 * 5 types: Emerald, Wood, Fishes, Ores, Crops.
 * After capturing a territory, you have the option to make it a Headquarters Territory.
 * Every 1 minute, excess resources each territory gathers will start moving towards your HQ one territory at a time.
 * Also, your HQ will start sending resources to your empire to feed needed resources.
 * Taxes if other Guilds use your territory to trade.
 * Can improve held territories.
 * Buffs are paid when your HQ sends resources out.
 * Diplomacy
 * Can make alliances to reduce the tax rate.
 * Enemy guild can cut off your trade route.
 * No more War servers.
 * Territories no longer generate XP.
 * New territory map by pressing L (replaces Advancement menu).
 * New Guild Icon feature for VIP+ Ranks shows up on the Territory Map.
 * Attacking a territory costs guild emeralds.
 * Fixed territory names.

Forgery

 * New Forgery Chest
 * Lets you get XP and a small chance for Mythic Items for completing Corrupted Dungeons

Items

 * Added Gathering XP ID and Gathering Speed ID.
 * Limited to crafting ingredients.
 * "Plague" Major ID no longer reduces poison damage when spreading.
 * Sorcery Major ID no longer resets your click combo if triggered mid-way through.
 * New Major IDs
 * Forerunner: Doubles sprint speed when sprint bar is below 30%.
 * Rally: Charge heals you by 10% and nearby allies 15% on impact, but becomes harmless.
 * Cherry Bombs: Your smoke bombs explode instantly on contact, dealing 150% damage each.
 * Explosive Impact: Your "Exploding" ID can trigger when hitting mobs.

Map Changes

 * Reworked Cinfras, Thanos, Kander Forest, Lexdale, Bucie, Aldorei, Eltom, Realm of Light, Maltic, Katoa Ranch, and Kitrios Barracks.
 * Improved the Llevigar Plains mobs and builds.
 * Improved Gelibord, Lake Gylia.
 * Reworked the Molten Heights texturing
 * Improved the road between Llevigar and Olux
 * Improved parts of Canyon of the Lost
 * Improved the Emerald Trail builds.
 * Improved Cinfras County.
 * Reworked Light Forest borders.
 * Reworked Kander Forest borders.
 * Reworked pretty much all Grind Spots to remove barriers and make them more interesting.
 * Reworked many caves to be more interesting.

General Changes

 * Hunted players must wait 60 seconds before attacking after joining a server.
 * Improvements to some weapon models (thunder spears, earth bows, etc.).
 * Improvements to some sprites and block textures (cobblestones, red X icon, etc.).
 * Changes to item drop rates.
 * You will now be able to find items in low-level areas even if you are high level (at a reduced rate).
 * Adjusted item drop rate.
 * The drops are overall lower.
 * Mostly affects the early game much more than the endgame.
 * Adjusted Blacksmith item buying price.
 * More profitable to sell most items.
 * Dungeon keys now allow up to 4 players to enter a dungeon at once.
 * Made Quests auto-track when stages update.
 * Can /toggle it off.
 * Made Quest tracking show up on the scoreboard.
 * Can /toggle it off
 * Fixed a bug where quests wouldn't update their stage properly when tracked.
 * Lowered profession XP requirements for low to mid-levels.
 * Tracking a quest will now make your Hotbar compass point to coords and spawn a beacon where the quest objective.
 * Only if there are coordinates.
 * Both can be toggled off.
 * Lowered ingredient drops in loot chests.
 * Fixed a bug where mobs would sometimes phase through walls.
 * Some quests will now give profession XP.
 * Resource tunnels/dungeon will give a temporary gathering XP boost.

Undocumented changes

 * Slight reworks to Detlas.
 * Reworked oak trees.
 * Removed the Coastal Trail.
 * Updated the ancient signs from WynnExcavation Site D.
 * Minor changes to Wynn Plains Monument, Timeless Ruin, Mining Operation, Ragni's Secret Library and Desert Royal Residence secret discoveries.
 * Added more Talking Mushroom dialogues around the world and fixed last stage of the mystery.
 * Skins of Twendle, King of Troms, Prince of Troms, Tirt, Czytash, and some outdated villager mobs were changed to humans.
 * Removed the Dogun in the Sky Islands.
 * Added priests to Bovemist churches.
 * New music for raids, boss battles and ultimate discoveries.

Trivia

 * 2 new developers were hired to work on this update
 * It took the team 8 tries to succeed against the Nexus of Light's boss for the first time
 * One of the tasks for unlocking Tome slots used to be "Sell Mythic to Blacksmith" but was scrapped as "apparently not everyone owns a mythic."