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Pick the last Tibia version or year you remember, jump to that point, and scroll forward through the more notable updates since then.
Summer Update 2002
August 28, 2002
Safe Trade
There is now a dedicated interface to trade items with other players.
Christmas Update 2002
December 17, 2002
Items with stat bonuses and damage protection
Rings, amulets, and other gear start granting stat bonuses or damage protection.
Christmas Update 2003
December 16, 2003
Quest System
Quest rewards become properly tracked, so each character can only claim the intended reward once.
Blessings & Amulet of Loss
Blessings can be bought to reduce experience and skill loss upon death, while the Amulet of Loss can be used to not lose items on death. Combined, they replace the old Amulet of Life.
Diagonal movement
Characters and monsters can now move diagonally on their own, which changes chasing, kiting, pathing, and general PvP or hunting movement.
Update 7.24
March 15, 2004
Automatic banishments for Player Killing
Players going beyond the red skull threshold are automatically banned.
Removed: The automatic banishment and deletion system was replaced by black skulls.
Pvp-enforced Worlds
June 29, 2004
PvP-enforced
A new type of game world without a skull system. Players gain experience for killing higher-level players, and aggressive spells have a shorter delay. Amulets of Loss and blessings are not available in these worlds.
Removed: Later reworked and renamed to "Hardcore PvP" and later superseded by "Retro Hardcore PvP".
Christmas Update 2004
December 14, 2004
Crystal Coins
Worth 100 platinum coins, or 10,000 gold coins, allowing to easily carry larger amounts of money.
Login queues
Instead of repeatedly retrying logins by hand, crowded worlds now place players in an automatic login queue.
Summer Update 2005
August 9, 2005
Soul Points
An anti-cheat measure limits how many times you can use spells that create runes or conjure items. Earning experience is required to recover soul points, which combats bots sitting in protection zones making runes.
Anti-luring system
Monsters dragged too far from their spawn now disappear, which heavily cuts down old-school luring abuse and makes many hunts and cities safer.
Throwing weapons changes
Spears no longer drop at the target tile and instead return to your hand. All throwing weapons now have a chance of breaking, instead of always being consumed. Spears might now break as well.
Worms required for fishing
Anti-cheat measure to make botting fishing more difficult.
Furniture Kits
NPCs now sell furniture kits that can be unpacked into furniture, making housing decoration much more accessible.
Christmas Update 2005
December 12, 2005
Mana Regeneration Rework
Mana regenerates 4x faster than before and the cost of spells is adjusted accordingly. However, instant spells remained the same, allowing you to cast them faster.
Spells Level Requirement
Spells now have a level requirement instead of a magic level requirement.
Rods and Wands
These weapons inflict elemental damage at a low range, allowing mages to deal constant damage while consuming a small amount of mana.
Summer Update 2006
August 1, 2006
Stamina System
Players can hunt for up to 56 hours before they can no longer gain experience. Experience gain is halved during the last 14 hours. One minute of stamina is recovered for every two minutes you are logged off. Stamina only depletes while gaining experience.
Runes through the battle window
You can now click on a target in the battle window to use a rune on it.
Modern hotkey system
Hotkeys can now be set to use items on yourself, your target, or a selected area via crosshair, which becomes the basis of modern spell and item control.
Damage-based loot rights
For the first seconds after a kill, only the player who dealt the most damage can open the corpse, which largely kills classic loot stealing.
Skinning and dusting
Certain corpses can now be skinned or dusted for extra creature products.
Christmas Update 2006
December 12, 2006
Bank System
You can store your money in banks and make transfers, instead of storing your money in your depot. House rents are now paid from your bank account.
Quest Log
Quest progress becomes visible in-client, so progression is no longer as dependent on memory or handwritten notes.
Summer Update 2007
June 26, 2007
Damage Formula Rework
Melee and distance weapons damage generally raised, making skill level have a higher influence on damage. Magic level has a higher influence on spell damage.
Weapon Level & Vocation Requirements
Some weapons now require a minimum level to be "wielded properly". Only knights are able to use two-handed weapons, with the exception of staves and poleaxes.
New Distance Weapons & Ammo
New ammo options were added to compensate for the reduced spell damage to Paladins.
New Paladin Spells
Ethereal Spear, deals damage based on Distance Skill. Additionally, "Enchant Spear" was added, to upgrade spears to a stronger and more durable version.
New Knight Spells
New combat spells deal damage based on weapon attack and skill level: Fierce Berserk, a stronger version of Berserk; Groundshaker, a large area-of-effect spell; and Whirlwind Throw, a single-target distance spell for finishing off runners.
Christmas Update 2007
December 11, 2007
Shared Party Experience
Players in a party can activate experience sharing if they are within a certain level range and distance of each other. Experience is distributed equally among party members.
Elemental damage overhaul
Druids shift away from the old fire and energy dependence into earth and ice, paladins gain holy damage, death damage is added, and attack spells are reshuffled around those new elemental roles. A variety of elemental protection gear was added.
Wands and rods realigned to the new elements
Wands and rods are updated to match the new elemental setup, including new death options, so mage weapon choices start lining up with the new spell identities.
Enchanting system for weapons
Knights can temporarily enchant weapons to inflict elemental damage with their attacks and spells.
Removed: The enchanting system was replaced with imbuing.
Elemental Ammo
Elemental arrows were added, as a way for paladins to deal elemental damage with their attacks.
Strike spells lock onto your target
Strike spells now auto-focus your selected target instead of demanding the same manual aiming friction as before, bringing them in line with Whirlwind Throw.
New Potions
A variety of new potions were added, allowing knights to heal themselves more easily and as a way to recover mana during combat.
Rashid
New NPC that buys many different items, helping establish base prices for them and making it easier for players to sell them.
Update 8.11
April 8, 2008
Ultimate Health Potion
Knights level 130 and higher get a new potion healing around 750hp.
