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A running history of what's changed on MaeloRO, condensed from the official Discord announcements. Newest first.

September 28, 2026
  • Play with an Xbox controller on Android. Pair an Xbox (or any standard) controller by Bluetooth and open Play Mobile: the left stick walks and the right stick moves the camera. D-pad ► / ◄ selects the next monster / player as your target, A attacks, X picks up items, Y talks to the nearest NPC and B cancels.
  • Skills with the controller. LB / RB + A, B, X or Y use the skills on your mobile skill arc (each slot shows its button combo while a controller is connected) and LT / RT change the skill page. A skill that needs a target goes to the one you selected; with nothing selected you can aim it: D-pad to choose, A to cast, B to cancel.
  • Menus with the controller. Start opens a menu with Inventory, Equipment, Skills, Status, Quests, Party, Guild, World map and more; Select opens Settings. Every window can be used with the D-pad + A / B: a gold frame shows which button is selected.
  • Dark mode for Play Mobile. Switch it on in Settings or with the moon button in the "…" menu; your phone remembers your choice.
  • Play Mobile improvements: Ragnarok-style icons on the HUD, the quest tracker moved out of the middle of the screen, the Lucky Roulette no longer pops up when you log in, the skill window scrolls with your finger, smoother walking with the virtual joystick, and the character no longer jumps back after talking to NPCs.
  • Solo Pack for Padawan, Jedi and Sith. The Adventurer Solo Pack in Prontera (or @solopack) now serves the Force classes: your Lightsaber is your weapon, so you choose Force (INT) or Blade (STR) gear, plus the same armor, headgear and food everyone gets. One claim per character.
  • Star Wars atmosphere. New music in the Sith Base and in the Lightsaber Forge, new decorations (the Imperial emblem, Death Star and Star Destroyer holograms, a glowing forge and an X-Wing hologram), and Anakin and Obi-Wan now look like a Sith and a Jedi.
  • Fixes: the controller no longer stops working after changing maps, and NPCs dressed as a class now show their head and no longer shake it.
September 27, 2026
  • MaeloRO Android App. Download it from maeloro.com/maeloro.apk (Android 7 or newer). It opens the game straight in landscape fullscreen with the new mobile interface, the keyboard no longer covers the chat, the Back button asks before closing the game, and you can create your account right inside the app. If your phone asks, allow "Install unknown apps" for your browser.
  • New Play Mobile interface. Tap Play Mobile on your phone for a layout made for touch screens: login and character selection that fit any phone size, a new HUD with HP/SP, clock, mail, attendance, roulette, cash shop, zoom and sound, and a chat bar at the bottom with channels and filters.
  • 4-page skill shortcuts on the phone. Tap Shortcut on a skill or an item, pick the page and the slot. Hold a slot (or tap the pencil) to move or remove what is on it.
  • Smoother virtual joystick and touch-friendly windows: Status, Inventory, Equipment, Storage, Guild, Party, Friends, Trade, shops and more. Tap an item for big Use / Equip / Info buttons, tap a party, friend or guild member to open their menu, and scroll lists with your finger.
  • Guild emblems no longer cover player names on the phone.
  • Create your account without leaving the game from the Play Mobile login.
  • Regular Play on PC and on the phone stays exactly as it was.
  • Fixes: no more black screen on Play / Play Mobile when entering through www.maeloro.com; the phone no longer freezes when choosing a skill target; Assassin skills and shortcuts work on mobile; and pet eggs, the Mystery Pet Egg Box, costumes and Megingjard no longer show as Unknown Item.
September 26, 2026
  • 1,324 new clothes colors for every class. The official kRO clothes palettes are now in the game as colors 10000 to 11323: color 10000 + the number in the official palette list, so 10143 is official color 143. They cover the 1st, 2nd, transcendent, 3rd and 4th jobs and the expanded classes, plus the jRO outfits of the 3rd jobs (those show once the next client update is out). Not included: Swordman, Monk, Champion, Sura, Inquisitor, Soul Reaper, female Whitesmith and the Force classes. Your current color does not change.
