The day has finally come, Citadel: Forged With Fire is officially at 1.0! As of today, we consider the game fully launched and live. It’s been one incredible journey over two years of Early Access on Steam. On behalf of the entire team at Blue Isle Studios, we wanted to offer a sincere thank you for your passion and excitement around the game. We read your feedback every day and have been integrating huge features, balance adjustments and bug fixes directly based on your feedback.

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There are four new, high Mastery level weapons added to the game. Check them out below for more information!

Phoenix Katana: The Katana of the Phoenix provides wizards of honour with a weapon whose strength is matched with the fearsome agility of the legendary bird of flight. Blasting into battle with this blade will strike enemies with awe, unless you strike them first.



Stormrender: Inspiration for this creation strikes like a bolt from the sky, and the power from these catastrophic climate events can now be controlled by wielding witches and wizards of the land.



Black Dragon’s Grasp: This staff represents the power of pyromancy, and the ease at which the dragons of Ignus tame the flames. This ability is symbolically available to the strongest of sorcerers, and those who use this device are to be as feared as the most devastating of dragons.



Digit of Orcus: A device that epitomizes the cold evil that envelopes certain regions of Ignus. This wand takes form from the chilling clutches of a most disturbing demon and can be just as lethal. This wand is an exceptional weapon for fending off foes from a distance.




While we consider the game 1.0 complete, we are far from done with our development efforts on the game. In the weeks following launch, we will continue our normal schedule of bug fixes and adjustments. From a development perspective, we will continue to support the game the same way we have over the last two years, so continue to send in your feedback for the game, we are listening!

We have been planning some huge new updates for Citadel which we’ll be rolling out in the months ahead. We have previously talked a little bit about our brand new, epic quest lines coming. These quests will take you on an incredible journey throughout Ignus and help players uncover dark secrets about the world.

We also have other awesome content such as a clothing dyes system, structure painting and recoloring systems, more weapons, mini-boss world events, and much more planned! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for our official roadmap, we’ll be talking a lot more about this very soon.

Thank you for joining us over the last two years - we look forward to seeing you in the world of Citadel!

First of all, thank you to everyone who participated in our Steam Free Weekend this past weekend and took the opportunity to check out Citadel! We had an awesome turn out and took away a lot from all the feedback and suggestions we received.

As a result, we've put out a patch today to address some of the feedback we received to further fine-tune your Citadel gameplay experience. Check out the notes below for all the changes included with this patch:

Patch Notes:

• Fixed NPCs entering safezones
  
• Fixed an issue with UI input getting locked after toggling the HUD
  
• Fixed an issue where item UI would become unresponsive
  
• Fixed an issue where the loot window was not working on gamepad
  
• Improved NPC following
  
• NPCs no longer run in circles while pathing throughout the world
  
• Fixed some unattenuated sounds
  
• Improved the pacify beam, made it more forgiving to use in 3P
  
• Reformation stones no longer heal thrones
  
• Fixed an issue where character colors would revert after using stone skin
  
• Private server names with the word "official" are redacted
  
• Fixed issues causing custom games to not populate in the Steam browser
  
• Custom games can now be joined from the host via Steam friend's list
  
• Fixed an issue where the server browser was not always navigable by gamepad
  
• Fixed an issue where gamepads became unresponsive in storage containers
  
• Fixed server crash when dismounting large dragon

Apart from today's patch, we're also really looking forward to our full launch happening THIS Friday on November 1! In addition to Citadel exiting Early Access, we'll also be launching the game on PS4 & Xbox One. We've got a roadmap planned to show you all the new content we'll be releasing in the next few months so make sure to keep an eye out for that.

ALSO - we have an interesting opportunity available to all content creators who plan on streaming Citadel between November 1 - November 8. It involves getting your logo put in game... Click here for more information.

Hey guys,

Just a heads up that we're currently experiencing some technical difficulties with our servers. We will make sure to update you once the issue is resolved.

Sorry about the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

Blue Isle Dev Team

EDIT: Servers are now back up and running. Thanks again for your patience everyone!

In anticipation of our full launch coming on November 1st (less than 2 weeks away now!!), we're looking to release a big patch today to address some last minute fine-tuning and tweaks needed as well as the addition of some community requested features to the game.

