November 16, 2026 - THANKSGIVING PATCH

BUG FIXES & CHANGES

• The Boss Coin shop's upgrade and ascend messages now say the gear must be unequipped, in your Equip inventory. Before, they said “equipped”, which was the opposite of how it works.
• Fixed Gold Richie's farm getting stuck when an Elite boss spawned there and stopped the pigs from respawning.
• Terrified Wild Boar now spawns in Land of Wild Boar (Perion, map ID 101040001). Its Monster Book card can be completed, and the website and @mb Go both point to the right map.
• The Lv.50 Cheap and Fancy Amplifiers in the Kerning Square VIP zone now count toward their Monster Book cards. Monsters without their own card now count toward the card of a monster with the same name.
• The @itemfilter Keep list search no longer crashes your game. Results now show item names and IDs without icons, up to 10 at a time. Items that share a name are grouped into one line, such as “Legendary Maple Leaf (4 versions)”. Picking that line keeps every version at once.
• The @pzakshop “Upgrade to next tier” option now also works on Pink Zakum items you've used Super Enhancement Scrolls on. Before you confirm, you'll be warned that the item's stars and their extra stats will be reset to 0.
• The Pink Zakum entry message now shows which daily kill you're starting (for example “Starting kill 2/2”). Before, it showed the kills you had already done, which looked like the counter was one behind. The kill counting itself was never wrong.
• All TASK quests (scrolling, cubing, PQs, etc.) now count on every character, even while another character on your PC is earning EXP. Before, they only counted on the character earning the EXP, which is likely why your Chaos Scrolls didn't count.
• Fixed Pink Zakum wins not counting for @daily and @week tasks on characters sharing an IP with another active character. The same fix applies to the other tasks: Dojo, Monster Park, BPQ, bosses, Trials and Fishing Coins.
• A quest you replaced in @week can no longer come back as the new quest that same week.
• The @dpshop is now sorted from cheapest to most expensive, and A-Z after that to keep my OCD satisfied.
• Fixed “Couldn't update 2/2 file(s)” for players whose CDN download fails. The backup download server wrongly refused LauncherConfig.ini and NameSpace.ini for everyone except the admin. Those players should now update normally without reinstalling anything.
• Trials now unlock at total level 9,999 (together with the @ascension gate) and need 10 Black Slime kills instead of 10 Darknell kills. Darknell one-shots players until much higher levels, which kept many of them out of Trials.
• Master Dojo Normal, Hard and Master can be finished again. Their bosses had kept a much steeper HP growth after Easy was rebalanced in September, so Master became near impossible. All four difficulties are now doable for end-game players.
• Resolved an issue where Monster Park Hard and Hell stopped giving EXP after stage 5, in both solo and party mode.
• Mori Ranmaru's clones now have a 30-second cooldown on their dispel-and-HP-drain attack. Before, all four clones, including the fake ones, could use it nonstop, which stripped your buffs over and over and forced constant potion use. The fight's other mechanics are unchanged.
• Items added to a Hired Merchant during maintenance weren't announced in the Free Market Discord channel. Every new listing now shows up there, whether you add it when opening the shop or while restocking.
• @bank now fills in the maximum amount for withdrawing mesos and GMB, and for depositing GMB within your deposit limit. Press OK to move everything at once, or type a lower amount.
• Ruby's “Upgrade fish to the next size” no longer holds back the fish needed for a belt you haven't claimed yet, so you can save up for a bigger belt instead. This also fixes the “You don't have enough fish” error that blocked these upgrades, even for 1 fish. A warning now shows when the fish you upgrade won't count toward the smaller belt.
• The badges you buy from the Monster Park NPC now give 5 Damage Resist lines (5×1%, 5×2% or 5×5%) instead of Ignore Enemy Defense.
• The Item Sort button in the inventory now works. It sorts the tab by item type, so equips are grouped as hats, tops, bottoms, shoes, gloves, weapons and so on, and matching items sit next to each other.
• Some minor tweaks to the anti-cheat to prevent further false positives, especially when searching for certain words in your internet browser.
• Fixed the Guardian Angel Slime boss map ending your run when you jumped down from the bottom floor. Falling below the bottom floor now puts you back at the spawn point and the fight keeps going.
• The old Summer Free Market and other retired market maps now automatically send you to the current Free Market. No more getting stuck in an empty old market after logging in.
• Overflow deposit messages now show your new total, e.g. “Primal Essence (x20) (total: 1,240)”. You can track your stock without opening @etc every time.
• When you create a Premium Boss Key, the confirm window now shows how many of each material you have in Overflow and in your inventory. You no longer need to check @etc before crafting.
• The GMB option for Premium Boss Keys now uses your @bank mesos for any Golden Meso Bags you’re short (1 GMB = 1B mesos). Bags in your inventory and Overflow are used first.
• Capo’s Protective Barrier and his summoned adds now fight at level 10,000 instead of 16,956, so they no longer one-shot you on contact. That matters most for the barrier, which spawns in a random spot without warning. Their HP is unchanged, so they take just as long to kill, and Capo himself is not affected.
• Fixed Arkarium sometimes becoming unkillable for up to a minute. His reflect skill made him take 1 damage from every attack, so now it gets removed straight away, like his other immunities. 
• The MLHS trivia now only asks general knowledge and basic MapleStory questions. The HempMS-specific system questions (DP Dungeon, Dojo, Burning Hell, drop tables and so on) were removed, and the website question list matches.
• Anti-cheat now loads the 'trusted programs' whitelist (false postive triggers) from an internal source that is updated every 10 minutes. So harmless programs can be added to the whitelist without having to push a new version of the anti-cheat .exe file.

