What's new in the MapleStory Classic World Public Release

The short answer

309 new items, 1 new boss (Shade), 1 new monster, 6 new maps, 2 homes with 61 pieces to place and 52 new hairstyles and faces; third job and Ossyria removed. The headline is housing, which the original game never had. Everything that went keeps its page here, marked CoT2.

2,795: rows added
366: rows removed
800: rows revised
61: pieces for a home

The game in numbers

Built from overview.json, patch_notes.json, items.json, quests.json, maps.json, cash_shop.json, data/cot2/. Nothing on this page is written from memory, and where a number comes from somewhere other than the client’s own files it says so beside itself.

Kind	Public Release	Closed Online Test 2
Classes	15+10 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	25
Monsters	92+97 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	187
Maps	305+127 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	426
Quests	316+59 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	322
NPCs	226+59 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	266
Skills	96+70 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	163
Setup items	226chairs, furniture and home pieces	23
Cash Shop lines	3,232+13 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record.	872

The Public Release column is the release’s own count; what Closed Online Test 2 had and the release does not is kept on this site beside it and counted after the plus. The full diff, 3,961 rows in 10 sections, is the changelog, and each kind has a list of its own: new items, new monsters, new maps, new quests and everything removed.

Housing and furniture

Nothing like this was in the original game, the early MapleStory that Classic World starts from. Later versions of MapleStory went their own way, and the claim here is only that narrow one.

Housing: a home of your own

Henesys and Kerning City each get a home behind a gold door, with a Housing Registrar beside it. The client carries 61 pieces to put inside: 52 pieces of furniture in a Henesys set and a Kerning City set, 2 storage chests, 6 crafting stations, one per discipline, and a straw training dummy. 22 of them do something when you stand by them: lights switch on, wardrobes open, benches seat you and beds let you lie down.

How you get a home, what it costs and whether it is switched on at launch are the server’s; the housing guide lists what the files leave open.

The housing guide Yellow Mushroom House Backalley Semi-Basement

New boss: Shade

Shade, a new boss

Level 48, 47,000 HP, undead, weak to Holy, alone in Cabin of the Forsaken, reached from Niora Hospital through The Murky Swamp. It is the fight in An Old Grudge, part of the Kerning City Citizenship story A Grudge That Won't Rest, from level 47.

Niora Hospital The Murky Swamp Cabin of the Forsaken

The bosses guide has Shade beside every other boss in the client, with where each spawns and how often.

New items

309 new items and pieces of equipment, most of them chairs and furniture. Every one of them is listed with its art; these are the ones that are new in kind.

Aurora Stamps

The Cash Shop data adds 4 Mystery Fashion Crates (Mystery Fashion Crate, Founder's Mystery Fashion Crate, Halloween Mystery Fashion Crate, Aurora Mystery Fashion Crate), and the Founder's Mystery Fashion Crate is on sale at 3,500 NX. The stamp is where an unwanted result goes: “An Aurora Stamp obtained by reusing items from the Mystery Fashion Crate. Aurora Stamps can be exchanged for items that can be traded before being equipped.”

A random cosmetic box is not new in itself; turning what it gives you into a currency is. What the stamps buy is decided by the server.

New hair and faces

52 new hairstyles and faces, the collaboration’s among them, and 1 renamed. The Cash Shop data also carries 5 Coloring Prism lines that recolour cosmetics, none of them on sale.

Every one, in the changelog

Frieren collaboration items

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

A collaboration with the anime: 7 hair coupons, 8 face coupons and 15 outfit sets and selectors. Two weapon covers do more than look the part: Frieren's Staff grants Ordinary Offensive Magic (Zoltraak) and Fern's Staff grants Demon-Killing Magic (Zoltraak), each a screen-wide cut-in of the character casting it.

Neither staff is on sale in this build, and how the collaboration is handed out is not in the files.

New quests and events

The Caretaker's Ledger

6 quests from level 28, 24,540 EXP and 5,352 mesos in all, that start in The Circulation Desk, a new room off the Magic Library, with Lyn the Librarian, Sabrina the Scribe and Jon the Justicar. The last one gives the Faded Maple Leaf Earrings.

The Circulation Desk The first quest

Citizenship, up to Citizen of Honor

35 new Citizenship quests in 7 story lines, from level 27 to 57, carry both towns’ stories past where the test stopped. The two lines at level 57 end in the Henesys Earrings and the Kerning City Earrings, and Kerning City’s leads to Slade in a new cabin.

Citizenship The Hermit's Cabin

Events

11 quests the client labels as events. Halloween comes with Malady and her candies. The longest is a treasure trail of 7 steps, from a torn journal in The Marks We Leave Behind to the Mark of the Beta at the end of it.