Some things coming today that are especially noteworthy are the frequently requested addition of moving mouths when using VoIP, a new mini-boss, new server types and dozens of other miscellaneous requests.

As some may already know, we spent the last 2 days performing server wipes and server maintenance to get ready for our 1.0 launch. For all those who are asking, this means that there will be no server wipes happening on November 1st.

Apart from that, we're also very happy to announce that starting tomorrow Citadel: Forged with Fire will be taking part in a Steam Free Weekend Event!

As usual, please take a moment to read the notes below as you wait for our servers to update and see what's been added to the game with this update:

New Items

• Player mouths now move when VoIP is used
  
• Added mastery pools for better high-level regeneration
  
• Added new armor crafting options
  
• Added new weapon crafting options
  
• Added new phoenix mini-boss

Gameplay

• More appropriate orc loot rewards
  
• Increased harvest rate for marble, decreasing average marble node quantity
  
• Increased marble drop quantities in rift treasure
  
• Added new top-tier food buff: sublime indulgence
  
• Adjustments made to eagle and phoenix swoop attack
  
• Adjustments made to quest requirements to make them less tedious overall
  
• Adjustments made to leech modifiers
  
• Added more appropriate leveling curves for tamed creatures: weaker creatures level faster, stronger creatures level slower
  
• Added more appropriate HP and damage scaling for tamed creatures
  
• Made several tweaks to Orcus to improve combat
  
• Dropped leather requirement for saddle by 50%
  
• Increased XP rewards from boss creatures
  
• General fixes made for griefable terrain and rocks
  
• Roughly doubled rune rewards in medium and large crystals
  
• Adjustments made to roots of wrath spell to prevent multiple phantom hits
  
• Adjusted golem loot drops
  
• Increased sickly heart drops in tundra abominations
  
• General improvements made to boss creatures
  
• Made faery dust a guaranteed drop on Phoenix Spirit sprites
  
• Better alignment of creature ranged attacks and perception radii
  
• Firepits now decay in 2 hours if abandoned
  
• Fixed PvP spell debuffs

Aesthetics

• Regenerated some foliage for better performance and resource distribution
  
• Updated regional title card level ranges for creatures
  
• Adjusted color of tundra rocks
  
• Fixed attenuation of pounce spell
  
• Better bloodlust VFX positioning for 1P combat
  
• Fixed golem death animation

Technical

• Added logs for raiding to the server so that owners can tell who's been attacking who
  
• Added whitelisting support for streamers - use the "admin_whitelistadd" and "admin_whitelistremove" commands to add steam ids
  
• Added Steam join in progress for dedicated server games
  
• Increased server player counts from 40 to 50
  
• Fixed repair bench causing item cards to disappear and reappear
  
• Added RCON command "whoisonline"
  
• Added the ability to change a passworded server's password at runtime via the "setpassword" command. Available with RCON as well
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when taking over 100 items from a lootbag at once
  
• Improved lootbag performance opening bags with many items
  
• Improved particle and lighting performance
  
• Lights are better managed via occlusion so situations with torches not illuminating are reduced
  
• Doubled the radius of all player created lights
  
• Optimized performance on magic structures
  
• Doubled structure render speeds
  
• Optimized NPC inventory for better server performance
  
• Optimized idle NPCs for better server performance
  
• Optimized reformation stone logic for better server performance
  
• Dragon fire breath properly consumes mana
  
• Improved server physics performance
  
• Fixed crash on listen servers
  
• Fixed occasional single player crash in dungeons
  
• Added the ability to reset bindings
  
• Fixed occasional bugs that could happen with player level when logging back into the game
  
• Fixed an issue with the VOIP slider not persisting after relog
  
• Fixed a server crash that occurs when dismounting
  
• Fixed an issue on listen servers where the first quest progress is not properly tracked
  
• Fixed taming interaction when using other languages
  
• Merged notifications of resource pickups when running multipliers
  
• Fixed overlapping exp text when running multipliers
  
• Improved single player world configuration settings for gamepad
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would be invisible after respawning many times
  
• Added the ability for administrators to toggle the weather via the command "togglerain"
  
• Fixed issues where on listen servers, creatures had very far sight range
  
• Fixed an issue where context menus in the inventory could sometimes spill out of the window
  