  • The Stylist only shows colors that exist. Before, it offered every number from 1 to 7105 to everyone and many of them had no palette, so nothing changed. Now Next/Previous skip the gaps, "Jump to" takes you to the nearest existing color, and it tells you which color you are on and how many your look has. It follows your Job Appearance look too.
  • Lightsabers can be wielded from Base Level 15. All six lightsabers (Blue, Green, Red, Purple, Yellow and Gold) used to need Base 70, so a new Padawan earned a blade it could not hold for a long time. They now only need Base 15.
  • The Red Lightsaber can finally be earned. Until now a Sith had no blade at all: the Blue Lightsaber is a Jedi weapon and the red one had no source. The Sith Artificer, beside Anakin in the Sith base, now forges it from your Blue Lightsaber + 1 Red Crystal, or from a Red Crystal + Saber Handle + Gem of Force. Red Crystals drop from the new Fire Porings (level 130) of the Sith Path, behind the red gate north of Anakin — Sith only. Anakin and the Job Master point the way.
  • Jedi and Sith now require Base Level 110. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker only test a Padawan who has reached Base 110 and Job 50; before, Job 50 alone was enough. If you are short, the master tells you your current levels. The guide at the Job Master says the same.
September 25, 2026
  • The Force arrives: Padawan, Jedi and Sith can now be earned in game. A Novice with Job 10 finds Master Yoda in Geffen Field 01, gathers three parts and has the Interstellar Forger beyond the portal in Comodo build a Blue Lightsaber to become a Padawan. From there, Obi-Wan Kenobi in Umbala Field 02 leads to the Jedi and the Deep Hole in Juno Field 02 leads to Anakin Skywalker and the Sith — each with a short test on their Code. Full details on the Classes page.
  • The Job Master tells the story. Novices get a new Padawan (Star Wars quest) option: it explains where the ship fell, who the masters are and every step of the three quests, with the answers to the tests highlighted. Padawans get directions to Obi-Wan and Anakin instead.
  • New monster and items. The Dark Poring now roams Prontera Field 01 and drops Blue Crystal; Pirate Skeletons drop the Saber Handle and Wootan Fighters the Gem of Force. Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin appear with their own portraits in the dialogue.
  • 3rd-job skills show up on their own. Transcendent 3rd classes (and the mounted and baby variants) had no skill tree in the client, so the window came up empty after the change and the Izlude workaround had to hand out every skill at once. The trees are in place now, the automatic hand-out is off and the Izlude NPC has been retired.
September 13, 2026
  • Your Job Appearance now survives relogging. The look you pick at the Job Appearance NPC in Prontera was always saved correctly — what was lost was the drawing on your own screen. Everyone else could see you properly the whole time; only you went back to your real class after reconnecting. Now it is restored the moment you log in, and you no longer have to visit the NPC every session. Coming back to your own look still works the same way: talk to the NPC.
  • Whickebine's Black Kaho got its magic penetration back. The base headgear ignores 100% of an enemy's MDEF for 5 seconds when you are hit by magic, and the Kaho version had quietly lost that effect when it was created — it received the generic Kaho stat template instead. All 43 Kaho headgears were checked against their base items; this was the only one affected.
  • Regenschirm (Illusion 17.1) can no longer be bricked. The Access Controller marks the transmission as started immediately, but only finishes it after roughly 19 seconds of dialogue. Anyone who disconnected or left the instance in that window left it stuck in a state where the NPC went completely silent — not even an error message — and the run could not be completed. If this happened to you, remake the instance and it will work.
  • The Thanatos statues no longer lock up for everyone. The five Charm Stone statues on tha_t12 share a single server-wide sequence, so only one party can run it at a time. If a party started the chain and walked away, it stayed blocked for the whole server until the next restart — and every other player got “The statue has such a strong light that I can't see or touch it.” It now resets by itself after 20 minutes without progress, and never interrupts a fight already under way.