NEW CONTENT

• New players now get a Getting Started tour in the F12 menu: 23 short steps that show what makes HempMS different, with +1 level per step and EXP buffs for multiple hours at step 11 and at the end. 
• New commands: @aio opens the All-In-One NPC from anywhere, like the Cash Shop button does. @patchnotes opens the latest patch notes on the website, so you can catch up on every update straight from the game.
• Monster Park reward boxes have been reworked. Every day's box has new, better rewards, including crafting materials, cubes, Golden Meso Bags and a chance at Oda Coins and Worms. Box contents are listed on the Monster Park database.
• You no longer need to type an item ID to remove something from your @itemfilter Keep list or Blacklist. Open “View / remove items” and click an entry to remove it. Items that share a name are grouped into one entry, so a single click removes every version.
• The FM Shops page is now called Free Market and has a new Price Watch tab. Curious about the value of certain items? It shows what stackable items actually sell for in Hired Merchants (last sale, 7-day median, number of sales) and the cheapest listing right now, for example how many Golden Meso Bags you get per DP. Equips aren't included, since their price depends on the stats.
• The Premium Gold Box is now in the @dpshop for 40 DP (still obtainable through the Hero's Key method).
• The Beast Tamer (in DP Market / @fm) accepts Scrap Metal + GMB as payment.
• Silver and Gold Boxes can now be opened straight from your @etc storage with @box, no need to withdraw them first. Boxes in your inventory are used first, then boxes in @etc. Keys still need to be in your inventory.
• The Totem Merchant in Sengoku High School now sells the Sengoku Shodan Pin, a POCKET ITEM with 5M in all stats and 5 x 50% IED potential lines, for Oda Coins (total level 10,000+). Sagacious Goemon can upgrade it to 9,999,999 in all stats for Oda Coins or DP.
• The level cap wasn't properly hard-capped at 60,000 and JoJo already passed it, so the current hard cap is level 65,000. There are plans to raise this to 99,999; we'll share more details later on.
• The @worker NPC has a new Delivery option. Herbalism and Mining materials can now go straight into your ETC inventory, and only what doesn't fit goes to Overflow storage (@etc). The setting is per account and can be switched back at any time.
• Website: The Characters page in your account panel (must be logged in to see) now shows each character’s damage cap, DP, meso and map, and your account’s Ascension Points and stored DP. A new DP History page shows where your DP came from and went, per day and per change. The database search now suggests guides, items, mobs, maps and skills while you type.
• You can now use emoji in chat. Type a Discord-style code like :joy:, :fire: or :skull: and it pops up above your character’s head for everyone nearby. Use @emoji to see all 150+ codes, or check the Chat Emoji database.
• Each saved account in the launcher now has a “⚙ Custom game settings” link, so you can give it its own resolution and display options. For example, fishers at 800x600 with backgrounds off and your main at full HD. 800x600 is now allowed as the smallest resolution (not recommended for normal play). “Forget account” moved into that settings window.
• Referral rewards have been reworked: new players and the players who invited them now get their own rewards at each milestone. There’s a new level 4,000 milestone, and rewards include 2x EXP buffs, Game Dice for @diceboard, Event Points, and Silver Boxes with Keys for @box. The full table is on the Referral Program database page.
• In-game links (guide, news, database, vote, donate and proposals) now go through playhms.com. Players whose internet provider blocks hemp-ms.com can still open them, and everyone else is sent on to hemp-ms.com automatically.