Great Spirit Potion
Paladins level 80 or higher get a new potion that restores around 300 hp and 150 mana simultaneously.
Summer Update 2008
July 2, 2008
NPC Channel
A dedicated channel for talking to NPCs, allowing multiple players to talk to them at once, as well as a keyword highlighting.
NPC Trade
No more typing item names and amounts, when you say "trade" to a shopkeeper, a trade window opens where you can see the items sold or bought and trade using a slider.
Equippable Spellbooks
Mages can now wear spellbooks as shields, offering defense and sometimes magic level bonuses.
Skill Enhancing Equipment
New equipment was added with boosts to skill levels, magic level, as well as more elemental protection equipment.
Winter Update 2008
December 10, 2008
Party Channel
A dedicated channel for party members to communicate privately. Additionally, the loot of all killed creatures is now displayed here, so everyone is informed of the loot.
Experience Share Bonus
An additional 20% experience is gained when hunting in a party with experience sharing active.
Party Spells
Each vocation gets a new spell that can only be used in a party, buffing all party members.
Wild Growth Rune
Wild Growth is now a rune instead of an instant spell. It still can only be used by druids.
Holy Missile
New rune for paladins, dealing holy damage. Can only be used by paladins.
Charge
Spell for knights that boosts their speed considerably for a couple of seconds.
Protector and Blood Rage
Knights got two new spells. Protector greatly boosts shielding for a few seconds, but prevents attacking during that time. Blood Rage greatly increases melee skills at the cost of defense. A knight can only learn one of the two at a time and must visit an NPC to switch.
Sharpshooter and Swift Foot
Paladins got two new spells. Swift Foot lets them move very quickly for a few seconds, but they cannot attack while it is active. Sharpshooter greatly increases distance skill, but lowers speed and prevents healing. A paladin can only learn one of the two at a time and must visit an NPC to switch.
Spring Patch 2009
March 18, 2009
Death Penalty Rework
The base death penalty percentage slowly decreases as you level up.
Blessings Rework
The cost of blessings now depends on character level. Additionally, blessings now reduce the probability of losing items on death, preventing it entirely if you have all of them.
Anti-Stairhop Delay
You cannot attack for 2 seconds after changing a floor level, teleporting or traveling with NPCs.
Stamina Bonus
Premium players get 50% more experience within the first hour of stamina. The maximum stamina was decreased from 56 to 42 hours. Additionally, the first hour of stamina takes 12 minutes per minute to regenerate.
Summer Update 2009
July 1, 2009
Server Log
A new channel dedicated for server events. The damage you take, the damage you deal and the loot of monsters will be displayed here.
Skull System Expansion
Automatic bans for excessive PKing are replaced by a 45-day black skull. Black-skulled characters take 100% PvP damage, respawn with 40 HP and 0 mana on death, cannot target unmarked players, and killer attribution expands to the last 20 damage dealers within 60 seconds.
Marriage System
You can now marry other players, receiving an engraved wedding ring and access to Meluna, the honeymoon island. Divorce is also possible, of course.
Autumn Patch 2009
November 5, 2009
War System
Two guilds in any world type can agree to have a war. A wager, time limit, and frag limit can be set. For the duration of the war, they can inflict damage on each other without interfering with the skull system in PvP worlds.
World Transfers
You can now pay to have your character moved to another world. You can only go to an equal or more restrictive PvP type, and you can only transfer once every six months.
PvP Types Realignment
Non-PvP renamed to Optional PvP, regular PvP renamed to Open-PvP, PvP-enforced renamed to Hardcore PvP. Players can stack on the same tile in Optional-PvP unless involved in a war. Killing players no longer yields experience in Hardcore-PvP.
Christmas Update 2009
December 9, 2009
Creature Products
Many creatures now drop lighter, stackable items that can be sold to NPCs. The skinning and dusting system introduced an early version of these.
Spring Patch 2010
March 17, 2010
Stamina Rework
The stamina bonus is now two hours, and stamina regeneration was boosted. With 14 hours of stamina or less, no loot is received anymore.
Summer Update 2010
June 30, 2010
Stackable Potions
Potions are now stackable and weights were adjusted to factor in the backpacks required to carry them.
Stackable Runes
Runes no longer have charges and are now stackable. Rune making spells simply create that count of runes. The weight of all runes has been adjusted to account for the backpacks that are no longer required.
Kick
Most captain NPCs can now offer you a kick from the vessel to prevent blocking/trapping.
Field Runes duration in Optional PvP
Field runes now last the same time as Open PvP worlds, making them an asset in these worlds.
Creatures no longer drop bags
Creatures no longer drop loot in bags, everything will be directly visible when opening the corpse.
Achievements
You can now earn achievements for performing certain actions or completing some quests.
Update 8.61
August 23, 2010
Beholders are now Bonelords
Creature name changed due to copyright claims from Dungeons & Dragons.
Gamemasters Removed
Gamemasters were removed from the game.
Autumn Patch 2010
September 22, 2010
New PvP Features
New PvP Features were introduced: Assisted Kill, Fair Fight Rules, PvP Blessing, Revenge Skull, Swapping Position If Trapped, PvP Stairhopping Delay, PZ On Demand Fix.
Winter Update 2010
December 8, 2010
Spell Cooldowns
Spells now have individual cooldowns as well as group cooldowns. No more spamming Hell's Core.
New Spells
Many spells were added, including spells that cure or inflict status conditions, more strike spells, and stronger versions of existing spells.
Spells Vocations Alignment
Knights can no longer use Light Healing. Paladins can no longer use Ultimate Healing, Magic Shield, Food, or Invisible, but they gain Cancel Invisibility. Druids can no longer use Death Strike, and Undead Legion is removed.
Tasks and World Quests
A series of world quests were implemented, such as: A Piece of Cake, A Pirates Death to Me, Bewitched, Demons Lullaby, Last Creep Standing and The Colours of Magic.
