News

Greetings all,

As you know, it’s that favourite time of the year – new update! This VU we have a bunch of exciting new content of all varieties for you to enjoy. Please use this thread to share what you discover and also to report any bugs you might find.

Enjoy!

NEW CONTENT:

• At Kamba you may try to enter the Resa V.I.P. tent. If you succeed, the following two dailies can be found inside:
  • A hunting daily that might Boar you.
  • A mining daily.
• At Kamba you can also find the start of a quest that will take you far away…
• In Ancient Greece at Thebes Market, the last of the captured animals have escaped, causing a bit of a mess while stealing from the stalls and then trying to sail away on stolen ships. They have failed however, and will need to be contained. “Ship Collision Site” can be found south of the harbor.

The Carnival Island has the following news:

• A furniture shop.
• A slightly harder daily race on the Rollercoaster track.
• A daily bonus quest where you can get a hunting mission.
• A new instance called White Wastelands with Snow Drake Stalkers and more dense spawns of Portal Guardians, all maturities. Fee 1 silver ticket.
• A holiday quest that will unlock around a certain time.
• Small empty estates (Crystal Lake, new flowerport added) and shop plots (Shopping District) on Carnival Island will be put on auction the day after release day, assuming all goes as intended.
• At the Wet Circle there is a small collecting mission if you click the automated sweat bottle.
• A spawn of Adaptable Brown Papoos have been added behind the Zoo.
• Jarassis (Female Screecher) and Jaws (Island Shark) have been spotted in Hero’s Folly.

CHANGES/FIXES:

• Added terminals in the caravan behind May at Tanzanite.
• The “oil rig” may or may not work in the future, but there might be other ways to get your hands on broken tech chips. Or feet…
• The fee for Hero’s Folly is now set to 1 silver ticket.
• The Reaper (Harvesting Tool) now has 22 uses per minute instead of the previous 19.
• “Clothes and Costumes Shops” flowerport is renamed to “Shopping District”.
• The Snowball Guns now have an auction category.
• Madame cookie had one weird “fortune” that is now less weird.
• The event terminals for both event areas are now located at Thebes Market.
• Removed extra aggro on Giant Ghostly Screechers in Hero’s Folly.
• Crystal Hoarder rewards are down by 20% but Hematite and Sodalite have been replaced with Bloodstone and Purpurite.
• Removal of most of the grass to test the “objects” performance on high settings.
• The long river near the Enchanted area now has water in it again.
• Increased density of Wild Boars at Mushroom Marsh.
• Arthur has moved slightly so he can be seen better.
• PvP4 in Ancient Greece is now without radar.

Greetings all,

As Halloween draws near, a small themed mission is now available to complete for some fun, appropriately themed rewards  . This mission will close next Tuesday.

You can find the mission inside the Crystal Lake building on Carnival Island, and costs 5 Gold Tickets to start. You can obtain BPs to make the tickets from the starter mission at the Carnival Island TP.

Some of you have been looking for hints on completing the mission already, so here is a little tip to help:

You will be required to do one of the following, one kill, attempt, or find:

Oil
Lyst

Lesser Elysia
Block Chisel
Magical Flower
Crystalline Core

Yellow Papoo
Brown Papoo
Red Papoo
Grey Papoo
Bullman
Cyclops
Mutant Boar
Piglet
Puny screecher
Village Boar

Good luck Islanders, and Happy Halloween!

Patch Notes: 17.16

Changes:

• Due to some problems with certain actions, the first person view has been removed from Hero’s Folly. And since it was a package deal, the PvP has also been removed.
• This combo might return at a later stage and then be more focused on the PvP part.
• The entrance to Hero’s Folly has been moved to a more centered position at Crystal Lake.
• The sign “Dionysus Doorway” was removed for clarity.
• The Rollercoaster is for the time being at least, equipped with wooden start/finish signs that will hopefully always be visible.
• The Carnival Ticket BPs are no longer tailoring but the more correct metal engineer.
• Some minor tweaks to the landscape, texts, terminals and a certain chair.
• Food, drinks and advice are now on the house. But just once per day, so choose wisely…

This VU is dedicated to the memory of David Post and has been an attempt to do things a little bit differently, focusing on coming together as players and simply having some fun.

NEW CONTENT:

• An island in the southern parts has been found to be free from Demra influence. This discovery has led to the creation of a place where everyone can be together without any hostilities towards each other, regardless of what faction they belong to.
  They decided to call it Carnival Island.
  At the new Teleporter (when you’ve discovered it), talk to Dario for a starter mission.
• Special craftable Carnival Tickets are used as currency on the island.
• The Rollercoaster has found a new home, including fitting vehicles of various colors.
  (Only to be used on NI.) Two quests related to these are available at the track.
• Carolines has also found a new home on the island. New bartenders have been hired.
• The easily scared might want to avoid the haunted instance.
  In there you will find various shared loot mobs of different levels, and a few other goodies or baddies depending on where you step. All PvP. For up to 25 players.
  You will be in first person view at all times and a tip on how to pick up vehicles, “recall all vehicles” will return it to your inventory instead of to the storage.
• A disco tent for when you need to shake it off. (This area uses strobe/flashing lights and may trigger seizures with photosensitive players.)
• A fortune teller with infinite (not really) wisdom to share.
• A restaurant with a view. Careful of the step
• A special holiday quest to be taken at a later stage of this year.
• A small zoo where you can have important conversations with the Next Island pets.
• Two shopping tents where you can purchase Blueprints for new clothes and outfits.
• A “Wet Circle” with a small Male Screecher in the middle.
• A PvP tent with a small quest.
• Minor spawns of the different Sharks of Next Island as well as the Papoos.(Shared loot.)
• More harvestable trees in the area.
• New music is being broadcasted on the Carnival Island, Carolines, and in the Disco Tent. The instance also has a few new tunes. (The volume is a little bit higher than the normal Next Island music so you all are aware and don’t fall off your chairs.)

