Design Notes

April 18, 2025

Featured Spring Items

Holiday Gear Available for a Limited Time

You're late... you're late... for a very important date! These new items will put a spring in your step... just make sure you get them in time. Find our new rare sets and items in your Featured Gear Shop through Friday, May 16th. 

Rare AdventureCoin Set: 

• Black Sheep armor
• Black Ram & Black Ewe's Goat Horns
• Black Ram & Black Eye's Big Horns
• Black Sheep Plush

The seasonal, bright, and much more polite Woolly Wonder set items will be available starting Sunday, April 20th as daily login gifts.

Seasonal Sheep Items:

• Pastoral and Picturesque Pasture ground runes
• Bouncy Black Sheep pet 
• Black Sheep Guard

Seasonal items will return next year. 

Rare color-custom AC Set:

• Enchanted Dynamo Bunny armor
• Enchanted Dynamo Bunny Morph (male + female variants)
• Enchanted Bunny Baton (dual + single wield)
• Enchanted Double Bunny Baton (dual + single wield)

Rare Member-only Gear: 

• Spring Dynamo Bunny
• Dynamo Bunny Morph (male + female variants)
• Dynamo Bunny Batons
• Double Bunny Batons

The Dynamo Bunny Hair + Locks, Dynamo Bunny Baton + Double Baton are available for all players.

Rares with Treasure Chest Variants

• Wonderland Hare's Harmony Blade (dual and single wield)

0 AC versions of the Wonderland Hare weapons are also permanently available from Twilly's Treasure Chest. The rare, ala-carte versions leave May 16th.

Don't Miss Last Week's Rare Gear

What the Featured Gear Shop?! We've got a host of crazy, insane, and adorable(?!) new items for you. From shredded moglin bank + quest pets to a house item that will copy what the house owner has equipped... if you like collecting unusual items, this is definitely the shop update for you.

NOT AN APRIL FOOLS ULTRA HELM (Rare) 
Don't buy this. It is a joke. A rainbow-hued, sneevil-tastic gag helm. If you DO buy it, you'll get 25% more Class Points, Gold, XP, and Rep when you equip it.

Ultra Twilly Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Who needs Undead minions when you're a one-Moglin army? Not THIS Moglin! /FLEX 

Ultra Twig Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Twig will accept fish and ice cream in exchange for mercy... and then carry it all home to eat. /FLEX 

Ultra Zorbak Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Twilly will heal you with the giant heart hidden in his humungous chest. /FLEX 

• Bank pets let you access your bank from anywhere in the game
• Quest pets come with a quest to collect 30 of each house guards
• Quest pets cannot be sold

Main Character House Guard (Permanent)
The house item copies what the owner has equipped to their player character).

Wayward Wolftale's Wanderer Set

Spring is here, and it's a perfect time for long, romantic walks in Greenguard Forest. Bring a picnic lunch with the one you love. Just... make sure YOU don't become dessert! It's a good thing that there are all those heroes ready and eager to save the day after visiting the Trainers in Battleon. 

Rare Set Items

• Wayward Wolftale's Wanderer
• Big Bad Wolf + Beast of Depravity Morph helms
• Refined + Dainty Wulf Morph helms
• Refined + Wulf Ears Morph helms
• Refined Wulf Hairs + Morph helms
• Refined Wulf Tail (color-customizable fur)
• Wolven Spirit of Depravity ground item
• Wulf Creek ground item
• Jaw of Depravity polearm (single + dual-wield)
• Wolf Heart Piercer gauntlet
• regular + XL Wolf Rivulet floor items
• Big Bad Wolf guest floor item
• Bigger, Badder Wolf guest floor item
• regular + XL Beast of Depravity guest floor items

Seasonal Set Items

• Shady Creek ground item
• Picnic Basket (single + dual-wield)
• Forest Creek + Grand Forest Creek floor items

April 18, 2025

Aria x Valencia: Dragon Hunts I

New Game Update for April 18th, 2025

As one of Dragonrune Hall's most promising students, Aria is in her element and excelling at her studies. She's been assigned a grand undertaking: searching for the Great Elemental Dragons! Naturally, she seeks out the help of Lore's two most talented treasure hunters! 

Team up with Valencia to discover more about the Great Dragon of Nature and Water... and reap the rewards from the quests you complete along the way. Your adventure begins now in /AriaGreenhouse.

