🆕 NEW ERA UPDATE — NEW INTERFACE + NEW HOUSE SYSTEM + WANDERING THALGRON + PATH OF THE VIRTUOUS

We continue expanding, renewing and polishing the systems of NEW ERA.

This update brings major improvements to both the interface and several of the server's core systems: a new dynamic player interface, a completely renewed house management system, a full rework of Thalgron into a true wandering boss, and a new exploration challenge: The Path of the Virtuous.

🖥️ NEW ERA'S NEW INTERFACE

The new NEW ERA dynamic interface is now available, designed to keep the most important information about your character visible at all times without taking up too much screen space.

The interface automatically displays and updates:

❤️ Current health and remaining HP percentage.
🧪 Real potion cooldown time, with a countdown until you can drink again.
📊 Automatically updated visual bars.
🔒 The ability to lock or unlock the interface to prevent moving it accidentally.
🔄 Automatic information updates.
🧪 A compact mode for players who only want to see the remaining potion cooldown.

You can enable or disable the interface at any time with:

.hud

You can also switch directly between its two modes:

Full interface:

.hudfull

Compact potion interface:

.hudpoti

Once enabled, the system remembers your configuration, allowing you to keep your preferred mode on future logins.

🏠 NEW NEW ERA HOUSE SYSTEM

Houses receive one of the biggest system overhauls to date.

The old property menu has been replaced by a complete new management interface, created specifically for NEW ERA and divided into clear sections to make managing a house much easier and more intuitive.

📸 SUGGESTED IMAGE: general screenshot of the new main house menu.

From the new menu you can quickly check the overall state of your property and access all of its tools.

👥 Access

Owners now have a much clearer record of everyone authorized to use the property.

You can manage:

Owner.
Co-owner.
Up to 5 authorized friends.
Adding and removing permissions through protected confirmation steps.

Each rank has different levels of access to the property system.

🔐 Security

Properties now include a dedicated section for managing their security systems.

From there you can:

Create new copies of house keys.
Replace all house locks.
Automatically destroy old keys whenever the locks are changed.
Re-link and verify all doors belonging to the property.
Manage certain property-linked elements.

📦 Secure Chests

Houses can have up to 5 protected chests directly linked to the property.

These chests recognize house permissions and provide centralized control over who is allowed to use them.

The menu itself shows occupied and available slots.

💰 New Rent System

Each property now has its own economic system.

Rent is calculated according to the objects actually registered inside the property, allowing you to check:

Registered objects.
Daily rent.
Accumulated debt.
Outstanding days.
Current property status.

If a house reaches the maximum debt limit, the property will not disappear.

Instead, access will be temporarily restricted until the owner or co-owner pays the outstanding debt.

🛠️ Decoration Tools

The system also introduces the NEW ERA Decorator, a tool designed to safely manipulate decorative objects inside your house.

It allows you to:

⬆️ Raise objects.
⬇️ Lower them while respecting their original height.
🔄 Rotate them when another orientation is available.
🔒 Lock or unlock them.
Restore them to their original height.

All actions are restricted and validated within the corresponding property.

🪧 Sign Gallery

You can now customize the exterior look of your home much more extensively through a complete sign gallery.

Browse through dozens of models, preview them and confirm the change before applying it.

📸 SUGGESTED IMAGE: screenshot of the gallery showing several available sign models.

✏️ Property Name

You can also rename your property directly from the menu without losing owners, permissions, keys, secure chests or any other linked information.

⚙️ Property Administration

The final section contains the most important property actions:

Transfer ownership to another player.
Permanently remove the structure.
Additional confirmation steps to prevent accidental actions.

📸 SUGGESTED IMAGE: screenshot of Access, Rent or Administration to showcase another section of the new system.

In short, houses no longer rely on scattered management options and now use a unified property administration system built specifically for NEW ERA.

🗿 THALGRON — WANDERING GUARDIAN OF THE ETERNAL ROCK

Thalgron will no longer remain in the same place forever.

From now on, he becomes a true wandering boss, capable of appearing in different locations across the world.

🔥 There will be 2 Thalgrons active completely independently from one another.

Each one has its own group of 4 possible locations, including areas such as:

Dungeons.
Hythloth.
Deceit.
Despise.
Cove territory.
Wind Tunnels.
Fire Island.
Wrong.

Both Thalgrons belong to different spawn groups, so they will never share the same location.

⏱️ How does the respawn work?

When one Thalgron is defeated:

☠️ Thalgron dies → ⏳ his individual timer begins → 6 hours later he respawns randomly at one of the 4 locations in his group.

The second Thalgron continues operating completely independently.

This means that:

One may be alive while the other waits to respawn.
Both may be alive at the same time in different locations.
Or both may have been defeated and be waiting on their own respawn timers.

Each appearance will be far less predictable.

Finding Thalgron is once again part of the hunt.

🛡️ THE PATH OF THE VIRTUOUS

A new challenge also arrives in NEW ERA, focused on exploration, the Virtues and travelling across Britannia.

The Path of the Virtuous will lead adventurers across the 8 Shrines of Virtue spread throughout the world.

The goal is to locate and correctly complete all eight shrines in order to prove that you are worthy of reaching the end of the Path.

✨ The 8 Shrines

Each shrine represents one of Britannia's great Virtues.

When you find one, you must interact correctly with its pieces to register your progress.

The system will keep track of the Virtues you have completed, and you will be able to check your progress through a special interface containing 8 slots, one for each shrine.

Every completed shrine will remain marked until the full journey is complete.

🚶 A JOURNEY THAT MUST ACTUALLY BE TRAVELLED

The Path of the Virtuous is not designed to be completed by instantly jumping from one point of the map to another.

Once the pilgrimage begins, the main forms of instant travel will be blocked:

❌ Teleport.
❌ Recall.
❌ Gate Travel.
❌ Mark.
❌ Runebooks.
❌ Travel Book.
❌ Sextants used for travel.
❌ Travel Stone.
❌ Portals and transporters.
❌ Countdown-based travel systems.
❌ The Stuck option used to return to the portal room.

Even countdown-based travel started before beginning the Path will check your status again before moving you.

✅ What is still allowed

You may still use:

🐎 Mounts.
⛵ Boats.
🚶 Normal travel by walking or running.

The goal is to make travelling through Britannia meaningful again, and for finding a way to reach each shrine to become part of the adventure itself.

👑 THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE VIRTUOUS

Completing all eight shrines will not simply be another personal achievement.

In NEW ERA only one Virtuous can exist at a time.

The adventurer who successfully completes The Path of the Virtuous will become the current holder of this distinction.

But the title does not belong to anyone forever.

If another player later manages to complete all eight shrines:

the new adventurer will become the Virtuous, and the previous one will lose the distinction.

This is not simply about completing a pilgrimage once.

It is a unique server-wide recognition that can change hands whenever someone manages to complete the Path again.

🧭 EXPLORATION, PROPERTY AND ADVENTURE

With this update, we want to continue giving greater depth to different parts of NEW ERA.

🏠 Your houses receive a completely renewed administration system.

🗿 Thalgron no longer waits forever in the same location.

🛡️ The Shrines of Virtue await those capable of completing the Path.

👑 And only one player can be recognized as the Virtuous.

⚔️ Explore. Build. Travel. Discover.

NEW ERA — Ultima Online

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