CHANGES/FIXES:

• The Loyalist Racetrack now works correctly all the times. Visible start and finish.
• The Magical Forest now costs 1 flower, has a timer and allows up to 12 players.
• The Moloch Depths now shows the timers correctly and have storages close by.
• The Gallery now has a revive terminal.
• The Gallery Walls can now be placed on the ground.
• Refined Lepidocrosite Crystals can now be refined back to Lepidocrosite.
• Serpentine Village has gotten some cosmetic changes.

Next Island’s NFT affiliate EGG is now live in auction at NFT.io, purchasing this EGG entitles the owner to an affiliate license with Mindark where they earn 10% of the revenue from all accounts they bring in to Entropia Universe.

The Next Island EGG will ensure these participants spawn on Next Island when they start their Entropia Journey. Additionally, when Entropia migrates to Unreal 5, you’ll have a unique, one of a kind, Next Island Pet!

Visit: enj.in/NextIsland to bid before the auction ends on August 6th!

Changes/Fixes

• System Stablizer BPs will now correctly display under Browse when being listed on Auction
• Some creature spawn densities have been increased
• Misspelling in Weekly NEO Hunting mission reward text has been corrected
• An exploit regarding entering mission-locked zones has been fixed
• Eir UL FAP should now HoF as a Rare Item when looted

NEW CONTENT:

• A new V.I.P. area can be found at Sypherton Gardens.
• 3 new weekly quests can be found after entering.
  Mining, with 5 new Drake Wings BPs as reward choices.
  Hunting, with Skills as reward choices.
  Crafting, with 2 new harvesting tool BPs as rewards.
• Harvestable trees can now be found in all areas of the planet.
  A weekly quest for harvesting can be found by visiting the Chef. 4 new decoration BPs are the reward choices.
• An event area can be found in Ancient Greece. Chimeras and Bullmen have escaped their prisons at Thebes Market and colonists need to keep the numbers under control. You will now be able to create your own events within the area.
• Blueprints have been created for (L) versions of the Augmented Gorgon, Perfected Gorgon and the Titan armor sets.
• A strange downed ship named Orion and a few Portal Guardians have been spotted near Shoreline Flats. Perhaps they are protecting something?
• The Sunken Gallery has appeared near Paradise Landing. More details to follow!

CHANGES/FIXES:

• The Hoplite armor can now have plates attached, and the set can now be crafted again due to two new Blueprints replacing the ones that were outdated.
• The Blueprint books have been changed and can be found at any Technician. The old books can no longer be used after removing the blueprints stored in them.
  Since the new books will contain both UL and (L) blueprints, the text will say quality rating for all of them, even if it will mean remaining attempts for the (L) ones.
• Several (mostly clothes) items will now show under a more correct auction category.
• Several spawn densities have been adjusted.
• Bustamite forest should no longer see drakes drowning.
• The winter has finally ended at Crystal Peak!
• Some small adjustments have been made to help race drivers keep on the track at Vulcan Pass.
• In view of the maturing planet content, the number of new missions and future content in the works we made some changes to a couple of missions that rewards crystals.
  Daily Brown Papoo and Robot Menace will now only offer Skill choices.

Greetings Entropians,

It is with a heavy heart we regret to inform our community that David Post, the founder and visionary of Next Island, has passed away. As his friends and family celebrate his legacy, we hope all of those who have enjoyed participating in his vision being brought to life will do the same.

David was a kind man, with a fun vision for Next Island and a playful sense of humor. The origins of Next Islands lore are rooted in a childhood dream of his that he always wanted to see come to life, and fortunately for everyone, his story has been immortalized on Next Island.

One of David’s commonly spoken fond memories was Coney Island amusement park near where he grew up. So in his honor, and with his family’s blessing, Next Island will be developing an annual celebration with lighthearted games and activities.

For now, please feel free to visit the statue of Vice Admiral Post at Paradise Landing on Next Island to pay your respects to the man who made this all possible, and whose legacy will continue to live on for many years to come.

Respectfully,
The Next Island Development Team

NEW CONTENT:

• A new quest can be found at Sypherton Gardens with some life giving rewards…
• A new V.I.P. area located at Tanzanite View.
• Four new quests inside said V.I.P. area. Two hunting dailies, one mining quest and one weekly crafting quest.
• A “new” mining area that needs to be unlocked via the mining quest above.
• New decorations available as rewards for the weekly crafting quest.

