The Mana World 2022-04-26
We are now on Steam!
If you haven't done so already, wishlist us here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1570940
Keep in mind that we'll likely transition The Mana World Legacy to Evolved before the Steam release, and you'll be able to use your Steam account to play both on The Mana World and Moubootaur Legends.
Feedback is welcome!
Other changes
The master of time has arrived with rares from all eternity... ...But his stock won't last forever.
Crypt now gives bonus boss points for doing it at lower levels.
You can now summon more monsters on Evil Obelisk.
Audsbel Snake Tongue request was nerfed.
Tomatoes were added to the Fruit Shop (is tomato a fruit?)
Magic Defense for several monsters was nerfed.
A new Reaper is out and it has scythes! Be careful of evil GMs!
Monster Point table was fixed. We have... plans.
Graveyard is more dangerous, be careful!
-- The Mana World Team
-Jesusalva

Merry Christmas! 2021-12-04
Happy New Year!
We want to thanks everyone whom stayed with us through 2021, and cheer for another year with all!
To mark the start of a new phase, we're updating the login wallpaper - the last update was in Oct 2009 by Spit, and this one is by Reid.
For all the good years which have passed, and for many more yet to come!
-- The Mana World Team
Christmas 2021: Love Rejoined
The Mana World Team wishes everyone a happy new Christmas!
But there is a lonely skeleton, you may remember him from past Halloweens. His name is Gak. Gak gak gak. Santa wants to do everything he can for him.
But not on the main server. The Christmas Event will be happening on the Test Server instead. You can read more details on the forum thread: https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=162964
C'mon, you won't ruin Gak's Christmas because changing server is too inconvenient or bothersome, will you? This event will never happen again, so don't miss it.
Merry Christmas!
-Jesusalva

IRC Migration 2021-05-28
We are moving to Libera.Chat on IRC.
Game Chat, Discord Integration, et cetera are unaffected. All our bots have moved as well. For those whom do not use IRC directly, no action is needed.
There weren't many votes on our community poll, but after witnessing with our own eyes a channel being taken over without any sort of warning or whatsoever, we have decided that Freenode no longer provides any sort of reliable operational stability.
We are NOT taking this decision based on rumors - both true and fake - which are circulating from both sides; We are taking this decision based on what we witnessed.
Therefore, we have settled to move all our infrastructure to Libera Chat, based among other things, on the community will.
This is a strictly technical decision; Operational stability has always been a priority for us, from backup to the choice of applications which are exposed to the public, like our wiki and forums backbone. IRC is no exception to this rule.
We also have decided to DROP the bridge which was maintaining a link between both networks for the reasons mentioned above. Therefore, users connecting to the old network WON'T be able to receive any support whatsoever. Our other bots have also withdrawn.
Improvements to #upmarmu
dangerDuck did some improvements to upmarmu (brawling skill).
Check it out if you are a brawler!
-Jesusalva

The Mana World 2021-04-23
ManaPlus Self-Fork Release
By popular demand, Jak1's official ManaPlus fork will now be provided by default on our Downloads page. https://themanaworld.org/downloads
It has only a few improvements over the original ManaPlus. You're not required to use it, but it is a good idea if you plan playing in...
TMW Evolved Public Beta
The Mana World Development Team has a surprise for all of you.
We have decided to deprecate tmwAthena definitely. Instructions for building TMWA servers were already removed from the wiki; Other tmwa sections will soon follow.
We have begun a side-project, dubbed TMW Evolved (working name "The Mess World"). It contains all TMW Legacy data, as faithfully as possible, but in the new, modern Evol2 servers. It has new bugs which needs to be found, reported and fixed.
There is no ETA for when the player data will be transfered from TMW Legacy to TMW Evolved and the current tmwa-based server shut down forever.
If you are using the self-fork release, select our test server, opt for using "TMW Evolved updates", and then select "TMW Evolved" for world selection.
Official ManaPlus will require a workaround which will be on forums later.
FAQ - How different is Evolved from Legacy?
TMW Evolved is TMW Legacy, but in a more modern code. This does have some implications, specially with magic. Spells will remain mostly the same, but the way to obtain and use them have changed. It also allows stats to go up to 100 and max level is 140 instead of 135. Not that we think anyone will reach, anyway.
We're also working on Magic Tier 3 code, which was flat out ruled as impractical to be done on TMWA but is not so impossible on Evol2 code. At least that's what was on the comments. It is not on the beta yet.
FAQ - What about TMW rEvolt?
It is not immediately affected by these changes.
For now, please bear with us (and help us!) to make TMW Legacy transition between code bases the smoothest possible; And in due time we'll reveal the plan for TMW rEvolt and Steam Release.
Unofficial new quests
To celebrate the end of TMWA and because HoraK volunteered to write them, we have added a new quest for the Assassin Gear. As Magic Tier 2 is finally coming to a close, HoraK added a nice parting gift for it.
Both new quests will be different on TMW Evolved. For one, because Magic Tier 3. For two, because magic in overall has changed.
That's it for today, HAVE FUN!
-Jesusalva