Mounts
Mounts can be unlocked by completing certain quests or taming certain monsters. They provide a speed bonus equivalent to 10 levels.
No more roping creatures
It is no longer possible to rope wild creatures through holes.
Stack!
Players are able to pass through other players in protection zones on all game world types.
White UH
The colors of Intense Healing and Ultimate Healing runes were changed from gray and dark blue, respectively, to white to prevent abuse.
Update 8.71
January 27, 2011
Game Codes
Game codes are 20-digit codes consisting of numbers and letters that can be bought from official resellers and used as a payment method for Premium Scroll packages, account name changes, character name changes, character sex changes, or character world transfers.
Spring Patch 2011
April 20, 2011
Inventory limitations
The hand slots are now exclusively for a weapon on the left and a shield on the right. The arrow slot only holds ammunition and certain light sources.
Update 9.00
June 9, 2011
Flash Client Beta
This update released the official Beta Flash Client. An export option was added to the old client.
Removed: Replaced by Tibia 11, a new client written from scratch.
Summer Update 2011
July 6, 2011
Dying in Rookgaard
From this point, players do not lose items anymore when dying in Rookgaard.
World Changes
This update implemented world changes, such as Awash, Demon Wars, Horses, Mages Tower, Thornfire.
Autumn Patch 2011
September 27, 2011
Grizzly Adams revamp
A total of 100 points can be obtained. New task brackets have varying difficulty and availability, along with new bosses and achievements.
Winter Update 2011
December 14, 2011
Depot locker overhaul
The depot locker no longer holds items and is now divided into 3 spaces: Depot Chest, Inbox and Market.
Market
This new interface allows players to easily buy and sell items without the need to be online.
Inbox
This is where you will receive items sent to you through the mail system and market.
Mini World Changes
Unlike the regular World Changes, the Mini World Changes suffer no influence from players and can happen any day. Examples are Bank Robbery, Down the Drain, Kingsday, Noodles is Gone, Yasir.
Spring Patch 2012
April 3, 2012
Summons leave no corpse
Player and creature summons no longer leave corpses when they die.
Update 9.54
June 13, 2012
Premium Scrolls
A new way to acquire premium time. You could store a scroll as an item and, under some circumstances, transfer it to another player.
Removed: Replaced by Tibia Coins.
Summer Update 2012
July 11, 2012
Offline Training
You can now gain skills or magic level while offline. Training schools were added in every city for premium players.
No House Trashing
It is no longer possible to throw items into houses you are not invited to.
Infernal Bolts Buffed
The attack value of Infernal Bolts was raised from 42 to 72.
Autumn Patch 2012
October 10, 2012
Offline Training in Bed
You can now select a skill to train when sleeping on a bed.
Global Inbox
You have a single Inbox in your depot, accessible from any city, instead of different ones per city.
Winter Update 2012
December 12, 2012
Speed Formula Changes
The new formula favors characters under level 175, while higher-level characters will notice a decrease.
Creature AoE Changes
Creatures no longer hit each other with offensive spells and no longer affect players with support spells.
Low Level Regeneration
Players below level 150 will have a much faster health regeneration rate.
Update 9.84
April 4, 2013
Browse Field
You can now right click a tile and select Browse Field to see every item in that space, allowing you to access items in it.
Update 10.00
June 5, 2013
PvP Modes
4 new PvP modes were added to the client. Dove Mode only lets you attack or block characters that have attacked you. White Hand Mode additionally lets you attack members of your guild or party. Yellow Hand Mode only lets you block characters with a skull and attack them if they are not in your guild party. Red Fist Mode blocks every character and lets you attack any character not in your party or guild.
PvP frames
Characters in PvP now get colored frames: yellow if they are in an active fight with you or your side, orange if they attacked your party or guild, and brown if they are in a PvP fight you are not part of.
PvP interaction restrictions
You can no longer heal monsters or swap positions with trapped players, and you can shoot or heal through magic walls that are not yours as long as you do not have a yellow frame.
Guild and danger markers
Guild members now show golden or silver shields, other parties show faded party shields, and characters with 5 or more guild or party members online gain a dangerous marker. PvP visibility becomes much easier to read at a glance.
Summon Indicator
An indicator has been added to show whether a summon belongs to you (green) or someone else (red).
Update 10.01
June 12, 2013
Optional PvP interaction changes
Runes can again be aimed onto occupied squares, magic walls and wild growth now vanish when stepped into outside war blocking rules, and you can no longer attack or get damaged by your own summons.
Open PvP AoE through walls
Area attacks now reach characters standing inside magic walls or wild growths, so those fields stop acting as safe pockets against incoming AoE damage.
Hardcore PvP stack damage and movement
Characters in a stack can now fully deal and receive damage, and snap-backs from bumping into other characters are removed.
Update 10.02
June 19, 2013
Hardcore PvP protection-zone pass-through restored
Following the 10.00 PvP rule-set changes, characters on Hardcore PvP worlds can once again pass through each other inside protection zones, restoring the behavior introduced in 8.70.
Summer Update 2013 Part 2
September 18, 2013
Boss reward system
Bosses start using a personal reward system instead of dropping everything into one corpse, which changes how groups approach shared boss kills and removes most classic reward stealing.
Improved boss AI
Boss encounters begin moving away from simple stationary tank-and-spank fights, with smarter behavior and environment-based mechanics.
Update 10.21
October 29, 2013
Smart Click
Smart Click adds context-sensitive mouse actions and customizable mouse controls to the Flash Client, changing how movement, interaction, and combat inputs can be handled.
Removed: The original Smart Click feature was tied to the Flash Client, but the concept later returned in the Tibia 11 client.
Winter Update 2013
December 11, 2013
Umbral Creation
Umbral Creation adds a new item-progression loop: players can use collected materials to create or refine Umbral weapons instead of relying only on direct boss or creature drops.
Update 10.34
January 29, 2014
Shovel and pick holes can no longer be blocked
Shovel and pick holes now open even if another player is standing on them. That removes a common griefing tactic, especially in places like Pits of Inferno where players could previously block progression entirely.