CHANGES/FIXES:

• The Magical Forest should now work correctly and not spike memory usage.
• The fee for the entry to the Magical Forest has been adjusted.
• “The Snowballer” is now UL.
• The Moloch depth floors have been fixed so it doesn’t change how it looks depending on how you move.
• LaraClaus can now be placed on floors.
• The densities of several spawns have been adjusted.
• The mini map has been updated.
• The boss drakes should now count for the Codex.
• Pets can now be spawned inside the Moloch Depths.
• An apparition has appeared over the Gorgon wave area to punish those who try to cheat death.
• Mobs should no longer get caught in the statues at the Gorgon wave.
• Closing the reward window for the Multi-Faction Daily will no longer end the quest.
• New Drake models that will make it possible to hunt them using melee weapons.

QUESTS NEEDED FOR THE LOYALISTS V.I.P. HOUSE ACCESS:

• Solving an old Next Island mystery
• Lost Shipwreck
• Driving test
• New clothes
• Daily Crystal Hoarder Mission
• Daily Drake Eradication
• Daily Multi-Faction Mission
• New Elysian Order Training
• Daily Scouting Resources Mission
• Daily Lesser Elysia Challenge
• Daily Stalker Challenge
• Magical Flowers
• Magical Flower Bonus Challenge
• Daily Crystalline Core Challenge

Elysian Supply Cache

The Elysian Loyalists have decided to open their equipment cache to reward all second wave colonists for their assistance in strengthening the colonies of Next Island. Suit up and join your fellow colonists in claiming your share of the cache! Clearing a path for additional colonization of Next Island, those who wish to reap the rewards of this event will need to quell the populations of select creatures on Next Island.

Event Time:
00:01 February 15th 2022 to 23:59 March 15th 2022

Rules:
Each of the highest 300 qualifying hunting globals at the end of the event period will count as a single point. The 50 players with the highest points will receive their share of the cache based on the amount of points they obtain. Ties will be decided by the highest single loot between two hunters with equal points. The event will be tracked live by the Entropia Life event system, and verified at the end by MindArk.

Notes:
Team globals will not qualify.
Shared loot mobs obviously will not qualify unless killed solo, (thus appearing as a normal global)

Register for the event on EntropiaLife.com to track your real time score. All qualifying globals will be tracked for this event.

Qualifying Creatures:
Desert Crawler, Great White Shark, Sand Boar, Centaur, Snow Drake, Vulcan Drake, Death Drake, Storm Drake, Steropes, Myrinian, Daudaormur (Not Enslaved),

Rewards:

1. Perfected Daudaormur Fang
2. Perfected Daudaormur Fang
3. Perfected Daudaormur Fang
4. Perfected Daudaormur Fang
5. Perfected Daudaormur Fang
6. Augmented Daudaormur Fang
7. Augmented Daudaormur Fang
8. Augmented Daudaormur Fang
9. Augmented Daudaormur Fang
10. Augmented Daudaormur Fang
11. Modified Daudaormur Fang
12. Modified Daudaormur Fang
13. Modified Daudaormur Fang
14. Modified Daudaormur Fang
15. Modified Daudaormur Fang
16. Modified Daudaormur Scale
17. Modified Daudaormur Scale
18. Modified Daudaormur Scale
19. Modified Daudaormur Scale
20. Modified Daudaormur Scale
21. Apocalypse Harness (M)
22. Apocalypse Harness (F)
23. Apocalypse Thigh Guards (M)
24. Apocalypse Thigh Guards (F)
25. Apocalypse Arm Guards (M)
26. Apocalypse Arm Guards (F)
27. Apocalypse Shin Guards (M)
28. Apocalypse Shin Guards (F)
29. Apocalypse Foot Guards (M)
30. Apocalypse Foot Guards (F)
31. Aegis Harness (M)
32. Aegis Harness (F)
33. Aegis Thigh Guards (M)
34. Aegis Thigh Guards (F)
35. Aegis Arm Guards (M)
36. Aegis Arm Guards (F)
37. Aegis Shin Guards (M)
38. Aegis Shin Guards (F)
39. Aegis Foot Guards (M)
40. Aegis Foot Guards (F)
41. Scourge Harness (M)
42. Scourge Harness (F)
43. Scourge Thigh Guards (M)
44. Scourge Thigh Guards (F)
45. Scourge Arm Guards (M)
46. Scourge Arm Guards (F)
47. Scourge Shin Guards (M)
48. Scourge Shin Guards (F)
49. Scourge Foot Guards (M)
50. Scourge Foot Guards (F)

New Content

• A new quest chain for a new armor plate series begins at Sypherton Gardens
• A new Loyalist V.I.P. house, located near the First-Wave Settlement TP. Speak to the NPC just outside to check if you’re worthy of entering or if you will need to explore more of Next Island first. Two new daily missions are available inside. Hunting and Crafting.
• The crafting daily will offer new BPs as rewards, 5 clicks each
• The PVP area in Ancient Greece has been reworked to be more conducive to both pvpers and miners
• The centaur hunting area east of the Gorgon Wave has been reworked to be more conducive to hunters
• Micro-estates have been added to the Shepherd’s beach area, and will be on the in game auction soon
• All AG estates now have a service center
• A small gift for a certain Cat has been created

Corrections and Fixes

Some damage types have been adjusted on certain creatures
Spawn density for many of the mission related creatures has been increased
PVP has been removed from the ruins region
Loot has been adjusted, adding some much needed items to the system on NI/AG. This includes a variety of Mindforce loots
Ore drops have been removed from Molochs
A storage has been added to the magical forest

Next Island and MindArk have been closely monitoring the popularity and performance of Ancient Greece shares since their release, and have agreed to take efforts to improve revenue share distributions for Ancient Greece shareholders.