The Mana World 2021-04-01
Iilia Rewards Change
This is just a whim update which removes Iilia quests rewards and replace them with the assassin set (brawling only).
They were too OP and unbalanced and whatever, so we decided to make them unavailable for the time begin.
We also have donated all the already existing Iilia gear to the pink mouboo church, and replaced Constable Bob with the flying spaghetti monster.
Happy april fools day!
-Jesusalva

New Year 2021 2021-02-09
Beheader Quest
A strange man, with an even stranger weapon, has been spotted wandering The Mana World as of late.
We advise caution, so you do not end up losing your head by accident! (got the pun?)
Valentine Day 2021
By popular demand of people trying to take advantage of the new beheader and trying to behead myself, The Mana World will have a Valentine Day 2021 event.
Quest opens on the saturday 13th 00:00 and closes on the monday 15th 23:59. Look for the cutest NPC in Hurnscald to do the quest.
The Mana World Team hopes you all have a great Valentine Day.
-Jesusalva

Christmas 2020 2020-12-01
Christmas 2020
The Mana World Team wishes everyone a happy new Christmas!
By the way, Santa seemed very concerned with something. Perhaps you could help him? Last I saw him, he was hanging in Nivalis. If you hurry, maybe you can still catch him!
The Mana World: rEvolt release will be postponed at least until the event ends, so enjoy your time and Christmas this year.
As they say: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
-Jesusalva

Act 5 - The Final Battle 2020-09-15
Halloween 2020
We'll have several events until early november! Keep watching the forums!
Here is a short summary about them:
Halloween 2020 - Rescuing Jande
Jande, the Great Dragon of Earth, was kidnapped by Zax De'Kagen!
According to the Sage's Council intel, Jande is currently being held in The Underworld. But there is no way to reach the underworld, nor to rescue Jande from the Eternal Seals Prision...
Or at least, that is what everyone thought. .:: HALLOWEEN 2020 - RESCUING JANDE ::.
In case you missed the Doomsday Event, you can read a summary on: https://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Legacy:Doomsday
PVP Tournament V
September's PVP Tournament was cancelled due not enough participation. However, we will still have a special halloween PvP Tournament in october. Date yet to be announced by forums.
Remember: You must sign up at forums to participate!
Hungry Fluffy Hunt V
Crew of Red Corsair will be hosting the fifth Hunt The Hungry Fluffies event!
Participate on the special scoreboard which will open from Sep 18th until Sep 30th and win prizes! Check forums for details.
IMPORTANT: Scores obtained before the special event scoreboard open will NOT be considered. The Event Scoreboard is marked as Event Scoreboard!
More Information
More information can be obtained at the forums:
https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21092
-Jesusalva

Act 5 - The Final Battle 2020-08-24
PvP Tournament Updates
By popular demand, we proudly announce a few changes with PvP Tournament in mind.

After five victories, the char cannot participate on PVP Tournaments anymore. However, an alt (different char of same player) is still eligible!
Doomsday Event is not over yet!
In case you missed the Doomsday Event, you can read a summary on: https://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Legacy:Doomsday
Doomsday Act 5 - The Final Battle, will count with a third interlude. Hold tight on your Black Roses, for you'll be needing them again!
-Jesusalva

Act 5 - The Final Battle 2020-06-11
Doomsday Event
2020-06-11: Interlude (part 1)
This is an Interlude.
Is it time to take down Zax De'Kagen, or will he best the adventurers? Get the Black Rose, explore the maze, seek the truth.
PS. You do not need a key to open the chests.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160774#p160774
2020-06-21: Interlude (part 2)
And then, there was silence.
Nobody heard from Jande or Zax De'Kagen for a while.
In the apparence of normality amidst the doomsday, questions are left unanswered. Unable to return to Keshlam Maze, but in hold of the clues, one can only especulate.
What is the real meaning of things. The calm can only mean one thing: The storm is soon to come.
Doomsday Act 5: Interlude - Part 2 "The Silence"
-Jesusalva

Act 4 - The Great War 2020-05-26
A Gift From Jande
A gift is available in Hurnscald Town, to encourage adventurers to keep fighting for a future which includes them in it.
It will be taken away in a later date.
New commands
Two new commands were added:
@bosspoints will show you how many boss points you have
@deaths will report how many times you died D:
Doomsday Event - The Great War
Following the events from Act 2, the foreigner invader assembles a bigger army and prepares to move against Hurnscald.
Even the most magicless person should be able to sense it arriving at Hurnscald Mines Entrance, ready to take over The Mana World.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160290#p160290
Act 4
This act happens at the same time as Act 3.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160343#p160343
-Jesusalva