Halloween Candies Trick or Treat!Founder's First Step The Journey Begins The Marks We Leave Behind

Every new quest line

Line	Where	From Lv	Quests	EXP	Mesos
What the City Taught Me	Citizenship, Kerning City	27	5	16,500	3,792
A Marble of Friendship	Citizenship, Henesys	37	5	32,164	5,148
The Doctor Who Never Returned	Citizenship, Kerning City	37	5	32,164	5,148
A Grudge That Won't Rest	Citizenship, Kerning City	47	5	50,160	6,497
Maya and Her Peculiar Savior	Citizenship, Henesys	47	5	57,000	7,385
A Gift for a Citizen of Honor	Citizenship, Henesys	57	5	78,320	7,848
A Task for a Citizen of Honor	Citizenship, Kerning City	57	5	83,660	8,384
Caretaker's Ledger	Ellinia	28	6	24,540	5,352
Event quests	Event	10	12	-	-

A quest is new when the frozen Closed Online Test 2 export does not have it; a line is the quests that share a parent. EXP and mesos are the quest rows’ own rewards added up. The event quests pay through scripts the export does not carry, so their rows read nothing.

6 new maps: Yellow Mushroom House, The Circulation Desk, Backalley Semi-Basement, The Hermit's Cabin, The Murky Swamp, Cabin of the Forsaken.

2 new monsters: Shade, Orange Slime, and 19 new NPCs.

Changed monsters and skills

62 monsters revised. Two new: Shade, a level 48 boss in the Cabin of the Forsaken, and the Orange Slime. Ninety-seven gone: the 40 that spawned only in Ossyria, and 57 the second test carried with no map to spawn on. Of the 62 revised, 40 give less EXP and 7 more (King Slime went from 248 to 2,400), 39 are harder to hit, and Zombie Mushmom went from level 50 to 55. Every one, field by field

62 skills revised. Nothing new. The 70 removed are all 3rd job, seven for each of the ten classes. The 62 revised are all 1st and 2nd job: 59 were reworded, Rush, Slash Blast, Arrow Bomb, Iron Arrow and Poison Breath now hit six monsters instead of four while Holy Arrow hits one instead of three, Rush’s cooldown went from 1 second to 2, Arrow Bomb and Iron Arrow lost the weapon from their names, and the eight Final Attack skills were given a hit count and a duration. Every one, field by field

WASD movement in the Modern Style preset

The original game moved with the arrow keys. The client’s Modern Style preset read “Standard layout with Quickslots mapped to QWER and 1-4.” in Closed Online Test 2, and reads “Action-game layout using WASD for movement and QERT / ZXCV for Quickslots.” in the Public Release.

From the client's own strings: the export carries no key presets.

What was removed

The release dropped these. Their pages stay on this site, marked CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Public Release; kept here as a record., so a link from the test still lands somewhere, and no guide here sends a live player to them.

Ossyria

92 maps, Orbis and El Nath among them. The release has no Ossyria at all.

Orbis El Nath Every map removed

Forgotten Hollow

32 maps of the test’s own cave region under Victoria Island, with its quests and its monsters.

The Forgotten Hollow guide

Third job

The 10 third-job classes (Crusader, Dragon Knight, White Knight, F/P Mage, I/L Mage, Priest, Ranger, Sniper, Chief Bandit, Hermit) and their 70 skills. The planner still loads a build that uses one, marked.

The classes Every skill removed

Monsters, quests and NPCs

97 monsters, 59 quests (Forgotten Hollow, Orbis, El Nath) and 59 NPCs.

Monsters removed Quests removed

Questions

What is new in the MapleStory Classic World Public Release?

309 new items, 1 new boss (Shade), 1 new monster, 6 new maps, 2 homes with 61 pieces to place and 52 new hairstyles and faces; third job and Ossyria removed. Every one of them is listed on this site, read from the client against Closed Online Test 2.

Every new item Everything removed

Is there housing in MapleStory Classic World?

The Public Release client has it: a home in Henesys and one in Kerning City, each behind a door on the town map, and 61 pieces to put in one. How you get a home and what it costs are the server’s, and are not in the files.

The housing guide

Is Shade a new boss?

Yes. Shade is a level 48 boss with 47,000 HP that Closed Online Test 2 did not have, alone in Cabin of the Forsaken.

Every boss

What did the Public Release remove?

Ossyria, all 92 of its maps with Orbis and El Nath among them; 32 Forgotten Hollow maps; and third job, 10 classes and 70 skills. With them went 97 monsters, 59 quests and 59 NPCs. This site keeps every one of their pages, marked CoT2.

Everything removed

Is there a Frieren collaboration?

The client has one: 7 hair coupons, 8 face coupons and 15 outfit sets and selectors, and Frieren's Staff and Fern's Staff, neither of them on sale in this build. How the collaboration is handed out is not in the files.