This update is slated for release next week!
New Content
Quest Party Presets
A very consistent request over our many years of Shop Titans, and due to this, a natural addition to this community update!
Upon unlocking the Sun God’s Tomb (the first quest featuring 4 party members), the Party Preset menu will be unlocked. There, you can set up your own parties for quicker quest preparation in the future. Players have access to one Party slot per 3 Hero slots they have unlocked. You can give them names, too!
Piggy Bank Refactor
The Piggy Banks have received substantial changes! The Golden Pig in particular now prominently features various antiques, with very high chances of generating a decoration, customization, wallpaper or flooring. There’s also a small chance to roll a blueprint!*
In addition, new players will start the weekly pig cycle with a Golden Pig immediately. After opening it, they’ll need to open one regular pig before their next Golden Pig. The next cycle will require 2 regular pigs, and so on until they reach the usual and final cycle of 6 regular pigs per Golden Pig. Though it is meant as an introductory progression for new players, current players will also get to benefit from it.
Other changes:
- The Golden Pig now drops bigger stacks of Ascension Shards and Research Scrolls (25 instead of 10).
- The Golden Pig is more likely to drop better Keys (specifically, Volcano and up).
- The Golden Pig now drops bigger stacks of Champion Coins (30 instead of 5).
- As the Golden Pig no longer features Gems, the regular pigs drop higher quantities (25 instead of 15).
- Regular pigs no longer drop quest components. Runestones and Moonstones are still available.
- The gold amount required to open a daily piggy bank has always scaled with the value of blueprints owned by the payer. Starting now, blueprints that have never been crafted will not be taken into account.
*As a special rule, on top of the usual Antique rules, blueprints must be at least one year old to become valid Golden Pig prizes. They also cannot be of a tier higher than you’ve ever crafted.
Maces VS Spears Community Challenge
This is a crafting challenge for all of you! Maces and Spears clash!
Every shopkeeper must work together to craft 25 million tiers worth of Maces and Spears! You’ll have one week, but if everyone pitches in, we know you can do it!
If the community manages to reach this goal, we’ll be giving out one free blueprint to everyone. But! There’s also a choice to be made here!
The two available blueprints are the Tower of Thorns Mace and the Blackthorn Razor Spear. Whichever item type generated the most tiers will be crowned the winner, and its blueprint will be given out. The other will fade into oblivion forever*.
The event starts on August 16th and ends on the 23rd. Blueprints crafted before this date will not count. A mail will be sent announcing the start of the event, and progress will be reported through daily mails, as well as daily updates on our website.
*It will probably come back as part of an offer or something.
Basic Decorations
We’ve added a few new decorations, wallpapers and floorings, available for little gold and at early levels. Except for the golden toilet skin. That one costs 1 billion gold.
Customization Colors
New colors have been added to the list. Some existing colors have been slightly modified.
Major Changes
Guild Creation
There’s a lot of guilds out there. Too many, some would argue. Joining a good guild is a vital part of a player’s Shop Titans journey, but due to the sheer quantity of them, the player base tends to get fragmented into a bunch of half-full guilds, constantly battling to acquire more members.
Starting with this update, it will no longer be possible to create a guild with gold. This option is exclusive to gems and now costs 500 (up from 200). We’ll be closely monitoring the results over the following weeks and may loosen (or tighten) these restrictions.
Minor Changes
- Attempting to clean up a player’s shop whose version is mismatched will now automatically clear the notification and also grant you the reward. The text message will be updated shortly to better reflect this.
- Newly acquired decorations, wallpapers and floorings are now sorted first in the list until seen by the player. No longer need to dig in there!
- Improved the visuals of the Tier 14 enchantment icons to better match the previous tiers.
- Extra Trophies granted by the Cooking the Books talent now look a little bit different.
- When equipping Vanity Gear, it is now possible to choose the displayed color of Kaleidoscopic items. Finally.
- The loading screen now features basic gameplay tips.
- Guilds can now set a minimum investment requirement in addition to the minimum level requirement.
- There is now a visual cue when the Crafter’s Trick and Zero Waste talents trigger.
- Content Passes are now available starting at level 20, up from level 8.
- Adjusted the difficulty of many Lilu Blitz Pass tasks as they were rather difficult.
- Added a filter for Artifacts to the inventory’s Advanced Search.
- Enchantments on items can once again be modified from the Market or Dragon Invasion menu.
Webstore Updates
Personalized Offers Support
The next phase of the webstore is almost here. Starting after the release of 17.2 — on or around August 19th — the webstore will begin supporting a selection of personalized offers. You will now be able to purchase the latest Mega and Superior Packs directly from the webstore!
During this initial rollout, the following offers will be supported:
- Mega Packs
- Superior Packs
- Flashback Offers
As we look towards the future and as previously hinted, we will continue to work towards supporting more personalized offers, such as Naya offers.
King Schedule
King Reinhold will be available as a Guest Champion on August 19th, leaving on the 22nd.
Bug Fixes
- Further fixes to artifact components on the Market.
- Fixed a bug where the Yule’s Herald and Platinum Scepter staves shared the same power level as the Scepter of Ever-Wisdom. This reduces their stats and also removes the secondary stat from the Platinum Scepter.
- Fixed an issue where, while attempting to reroll a skill, other mutually exclusive skills would not display as part of the possible skill list, even though they would be valid results from this reroll.
- Fixed the Titan Spirit missing audio.
- Fixed Lone Wolf Hood wearers receiving bonuses from Champion Skills on the Airship during Dragon Invasion.
- Fixed a display issue that would occur when a customer already carrying an instrument would buy another instrument. Purchasing a new instrument will now overwrite the previous one.
- Fixed a minor display issue causing icons to appear grayed out on the “Missing requirements” popup.
- Fixed an issue where shop space could not be switched into a yard.
These release notes previously — erroneously — listed the following as changed in this release; it is instead slated for a future release:
- Updated the visuals of the surcharge energy cost value to make it easier to read.