Act 4 - The Great War 2020-05-09
Crypt Expansion
Although it was not the planned one, the crypt received a special expansion, with a special theme from Doomsday Event.
It includes a new rare item for mages. The one who cries at crypt, shall give you hints, but only if you dare, to at multiple boss glare.
(In other words, you must have a certain amount of Boss Points to unlock this quest).
Snake Experience Boost
Grass and Mountain Snake experience was doubled. You can now level up in Snake Pit instead of Graveyard if you feel like it.
Doomsday Event - Tormenta shows up
Seldomly, at 09:00 sieges, Tormenta will show up at her usual place. No need to force yourself to wake up this late, as she'll not be there always.
Doomsday Event - The Great War
Following the events from Act 2, the foreigner invader assembles a bigger army and prepares to move against Hurnscald.
Even the most magicless person should be able to sense it arriving at Hurnscald Mines Entrance, ready to take over The Mana World.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160290#p160290
Act 4
This act happens at the same time as Act 3.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160343#p160343
-Jesusalva

Act 4 - The Great War 2020-04-20
Doomsday Event - The Great War
Following the events from Act 2, the foreigner invader assembles a bigger army and prepares to move against Hurnscald.
Even the most magicless person should be able to sense it arriving at Hurnscald Mines Entrance, ready to take over The Mana World.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160290#p160290
Act 4
This act happens at the same time as Act 3.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160343#p160343
-Jesusalva

Act 3 - The Great War 2020-04-06
Doomsday Event - The Great War
Following the events from Act 2, the foreigner invader assembles a bigger army and prepares to move against Hurnscald.
Even the most magicless person should be able to sense it arriving at Hurnscald Mines Entrance, ready to take over The Mana World.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160290#p160290
Minor Balance Notes
We did several minor balance changes, like tweaking Sand Cutter's damage, increasing Mana Guardians XP, and several other minor things which are actually very important but even so, are still minor.
Some patches you might have missed
On April 1st, we pushed a whole new equipment set to Iilia, with brawlers in mind. We also added the quest for a new weapon, the Sand Cutter.
-Jesusalva

Fools Day 2020 2020-04-01
Brawler Class: Assassin Set Released
After a huge attempt of assassination at Luvia, which naturally failed, the chest at Iilia's Inn now have a complete assassin garment available.
This set can only be wore if you're unarmed!
New Weapon: Sand Cutter
With regards to AxlTrozz's Desert Temple, which unfortunately was never finished of being mapped, a new melee weapon, superior to Setzer, is available.
You'll need around level 85 to equip it, and this is as far as our hints will go.
Mana Guardians Ritual
The Mana Guardians performed a ritual, which lowered their defense and luck permanently, but hit the Banshee Bow in full, and it no longer crits.
However, having the curse changed by this ritual, its base damage was increased, and it even make the archers faster. Nobody knows for how long this will persist.
Monster Hunters Update
Aidan and Ishi decided to give monster points for those whom defeat Mana Guardians, Tormenta, and some of the newer monsters ingame.
They hope that this way, adventurers all over The Mana World prevent it falling in hands of the invading army.
Doomsday Event - The Invasion
The Mage Council of Tulimshar has monitored events following the Great Quake and feel that something ominous is spreading throughout The Mana World. Monsters seem to of come out of every shadowy corner and petty dieties has begun to make presence in dark places. The council has made the call and you are just one of the many people that will battle the forces of evil, sending them back to the depths they came from.
Be it warrior, archer or mage, you have answered the call from the leaders of the world to fight back the darkness that spread after the Great Quake. Even so, the monsters strength is overwhelming, and not even Tormenta is staying behind the eternal seals any longer.
And sensing adventurers and the mana world residents weakness, someone decided it was a good idea to send an invading army...
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160197#p160197
We're replacing Hurnscald Tree
As of April 1st, we decided to replace Hurnscald Tree with a giant Pink Mouboo statue.
We're also making the Pink Mouboo Temple the official TMW religion and we'll burn down all the heretics!
#April1stJoke
-Jesusalva

Act 2 - The Invasion 2020-02-25
Doomsday Event - The Invasion
The Mage Council of Tulimshar has monitored events following the Great Quake and feel that something ominous is spreading throughout The Mana World. Monsters seem to of come out of every shadowy corner and petty dieties has begun to make presence in dark places. The council has made the call and you are just one of the many people that will battle the forces of evil, sending them back to the depths they came from.
Be it warrior, archer or mage, you have answered the call from the leaders of the world to fight back the darkness that spread after the Great Quake. Even so, the monsters strength is overwhelming, and not even Tormenta is staying behind the eternal seals any longer.
And sensing adventurers and the mana world residents weakness, someone decided it was a good idea to send an invading army...
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160197#p160197
Minor Corrections
Minor bugfixes on Joan and Constable Bob. We would like to thank everyone who submitted a patch.
-Jesusalva

Valentine News 2020-01-01
Hello Everyone!
This update biggest objective is to give support to Valentine Day event.
Valentine Day Event
This year, our valentine day event will NOT be hold on this server! It will be host on a separate server specific for this purpose.
Read details on https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=160032#p160032
Minor Corrections
A lot of minor corrections and bugfixes are included. You should not be affected by them, as they are for very specific edge situations. eg. keeping up arrow pressed, walking through Iilia's Inn door multiple times before quest is complete, and getting killed.
Two new candies
Part of rewards for Valentine's. Happy Valentine for all!
-Jesusalva

