Today officially ends the free socket removal service I've been offering. The UI is much clearer now and has a confirmation so you shouldn't be making mistakes that are my fault. Coming soon will be the following 2 ways to remove crystals from items.

Destroy Socket
Drop the items level by 1, removing a socket and give you the crystal back undamaged.

Destroy Crystal
Destroy the crystal but keep the socket and item level undamaged.

I'm also thinking of giving an option to remove a crystal from an item without losing the socket or the crystal for a price in platinum. It would be expensive though, maybe 5,000 platinum? I'm open to feedback on that.

For those brave adventures that have been exploring the vast possibilities of crystals, such as putting + Armor crystals in Chain Blades and such! Please submit a ticket to the Hunted Cow support system.

Be sure to include the item ID of the item you socketed incorrectly, and which of the crystal slots you wish removing... 1, 2, 3 or 4. I'll be un-socketing crystals on Monday. I'll also be trying to make the UI for socketing a crystal a little less error prone!

That is the 'Crystal Fusion' roadmap update live. Please take extra care when socketing items. For a limited period I will be undoing mistakes but this is a lot of effort for me and it may take me some time, please submit requests via ticket if you socket something in error.

Also note, that putting a 5% accuracy crystal in an item with 0 base accuracy will make no difference to its stats. That probably seems obvious to most of you, but ... yeah.

To socket a crystal select 'Use' on it and combine it with the item you wish to place it in. There will be a system in place later for removing crystals from items, but it will cost you the socket (An items level worth of experience) or the crystal to do so.

Have a fun week-end, please don't break things too much!

The new optional language filter is now live on the main game. It is enabled by default, you can disable it in the options menu. We will no longer be enforcing rules relating to the use of bad language, if you do not wish to see it please leave the filter enabled.

This does not change our stance on any other language rules, bullying / harassment will still be treated the same as will filter avoidance. Just because you have the freedom to use bad language if you wish doesn't mean you're free to be a jerk, or insult other people.