Hello everyone! Here is a quick update to outline our latest adjustments of the site's functions.

Forum Optimization:
The forums were causing a small portion of the lag due to additional checks that were not present during beta. This has been optimized to cache your settings so load time should reduce marginally throughout the site.

Latest Quest & My Stats Dropdowns:
The dropdown menus in Latest Quests and My Stats now need to be clicked in order to be viewed, this should reduce our server load as previously, they needed to call information from your account at every page refresh.

Additional optimization and performance adjustments will be made in the coming days!

Vaer Sea Forage Fix:

• The 5th minigame should be able to start without issue now, instead of freezing! Do test it out and let us know if it's fixed for you.
  

Adventuring Fixes:

• Duplicate sprite encounters should now be fixed and no longer occur!
• The pet affection and town hop bars should no longer wipe out when refreshing the page. Previously it was happening due to lag which caused the game to believe progress is at 0. A failsafe has been implemented for this. It may take a few moments in the current server load to load up your bar progress.
• The volume of adventuring should now start at a low volume by default which will prevent any harmfully loud audio glitches due to lag.
  

Pet Accessory Design Submission:

• Submitting an accessory design for approval no longer requires a pet accessory maker to be in your inventory, this was an oversight during testing that should be fixed now! Only applying an accessory to a pet should use up a Pet Accessory Maker.
  

Block Notifications:

• Block notifications have now been removed! We originally had this feature in place in order to prevent a blocked user from unknowingly circumventing a block, but we realized that it can create a point of confrontation between two users that is not our intention.
  

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For some of these updates, a Hard Refresh (Shift + F5) may be in order to clear the cache and reflect any changes made.
Thank you everyone for your bug reports, suggestions, and support! We'll be updating with more fixes as time goes on.
As always, feel free to report anything you find to the appropriate forums.