🌸 Version 1.1.03 Update: Verdant Spring

Greetings, Governors,

We plan to update the game to Version 1.1.03: Verdant Spring on January 20, 2026, at 06:00 UTC.

The servers will be unavailable for approximately 3 hours during the update.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Compensation rewards will be sent after the update is complete.

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🎉 Spring Festival Event Series

As the sound of horse hooves bids farewell to the old year, the new year arrives with fresh fortune and hope.

Let’s welcome spring together with our Spring Festival event series!

1️⃣ Knightly News: Great fortune arrives with the Year of the Horse! Complete daily quests to earn abundant rewards, including Wish Coins.

2️⃣ Lucky Blessings: Log in daily to receive gifts and unlock even greater premium rewards.

3️⃣ Lucky Red Envelopes: Start the new year in style by sharing lucky gifts.

4️⃣ Esmeralda’s Wish: We never know when the wheel of life will stop turning. Perhaps your luck is about to change.

5️⃣ Quick Hands & Sharp Eyes: Earn rewards and compete with Governors across the kingdom in this exciting jigsaw challenge.

6️⃣ Treasure Hunt: Collect Treasure Map Fragments and hunt for treasure.

7️⃣ Race Against Time: Who can defeat the most barbarians in the shortest time?

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🏰 Lost Kingdom and Season of Conquest Changes

1️⃣ New Equipment Refinement Feature

Governors can now use the new refinement feature to steadily enhance the attributes of Legendary Equipment.

Only certain equipment attributes can be improved through refinement, including Attack, Defense, Health, infantry, cavalry, archer, and siege unit march speed, as well as All Damage.

Attributes other than All Damage increase by 0.2% per refinement, up to a maximum of 3.5%. If All Damage is selected, it increases by 0.1% per refinement, up to a maximum of 2.0%.

Refinement consumes Refinement Stones, which can only be obtained from the limited-time Great Fortune section of the Inscription Shop.

Refinement Stones will be available in the Inscription Shop in Lost Kingdom after the update.

2️⃣ Optimized Voting Rules During Matchmaking

When matchmaking results are announced, each kingdom may vote independently for each camp.

If more than 80% of the votes in a camp reject the match, that camp will be considered to have rejected it.

If all camps reject the match, it will be canceled and the kingdoms will return to story registration.

This applies to registrations made after the version update.

3️⃣ Optimized Secondary Voting Rules

Kingdoms that reach the registration skip limit will be assigned to a story with a higher chance of successful matchmaking.

Kings cannot reject this assignment.

4️⃣ Optimized Season of Conquest Reward Mechanics

Added a new Lost Kingdom tier: A+.

After the update, the tiers will be A, A+, S, and S+.

At A+ or above, camps that do not occupy the Great Ziggurat will also receive additional Inscription Certificates.

At S or above, the coalition occupying the Great Ziggurat will receive additional Legendary Inscription Certificates.

At S+, the coalition occupying the Great Ziggurat can share the Champion Star.

This applies to Lost Kingdoms that begin after the update.

5️⃣ Optimized Season Pacing

High-level Marauding Armies will appear simultaneously in the Home Kingdom and Lost Kingdom.

They offer a chance to obtain Crystals but consume more Action Points.

This does not apply to the first run of a Season of Conquest story.

6️⃣ Optimized Kingdom Mergers

Reduced the minimum number of kingdoms from 3 to 2.

Reduced the number of active Governors from 200 to 150.

Removed the team-building restriction between different Lost Kingdoms.

The total team power equals the combined power of the top 300 Governors, capped at the top 24 kingdoms.

Special Immigration Profiles will be reset after a merger.

7️⃣ Optimized Season of Conquest Story Team Formation

Adjusted the formation for four-camp stories from S, AB, CCDD to S, AABB, CCCDDD.

8️⃣ Season of Conquest Coalition Adjustments

Increased the number of initial alliances in a coalition from 2 to 4.

Removed the “Coalition Recruitment” chapter.

This applies to Lost Kingdoms that begin after the update.

9️⃣ Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where fortress-gathering quests could be manually created after reaching Fortress Command Level 6 with certain Fortress Commanders.

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🎮 Control and Combat Experience Optimizations

1️⃣ Optimized the dismantling of alliance buildings

2️⃣ Optimized King skills

3️⃣ Protected Home Kingdom territory when entering the Season of Conquest

4️⃣ Optimized the skill description for Moctezuma I’s Flower War (text change only)

5️⃣ Optimized battle reports

6️⃣ Optimized the battle replay feature

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🏟️ Game Mode Optimizations

1️⃣ Olympia Champions

2️⃣ Osiris’s Chest

3️⃣ Post–Lost Kingdom Pioneer Content

4️⃣ Second Ultimate Challenge

5️⃣ Upcoming Pioneer Reward System

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✨ Other Features

Updated Kingdom Selection & City Theme
Adjusted City Theme effects
Character selection upon login
Adjusted the purchase period for Museum Relics
Improved the Lucky Spin
Purchase multiple Sparkling Lottery Ticket packs at once
Optimized activation of the Destiny Exchange pack
Expiration notifications for buff effects
Fixed the chat interface on PC
Mute status reminders
Optimized penalty notification mail
Thank you for supporting Rise of Kingdoms. We hope you enjoy the game, Governors!

The ROK Team

Rise of Kingdoms | Version 1.1.03 Update: Verdant Spring