The Mana News 2019-12-18
Hello Everyone!
This is a routine update, created to push the outcome of several polls which were on Feedback section of the Forums.
Nerf Banshee Bow
One of the most polemic threads, but not the most polemic one.
It ended up with the Banshee Bow damage being adjusted from 90 to 85.
The "average value" would be lower, but nobody likes nerfing, right?
Increase Black Scorpion, Snakes and Spiders EXP
A lot of players wanted these monsters to give more experience, but it was not enough to give what they wanted.
In the end, the experience of these three monsters was nearly doubled.
Christmas Event changed
The less polemic of all, Christmas Event allows players to gain a free level. But this only works if your level was smaller than 99. Now, this limit was raised to 135, to follow the Experience table.
-Jesusalva

Dangerous Halloween 2019-10-07
Hello Everyone!
Did you saw latest news? They're on the forum if you've missed! https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=159297#p159297
Higher Level Cap
After a bug which caused several issues (including data loss), it left behind a "feature" which increased level cap to 135!
We asked the community about it, and most players said that they're fine with a higher level cap, too.
Tormenta the Boss
Tormenta came directly from the Abyss and is looking to run loose in the surface after a long time. She also stole several masks from previous Halloween events.
Killing her might not only make her drop a rare, but will also give a decent amount of experience to anyone involved. Note: Tormenta is at least as difficult as Luvia, so be prepared!
Development Continues
As announced previously, we're hoping to have rEvolt released soon. If everything goes well and as planned, we'll be releasing after the Halloween ends; But this depends a bit on contributors.
Minor corrections
We've also fixed Sailor's and Captain Hat's defense. In case you had these decorative items, they now give the defense they promised.
-Jesusalva

Shiny new website 2019-08-12
Mobile-friendly website! The homepage of The Mana World has been entirely redesigned to work on mobile devices. It should now scale accordingly with the size of your display so you shouldn't need to zoom anymore. Everything should be in roughly the same places as before except for Account Recovery, which has been moved under Support. Please report any issues you may encounter.
TMW Hardcore A new "world" has been added to the world selection list: TMW Hardcore. This server is intended to provide a bigger challenge to players who have become experts on the main server. It plays like normal except for these important differences:
Please note: The Hardcore server is NOT intended to be a replacement for the main server; it is only an experiment and may close down at any point in the future. Think of it more as a side-quest.
-gumi

The Mana News 2019-05-01
Hello Everyone!
I'm making this announcement to tell you that our first development milestone for the new server's first release, titled The Mana World: rEvolt, is now 100% completed. The initial deadline was set at 31/05/19 but we managed to finish one month ahead of schedule!
The milestone was called Artis Sewer and included all content relating to the underground maps under the city of Artis as well as some other bits of content that we wanted to be out at the same time. The next milestone, Artis Legion, currently sits at 75% completion with a deadline of 30/06/19, but given how quickly things have been moving I would say we're well ahead of schedule for this one as well!
The third and final milestone, Hurnscald, encompasses the biggest part of the release: the town of Hurnscald and the surrounding woodland region of Argaes. Its deadline represents an approximate deadline for the entire release and is currently set at 06/09/19.
I want to say thank you to the people who have worked the most and the hardest in recent weeks to get us this far. Check out my forum post for my rant about that and some links to current development!
https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?p=158479#p158479
-WildX

The Mana News 2019-04-17
Hello to everyone, regardless of gender or race! Yes, I am addressing the shy Tritans among us! Oh, your dog might also be interested in this.
So our last edition of the newspaper was on March 1st. It was about 45 days ago, so lets do a new post!
Here is the current progress report for the new server:
https://forums.themanaworld.org/download/file.php?id=13446
So while I would love to bore everyone to death, talking about how many placeholders we've added this last period - from adding a hideout on Artis (where? It is a secret, of course!) to the fight against the Legion - with several bugfixes, bringing Wyara back, adding minimaps to most maps while still keeping Rossy's caves a secret, improving several minor things, and adding some skills. Because seriously, we are The Mana World. A Mana World without magic makes no sense, right?
But the thing is, I can't. I know, many have missed Mona's dad's rescue operation. I know, many missed the incredible desync which brought 4144 to release ManaPlus 1.9.3.23. Throwing stuff in sewers, the Peter quest redesign, and making sandwiches. ...but I don't have time for that. In case you just said "Neat, there are progress bars on the picture", there are also due dates!
This means, as our (late) TMW birthday gift to the community, we decided on a deadline!
You know, the thing is - not even the developers can wait another year for this game to be playable. So we decided on a deadline, after lots of drama and bikeshedding on IRC, as tradition demands, somewhere between September and October 2019!
So, no more time to stop and chat, we have a game to finish if we want to still be able to call it The Mana World.
Finally, do you know what makes The Mana World, The Mana World? Here is a hint: It is not the name. It is not the quests. It is not the graphics. And it is not the player data either. If you find out, please do not share. :>
-Jesusalva