• Fixed an issue where the VFX on players would not go away after the relevant buff expired
  
• Added new server types, their configurations are as follows:
  - PVP - veryfast-reset: 5x exp 5x gather, server reset every 90 days
  - PVP - fast-reset: 3x exp 3x gather, server reset every 90 days
  - PVP - fast: 3x exp 3x gather
  - PVP - very fast: 5x exp 5x gather
  - PVE - fast: 3x exp 3x gather
  - PVE - veryfast: 5x exp 5x gather
  - PVE - freebuild: unlimited resources, free flying, no weight restrictions
  - PVE - freebuild-reset: unlimited resources, free flying, no weight restrictions, reset every 90 days

Just a friendly reminder that our servers will be down starting today until Wednesday, October 23rd for server wipes in preparation for our full launch coming Friday, November 1st!

For players interested in continuing to play on our legacy servers, we've made the server data available for download here:

http://blueislestudios.com/citadelgame/ServerBackups/

Players can download this data, put it in the save folder of their game and continue playing a single player game. Alternatively, players can also host a game using that data while renting a private server and load that data into the save folder.

We hope you enjoy and please feel free to let us know if you encounter any issues with the download!

We have some exciting news to announce - a huge new quests update is coming early next year as a free DLC!

Since Citadel first entered Early Access, players have been intrigued and mystified by the lore of Ignus; scavenging for clues left throughout the world for them to discover. Now, players can can delve deep into the history of Ignus' ancient factions and magics; participating in activities across the land with new characters and challenges.

"Ignus' tumultuous past is coming to life, awaiting a hero courageous and bold enough to deliver the land from the impending descent of evil. Learn the dark, mysterious history of the land and delve into its many ancient secrets. Meet unique personalities and assist them in their struggle for knowledge and supremacy. Wield the mighty force of the Godking's power, or plunge into the chilling depths of chaos and anarchy to make Ignus yours. A story needs to be told, will you be the one to tell it?"

Citadel is the ultimate fantasy sandbox and aims to provide players with the tools to tell their own stories. With the addition of these new narrative driven quests and more post-launch content to come, we hope to enrich the Citadel experience more than ever before. We thank you for your continued support and look forward to hearing all the stories you have to tell.

Server Maintenance
As we leave Early Access, we would like to remind players that servers will be going down and getting wiped as of Monday, October 21st at 7am EST. Servers will be back up Wednesday, October 23rd (time TBD) in preparation for our full launch on Friday, November 1st. We'll have more to share on our launch day patch and new ways to play soon!

Mouth Movements Coming for VoIP
Since our Early Launch launch two years ago, our RP community has frequently requested for this feature to be implemented and we’re happy to say that moving mouths for VoIP are finally coming! All those interested can expect to see this feature added by our 1.0 launch on November 1st.

As we approach our 1.0 Launch coming in exactly 2 weeks, we’d like to thank our community for all the feedback, patience and support you’ve given us for the last 2 years on this Early Access ride. We’ve learned a lot and couldn’t have done it without you! We’re looking forward to seeing this journey continue as we add more content and support the game moving forward.

We were hoping to launch a new update today for the community but due to a server error, we've been forced to restore backup save data from yesterday.

If you're running a private server, that there is a backup folder you can use to restore any lost save data (\Citadel\Saved\SaveGames\Bak\).

Stay tuned for the next few days as we plan to relaunch the update once we fix the server error we've encountered.

Thanks for your patience everybody!

We've launched a very small patch today to address a couple of server crashes and an issue with the tame beam curving in a bizarre way.

Stay tuned as we plan to launch a larger patch in the next few weeks with more gameplay changes and more tweaks to Ignus!

You'll be pleased to know that RCON is officially supported in game. Check out the notes below for details on how to access remote console in Citadel and how to customize as needed:

The remote console allows server administrators to execute server commands without being present in the game, they can load up the console in the web browser on their phone and quickly issue a ban, or announce a message to players.

To access your remote console, you will need to make sure your web server port is open. You will also want to make sure your router is routing the port to your machine correctly. The default remote console port and authentication info is as follows:

game.ini
[/script/citadel.remoteconsole]
WebServerPort=8889
WebServerUsername=admin
WebServerPass=password

Do note that your game.ini may be blank and not contain the values above. That is intended, the defaults are bundled with the game server, you would only paste in alternative values to your game.ini if you wish to override these values.

