UPDATE: Francesco's corpse is once again available for poking and prodding.  Hold your nose!

Francesco's corpse has gone missing on Formosa.  We're hunting high and low for it, and will report back when it turns up.

The Character Transfer service is once again available.  Thanks for your patience!

Notes on toggles, transfers, and where to send your resume!

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All shards will be published with the following during their next regular maintenance:

• Archery Buttes should now be useable when placed
• Blue players are no longer able to heal faction members in Felucca
• Event Quest items such as Bloodied Parchment, Soggy Parchment and the Note from Casca are now blessed so players can not lose them
• Melissa’s Cloak  can no longer be used as Powder of Fortification
• Corroded boxes will no longer get stuck on the ground when opened outside of a backpack
• Issue was fixed with the Mouseholes so they can be axed to deed form. 
• Guards will not be aggressive to newly tamed pets in town nor will newly tamed pets be ignored by mobs
• Yonns will now accept Mininova Wands, Jaana’s Hangover Cure, Pink Champagne and the 300^th Anniversary Coins
• Yonns will no longer accept House Decoration Tools

TC1 has been updated with the following:

• Archery Buttes should now be useable when placed
• Blue players are no longer able to heal faction members in Felucca
• Event Quest items such as Bloodied Parchment, Soggy Parchment and the Note from Casca are now blessed so players can not lose them
• Melissa’s Cloak  can no longer be used as Powder of Fortification
• Corroded boxes will no longer get stuck on the ground when opened outside of a backpack
• Issue was fixed with the Mouseholes so they can be axed to deed form. 
• Guards will not be aggressive to newly tamed pets in town nor will newly tamed pets be ignored by mobs
• Yonns will now accept Mininova Wands, Jaana’s Hangover Cure, Pink Champagne and the 300^th Anniversary Coins
• Yonns will no longer accept House Decoration Tools

If you place a mouse hole on top of another mouse hole, the void thus created shatters the stability of the local reality metaframework and the holes will be removed to an orthagonal dimension.

In other words, don't stack two mouse holes on top of one another or they will go poof!

Francesco rose grandly from his chair.

“My Lords! Ladies! Please,” he implored the assemblage, “we must stand together!”

Since the wonderful Jeremy is still out enjoying her vacation, I am going to do something different for a Friday.  Because I am being a bit unconventional, I'm putting this under Community News instead.

As part of our effort to make the lives of home builders and interior decorators simpler and less stressful, we offer the following public service announcement:

You cannot place mouseholes on exterior walls

We thank you for your attention and patience. We now join our regularly scheduled broadcast of "Guards! Buy Me A Bank Box!" (already in progress)...

Edit: 3:23 PM: Servers are back online now.

Edit: 12:36 PM: We are bringing the servers down at 12:50 PM EDT to update to Publish 54. 

Edit: 11:22 AM: Publish 54 has not gone live yet.  We are planning on pushing it live later today.  Thanks for all your patience and keep checking back here for the latest info.

Publish 54 is going live on Japanese servers at 6:00pm EST today.  All other servers will be updated early tomorrow morning.  There will be minor updates to the patch notes as well tomorrow morning.