The Next Island team has been humbled by and thankful for the community’s support of our efforts to breathe new life into Next Island. Your faith in our development and contributions to the community of our planet means a lot to our hard-working team. In turn, we feel we have enough information at this point to make a sensible reduction in the total number of Ancient Greece shares available, which will of course increase revenue share distributions for current and future shareholders.

Accordingly, 350,000 Ancient Greece shares will soon be removed from Next Island’s remaining (unsold) share holdings, resulting in 400,000 total outstanding Ancient Greece shares (compared to the 750,000 shares originally created). This new total number of shares will continue to receive 50% of Next Island’s portion of Ancient Greece revenue, and thus represents a significant increase in expected revenue distributions per share.

We feel that this change will position Ancient Greece shares on a par with other successful share and deed offerings in Entropia Universe, while still providing ample resources for our team to continue expanding and improving Next Island and Ancient Greece moving forward.

Thank you for your continued support,
Next Island Development Team

Please see below our latest update to Next Island. As always, should you come across any bugs/issues as a result of this update, please make a report in the Bug Report category of the forum. Be sure to include as much information and relevant screenshots as possible.

This VU has been a quieter update in terms of new content (usually the case with post-summer VU for us) but a number of important bug fixes have been implemented.

We hope you enjoy this update and I look forward to seeing you in-game

Bug fixes:

• Zeus has commanded turrets to be moved away from his vicinity.
• As a result of pleasing the Gods, the teleporter at Rhodes has been returned.
• You can now revive again at Troy.
• The stalls in Ancient Greece will now function as proper shops, we have added 20IP to each AG stall as compensation for waiting.
• The anti-gravity device around Crystal Peaks has been disabled, causing the stalls to be planted firmly on the ground again.
• Turret outside the Gorgon Wave should no longer obscure the shop stalls.
• Troy stalls have been moved slightly closer to the TP.
• You can now buff up your Trojan and Hoplite armor with plates!
• More particle effects have been pulled out of the 2 dimensional plane into our 3 dimensional setting (Improved Particle Effects).
• You now start with Orpheus Cave Teleport unlocked when arriving on NI. This should prevent players from getting stuck in Ancient Greece.
• The Ascension Strider now has a description.
• Adjusted Desert Crawler Spawns.
• The model in Conq’s Rest has been corrected.
• All Gorgon upgrade item mission cooldowns are now removed.
• Slightly adjusted terrain height in Moloch Depths.
• Titan armor is now marked as “Rare”.
• Fixed various spelling errors.
• NPC’s in Thebes Market have been moved away from player stalls.

Actioned by MA:

• Next Island planet model in space has been updated with a new texture.

Next Island is excited to express our dedication and passion to grow the Entropia Universe with Unreal 5. The expanded capabilities of an advanced engine, as well as the mind blowing graphics allowed by such an upgrade will enable Next Island’s development team to truly reach for the stars when seeking new content for our wonderful community.

Our team is already well versed in Unreal development, and we look forward to the challenge and opportunity of creating new realms, exploring interesting opportunities using new modules, and stretching the already impressive limits of the powerful Unreal 5 engine. We support this decision by MindArk, and look forward to continuing to build a powerhouse game that we will all be able to enjoy for decades to come.

Thank you all for continuing to support us by enjoying Next Island!

The new Titan Armor set, of which a piece was discovered yesterday, unfortunately does not list some additional stats. These set bonus buffs apply: – 20% Evade – 25% Reduced Critical Damage

This will be corrected in a future patch to include this information.

New Content

– A new series of instances with a new creature are available, located near Troy, in Ancient Greece. In order to unlock them, players will need to begin at the Haruspex Elder located at Tanzanite View.
– A new quest and instance involving the new Ghostly Screechers and the Pyramid.
– There is now a reward buff for players who commit the sweat to start a Gorgon or Gorgon’s Shade wave. We thank you for your initiative and dedication.
– As requested, more Zeus’ have been added to various locations around Ancient Greece. Enjoy battling the gods!
– Several new stalls have been added for sale at Crystal Peak, both at the top and down near the base of the large tree

Corrections and Fixes

– Gorgon Arm Guards that had the incorrect weight have been adjusted to a proper degree
– Spawn density for various creatures has been increased
– Some quests dialogues have been adjusted and corrected
– Some particle effects and graphical issues have been resolved

