7.0

Summer Update 2002

Introduced the modern times client layout and many client features.

• The client layout was updated.
  • Multiple chat channels, with a resizable console and copy and paste functions.
  • Softscrolling and animated creatures and characters
  • Eight individual male and female outfits.
  • VIP list
  • Safe Trade
• Updated graphics, many by Mantus and Lord Ariakas.
  • See Old Sprites for version comparisons

20020828

7.01

• Talking
  • Spells will now always go to the default channel and thus be effective in the game
  • You can ignore yells and private messages by checking the corresponding boxes in the ignore dialog
  • You can start a conversation more quickly by double-clicking on the VIP list
  • The client now supports the complete ISO-8859-1 font, including all special characters

• Combat System
  • The Logout Block is prolonged for attacker and defender after every strike or shot, no matter if it hits
  • Players cannot summon or convince more than two monsters which will vanish when their master logs out or dies

• User Interface
  • During the login process, some information about the state of the connection is shown
  • No snapbacks any more when walking using the cursor keys
  • In the advanced graphics options, the framerate (and thus the processor usage) can be adjusted
  • The buttons for the combat tactics are coloured
  • The scrollbars will move repeatedly when keeping the arrows pressed

20021022

7.02

• Fix for ignoring other players not working
• Ignoring yells and private messages is now possible
• Fixed annoying bug "GUI 1085", which impacted some players from playing
• It is not possible to drag objects out of minimised Containers anymore

20021121

7.1

Christmas Update 2002

Introduced items with special attributes, Venore, private chat channels and tracking of deaths.

• There are now magic items, rings, amulets and other clothing which give special abilities like skill improvements or protection against against some types of damage.
• Venore was introduced, designed by Knightmare.
• A ship route between Darashia and Venore was introduced
• Rookgaard was expanded to the Southwest.
• The Oracle was introduced, allowing players to choose the city they go to.
• All deaths of players are now recorded with time and reason.
• Private Chat Channels were introduced.
• Writable documents were implemented.
• When a player loses their house, their belongings will be sent to their depot.

Further announced for the same patch on December 18, 2002:

• Fixed a bug in windows client which prevented some players from logging in.

Further announced for the same patch on February 21, 2003:

• Fixed bugs in the server code and minor weaknesses of the game.
  • Players will receive only 50% of the Experience Points of your summoned or convinced monsters from now on.
  • Players will miss one strike when changing tactics during a fight.
  • A mana shield will now also protect against life drain of Vampires and monsters alike.

20021217

7.11

Introduced many client bugfixes and minor features.

• It is no longer possible to enter an IP address in the network options, the client will now automatically try to connect to the login servers.
• Characters will not stop anymore if items are moved or used in the inventory while walking. Dropping items will still stop the character.
• Editing long texts will no longer cause client crashes.
• Premia was moved to a stronger server.

Further announced for the same patch on August 1, 2003:

• Fixed bugs on the map and corrected the behaviour of some non-player characters.

20030627

7.11 (2)

An small patch that introduced the premium area of Rookgaard.

• A premium area was added to the west of Rookgaard.
• Bugfixes related to the usage of items and the Levitate spell were done.

Further announced for the same patch on September 25, 2003:

• Changed some features in Tibia and fixed some bugs concerning game weaknesses and powergaming. Some of them have already been effective for a week, others are coming online today.
  • summoned and convinced monsters will no longer yield Experience Points. This also applies to children of monsters, e.g. Poison Spiders of Giant Spiders. Instead they will also die when their parent dies. The experience points of the parents have been risen adequately.
  • The behaviour of strong monsters has been changed.

20030903

7.2

Christmas Update 2003

Premium outfits, tutors, the skull system, and a quest system and a new area near Carlin were added.

• The Ghostlands and Ulderek's Rock were revamped.
• The Isle of the Kings was implemented.
• New outfits for premium account players, as well as improved graphics.
• A quest system was introduced.
• Monsters are smarter now, with more varied combat tactics.
• Automatic marking of aggresive players and player killers, known today as the Skull System.
• Tutors were implemented, players who like to help other players may become them.
• Automatic disconnection of idle players.
• The Amulet of Life was replaced by the Amulet of Loss and the original 5 Blessings were added to the game.
• Diagonal movement of characters and monsters was introduced (prior to this update it was only possible to move characters diagonally by pushing them).
• Cities now have their own backpack and bag colors.
• The Skull System was introduced.

