EP 6.0 era · Forging, potion-making and element-table update

Thai Date unresolved Research only

Dates and Episode evidence

Main date: 2004-05-05 — reported / scheduled
Qualification: unresolved
Episode / era: 6.0 era; unnumbered balance patch — Contextual assignment

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

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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	6.0 era; unnumbered balance patch
Main date evidence	2004-05-05 — reported / scheduled
Date qualification	unresolved
Local target date	Unscheduled
Local release group	th-forging-elements-20040505

Episode evidence: contextual assignment. Context assigned from adjacent Thai schedules; no separate numbered episode established. thai_episode_book_toc

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

• Reported forging/potion formula and element-table changes. Exact formulas and effective server scope not recovered. Evidence: mirror candidate. thai_mirror

Player guide

The reported maintenance changes forging, potion-making and elemental interactions.

What to explore in this stage

• Read the revised crafting and elemental tables before choosing materials or hunting equipment.

Before the local update

• Exact success formulas and elemental values remain missing; the handbook does not promise a crafting rate.

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 full old/new forging and potion success formulas, including integer rounding.
• Version the element table separately from weapon and monster properties.

Character and world migration

• Review whether existing crafted items need any change; avoid rewriting items without evidence.

Acceptance checks

• Known crafting inputs yield the documented probability or result boundaries.
• Element/race/size factors are tested separately rather than collapsed into one damage factor.

Affected areas: crafting, combat, items.

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

• Original notice.
• Old new formulas.
• Element table.

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

• Later mirror of early Thai operator announcements — operator material republication; attributed operator material republication. thai_mirror Access: later mirror html inspected; original provenance incomplete. Later mirror; provenance chain incomplete. Scheduled dates may not be deployment dates. Regional monster headings appear mixed; nearby no-reset and level-reduction claims need separation. Copied mirrors are not independent corroboration.
• Indexed contents of a retrospective Thai RO book — retrospective reference; news or update index. thai_episode_book_toc Access: search excerpt only; direct PDF 404; historical chapters unread. Only search-indexed contents inspected; direct PDF currently returns 404. Full historical chapters not read. Secondary numbering lead, not evidence for patch dates or numerical mechanics. Ayothaya labelled 8.0; early labels differ from operator-notice mirror.

Record: th-forging-elements-20040505 in timeline.json. Guides: handbook-guides.json. Local plan: release-plan.json.

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