Patch Notes - Verse 5 - Hotfix

14 Jan 2026Developer post

Fixed an issue with Mournel trees not spawning correctly in the US East region.
To prevent characters from logging out instantly if a player logs in with another character, we added a logout delay that now applies to the first one.
We made several low-level changes to NPC handling and caching that should make NPCs more robust.
End of the Yule temporary event - all recipes will be removed from in-game, as well as the ability to collect ingredients. All other Yule-themed crafted items will remain.
Re-enabled NPC 'recycling' system (which is a system that does not delete an NPC when it despawns, but keeps it for a later respawn to reduce resource consumption), which was disabled to prevent issues in NPC spawning. We still expect a few issues to remain and would like feedback on them.