Corrections and Fixes

– Mission Galactica necessary loot items have been added to certain mobs. This is currently under somewhat of a test phase, and ideally will be expanded to more mobs later
– Adjustments have been made to the various crystals that drop including drop rate, which mobs they drop from, and how many crystals one mob will drop
– The skyripper stats have been adjusted, as per last VU, and the skyripper mission(s) will be turned back on shortly after the VU is live
– Quest items for the Medusa quests have been made to not be TT-able
– Zeus and the Gorgon’s have new/repaired particle effects around them, although this is still a work in progress as we adjust to the Directx11 update
– Centaur attack range has been increased. This should combat the issue of the avatar being stuck inside of the model
– Adjustments have been made to the Gorgon Wave event area to ease the process of launching a wave
– Adjustments to the drop rate of various loot items, including all fangs, scales, drakescales, armors, and other things has been made, hopefully making some of these somewhat more likely to drop
– Great white shark spawns have been improved to help them not get stuck unreachable as often. This is a work in progress
– Completion of a Serpent Scale armor plate or Gorgon armor piece will now result in the appropriate rare item hof
– All terminals have, where possible, been moved to allow easy reach for crafting avatars
– Tiki huts with a second floor have been fixed so a player no longer falls through the floor
– The Orpheus Cave mislocation teleport bug has hopefully been resolved. This is still a work in progress
– Miranda/Kylon/Elysian tech chips should stack properly now
– The lava in the Vulcan drake volcano area is now less bright and obtrusive
– An Auctioneer has been placed at the Gorgon Wave area
– Chef clothing is now properly customizable
– Chef’s pan now places correctly
– Terrain issues have been fixed on NI
– Screecher maturity at Crystal Peak has been increased to allow for better sweat experience
– Turrets will now kill Enslaved Daudaormur outside the Gorgon Event area
– Some spelling errors throughout the planet have been fixed
– L armor plate crafting cost has been adjusted down

Additions and Improvements

– Player written lore has been gratefully added to the Next Island Forum site
– All crystals on Next Island and Ancient Greece can now be unrefined. This will allow for some more flexibility when sorting one’s loot for crafting purposes
– Crystal Peak has undergone some changes. There are now several stalls and a shop located near the teleport, which will be offered for sale soon
– Several small new quests with useful rewards have been added. Hunt around to find and complete them
A new skyripper variant and subsequent quest to obtain it has been launched
– There is a new dedication statue at Paradise Landing. Hmmm…what could this be about?
– An area of effect sweat healing area has been added at the base of the Crystal Peak Televator

New Content

We are happy and delighted to introduce a new armor, Ascension. This armor has been designed as the primary reward mechanism for the launch of our new initiative, the Next Island Community Recognition Program. This program will run for a probationary period, from March 2nd 2021 to October 2nd 2021. Through a variety of contributions and dedication, players CAN be awarded one piece of this armor set per month, allowing for a full set to be obtained during our test/probationary period. The armor is not account bound, and is thus tradeable.

You can view the armor below, and details concerning exactly what must be done to earn it will be posted here on the Next Island Forum and on our Facebook page in the next few days. We look forward to seeing players traipsing around Next Island and Ancient Greece in this gorgeous armor soon!

The new vehicle ‘Skyripper Loyalist (L)’  which is crafted from a blueprint received in the ‘Get Stel V.I.P. Status’ mission chain on Next Island, has been released with the incorrect item stats. The mission chains were approved, and activated, however it was determined that the ‘Skyripper Loyalist (L)’  item stats required additional adjustments to maintain balance within the EU economy and these missions were not switched off as intended before the latest VU. In an effort to prevent distribution of an item based on the currently incorrect stats, the ‘Get Stel V.I.P. Status’ quest have been temporarily deactivated.

Next Island and MindArk have discussed the options of decreasing the speed, acceleration and responsiveness of the Skyripper, or, adding a movement decay factor of 1PEC per KM that will also include a 1PEC active fuel consumption reduction. After careful review and discussion, Next Island has elected to apply the movement decay factor, to maintain the speed, responsiveness and ‘fun factor’ of the Skyripper, while also maintaining economic balance in the Entropia vehicle market.

A Hotfix for this adjustment will be scheduled in the coming weeks, and the associated mission chains will be reactivated at that time. Individuals part way through this quest at the time of deactivation will be able to continue from the same point in which they left off once the quest is reactivated. Existing ‘Skyripper Loyalist (L)’s will have the new stats applied retroactively.

September 13th, 2020
 NI Release Notes

Platform based updates this round as no new planet partner content was added.

• The underlying issue with many buildings around Entropia Universe, including the many structures on Next Island and Ancient Greece that were affected by this issue has been corrected.
• Ancient Greece Shares are now tradable at approximately six months after initial release as promised.

September 1st, 2020
 NI Release Notes

Hello Next Islanders!  This VU we have a lot of content for you.  Here are a few highlights:

A new pet known as “Asclarius” is available to players! It is obtainable via the  Asclarius quest, which can be accessed at an NPC named Perik, inside the Ancient Greece Orpheus Cave.  The instance gate stands next to him.  Complete the quest to gain the core that allows access to the instance.  Beware, the Asclarius pet is difficult to tame, but helpful at looting things!  Enjoy!

Grab one of our new L Skyripper vehicles and fly around, checking out Next Island and Ancient Greece with an unobstructed view and delightful mobility.

Hunt our Gorgon wave and loot the amazing unlimited armor plates, Serpent’s Scale.  Upgrade them at NPC Militiades, along with your Gorgon armor.

Graduate as a Next Island disciple and try out our new disciple reward, a full set of UL Seeker armor!

We will continue to strive to provide meaningful, fun, and engaging content for you, each VU.  Thank you so much for supporting Next Island, and Happy Hoffing!

