# Changelog — July 21, 2026 | Mysterria > Changelog — July 21, 2026. 72 changes in 12 areas: General, Demoness, Error, Chained, Acting, Darkness, Mother, Multi-Pathway, General, Death, Devouring, Door. Source: https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/changelog-2026-07-21 [Back to news](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news?type=changelog) # Changelog — July 21, 2026 Changelog Jul 21, 2026 72 changes in 12 areas Areas - 15 General - 12 Demoness - 3 Error - 9 Chained - 1 Acting - 8 Darkness - 2 Mother - 10 Multi-Pathway - 4 General - 2 Death - 4 Devouring - 2 Door ## General 15 changes - Probably fixed Spirit work perma spectator (Optuber) - Fixed Spirit work perma spectator (Optuber) - Probably fixed Spirit work perma spectator (Optuber) - Fixed Items deliverable whilst in dungeon (reported by Hojums) (Optuber) - Fixed Instigtion just perma stunning (reported by Nerox) (ikeepca1m) - Fixed instigation (reported by Catgirlsjanice) (ikeepca1m) - Fixed avatars/marionettes copy (reported by lotik22897) (Optuber) - Fixed avatars/marionettes copy (reported by lotik22897) (Optuber) - Fixed Marionettes have wild beyonder ai even when set to idle (reported by BlueSpacebar) (Optuber) - Probably fixed Spirit work perma spectator (Optuber) - Fixed Borrowed abilities dissapear when you relog. (reported by Shocey) (Optuber) - Fixed Borrowed abilities dissapear when you relog. (reported by Shocey) (Optuber) - Fixed Abyss Mind fog (reported by Artemi5454) (Optuber) - Fixed Wraith transformation spirit drain (reported by Tester | SquidIAT) (Optuber) - Fixed Instigtion just perma stunning (reported by Nerox) (Optuber) ## Demoness 12 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/demoness) - Fixed / changed acting methods for Sequences **7**, **5** and **3** (ikeepca1m) - Shadow Hiding now has a 1-second cooldown when manually deactivated and a 10-second cooldown when forcibly interrupted. Attacking a player while using Shadow Hiding now always triggers Stealth Blow, regardless of the target’s position (ikeepca1m) - **Dark Flames** is now a standalone spell with a twisting soul-flame and dark-purple projectile trail; no longer categorized multi-spell (ikeepca1m) - **Black Flame Bomb** is now also a standalone charged projectile with improved charging visuals and a 6-block expanding AoE explosion upon hitting the surface or entity (ikeepca1m) - And lastly **Black Flame Infusion** is now also a toggleable spell with an orbiting black-flame aura that drains 5 spirituality per second, making your physical hits deal magic damage (ikeepca1m) - **Frost Spear** has been renamed to **Ice Control** and moved to Sequence 7 (ikeepca1m) - **Mirror Curse** has also been moved to Sequence 7, since it’s a part of Witch toolkit (ikeepca1m) - Added new spell - **Black Flame Bullet** to Sequence 6. Weakened variant of **Dark Flames**, which sacrificed power and damage for projectile speed (ikeepca1m) - Added new passive - **Black Flames Cleanse** to Sequence 6. Negative effects trigger a cleansing black flame burst, removing and blocking harmful effects for 5 seconds on a 20-second cooldown. Curses from weaker Beyonders are always reflected and burn their caster (ikeepca1m) - Reworked **Disease** into a deterministic damage-over-time ability with exposure-based severity, coughing feedback, an infection progress bar, increased cooldown to 90 seconds. Sub-categories such as **Spirit-Sapping** or **Petrification** were removed :cosmos: (ikeepca1m) - Added new passive - **Scourging Tresses** to Sequence 5. Keep spinning under your own control to raise your hair into a damaging vortex that numbs and scars nearby enemies, growing from short reach to full range over five seconds (ikeepca1m) - Cleared **Instigation** camera locks when the forced player attacks, either participant dies or logs out, the target disappears, or the 15-second timeout expires. (Optuber) ## Error 3 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/error) - Changed and fixed Space Theft to work more reliably. (Optuber) - Enforced the effective madness floor immediately when Avatar control swaps, restores, or permanently replaces condition state. (Optuber) - Tracked **Power Theft** independently per thief and returned or retired stolen abilities without duplicates or stale state. (Optuber) ## Chained 9 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/chained) - Made **Object Possession** and **Poltergeist Frenzy** related edge-cases and made them more reliable. (Optuber) - Corrected **Wraith Transformation** to drain 2 spirituality per second and Sequence 3 Evil Spirit form to drain 20 per second plus 25 per affected nearby target. (Optuber) - Fixed **Wraith Curse**’s madness not working properly. (Optuber) - Changed **Wraith Transformation** upkeep to 30 spirit/s and excluded its Vex disguise from disguise-trait drain. (Optuber) - Blacklisted **Ancient Source of Curses** and **Silent Curse Brewing** from being cloned. (Optuber) - Made **Object Possession** and **Evil Spirit Transformation** combo effects to valid nearby mobs as well as players. (Optuber) - Changed **Object Possession** to keep **Poltergeist Frenzy** disabled during possession and apply a 15-second lockout after exit. (Optuber) - Fixed edge-cases related to **Improvised Weapons** and **Poltergeist Frenzy**. (Optuber) - Fixed edge-cases related **Poltergeist