Changelogs

2026-08-20 — Second-class companions (quiet)

• Seven 2nds joined the house: Sister Ash (Monk) · Ward (Crusader) · Minstrel Lark (Bard) · Step (Dancer) · Glyph (Sage) · Hex (Rogue) · Brew (Alchemist).
• Already there: Smith Flint was already a Blacksmith. Ranger Vale was already a Hunter.
• Manners: they practice arrive second after a door. Portals still ignore them. They do not chatter at each other.
• No third classes. Honest Alpha — working-ish, not a parade. Gold AI units tick when companions are actually in Midgard.
• Please try: invite when the streets fill · short field loop · Alpha board if a door leaves someone on the wrong grass.

*— Community Manager*

2026-08-17 — Quiet house tune · party invites · Ova skill buttons

• Leave-party hole closed: if a companion leaves your party, you can invite them again. The leftover “I’m solo now, please don’t ask” moment is gone.
• Ova skill toggles (all five): support / DPS axis and first-job skill buttons now work for the whole walking crew — Lumen already had them; Bastion, Vale, Ember, and Kite now have the same buttons. Bastion is still a Swordsman (not a Crusader / Knight overhaul).
• Ranger Vale: off a stuck Geffen cell and farming again.
• House: short quiet tune. Website + Discord stayed up. No map restart. Alpha-honest: still working-ish, not “done.”

*— Community Manager*

2026-08-05 — Meet Ova · AI overlay companion

• Ova (desktop overlay, Alpha): a little always-on-top HUD that logs in with your website account. She is not combat power — she is a guide to the AI house: Director quests, companions Free/Busy, item browser, world links. Launch from your GrAiRiO client folder (Ova / CompanionOverlay).
• Quest chat: ask for training options; they show as separate chips you can click. You can also clear/cancel an active Director quest (no fake rewards).
• Items: collection browser uses real client collection art + iteminfo text, with search and page numbers.
• QoL: opacity slider in the title bar, silent splash, face stickers, purple-gold theme. Companions board stays Free/Busy only (no stranger names).
• Please try: launch Ova → give me a quest → flip Items pages → report what still confuses you on the Alpha board.

2026-07-30 — BYO API (optional) · bigger site type · quiet fleet check

• Optional BYO API (Alpha): after website login, open the BYO API tab. One key per account; we handshake before it sticks. You pay the model provider; house takes a 5% usage fee. Default House AI stays free daily + tokens (house cut 25% for servers, development, free services, bridge). Same AI features — not better loot/XP/MVP cards. See Rules §9.2.
• Site readability: larger body text site-wide; header kept on one clean line. Hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) if type still looks old.
• Fleet health: morning limp companion presence restored; 5/5 online at wrap. Dismiss / leave→join still Alpha rough.
• Please try: log in → BYO tab · hard-refresh homepage · hire loop when streets fill · Alpha board for friction.

2026-07-26 — Portal manners (Lumen) · party stickiness · honest Alpha

• Portals (Sister Lumen, Alpha): she practices arrive second after a map change so she can actually see you again, instead of standing in empty grass. Still rough — multi-hop / reverse trips and the rest of the fleet need more love.
• Party stickiness: companions should not auto-quit your party over a half-empty guest list or “incomplete” party view. They leave when you dismiss them, or if the leader is gone long enough that free-join makes sense. Healing should keep working when she’s still walking with you.
• Honest Alpha: companions are working-ish again, not “done.” One support path through portals is betterer; overall stick/heal/party nights can still break. Tell us what froze — Alpha board loves receipts.
• Please try: invite Lumen → short field loop → 1–2 portals out and back. Note freezes, party drops, or silent heals.

2026-07-24 (evening) — Support companion bar · fleet stick · quieter house

• Sister Lumen (main support) at a solid Alpha bar: sticks with you, buffs & heals, player-led party manners, and live “come to me” without yanking to old save spots. Death / Resurrection is still experimental — shout if a leaf or prayer fails.
• Fleet shares the stick toolbox: Bastion, Vale, Ember, and Kite inherit the same follow, come-to-you, and invite-accept manners. Combat stays class-flavored (tank / archer / mage / thief) so they don’t all play like a priest.
• After a disconnect: re-invite should work again — ghost parties clear and they accept your new party (even if the party name is silly).
• House manners: quieter field (less map-wide ops shouting) while we polish. No maintenance window today — companions are invite-ready overnight for testers.
• Please try: summon or walk up → invite → field loop. Post friction on the Alpha board if someone peels or freezes.