Friday, April 11: Update Details

Adventure: Aria x Valencia's Great Dragon Artifact Hunt, Pt 1

Rewards: 

• Natural + Water-themed items in /AriaGreenhouse
• New drops in the /Eventhub
• New drops on Alpha Cabdury in /Grenwogwarren

Holiday Rare Gear: 

• Dark Wooly Wonder set
• Enchanted Dynamo Bunny (color-custom, AdventureCoins)
• Spring Dynamo Bunny set (gold, member-only)
• Wonderland Hare weapons (perm 0 AC versions available in the Treasure Chest)

Dage's Birthday Rares: 

• color-custom Grim Necromancer armor + helms available in the shop, collection chest, and 600k AC achievement tracker badge shop

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

Server Boost: Get double Class Points until Monday!
Saturday: Battle General Pollution in /pollution for a new helm, gauntlets, and ground rune.
Sunday: seasonal Bright Woolly Wonder armor + accessories drop from /goatfield quest

Unbe-LEAF-able Nature & Water Rewards 

Branch out and explore the wilderness this weekend to collect new nature and water themed rewards. Talk to Aria in /ariagreenhouse to begin your quest!

/AriaGreenhouse set drops:

• Rosenschwert Knight armor & helms
• Dornröschen Blade (single and dual-wield)
• Rose Carabosse

/AriaGreenhouse weapon drops:

• Water Weaver Sword (single and dual-wield)
• Water Weaver Staff
• Water Weaver Scythe
• Facet of Hyonix polearm
• The Garden's Sphere staff
• Natural Jade Cleaver (single and dual-wield)
• Cleaver of the Lone Tree (single and dual-wield)
• Thawsprout Staff

This week's nature and water artifact weapons were imported from our single-player RPG, DragonFable!

/AriaGreenhouse house item drops:

• Burning Pyre
• Golden Bough
• Golden Zinnia Vines
• Amaranth Bed
• Garden of Herbs, Patch of Nature, and Herb Cluster
• Pearl Dragon Amulet Display
• Flowering Arbor
• Natural Circle
• Oceanic Blue, Verdant, Pink, and Baby Shells
• Violet Cove Shell*
• The Ideal Maiden
• Pearl Dragon Amulet

* Merpeople like to use these as beds or treasure chests. It looks like the perfect place to store a treasure the Great Water Dragon Hyonix adores. Hmm. I wonder what happens if a bit of Hyonix's magic is applied... ?

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.

April 15, 2025

Game News: April 14 - 20

Read on for the latest news and information

Stay up to date with details on the new releases, server boosts, daily login gifts, art previews, balance updates, and more in this week's game digest post.

Monday: Double Gold Boost

Get double Gold from battles and quests until Wednesday!

Tuesday: Midweek Update

Our Tuesday Treasure Hunt is live! Visit Valencia in the /eventhub now to find her new Cheep Chase quest for sweet Grenwog treats! Let your sugar craving lead you across Lore as you seek out the four Marshmallow Cheeps she's hidden around. Complete it, and you'll unlock two new 0 AC seasonal Bunny Plushie weapons! 

(Note: After you find each Cheep, check the temp item description for the clue for the next Cheep)

Wednesday: Double Reputation Points Boost

Get double Rep Points from battles until Friday!

Thursday: Blood Gems Boost

Get double rewards as you battle to collect Blood Gems of the Archfiend all week long.

Read the full post for more details. 

Friday Update Details

Read on for news about this weekend's new updates.

Story: Aria x Valencia's Great Dragon Artifact Hunt, Pt 1
Rewards: Natural + Water-themed items, Event hub drops
Featured Gear: rare Dark Wooly Wonder set + Dynamo Bunny sets + Treasure Chest update
Dage Birthday Rares: color-custom Grim Necromancer armor + helms

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

Server Boost: Get double Class Points until Monday!
Saturday: Battle General Pollution in /pollution for a new helm, gauntlets, and ground rune.
Sunday: seasonal Bright Woolly Wonder armor + accessories drop from /goatfield quest

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.

April 11, 2025

New WTFeatured Gear Shop?!

Holiday Items Available for a Limited Time

What the Featured Gear Shop?! We've got a host of crazy, insane, and adorable(?!) new items for you. From shredded moglin bank + quest pets to a house item that will copy what the house owner has equipped... if you like collecting unusual items, this is definitely the shop update for you.

NOT AN APRIL FOOLS ULTRA HELM (Rare) 
Don't buy this. It is a joke. A rainbow-hued, sneevil-tastic gag helm. If you DO buy it, you'll get 25% more Class Points, Gold, XP, and Rep when you equip it.

Ultra Twilly Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Who needs Undead minions when you're a one-Moglin army? Not THIS Moglin! /FLEX 

Ultra Twig Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Twig will accept fish and ice cream in exchange for mercy... and then carry it all home to eat. /FLEX 

Ultra Zorbak Bank & Quest Pet (Seasonal)
Twilly will heal you with the giant heart hidden in his humungous chest. /FLEX 

• Bank pets let you access your bank from anywhere in the game
• Quest pets come with a quest to collect 30 of each house guards
• Quest pets cannot be sold

Main Character House Guard (Permanent)
The house item copies what the owner has equipped to their player character).