Update 10.36
February 26, 2014
Summons can no longer trap stacked players
Players trapped in a stack can now kill blocking summons.
NPC Speech Bubbles
NPCs now show speech bubbles above their heads to help players indicate their purpose.
Summer Update 2014
July 7, 2014
Party Experience Share Bonus
Shared experience now gives a base 20% bonus, plus 10% with 2 vocations, 40% with 3 vocations, and 80% with 4 vocations. Mixed-vocation parties become much better than stacking the same class.
Update 10.51
July 22, 2014
Express Character World Transfer
Characters can now use an express world transfer option that costs twice as much as a normal transfer, without having to wait the usual period between transfers.
Update 10.53
August 26, 2014
Redesigned unjustified-kill system
Open PvP gets a clearer frag system: red-skull threshold drops from 20 unjustified kills to 5, the client adds a PvP progress bar, PvP mode display is simplified, and stacked players can attack any skulled character.
Update 10.55
September 15, 2014
Dawnport replaces Rookgaard
New characters now start on Dawnport by default instead of Rookgaard, so the early-game onboarding path is no longer the one many returning players remember.
Removed: Replaced by Newhaven.
Adventurer's Blessing
Characters on Open PvP worlds are protected from PvP death loss until level 21, unless they start PvP themselves first.
Hotkey presets
The stand-alone client can now save hotkey presets, making it much easier to switch between setups instead of rebuilding bars and shortcuts manually.
Winter Update 2014
December 10, 2014
Guildhall Depots
Guildhalls now have a depot in them.
Guild Banks
Guilds now have a bank account to share money with the guild. All members can deposit money, only leaders can withdraw and transfer money.
Expanded Guild management
Guilds gain automatic guild chat on login, guest invites, guild messages, events, applications, and a 30-day activity log, making in-game guild organization much more structured.
Non-blockable creature spawns
Many monsters can now spawn even when players are on screen, which reduces spawn-blocking and changes how some hunting spots work.
Update 10.73
January 20, 2015
No more healing while hiding
It is no longer possible to heal players from a protection zone while they are unjustifiably attacking other players on Open PvP worlds.
Update 10.74
January 27, 2015
Loyalty System
You get one loyalty point for premium day passed. Every 360 points you receive a 5% bonus on your base skills, up to 50% bonus.
Update 10.76
March 3, 2015
Equip Hotkeys
You can now set a hotkey to equip or unequip an item.
Summer Update 2015
July 15, 2015
Tibia Coins & Store introduced
The Store was introduced, along with its own currency, the Tibia Coin, allowing players to buy products with real money.
Winter Update 2015
December 8, 2015
Global Depot
You now have a single depot accessible from any city. The existing city depots were converted into numbered boxes.
Immediate Skinning and Dusting
You no longer have to wait 10 seconds to be able to skin or dust the corpses of creatures you kill. Note that this makes the corpse's state to change, making it accessible to be looted by anyone, so looting first is recommended.
PvP Arena
An arena system was implemented, making it possible to have PvP fights without suffering a death penalty.
Update 10.92
April 12, 2016
More Potions!
Ultimate Mana Potion (mages over level 130), Ultimate Spirit Potion (paladins over level 130), Supreme Health Potion (knights over level 200)
Summer Update 2016
May 31, 2016
Chargeable Weapons
A set of weapons that can be charged in exchange for Gold Tokens, adding new effects such as critical hits, life leech and mana leech.
Removed: Replaced by the imbuing system.
NPCs now accept bank transfers
Premium players may now purchase goods and services from NPCs directly using the balance from their bank accounts. Your cash will be used first, and if you do not have enough, the rest will be taken from your bank account. When selling items, they will still pay you in cash.
Mana Recovery Numbers
You will now see a number showing how much mana you recovered from drinking a potion.
Monster Arena
Teams of up to 5 premium players might now take on the challenge of defeating waves of monsters. These monsters yield no experience and have no loot. There is no death penalty for dying in the arena.
Removed: Replaced by the Tibiadrome.
Pay to Win
XP boosts were added to the Store, allowing you to pay real money for a 50% increase. The Gold Pouch provides unlimited coin storage constrained only by your capacity, while the Gold Converter converts gold to platinum and platinum to crystal coins.
Tibia 11
September 13, 2016
New Tibia Client
A brand new client, with many new features and quality of life improvements, bringing many of the Flash Client features over.
Winter Update 2016
December 6, 2016
Imbuing
Equipment can now be enhanced with effects such as skill boosts, life leech, mana leech, and critical hit chance. Unlike previous systems, imbuements can be applied to a large number of existing items instead of requiring specific sets.
Prey System
You can now pick a creature from a random selection and receive a special bonus when hunting them.
Bank Transfers for All
Free account players can now buy items and services from NPCs using their bank balance.
Update 11.30.4868
April 25, 2017
Enhanced Blessings
Two additional blessings have been added to further reduce the death penalty.
Action Bars
You can now add up to two action bars to the client. You can assign any action and corresponding hotkeys to these bars. They also display a timer animation to represent cooldowns.
Summer Update 2017
July 25, 2017
New Summon Spells
Each vocation gets their own summon. Unlike regular summons, these do not "steal" experience from the player and are teleported if the player gets too far or changes floors. They require level 200 and can only be used once every half hour, the summon lasting 15 minutes. They were later renamed to familiars.
New Ammo
Paladins may now conjure two new types of ammo: Spectral Bolts (superior damage) and Diamond Arrow (AoE damage). Initially, these could only be obtained via these spells and they expired in 60 minutes.
Wand of Darkness
Conjure Wand of Darkness replaced the old Enchant Staff spell. It creates a death-damage wand that lasts 15 minutes or 250 shots. At the time, it was the highest death-damage weapon in the game, available as early as level 41.