20031216

7.21

Fixed and improved monsters behaviour

• Fixed some bugs and improved the behaviour of the monsters

20040121

7.23

Separate client version for the test server in preparation of version 7.24.

• Test client for the changes released in version 7.24

20040309

7.24

The party system and automatic bans for excessive player killing were introduced, among other changes.

• A new party system was introduced, to replace the old duel mode (green skulls).
• Characters who reach twice the amount of unjustified kills that are needed to get a red skull, will be banished or deleted automatically.
• New houses and quests were implemented.
• The Annihilator Quest, The Postman Quest, The Paradox Tower Quest and more quests were added.

20040315

7.26

Bugfixes and changes to the forum

• Namelocked characters and IP address banishments will prohibit forum usage
• Threads older than 30 days will be closed automatically
• Unused guild boards will be deleted if they have not been used for more than 30 days
• Improved forum performance

20040504

7.27

Longer Account Numbers and Revised Documentation

• Account numbers may now contain 6 or 7 digits
• Revised parts of documentation
  • Manual, quickstart, and FAQ have been updated, and should now provide enhanced information
  • First illustrations by graphic artist are now available in the manual section of vocations

20040722

7.3

Ankrahmun was introduced as well as an automatic spam control system.

• A new land and city has emerged in the continent of Darama. Now traveling south of the city Darashia to the Plague Spike a new mountain pass gives access to the desert on the other side and the city of Ankrahmun.
• Minor graphic changes were introduced.
• An automatic spam control system.
  • Only one message every two minutes can be send in the Advertising Channel.
  • A limit of messages that can be said within a certain period of times was implemented.
  • If you're muted from speaking in muted channels, you're also muted from casting spells.
• You can now buy and sell multiple items at the same time from NPCs.

Further announced on August 20, 2004, probably on a separate patch we could not specify:

• Fixed several smaller errors in the game.
• Revised the behaviour and strength of some monster races, with changed combat strengths of known monsters

20040811

7.35

Separate client version for the test server in preparation of version 7.4

• Test client for the changes released in version 7.4

20041210

7.4

Christmas Update 2004

Login queues, new furniture, skill bars and more were introduced.

• Login queues, from now on, you're placed on an automatic queue instead of having to retry and reintroduce your login information every time.
• New furniture was added to decorate houses, such as tapestries.
• Skill bars were added to the Skills window, allowing you to see your progress to the next level.
• Crystal Coins were added, allowing players to carry more money with less weight.
• The Djinns and many more creatures were added.
• Random monster hordes might now appear in certain areas.

20041214

7.41

Bugfixes

• Several minor bugfixes for the client have been made to increase reliability
• The login characters list will close after 30 seconds of inactivity

20050607

7.5

Summer Update 2005

The continent of Darama was extended by Tiquanda, measures against botters and macros were introduced, furniture packages, anti-luring and more.

• Tiquanda, an extension to the Darama continent was added.
  • The home town of Port Hope was added.
• Dark Cathedral was added.
• Worms are now needed to fish.
• Soul Points were introduced to limit rune-making.
• Furniture is now sold by NPCs in Furniture Packages
• Anti-Luring feature that causes monsters pulled too far from their spawn point to vanish.
• Spears now "break" instead of staying on the ground.
• Small Stones, Throwing Knives and Throwing Stars can now be reused multiple times.
• You can now walk over all stacked bigger objects like parcels, crates and chairs.
• You can no longer conjure magic fields on impassable objects.
• All boats and pyramids became protection zones.
• Non-offensive runes will automatically affect the user if there are more than one character standing on the field.
• Rope spots can no longer be blocked. You're always able to use a rope spot.
• You can now buy runes from NPCs.

20050809

7.55

A technical update in preparation for the coming Christmas 2005 update, version 7.5

• The durability of Spears, Small Stones, Throwing Knives and Throwing Stars is increased.
• Items or creatures that are roped up from a hole will now end up on the field the rope user is standing on.
• Weight's second decimal digit was added to server messages received after looking at an item.

