# Dungeons & Dragons Online Update 81.1 Release Notes

- Product: Dungeons & Dragons Online (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dungeons-dragons-online)
- Vendor: Standing Stone Games
- Date: 2026-08-05
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/206480/view/671750754888843409
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##### **Update 81.1 Release Notes**

Here are the release notes for Update 81.1, released on Wednesday, August 5th, 2026.

##### **News and Notes:**

##### **Bug Fixes:**

- Fixed several typos and text errors in Essence Crafting recipes and Shards.

- Purified Eberron Dragonshards have been removed from Dual-Prefix crafting shard recipes.

- The Item Disjunction Machine now correctly closes its window when you leave the area instead of quietly crashing your UI.

- The Item Disjunction Machine has its map note again.

- Fixed several typos within the Terror of Demogorgon public space, quest journal, NPC dialogue, landscape, and dungeon quests.

- The feat Deflect Arrows is now categorized more appropriately.

- Removed any lingering text referring to the now deprecated Dissolver item.

- Removed any lingering text referring to Magic Item Crafting.

- Dissolving an item now shows the essence amount gained in chat.

- You can once again Dissolve already-created bound and unbound crafting shards to recoup some of the Essence cost to create them.

- The Stonespeaker Crystals in Gravenhollow should now work more reliably.

- Fixed an issue in "A Long Way to Mushrooms" where you could walk past the NPC at the beginning, breaking the quest.

- Fixed an issue in "A Long Way to Mushrooms" where the end boss could in certain circumstances be stuck in immortal mode, breaking the quest.

- In the quest "For Want of a Heart," now if you die in the lava, your soul stone and the crests you are carrying will, in most cases, be teleported to a nearby safe spot.

- Fixed the dimensional anchor in The Fetid Wedding.

- In The Fetid Wedding resolved an issue where the dungeon event for “Find Zuggtmoy’s Bridesmaid” sometimes would not check off.

- Fixed the correct number of spores that need to be smashed in The Fetid Wedding.

- Stealing from Sorcere now warns about using Monk Slow Fall in the Sorcere Commons chamber.

- Gromph's Spellbook is now slightly easier to pick up in some rare cases.

- Fixed an issue in “Demon in the Rough” where you could talk to some of the NPCs out of order, which would break the quest.

- Added feedback for successful skill checks in “Flocked Together”.

- Level 36 skill bonus augments now give the appropriate amount of skills.

- Warforged Titans will stop talking about time rifts on death (unless they are suppose to.)

- Wild Mages will stop making a certain noise when butterflies appear on a surge.

- Duergar/Dwarf cosmetic foot prints should now work when using the two handed crossbow style.

- The purple-name boss chests in Darklake now drop the correct Catalysts (for real this time).

- Death's Door (the shield) can now be properly used to create Demon's Door.

- Demon Scale Armor can now be properly used to create Scales of Demogorgon.Duergarcraft Scepters and Shields can now be exchanged with the Weapons Traders in Gravenhollow.

- Reign of Orcus now has its intended 4th effect; existing copies should be updated in place, or when they next leave the Bank.

- Oozing Hunger weapons and shields should now all have the correct names.

- Oozing Hunger shields are now Bound to Character, like the other Oozing Hunger weapons.

- The Slime Emblem is now Bound to Account (was Bound to Character).

- Scepters of the Oozing Hunger no longer have a redundant Acid Lore effect, which has been replaced with Insightful Acid Intensity. Existing copies should be updated in place, or when they next leave the Bank.

- Fixed a stuck spot in the Forgotten Realms Demonweb starting area.

- Changed the text of the Wind Through the Trees item effect, which claimed it granted the Wind Through the Trees feat, but doesn't - it grants the effects of that feat.

- Fixed instances of Terror of Demogorgon chests where non-Rare Sun and Moon Augments were dropping on the Rare list by replacing them with Rare Augments.

- Added a few non-rare Sun and Moon Augments to Terror of Demogorgon chests, replacing some Augments that appeared more tha

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