Persistent Challenge
Challenge now actually prevents retargeting for 6 seconds, as well as preventing creatures from fleeing when in low health.
Daily Rewards
You can obtain daily rewards through rewards shrines placed in temples. In addition to the daily rewards, keeping a streak will grant you bonuses on "resting areas", such as generating hitpoints, mana, stamina or soulpoints.
Update 11.49.6018
November 21, 2017
Exiva no longer the essence of Tibia
You can now control who is able to use the "Find Person" spell on you in Optional PvP worlds. You can allow party members, guild members, characters in your VIP list or specific characters or guilds.
Winter Update 2017
December 5, 2017
Capacity Imbuements
New imbuements to raise the character capacity have been added for containers.
Quick Looting
An option to "Loot All" was added to loot all items in a corpse, as well as "Loot Click" options to loot individual items. You can select to which container the items go based on their category.
Bestiary
A new system to keep track of how many times you have killed a creature. Killing it unlocks more information and the possibility of assigning a charm to it. Not all creatures are in the bestiary, and kills before this update are not retroactively counted.
Charms
A new type of bonus that you can assign to creatures you have completed in the bestiary. Charms can offer offensive, defensive, or passive bonuses, such as an additional critical hit chance.
Update 11.73.6703
April 24, 2018
Training Dummies
A new way to train skills. You can purchase exercise weapons from the Tibia store or from NPCs. Use them on an exercise dummy to start training. Dummies to place in houses and guildhalls are also available.
Summer Update 2018
July 3, 2018
Supply Stash
A place to store stackable items in your depot for premium players. Right click menus in the depot allow automatically stowing items in a container or individual items. You can see items filtered by category and withdraw as many as you want.
Cyclopedia Map
A new section in the Cyclopedia was added. Exploring an area and discovering points of interests unlocks more information, as well as notifications for upcoming raids.
Update 11.90.7293
September 11, 2018
Permanent Respawn Speed Increase
The speed at most of the monsters respawn in Tibia was increased.
Area bonus donation system
Players can donate gold to an area in the Cyclopedia. The area with the most donations receives a respawn bonus until the next server save. A randomly selected second area also receives a bonus.
Winter Update 2018
December 3, 2018
Supply Stash NPC Filters
New filtering options were added, allowing you to filter by NPCs that buy the items, such as Yasir.
Colorized Loot Value
Based on the gold value defined in the Cyclopedia, which can be the average market value, NPC value, or a custom value, items are now highlighted with a colored frame or corner. Loot messages also use these colors.
Boosted Creature
Every server save, a random creature will be selected to receive an experience, loot and respawn speed bonus until the next server save.
Hirelings Patch
January 15, 2019
Hirelings
You may now purchase an NPC to place in your house that sells basic decorations and items. Additional skills such as Banker, Cooking, Steward, and Trader can also be purchased.
Update 12.15.8493
May 21, 2019
Tournaments
Special game worlds hosted tournaments with unique rules, such as different experience rates and a point system based on player actions. Tournament Coins and a set of exclusive rewards were also added.
Removed: Removed in 2021 due to low popularity.
Update 12.20.8834
July 29, 2019
Depot Search
You can now search items in your inbox, stash and depot, making it much easier to find specific items without digging through boxes.
Party List
New widget that lets you track health and mana of members in your party, even if they are not on screen. It contains filtering and sorting options.
Battle Lists
Premium players can now open additional battle lists, with their own filtering options and the option to rename them.
Update 12.30.9287
December 2, 2019
House Management in Client
You can now bid, leave or sell a house through the client interface. A new "Houses" tab was added to the Cyclopedia.
Beds
Houses no longer include beds but instead have a bed limit. You can buy beds for your home and arrange them as you like.
Multiple houses per character
You can own multiple houses per character. You are still limited to three houses per account. You may only bid on one house per account at a time.
Hunting Tasks
Pick from a list of creatures and receive a task to kill a certain amount of them. You also receive a random bonus from the creature. Completing the task rewards you with Hunting Task Points that can be exchanged for special prizes.
Party Hunt Window
A new widget was added to the client, allowing you to track the contribution of each player in a hunt, the value of supplies used, as well as the loot gathered by each player.
Update 12.31.9640
March 31, 2020
Stamina Changes
Stamina bonus hours were increased from two to three. The regeneration rate of green stamina was changed from 10 seconds to six seconds per second of stamina.
Summer Update 2020
July 13, 2020
New Charms
Divine Wraith (chance to deal holy damage), Vampiric Embrace (life leech) and Void's Call (mana leech) were added.
Updated Charms
Gut now increases creature product yield by 20% instead of 10%, Scavenge increases skin/dust success rate by 25% instead of 10% and Bless reduces death penalty by 10% instead of 3%.
Team Finder
A new system lets you create a notice when you are looking for a team for hunts, bosses, or quests.
Character Bazaar
August 25, 2020
Character Bazaar
A new way to legitimately buy and sell characters from other players.
Vocation Adjustments 2020
November 23, 2020
Crippling Spells for Sorcerers
Sap Strength reduces the damage done by creatures in an area, while Expose Weakness increases the elemental damage taken by creatures in an area.
Removed: Replaced in the Vocation Rebalance 2026 by Aura of Exposed Weakness and Aura of Sapped Strength.
Great Fire Wave
A more powerful Fire Wave with a bigger area. Still weaker than Energy Wave.
Restoration
A new healing spell for mages, stronger than Ultimate Healing.
Nature's Embrace
A stronger version of "Heal Friend", with a one minute cooldown.
Fair Wound Cleansing
A stronger version of Wound Cleansing that heals approximately twice as much health.
Chivalrous Challenge
A new knight spell that makes up to five creatures retarget the caster and prevents them from using distance attacks for 12 seconds.
Divine Dazzle
New Paladin spell that makes up to 3 creatures in a 6 sqm range unable to use distance attacks for 8 seconds, without changing their target.
