EP 13.1 · Ash Vacuum / New World

Thai Availability bound Research only

Dates and Episode evidence

Main date: By 2009-05-23 — latest availability bound
Qualification: already live by 2009 05 23
Episode / era: 13.1 — Contemporary Thai label

Status: research record; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Player guide · Developer guide · Evidence

Full patch record and local plan

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Status: research chapter; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Field	Evidence / plan
Historical track	Thai
Episode / era	13.1
Main date evidence	By 2009-05-23 — latest availability bound
Date qualification	already live by 2009 05 23
Announcement / index date	2009-03-03 — separate from activation
Local target date	Unscheduled
Local release group	th-ash-vacuum

Episode evidence: contemporary thai label. Number identified in contemporary Thai evidence; date and completeness remain separately qualified. thai_brynhild_test

Historical schedules, archive capture dates and local rollout dates are distinct. Chapter order is a reference order where exact Thai dates remain unknown.

Historical patch notes

• Thai item-testing article says 13.1 has arrived and a Thai guild already created a new Godly item. This establishes availability by May 23, not launch on that date. Evidence: contemporary firsthand observation. thai_brynhild_test
• New World expedition is content context; the iRO June 9 date cannot be used for Thailand, which the Thai report already places earlier. Evidence: regional date constraint. iro_ash, thai_brynhild_test
• The archived March 15 operator index lists an Ep.13.1 ASH VACUUM announcement dated March 3, 2009. Its now-recovered body, captured March 16, still ends with “coming soon” and gives no exact test or main-server date. March 3 remains an index-listed announcement date; May 23 remains the separate known-live bound. Evidence: original operator preview not launch date. thai_home_index_20090315, thai_ash_vacuum_original_preview_20090303
• The original Thai 13.1 preview announces the New World expedition camp, two WoE SE guild dungeons with PvP, Memories of Orc and 5-versus-5 KVM with five points for winners and one for losers. These are announced features. Promotional prose about monsters being ten times stronger is not a numerical monster database. Evidence: original announced feature bundle. thai_ash_vacuum_original_preview_20090303

Player guide

Episode 13.1 opens the New World era in the Thai timeline; exact Thai deployment and all accompanying features still need qualification.

What to explore in this stage

• Follow the qualified expedition access path into the new regions.
• Review the release’s Godly-item and guild-content additions before planning long-term goals.

Before the local update

• The May 2009 observation proves availability by that point, not a launch on the article date.

These activities describe the intended stage. Exact local requirements and availability must be confirmed in the released build before this draft becomes a player announcement.

Developer guide

Implementation work

• Recover Thai expedition access, regional maps, monsters, drops and UI requirements.
• Date new Godly items, guild dungeons and related systems independently from foreign bundles.

Character and world migration

• Review expedition quest flags, guild state and client compatibility.

Acceptance checks

• Only eligible characters enter the expedition area.
• New items and encounters use the qualified pre-Renewal formulas.
• The selected client supports the required interface without exposing later systems.

Affected areas: world, quests, monsters, guilds, client.

Use the mechanics history for candidate rules and developer reference for pinned comparison files. The release checklist defines the future evidence, migration and runtime gates.

Unresolved before qualification

• Thai release date.
• New world.
• Interface.
• Stats.
• Drops.

Sources and official records

Original operator documents, republications, reporting and foreign comparisons are labelled separately. A source listed here is not proof that every rule in it applies to this stage.

Source details and limitations

• Thai Brynhild gameplay test — contemporary reporting; gameplay test report. thai_brynhild_test Document date: 2009-05-23. Access: recorded in existing research no new fetch. Publication is a latest bound, not launch date. Author tests item behavior.
• iRO Ash Vacuum update description — foreign operator original; patch description or patch note. iro_ash Access: recorded in existing research no new fetch. iRO release June 9, 2009 is not Thai release; Thai already-live report predates it.
• March 2009 Godly-item preparation guide — contemporary reporting; player guide. thai_godly_guide_mar2009 Document date: 2009-03-09. Access: web tool full text read; direct HTML download returned403.
• Thai operator homepage captured March 15, 2009 — thai operator original; index. thai_home_index_20090315 Archive capture: 2009-03-15. Access: index read. March 3 is an index-listed document date. Detail body and activation date remain unverified. Saved HTML
• Original Thai Episode13.1 Ash Vacuum preview — thai operator original; archived original operator notice. thai_ash_vacuum_original_preview_20090303 Archive capture: 2009-03-16. Access: text body read. March3 is the homepage-index date only; detail body supplies no publication/deployment date and ends “soon”. March16 capture confirms a preview existed, not Thai launch. Promotional “10times” monster-strength language is not numeric stat-table evidence. Saved HTML

Original operator notice register

Each entry states whether its body was recovered, remains image-only, or is still missing. Index-only entries are research leads, not reconstructed patch contents.

• Ep.13.1 ASH VACUUM — original body recovered text inspected. Discovery evidence: thai_home_index_20090315, thai_ash_vacuum_original_preview_20090303.

  Index-listed document date; body and deployment date unverified.; March3 is the homepage-index date only; detail body supplies no publication/deployment date and ends “soon”. March16 capture confirms a preview existed, not Thai launch. Promotional “10times” monster-strength language is not numeric stat-table evidence..

  Recovered archive

Record: th-ash-vacuum in timeline.json. Guides: handbook-guides.json. Local plan: release-plan.json.

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