Wayward Wolftale's Wanderer Set

Spring is here, and it's a perfect time for long, romantic walks in Greenguard Forest. Bring a picnic lunch with the one you love. Just... make sure YOU don't become dessert! It's a good thing that there are all those heroes ready and eager to save the day after visiting the Trainers in Battleon. 

Rare Set Items

• Wayward Wolftale's Wanderer
• Big Bad Wolf + Beast of Depravity Morph helms
• Refined + Dainty Wulf Morph helms
• Refined + Wulf Ears Morph helms
• Refined Wulf Hairs + Morph helms
• Refined Wulf Tail (color-customizable fur)
• Wolven Spirit of Depravity ground item
• Wulf Creek ground item
• Jaw of Depravity polearm (single + dual-wield)
• Wolf Heart Piercer gauntlet
• regular + XL Wolf Rivulet floor items
• Big Bad Wolf guest floor item
• Bigger, Badder Wolf guest floor item
• regular + XL Beast of Depravity guest floor items

Seasonal Set Items

• Shady Creek ground item
• Picnic Basket (single + dual-wield)
• Forest Creek + Grand Forest Creek floor items

This week's rare-tagged items will be available until Friday, May 16th. 

April 11, 2025

Your Favorite Trainers Level Up

Remastered Trainers Zone & Level 70+ Warmonger Boss

Your favorite Trainers level up this weekend! Head to the /Trainers map to see Metrea, Juvania, Thok, and Arcana's updated art, rewards, and small cutscenes introducing their backstories.

Friday, April 11: Update Details

• Trainers Level Up: New art, quests, cutscenes exploring the Trainers' backstory
• Remastered Rewards: New art for the base + member starting class armors
• High-Level Boss: take on Warlord Harley to collect all his set items (level 70+)
  
• Dark Birthday Merge Gear: Dark Legion Sovereign + Dark Sworn Legion Sovereign sets 
• Featured Gear Shop: new April Fools + Spring rare, seasonal, and permanent items

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

• Server Boost: double EXP
• Resource Boost: Essences + Totems of Nulgath 
• Saturday: rare + seasonal Cardboard Items of Nulgath from Sketchy Derpzard in /battlefools
• Sunday: seasonal Mochi Moglin pets + house items from Rainbow Derpzard in /battlefools

High-Level Boss in /Trainers

Are you an experienced Hero? Has it been years since you last visited the /Trainers? Then Harley, the Noble Warmonger, is looking for YOU. He's built for war and looking for a challenge. IF you're at least level 70, head deeper into the /trainers map and defeat him to unlock his full gear set.

The Battleon Warlord set includes:

• Battleon Warlord armor
• Grizzled Warlord Eyepatch*
• Battleon Warlord Eyepatch*
• Battleon Warlord Hair*
• Grizzled Battleon Warlord Scarred Hair*
• Battleon Warlord Banner 
• Battleon Warlord Cape
• Battleon Warlord Banner Cloak
• Battleon Warbeast Blade (single and dual-wield)
• Battleon Warbeast Axe (single and dual-wield)
• Battleon Warbeast Armaments

* Male and female helm variants

Remastered Trainer Rewards

Complete each Trainers quests to unlock updated versions of the Warrior, Mage, Rogue and Healer class armors. Members can get the Warlord, Sorcerer, Acolyte and Renegade class armors. These are new additions to the shop; the original items kept their art.

Updated Starting Class Armors

• Arcana's Vesture armor
• Arcana's Locks + Hood
• Arcana's Dragonblaze Staff
• Juvania's Robes
• Juvania's Locks
• Juvania's Inverness Cape
• Juvania's Angelic Repose
• Metrea's Garb
• Metrea's Locks
• Metrea's Scarf
• Metrea's First Dagger (single and dual-wield)
• Thok's War Armor
• Thok's Hair
• Thok's Cape
• Thok's Titan Blade

Updated Member-Only Starting Class Armors 

• Vaunted Warrior armor
• Cunning Rogue armor
• Enlightened Mage armor
• Mystic Healer armor

Legion Sovereign Reward Update

Calling all members of the Undead Legion, we've got even more dark rewards for you to unlock! Find the seasonal Dark Sword Legion Sovereign and Dark Legion Sovereign sets in Dage's Dark Birthday merge shop now.

