Greetings, Florensia Sailors!

The heat is on, and the wind is rising on the horizon! It’s time to raise the anchor and set sail across the endless sea — or drop it to explore the vast lands of Flandria.

Why? Because 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗫𝗣 is here to boost your journey!

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵, enjoy Double Experience on all your adventures.

Bring your friends. Make new ones. Whether you're returning or just getting started, it's the perfect time to dive back into the world of Florensia.

We hope you enjoy this summer event!

Your Florensia Team

Today, we released version 2.4.0c of Florensia, which addresses some issues and introduces some new quality of life improvements as well as one experimental change that we would like to test together with the community.

Experimental Defence Change

As some of you know, having too much defence in the game results in some cases where players don't get a lot of damage in PvP. We noticed that a lot during the last PvP League, as well as in recent feedback.

We don't want to change how defence works in PvE (so that you guys can continue to tank everything you were already able to tank), but we don't think that the way defence scales for PvP is enjoyable at the moment.

With this patch, we adjusted some things which will result in players' defences being 20% less effective in player vs player combat. Your defences are still 100% effective against monsters.

Internally, we conducted extensive testing and settled on 20% for both physical and magical defence.

As initially stated, this is an experimental change. We will have a feedback thread pinned in Discord. We'd love to hear what you guys think of this change.

Changes

• Increased movement speed for lootpets (this does not include combat pets).

• Adjusted the sea exp death penalty to match the one on land (0.15%). You will only start to lose exp above level 10.

• Adjusted Blood Thirst to properly check distance when pulling monsters and players

• Lightning Recall is now of type "Physical" instead of "Lightning", which results in the skill now properly using physical hitrate instead of magical.

• Added additional client and version checks

Fixes

• Fixed Vampiric Touch not healing when the skill is used to kill a monster or player.

• Fixed HP / MP recovery incorrectly when sitting

• Fixed not being able to cast skills / heals when a dead target is selected

• Fixed some skills being cancelled if the target died during casting

• Fixed Hide (sea skill) still being active when going to land

• Fixed an error in the exp calculation that did not properly account for players +-15 level out of range, which should have reduced the amount of exp instead of multiplying it.
  In most cases, this should not result in getting less experience if the level of your party was close together.

• Fixed various typos in skill descriptions.

• Possible fix for a bug on sea that would stop you from steering.

Hello,

This weekend we have a double EXP event again. So enjoy!

Some info:

As we took control of the game, we can finally tackle the translation. We will add improved translations for all existing languages in a step-by-step process, as the amount of text is so large.

As well, we will transform Portuguese into Brazilian Portuguese.

Our next small patch will enter final QA in the coming days, bringing us closer to another patch.

Have a lovely weekend!

Today we released version 2.4.0b of Florensia, which addresses a few remaining issues and introduces some new quality of life.

• Adjusted several values for Kommandant Humbert Unruh. We will continue to monitor feedback and adjust values where needed.

  • Physical defence: 3200 -> 2500

  • Magical defence: 3200 -> 2500

  • Avoidance rate: 900 -> 500

  • All elemental defences: 1100 -> 600

• Added a cooldown of 3 minutes (180 seconds) to the Medicinal herb of Revival.

• All combat pets are no longer able to attack other players with skills. Auto-attacks are still possible, which is intended. This change was made to mitigate abuse and avoid several balancing issues caused by pets ignoring the defence. We will keep investigating alternatives, however we believe that this is the correct approach going forward as it creates a more even playing field. 

• Changed some defaults for settings:

  • Shadows: Detailed

  • BGM sound: Changed from 50% down to 30%

  • Refuse Party: Now turned off by default

• All Tower Party quests can now be handed in to the Roxbury Tower Manager. The quest shells can still be obtained by any Tower Manager on all islands.

• Additional enhancements to the multi-client prevention system.

• Added thousands separator to several locations where Gelt is displayed, this includes but is not limited to the trading window and inventory.

• Fixed wrong health values for several monsters.