September 12, 2026
  • Aqua Benedicta works on real water again. The map data in use had water marked incorrectly on 453 maps — the skill failed while standing on actual water, yet worked on dry ground at the Payon spawn, which had almost 40,000 cells wrongly flagged as water. 128 maps were corrected and the result verified against the engine at 586 separate points. Three maps where two independent methods disagreed were deliberately left alone.
  • Endless Tower floor 101 now tells you what to do. The Lucid Crystal starts disabled and only activates when Entweihen Crothen dies. It previously said nothing at all, which was repeatedly reported as a bug. You now get a message on arrival, and another if you try to use the crystal too early.
  • Containers that give several items no longer eat them. The engine deletes a container before running its script and only frees one inventory slot, so boxes handing out multiple items could silently lose part of the contents when your bag was nearly full. Fourteen containers now check the space first and give the box back if it does not fit.
  • Morocc2 finally has music. The map had no entry in the client's music table, so it fell back to the default track. It now plays the same castle theme used by every WoE castle.
September 2, 2026
  • A new Homunculus AI is available for testing. It replaces the stock behaviour with proper tactics: it picks and casts attack skills, keeps its buffs up on its own, chases and disengages on its own judgement, and can be tuned per player through its configuration file.
  • Switch it on and off in game with /hoai. The command toggles between the default AI and the new one, so you can compare them on the same homunculus without logging out.
  • You must clear your browser's site data before it will load — a normal refresh, even Ctrl+F5, is not enough. The client keeps AI scripts in its own storage and reads them from there before it ever asks the server, so the old files survive a hard refresh.
  • If your homunculus casts nothing, check its skills first. A homunculus earns 1 skill point every 3 levels, and those points have to be spent by hand in the homunculus skill window. No AI can cast a skill that was never learned — this is the most common cause by far, and it is not a bug.
  • This is still in testing. If it misbehaves, please report it in #bugs-suggestions with your homunculus type and whether it is evolved or S — those change which skills exist, and without them a report cannot be reproduced.
August 31, 2026
  • The Emperium is now called “Emperium of Morocc.”
  • Two banners now stand on the battlefield, one on each side of the Emperium. They fly the emblem of the guild that currently holds Morocc and carry its name, so you can see who rules the moment you arrive.
  • You can now proclaim your victory from the battlefield itself. The holding guild could already pay at the Izlude flag to announce it server-wide; the two new banners offer the same thing, at the same price. The cooldown is shared between all three, so switching between them will not get you an extra announcement.
August 30, 2026
  • MVP Vouchers are live. Every MVP now drops them for whoever lands the killing blow — 5 as a base, plus 1 more for every 25 levels of the MVP, capped at 60 per account per day. Spend them at the MVP Voucher Trader in the Turbo Track waiting room. Until now that NPC traded for a currency that did not exist anywhere on the server, so nobody could buy from it.
  • Kaho crafting fixed. Patry in Eclage was refusing materials you actually had in your bag. She asked for an internal item that could not be obtained, while the one you can buy shows the exact same name on screen — there was no way to tell from the outside.
  • The Hunting Board no longer eats your reward. Turning in a hunt with a full inventory used to destroy the TCG Cards and close the quest anyway. It now checks for space first and keeps your hunt complete until you have room.
  • Battle for Morocc got three changes: the guild that loses the site is now told the moment it happens, so anyone online can rally; the guild holding it can pay 10,000z at the Izlude flag to proclaim it server-wide; and breaking your own Emperium no longer counts as a conquest — it returns at full health, so damage can no longer be banked to deny the site to a rival.
  • Guild permissions fixed. Guild masters could not tick the invite permission on any position — the checkbox reverted before OK could be pressed, and expel and the emblem editor were missing too. Every guild was affected, not only the ones that reported it.
  • Alternative appearances no longer show pink patches. Characters using the Job Appearance NPC with a custom clothes colour had areas render in bright magenta.
Latest
  • Cash Shop Mirror — preview Cash Shop items before buying.
  • Training Dummy added to test damage and builds.
  • New Shopping Area for easier buying/selling.
  • Bubble Gum now purchasable with Activity Tokens.