15th Anniversary 2019-04-15
Happy Birthday! The Mana World is now 15 years old!
Thank you for playing and making TMW great!
-TMW Development Team

15th Anniversary 2019-04-09
Happy Birthday! We are nearing the 15th anniversary of The Mana World!
Time to celebrate everyone, make sure you log in on the 11th.
-TMW Development Team

Fluffy hunting 2019-01-20
Increased the fluffy hunting leaderboard from a Top 5 to Top 15.
-TMW/Evol Development Team

Quick patch 2018-07-17
Made the ghosts that spawn in the graveyard less exploitable.
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-03-11
Bug patches & misc improvements.
Release Notes v2018.03.11
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-03-03
Bug patches & misc improvements.
Release Notes v2018.03.03
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-02-17
Bug patches & misc improvements.
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-01-28
New maps, new items & long-overdue patches.
Release Notes v2018.01.28
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-01-15
New hats & misc patches.
Release Notes v2018.01.15
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2018-01-01
Release Notes v2018.01.01
Changed
Fixed
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2017-12-04
Release Notes v2017.12.04
Fixed
-TMW/Evol Development Team

The Mana World 2017-11-12
Release Notes v2017.11.12
Fixed
-TMW/Evol Development Team

Stability 2016-11-26
Release Notes v2016.11.26
This release only removes the halloween 2016 quest and reverts the monster drops back to normal.
Removed
Notice: This release marks the end of active development on The Mana World Legacy (this server). From now on, all development efforts will be directed towards Evol Online. Game-breaking bugs will still be patched but no new content will be made for this server.
-TMW/Evol Development Team

Halloween 2016-10-10
Release Notes v2016.10.10 Fixed
Added
-TMW Development Team

It's like MAGIC 2016-05-12
Release Notes v2016.05.12 Fixed
Added
Changed
-TMW Development Team

There and There again 2016-04-25
Release Notes v2016.04.25
-TMW Development Team

We are all Dead 2016-04-24
Release Notes v2016.04.24
-TMW Development Team

Magic-v3 2016-04-21
This release changes a lot server-side, but there is not much visible changes for the players.
Release Notes v2016.04.21
-TMW Development Team

Blue Sage Fix 2016-03-31
This is a tiny release that fixes a few bugs.
Release Notes v2016.03.31
-TMW Development Team

Third Gender 2016-02-09
Some modifications pertaining to gender and char creation, along with the usual bug fixes.
This release will change your hairstyle. You can change it back by talking to the barber in Tulimshar, or Jessie in Candor.
Release Notes v2016.02.09
Read More: http://bit.ly/1PLaVbx
-TMW Development Team

Minor fixes 2015-11-23
Some bug fixes, new auditorium.
Release Notes v2015.11.23
Read More: http://ow.ly/UWS7q
-TMW Development Team

Long-awaited bug fixes 2015-10-01
This release brings bug fixes for long-standing bugs, along with some improvements.
Release Notes v2015.10.01
Read More: http://ow.ly/SO8xw
-TMW Development Team

Max Daily 2015-09-15
Daily quests allow you to redeem as many as possible at once
Release Notes v2015.9.15
Read More: http://ow.ly/Sdk73
-TMW Development Team

Another bug hunt 2015-08-17
Primarily fixing bugs.
Release Notes v15.8.17
Read More: http://ow.ly/QXRgN
-TMW Development Team

PvP enhancements 2015-06-30
This tiny update mainly includes bug fixes.
Release Notes v15.6.30
Read More: http://ow.ly/OXNl5
-TMW Development Team

Candor is open 2015-05-18
This update mainly includes bug fixes.
Release Notes v15.5.26
Release Notes v15.5.23.x
Release Notes v15.5.18
Read More: http://ow.ly/N7fps
-TMW Development Team

Double Header 2015-05-04
This update includes bug fixes, quest logs for Candor, and a new constable in Hurnscald. Characters can also now use @pvp to toggle their PvP status on any map – at any time.
Release Notes v15.4.20
Release Notes v15.5.04
Read More: http://ow.ly/Ms3eG
-TMW Development Team

New bank in Candor 2015-03-10
This week's release is again a small release as we focus our efforts on fixing bugs to move to a new server software in the near future.

-TMW Development Team

New art in Kaizei and skills description 2015-02-03
Starting with an errata: new tilesets for Kaizei continent were announced for the last update but actually they are the feature for this one. Lots of typos in Xmas Inn were corrected, and there are totally new descriptions for skills that are featured on Skills window. Parua has now some explanations about why Candor battle exists, for the most curious ones.

-TMW Development Team

New tutorial, road between Hurnscald and Nivalis and more 2015-01-13
The hugest change in this patch is the one in the tutorial, it's faster and more intuitive, making new players more comfortable and able to explore The Mana World faster. Also, now you can reach Nivalis by going through the Woodlands which makes a funny new way to travel.

