Dungeons & Dragons Online — Update 81.1 Release Notes

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 than once. (There are other instances of Sun and Moon Augments dropping in multiple locations in this expansion; these are intended.)

• Oozing Hunger weapons no longer spawn Slimes.