20051116

7.6

Christmas Update 2005

The magic system was revamped, adding wands and rods, faster mana regeneration and more, as well as graphical improvements.

• The sprites of coastlines and mountains were improved.
• Wands and Rods were introduced, magical weapons for sorcerers and druids respectively.
• Mana regeneration was increased, but also the mana cost of spell was increased. However, instant spells will be cheaper.
• A level requirement was introduced to spells.
• Coloured light sources were added.
• Writable documents now show a label indicating who was the last person to edit it and the date.
• Deeper Banuta was added.

20051212

7.61

Separate client version for the test server in preparation of version 7.8

• Test client for the changes released in version 7.8

20060505

7.7

Technical Update 7.7

This introduced some client features, mostly about controlling messages.

• You can now select whether you want to show private messages on the game window or not.
• The white list was implemented, allowing you to only receive private messages from some players while ignoring the rest.
• Senior tutors are now able to report statements directly.
• Support for DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL was added.
• Players can report error messages directly to CipSoft via a dialog that pops up at the next login if their client crashes.

20060517

7.71

Bugfixes

• Removed minor technical problems with graphics engine

20060531

7.72

Bugfixes

• Fixed technical problems with the automap and autowalk

20060609

7.8

Summer Update 2006

The Shattered Isles, addons, improvements to the hotkey system, Stamina, skinning and dusting and the loot ownership system.

• The Shattered Isles were added to the game, composed of the isles of: Vandura, Meriana, Treasure Island, Forbidden Islands, Nargor and Calassa.
  • A new hometown, Liberty Bay.
• Creature corpses can only be opened in the first 10 seconds by the player that did the most damage. Corpses cannot be moved by anyone in this time frame.
• Spawn blocking only affects the current floor.
• Stamina was introduced.
• Added the ability to use runes through the battle window.
• A new hotkey system, allowing players to set if they want to use an item on themselves, the target or the selected area via crosshair.
• If a boat or carpet NPC is busy, players can say "Please bring me to city" to be transported without waiting.
• Now players can unlock and use addons for their outfits.
• It is now possible to skin or dust certain creatures.
• A lot of new creatures were added like Pirates and Quaras.

20060801

7.81

Bugfixes

• Fix for a display error of Premium Account days in the client
• The handling of the automatic character deletion has been changed:
  • All characters on free accounts are deleted if they are not used within a period of n months where n is equal to their level
  • Characters of level 20 or higher are no longer excepted
  • Once an account has not been used for 2 years all characters on it are deleted regardless of their level

20060829

7.82

Linux client release

• Official Linux client released

20061013

7.9

Christmas Update 2006

This update had Ab'Dendriel revamped, Pits of Inferno and Dream Realm added as well as the Bank System and Quest Log implemented, among other improvements.

• Ab'Dendriel was revamped, receiving a new tree wall set.
• Many Rookgaard caves were changed so players can't get stuck without a rope.
• Pits of Inferno was introduced.
• Dream Realm was introduced.
• Characters now receive an empty bag after their death if they backpack slot is empty.
• Poison damage when drinking slime has been reduced and it can no longer kill you.
• Adding "sounds" to eating.
• Revised NPCs on Rookgaard (beginner-friendly); it is not possible anymore to accidentally sell/buy an item
• All healers will heal the character even when busy
• Just like drinking, eating will also make a sound now.
• "Select Outfit" dialog displays the name of the outfit
• Writeable documents contain the date they had been written (both when "used" and "looked at")
• Scroll arrows for tabs of chat windows flash up and indicate when new text was written in chat windows currently being hidden
• "You are dead" dialog after character died (with option to re-login with same character)
• Rookgaard trade channel (only for no-vocation characters); senior tutors and above can open both trade channels
• Some raids now feature quests.
• Bank System introduced.
• The Quest Log.

20061212

7.92

10^th Anniversary Update

Added creatures and items related to the Tibia's 10th Anniversary event.

• Added creatures and items related to Tibia's 10^th Anniversary event.

20070108