-TMW Development Team

Heathin and Inya 2014-12-04
The big patch this release is Heathin and Inya. Heathin has had the price of terranite armor reduced, but not the materials. Inya now sells Simple Rings for 10 M. The Simple Ring is no longer a requirement to starting the Terranite Armor quest.

-TMW Development Team

Candont is Cando again 2014-11-18
Today we have a couple minor bug fixes to quests. TMWA is the big release here with the script ASN/AST. The script language for TMW has been sanitized. If you were developing, we should have updates to the wiki pages soon enough. Otherwise, you can always find us on IRC. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#themanaworld

-TMW Development Team

To Quest or Fight 2014-11-4
Heya Manakins, we have a bunch of updates for you. Kylian has had his shop license. Hetchel in Tulimshar Noble district needs some help.
The new Races/Species are not yet playable but this release requires you to upgrade to the version of Manaplus that will allow us to bring them in once more people have upgraded. Please upgrade Manaplus at your earliest convience.

-TMW Development Team

Our skin is crawling with Bugs! 2014-10-23
So you don't all get diabetis we are patching the treat amounts allowed and raising the mask limit.

-TMW Development Team

Happy Halloween! 2014-10-20
Halloween is now active and annual. Trick or Treat will happen every year. Munro returns as well. He has a special Treat for those who are seen participating in Trick or Treating, but he does not give out his reward until later in the holiday.
Two new Hats: Bucket & Autumn Mask added for Halloween.

-TMW Development Team

Back in Business 2014-10-07
This was a month full of fun for us. First if you have not seen it ManaMarket is in a public github repo! https://github.com/themanaworld/manamarket
In addition, we made some good strides patching TMWA which you might have noticed broke stuff. Thanks for bearing with us as we patched and continue to patch code.

-The Mana World Dev Team

Now with less spam 2014-09-01
Heya Manakins. Valia should be back in action and ready for you to save the day again. Be warned she has less patience for fools now.
The Ferry now uses a set of emblems to denote where it current is docked along with an audio cue.

-The Mana World Dev Team

Sanity Check 2014-07-29
Sanity checks added to client data to reflect what manaplus really sees.
make checks in client-data now looks through all the xmls to check for proper format.

-The Mana World Dev Team

Lag Sickness 2014-07-12
Just a patch fix to eliminate some nasty bugs.

-TMW Dev Team

Sounds like another bug hunt. 2014-07-03
We had a major bug hunt and squashed a number of problems with the client-data and the client. This should clear up and help latency and other client bugs.
-wushin

Who let this guy write news entries? 2014-07-01
Most of the changes this time are internal, but the Starting Area Redux is not. Among other things, it make starting with magic not completely hopeless.
In content:
And the server code:
-o11c

Item Split & Mob Shuffle 2014-06-17
Item Db was split into multiple files to make it easier to maintain.
Added Mobs/Mob improvements:
Mapflags Added to 004-3,-4,-5 to respawn local.
Rasin made accessiable for lowbies (hide n seek).
Banu pointing to forge to buy a knife.
Towel Cooldown accurately reflects the server cooldown.
monsters.xml is now relational with the Mob_db ID (ex: maggot is now 1002 in both files.)
-The Mana World Development Team

Small Update 2014-05-20
Small updates to change some things. More changes coming soon enough. As always TMW is looking for help; Wiki Edits, Devs, and Testers.
How to develop: http://tinyurl.com/mxnnuez Whats being developed: http://tinyurl.com/mt8r8pb

You can Always find whats going to be new via the set of links on this post http://tinyurl.com/l5pko8r
-The Manaworld Development Team

No one speaks English good. 2014-05-06
Ahoy Manazins! Todays release brings new music to the boats. Otherwise the release is primarly for bug fixes.
Server-Data:
Client-data:
-TMW Development Team

Here we go again on our own! 2014-04-21
Thanks for all the great feedback.

