Today we're happy to present you with RetroCores 1.58!

With this update we've finally made addons possible!
We've kicked it off with adding the 7 classic outfits that can wear addons, in a quite traditional way.
You can see a list of available outfits and addons in our library.
And in the future we're going to add more outfits with addons!

Together with ability for addons, we've added the necessary items for to be able to make them in the traditional way.
Additionally, we've added quest for both obsidian knife and blessed wooden stake.

We've also added Ferumbras with a own raid, but be careful, he might not be as you think!

Additional fixes/changes

• Made surprise boxes stackable.
• Increase raid rate among more rare raids.
• Fixed a glitch that made it hard jumping in CAMs. (this also made you more likely to lagg on weaker PCs).
• Background performance upgrade of both game and client.

We hope you'll enjoy this update and that you'll be looking forward facing the future together with us in RetroCores!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

We are happy to present you with our fifth seasonal world Zenera!
Launching on September 22 at 17:00 CEST!

We've had a poll to see what people wanted out of the fifth season of Zenera.

You can find the poll here:
World Suggestions -Zenera 5:th season settings.

A more loose world:
Zenera is a world made to maximize your fun by balancing laziness and grinding in a mid-rate way!

Zenera is mid-rated seasonal world that will bring much joy and feelings!
A season will last as long as players are enjoying the world, minimum 5 months.
If the world is unable to "die" it can run for years.


Obtain 3 days of golden account for free!
Everyone who manages to login the first hour of Zenera will gain 3 days of golden account.
Meaning between 17:00 - 18:00 CEST on September 22.


Rates of Zenera:
Experience: 16x - 1x, Staged Experience Table.
Skills: 5x
Magic: 2x
Loot: 2x
Regen: view.

Character creations in Zenera will be opened one hour before the launch.

Golden Account Differences:
We'd like to point out and highlight for people that haven't noticed that there are some differences with golden account in this world!

• Free accounts are able to travel with Ships/Carpets.
• Free accounts are able to access all cities.
• Free accounts are able to use all spells.

Central host, for the entire world!
Zenera is hosted in Miami with great systems to make everyone able to play without having to deal with laggs!
You will shortly in Zenera notice that you have quite a low ping, no matter where in the world you are!

Now imagine that, a central world, bringing many cultures into it, imagine the greatness of wars this will bring when people from the corners of the world could unite under one banner to take on people from another part of the world!


Additional differences in Zenera compared to other worlds:

• Item-Hotkeys are available.
• Built-In Rune-Maker is available.
• Equipment upgraded after Rookgaard. (only if your items are worse. Leather Set, Studded shield, and 12 atk weapon)
• All spells are free of charge.
• Rings/Items give 2x more regen.
• You can right-click change gold.
• Desert-Quest is soloable.

No Supplies in client-store!
As voted there will not be any runes, manas or other kind of supplies in the store in Zenera's 5:th season!

Built-In Rune-Maker:
As per the poll, the Rune-Maker will be available in the world and be legal to use.
Keep in mind that you're only allowed to login maximum 3 characters from the same computer!
Going beyond this limit could result in banishment/deletion depending on how many characters's you try to login.
Check rules 3c and 3d for more details.

Skill Pools:
We don't want people to feel they've wasted their time and efforts in Zenera for nothing when it comes to a season end.
So when the time comes for a new season to start, the time when Zenera will reset and go offline to prepare for the new season, all characters will be converted into skill-pools that you can view on your account panel and use on any characters within a few small restrictions.

About 30% of your efforts are saved into your skill-pools, which is decided on the day Zenera is reset.
Now mind that 30% of effort and 30% of skill is completely different things!
Obviously, experience will be easier to obtain in mid-rate thanks to that you get levels quicker, there you'd be hunting rotworms in a normal world you're probably already hunting dragons in Zenera, if you understand the point.
So keep in mind, 30% of your efforts, your energy put into the character is saved (exp, skills, magic lvl).

When you've obtained pools, it could look like this in your account-pool:
When using the pool you can choose how much to use ranging from 10 to 100% of your pool.
Note that pools cannot be used in seasonal worlds such as Zenera but only other worlds (Normal, Hardcore).


Refund of points:
We don't want people to worry about purchasing something and suddenly Zenera would be shut down.
First, Zenera would have announcements weeks beforehand that season end is near, but also there will be point refunds for recent purchases!

Shop points refunds are based on % when the purchase was made.
If you purchased anything a day before the shutdown you'd get 100% of the points back.
If you purchased something a week before, you'd get 93% of the points back.
Decreasing by 1% for everyday.
All types of purchases are refundable with exception of golden account and shop point scroll-related purchases since they're global and not only limited Zenera.