2026-07-23 (evening) — Party manners · map cries · sealed floors

• Map help that remembers you: when a companion cries for help on in-game #map, answer with “on my way” (or whisper them) so the thank-you knows you answered the call — show up, help, get the pots. No freeload double-claim.
• Sealed-floor manners: dungeon / sealed maps: less mid-run shopping peel; floor changes re-stick; death tries to stay with the party instead of inventing a solo hobby.
• Gear soft presets: content tags (field / dungeon / undead / fire / Thor lean) restock smarter kits — still Alpha, not a full card engine yet.
• Mob brain: fewer wrong skills on the wrong critters; kit-aware prefer/skip; party callouts when a weakness actually matters.
• Party manners: if a companion leaves your party without a real dismiss, say so in open chat — we’re training them to stay until you end the walk.
• House energy: the mists somehow got jet fuel — ops keep polishing party nights around the clock. No rest for the house. (You still get sleep. We don’t. xD)

2026-07-23 — Direction clarity · site copy · companion survival polish

• Public direction: party cohesion first (companions for real RO party nights); sandbox rooms for fashion/coach now and competitive AI practice later; live BG with seat-fillers further out. Same spine, different rooms.
• Site sweep: Whitepaper, FAQ, How to play, Server details, AI staff, Wiki, home hero — rates, companions, sandbox, and how-tos aligned (no “companions only at Beta” leftover vibe).
• Companion survival: farm assert no longer re-arms attack while low HP; sticky crit soft map-heal on daywatch; Bastion soft remagnet on inv freeze.
• RMS / community: listing + ad copy refresh available; design discussion on companions-as-party (not bot farms) welcome on boards.

2026-07-22 — Player-led parties · Alpha test board · Founding Testers

• Player-led companion parties: you invite them; they don’t spam invites or lead/kick. Combat assist once you’re partyed. Director summon stays free during Alpha.
• Companion polish: better follow/stick, ghost-safe warps, cleaner summon → ready loop, longer whispers (less mid-sentence cutoffs), map help cries with zone tags (east / center / north-east…).
• Discord — Alpha test board: Verified-only checklist for companions & install. Post short TEST notes; the bot logs friction and can flip rows to ✅ when enough independent “worked” reports land.
• #🗺-pipeline: what’s cooking NOW / NEXT / LATER (build queue — not the how-to).
• Founding Tester rewards (tiered): Scout 1–2 solid reports · Field 5+ (≥3 scenarios) · Pioneer 12+ (or 5+ deep friction repros) → titles · cosmetics · shoutouts · signed items.
• Behind the curtain: quieter failovers + morning ops digest so recoveries leave fewer mysterious pings.
• Please test: log in, invite a companion, file a note on the board. Each pass gets betterer.

2026-07-21 — AI companions (core) · friendship · listening pass

• AI companions are live (Alpha, working-ish): a full little party in Midgard — Sister Lumen (priest), Brother Bastion (tank), Ranger Vale (archer), Scholar Ember (mage), Shadow Kite (thief), Smith Flint (merchant).
• Party-member energy: follow when asked, farm when idle, stick close, class combat kits, autoloot / bag care, priest buffs & heals, whisper chat when they’re online.
• Friendship meters: warmer hellos for people they know; strangers still get help when they ask; no five-person hello choir for every passer-by. House characters count as real people.
• Support styles (whisper a companion): tanky · healer · buffer · hybrid · dps.
• Please test them: log in, party up, poke the weird. If something breaks, tell us — next pass polishes. Each pass gets betterer.
• Site status: green = human players; gold AI units = player-facing AI roles + each companion actually online.
• How to play rewritten in plain English — full client zip vs small day-patch zip into your game folder.
• Listening: denser field spawns; Job Master live for Episode 1 first jobs; connect tips for the official Full client; day patch still close-game → drop zip (or Update GrAiRiO).
• Backburner: ROTD-style daily boards and similar side toys stay shelved — focus is live AI you can talk to (Director, events, companions).

2026-07-21 — Day patch live · AI Companion Token art

• Day patch live: AI Companion Token icons (collection art says GrAI).
• Apply: close game → paste the day-patch zip files into your game folder next to GrAiRiO.exe, or run Update GrAiRiO.exe. Guide: How to play → Day patch · latest-day-patch.zip.
• No full reinstall for these small updates — just the patch zip.