-TMW Development

The more things change... 2014-04-16 Attention Major Release:
Mana EOL: With this release, we are finally declaring the Mana client obsolete. 90% of players are already using ManaPlus.
Server dependencies: The next release of the server code will require a newer version of GCC: 4.7 instead of 4.6. This is possible because Ubuntu is releasing a new LTS so that servers can reasonably be expected to be able to upgrade.
GCC 4.7 will be supported for much longer - a year and a half or two years, until the next Debian release.
The next release will also drop the dependency on Flex and Bison ... which is more significant for making the build system simpler and the surrounding code cleaner than for actually being hard to acquire.
Script: TMWA increased the level of debugging for script parsing. The script language no longer allows default fall throughs or '-' for a menu option. It now reports Unused & Duplicate labels The menu fix was added to pave the development of dynamic menus. Simply running your script in the server reports all errors in the scripts.
Magic: Magic is now using a new config file format, which will simplify build dependencies in future. Anybody with local spells will need to manually convert them. Although we have some helper programs (tmwa-spell-convert and tmwa-sexpr), For support of these ask on IRC irc://chat.freenode.net/themanaworld
Sprite 1.5/Npcs As Sprites: Sprite directory naming convention cleaned up. If an NPC wasn't animated it was made into a player sprite with equipment. Thus anything you see most the NPCs wearing will/can be wearable player gear. We fixed and added more gear than was currently in the main so a bunch of new items have been added. Additional attack frames add more weapon varieties and NPC animations. As since the npcs are a sprite any action the player sprite can do the NPC could. It allows us to implement a mobile NPC. Most of the sprites have dyes now. Including the player sprite. This will make adding new races easier.
Making the NPCs player sprites makes it easier to create them as well. If you can edit an xml you can create a NPC. This will make it quicker to start developing. Custom/Special NPCs still exist, (see GY INN), They need to be justified as to why they can't be a Doll model.
Errors in the sprite should now be clearly visible as we fixed the error image in the client-data. It will draw an ugly error tile.
Tilesets: Naming covention enforced to make dealing with sets easier. Unused/old or broken sets fixed or removed from repo except the plain castle set. The Forrest was removed as it needs to be properly cut to make it easier to map with. Tilesets will begin to be collasped into each other. As they share a common/similiar theme and/or style. We added animated water to some of the maps. The tileset will work with all of the maps and tilesets in game. We've begun to fill empty spaces in the tilesets with a Open/Free marker. These will help us find maps with errors.
Travel / Death / Warps: Plain Hitchiker Towels are now part of the starting gear. If you lost, sold or don't have a towel ask the nearest soul menhir for a replacement. All towel colors are available and each is set to a location. Only the plain undyed towel can bind to a soul menhir. The towels now have to wait to recharge to be used again. Death is no longer travel system. Localized graveyards keeps you close to the action. This means shorter walks back from the graveyard and illia doesn't reset your savepoint anymore.Using a towel, a warp or walking is the only way back to a city. Ship Travel does not cost anything anymore. The ship now moves between the major docks. The ferry schdules are available by the docks so you know where it currently is. Once aboard wait for the ship to come into the location you want and disembark. Dyrin's sect of wizards "The Travelers" have appeared in more locations about the world. speaking with 2 members of his sect will allow you to move between them, for a price. Members are located throughout the world.
Tonori Improvement: Added major art map additions to Tulimshar & surrounding areas. Castle, Noble, Beach Cliffs , & etc. Starting area clean-up. Quest now uses bitmasking. Sorfina gives you your first towel. Altered NPCs and map to make room for Beach Cliffs. The children playing hide & seek have been spread out more to encourage exploring the wider areas surrounding the city.
Graveyard Improvement: Added major art map additions to the Graveyard & surrounding areas. More maps to grind Xp and to offer a change of pace. These maps also have 3 new mini-bosses for 60+ level characters. The Graveyard reset has been removed. -TMW Team

Old Tree, New Grind 2014-02-03
Today's update includes bug fixes for the Christmas Event (thanks to Chay). Also the famous Hurnscald tree is back to its usual form.
Southeast of Tulimshar, in the caves, you will find the new map 043-4 which was designed to give you a better possibility to train your character at the levels around 60-80. Besides well-known monsters you will find three new mobs there: Trolls, Undead Trolls and Undead Witches. Thanks to Fother for the great Troll graphics!
Have fun with this update!
-Cassy and a bunch of lunatics with magic markers

Christmas Season in The Mana World 2013-12-25
Happy Holidays!
This year has been horrible for Santa. Nothing turned out as it was intended, in fact he didn't even make it at the usual date.
Gladly, Avalia, Santa's utterly attractive apprentice stepped in to make Christmas happen for all of the children and lonely people around the mana world. Go to his workshop and see if you can help to make the magic of christmas happen,
... or make it a complete disaster, Orum has some helpers hidden in Nivalis who will guide your way sabotaging christmas.
This release is very late, so we are going to change reward and event time accordingly.
The good thing is that you will now be able to visit Santa's Inn throughout the year. Cassy breathed life into all those reinboos of last years Holidays. Fothers Candied Slimes are going to cause the sweetest nightmares you have ever had. Not sure if you are cruel enough to kill a Pollett.
- The Mana World Development Team

Icon and Weapon Updates 2013-11-30
With this update we ship new and better item icons. Those have been done a long time ago and we finally finished reviewing them all.
The behavior of items when you do not meet their requirements has changed.
As a result, a new type of ranged weapon has been introduced: the Sling Shot. You can get it somewhere in Tulimshar. We are aware of some small graphical glitches.
The behaviour of the happy-curse for dark mages has been changed. You might want to try it out. ]:-)
-TMW Development Team

Halloween 2013 2013-10-30
Happy Halloween!
Also, some minor bugs have been fixed with Waric and Rossy. Alas poor Waric, Will he ever learn to behave properly?
-MadCamel

