Hello everyone!
Today's update focuses on stability, quest clarity, localization, and several long-standing issues reported by the community. Thank you to everyone who has continued testing the latest builds and providing detailed feedback!
Whispering Woods - Spawning & Story Reliability
The Whispering Woods rebuild their layout each time you travel between regions. Under certain conditions, story creatures and NPCs could be restored using data from a previous version of the map, causing them to appear in incorrect locations.
Fixed:
Shrine guardians now always appear in their intended location.
Heart Tree guardians now always appear in their intended location.
Story NPCs and enemies no longer appear in unrelated rooms.
Enemies can no longer spawn inside safe areas, including the Ranger's Cabin.
Murderous Gray Wolves are now correctly removed after their quest is completed.
Murderous Gray Wolves no longer duplicate or continue respawning while progressing through the quest.
Story Clarification:
The Whispering Woods main story itself has not changed.
After completing the main story, Ranger Sylas intentionally begins a repeatable side quest cycle that eventually returns to the Heart Tree. This behavior is intended and is now much more clearly indicated within the Quest Journal.
Localization
Fixed Chinese room descriptions becoming corrupted by mixed English and Chinese text in certain interactable rooms, including the Ancient Lockbox.
Added missing Chinese names for the Secret Mountain Goat and the Harbinger of Chaos.
Fixed cross-language command recognition for skills and items.
Macros created in Chinese now work correctly in the English client.
Macros created in English now work correctly in the Chinese client.
This also resolves repeated "No usable potion or active skill" messages that could appear during combat.
Quests & Interface
The Quest Journal now clearly separates Main Story quests from Side Quests.
Active quest NPCs, including Hunter Lysa and Slick contract NPCs, now appear on the minimap while their quests are active.
Improved the Suspicious Package contract dialogue to clearly state that the Back Alley Collector is located inside the current portal, preventing confusion that previously led some players to mistakenly leave the portal and forfeit both the delivery and the package.
As always, thank you for continuing to help improve Portalborn through your reports, suggestions, and testing. Your feedback has directly contributed to many of the fixes included in this update, and I appreciate every bit of it.