  • Premium Storage — 600 extra storage slots.
  • Gym Pass and Skill Copyist added.
August 17, 2026
  • Illusion Enchanter (Prontera 90, 115) now warns you first. This NPC does not preserve bonus lines (random options) or enchant grade, and it clears card slots 2 and 3. That was always the case but it never told you — it now shows a warning before you confirm. Read it carefully.
  • Job Master: Super Novice → Expanded Super Novice fixed. The change was gated behind a rebirth requirement, but a Super Novice can never rebirth, so the option was unreachable and did nothing. Third classes keep their rebirth requirement.
  • Old Glast Heim (Hard) now states its requirement immediately instead of burying it two dialogue pages deep. You must finish the original Old Glast Heim story — the quest Time Conqueror — before Hard mode opens.
  • Last Fallen Warrior: teleporting is now disabled on the event map. Players could Fly Wing onto a cell monsters couldn't reach and outlast everyone. Entry to the event is unaffected.
  • Activity Tokens and vending. Keeping a shop open no longer costs you your token — if you are online with a vending shop or a buying store up, you earn tokens normally. @autotrade still earns no tokens, by design: the token rewards being present, and @autotrade logs you out. Nothing is lost while a shop is up, since the hourly timer does not reset.
  • Thanatos / Devil Tower saying you already ran it? You are not locked out — the expedition was never closed. Talk to Shep and choose "Cancel my reservation" to clear the flag and enter again. This happens if you log out, disconnect, or leave without reporting back to him.
August 5, 2026
  • Rebuilt the client's skill animation system — 301 previously silent skills now animate (overall coverage went from 45% → 75%).
  • Fully animated: Dragon Knight, Imperial Guard, Shadow Cross, Night Watch, Soul Ascetic, Spirit Handler, Hyper Novice.
  • Near-complete: Arch Mage/Inquisitor (94%), Cardinal/Sky Emperor (93%), Troubadour-Trouvere (87%), Abyss Chaser (86%), Windhawk (83%).
  • 246 skills still lack animation (mostly 1st/2nd job — Kagerou/Oboro, Soul Reaper, Mechanic, Sorcerer most affected); 42 ground-target indicators still pending.
August 2, 2026
  • New Discord Server Booster reward: boosting the MaeloRO Discord server grants an automatic 2x Base EXP + 2x Job EXP buff for as long as your boost stays active.
  • Activate it by linking your Discord account from User Options → Link Discord. One Discord account per game account; once linked, it's locked to that account for 30 days.
August 1, 2026
  • Old Wise Woman (Card Remover) now offers a safe removal option — no risk to card or gear, costs 2x the standard price.
  • New Illusion Trader NPC added.
July 31, 2026 Beta — next restart
  • Tomb of Remorse — new instance with unique bosses, exclusive quests, and rare drops (Sakray Card).
  • Biosphere Abyss Depth — elemental research instance (Fire/Water/Earth/Wind/Poison/Soul/Death/Holy) with repeatable missions and EXP rewards.
  • Old Glast Heim — Hard Mode — tougher version with an exclusive merchant and better loot.
  • Thanatos Tower — multi-floor instance with a dedicated barter shop and quests.
  • Episode CH1 content — including Dark Whisper and Zero Cell Extension.
July 30, 2026
  • Beaker added to the Alchemist Item Dealer.
  • New HD Material Trader: 10 Bradium + 50,000 Zeny → 1 HD Bradium, and 10 Carnium + 50,000 Zeny → 1 HD Carnium.
  • Reset Girl now offers Trait Stat Reset.
July 29, 2026
  • Last day of the compensation 2x EXP event — from now on, 2x EXP applies automatically on weekends only again.
  • New job: Soul Reaper, available via the Job Changer NPC.
July 26, 2026
  • Fixed Mystery Pet Egg Boxes not granting pet eggs.
July 25, 2026
  • Following a significant attack on the server, migrated the server infrastructure from Windows to Linux for better security and stability — a change that was already planned and got moved up.