Fixes in Server Code 2013-09-28
As you might have found out we had another restart yesterday.
Most of the changes for this restart are under the hood: this was a Server Code release. Meaning the server's software was changed but not the content. Hence user-facing changes are minimal, but we'll outline below what's relevant.
The restart didn't work as smoothly as expected but we are working hard on fixing all the issues which turned up.
Currently known bugs that affect players:
Other bugs:
Fixed bugs:
If you encounter any more bugs or problems please report back immediately. Post on the forums http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17729
A big behavioural change has been made to the Login Server From now on the login name is case sensitive, this means it matters whether you write a capital letter or not. e.g. if you registered an account name Test, and always logged in as test, this now no longer works. You have to log in as Test. If you forgot how you originally registered your account, and cannot log in, please checkout the forums http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17737.
Please be aware that these code changes were necessary to move the game forward. The server was formerly very hard to work on or modify. This update goes a long way to fixing that and will allow the developers to bring you new and exciting things in the future.
We are very sorry for the inconvenience. We have been working as hard as we can to fix all the issues above.
-TMW Development Team

Astral Magic Extension 2013-09-14
We have a small content release today. A witch in Tulimshar has found some daunting spells for mages who are experienced in Astral Magic. Talk to her about that. Maybe she is willing to teach you.
With this update, we have added some minor bugfixes for the Waric script, Bluepar sprite and Wicked Mushroom sprite.
-TMW Development Team

Announcing Code update - Introducing Dark Magic 2013-09-03
First, a technical announcement. During a future restart, TMW will start requiring your username to exactly match the case that you signed up with.
Previously, this was enforced erratically, and led to people losing access to their accounts. If, after the update, you are unsure of the case of the account and have already tried lowercase, UPPERCASE, and TitleCase, please contact o11c or Frost.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled content news.
Today we have introduced two new pieces.
First of all, the Orum extension is finished. Orum and his master Waric have set a new base to mess with Sagatha. Seek them out! They hide somewhere in the Caves north of Sagatha's Forests.
Someone has seen a few new spells being used. No one is yet sure what exactly it is but a dark aura has been percieved somewhere north of Hurnscald. Find it! Maybe you can gain something useful!
Last but not least we have to announce bad news for the project but good news for her: Jenalya has, after finishing the Orum extension, resigned from her position as Lead Content Developer. We dedicate this news to her and wish her only the very best for her future. She contributed beyond words and her leaving will leave a spot we will have to work hard to fill. Wushin and tux9th took over as Lead Content Developers and give their best to bring quality content to you, like Jenalya did.
-TMW Development Team

Wushin overhauled caves, Ferry now goes to Nivalis 2013-06-29
This release brings a few new additions to the game:
Wushin overhauled the desert caves with an awesome new cave tileset. Also the sewers below Tulimshar are now accessible. Make sure to check them out!
Malivox took the occasion to stop camping in the desert and moved into a small house south of Tulimshar.
Frozenbeard has expanded his ferry service in Nivalis. You can now go between Nivalis and the other major docks both ways. Proper docks for Nivalis are being worked on.
With a ferry now serving Nivalis, Dyrin will send you somehwere else in Kaizei instead, away from Nivalis.
As usual there are also a lot of smaller fixes and changes. Thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped fix these things!
-TMW Development Team

Double Exp and Drop Weekend 2013-06-07
This weekend we're temporarily doubling both the experience rate and the drop rates for all monsters, to give the chance to recover from the rollback we had due to filesystem corruption.
There are also some bug fixes and new content:
The craftsmen of Tulimshar have finally moved to the renovated Forge at the Northern Market, so the Wizard's Inn is back to offering a calm stay for visitors.
In the woodland area the mysterious Evil Obelisk which summons beings from the astral plane for the mundane price of gold has drastically reduced its demands.
On the technical side, in case of network congestion, you will no longer be kicked with an invalid packet error.
- TMW Development Team

Server Crash and Rollback 2013-06-05
We had a server crash, and had to restore everything from offline backup.
34 hours were lost, from about 17:30 (UTC) on 4 June to about 03:30 on 6 June. This affects the game, the forums, and the wiki.
We're going to set up hourly offsite backups of game, forum, and wiki data so that future outages are less painful.
-Frost

Small Bugfixes 2013-04-28
We're having a bugfix release today.
The main areas that have been fixed are Brodomir's PvP Cave and Orum's quest, both in the caves below Hurnscald.
Additionally, there were a lot of small fixes on maps, spelling and grammar, and more.
We'd like to thank all the people who reported issues and helped testing!
-Jenalya

Easter Event and Miley's Hero 2013-03-21
Today we have a content release.
As always there are a number of bugfixes, but also two new quests.
One of them is an annual Easter event created by Pjotr Orial. It lasts from March, 22th to April, 25th, and can be repeated every year. Watch out around Hurnscald for some hidden Easter Eggs!
The other quest is about the admiration of a little girl in Hurnscald that sees you growing from an inexperienced adventurer to an impressive hero. Backstage, this was also about a great community effort. veryape conceived of the idea for this quest and was able to make it happen with the help of many people who were assisting with the graphics, scripting, spell checking, testing and giving valuable feedback.
Lastly, Brodomir's cave under Hurnscald has been made easier for attracting fighters from all over the world.
-Jenalya