This update fixes common issues from the Winter Event Update including server crashes and questing bugs.

• Fixed a server crash due to quests
  
• Fixed Pearl rewards from quests not saving properly on acquire
  
• Fixed No emote being greyed out in emote wheel after acquiring it
  
• Fixed a bad AI spawn under map
  
• Fixed missing name of Zemohra's mate in dialogues
  
• Added a peace/heal zone at spawn in Death Match server

Snow has come to the Forgotten Forest and it is a time for celebration for all dragonkind! Explore an updated Forgotten Forest map with winter weather, snow, and quests! From December 4th through January 1st, login to meet new dragons, earn a new title, earn a new emote, receive a free Snowslayer Skin pearl, and enjoy the Winter Holiday season.

• Added Biolumin NPC Nest on Cherry Island. The Nest spawns one Bio egg every 2 hours. These eggs have random spawn stats, are always Iconic skin, and are always Male. The Dialogue is only available to players who do not have a Biolumin.
  
• Added new Winter's Gift quest line, players can earn the No Thank You emote, the Winter Dragon title, a freee Snowslayer Skin pearl.
  
• Questing and progress is now in the game in an early implementation state
  
• Type /quest to print your current quest

• Winter has come to the Forgotten Forests! The world is covered in snow with special NPC quest givers in the world. Light Rain is now Light Snow, Heavy Rain is now Heavy Snow, Thunderstorms are now Blizzards.
  
• Updated Forgotten Forests map

• Players can now Group Invite other players by Aiming at them and Friendly Calling. You must be already in a group to do this.
  
• Updated some minor SFX
  
• Updated EAC with latest anticheat measures
  
• Updated EAC to fix some rare crashes

• Inferno Ravager now uses proper sniff sound fx
  
• Hints are now removed if player character dies while hint is active

Day of Dragons is wishing everyone a Happy Holiday season with our first annual Winter Holiday event!

Snow has come to the Forgotten Forest and it is a time for celebration for all dragonkind! Explore an updated Forgotten Forest map with winter weather, snow, and quests! From Decemeber 4th through January 1st, login to meet new dragons, earn a new title, earn a new emote, receive a free Snowslayer Skin pearl, and enjoy the Winter Holiday season.

During the Winter Holiday Event, we have given our Content Creators, 144 Creator Skins to give-away during the 12 Days of Dragons Christmas livestream event December 13th - 24th. Each day a different Content Creator will be giving away 12 Creator Skins.

This Winter Holiday Event will include:

• Winter-themed Forgotten Forest Map with snowfall and a Christmas Tree
  
• In-game Title "The Winter Dragon" via the Winter's Gift Quest
  
• New "No Thank You" Emote via Quest
  
• Free Snowslayer Skin Pearl Gift (1 per account)
  
• "12 Days of Dragons" Content Creator Skin Give-away
  
• Something special to look forward to for lore-lovers and roleplayers

The Winter Holiday Event begins on our 5 Year Anniversary, December 4th, 2024 and continues through January 1st, 2025. Don't miss out on these exclusive Holiday gifts!

We wish everyone a Happy Anniversary, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

This small patch adds a new spawnable Flame Stalker skin to the game, Lava Rock as well as some audio tweaks.

• Added Lava Rock Rare Spawn Skin for Flame Stalkers

• Improved Flame Stalker mourn sounds
  
• Added unique sniff sounds for Flame Stalker juvi adult and elder
  
• Added unique sniff sounds for Blitz Striker
  
• Added unique Biolumin sniff sounds for all ages

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Update 1.2

This cumulative patch improves Update 1.1 with fixes to Easy AntiCheat connection and kicking issues and Flight Desync.

• Changed Blitz Striker Plasma Mitigation from 50% to 60%
  
• Changed Blitz Striker Fire Mitigation from 25% to 15%
  
• Reduced client Log spam

• Weather should be a little more performant on Potato settings

• Fixed a rare issue where servers were not always registering the proper Client ID causing some players to get kicked
  
• Fixed a rare issue where clients were not always registering the proper Client ID causing them to be unable to join new servers
  
• Fixed EAC server authentication timed out error kicking players when server Registered client before client began their EAC session
  
• Updated EAC to latest version to fix crashes when using Windows 11 v24H2
  
• Fixed an issue where flight data was only replicating to peers once per second
  
• Improved flight rotation data calculations on peer
  
• Improved flight positioning data calculations on peer which in turn makes flight hit boxes more accurate
  
• Improved flight correction on peer

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Update 1.2

This patch improves Update 1.1 with fixes to Easy AntiCheat connection and kicking issues.

