KURO MEGA UPDATE - MAY 31, 2026 (PART 1 OF 2)

STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS Please welcome @Goblin to the team as our newest GM . You'll see them in-game and in the community helping keep things running. We're also bringing on Liuyue as our new Game Designer , who will be helping shape content, balance, and the long-term direction of Kuro. A NEW DIRECTION FOR LEVELING KuroMS is moving toward a less tedious, more fun experience, especially in the early game. The goal is to remove grindy roadblocks and make the climb something you actually enjoy. Maker no longer requires the tedious Maker quest. It now unlocks automatically at level 30 (Maker Skill Level 3). Milestone rewards at levels 30, 40, 50, and 60 now hand you scrolls, Gachapon Tickets, inventory slots, and consumables to keep you moving. New easy-to-obtain early gear with relaxed requirements so you're not stuck hunting for upgrades. This is just the start. More quality-of-life changes are on the way. FORGOTTEN HOLLOW - BRAND NEW CONTENT Introducing Forgotten Hollow , a brand new level 40-60 region brought straight over from OSMS. A full new area to explore, farm, and progress through. Region & Travel Victoria Island and Nautilus taxis now include Forgotten Hollow for 1,000 mesos . Beginners receive the normal taxi discount, bringing the Forgotten Hollow taxi cost to 100 mesos . Added Forgotten Hollow labels, NPCs, travel flowers, town services, storage, and Luma's supply shop. New guide NPCs give route hints for the Cave Fairy Sanctuary, Luma's exchange, Rotten Mushmom, Bygone Days, and the path back toward Sleepywood. Sleepywood route boards now help move between Hunting Ground in the Deep Forest II, Sleepywood, The Cave of Evil Eye I, The Cave of Evil Eye IV, Ant Tunnel III, and Ant Tunnel IV. Storyline Added the first Forgotten Hollow storyline quests: Zelya's Map, Natural Adhesive, The Road Back Home, Old Friends, and Myra's Old Friend. Quests begin at levels 40, 45, and 50 as the storyline progresses. Added a final Forgotten Hollow quest reward item for the storyline. Hollow Jester Mask now comes from quest progression instead of random Forgotten Hollow farming. Maps Myewood now appears as the new Forgotten Hollow Myewood instead of the old Legacy Myewood. Mutant Tiru Forest now has a 42-monster spawn layout for party farming. Forgotten Hollow portals and map loading now behave more reliably. Myewood should no longer cause client crashes from its magic damage behavior. Forgotten Hollow Gear All Forgotten Hollow gear bases are level 40, all-class, and require 0 STR, DEX, INT, and LUK. Hollow Jester Mask : 5 upgrade slots, +5 STR, +5 DEX, +5 INT, +5 LUK, +5 accuracy. Forgotten Hollow Top : 7 upgrade slots, +1 all stats, 36 weapon defense, 12 magic defense. Forgotten Hollow Bottom : 7 upgrade slots, +1 all stats, 36 weapon defense, 12 magic defense. Forgotten Hollow Overall : 10 upgrade slots, +1 all stats, 44 weapon defense, 16 magic defense. Forgotten Hollow Ring : 1 upgrade slot, +1 all stats, 12 weapon defense, 12 magic defense, one-of-a-kind. Farming & Drops Forgotten Hollow is a level 40-60 farming loop built around scrollable gear bases. Normal Forgotten Hollow monsters use a 10,000 base farm-gear chance before server drop-rate bonuses. Rotten Mushmom uses a 30,000 base farm-gear chance. Forgotten Hollow trophies use a 600,000 base chance from normal monsters and 800,000 from Rotten Mushmom. Regular monsters drop roughly 40-285 mesos depending on the monster. Rotten Mushmom drops 5,000-15,000 mesos and can drop the final Forgotten Hollow quest item. Forgotten Hollow maps now have 516 map-scoped Day 2 scroll drops (map IDs 10006000 through 10006152), covering 100%, 60%, and risky 10% variants. Risky 10% variants are rarer. Luma's Exchange Vega's Spell (60%) for 100 Forgotten Hollow trophies. Silver Gachapon Ticket for 100 Forgotten Hollow trophies. Vicious' Hammer Lv. 0-30 for 50 Forgotten Hollow trophies. Vicious' Hammer Lv. 30-70 for 100 Forgotten Hollow trophies. Bulk exchange option available at 10,000 trophies per reward (Vega's Spell 60% x1, Silver Gachapon Ticket x1, or one tiered hammer). Vicious' Hammer Lv. 71-120 and Lv. 121-200 were removed from this exchange because Forgotten Hollow is a low-level region. PROGRESSION & MILESTONE REWARDS Level Milestones Level 30 now unlocks Maker (Skill Level 3), grants +8 slots to each inventory, and gives 250 Ice Cream Pops and 250 Red Bean Sundaes. Level 40 now gives 400 Ice Cream Pops, 400 Red Bean Sundaes, 1 Silver Gachapon Ticket, and 4 random 100% scrolls from the early-game pool. Level 50 now gives 200 Melting Cheese, 200 Sunrise Dew, 2 risky Day 2 scrolls, and 1 Silver Gachapon Ticket. Level 60 now gives 400 Melting Cheese, 400 Sunrise Dew, 5 risky Day 2 scrolls, and 2 Silver Gachapon Tickets. Milestone rewards now wait for inventory space instead of being lost if your inventory is full, and remain one-time claims. New Player Welcome New Explorer accounts can claim the Kuro Welcome Package from Sera: a Starter Ring when eligible, 100 White Potions, 300 Blue Potions, and 