Frenzy** and **Object Possession**. (Optuber) ## Acting 1 change - Amount of acting you can get from doing Dungeons *daily* has been tripled :slump: (ikeepca1m) ## Darkness 8 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/darkness) - Changed **Sword of Darkness** activation requirements and damage handling to be more reliable. (Optuber) - Added a solid floor beneath **Nightmare arenas**. Still be careful. (Optuber) - Fixed **Sword of Darkness** corruption, condemnation, wave debuffs, and cooldown consequences to apply after damage is accepted properly. (Optuber) - Prevented blocked damage from consuming unrelated cooldowns and made it more reliable. (Optuber) - Made **Spirit Control** release an existing underground-control session before consuming another spirit. (Optuber) - Made **Spirit Sealing**, **Soul Shriek**, **Nightmare**, and corruption more reliable. (Optuber) - Improved **Spirit Messenger** handling to return or drop safely on cancellation, shutdown, logout etc and other edge-cases. (Optuber) - Balanced **Sword of Darkness**’s Sequence 3 melee and wave damage, reduced Tide buildup, and updated its description. (Optuber) ## Mother 2 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/mother) - Changed **Soul Suture** madness curing activation. (Optuber) - Changed **Nature Walking** and **Manipulation of the Lands** domain effects, damage, and cleanup behavior. (Optuber) ## Multi-Pathway 10 changes - Prevented recursively copying abilities obtained from Avatars, Marionettes, possession, **Grazing**, **Record**, **Power Theft**, or **Deprivation** (Optuber) - Prevented recursively copying abilities obtained from Avatars, Marionettes, possession, **Grazing**, **Record**, **Power Theft**, or **Deprivation** (Optuber) - Reconciled temporary transferred abilities on logout, pathway advancement or replacement, boon replacement, rebirth, and administrative pathway removal. (Optuber) - Preserved valid stolen, recorded, deprived, and **Gathering** abilities across relogs while removing expired or manually revoked abilities, shortcuts, listeners, potion effects, and cached entries. (Optuber) - Prevented copied-ability ID collisions and rejected stale or conflicting ability selections. (Optuber) - Preserved **Gathering** granted abilities as well as similar abilities while their source remains valid and removed them when the source, chain-of-command membership, or pathway eligibility disappears. (Optuber) - Refreshed **Sacrifice** and **Gathering** abilities better when temporary abilities change. (Optuber) - Optimized and improved all **Flight** related abilities to be more reliable. (Optuber) - Made all **Flight** related abilities activate/deactivate more relaibly and fix edge-cases. (Optuber) - Made **Starry Shuttles** and generated **Incarnation of Light** instances expire independently. (Optuber) ## General 4 changes - Fixed **Dual Artifact** ability related edge-cases. (Optuber) - Added per-provider potion-effect ownership so one ability ending cannot remove another provider’s matching effect. (Optuber) - Basically made **Wild Beyonders** better and more reliable. (Optuber) - Improved and tweaked a LOT of stuff under the hood. (Optuber) ## Death 2 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/death) - Improved **Soul Control** edge-cases. (Optuber) - Cleared **Zombie Disguise**, aggro, and disguise state when madness locks the ability while preserving the Crazy Heart bypass. (Optuber) ## Devouring 4 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/devouring) - Prevented **Deprivation** from selecting uncopyable, already-copied, conflicting, or invalid abilities. (Optuber) - Returned temporary deprived powers and restored valid permanent deprived powers after relogging. (Optuber) - Made permanent **Deprivation** recovery and regurgitation crash-safe and idempotent (Optuber) - Just made the full pathway and abilities more reliable. (Optuber) ## Door 2 changes [Pathway page](https://www.mysterria.net/en/pathways/door) - Prevented **Record** from selecting uncopyable, conflicting, or already-copied abilities and restored recorded passives correctly. (Optuber) - Made manually deleting/expired recordings more reliable. (Optuber) [Older Jul 20, 2026](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/changelog-2026-07-20)[Newer Jul 22, 2026](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/changelog-2026-07-22) ## More news [Back to news](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news) - Pinned Oct 4, 2026 [👑 The Pantheon Opens](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/the-pantheon-opens) The last major update of this Epoch: twenty-two thrones, one per pathway, and the long road to Sequence 0. Plus Daily Tides, coi-client 1.2.3, and two fixes - Pinned Sep 15, 2026 [⭐ The Biggest Coi-Client Update Ever!](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/the-biggest-coi-client-update) The biggest coi-client update so far, bringing A LOT of QoL features, enhanced visuals, custom menus, perks for having coi-client installed, ultimate customization options and more! - Pinned Aug 29, 2026 [Acting Overflow & The Usurpation](https://www.mysterria.net/en/news/acting-overflow-the-usurpation) Two things change with this update. Acting no longer stops meaning anything and Sequence slots are no longer permanent. Read the full article if you are interested!