• Re-added old Inferno Distress and Submission SFX due to community feedback
  
• Re-added IK to Blitz Striker eat/drink animations

• Improved Flame Stalker Juvi taunt SFX
  
• Blitz Striker now has custom Sniff SFX
  
• Swamp Snapper now has unique footstep SFX

• Fixed an issue where Easy AntiCheat was sometimes unable to connect to Epic Online Services due to the Epic login token expiring before the game cached it
  
• Fixed an issue where players were being kicked from servers due to their EAC tokens expiring during gameplay
  
• Various Dragon Audio Fixes

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Patch 1.1.4

This Client Hotfix resolves various audio issues.

• Fixed Missing Biolumin Roar (1 Call)
  
• Reworked Inferno Ravager Eat SFX
  
• Fixed Blitz Baby Distress SFX
  
• Various Sound Fixes

This patch improves Update 1.1 with some various improvements and adds a new Rare Spawnable skin for the Inferno Ravager. Both servers and clients will need to update.

• Added a new Secondary Attack Keybind (default mouse thumb button)
  
• Added a new Rare spawn skin "Ember Dawn" for Inferno Ravagers

• Increased the spawn time of the Boss Snapper at the elder crystal pond
  
• Flame Stalkers Tail Swipe is no longer activated by doubleclicking the Attack Input and is now activated by clicking the Secondary Attack Input
  
• Flame Stalkers can now tail swipe while carrying a baby or corpse
  
• Inferno Ravagers now generate more velocity when jumping allowing better takeoffs
  
• Survivor Mutation now bolsters Inferno ability by granting more mitigation to Plasma, Lightning, and Acid damage. Inferno grants 50% mitigation without Survivor mutation and 90% mitigation with Survivor mutation while Inferno is active. Inferno Damage mitigation to Frost remains unchanged at 25% and provides no defense to Venom, Impact, and Piercing damages.
  
• Increased the health of all creature classes exponentially to make for better survivability
  
• Updated various Sounds

• Various performance optimizations
  
• Implemented a method to detect a specific Steam Client hack
  
• Boss Snappers now have unique Sounds

• Fixed an issue where Bound pearls could be unbound by logging back in
  
• It is now impossible for nests to spawn eggs with "random skin"
  
• Fixed many sound bugs
  
• Fixed a shadowing issue
  
• Fixed an issue where EAC was kicking players from the server due to conection timeouts

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Players may experience an Infinite "Connecting" issue when starting the game. Try restarting the game or restarting steam to fix. We hope to have this issue resolved in Patch 1.1.3
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Patch 1.1.3

This patch improves Update 1.1 with many fixes to the game and some TLC improvements. Both servers and clients will need to update.

• Scaled Elder Crystals back to their original larger size
  
• Scrabs now walk on the bottom of water bodies like good crabs
  
• Upstatting is a little easier as recessive downcrits are now clamped to Bloodline Quality, so an A- upstat to A will downcrit the recessive to A- if the BQ is also A, but B+ if the BQ is below A. The same applies to B-/C-/D- recessive downcrits
  
• Reduced how often it rains
  
• Updated Flame Stalker Melanistic skin

• Fixed a rare crash when quitting the game
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing textures to appear blurry
  
• Fixed an issue where fliers would tumble around after hitting the ground while flying or taking off
  
• Fixed an issue where players could join an EAC protected server without logging in to Epic which caused a stealth kick from server within 5 minutes
  
• Fixed EAC issues related to players using multiple Steam accounts on the same PC
  
• Fixed Nest interface not showing Biolumin skin names
  
• Fixed areas around big lake showing underwater fog above ground
  
• Blitz Strike charge now deactivates on death
  
• Fixed various map issues
  
• Fixed various sound issues
  
• Fixed an issue where Swamp Snappers were spawning pearls they weren't supposed to spawn
  
• Fixed an issue preventing player inventories from persisting after logout
  
• Fixed an issue where Swamp Snappers and Dragons were not dropping carcasses
  
• Fixed an issue which caused Swamp Snappers to not provide any food value
  
• Fixed an issue which prevented Swamp Snappers from respawning
  
• Fixed an issue which allowed Swamp Snappers to still be alive on the server after they died on the client causing "ghost snappers"
  
• Swamp Snapper sounds no longer play on dead snappers
  
• Fixed an issue where Normal size Snappers were dropping pearls (only Boss snappers drop pearls)
  
• Fixed an issue where Scrabs were able to spawn pearls
  
• Fixed an issue where weather occlusion volumes in caves were causing projectiles to ricochet
  
• Fixed an issue preventing players from building nests on rocks
  
• Fixed an issue where player could not fly if entering a cave below the surface
  
• Fixed an issue where ragdolls would fall through rocks if the rocks were below the surface
  
• Fixed many issues with Swamp Snapper behavior logic, Swamp Snappers are much smarter now
  
• Fixed an issue where Snappers could get stuck on the bottom of large bodies of water

Players who connect for the first time may see "Connecting" get stuck. Restarting the game should permanently fix this issue. Logging in to a different Steam account will require another game restart to fix. We're working to fix this issue as it involves an Epic Online Services login error.