Albion Online News

Winter has returned to Albion, and the Yuletide Challenge is back! For the entire month of December, earn points for open-world activities, unlock chests, and earn rewards like an avatar ring, classic furniture items, and the beloved Snow Husky mount.
[h3]Yuletide Greetings[/h3]
SNOW HUSKY: You've got another chance to claim the charming Snow Husky, a handsome canine companion that will carry you through Albion's harshest terrain. Along with its strong base move speed, its Hunting Instinct spell gives a short but powerful speed burst.
 
AVATAR RING: Along with the Snow Husky, adventurers who reach this month's total point goal will unlock the Yuletide Challenge Ring, which gives your avatar a cheery holiday look any time of year. And remember: unclaimed Adventurer's Challenge Rings can always be traded in for Adventurer's Tokens at the Vanity Merchant!
 
SEASONAL SPECIALS: Unlock Yuletide Challenge chests to get a mix of holiday-themed prizes, along with goodies like Silver, Tomes of Insight, treasures and resources. Each chest has a chance to give classic Yuletide decorations like Presents and Decorated Trees as well as the Yuletide Candle, Wreath, Lantern, and Candy Boot!

As always, you can earn Challenge Points by gathering, fishing, farming, and killing monsters. Points count simultaneously toward a daily bonus, a weekly unlockable chest, and the monthly mount and avatar ring reward. So log in, head out into the open world, gather points, and claim these rewards while they last!

One of the major changes that came to the world of Albion with the recent Lands Awakened update was a revamped and expanded orchestral score, and this stunning soundtrack is available now on all major streaming platforms!

You can also listen on YouTube.

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With seventeen brand new tracks, this promises to really enrich the experience of forging your path through the world of Albion. The new music was composed by Senior Audio Designer Marie Havemann and Jonne Valtonen, and was recorded with the FILMharmonic Orchestra, along with percussionist Rony Barrak, at the Rudolfinum in Prague in summer 2021. The soundtrack includes:

• Themes for each of Albion’s cities which beautifully capture the characteristics of their inhabitants
• Tense, invigorating combat and boss music
• A mystical, evocative soundtrack to the Destiny Board
• New Hideout music for the their different stages of development
• A dedicated soundtrack for the Tutorial and Starter Towns
• The previously unreleased Hellgate music

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If you haven’t already, check out our Dev Talk from Marie Havemann for an exclusive look behind the scenes at the writing and recording process for the new music.

Albion’s fourteenth Guild Season starts this weekend with a revamped structure and new features to make guild warfare more competitive and exciting than ever before. Most notably, this season marks the beginning of the Conqueror’s Challenge, which replaces the previous Guild Season reward system and allows a wider range of playstyles to pursue and profit from season goals. Alongside this, Season 14 sees the introduction of Might, Favor, Guild Might Levels, Energy Crystals, Power Cores, and Headquarters Hideouts.

[h3]Season Rewards[/h3]
The Conqueror’s Challenge allows individual players to earn season rewards throughout the course of the season without necessarily being part of a guild – though a successful guild will still benefit its members as it completes Guild Might Levels. Individual Conqueror’s Challenge rewards are as follows:



For a full breakdown of guild and personal season rewards, see this forum post.

[h3]Headquarters Hideouts[/h3]
As recently announced in this forum post, starting with Lands Awakened Patch 1, Headquarters Hideouts qualifications will apply as soon as they are earned within the current season. This means guilds who earn enough Season Points during Season 14 will be able to declare an HQ or upgrade to a higher tier/quality zone immediately, regardless of whether they qualified during the Energy Surge season. And of course, guilds who met the HQ Hideout requirements during the last season can already declare Headquarters in qualifying zones.

For details of Headquarters Hideouts and Power Cores, check out this Dev Talk:

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[h3]Watch the Season Kickoff Live[/h3]
The action starts on Saturday, November 27 and will be broadcast live on AlbionTV from 17:30 UTC, with hosts Shozen, Lewpac and Bogul bringing full coverage of Invasion Day.

At 18:00 UTC all territories will be reset for guilds to claim them and launch attacks. Those in the North and South American time zones can also tune in for the second round of territory resets on Sunday, November 28 at 00:30 UTC, when hosts Shozen, Robinhoodrs and Bogul will cover the next round of invasions from 01:00 UTC. All open-world fights are broadcast live with a 15-minute delay.

Check out AlbionTV's coverage of the second Energy Surge Invasion Day:

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The next era of guild warfare in Albion starts Saturday - we'll see you then!

The massive Lands Awakened update is now live! This update brings a new era of open-world gameplay to Albion with reworked dungeons, mobs, and treasure sites, new open-world PvP objectives for groups of all sizes, hugely improved visuals and layouts for all five biomes, War Gloves, reworked Guild Seasons, numerous quality-of-life improvements, and much more.

To celebrate the occasion, we've created a brand-new trailer:

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[h3]Reinvigorating Albion's Open World[/h3]
Lands Awakened brings a completely overhauled open-world experience, including massively improved visuals and layouts in all five biomes, mobs that become stronger and more rewarding over time, reworked static dungeons, and treasure sites that spawn randomly throughout the world. Whether you're a brand-new player or a seasoned veteran, Albion's lands are home to countless new opportunities awaiting discovery.

[h3]New Weapons, Elite Levels, Faster Fame[/h3]
The all-new War Gloves offer thrilling brawler-style combat for small-, medium-, and large-scale fights, along with numerous options for PvE. Elite Levels add twenty additional mastery levels to each weapon and armor piece, with corresponding medals to let you show off your accomplishments. And the amount of Fame granted for nearly all activities has been boosted significantly, shortening the time needed to unlock new skills and rewarding perseverant players.


[h3]Reworked Guild Seasons[/h3]
Power Cores and Energy Crystals introduce open-world capture-the-flag gameplay with huge rewards. Headquarters Hideouts offer protected bases for dedicated guilds. And the Conqueror's Challenge allows all players to earn Might and Favor for a wide range of activities, unlocking rewards for themselves and their guilds. Overall, Lands Awakened shifts the focus of Guild Seasons from passive territory control to active personal progress, offering dedicated players and guilds a chance at massive rewards.


[h3]The Druid Vanity Bundle is Here[/h3]
The Lands Awakened update also brings the new Druid Vanity Bundle. This premiere bundle is available in the in-game store, and includes a full costume set plus a matching Stag mount skin. The costume skins feature a thick, forest-green cape and a crown of antlers, and both the costume and mount skins are decorated with a glowing aura of fireflies.

The Druid Bundle includes the following vanity skins, which work on male and female characters alike:

• Druid's Horns
• Druid's Garments
• Druid's Shoes
• Druid's Cape
• Druid's Stag

[h3]Additional Improvements[/h3]

• Loadouts can now be purchased directly from the Marketplace
• Large resource nodes now spawn as treasure sites, appearing on the map to those nearby
• Improvements to farming, rerolling, building fees, and party commands
• Numerous combat balance changes
• Massively expanded soundtrack with 17 new tracks
• Real estate plots added to Outlands towns
• New Artifact resources
• Bug fixes, mobile optimizations, new icons and achievements, and much more

For more details, check out the official update page or the update patchnotes.