May 30, 2025

Travel Portals + Light Rewards

New House System Functionality + Boss Rewards

Put all those STR stat points to good use, because it's BUILD WEEKEND in AQWorlds! You can finally build travel portals in your house — warp across Lore, skip locked maps, and dive into seasonal events (Frostval, Mogloween, and more) like you’ve got a time machine. And when you need a break from house building, gear up to take down MechaVortrix in TechFortress for the Light BattleMage gear. 

Could you just type the /join command to go these maps? Sure. You can always to do that. But portals let you go to the exact map and room you want to visit... AND right from your /house. They're a great way to make your house more functional and act as a personal adventure hub!

Friday, May 30 Update Details

Story: House Portals to your favorite farming, adventure, and holiday zones
Rewards: New Good-themed LoreWars reward drops from MechaVortrix in the Technofortress map
Featured Gear Shop: rare Evil-themed LoreWars set + seasonal Elemental Void set
Sora's Birthday: new HourGlass item drop from the Avatar of Time in /infernaldianoia + rare variant in the Featured Gear Shop 

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

Server Boost: Get double EXP / Gold / Rep /Class Points until Monday!
Saturday: Bad Cane Zorbak + Trobba Fett items from Asherion in /stonewooddeep through 6/30
Sunday: Void Destuction Axe from Void Giant in /voidtempext through 6/30

House Portals

House portals are functional furniture that can teleport you to various maps around the game, including to specific rooms in maps! They can be found in /basecamp, after a short questline. Portals are only usable by the owner of the house, but are still furniture for everyone to see. House portals cannot be sold once purchased.

• Merged Portals are convenient shortcuts to common content or farming spots.
• Discovery + AC Portals take you to social spots and other places to inspire your next adventure.
  
• Event Portals let you access holiday and special event zones any time of the year.

Types of Portals

Merged Portals 

• Convenient shortcuts to common content or farming spots
• Most take you directly to your questgivers, farming areas, and spots you want to go so you don’t have to walk
• Often cost gold and a few reagents

Discovery + AC Portals

• Take you to events, social spots, and other places to inspire your next adventure
• Can be directly purchased for gold or AdventureCoins (depending on the Portal)

Event Portals 

• Let you access holiday and special event zones any time of the year
  
• Cost AdventureCoins 
• Permanently unlock holiday and event maps (and all of their loot!) for you to enjoy year-round! 

We plan to release more house portals and explore more functionality with them in the future. Want to suggest more portal locations? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook, and Discord.

Notes

What about Dage + Nulgath? We plan to release separate portals to Dage in /underworld and Nulgath as merged portals in the future

Friday the 13th Portal? The seasonal Friday the 13th maps are member-only all year long, but are open for free players the week before and after each event. The event portal will let you /join all the event maps at any time of year, no membership needed. 

Why Yulgar's Inn? This portal is 100% for completionists... and because Yulgar doesn't have a Ko-fi account or tip jar.

Owner-only? Sadface! I know, right?! We're currently looking at whether it would be possible to let your guild members use your House Portals, but that's still a work in progress. We'd like to do it, and we know many of you want that, too. We'll keep you posted on whether it will be possible in the future.

Dark vs Light TechFortress Battle

Need a break from house building in Basecape? Then gear up, because the TechnoLich Vortrix is waiting — and he is NOT messing around. This cyber-zombie boss is a fusion of magic and machine, and he's guarding the BattleMage of Light gear in the /TechFortress map. Score the legendary light-infused 0 AC seasonal gear until June 30th!

New MechaVortrix Reward Drops

• Light BattleMage armor
• Light Morph helm (male + female)
• Noble Light Morph (male + female)
• Light BattleMage Hood + Cowl helms
• Horned Light BattleMage Morph
• Sheathed Celestial Starsaber cape

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.