Magic Shield reworked
Magic Shield now only absorbs a limited amount of damage before breaking, based on the caster's level and magic level. If this limit is reached, the spell is canceled. Drinking a mana potion will not restore the damage limit. Casting the spell again replenishes the damage limit, but its cooldown was increased to 14 seconds. The duration was decreased to 60 seconds.
Energy Ring forbidden to mages
Mages can no longer use energy rings. The classic functionality of Magic Shield still applies.
Cancel Magic Shield
A way to disable Magic Shield now that energy rings were removed from mages.
Diamond Arrows and Spectral Bolts now sold in stores
The spells to conjure these ammo types were removed as well as their expiration times. They can now be purchased in stores.
Switching Ultimate and skill buff spells removed
You no longer need to have Zoltan switch your spells, you can now have all the spells active at the same time, but they still share a cooldown.
Imbueable bows and crossbows
Bows and crossbows can now be imbued with elemental damage imbuements. The imbuements do not apply when using Diamond Arrows.
Quivers
A new container type for paladins that is equipped in the shield hand. Ammunition is only fired from the quiver.
Knights Improvements
The base damage of all their spells was increased. Blood Rage now increases all damage the knight receives by 15%. Protector now reduces all damage the knight receives by 15% and no longer prevents them from attacking, but reduces its damage by 35%.
Winter Update 2020
November 30, 2020
Damage Input Analyzer
A new widget in the client that shows statistics on the damage you receive.
Quick Looting extension
You can now quick-loot up to 30 corpses on the same field with a single click.
Summer Update 2021
July 12, 2021
Specialized magic level item attributes
Some items now might raise magic level only for specific spell types, like "fire magic level +1".
Cleave effect
Some items might have a cleave attribute, allowing the player to damage up to two additional creatures for a certain percentage.
Magic Shield capacity item attribute
Some items might raise the magic shield capacity by a flat amount and a percentage.
Perfect Shot
Some items might boost ranged attacks, dealing additional damage when the target is at a specific distance.
Damage Reflection
Some items might reflect a percentage of damage received back to the attacker.
Additional Action Bars
You can now add up to 3 additional action bars per side to the client, for a total of 9 bars.
Outfit Presets
As part of the improvements to the outfit window, you can now save outfit and mount combinations to easily switch between them.
Tibiadrome
A wave-based PvE arena with scaling difficulty, combat modifiers, leaderboards, and seasonal rewards.
Winter Update 2021
November 29, 2021
Exaltation Forge
A new system to enhance your items with special attributes using dust and slivers obtained from killing influenced and fiendish creatures. New attributes include Onslaught, which adds a chance to deal 60% bonus damage in addition to critical hits; Ruse, which provides a chance to completely avoid damage from an attack; and Momentum, which grants a chance every two seconds to reduce all existing spell cooldowns.
Influenced and Fiendish creatures
Variations of common creatures may spawn. Influenced creatures are stronger than their regular counterparts and drop dust when killed. Fiendish creatures are even stronger and carry both dust and slivers. They are considerably rarer and can be tracked using the new "Find Fiend" spell.
Summer Update 2022
July 18, 2022
Charges and duration indicators
Items with charges or duration now have a visual indicator on the item icon, showing how many charges are left or how much time is left before it expires.
Bosstiary
Keeps track of how many bosses you have killed and rewards you for progressing through the list.
Boosted Boss
Similar to Boosted Creature, a random boss is selected every server save to receive a bonus. During this day, killing this boss counts as three kills in the bosstiary and the boss will carry more equipment than usual. Also its cooldown will be reset for every character.
Boss Cooldowns Widget
A new client widget that displays when you are able to kill a boss again.
Buy/sell up to 100,000 items
The limit of stackable items has been raised from 100 to 100,000. Additionally, a search field has been added to filter NPC item offers.
Sound Update
September 27, 2022
Sounds!
The game now has sound, including background music for all 20 areas, environmental sounds, spell sounds, creature sounds, combat sounds, UI sounds, and message sounds.
Damage and Healing Scaling per Level Update
October 18, 2022
Damage scaling reduction for higher levels
Starting above level 500, damage and healing gain one point at progressively larger level intervals.
Winter Update 2022
November 28, 2022
Imbuements Widget
A new client widget that displays the remaining time of imbuements of your equipment.
Wheel of Destiny
Starting from level 51, promoted characters get one promotion point per level to spend on the new Wheel of Destiny. The Wheel of Destiny offers a variety of bonuses and perks.
Mitigation
A new defensive property on all characters and creatures that reduces all incoming damage by a certain percentage. In the case of characters, this value is calculated from their shielding skill, the defense value of the shield or spellbook equipped or the weapon if not using a shield and the combat stance.
Protector adjusted
Now raises Shielding by 135% instead of 220%. Due to the addition of Mitigation, the spell is still expected to be greater than before.
Update 13.14.13146
April 21, 2023
Blessings Price Increase
Starting from level 120, the price increases by an additional 75 gp per level for regular blessings and 100 gp per level for enhanced blessings.
Summer Update 2023
July 10, 2023
Wheel of Destiny presets
You can now save Wheel of Destiny configurations and switch between them. A planner tool was added to the website to allow players to preview and plan their wheel.
Loot Highlight
An animation is displayed on corpses that have not been looted yet, helping you not miss any loot.
Update 13.21.13810
August 22, 2023
Exercise Shield
A new type of exercise weapon for training shielding. It works identically to the other exercise weapons and is available in all the same variations.
Summer Update 2024
July 1, 2024
Quick Loot Nearby Corpses
Loot all 9 tiles around you and below you with a single interaction. Assignable to a hotkey.
Price Increases
To compensate for the increase in looting efficiency, the price of many supplies was raised, including exercise weapons, potions, and runes.
Quick Sort Container
You can now sort items within a container by different attributes like name, weight, and expiry. Similar items are grouped before expiry sorting, and sorting can recurse through contained containers.