  • Compensation event: a special NPC in Prontera granted a 2x EXP buff, Monday through Wednesday.
  • Announced the upcoming Unholy Path Dungeon (Izlude) — unique bosses dropping exclusive custom status items.
  • Community reminder: please ignore advertising/spam from other server communities, and don't advertise MaeloRO elsewhere either — mutual respect between RO communities.
July 19, 2026
  • Forum redesigned to match the main site's look, and registration simplified.
July 10, 2026
  • Hosting issue fully resolved — server back online and operating normally after several hours of maintenance.
July 9, 2026
  • Unscheduled maintenance due to a hosting provider interruption — all server data safe, estimated a few hours downtime.
July 4, 2026
  • New custom Dark Portal boss: Choco Master (Level 255, high HP/DEF, custom skills including Asura Strike) — first of a planned series of high-tier bosses.
  • Party Share Level range increased from 15 to 30.
  • Guild Storage capacity increased.
  • Chat channels reorganized: #global renamed to #main with auto-join; #trade and #map also auto-join now.
  • Dark Portal Event final-blow player now also gets a Vanilla Costume Box + Mystery Pet Egg Box.
June 28, 2026
  • Hunting Boards: you can now abandon an active hunt and pick a new one the same day (confirmation prompt added; abandoning loses all progress).
  • Fixed Safe Armor/Weapon Refine Ticket +11 (TCG reward) — was capped at +10, now correctly refines to +11.
  • Warp Portal skill can no longer be used inside major cities.
June 25, 2026
  • Fixed Hyper Novice progression: Expanded Super Novice job level cap raised from 70 to 120, and the Job Master now correctly allows the change to Hyper Novice at Base 200 / Job 120.
June 16, 2026
  • New: PVP Coliseum — free-for-all PvP arena (guild_vs3), accessed via an NPC in Prontera. Level 70+, no entry fee.
  • Earn Activity Tokens per kill (2x for the Most Wanted target), max 10/day. Kill streaks announced server-wide, plus a permanent kill ranking.
  • Anti-farming: needs 3+ players present, 5-minute cooldown on repeat kills, no reward vs. targets 30+ levels lower.
June 14, 2026
  • Added automatic in-game announcements before scheduled server restarts.
  • Fixed the Fabre Punch Event reward system.
June 7–8, 2026
  • Hunting Board overhaul: more level-matched monsters, each completable up to 3x, dynamic menu, and reward scaling (1–5 TCG Cards by difficulty).
  • Fabre Event announcements now show the event map and rewards in advance.
  • Added Hunting Boards for Level 200+ players.
June 4, 2026
  • Enabled @autotrade. Official trading hub set to Morocc (@go 1) to keep the community's shops centralized.
May 31, 2026
  • New job: Hyper Novice is now available.
  • Final day of the Costume Box event. After it ends, Costume Boxes move to the Cash Shop (cosmetic only, no gameplay advantage).
  • Previewed the upcoming Prontera Boss Raid Event — Costume Boxes as a drop, new raid maps, custom monster versions, enhanced boss mechanics, and rewards that require teamwork.
  • Previewed a future dungeon system in development, with bosses dropping custom cards, custom equipment, and new progression rewards.
May 29–30, 2026
  • Cash Shop made available.
  • 3rd Job classes can now change jobs correctly without needing the Izlude NPC (kept available as a fallback).
  • Solo Pack: Lord Kaho's Horn replaced with an equal-stat item, to preserve the value of getting the Horn through its original quest.
  • Several random restarts throughout the day to roll out fixes and small updates.
May 28, 2026
  • Limited-time Costume Box event launched — a Prontera NPC gave away 1 random Costume Box per hour, 1 character per account, new accounts excluded (anti-abuse). Ran through May 31.
May 23, 2026
  • 4th Jobs restored — fixed the issue where 3rd Jobs weren't being detected properly. Some 4th job skill visuals may still be incomplete.
  • More clothing and hair color options added to the Stylist.
May 20, 2026
  • Fixed the Poring kill event.
  • New ASPD/Cast testing to bring it closer to pre-renewal behavior.
