Patch 1.3 — The Legacy UI Engine Is Gone

We've reached one of the biggest milestones in Eternal Realms' development. After months of work, every single window in the game now runs on our own UI engine — the original Rappelz interface engine has been completely removed from the client.

Alongside it, Patch 1.3 brings new security features, gameplay improvements, performance optimizations and a huge collection of bug fixes — including some issues that have existed for years.

✨ New features

🔐 Security PIN

• Your warehouse and characters can now be protected with an optional Security PIN: 4–6 digits, numbers only.
• You'll be offered PIN protection the first time you open the warehouse or try to delete a character. If you decline, you won't be asked again.
• 5 wrong attempts within one hour lock warehouse access and character deletion for 24 hours. A notice at login explains the restriction and the time remaining.

🐾 Drop & Tame events

• Added support for Drop & Tame events — see the Drop & Tame Event running now.
• Successfully taming a creature rewards a T-Protect Box matching its tier, holding 1–3 T-Protect Mirrors.
• Mirrors protect creatures of their own tier only.
• The event's World Buff also raises the taming success chance.

🔨 Weekend enhancement events

• Weekend enhancement bonuses now work correctly — these events now really raise enhancement success rates:
• Equipment enhancement · Creature card enhancement · Skill card enhancement
• For creature cards, see the Creature Staging Levels calculator.

🎭 Transmog tiers

• Rare Transmog Upgrade Scroll and Legendary Transmog Upgrade Scroll now work directly on cosmetic items — upgrade a cosmetic without applying it to equipment first.
• Purchased tiers stay attached to the cosmetic item.
• Cosmetic tiers are displayed correctly.

🗺 Large map

• The minimap now has a large map view, making navigation easier.

😎 Emote wheel

• Completely rebuilt the 12-slot emote panel.
• Fixed emote icons not appearing above characters.

❄️ Ice Maiden — elemental damage

• Elemental bonus damage is now combined into one damage number: 12,000 + 250 is now 12,250. The same applies to combat chat.
• Elemental skill bonus tooltips now name the correct element instead of showing a generic stat bonus.

🖥 Complete UI engine migration

100% of the game's interface now runs on our own engine. Rebuilt in this patch:

🛡 Guild & social

• Guild management and the remaining guild menus
• Guild alliances and message boxes
• Siege and raid invitation lists
• Party interface
• Player booths

📦 Inventory & items

• Warehouse
• Enchantment and combination
• Repair, restoration and charging
• Item mixing
• Destruction and dismantling
• Soul Power recharge
• NPC shops and shopping cart
• Durability bar

🎮 Gameplay & HUD

• NPC dialogs, including 3D NPC portraits
• Death and name prompts
• Altar and donation windows
• Hunt-a-holic
• Quick-slot bar
• Taskbar and main menu
• Buff bars
• Minimap
• Settings and System (Z) menu
• Center notices and notifications
• Character nameplates
• Casting bar
• Target window
• Lobby security prompts

❄️ Ice Maiden

• Inventory and equipment
• Skill window and skill tree

🔥 Inferno

• Restored the classic one-piece target window.

🐛 Important bug fixes

⚔️ Content & gameplay

• Ursa Caverns can be entered again — it had been inaccessible since early September.
• Fixed the Ursa instance button.
• Fixed guild creation, alliance creation and pet renaming not working because the name prompt was invisible.
• Fixed the Guild Name Change Ticket ignoring the name you entered.
• Fixed being unable to equip items onto creatures.
• Fixed server messages and newly created creatures showing internal codes like SVR2193 instead of proper text.

🎨 Interface & localization

• The login, server selection and character selection screens now follow your selected language.
• Fixed character names appearing corrupted when using different alphabets.
• Fixed the normal death prompt appearing instead of the duel death prompt.
• Fixed message boxes staying open after logging out.
• Buffs can now be removed with a double-click or right-click.
• Restored floating buff and debuff names above characters.
• Improved floating damage numbers.
• Fixed incorrect P. Pierce and M. Pierce values.
• Fixed skill cards and creature cards appearing as black squares.
• Broken items now correctly appear broken in the warehouse.
• Improved the Security PIN keypad: numbers-only input, translations and properly aligned buttons.
• Restored the green durability bar at full durability, including creature equipment.
• Fixed camera rotation and mouse buttons getting stuck after Alt+Tab or releasing the mouse outside the game window.
• Corrected numerous strings and improved text colors and readability throughout the interface.

🚀 Graphics & performance

• ⬛️ Black ground patches — fixed! The infamous black patches flashing across the terrain when attacking or casting with enchanted weapons are finally gone.
• 📦 Inventory performance. Fixed stuttering when many inventory items change at once — looting, sorting and moving stacks.
• 🗺 Map loading. Fixed endless loading on several older maps, including the Ursa lobby.
• 🚪 Client shutdown. The game no longer hangs when closing.
• 🎬 Intro sequence. Story text is back in its centered position, and the long freeze before the intro begins is gone.
• 🔎 Auction House search. Search now understands item names in every supported language, including Russian and Arabic, and accepts longer search terms.

🔥 Inferno — realm improvements

• Drop tables have been completely rebuilt.
• Fixed warp gates that previously did nothing.
• Restored interactions with previously unusable objects, including altars, Ursa lobby objects and quest gathering points.
• Corrected respawn points, so death, Return Scrolls and revival consistently take you to the right town location.

🛠 Server stability

• Fixed several rare game server crashes.
• Fixed a prolonged stall during server restarts.

❤️ Thank you for your support!

With 100% of the interface now running on our own engine, we've completed one of the biggest technical projects in Eternal Realms' development — and it gives us a much stronger foundation for new systems and features.

Most of the fixes in this patch came straight from your bug reports. Keep reporting anything unusual — your feedback genuinely helps us improve the game.

⚔️ Enjoy Patch 1.3 — see you in Eternal Realms! ❤️