SoTA Release 28

[Balandar]

You can read the complete Release 28 instructions here.

Highlights:

- 42 new scenes appearing in seven different regions
- Introduced Bulk Crafting and Bulk Salvage..
- The Shores of Malice and Malice
- Skrekk and The Caverns of Skrekk
- A new window to the crafting stations to deliver information that includs success chance, critical chance, and whether placed items represent an unlearned recipe
- Obsidian introduced
- Agriculture Growth Rate Indicator
- Sheet Music
- Guest Lot Binding: Players who have Guest (or higher) permissions on a lot can now bind for Recall to that lot.
- Automated Phonograph (Now I can play "Death" over and over at my tower!)
- Kobold Homes and Decorations
- Load Times: Load times should be noticeably better, especially for large city scenes and story scenes with lots of dialog. In local tests, load times for Owl’s Head were cut in half. More metrics were also added for tracking load times.
- Containers in List Inventory: You can now use containers in List Mode to sort and view your inventory. Previously List Mode would display everything in your inventory regardless of whether it was in other containers (bags, chests, etc.).
- Lying Down in Beds
- Examine: This option has been added to the menu when you right click on other players and allows you to see their paperdoll.
- Scene User List (aka /who): This is a list of all players currently in the same instance of the scene you are in. Guildmates and friends show character names, others show as anonymous. By default this list can be accessed via Numpad 0.
- 9 New Shields: There are now 9 new shields in the game. In future releases they will be craftable.
- New Male Avatar
- Temporary Invulnerability: When players respawn after death or first appear in a scene, they are temporarily invulnerable for a few seconds, or until they perform an action
- Winter Telethon Rewards: Everyone who pledged at least $5 during our Winter Telethon will now receive their /snow emote and Snowflake Cloak (which extends the length of the /snow emote duration when worn).
- Mountain Template 01: Players who have selected this template and who have locked their submission form will be automatically switched over in Release 29. We'll see this for our town in R29.

[Balandar]

For crafting stations...

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/crafting-stations-and-bonuses.44336/#post-530805

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From agra:

As of today, in R28, Level 2 (Founder, Benefactor) crafting stations provide the following:

• 30% crafting success bonus, that is, if a recipe at a Level 1/Normal crafting station has a 69% success rate, on the Level 2 crafting station it will have a 99% success rate.
• 20% crafting critical bonus, that is, if a recipe at a Level 1/Normal crafting station has a 4% critical rate, on the Level 2 crafting station it will have a 24% critical rate.
• 11% craft bonus (no idea what this is, first time I've seen it as a stat is today)

If you critical a salvage, it returns more scraps. Crafting at a Level 2 station would provide more scraps, then, over time, with a 20% higher critical rate.
Also, a change as of R28, you don't get to see the success or critical rate percentages until you have all the material in your hands to make the item, and place it all into/onto the crafting table. In R27, it would show all the success percentages at a glance, in the book, when it was opened at a station. This information has been removed from the crafting book in R28, hiding the percentages until you are ready to make it.