Additional changes since last season:

• Update 1.56 - HD Graphics, Daily Quests, Improvements.
• Update 1.57 - Followup improvements.

We hope you're as hyped for the launch of this sweet seasonal world, just as we in the staff are!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today we're happy to present you with RetroCores 1.57!

The following things have changed this version

• Fixed a loophole that made it possible to bypass 10 character limit on accounts using the auctions.
• Fixed an issue that caused certain fluids to have wrong colors.
• Fixed a graphical error in mite.
• Improved 64p sprites of black/grey/white tiles, white stair and wooden-railing.
• Improved 64p sprites of framework wall and tile walls, alongside with archways, windows and doors.
• Fixed an issue that caused CAM's to freak out when jumping in time.
• Added ability to have health bars extra large, Options > Others > "Make health bars extra large".
• Fixed so text from fluids and others doesn't block health-bar on the character on various screen-sizes.
• Fixed an issue that made exp/h window show wrong exp in certain situations during relogs.
• Fixed an issue that made anti-idle not working properly in client tools for worlds that allows it.
• Upgraded a background system that will result in a smoother experience for players on weaker computers.
• Fixed so exp in party cannot give exp to more members than original exp gained. (10 exp from cave rat can only be shared up to 10 party-members, for example)
• Fixed an issue that made certain store items arrive to depot with only 1 charge instead of intended amount of charges.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today we're happy to present you with RetroCores 1.56!

HD Graphics
We've increased the base-size of the game from previous 32x32 to 64x64 pixels enabling us to enchant the graphics and create new wonderful, detailed and even extra small things.
We've enchanted every sprite of RetroCores to be as good looking as possible as 4x the size while still keeping the oldschool aspect.
  Original 32p graphics


New 64p graphics

Original 32p graphics


New 64p graphics

Notice:
Some items/sprites might look weird/off and we'll of course track them down and try to correct them to look as good as possible.
So don't worry in case you find something that doesn't look alright, we are not going to stop trying to better everything!

Additional to HD graphics, we've made you able to adjust the thickness of the attack-square
You can adjust it in Options > Graphics > Attack square thickness.

Daily Quests
We've added the exterminator missions, which is a daily mission there you in each city can sign up to find and exterminate small pest creatures for a reward.
There's even a mission in Rookgaard that can be completed on daily basis!


Other Improvements

Network
We've upgraded how the network works around the game and client, within our own network around the globe, to make everything smoother, and chance for troubles less than ever.

Character-kick
We've improved the kick system so that if you lose connection, your character will be kicked and character-list returned to you within a few seconds.
Before this, a kick resulted in a up to minute long "freeze" before you could "relog".

Lock-Button Memory
We've made the client to remember all windows with lock-buttons, so when you restart the client all the windows that was locked, still is.
For example, battle-list, skills, loot , exp/h windows and more.

Lock inventory related windows
We've added an option there you can lock equipment window, health/mana window, buttons-window and minimap so they cannot be dragged.
You can find this option in Options > Others > Lock inventory windows and minimap.

More frequent raids
We've increased the raid frequency by 100% to make the game slightly more interesting.
Keep in mind that some creatures in some raids drop special items.


Final words
Other than those noticeable changes, we've done some background related improvements to make everything smoother and stable.
We're never stopping chasing perfection and will keep trying to improve everything.

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff

Today the fourth season of Zenera has ended!

The season was active between April 21 of 2023 until September 1 of 2023.
And we want to thank everyone who was part of it!

Now for the more technical things about the seasonal end.
The fifth season of Zenera will launch later this month.

What happens now with Zenera, is that it's going into a clean-state there all characters and everything in it will get wiped.
But as many is aware, characters aren't just removed from Zenera, but converted into pools of exp/skills/magic that you can apply in other worlds.

The pool is added to the account that's currently holding the character, which have been a confusing topic for some when it comes to auctioned characters.

You can find your pools on your account panel:


It will look similar to this, depending what skills you got pools in:

You can use the pools on any character you want on the account, within the restrictions.
And you can yourself chose if you want to use anything between 10%-100% of the pool.
So if you decide, you can split the pool between multiple characters.

Again, we want to thank you all for being part of Zenera's fourth season and hope to see you in the fifth season later this month!
Meanwhile, we hope that you'll enjoy the pools you've worked hard for, and that you use them wisely!

Sincerely,
RetroCores Staff