News

Technical problems in the past two days

Due to technical difficulties our server was temporarily down, we appreciate your patience in this matter.

We were able to fix this problem and our server is now up and running again. Thank you for your continued patience!

Server and client update

As you surely noticed already, we updated both, server and client today. The recent changes include a new weather system, displaying daylight and an (in game) watch along with other changes which are clearly visible. There are no "hidden" features this time.

The next version will bring so much improvement that it will no longer be compatible with the old client.

Bonus Level

I've hidden an easter egg on Illarion, a mysterious place you can only reach by... find out ingame! The first player who finds this place should drop me (Estralis) a note. Also, a treasure can be found there...

Server update

Almost a year has passed since we released the last server update; today, there will be a new one. We removed some bugs and implemented some features, mainly to support automated quests.

Release of the New Java Client

We are proud to announce that the very new Java client has been published on March the 3rd, 2006. Visit the download page and get the new one. Please note, that you will need an installed Java runtime, which is available on the website too. Afterwards just click the "Download / Install" button on the website and it will install 30 Megabytes of the new client initially. If we'll publish updates in the future so only the updates will be downloaded, never again the whole client as everytime before! This saves bandwidth for you and us and offers us the great opportunity to update much more than in the past. Okay, but what's inside the whole 30 MB?

• A lot of brand new and much nicer graphics (using alpha-blending, shadows, etc.) with a more coherent art style and much more variety.


• Smoother animations of characters and monsters along with a number of new animals


• Number of graphics are NOT limited anymore as before


• Compatible with almost all OS (Windows and Linux proofed, Mac will follow) instead of Windows only


• Improved controls (user interface at all, context menus, crafting menus, tooltips and so on)


• Complete, clear, new manual


• Client and manual speaks German and English


• Client can start in windowed OR full screen mode


• New features like a world map, speech modes, prepared text, book reader, intelligent login dialog and many more (see the manual!!)


• Much more stable on WinXP SP2! No more random kicks in the middle of doing things!


• Auto-Update feature enables the client to be fixed and grow continuously

The client has higher demands on hardware resources and needs decent openGL support, so it may be difficult to run it on some older graphics cards. A known issue with the current server is a timing problem that keeps you from login in occasionally. So please ignore the "old client" error message and try again to log in.

It's still possible to use the old client for a while, but you will miss all things above and experience less!

Come to the new world of Illarion and see, hear and feel the incredible change. The beginning of real further progress.