New seasonal Undead Legion items in the Dark Birthday Merge Shop:

• Dark Sworn Legion Sovereign armor
• Dark Legion Sovereign armor
• Dark Legion Sovereign Helm
• Dark Legion Sovereign Horns
• Dark Legion Sovereign Locks
• Empowered Dark Sovereign Locks
• Dark Legion Sovereign Banner, Cloak, and Crown
• Dark Evanescence
• Dual Dark Evanescence
• Dark Terror of Enyo
• Dark Eclipse of Enyo (single and dual-wield)
• Dark Hand of the Legion Sovereign (single and dual-wield)

Still to come... Eldritch Grim Necromancer armor

Based on a Player Poll earlier this year, AQWorlds artist Axeros created a Legion Necromancer skin that anyone in the Undead Legion can farm for. He also forged an Underworld-themed variants of the Grim Necromancer class (preview here), originally available from the 600k AC Achievement Tracker badge shop.

• the color-custom Eldritch Grim Necro gear will be available from Dage's shop, Collection, and the 600k AC badge shop 
• the non-CC Underworld Grim Necro gear will be available from the 600k AC badge shop 

April 10th update: the color-custom female file was corrupted. The male art is ready. Once the female file has been rebuilt, both the non-CC and CC items will be added. 

Event Reminders

Don't miss out on your favorite limited time events, stories, and gear!

May 1: 

• Bio-War Cultist April Seasonal Set (link)

May 2: 

• Grenwog event + rewards (link)
• Lucky Day + Dage birthday events, Dark Birthday rares leave
• seasonal Dark Legion Sovereign, Dark Sworn Legion Sovereign, Promised Dark Legion Sovereign gear leave

May 16:

• Wayward Wolftale's Wanderer set in the Featured Gear Shop (link)
• rare April Fools featured gear items (link)

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.

April 10, 2025

Player Housing Spotlight: J6's Darkblood Mansion by Valik

Welcome to a home steeped in lore (and a little bit of madness)

In the realm of AdventureQuest Worlds, some player houses tell a story. Others make a statement. And then there’s J6’s Darkblood Mansion, a home so rich in personality and lore that it’s practically a main character itself! Built by none other than Valik the Darkblood, this mansion in Falguard is more than just a place to /rest… it’s an extension of Valik’s very soul! Which is most definitely tainted with a bit of craziness, ngl lol

So is this Player Housing Spotlight an excuse to talk about Valik’s character lore? 100%. And we 1000% respect it.

Valik’s mansion is a place infused with his character’s history, essence, and extremely specific musical taste. “One-Eyed Doll music is often heard echoing from the highest heights of the mountain’s peak,” Valik the homeowner explains. “The Darkblood walking on the streets below sometimes hear a bassy baritone wistfully singing along to Battle On.”

Any One-Eyed Doll fans here? 👋

Beyond its lore-rich foundation and spectacular taste in music, this house is packed with memes, references, inside jokes, and personal touches. From hidden allusions to his character’s personality to the mysteriously omnipresent Twig (srsly, what IS that moglin doing fr?), every inch of the mansion has a purpose. And while elements like the Asuka statue and house guests aren’t canon, they add that signature AQW quirkiness we all know and love. 

“Nulgath doesn’t actually take his Nulbaths in my house!” Valik says with a smile, but considering the rest of the vibe, we figured we’d highlight the absurdity even more! “Did I buy the art book JUST to get this house? Maybe, but you could never prove that in a court of law.”

From the haunting melodies of One-Eyed Doll to its lore-heavy design, J6’s Darkblood Mansion is as unique as all our AQW players! It’s a place of mystery, memes, humor, and maybe a hidden agenda…? Whether you’re here for the lore, the laughs, or just to figure out what Twig is up to, one thing is clear: Valik’s home is a must-visit!

But wait... who is Valik, really?

Valik was a devoted Darkblood warrior and necromancer who once trained young recruits in Falguard before embarking on a life-changing pilgrimage. Guided by a mysterious spirit orb, he discovered a latent affinity for light magic and took the name Caprinadin, embracing both his necromantic roots and newfound identity. Though never officially a paladin, he trained among them before joining the Shadowslayers, eventually vanishing to seek deeper truths in Mythsong. Now clad in custom armor and standing watch over Falguard, Valik remains a protector shaped by loss, loyalty, and an unyielding pursuit of self.

Original Heretic Paladin Set concept art, designed by Valik the Darkblood himself.

Want to learn more about Valik's lore and story? Check out Valik's website at https://valikthedarkblood.carrd.co/ . There's a short story for heroes-on-the-go and also a 13,000+ word novella for all those book wyrms out there! 

Battle on,
Beleen, Valik the Darkblood, and the AQW team