2026/7/28 Maintenance Announcement>2026-07-26 10:00:00

Dear Ladies and Lords,

 

To provide you with a better gaming experience, all servers of Fate of the Empress will be under maintenance on 2026/7/28(UTC+8). You will not be able to login to the game during the maintenance. The estimated maintenance duration is about 3 hours. And maintenance time may be adjusted according to the actual situation.

Update rewards will be sent by mail after the maintenance.

Please pay attention to the time of your Banquets and pre-arrange them in case of any unnecessary losses.

This update will be contained in a patch, which will be detected and loaded when you log in to the game after the maintenance.

 

Maintenance Duration】

SEA Servers: 7/28 14:00 - 17:00 (UTC+8)

NA Servers: 7/27 23:00 - 7/28 02:00 (UTC-7)

EU Servers: 7/28 08:00 - 11:00 (UTC+2)

 

Servers】

All servers

 

Updates】

u New Feature: Heir Fun House

(1) Fun House is unlocked when Heir reaches Grade VI and the server reaches Cirrus I.

① There are 4 Fun Chests in the Fun House, corresponding to 4 categories: Growth, Reward, Battle, and Event. Each Fun Chest has 48 slots, which can be unlocked through decoration. Event Chest's slots are unlocked by default. It needs no decoration and cannot be modified.

② Playthings are divided into 5 categories: Universal, Growth, Reward, Battle, and Event. Event-category Playthings can only be put in Event Chest. Universal Playthings can be put in all the chests except for Event Chest.

③ Playthings currently come in 4 sizes: 1-block, 2-block, 4-block, and 6-block. 6-block ones always have a Classic series. Up to 6 1-block Playthings, 4 2-block ones, and 3 Classic ones can be placed in a single Fun Chest. Only one Plaything with the same Series can be placed in a single Fun Chest. There is no limit to how many Universal Playthings can be placed.

④ Each chest can have 2 plans. 2 Heirs don't share the saved plans.

⑤ New item [Puzzle Block], used to unlock Fun Chest slots. The decoration and modification levels of Fun Chests are shared between 2 Heirs.

⑥ New item [Wood Chips], used for the Fun Chest modification feature. The modification feature is unlocked when the total stars of owned Heir Playthings reach 30 stars.

⑦ New items [Gloss Sand] and [Hexagram Crystal], used for Plaything Enhance and Plaything Advance in Heir Tempering respectively

(2) Fun House - Plaything Workshop

① The Plaything Workshop has Fuse, Reforge and Smelt features.

② New items [Toolbox], [Wonder Box], [Tinker's Box], and [Lucky Star], used for the Heir Plaything Workshop Craft feature. Craftable Plaything qualities include Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, and Pink.

③ Two Playthings of the same quality can be reforged to get a random one of the same quality. Playthings of different qualities cannot be reforged.

④ Playthings used as reforge materials must be in their initial state.

⑤ The Plaything Smelt feature includes 2 options: Disassemble and Reset. Reset only returns 90% of training resourses. Disassemble breaks down Playthings into modification material [Wood Chips].

(3) Fun House - Archive

① Increases in collection and training progress bring attribute bonuses.

② Collection points can be gained for every new Plaything obtained. Playthings of different quality, and whether they are Classic, have different Collection points. For the same Plaything with different block numbers, only the one with the highest star level will be recorded.

 

u New Gameplay: Heir Adventure

(1) Heir Adventure is unlocked when the Heir reaches Grade VI and the server reaches Cirrus I.

① Adventure has three modes: Daily Adventure, Secret Realm, and Encounter. The three modes do not affect one another and can be carried out at the same time.

② In Secret Realm, you can dispatch the Heir's Squad to explore the realm. Encounters require Heirs to team up for the adventure. Lovers cannot team up with each other.

③ New item [Treasure Guide], can be used during Heir Adventures to increase Adventure rewards.

④ New item [Adventure Sigil], can be used for Quick Adventure. Adventure Sigils are limited to 25 purchases per week.

⑤ New item [Teleport Plume], used to enter the Secret Realm Adventure. The Secret Realm Adventure and Encounter Adventure are unlocked when the Badge level reaches Adventure Rookie 3 stars.

⑥ Badge Points can be obtained from Daily Adventure and Encounters. When enough Badge Points have been accumulated, Badge level can be Increased. Increasing Badge level allows you to claim level-up rewards and will also unlock various Adventure abilities.

⑦ Players can arrange an Heir's Daily Adventures in advance, and the arranged Adventure Quests will enter the queue system. Each Heir can have up to 6 Adventure Quests arranged at once.

⑧ In Squad, you can view the status of the two Heirs' Squads. While adventuring, you can quickly claim rewards from Encounters and Secret Realm Adventures.

 

u New Gameplay: Heir Travel - Journey

(1) New Heir Travel Journey area added. The original Heir Travel area is renamed Outing.