CRAFTING CHANGES

• The Intermediate Secret Herb Patch now also gives Lavender and Marjoram Flowers, for workers and for players gathering by hand. A Perfect Innocence Scroll needs 34% less worker time and costs about 20% less DP to craft.
• Safety Scroll: needs 80% less Herb Root.
• Miraculous Chaos Scroll: needs 95% less Herb Root and 50% less Marjoram Flower.
• Legendary Chaos Scroll: needs 70% fewer Miraculous Chaos Scrolls, 40% fewer Innocence Scroll Lite and 80% fewer Safety Scrolls. All together, it needs about 97% less Herb Root than before.
• Premium Boss Key: needs 100 of each boss material instead of 420, which heavily reduces the time needed to craft a single key.
• Scrap Metal can now also craft Silver Boxes, Silver Master Keys, MLHS Keys, Sengoku Keys and Premium Gold Boxes.
• Bulk crafting with @craft no longer multiplies the cast time. A batch of 100 now takes as long as crafting one, so preparing materials like Stiff Leather goes much faster.
• Check out the full list of recipes in the Crafting database or use @craft in-game!

ASCENSION REWORK

• Ascension is less of a grind! AP now counts from 500 levels before a gate instead of 250, and the 300 AP daily limit is gone. Each activity still has its own daily maximum, but if you do everything, all of it counts.
• Ascension Points now have more sources: Epic @box pulls, minigame and Dojo clears, Dino equips, Gold Richie runs and monster kills. AP you earn before reaching a gate's range is saved and added once you're in range. @week quests now count weekly (75 AP per week), Silver and Gold Box AP was lowered, and Monster Park no longer gives AP.
• Ascension gates are worth more now! Every gate you break gives +2.5% Rare Drop Rate instead of +1%. A fully ascended character gets about +52% Rare Drop Rate, up from +21%. More about the tiers in the Ascension database.
• @stats and the website character page now include your Ascension gate bonus in your Total Rare Drop Rate. The bonus was already applied to your drops; it just wasn't displayed. Hover over Rare Drop Rate on the website character page to see where your bonus comes from.

DINO ITEMS REWORK

• Dino items can now roll up to 9,999,999 on every stat. The old cap was 6,000,000.
• Every Dino item now follows the same rules. Overalls no longer get their 2.5x stat bonus, and hats, shoes and gloves can roll Weapon and Magic Attack as high as STR, DEX, INT and LUK. Before, those three only got half.
• The stats still scale with the level of the monster that drops the item: the higher the monster, the higher the ceiling. Check the new ranges with the calculator in the Dino database.
• The drop rates didn’t change, and Dino items you already have keep their stats.

