# The Lord of the Rings Online Update 45.6 Release Notes

- Product: The Lord of the Rings Online (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/the-lord-of-the-rings-online)
- Vendor: Standing Stone Games
- Date: 2025-10-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/212500/view/508467999107186829
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- **added** — Harvestmath Festival begins October 9th with new rewards including Cobweb cosmetic cloak, hat, robe, Harvestmath Cauldron, Fall Hobby-broom, decorative pumpkins, webbed hedges, new pets, and spooky housing music themes
- **fixed** — NPCs will no longer fall through the floor in the Tier 1 version of the raid Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo
- **changed** — The number of spawns from skills have been reduced in the Garash fight in the raid The Temple of Utug-bûr, with most summoning effects reduced by half
- **fixed** — A bug that prevented characters under level 50 from accessing titles in the third Monster Player Reward Track has been corrected
- **fixed** — Captain-General and Tyrant quests at Tol Ascarnen, Grimwood Lumber Camp, and Tirith Rhaw will now advance correctly
- **changed** — The reset at the Grimwood Lumber Camp will now invoke an hour long cooldown on resetting the NPCs
- **changed** — Legendary Worlds: Nazgul logic has been adjusted to trigger victory at the start of its defeat sequence

##### **Update 45.6 Release Notes**

Here are the Release Notes for Update 45.6, released on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

##### **Of Special Note:**

##### **The Harvestmath Festival begins on Thursday! **

The Harvestmath Festival begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Thursday, October 9th, and continues until 3:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on November 3rd. This year's festival features new rewards, including a "Cobweb" cosmetic cloak, hat, robe, Harvestmath Cauldron, Fall Hobby-broom, decorative pumpkins and webbed hedges, new pets, "spooky" housing music themes and more!

[See this year's full reward list in our guide to the Harvestmath Festival on LOTRO.com](https://www.lotro.com/guides/lotro-harvestmath-festival-guide-en).

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

- NPCs will no longer fall through the floor in the Tier 1 version of the raid "Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo",

- The number of spawns from skills have been reduced in the Garash fight in the raid "The Temple of Utug-bûr". We have reduced most summoning effects by half as well.

- A bug has been corrected that prevented characters under level 50 from accessing titles in the third Monster Player Reward Track.

- Captain-General and Tyrant quests at Tol Ascarnen, Grimwood Lumber Camp, and Tirith Rhaw will now advance correctly.

- The reset at the Grimwood Lumber Camp will now invoke an hour long cooldown on resetting the NPCs.

- Legendary Worlds: Nazgul logic has been adjusted to trigger victory at the start of its defeat sequence.