Once you have configured your settings, restart your server. Companies such as G-Portal support remote console and already have the RCON port open and specified for you.

To connect, simply open a browser and enter [Server IP]:[RCON PORT]. If your server IP were 192.168.1.1 and the RCON port were 8889, you would enter 192.168.1.1:8889 into your web browser. This will bring you to a login screen, simply enter the credentials above. NOTE: It is highly recommended that you modify your login credentials and avoid unauthorized high level access to your server.

Once authenticated, you can use the “list” or “help” command to receive a list of all supported RCON commands.

The remote console supports the use of RESTful commands and the console source itself is able to be modified by the server owner. This means a server owner could create a UI with buttons if they prefer rather than entering commands into a console window.

To modify your console window source, navigate to:
[Server Directory]\Citadel\Content\WebServerRoot

Here you can find all of the html/javascript source currently used to interact with the game server. A custom, reskinned or redesigned remote console can be made, used and redistributed freely amongst the community.

We hope you enjoy!

With this latest update, you'll find that various bugs have been fixed and that we've made further gameplay changes to Citadel with the help of your feedback and support. As always, feel free to share your thoughts and feedback on these changes in our forums. Take a look below to see what has changed with today's update:

• Increased sickly heart drop rates for abomination mini-boss and in Blood Soul
  
• Low level players that throne structures with level requirements over 30 will be flagged for PVP
  
• Increased stone rewards in most quests
  
• Made changes to encourage NPCs to hunt each other a bit more
  
• Adjusted spice recipe, now crafts on workbench
  
• Increased eagle skull drops on giant eagles, added minor chance to drop on birds
  
• Reduced duration of freezing slowness debuff
  
• Increased mystical conjurer unicorn blood requirement from 2-5, added sickly heart as requirement, increased item generation time from 2 to 4 hours, increased maximum item storage from 1 to 2, increased mana drain such that a full capacity will generate the maximum 2 items that it can now hold
  NOTE: it was always intended that these be difficult to construct and maintain, however the old mana drain values were incredibly underwhelming
  
• Increased restorative values for all vitality vials/flasks/potions
  
• Doubled hare base health, added new attack which unlocks at level 20
  
• Increased boar spawn rates in forest, while decreasing wolf spawn rates
  
• Increased the level differences between daytime NPC spawns versus at night
  
• Birds can now be tamed but not mounted, minor adjustments to bird spawn levels and loot
  
• Adjustments to AI-controlled dragon and eagle flight turn-rates in attempt to reduce circling behaviors
  
• Unicorns now defend owners
  
• Improved giant eagle peck attack, better flying attack hit rate
  
• Reduced salted meat requirements in pulled boar sandwich and stuffed bird from 4 to 2
  
• Reduced dark plasma requirements in level 40 iron armour set by roughly half, swapped blackened iron in as requirement for blue gold for consistency
  
• Swapped regular wood for frostwood in the Reawakened recipe
  
• Tweak to rabbit's foot in attempt to provide more 100-value trinkets
  
• Minor adjustments to undead loot
  
• Adjusted minimum range of NPC melee attacks to help prevent them from standing on the player
  
• Increased concentrated storm cooldown from 3s to 4s, increased minimum damage value from 60% to 80% to compensate
  
• Minor adjustments made to medium dragon loot
  
• Minor adjustments made to orc loot
  
• More appropriate rareness tiering of vials/flasks/potions
  
• Minor rarity tweaks made for some items

• Material and scale adjustments to make beach/sand stones easier to locate
  
• Disabled mana generator audio while previewing for building
  
• Tweaks made to NPC corpse terrain positioning
  
• Adjusted bottom-right notification materials to make them stand out a bit more
  
• Cleaned up particle effects on essence transmuter

• Fixed single players being unable to shoot the broomstick league ball
  
• Essence transmuters should render cheaper
  
• Armor is now ignored in negative regen calculations (Ward's do a lot more damage in PVP)
  
• Fixed a bug where the "player speaking" would get stuck if the player was muted
  
• Fixed an issue with deconstructors not working if a player has had over 32k items in their inventory
  
• Fixed a client crash related to chain lightning