New Content:

• Created a new PvP zone in the water
• A new boss mob for the PvP shark spawn is here, known affectionately as the Megalodon.
• New texture to match the Gorgon armor
• The craftable Skyripper flying vehicle
• A new instance for taming of our new pet, the Asclarius
• A multi faction daily with various tailoring BPs (5 clicks each) as reward.
  Can be started from Thebes Market/Oasis/Kamba/Sypherton Gardens/Tanzanite View/Crystal Peak
• A quest to locate a sunken ship in Ancient Greece that starts in the harbor in the new player area
• A quest chain for the New Elysian Order faction (N.E.O.) at Sypherton Gardens
• A daily crafting quest for N.E.O. at Sypherton Gardens
• A uniquely skinned mankini for the player who suggested this concept
• A daily mining quest on Ancient Greece. The NPC is in a building in Thebes/Thebes Market area.
• New clothing inspired by the Stel faction
• New clothing (F) inspired by Ancient Greece
• Disciple armor for NI graduates of the mentorship program
• A full new selection of TT reskins
• Some adjustments and rework of Caroline’s
• A full suite of new Personal Legend Achievements for Next Island and Ancient Greece
• Next Island’s first UL armor plates will be dropping from the Gorgon Wave. They are upgradeable via the Gorgon armor upgrade NPC, from the normal plate Serpent’s Scale all the way to Perfected Serpent’s Scale. They include a block  chance, high impact and acid protection, and strong durability.  *Block chance is bugged for the release, but it will be fixed in a patch by next week.
• Detail and decoration added, filling out some areas of Ancient Greece and Next Island
• Finished design and build of two player estates for Alaina Bonnie Knight and Buzz Erik Lightyear. Congrats and thank you!!

Fixed Issues:

• Fixed the wood planks at Crystal Peak
• Adjusted position of TP closest to Agamemnion Estate
• Added several new revive points into Ancient Greece
• Adjusted a variety of ores and enmatters, including gold and dark lysterium
• Adjusted the PvP land zone in Ancient Greece, per player request
• Adjusted drop rate of minotaur horns
• Adjusted drop rate of Okenite
• Adjusted drop rate of Tanzanite
• Adjusted drop rate of Purpurite
• Holes in the ground at the Gorgon wave area fixed
• Papoo spawns on NI adjusted, per player request
• Decay rate of clothing fixed
• Augmented Gorgon armor recipe fixed
• Fixed the order of armor trade ins for the Gorgon Armor
• Adjusted respawn timing on Brontes in AG
• Fixed issue lake area near PvP zone in Ancient Greece
• Regen rate on Zeus lowered a bit
• Fixed issue where clothing was listed in the incorrect category
• Flower quest adjusted to be a bit easier
• Reckoning blueprint model fixed for inventory
• Block Chisel name fixed
• Avatar position in the combat boat adjusted
• Enslaved Daudaormur damage adjusted.  Penetration removed
• Fixed an issue where the Bikini/Mankini textures appeared faded
• The Daudaormur Texture Blueprint (UL) has been fixed to be (L)

Known Issues:

• Phenacite crystal drop rate needs adjusting
• Improved fang drop rate needs adjusting
• Building in the middle of the Gorgon Wave event causes issues with mobs going unreachable and then disappearing
• Zeus, Gorgon, and Gorgon’s Shade do not show what level they are
• Particle effects look strange

June 2, 2020
VU 17.2 NI Release Notes

New Content

Placed a storage terminal in Orpheus Cave
Placed turrets around estate areas to prevent mob training
Some player owned estates have been built out to their specifications, while others are a work in progress
Craftable combat boat “Reckoning”
Craftable combat boat weapon, “Liberator”
Craftable, texturable, colorable clothing for both M and F avatars
5 new craftable textures can be found on the planet
Player requested Next Island Mankini and Bikini
Lootable PVP zone with pyrite created in north west region of Ancient Greece
A new race quest located south of Paradise Landing
A new daily crafting quest located at Tanzanite View
A new daily hunting quest located south of Oasis Outlook
A new treasure hunt style quest located at Tanzanite View

Known Issues
Particle effects sometimes produce large squares or other graphical defects
Reckoning blueprint displays as a red cross
Mankini (C) and Bikini (C) are not Limited
Mankini not having a Blueprint book
Textures on the new customizable clothing can be faded despite it being 100%. This can be corrected by applying 1 paint can of any color to the section and putting it to full failure. This will make the texture show up properly without the color of the paint can disrupting it.

Fixed Issues
– Fixed an issue with onyx drop rate
– Fixed an issue with quartz drop rate
– Fixed an issue with thyroid oil drop rate
– Adjusted ESI drop rate
– Fixed an issue with various spawns of mobs were in the wrong areas
– Adjusted daudaormur fang drop rate
– Rebalanced loot lists for all of Ancient Greece mobs
– Fixed an issue with LARA backpack not displaying properly
– Rebalanced crafting portion of Mission Chain for the Gorgon’s Shade
– Adjusted Gorgon’s Shade spawn parameters so that players only need to turn in the quest items once in order to spawn the Gorgon’s Shade wave event whenever they want. Players will still need 20k sweat for each spawn
– Adjusted Gorgon Wave event, reducing sweat requirement for spawn from 50k to 10k
Adjusted location of the box in “Deliver us from the Dark Queen” quest, so that players can find it easier
– Adjusted all ores and enmatters so that quest specific mining is now easier
– Added more areas where Next Island ores and enmatters can be found
– Adjusted drop rate of drake scales of all types
– Adjusted drop rate of cyclops wrist guard
– Adjusted drop rate of minotaur horn
– Fixed issue where some NI armor could not have armor plates attached
– Adjusted Daudaormur “hitbox” areas to make for easier targeting
– Fixed issue with light sources in some buildings
– Adjusted teleports around Ancient Greece to create efficiency for getting in and out of AG
– Fixed an issue where female set of Apocalypse armor was invisible
– Fixed an issue where normal Gorgon parts were giving rare swirlies
– Fixed an issue with a graphical hole above the cave leading to the Gorgon Wave area
– Fixed issues with various texts and dialogues
– Fixed an issue where Gorgon’s Shade quest was not tracking correct values
– Adjusted various spawn densities and respawn rates per player request
– Fixed an issue involving lag around some drake spawns where there was rainfall
– Adjusted size of Gorgon and Gorgon’s Shade
– Adjusted spawn of Screechers at Crystal Peak.

