ibia's economy has changed significantly over the years. Nowadays, various ways and sources allow players to acquire gold and make profit, much more than back in the days. Many players have accumulated considerable wealth over time. Yet, house rents have not been changed in all these years. By today's standards, they are incredibly low.

In order to address this situation, new rents for all houses, including flats and guildhalls, have been determined. They will become effective in April 2019, at the earliest. Of course, we will inform you about the concrete date as soon as it has been set.

All houses have been ranked based on their popularity and size. To gauge popularity, we have calculated the average auction price as well as the median auction price of each house across all regular game worlds since 2015. Additionally, we have also factored in the number of days a house has been rented since 2015.

Based on their rank, houses have been grouped into categories which determine the new monthly rent:

You can check the new monthly rents in the houses section, both in the list of all available houses and if you view a specific house.

We would like to emphasise that the new rents will become due in April at the earliest. Until then, the current rents will apply.

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Your Community Managers

ith today's server save, we have released a new client version. Among others, we changed the following:

• Minor adjustments were made to the hireling's dialog options.
• Hirelings react to the keyword trade from now on.
• Free accounts can no longer use the services of a hireling.
• Reduced weight of the hireling lamp to 0 oz.
• The positioning of the Dream Warrior outfit has been adjusted. 
• Fireworks rockets are no longer tradeable via the Market.
• An issue causing the client to crash under certain circumstances has been resolved.
• Players with an active protection zone block are no longer able to enter the "cleansing chamber" during the "Barkless" quest.
• Wilting leaf golem, stonerefiner and yielothax can now be rolled as prey monster.
• Goblin leader is now classified as very rare in the Bestiary.
• An issue, which sometimes disrupted the character's movement after using the Attack Next/Previous Target hotkey has been resolved.
• An issue which, under rare circumstances, prevented the Last Lorekeeper to spawn correctly, has been resolved.
• Climbing up ladders while having a creature corpse on the same field is now working again when you are using classic controls & right click for quick looting.
• Sinister book, ominous book and knowledgeable book are now inscribable and were added to the Cyclopedia. 
• Several minor map and NPC fixes.

Have fun,
Your Community Managers

ragons, those beautiful, majestic creatures! Noble and dangerous at the same time, they have long been a source of both horror and admiration within the Tibian population!

It is said that a Tibian never forgets his first dragon, but now it is time to stand up to the First Dragon!

Join the quest for valuable clues to this unique creature and find out more about Garsharak's son.

Only those who are clever enough to solve all puzzles and to overcome all obstacles shall be able to enter the secret dragon lair.

Between the server saves of January 14 and February 12, you have the opportunity to demonstrate your skills against various dragon species. Defeat the fearsome bosses and prove yourself worthy to face the First Dragon.

Dragons, dragons everywhere!
Your Community Managers

ellow Tibians,

as of February 05, we will raise the level requirement for all "of Destruction" weapons from 100 to 200 in order to address the current disproportion between the weapons' stats and the required character level to properly use them.

Players who have yet to reach the new level requirement should check if there are still imbuements left on their weapon(s) and make good use of them before the changes set in.

See you all in Tibia,
Your Community Managers

ith today's server save, we have released a new client version. Among others, we changed the following:

• The boss Grand Master Oberon is accessible again.
• We have temporarily disabled the Frame Rate Limit slider for the Mac client.
• The loot table of the crazed winter vanguard was slightly adjusted.
• Tibians can no longer be turned into snowmen while standing in a protection zone.
• Removed the protection zone block check from several portals and teleports that got implemented with the last winter update.

Have fun,
Your Community Managers

ext week, we will introduce a new product called Hireling to the Store.

The Hireling is a servant that can be placed in your house. In its apprentice state, the Hireling offers the inhabitants and visitors of the house a basic selection of home decor items as well as all exercise weapons for purchase.

Every house owner can place up to 10 Hireling Apprentices in his house, each at the price of 150 Tibia Coins. The name and gender of the Hireling can be determined at the time of purchase. Similar to your character, you can purchase an extra service in the Store in case you want to change your Hireling's name or sex afterwards. The Tibia Rules for names apply for Hireling names as well. However, Hireling names are not unique which means that the same name can be assigned to different Hirelings.

A Hireling Apprentice can be trained with additional skills which add more functionality to the Hireling. Those skills will be available in the Store and automatically apply to all purchased Hirelings:

	Banker Skill: For 250 Tibia Coins you can give your Hirelings the abilities of a regular banker (deposit, withdraw, transfer).
	Cooking Skill: For 900 Tibia Coins you can give your Hirelings the ability to cook random buff food for a fee.
	Steward Skill: For 250 Tibia Coins your Hirelings give characters access to their Supply Stash.
	Trader Skill: For 250 Tibia Coins you can give your Hirelings the abilities of a regular trader and post clerk (buying and selling standard goods such as runes, potions or tools).

While the banker, steward and trader skill are quite self-explanatory, we have prepared additional information on the cooking skill in the comment section. 

In case you are not satisfied with the visual appearance of your Hireling, you should take a look at the Hireling Dresses section in the Store. Besides matching outfits for each skill, there will be special outfits that will allow you to turn your Hireling into a ferumbras, a bonelord, a dragon or a hydra. Just like character outfits, the outfits are purely cosmetic and do not bestow any benefits.

Have fun,
Your Community Managers

ttention, fellow Tibians,

over the weekend, we have received an increasing number of reports from our players who signalled an ongoing abuse scenario concerning the loot distribution of different bosses. As a first countermeasure the access to the boss room of the Grandmaster Oberon was deactivated on Saturday, January 05.

Initial investigations and further in-depth analyses, however, could not substantiate the reports about an increase in falcon item drops or other rare items from various bosses that distribute their loot based on a participation system. Diagram Falcon Items demonstrates the amount of falcon item drops over the last few weeks, which are evenly distributed and indicate no alarming increase of drops.

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Tokens & Soul Stones Click to enlarge

An exception is the Percht Queen from the Winterlight Solstice Event. Diagram Tokens & Soul Stones shows an increase of gold and silver tokens since the beginning of the event. We deeply regret the problems resulting from this. We have removed the tokens from the Percht Queen's loot on Saturday, which stabilised the daily distribution to its usual rate.

Over the last few days, many questions came up concerning a potential reset: In order to revert the increased distribution of such tokens, a reset of all game worlds back to 22 December 2018 would be required, which we do not consider feasible. 

Going forward, we will refrain from adding items that are primarily aiming at mid-high level players to events that are accessible by players of all level ranges. For now, the current issues concerning silver and gold tokens have been addressed. In the long run, we will try to provide a technical solution to fix the current design weakness in the distribution system.

See you in Tibia,
Your Community Managers