VOTE REWORK

• Vote rewards have been reworked. Your 1st vote of the day now gives Vote Points plus a Silver Box and a Silver Master Key together, so you can open the box right away. Votes 2–10 each give 5,000 NX (a full day is now 45K NX instead of 35K), and Game Dice now come on votes 2, 5 and 10.
• The vote streak is here! Vote every day, and after 14 days in a row your Silver Boxes, Silver Master Keys and Game Dice from votes are doubled, then tripled on the last 3 days of the month. You can miss 1 day per month without losing your streak. It resets on the 1st and replaces the old end-of-month VP bonus.
• New F12 widget: the Vote Tracker shows today's votes, what your next vote gives, your monthly vote streak towards 2x and 3x rewards, and the rewards you still have to claim. Use VOTE to open the vote page already logged in, CLAIM REWARDS to collect your Silver Boxes, Keys and Game Dice, and OPEN VOTE SHOP for the Vote Point shop, all without typing a command. @vote now opens the vote page and the Vote Tracker together.

MULTI-PET UPDATE

• You can now equip up to three (different) pets at the same time! No more buggy, glitchy (ghost) pets, and no more client crashes because of pets either.
• Pet Pygmy (in @fm) is now a Pet Shop with categories: Pet Gachapon, Pet Gear, Pet Equip of choice, Pet Name Tag and Reclaim a lost pet.
• Pet Gear items now cost a flat 50 DP + 4,000 GMB each, with no level requirement and no limit per account.
• New: pick any equip your pet can wear for 10 DP (250k all stats + 5 potential lines), and Pet Name Tags for 2,000 GMB each.
• New Collection Log category: Pets. Collect 100, 250 or 500 different pets for Gold Boxes. Equip each Pet Gear item or any pet equipment, or use a Pet Name Tag, for 100k Achievement Points and a Silver Box + Key each.
• More information in the Pets & Pet Gear database.

WIDGETS REWORK

• New: F12 Widgets! Press F12 in game to open floating, live-updating versions of all our game windows: EXP/Meso Tracker, Daily Rewards, Weekly Quests, Quest Log, Town Quests, Achievements, Collection Log, Monster Book, Ascension, Market, Fish Tracker, Mystery Boxes, Dice Board and Hyperspace Cube. NEW: Game Settings, Vote Tracker and Dojo Tracker!
• The widgets work on any PC (no more black box on Linux and macOS), update LIVE while you play and will keep getting new features. Move, resize and lock them, set their opacity, and keep a few open at once.
• The new widgets update every 0.25 seconds, instead of every 10 to 30 seconds with the old windows.
• The old @commands like @box, @tracker and @daily now open the matching F12 widget instead of the old window. New: @dojotracker opens the Dojo Tracker. Players who can't run the overlay (older clients) still get the old window, so nobody loses access.
• New notifications: get a pop-up for votes, items waiting at @donate, daily tasks, weekly quests, town quests ready to turn in, achievements, Collection Log entries, Monster Book cards, Ascension gates and Hired Merchant sales. Click a pop-up to open the matching widget, or X to dismiss it. Turn each one on or off in the Game Settings widget, with an optional sound and a position of your choice.
• Widget sessions are saved for up to 24 hours, so if you log off or disconnect, you can always recover your previous session.
• New F12 Game Settings option: Boss marker. It draws a red box with HP % around bosses so you can find them under all the skill effects, and shows a red arrow at the screen edge when the boss is off-screen.
• New F12 widget, the ETC Farm Tracker. Pick up to 8 items with @etctrack [goal] and see how many you have, how many you gained this session and your rate per hour, with an optional goal bar. You get a notification (with sound) when you reach a goal; you can turn it off under Notifications in Game Settings. Unlike @indicator, it keeps working after the related quests are finished.
• The full widget list is in the F12 Widgets database, and the Starter Guide has a new section about it.

THANKSGIVING EVENT

• From November 17 to November 30, turkeys are on the loose! Every hour, 10 turkeys hide in towns all over Maple World. Find them, take them down and grab the Thanksgiving Baskets and Cozy Feathers they drop. More info in the Thanksgiving event database.
• The donation promotion code THANKSGIVING is active for +50% extra DP and Worms! Donate here.