March 10, 2020
VU 17.1 Content Release 

Highlights
● Complete overhaul of 3D models, missions, terrain and landscape.
● New terraforming to improve previously ill-developed areas.
● Redesign and addition of a complete teleportation system including terminals for server access.
● Implementation of previously non-existent auctioneers and terminals.
● 3 new unique bosses.
● 8 new and/or completely reworked creatures (Graphic/Balancing/Spawn Pools).
● Improved and complete mining zones across the entire server.
● 2 complex mission chains containing treasure hunts, kill-point missions, crafting objectives, mining runs, and in-depth storyline.
● 1 upgradeable armor obtainable only in unique wave events.
● 6 unique, customizable hero estates tied to Ancient Greece hunting/mining/crafting mission economics.
● 21 new blueprints unique to the theme of Ancient Greece.

Armors
The Gorgon Armor will be (UL) and will be available exclusively from Enslaved Daudaormurs and Gorgons. Daudaormur Fangs will be needed to upgrade any and all pieces from the base stats of armor. These drop from appropriate levels of Enslaved Daudaormur and Gorgon. The correct sequence of items and the upgrade itself can be found at an NPC named Miltiades near the entrance to the Gorgon Lair, next to Marcus Aurelius in the southern part of Ancient Greece.

Quests
This VU features Ancient Greece’s largest update in some time, with a quest chain that leads to unlocking a region where Enslaved Daudaormurs and the Gorgon will be available in two varied difficulty wave events.

Completing this quest line will also enable players to unlock the ability to build customizable Ancient Greece estates. When you finish the quest by killing the Gorgon and saving Ancient Greece, you will receive a Medal Of Heroism. This medal will allow the first six players who wish to purchase one of the six hero estates, the ability to do so.

The in depth quest chain begins at Orpheus Cave, speaking with a Harupex Elder NPC, and leads you through a series of trials that will engage you in a variety of challenges from all professions.

Additionally you will be sent on a quest to explore the hero estates of Ancient Greece. These are large, glamorous areas with abundant building options. In the next planet partner update, this process will consist of the new plot system, making it very easy to completely customize and build your own estate in Ancient Greece. Be warned though; without completing the quest chain, you will NOT be able to enter the Gorgon area without succumbing to a swift death.

Once this first chain is complete, a man named Aegeus can be found in the Gorgon Lair, ready to send you on to your next challenge. He will direct you on how to defeat the Gorgon’s Shade, the evil spirit remnant of the Dark Queen. This is the only way to loot the ultra rare Perfected Daudaormur Fang, the critical item needed to craft Perfected Gorgon Armor. In order to coax her out of her ethereal domain, you will need to obtain rewards from the three labors of Ancient Greece. You may even battle the gods! Good luck, and may the gods hasten thy winged feet!

With 3 new boss mobs, 8 new or reworked creatures, and a complete revamp of the structures on Ancient Greece, players will enjoy a fresh new look to an old favorite. Fight mighty Zeus and his lightning rage on Mount Olympus, or battle dangerously quick centaurs on the island nation’s east coast! Rest comfortable knowing you won’t clip through walls (hopefully) when walking around buildings in town, and enjoy the views buildings, statues, and pathways that have been painstakingly improved despite legacy development hurdles.

Infrastructure
Ancient Greece introduces a new revival cave, as well as optimization of the existing caves to more strategic locations for easy access back to your hunting or mining area. Many new teleports have been placed for convenience. Pits within the revival caves have been converted from frustrating suicide pits, to an enjoyable path from the underworld back to the surface of Ancient Greece.

Players can now find service centers and similar resources in Thebes Market, and in a building behind the statue on top of Thebes, as well as around the map in buildings near teleports.

The harbor has been touched up, adding missing stones, boats facing the correct directions, walls placed, and textures adjusted. Issues with estates on Next Island not having the correct item point values has been fixed as well. Those that own shops or wish to own shops should notice this and be able to place more items both interior and exterior.

Turrets have been placed around the map on Next Island and within Ancient Greece to create safe zones for players to recuperate between hunts.

At any time, feel free to contact one of our several in game Next Island MindArk Officials and ask questions about any of the new changes!

In Progress:
Hero Estates
Ancient Greece Hero Estates will be able to be claimed in the current version through completion of the primary Ancient Greece quest chain and purchase. When purchasing the estate, initially the player will receive an Estate Token that will allow them to claim the estate of their choosing from a Next Island official.

Development infrastructure of the Hero Estates is still under development and will be delivered by the next Planet Partner content Version Update. Should unforeseen delays occur in finalization of the plot system of these estates, owners of estates will be contacted by a Next Island official who will facilitate the placement of desired and approved Ancient Greece structures through the development team, which will be no less than 5 primary structures.

