Version 1.20 | |
Release Date | January 20th, 2021 |
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◀◀ 1.19 |
1.20, also known as the "Gavel Reborn"[1] update, was a major update to Wynncraft[2] released on January 20th, 2021.[3] It was first announced in a trailer video.
Additions
Raids
- Team focused dungeons
- 3 new raids
- Nest of the Grootslangs (Lvl 60+)
- Found near Olux and requires 4 players
- Orphion's Nexus of Light (Lvl 80-100+)
- Found in The Realm of Light, a team of 4-6 required
- The Canyon Colossus (Lvl 100+)
- Found near Kandon-Beda, a team of 4 required
- Nest of the Grootslangs (Lvl 60+)
- Must clear 3 randomly selected challenges and defeat a strong boss at the end.
- Challenges require teamwork. They can't be done solo.
- If someone dies, the raid is canceled.
- Buff Rooms
- After each challenge room, there is a buff room for a temporary bonus until the raid is completed.
- New Boss Type: The Eye
- Rewards include normal Emeralds and XP, 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.
- Compass shows buffs after completing The Worm Holes. Tomes can be placed here.
- Only a limited number of tombs 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.
- Block Merchant sells starter blocks for your house.
- Blocks can also be sold at the Trade Market
- Sells blocks in exchange for Crafting Materials
- Price increases 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.
- NPCs include Identifier, Blacksmith, Powder Master, Bank, Trade Market, and Crafting Stations, as well as a new Build Stand NPC.
- Ranked users can have a bigger housing plot.
Champion Rank
- Yellow name and tag
- 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 all ranks.
/switch
command to quickly switch your server.- Will be available to all classes and isn't instant.
- Hunted players must wait 60 seconds before attacking after joining a server.
- Instant class deletion
- Free Build Stand NPC in house.
- Class Backups
- Bomb Bell
- Notifies when bombs are thrown.
- Will have a random delay (won't be notified instantly).
- Exclusive Housing Locations.
- In addition to towns, The Void or Legendary Island.
/changetag
to show a lower-tier rank tag.- Available to all ranks.
- +80 Pet Max Levels.
- 8x Daily Mob Totems.
- Will always be a lifetime rank, but may have a subscription option at a lower cost[4]
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 high enough.
- Pets can combat and have levels.
- Having multiple pets active will reduce their damage.
- Pet tasks
- Available for high-level players.
- 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
- Remade quests
- Removed Quests
General
- New Tier 4 Crate.
- Removed common items from Tier 3 Crate.
- Attack effects save and load properly.
- Scrapable Black Market Rewards
- Get 10 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 character that first got the drop.
- 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.
Changes
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.
- Is now a tower with one single boss.
- 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 2 minutes, 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 emeralds.
- Can be your own or guild emeralds.
- Fixed territory names.
Forgery
- New Forgery Chest
- Lets you get XP and 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
- 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[5] 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."