• Fixed wrong naming of Woodywoody essences to match the name of the monster: WoodyWoody. Uppercases matter.

• Fixed various NPC names.

• Fixed various monster names. The names of monsters across all languages have now been standardized to the English naming.

• Fixed wrong description of debuff from "\[Elite]Corrupted Maid". The debuff reduces Magic min. and max. attack by 350 and decreases HP and MP by 2000.

• Fixed an issue whereby a player would be slowed down, if they were buffed while having Ice Shield active.

• Fixed one of the quest markers for "Valuable Medical Stuff" (level 33) being outside the map. 

• Fixed in-client "Register" button redirecting to wrong page on the homepage.

• Fixed sea ability "Ship Recovery" healing more than mentioned in the description. The values have now been adjusted to match the description.

• Fixed partially wrong description for sea ability "Randomly Shooting". All descriptions have been changed to English for the time being with the only exception being German. We will provide updated translations at a later date.

• Fixed healed values for several abilities not matching their descriptions. The affected abilities are: Healing Hands, Instant Recovery, Master Recovery and Aurora of Life.

• Fixed an issue that allowed for an indefinite amount of teleportations to a players' partner using the marriage system.

• Fixed regression in login system that caused password input content to not be detected correctly.

• Fixed massive FPS drops in main menu caused by grass & tree nodes not being culled properly.

• Fixed a visual glitch causing artifacts in world selection screen.

• Fixed a variety of text alignments/visibility issues in UIs, including but not limited to login, character selection, character creation, in-game UI, world map, trade window, and inventory.

• Fixed a typo with trade Gelt limit amount in chat.

• Fixes various crashes and performance issues

Dear Florensians,

It’s a very special occasion: following the acquisition of Florensia, we are now celebrating the successful launch of our very first own patch! A future full of possibilities lies ahead, and we would like to celebrate these milestones together with you.

That’s why, starting now, you’ll receive a +60% AP bonus on all top-ups! Take this opportunity to stock up on plenty of AP and secure your favorite items, outfits, and companions in the shop.

Only until June 16, 2025, 11:59 PM CEST – don’t miss out!

Celebrate this new chapter with us and let’s shape an even greater future for Florensia together.

Thank you for your loyalty and support!

We're very excited to finally bring update 2.4.0 to you - our very first in-house developed update! Like the takeover for Florensia earlier this year, this marks yet another massive milestone on our journey and we're excited to finally be able to share it with you. 

A lot has been going on in the past few months. We have worked tirelessly to not only understand the code but also to organize everything, clean up a lot of the codebase, create new tools that will aid us in development, create processes for more seamless and faster updates and so much more. There is still a lot of work ahead of us but we hope that you will enjoy this first update as much as we did working on it.

With this patch now going live, we are also opening a feedback / ideas forum in Discord where we are eagerly awaiting your suggestions on how to improve the game. You can find the forum thread here[discord.com].

• As we are currently investigating crashes caused by using the "high" texture quality, we have decided to temporarily disable this option. After installing the game, the "low" quality will be set by default without the option of changing it for the time being. Once the investigation has been completed, we will of course turn the option back on. The "low" option uses the old "high" textures from before the HD textures update.

• Initial implementation of Easy Anti-Cheat. This is a big step towards making the game a safer and more enjoyable environment for everyone. With this addition however, come a few notable changes: 

  • Virtual machines are no longer supported and the game will close automatically when it is run inside one.

  • Sandboxie will now cause the game to close immediately.

  • Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux has been enabled, making it still playable under Linux environments (not officially supported).

• Added an option in settings to enable or disable chat notifications about experience gained by your companion (pet). This setting is turned off by default.

• Added travel cards to the 4 major islands (Cardiff Island, Magnel Island, Exeter Island & Chester Island).

  • Travel cards can be bought from Port NPCs at the 4 aforementioned islands:

    • Ash (Roxbury, Cardiff Island)

    • Claudia (Castle Hall, Magnel Island)

    • Gregory (Glostern, Exeter Island)

    • Aron (Cherrytown, Chester Island)

• Added ???