2026-07-21 — Job Master live · connect tips · companion back

• Job Master: first-class job change is live in Prontera (classic plaza coords). Episode 1 first jobs only — no invented locations.
• Connect / random DCs: servers are up. Instant disconnects are almost always the wrong client package or exe. Use the official Full client v1.0 from How to play, extract clean, OpenSetup → GrAiRiO.exe. Wrong-version clients get kicked before the world loads.
• Sister Lumen (companion): back in the field for Alpha testing — follow / support play. Still learning manners (and skill menus). Whisper her name in-game when she’s online.
• Fashionista / Coach rooms: need a brand-new 1/1 Novice throwaway and an explicit accept of permanent lock + strip. Create the throwaway first, whisper Ai, ask for Fashionista/Coach, then accept the deal — not after leveling the throwaway.
• Izlude airship closed (Ep1): long-haul flights (Juno/Rachel/etc.) are out of scope. Boarding disabled; anyone stuck on the plane is returned to Izlude. Roads + Kafra only for now.

2026-07-20 — Extract & play + Fashionista + Coach

• Full client v1.0 (extract & play): one zip (~6 GB, includes BGM). OpenSetup → GrAiRiO.exe. Official support baseline — preferred for help & bug reports. How to play · Download.
• Lite + Very Lite: Lite for people who already have clean kRO; Very Lite is full client without BGM. Best-effort support on non-Full folders.
• Base package note (historical): Full v1.0 zip ships customs in GrAiRiO.grf. Day patches now use patch.grf first — see latest entry above and Day patch.
• Fashionista (live): catwalk sandbox for looks, vibes, and catalog energy — try outfits on a throwaway, not a spreadsheet. Still polishing; the vision is a live stylist who can dress you in the moment.
• Coach (live): gym sandbox for builds you can apply and feel. Live build-building, Ep1 paths, “what now?” energy. Still polishing; the vision is a trainer who stays for the set.
• Whisper Ai and ask for Fashionista or Coach when you want the specialist side door. Sandboxes use a throwaway lock model + weight relief so testing isn’t an overweight sermon.
• Tip of the hat to everyone who hit install friction and kept talking — you pushed us toward simpler.

2026-07-19 — Director handoffs & field horde preview

• Director rewards feel personal: after quests and Director-granted wins, Ai can hand loot over in the moment with a congrats line — less “go type a claim command,” more quest-giver energy.
• @claimrewards still used for promo codes, welcome/package-style gifts, and offline fallbacks.
• Director Horde (preview): whisper Ai to start a live field invasion (e.g. Poring Party or Undead Skirmish). Follow the map tip Ai gives you.
• Prontera Horde Board + Prontera Field (south) marker for orientation.
• Ongoing: prefer item/mob names in player chat (less cryptic numbers).
• Alpha still quiet — perfect time to test, report, and get pink-mobbed on purpose.

2026-07-18 — Novice spawn fixed (sorry, ship survivors)

• Apology: some day-one novices got stuck on a broken training map (the big ship island). That was our fault — a custom client GRF overwrote the novice map tables, and we only fully caught it in post-launch testing.
• New spawn: novices now start in classic Izlude (not the ship). If you still land on a training map, the server warps you to Izlude.
• Izlude hub: Tutorial Guide, Movement Instructor, Training Kafra, and Echo of the Mists are spaced near spawn for storage + a short first-steps tutorial + AI intro.
• Client tip: after the day patch, DATA.INI is patch.grf → GrAiRiO.grf → rdata.grf → data.grf. Use Day patch / Update GrAiRiO.exe.
• Apology code: redeem SHIPBEATSDIRECTOR once per account (whisper Ai redeem SHIPBEATSDIRECTOR or the site Redeem page). Small zeny + tokens + pots/wings kit — because the ship won round one.
• GrAitest: community puzzle event is in the works — we want more players before the real run. Stay tuned in Discord.

2026-07-17 — We’re listed & easier to join

• GrAiRiO is on RateMyServer (Low Rate 5 / 5 / 3) and the RMS Low Rates forum. Honest Alpha — we don’t reward reviews.
• New Discord members get a welcome with install links and how to use /ai / !ai.
• Player QoL commands for everyone: @autoloot, @alootid, @autoloottype, plus @res and the usual info commands (@rates, @mobinfo, …).
• Still the same start path: How to play, free package v0.4, whisper Ai in-game.

2026-07-16 — Client download is live

• You can download the GrAiRiO installer from the site — see How to play.
• You still need your own full Ragnarok client folder; our package only adds GrAiRiO on top.
• Installer cleans common junk (anti-cheat / old launchers) and sets you up with OpenSetup — pick windowed first if you freeze on modern Windows.
• Dragon login screen and loading art are included. Day-to-day update patches will come later as a small extra file.

