Release Notes
July 20, 2024
The story for the Reeling Depths has been added.
The following changes have been made to Game Updates:
Patch notes will now include each update's release date. You can see the release date at the very top of the patch notes, highlighted in yellow.
The Empyrean Shadows patch notes will no longer include images.
An issue where some older patch notes did not display in full has been fixed.
July 17, 2024
Hongmoon Archives has been updated to align with Blade & Soul's Gulag of Chaos update.
Reeling Depths has been added and finalized.
Sanguine Abyss has been moved to the list of Heroic Dungeons and had its contents updated accordingly.
Abyssal Throne has been moved to the list of Obsolete Dungeons and had its contents updated accordingly.
Sanctum of the Masters has had its content updated.
Bounties now include targets in Gunwon City.
The Daily and Weekly Challenges have been updated.
The page design for Demonsbane bosses has been improved.
The level design for Twilight Forest will now briefly describe the terrain.
A new Heroic Dungeon, Shattered Masts, has been added.
The screenshots of Skybreak Spire bosses have been updated.
Sanctum of the Masters will now display items obtainable from the associated merchant shop.
The introduction text for Bounties has been refined and will now detail how to earn and use Bounty Honor Tokens.
The appearance of the Daily Challenge has been adjusted for improved readability.
June, 2024
Hongmoon Archives has been updated to align with Blade & Soul's Altar of Resurrection update.
Lair of the Frozen Fang has been added and finalized.
Sogun's Lament has been moved to the list of Obsolete Dungeons and had its contents updated.
The Weekly Challenge has been updated.
Renamed the Mythical tier to Ancient.
A new Demonsbane Dungeon, Ruined Town, has been added.
A new menu, Bounties, has been added.
The Bounties page lists the different monsters that can be chosen as a Bounty target, as well as the monster's location and how to make the monster appear.
The menu Field Bosses has been removed in favour of the new Bounties menu.
Tomb of the Exiles and Bloodshade Harbor will now display items obtainable from the associated merchant shop.
Bosses in Ancient Dungeons will now include a "Read More" button.
You can also click on the image of the boss.
The hyperlinks in the Difficulty Adjustment sections have been updated.
Previously, these links directed to articles on bladeandsoul.com. Since those articles have been removed, the links now point to the Hongmoon Archives' Game Updates section.
Changed the page title from Ancient Dungeons (previously Mythical Dungeons) to Demonsbane Dungeons.
The page title was initially decided to be Mythical Dungeons rather than Demonsbane Dungeons, as "Mythical" refers to the tier, just like Heroic does for Heroic Dungeons. However, due to the recent unclear naming scheme changes, Mythical/Ancient dungeons will now be referred to as Demonsbane.
Fixed an issue where the Difficulty Adjustments for Starstone Mines were not displaying as intended.
May, 2024
Hongmoon Archives has been updated to align with Blade & Soul's Shrouded Visions update.
Quest rewards and health values for bosses in Shrouded Ajanara, Spectral Shrine, Den of the Ancients, and Circle of Sundering have been updated.
Demonsbane Stage 7 has been added to Twilight Forest.
Name changes to Psyches have been adjusted accordingly.
The domain hongmoon-archives.com has been migrated to a new domain registrar. This migration should not impact the stability and performance of the website.
Upcoming (unreleased) dungeons will now be presented in its own navigation menu, instead of being listed the same way as current dungeons.
Updated the map for Sanguine Abyss.
Shrouded Ajanara and Spectral Shrine will now display items obtainable from the associated merchant shop.
Fixed several issues where text would not display as intended due to the site's new dark theme.
Fixed an issue where the Vista Necklace was omitted from the rewards in Circle of Sundering.
April, 2024
Updates to Blade & Soul
Hongmoon Archives has been updated to align with Blade & Soul's Twilight Forest update.
Updates to Hongmoon Archives
Hongmoon Archives now uses a dark theme.
If any visual does not appear as intended due to this change, please contact me.
A new menu, Game Updates, has been added.
The official Blade & Soul site no longer hosts articles, including patch notes, written between the years 2015-2020. In addition, the articles that remain are not always sorted in the correct order. Therefore, all patch notes from years past have been added to Hongmoon Archives.
A new dungeon, Underground Palace of Chaos, has been added.
A new dungeon, Lair of the Frozen Fang, has been added.
Mythical Dungeons will now display rewards from the Wheel of Fate.
Mythical Dungeons will now display items obtainable from the associated merchant shop.
Twilight Forest, Frostfire Foundry and Sanguine Abyss will now display Difficulty Adjustments made prior to the dungeon being released in NA/EU.
The page design for bosses in Demonsbane dungeons has been improved.
The design change does not apply to Poharan, Ice Yeti, or Ichoron.
Quest Letters will now display the quest giver, rather than the rewards.
Achievements will now be grouped, instead of listed separately, when belonging to the same achievement with several tiers in-game.
For example, instead of listing Frostfire Foundry Meltdown Stage 1-3 individually, the achievement will now show all three achievements in the same place.
Achievements that grant a Title will now be displayed differently.
A number of dungeon thumbnails have been updated.
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where the achievement Frequent Flyer had an incorrect objective written.
Fixed an issue where the achievements for Dreamsong Theather were displayed inconsistently.
Fixed an issue where the achievement Tenta-kill incorrectly included Silencer as a title.
Fixed an issue where the title Queenkiller was missing from the achievement Down with the Queen.
Fixed an issue where the title Way Out was missing from the achievement Scion Annihilator.
March, 2024
Twilight Forest: A documentation entry has been added to Twilight Forest.
Tomb of the Exiles: The page title Infernal Exile has been changed to Tomb of the Exiles.
Minor issues have been fixed.
February, 2024
The site name has been added to the navigation menu, and the logo has been updated.
The favicon (that shows as the icon at the top of your tab) has been updated.
BnS YAST has once more been added to the navigation menu.
YAST was removed from the navigation menu in August 2023, as the site had been taken offline.
Removed the links 'Char Info (NA)' and 'Char Info (EU)' from the navigation menu.
Infernal Exile is now available.
The Daily Challenge has been updated.
January, 2024
Home (and its sub-pages)
The navigation menu will now display the Release Notes differently.
Classes
The classes will now show a gameplay video (produced by plaync).
Mythical Dungeons
General changes:
The table of contents will no longer include each Stage underneath the heading Rewards.
Various dungeons have been updated.
Starting with Frostfire Foundry, the main boss' attack sequence will now be listed in its own page, in addition to the Health values.
Frostfire Foundry is now complete.
Skysong Isle has been removed from the list of Mythical Dungeons.
Heroic Dungeons
Skysong Isle has been moved to the list of Heroic Dungeons and had its information updated.
Grim Nexus has been moved to Obsolete Dungeons.
Raids
General changes:
The prerequisite quest will now specify both the chapter's name and number.
Field Bosses
Murky Hollow is now available.