May 17, 2026
  • Added an emoji box and a chat translator.
May 10, 2026
  • A hosting issue from the previous day was fully resolved — site and server back to normal.
May 2, 2026
  • Reaffirmed MaeloRO's no pay-to-win policy (server running since 2024, built on rAthena + ROBrowserLegacy).
  • Donation/Cash Shop policy set: cosmetic items only (costumes), no stats and no gameplay advantage — e.g. equipping a costume changes an item's appearance without altering its original function.
  • Donations accepted via cryptocurrency only, no other payment methods planned.
April 15–20, 2026
  • New Kafra NPC added in Prontera.
  • Website login system getting gradual improvements — password recovery by email is now available without opening a support ticket.
  • Added an Unstuck All Characters option to the site (User Options menu after logging in) to free characters stuck on a map — limited to once every 24 hours per account.
April 12, 2026
  • Client-side fix for a black-screen issue affecting some regions.
March 28, 2026
  • WoE fixed and working again.
March 23, 2026
  • Server-side update released for Renewal: fixed several character skills, updated the emulator to the latest version, added new items, and fixed multiple dungeons.
  • Smaller weekly updates followed to catch anything the update broke.
March 20–22, 2026
  • Announced a Sunday server-side update for Renewal, with the server going offline around 11pm NY time to deploy it.
February 1, 2026
  • MaeloRO Classic officially launched. Renewal remains the main server with regular updates and custom content; Classic is a Pre-Renewal server "frozen in time," receiving only bug fixes and minor adjustments.
January 2026
  • Known issue: past Level 228, the EXP percentage display can look wrong — EXP gain and leveling still work normally, it's a visual bug only.
  • Known issue: characters currently can't level past Level 255 — already being tracked.
  • New client update deployed; Lucky Roulette was temporarily bugged and disabled.
  • Added a Poring Ring Warper NPC in Payon.
December 21, 2025
  • New client build deployed with browser performance fixes (clear your cache; try incognito if you still see issues).
October–November 2025
  • Security hardened after attempted attacks on the server.
  • Halloween and Christmas seasonal items/costumes added gradually.
  • Server has been online continuously for over a year — the team's priority is stability over speed of updates.
October 2, 2025
  • Website security reinforced. Note: updates to the play client are not applied to Play Mobile to avoid PC-only bugs — always use the mobile client on a phone.
September 2025
  • Launched a full item & monster database at maeloro.com/info/.
  • Launched the MaeloRO Forum at maeloro.com/forum/.
  • PK Zone set to level 120.
  • Chat translation added; many quests translated with community help.
  • WoE updated, confirmed weekends 9–11pm NY time; automatic weekend 2x EXP added.
August 23, 2025
  • 3rd-job skills required visiting the 3rdjob-supreme NPC in Izlude to fully unlock (otherwise capped at 2nd-job skills).
  • Weight Cleaner updated — no more full inventory wipes, you choose what to delete.
August 14–18, 2025
  • Job Master overhaul: Rebirth now required for 3rd Job, new Ninja/Gunslinger/TaeKwon class paths added, starter weapon on job change.
  • Play Mobile moved to the same fast server as Play, with items aligned between both clients.
  • New hairstyles and a new quest added.
August 10–12, 2025
  • Maps updated to current Ragnarok Renewal textures; Bank feature fixed.
  • Server client upgraded for faster loading.
  • Added a Mobile Version button as a fallback for a black-map bug on some phones.
  • Enabled player commands: @go, @autoloot, @whodrops, @alootid, @whereis.
August 3–6, 2025
  • 3rd and 4th jobs added via the Job Master (level 150 required for 3rd job).
  • Original Prontera music restored.
July 29–31, 2025
  • Fixed many "unknown" items from vending machines (Ice Pick Trader) — wings, hats, and auras now display correctly.
  • New NPC to reach the shopping area; adjusted some shop prices; fixed several NPCs that were freezing players.
  • 3rd/4th jobs briefly disabled while fixing related NPCs; a server outage was resolved.