(2) Free Travel is unlocked upon meeting specified conditions. Journey and Outing share Travel chances, and Heirs cannot travel in both areas simultaneously.

(3) New Travel item rewards [Ice Core] and [Yellow Jade], used for Heir Bedroom Furniture Craft.

 

u New LR Skin for Wuyou: Sky Plume

[Skills]:

(1) [Active Skill-Sealed Dawn] : Based on the original skill, optimized the Skill DMG and HP Recovery from explosions of marks.

(2) [Rage Skill-Glazed Palace] : Based on the original skill, increased the DMG of Wuyou's skill, a chance to add certain stacks of the [Soulbind] mark.

(3) [Passive Skill-Plume Reverie] : Based on the original skill, increased the DMG RES obtained by Wuyou, enhanced Wuyou's Mark Explode effect and the trigger limit of DMG taken in a single attack not exceeding max HP, and added a HP Recovery reduction effect for targets within the Nether Cage.

(4) Skill effect unlock at Skin Upgrade+10: Wuyou gains an extra AGI boost; when the [Soulbind] Mark explodes within the Nether Cage, the number of targets to be absorbed Rage increases to 4.

 

u New Supernal Pet: Celestail

Exclusive Skill-Galaxy Scroll (Max Level)

(1) In the first 5 rounds, at the end of each round, recover HP for the ally with the lowest HP.

(2) Additionally cast a shield of a certain percentage of HP on 3 random allies, and prioritize targets with Billow Mark or Spill Mark to apply Zephyr Mark. Zephyr Mark disperses Spill Mark and Billow Mark and converts them into Zephyr Mark. While Zephyr Mark persists, the target cannot be cast with Spill Mark or Billow Mark.

(3) [Zephyr Mark]: Supernal Pet Mark, grants 6% Final DMG RES.

(4) Exclusive Pet Gear Skill [Brocade Plume]: The carrier gains increased percentage DEF in battle.

 

u New LR Spirit: Snow Shadow

(1) [Exclusive Skill-Unknown Words] :  Each time the carrier is attacked, there is a chance to randomly Freeze an enemy (dispellable) for 2 rounds (max 2 triggers per round).

(2) [Passive Skill-Snow Soul] :Increase the carriers RES at the beginning of the round.

(3) [Passive Skill-Icy Silk] : Increase the DMG RES of the carrier at the beginning of the round.

 

u New Ride: Glacial Deer, Cinnamon

 

u New Costume: Glazed Flutter, Glacial Veil, Vibrant Purity; Heir Costume: Blue Message; Costume Halo: Sky Perch

 

u Other Optimizations

(1) New Heir Furniture - Sugar Dream.

(2) Mentorship optimization: New fish species added to the Mentorship Fish Pond, and the level cap of the Mentorship Peach Tree has been raised.

(3) Flash Ride optimization: The Spirit Stable now allows Flash Ride placement.

(4) PVP Overwhelming Rating optimization: After the update, the Overwhelming Rating coefficient will be optimized based on the existing system, significantly improving the stability of PVP Might Boost and enhancing the strategic depth of Hero team composition.

(5) Bonus Exchange reward optimization: New Icy Twig exchange for Icy Petals added to the weekly exchange.

(6) Assist optimization: The difficulty of Hire Support Assist Points milestone rewards has been slightly reduced.

(7) Spirit optimization: When using boost items for Spirit State Upgrade, the maximum required quantity of boost items is now selected by default. If the boost item quantity is insufficient, the current maximum owned quantity is selected by default.

(8) Cross-server Arena optimization: The Cross-server Arena Bet Result display has been optimized to show the specific number of winning rounds in match results.

(9) Kitty Trick optimization: New Quick Challenge feature added. Unlocked after clearing the Kitty Trick stage and reaching a stage rating of Rosy Kitty.

(10) Nightmare Trace reward optimization: New [Impossible Love] Mask reward added to the Nightmare Trace exchange shop.

(11) Chanluo Treasure Map reward optimization: New [Silken Perch] Shoulder reward added to the Chanluo's Heritage Costume Box.

(12) Astral Attic reward optimization: New [Drizzle Yard] and [Riding Gust] Ride Luster rewards added to the Astral Attic Shop.

(13) Team Competition optimization: New Surrender feature added to Team Competition.

(14) Palace Trial optimization: New Quick Challenge feature added. Unlocked after clearing Chapter 10 of Palace Trial and reaching VIP Level 1.

 

Tips】

1. There will be a 5-minute maintenance countdown before the maintenance starts, during which you can not do anything in the game. As soon as the maintenance starts, you will not be able to log in the game. Please arrange your time in advance.

2. Please take note of your account, password as well as your server name before the maintenance.

3. Please pay attention to the time of your Banquets and prearrange them in case of any unnecessary losses.

4. Thanks for your understanding and support. Please do not hesitate to contact us as following if you have any problems.

Customer Service Email: fswqg_service@friendtimes.net