• New grass textures have been added which replace some old, outdated ones.

• Various adjustments to experience distributions while in a party:

  • The amount of experience gained per player has been significantly increased for all party sizes.

  • Players who are a member of the party but roughly ~4000 units (≙ 40m) away do not count towards the experience distribution. They will however still add a penalty to the overall gained experience. 

  • Players who are +/- 15 levels of the slain monster do not add any benefits towards the experience distribution. They will however also still add a penalty to the overall gained experience.  

  • These changes also fixed an issue whereby a level 1 player would increase the amount of experience gained for other players in the party. 

• Added a free skill and status reset when finishing your last class change quest. You don't receive the resets retroactively.

• Increased the maximum amount of quests a NPC shows from 10 to 20.

• Updated popup window which appears for blocked/banned accounts. The message now shows the up to date support E-Mail address.

• Increased character limit for chat messages from 60 to 100.

• Increased stack sizes for ammunition of Rifles and Dual Guns from 2000 to 5000.

• Moved portal to Realm of Ruins to Weedridge next to the waterfall (D3).

• Reduced loss of experience on death from -0.70% to -0.15%. Characters below level 10 will not lose any experience on death.

• Reduced overall crafting times for items on all second jobs from 4 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

• Renamed the entire Gypsy attire to "Nomad".

• Changed cooldowns of the following items:

  • Phoenix Tail Feathers: 1s -> 10m

  • Rebirth Egg: 1s -> 10m

  • HP/MP 100% Potion: 1m -> 5m

  • HP/MP 75% Potion: 40s -> 5m

  • HP/MP 50% Potion: 30s -> 3m

  • HP/MP 25% Potion: 20s -> 1:15m

  • Special Steampunkt HP/MP Potion: 1:30m -> 5m

• Updated splash screen and several loading screens to remove NETTS / AHA logo.

• Changed cooldown of "Instant Recovery" from 1.5 seconds to 1 second. The description of this ability always stated that the cooldown is 1 second, the actual cooldown however was 1.5 seconds. We have therefore decided to reduce it to match the description.

• Removed "Dock Manager Horns" level 19 add "Black Dragon Worker" and replaced it with 2 level 55 "Black Dragon Fencer".

• Changed the Bonus Stats from "Black Blunderbuss of Oblivion" to be different than "Akinas Winchester".

• Reduced cooldown of Priest ability "Blessing of the Earth" to 30 seconds to be in line with the other buffs.

• Removed "Grade 1 Guild Stone Recipe" from Lake Ghosts, Speculants and Papegaara.

• Increased duration of sea buff "Song of War" to 20 minutes on all levels.

• Increased duration of sea buff "Song of Union" to 20 minutes on all levels.

• Increased duration of sea buff "Order of Speeding" to 20 seconds on all levels.

• Removed melee bonuses from the pool of possible Rapier Seals.

• "\[T] \[Elite]Lanoir" now also drops "Elite Lanoir Essence" in addition to "Lanoir Essence".

• Changed behaviour of Gladiator ability "Lightning Recall" to now hit all monsters in the area of effect independently of each other. Previously, the lightning would "spark over" to other monsters, requiring the very first monster to be hit, or else it would not hit anything. Lightning now also strikes the surroundings of the player.

• Buffed Droprate of "Lesser Imp´s Clean Water"

• Buffed Droprate of "Elite Supervisor Mole" and "Elite Sound of Deaths´ Keepsales"

• Renamed one "Flame Angler" on sea to "Viscious Flame Angler" to better differentiate them for quest purposes

• Fixed Alchemy tutorial popping up when clicking on a player.

• Fixed land tutorial window appearing when reaching level 99.

• Fixed missing space in item "BlackShellfish". The item is now correctly named "Black Shellfish". 

• Fixed multiple misspelled essence names.

