The Soul Reaper hands out souls. There are four, you cast them on a party member and they change their whole fight. We rewrote all four from the ground up: until today, almost every bonus was flat and levelling the skill did nothing.

And there is something almost nobody knows: carrying a soul also paints a target on your back. There is a skill that only works on someone carrying one, and it bypasses everything.

In the same batch goes the Swordman's Endure, which goes from 7 hits to 21 — and whose counter, until now, never went down at all inside a castle.

If your client still shows the old numbers in the skill window, open the launcher and let it update.

We had announced that the Daily Gift Girl would hand out gifts for the last time on 30 September. That farewell is cancelled. She is not leaving. She is still in Prontera 164, 172, same spot, same face.

What changed is who she works for. You can ask her who she is now, and she will tell you: she came from Lutie, she was the Santa Goblins' envoy, and one day an adventurer went up there. He did not kill her.

Then he came. He knelt over her and filled her with something cold. He told her to keep handing out gifts, because he loves you, all of you, so very much. He is so kind…

The package changes too: four independently rolled slots, and a button to claim it from the website without logging in.

Go and say hello. She likes being asked. And don't worry about the cold: it passes.

We spent months on the same question: how do you reward the people who hold up a small server? Not whoever pays. Not whoever grinds longest in one sitting. Whoever shows up, stays, and brings people who also stay.

Today we switch on the answer. It is called player level, it runs from 1 to 24 and it is earned three ways: by showing up, by inviting, and by having been here from the start.

There is no way to buy it. No shortcut, no bundle, no shop. That was exactly the point.

The full breakdown — your stamp card, your streak, your invitations and your level — is on your account page. See you in Prontera.

Let's be blunt: most private servers ban bots and then look the other way. We did the opposite. If you are going to automate, let the server do it: with rules, with limits and in plain sight.

It is two things. @autoplay, your character fighting on its own with six switches you decide. And @helpme, which summons another real character from your account to fight beside you — something that had been impossible in Ragnarok for years.

All of it with a daily quota, an idle pause, an auditable log and a ban on hot maps.

Your homunculus and your mercenary have stopped being two bags of hit points running behind you. We rewrote how they think, and you notice it on the first map.

The big one is that they now read whether you are at the keyboard: go idle and they stop picking fights. And the mercenary contract stops running against a blind clock.

They will not play the game for you. What they do is stop getting in the way: they don't drag monsters you didn't want, they don't get lost across the map and they don't evaporate while you're looking at your inventory.

The official quest that unlocks travel to Midgard Expedition Camp is long, linear and easy to lose track of halfway through. We wrote the full guide: sixteen steps, with /navi coordinates, each one verified against this server's actual script.

Useful warning before you start: step seven asks for base level 70. Get there first if you can and save yourself a round trip.

The Geffen Magic Tournament is live: a daily instance designed for a single player. You travel to the past, fight round after round through a list of rivals and, at the end, Fenrir.

Getting to the door has a catch, because the map it starts on is not connected on foot to the rest of the world. The four steps to get in, the requirements and the rewards are in the specification.

We went through every slotted accessory on the server and found over 500 with no job assigned in the database: nobody could equip them, even if they got hold of one. That is fixed.

Along the way, the slotted Morrigane and Morpheus sets joined two MVPs' drop tables.

Go and check your inventory: you may already have one waiting.

We reviewed and enabled all the official instance content this server had available: twenty-four memorial dungeons, none of them requiring a minimum party size or imposing a level cap. You can go in alone.

The full list — map, coordinates, minimum level and what each one gives — is in the specification.

A large batch of changes spread across the whole server: companion AI, several custom skills, town NPCs, the client and the updater.

Nearly everything in this batch is written up, with its numbers and its small print, in the specifications. This is the index.