10,000 mesos. The command tutorial now requires any 3 listed starter commands instead of 5. Explorer and Cygnus tutorial prompts point to the correct NPC or completion step more consistently. Referral System Added referral codes: @referral create , @referral code , @referral redeem FRIENDCODE , and @referral claim . KIN now has a Referral Code menu for creating a random or custom code, checking your code, redeeming a code, and claiming rewards. Sera can also help new Explorers create, view, and redeem codes. Milestones now reward Maple Points and Gachapon Tickets at levels 10, 30, 70, 120, and 200. Maple Point rewards: 10,000 / 15,000 / 20,000 / 25,000 / 30,000 across those milestones. Ticket rewards: 2 Regular / 5 Regular / 2 Silver / 5 Silver / 2 Gold Gachapon Tickets. Reward claiming is more reliable when both Maple Points and tickets are pending, and legacy pending tickets remain claimable. GACHAPON OVERHAUL Blue Gachapon (Regular) Blue Gachapon now focuses on level 1-45 starter rewards and uses Regular Gachapon Tickets, which can be used at any Gachapon NPC. Rates: 82% common, 15% uncommon, 3% rare. Common: 100% scrolls for helmets, eye accessories, topwear, bottomwear, and overall armor STR/DEX. Uncommon: 100% scrolls for earrings, shoes, gloves, capes, rings, and belts. Rare: 100% attack scrolls for shield, ring, one-handed sword, dagger, wand, staff, bow, crossbow, and claw. Use @bluegacha to preview the full pool. Silver Gachapon Rates: 90% common, 8% uncommon, 2% rare. Common: 60% stat scrolls for helmets, eye accessories, topwear, bottomwear, capes, rings, and belts, plus classic Maple weapons up to level 43 and early Unwelcome Guest weapon sets. Uncommon: 60% weapon/magic attack scrolls across most weapon types, plus stronger Maple weapons up to level 64 and the next Unwelcome Guest set. Rare: 60% glove attack, glove magic attack, shield weapon/magic attack, belt weapon/magic attack, and Chaos Scroll 60%. 1st Unwelcome Guest equipment moved from the starter pool into Silver Gacha. Use @silvergacha to preview. Preview & Tickets @gacha blue , @gacha silver , and @gacha gold preview a specific tier. Gachapon NPC preview menus now show categories and item details instead of one huge reward dump. Ticket exchange remains 9 Regular to 1 Silver and 12 Silver to 1 Gold. Added a Gachapon machine to the Free Market. ITEMS & SHOPS Free Market, NLC & KIN Sniper Pill added to Miki, the NLC potion shop, and the Free Market potion shop. It now gives +20 accuracy. Pricing settled at 50 mesos in the relevant Free Market shops. The FM potion shop now sells +1 attack bow arrows, +1 attack crossbow arrows, Cider, and Yellow Cider (a mage-friendly option). Spikes on Shoes 10% is now available in the custom scroll shop at 5,000,000 mesos. Cash Shop NX prices reduced across the board. Added 80+ new Cash Shop equipment items across hats, accessories, outfits, shoes, gloves, capes, overalls, and weapons. Transparent Hat pricing corrected to 3,400 NX. Pet convenience items (Meso Magnet, Item Pouch, Auto HP/MP Potion Pouches, Wing Boots, Binocular, Magic Scales, Item Ignore Pendant) now cost 100 NX. Pets bought with Maple Points now correctly stay alive. Tiered Hammers Added tiered hammer items for progression gear, earnable through the Forgotten Hollow exchange flow. Tiers split by equipment level: 0-30, 30-70, 71-120, and 121-200. SCROLL VALUES & NORMALIZATION Early scrolls were normalized so their actual effects match the intended low-level economy. Several scroll descriptions were also corrected to match real effects. Armor & Accessory Stat Scrolls Covers helmet, face accessory, earring, topwear, overall, bottomwear, cape, ring, necklace, and belt. 100% scrolls: +1 STR/DEX/INT/LUK. 60% scrolls: +2 STR/DEX/INT/LUK. Risky 10% scrolls: +5 STR/DEX/INT/LUK, destroys the item on failure. Shoe & Glove Attack Scrolls Shoe 100%: +1 attack (weapon or magic) and +1 STR or INT. Shoe 60%: +2 attack and +2 STR or INT. Shoe 10%: +3 attack and +3 STR or INT, destroys on failure. Glove 100%: +1 attack and +1 STR or INT. Glove 60%: +2 attack and +2 STR or INT. Glove 10%: +3 attack and +5 STR or INT, destroys on failure. Shield & Weapon Scrolls Shield hybrid 100%: +1 main stat, +1 attack. Shield hybrid 60%: +2 main stat, +2 attack. Shield hybrid 10%: +5 main stat, +3 attack, destroys on failure. Weapon hybrid 100%: +1 main stat, +1 attack. Weapon hybrid 60%: +2 main stat, +2 attack. Weapon hybrid 10%: +5 main stat, +5 attack, destroys on failure. Other Scroll Fixes Earring INT 100%: now +1 INT only (no longer applies magic attack). Magic attack 100% scrolls (glove, shield, shoe, weapon): now +1 magic attack and +1 INT. Weapon attack 100% scrolls: now +1 weapon attack plus the relevant +1 class stat. Vega now applies to 60% belt scrolls for both Weapon Attack and Magic Attack. GM-grade 100% scrolls should no longer appear through normal player shops, rewards, or drops. Fame requirements removed from affected early-progression equipment. Continued in Part 2: Combat & Skills, Balrog & Sanctuary, Drops, Party EXP, Party Quests, and Quality of Life.