• Fixed being unable to respawn in "\[Elite] The 2nd Basement of Avery Big Mansion" after death.

• Fixed emojis (yes that's how you spell it) causing a client crash.

• Fixed item codes being clicked in chat causing a client crash.

• Fixed wrong monsters being named in the quest goal for "Duty of Nobleman". It previously showed "Fungi", when in reality "Weak Fungi" were the target.

• Fixed multiple unintentional save zones in Droes Cave of Abyss. These save zones have been removed. The save zone at the portal has been left unchanged. 

• Fixed quest "Start of the Adventure (Loading weapons)" for Nobles having cariad and rapier mixed around in the progress tracker. Equipping the Tutorial Cariad and Tutorial Rapier will now correctly finish the respective task.

• Fixed several issues causing the "You can't act while moving" message to be spammed in chat. The message can still appear, however it should now only appear when you really can't act while moving. 

• Fixed "Trash" (the boss!) dropping "Grim Reaper's Sign" and "Grim Reaper" dropping "Trash's Sign". Both bosses now drop their respective signs. 

• Fixed "The 1st Basement of Avery Big Mansion" showing up as question marks in the minimap dropdown when game is set to German.

• Fixed "Droes Under Valley" being shown above "Droes Cave of Abyss" in the minimap dropdown.

• Moved "Realm of Ruins" to the bottom of the minimap dropdown.

• Fixed several NPCs with wrong titles:

  • Roxbury: Roxberry Tower Manager -> Roxbury Tower Manager

  • Glostern: HOW Manager - Glostun Manager -> Glostern Manager

  • Cherrytown: HOW Manager - Cherry Town Manager -> Cherrytown Manager

  • Cherrytown: Cherry Town Tower Manager -> Cherrytown Tower Manager

• Fixed quest "Dark Trade" showing "Male Vampire Noble" as target. It now correctly shows "Female Vampire Noble" as the target.

• Fixed "Eyes for Enemy" missing in the set listing of the Realm of Ruins Mercenary set.

• Fixed Brid's ability "Curse of Abyss" increasing magic defence. It now correctly reduces the magic defence by 50%.

• Fixed multiple incorrect quest location markers.

• Fixed "\[Elite]Male Vampire" attracting other enemies in a large radius when attacked. The aggro range was set to 30m instead of the intended 2.3m.

• Fixed "Realm of Ruins" map showing wrong player position on the minimap.

• Fixed accessory icons being off by 1 pixel.

• Fixed "Kommandant Humbert Unruh" and "Tunnelgräber Stein" dropping recipes in quantities more than 1. Due to how recipes are currently implemented, they cannot be stacked.

• Fixed being able to teleport monsters and players to the void with Gladiator ability "Blood Thirst" when timing it with teleporting to a city.

• Fixed essences getting lost when taking them out of the gear piece using RE100 (or any other variant). There have to be at least 4 available slots in your inventory now, before you can start the process of removing essences.

• Fixed some minor spelling mistakes across all languages for log messages in chat when picking up Rifle Shots and Shots. 

• Fixed quest items of quest "Last Ingredient" only dropping from "Firefrog", even though the quest says "Lava Firefrogs". The items will now correctly be dropped by "Lava Firefrogs".

• Fixed respawn time for some "\[Elite]Guard Boarhead" being 10 minutes instead of 70 seconds. They will now correctly spawn after 70 seconds like all the others.

• We have deployed a tentative fix for the quick slot bars resetting. We are aware that they still occasionally reset but it shouldn't remove all items anymore and it should happen more rarely. We are still working on a fully working solution to prevent this from happening.

• Foliage may occasionally pop in delayed and/or show up incorrectly with missing textures. This is currently a high priority target for a fix. As a workaround, switching maps should fix this issue but it can unfortunately appear again after another switch. We recommend to disable it in the settings for the time being.

• There is a issue that prevents players from clicking on certain spots in maps, most notable in Droes Cave of Abyss, towards the Golem Boss. We are still investigation this issue.