2026-07-16 — AI help with builds & jobs

• Whisper Ai (or use Support) for real advice: “how do I become a Thief?”, “Asura build?”, “where do I level?”
• Stats tips for classic Pre-Renewal (e.g. aiming for round tens like 110 instead of 109).
• Wrong stats or skills? Reset Services in Prontera (about 155, 185) — 50 AI tokens each for a stat or skill reset.
• Job Master is Episode 1 only: Swordman, Mage, Archer, Acolyte, Merchant, Thief. Second jobs and later classes open with later episodes.

2026-07-12 — Promo codes & Discord chat

• Redeem codes like other live-service games: whisper Ai redeem YOURCODE, or use the website Redeem page.
• One claim per account; you need a character. Items/tokens go to Kafra storage; zeny via @claimrewards.
• Chat in Discord #main / #trade can show in-game (and the other way around) — free, no AI tokens.
• Barter with Ai is smoother when you trade junk for pots or grapes.

2026-07-11 — Barter, welcome gifts & clearer AI chat

• Talking to Ai for normal help stays free in Alpha. Tokens are for extras (resets, VIP-style features, companions later).
• Welcome gift: short quiz → pick a starter pack → @claimrewards. Bigger stacks may show in storage after a re-login.
• First-class job gift only after you actually change job (not while still Novice).
• Barter: chat first — offer junk, haggle a bit, then accept and claim. Separate from training quests (those give exp when you ask for a quest).
• Training Kafra near new-player spawn; use normal Kafra for storage (no free @storage).
• Ai multi-line whispers should look cleaner and less broken-up.

2026-07-10 — Discord community setup

• Discord laid out for news, verify, community chat, game talk, support, and voice.
• Accept the rules to unlock more channels (reaction, short message, or slash command — Discord will guide you).
• Link your character name so we can help you faster if something goes wrong.

2026-07-09 — Server stability

• Background checks so login and the website recover faster if something drops.
• Players can’t “restart the server” by asking AI — if things are down, we report status honestly while systems recover.

2026-07-08 — Website & how to join

• How to play, FAQ, rates, and whitepaper pages on the site.
• Rates: 5× base EXP · 5× job EXP · 3× drops. Mini-boss and MVP cards stay 1×.
• Create an account by chatting with the AI on the home page (password stays in the secure field).
• Discord is the main community door for install help and news.

2026-07-07 — Public Alpha

• Server is in Alpha: fully AI-run Pre-Renewal. Expect polish and possible rebalances.
• Site online with secure connection; you can see who’s online.
• Generous free AI help while we’re in Alpha testing.

2026-07 — Who the AIs are

• Ai (Director) — quests, barter, events, gifts. Whisper Ai in-game.
• Support — how to play, builds, account basics.
• Registration — create your account on the website.
• AI Companion Tokens — currency for special AI services (resets, future companions). Not pay-to-win gear.
• AI Companions (party bots) are planned for Beta, not a full Alpha feature yet.

2026-06 — Episode 1 world

• Content is locked to Episode 1: early towns, fields, and dungeons (including Orc Dungeon).
• Later cities and maps stay closed until their episode — warps and AI answers won’t spoiler-unlock them.
• Ask Ai “is X in this episode?” if you’re unsure.

2026-06 — Website account tools

• Register and log in on the website with the same account you use in-game.
• After login, AI chat can help with your own character (look, simple account tools, token balance, and similar).
• Rankings preview on the home page (when loaded).

2026-06 — Quests from the Director

• Ask Ai for a quest → you get a few clear options → pick one → finish and use @claimrewards.
• Bigger rewards expect more work; your main character is used for fairness on large rewards.
• Fun event ideas (trivia, lottery, simple password games, bounties) when the Director hosts them.

2026-05–06 — Getting started with Ai

• Whisper Ai for the Director (quests and fun). Use support-style help for simple “how do I…?” questions.
• Alpha free daily AI help is shared across normal Support + Director chat.

2026-04–05 — Foundations

• Classic Pre-Renewal server with AI systems for quests, support, and community.
• Rates set to mid-rate: 5 / 5 / 3 (base / job / drop); rare boss cards stay 1×.
• Client: Full extract-and-play, Lite overlay on kRO, or Very Lite no BGM (see How to play).
• AI Companions (helpful party characters) remain a Beta goal.

Vision

A classic Pre-Renewal world where AI systems host quests, events, support, and community — honest about Alpha roughness, ambitious about Beta Companions, and always reachable: just ask.