September 24, 2019
VU 16.5.0 Next Island

This VU brings a vast amount of new content and changes to the Entropia Universe via Next Island’s development team. We hope you enjoy, and please communicate any and all issues you run into with us via our Facebook page or forum!

• New creatures to discover including the Daudoarmur, Myrinian, and C.A.R.E.
• A new tameable robot companion named L.A.R.A., with a matching taming quest.
• Hunting this is available as an entry level mob only.
• New pet area near Paradise Landing.
• Many new craftable items and blueprints, including clothing, apartment items, and accessories.
• Several new armors to craft and loot, including the Aegis, Arcticus, and Warmonger sets, as well as several exciting new craftable armor plates.
• Many new quests, centering around a main story line quest accessible at First.
• Wave Settlement from Lee Davies. These quests will introduce you to the residents and the history of this lovely planet, and lead you on a beginning to the adventure of a lifetime!
• New craftable signal projectors, allowing players to claim faction loyalty at their place of residence.
• 12 new mining quests in 3 stages.
• New NPC’s and dialogues.
• New outposts to discover.
• Planetary Ad system activated.
• Pet Stable added.
• A new mysterious hunting area located southeast of Enchanted Village some distance. Its dark, wet, and foggy. What lurks there!

Fixed issues

• Warriors peak clipping furniture adjusted.
• Issues with some of the teleporters corrected.
• Multiple ground texture errors.
• Stick in the air at First Wave settlement removed.
• Misplaced stairs at First Wave Settlement fixed.
• Crystal Peak stairs adjusted.
• Fixed floating terminals and NPC’s and several TPs.
• Placed some turrets where clearly needed.
• Restored old terminals to Serpentine Village for nostalgia’s sake 🙂.
• Adjusted layout of Paradise landing for game-flow experience.
• Adjusted new player area layout for game-flow experience.
• Wave spawns of Grey Papoo and Male Screecher now have all maturities counting towards daily missions. Spawn has been balanced for the mission.

June 11, 2019
VU 16.4.0 Next Island

• 15+ new quests.
• 3 new daily missions, with several new wavespawns.
• 2 new vehicles, including a new player account bound Strider available in an exploration quest obtained at the docks near Crystal Peak.
• Many new structures as part of the redesign. The quests at the docks will lead you to most of these.
• Planet terraforming has resulted in new waterways for eventual boat transport.
• A new bog area for hunting death drakes has appeared in the north.
• All new terminals.
• All new teleports, one for each faction.
• Adjustments have been made to the iron missions, some previous bugs are fixed now.
• All new turrets.
• All new televators.
• Several creature spawns have been added, most notably a shark spawn at Resa Docks. Do not fall in without proper gear.
• Several new mining zones have been added to the desert area in the northwest of the map, as a preempt to the mining redesign coming next VU.
• Next Island specific ores/enmatters have been added into the mining zones.
• General terrain and texture improvements.
• General loot rebalancing and redesign.
• Rhondonite has been reintroduced to the loot so that craftables utilizing this are usable again, per player request.
• Brown papoo spawn has been added, per player request.
• Low maturity chimera spawn has been added, per player request. Both of these spawns are near the main Loyalist areas.

 October 27, 2018
VU 15.19.0 Release Notes

Adjustments:

• All drakes have been adjusted both in their stats and appearance.
• A new elder class of Drakes have been introduced. They only tend to appear when the strongest have fallen in battle.
• New revive terminals can be found throughout the planet.
• Terrain in the NorthWest region of Next Island and has been altered.
• Some shark spawns have been moved to accommodate the new landmass.
• Boars have been stat balanced and their size has been adjusted in specific maturities and classes.
• Chimeras have been stat balanced.
• Screechers have been stat balanced.

Bugs Fixed:

• Fixed an intersection of server lines where there was a hole in the map dropping avatars into the water under the map.
• Missing trade terminal at Crystal Peak placed.
• Some terminals had the wrong model assigned, now correctly displayed.
• Basic terrain graphical errors throughout the island have been fixed.

April 10, 2018
Release Notes

We at Next Island are happy to announce that we’ve introduced some changes to our new player experience! We have an exciting new teleport area called Crystal Peak as well as a new series of quest lines designed to help new players discover this beautiful and tropical paradise planet. Have a look for yourself at our new planet spawn point located on coordinates 135916, 83110.

As the planet is progressing forward developmentally, we also wanted to offer shuttle services from Next Island to Calypso for new players to continue to experience the Entropia Universe as Next Island evolves. At 17:00 every Sunday, there will be a free transport ship available to take players off planet. Crystal Peak will be the pickup location for all new players interested.
Thank you, and have fun exploring!

Developer Notes

• All new spawns in Ancient Greece have been improved and re-balanced (Bullmen, Achelous, Acheron, Cyclops, Bronti, Steryopes, Minotaur).
• Ancient Greece errors involving particle effects and decals have been fixed.
• Next Island now has new beginner hunting, healing, and mining quests and NPCs.
• An Information Officer has been placed along the path towards Crystal Peak to assist players with some answers to basic questions.
• Grey papoo wave event has been removed from Crystal Bay.
• Screecher spawn for sweating has been placed in the valley at Crystal Peak.
• New teleport placed atop the mountain at Crystal Peak.
• Beginner, tameable papoo spawn created near Crystal Center.