Fragment Workshop
Gem Mods can now be upgraded from Grade I to IV in the Wheel of Destiny using gold and fragments. Fragments come from smashing unrevealed gems or dismantling revealed ones, and can also be traded or bought from jewelry NPCs. A Mod grade applies to every copy of that Mod on your gems, though it is limited by earlier Mod grades and the vessel's Resonance level. Fully upgrading a Mod to Grade IV grants a permanent Wheel of Destiny Promotion Point. The Gem Atelier can hold up to 600 gems.
Soulpit
The Soulpit is a wave-based challenge with smoother difficulty scaling, more creatures per wave, and an experience reward at the end. Supplies used inside are consumed. Soul prisms from fiendish creatures can transform a soul core into a higher-difficulty core, while using one soul core on another rerolls it into a random core.
Animus Mastery Rewards
Mastering creatures through the Soulpit now grants an experience bonus when fighting those creatures. Building Animus Mastery across more creatures increases this bonus further.
Faster Single-Target Spells
The group cooldown for single-target spells is reduced, allowing Annihilation and the Ultimate elemental strikes to be cast more frequently.
Beam Mastery Improvement
The Beam Mastery Revelation Perk now increases damage for every target hit by a beam, instead of only the first three.
Free Account Expansion
October 8, 2024
Yalahar open to Free Accounts
Free accounts can now access this city. Only the surface of the Sunken Quarter is accessible. Fenrock, Mistroc, Vengoth are still limited to premium accounts only.
Limited Offline Training for Free Accounts
Free accounts can now train their skills at a reduced rate and only up to a maximum level.
Boats for all
Free account players can now use boats to travel between free account cities.
Spells for Free accounts
The following spells are now available to free accounts: Magic Rope, Levitate, and Haste; Brutal Strike for knights; Ethereal Spear for paladins; and basic strike spells for mages.
Winter Update 2024
November 25, 2024
Stash more items
Weapons, equipment, amulets and rings with full charges or time can now be stored in the supply stash.
Supply Stash for all
Your Supply Stash becomes available to free account players and won't count toward the depot limit.
Charm system rework
Charms are now split into Major and Minor charms, and it is now possible to assign one Major charm and one Minor charm on a given creature at the same time. Charms can be upgraded now. More charms were added.
Tiered boots amplify other tiered gear
Boots can now be tiered, and their Amplification bonus increases the trigger chance of your other tiered items. That makes boots part of the forge meta instead of a dead slot in tiered builds.
Quest log overhaul
The quest log becomes much easier to use: quests and missions are visible side by side, and you can search, sort, pin, hide, and filter completed entries instead of digging through a clunky list.
Quest tracker cleanup
The quest tracker now auto-adds accepted quests, auto-removes completed ones, supports pinning and quick jump-to-log, and keeps active questing much less messy on screen.
Monk Vocation Update
April 8, 2025
Monk Arrives
The fifth vocation enters the game as a fist-fighting support and damage dealer with its own mechanics, items, spells, and Wheel nodes.
Summer Update 2025
July 21, 2025
Weapon Proficiency
Level up your weapons by using them, unlocking perks to enhance them.
Imbuing Improvements
All imbuements now have a 100% success rate, and you can create imbuement scrolls to store and trade imbuements more easily.
Special Conditions Display
You can now display special conditions on the game screen, making it easier to track them during combat.
Critical Hits
All players have a default critical hit chance of 5% and 10% critical extra damage.
Newhaven Update
October 21, 2025
Newhaven replaces Dawnport
Players start in a basic tutorial and then choose between going to Rookgaard or Newhaven, where they select their vocation. Upon reaching level 8, players can leave for the mainland.
NPC Dialogue Interface
Talking to an NPC now opens a new game window with clickable keywords and shortcut buttons for actions like trading, bank actions, etc.
Lighter gold coins and flasks
Gold coins now weigh 0.01 oz instead of 0.1 oz, and empty potion flasks are much lighter too: regular flasks drop to 0.75 oz, strong flasks to 1.00 oz, and great flasks to 1.35 oz.
Rooking no longer possible
Returning to Rookgaard after reaching the mainland is no longer possible. Related achievements have been modified to remain accessible to everyone.
Winter Update 2025
November 24, 2025
Bounty Tasks
The Task Board now gives you repeatable creature hunts that pay bounty points for permanent Bounty Ring upgrades, turning hunting tasks into a long-term grind for more damage, loot, and Bestiary progress on your current target.
Weekly Tasks
A separate Monday-reset task track adds weekly kill and delivery objectives that pay XP, hunting task points, and soulseals, giving players another routine reward loop and more access to solo Soulpit fights.
Spell Opacity
You can now adjust the opacity of spell effects, with separate sliders for your own spells, other players' effects and creature spell effects.
Multiaction Button
You can create action bar buttons that perform multiple actions. When pressed, a button fires the first configured action that is off cooldown.
Use at cursor position
A new targeting option for hotkeys lets you use items at the cursor position, such as shooting AoE runes at the cursor.
Auto-learn Spells Update
January 27, 2026
Spells available automatically
All spells become available the moment you reach the required level. New unlocked spells are announced via a banner message. NPCs no longer teach spells.
Targuna Update
March 17, 2026
Targuna
A new location added for characters after Newhaven. Guided experience from level 8 to 20.
Shared Experience on by default
Parties will now have shared experience turned on by default.
Vocation Adjustments 2026
June 16, 2026
AoE Runes Balanced
All four elemental damage AoE runes now have the same base power of 50.
Explosion Rune increased range
Its range was increased from 5 to 9 squares.
Combat Modes removed
Offensive, Balanced and Defensive modes were removed. To compensate for this, the attack of all characters was increased by 20%, the defense value of all shields was increased by 30% and spellbooks by 60%.
Great Mana Potion
Now available for all vocations.
Superior Mana Potion
New potion for mages and monks above level 100.
Distilled Potions
Distilled Superior Mana Potion and Distilled Ultimate Mana Potion added. They restore the same as their non-distilled counterparts but they are available for all vocations. They have a higher level requirement and cost 50% more.
Energy Ring nerfed
It now consumes 2 mana per point of damage, instead of 1. For example, a 300 damage hit will now deplete your mana by 600.
Healing Runes nerfed
Ultimate Healing Rune and Intense Healing Runes can no longer be used on other characters.
Rods and Wands improved
Some Strike imbuement limitations were removed, their ranges were increased and they now generate mana instead of consuming.
Knight Stances
Blood Rage and Protector are now stance spells available after promotion. Blood Rage grants a 30% melee skill bonus and a 15% damage bonus, while Protector grants a 30% shielding bonus and a 15% reduction in damage taken.
Shield Bash and Shield Slam spells for knights
New spells that scale their damage based on the defense value of the equipped shield. They also reduce the affected targets next auto attack damage by 50%. Shield Bash hits the current target, while Shield Slam hits all adjacent enemies.
Other knight changes
Knight healing spells now scale better with magic level and shielding and their cooldown is now 2 seconds. Chivalrous Challenge and Front Sweep received minor changes and their Wheel of Destiny was adjusted as well.
Paladin Stances
Sharpshooter is now a stance spell, along with a new stance: Divine Defiance. Sharpshooter grants a 40% distance fighting bonus. Divine Defiance grants 7.5% of distance fighting as holy and healing magic level, as well as 15% dodge against non-adjacent enemies.
Divine Barrage and Ethereal Barrage
New spells that hit the current target and a 3 tile radius (21 tiles) area around them. Divine Barrage deals holy damage and scales with magic level. Ethereal Barrage deals physical damage and scales with distance fighting.
New AoE ammunition
Five new types of arrows for physical and elemental damage were added, each with an area of effect covering 13 squares. Shatterstorm Arrows deal physical damage and have 27 attack, the same as Burst Arrows, while the rest have 21 attack, below regular arrows.
Other paladin changes
Swift Foot now allows you to attack and cast spells while active, instead reducing damage dealt by 30%. Divine Caldera damage was slightly increased, Salvation's power was increased and Divine Dazzle range was increased. Wheel of Destiny was adjusted as well.
Sorcerer Elemental stances
Master sorcerers can switch between three stances. Master of Flames increases fire spells base power by 4%; casting a fire spell then converts the next non-fire spell to fire damage. Master of Thunder increases the critical hit chance of energy spells by 4%, and casting an energy spell converts the next non-energy spell to energy damage. Master of Decay increases critical extra damage by 30% for death spells, and casting a death spell converts the next non-death spell to death damage.
Sorcerer Crippling stances
Sorcerers over level 175 can switch between two stances: Aura of Sapped Strength applies Sap Strength to targets of spells, runes and auto attacks, reducing the damage they deal by 10%. Aura of Exposed Weakness applies Expose Weakness to targets of spells, runes and auto attacks, granting 8% elemental pierce effect.
Death Echo
A new death damage spell that hits the current target and a 5x5 around it, followed by another hit after 1 second causing 50% of the damage.
Other sorcerer changes
Great Death Beam is now a regular spell learnt at level 66, Lightning number of targets increased. The base power and range of Strong and Ultimate strikes was increased.
Druid Stances
Elder Druids can now switch between two stances: Shared Conservation makes Heal Friend and Nature's Embrace heal a second party member on the screen for 30% of the healing, additionally increases your self-healing by 10%. Elemental Synthesis grants 10% of your Magic Level as additional ice and earth magic level.
Forked Glacier and Forked Thorns.
New chain spells that can hit up to 5 nearby enemies. Forked Glacier deals ice damage and Forked Thorns deals earth damage.
Other druid changes
The base power and range of Strong and Ultimate strikes were increased. Strong Ice Wave has a reduced cooldown and increased size. Wrath of Nature's base power has been increased.
Mana Buffer / Barrier
When incoming damage would exceed a mage's current HP, their HP is set to 1, the remaining damage is converted into mana damage with an 8x multiplier, and 25% of the character's maximum mana is consumed. This can only trigger once every two seconds, and if there is not enough mana to absorb the damage, the character dies.
Virtues
Monk's virtues additionally grant bonuses to nearby party members based on their vocation. Knights: -3% damage received, Paladin: +6% auto attack damage, Sorcerer: +6% spell and rune damage, Druid: +12% healing done. Mentor Other was removed to compensate this change.
Thousand Fist Blows
New spell for monks, hits your target and a 3-radius area around it.
Other Monk Changes
Way of the Monk shrines now also provide damage reduction against melee auto-attacks. Mass Spirit Mend is no longer a spender spell and gives its caster a weaker Spirit Mend-like effect. Mystic Repulse is stronger and has a shorter cooldown, while Chained Penance and Spiritual Outburst jump farther and chain to the nearest target. The Monk Familiar also hits enemies more reliably with its spells.
Summer Update 2026
July 13, 2026
Echo Raids
Creatures can occasionally become stationary echoes that trigger a small raid of the same creature type. Rare Echo Wardens strengthen nearby monsters; defeating a Warden for a creature type for the first time awards Charm Points and Bestiary progress.
Discovery System Rework
All subareas are now tracked automatically, removing the need to manually start discoveries in the Cyclopedia. Fully discovering an area also grants a movement-speed bonus while inside it.
Boss Difficulty System
Bosses can now have adjustable difficulty, from a learning mode to demanding versions with new mechanics and better rewards. Characters unlock higher difficulties individually by defeating the bosses, and the Phosphorus Record ranks end-boss victories by the highest difficulty completed.
Weapon Proficiency Customization
Weapon Proficiency trees can now have up to two perks replaced with random alternatives, then refined, maximized, reshaped, or cleared. The new options include vocation spell augments, and modified perks remain with the character when it is traded. Dust remains character-bound, but its carry capacity is greatly increased.