Witches Festival
The Witches Festival is back with a new surprise – Lord Hollowjack himself strides forth from the clutter and darkness of Detritus to claim you as his next victim. Show him how big of a mistake that would be!

A new daily quest is available inside any of the Witchmother Breweries located in the wilderness of Glenumbra, Auridon, or Stonefalls. Priest Maxien Roundille will set you on the path to rescuing some of Hollowjack's haunted victims before confronting the Daedra Lord himself, but be warned! Though the activities up to that point can be done alone, Hollowjack himself is the most fearsome event boss to date and is balanced for 6 to 12 players of average skill and gear. Defeat him each day for his own unique Dremora Plunder Skull (sourced by the event quest reward) as well as an achievement that grants you a Hollowjack trophy furnishing. Continue to help others defeat the Lord of Fear for a chance to receive a Hollowjack bust furnishing from his gourdy remains!

This year's Plunder Skulls may contain a myriad of offerings, including spooky furnishings, recipes, alchemy supplies, and other treasures. Their Dremora Plunder Skull counterparts – available from the usual sources – have a chance to drop Witches Festival crafting writs (from which you can get Hollowjack style pages for those who need them), Glenmoril treasure maps, Crowborne Hunter style pages, or this year's new offerings – the Eltheric Revenant outfit style, the Plunder Skull Blunder memento, or fragments for the Senchal Horned Owl pet.

The Witches Festival grab bag this year contains the following items:
Event Tickets come from the first boss-type creature that would drop a plunder skull. You can get two (2) Event Tickets per day this way, all in one parcel, as a drop from the boss.

This event also introduces the first TWO of FIVE total fragments for the final morph for this year's anniversary-themed collectible, the Haven of the Five Companions house! The Impresario will carry these fragments as usual, along with bound versions of this year's new offerings.

General

• Updated Ithelia's teeth to lessen the appearance of shadows.

West Weald

• Fixed a bug that prevented the Mudcrabs in the West Weald from dropping chitin.

Achievements

• The new alchemy-related achievements are not correctly triggering and have been removed for the time being. They will be re-introduced in a future update. These achievements are:
  • Alchemical Expert
  • Powdered Mother of Pearl
  • Dragon Rheum
  • Dragon's Bile
  • Dragon's Blood
  • Chaurus Egg
  • Crimson Nirnroot
  
  General
  • When equipped with the Illusive Molag Bal polymorph, some small adjustments were made so that you will now sound even more like the Daedric Prince himself!
  
  Infinite Archive
  • General
    • Fabled monsters will now only use proper adornments for their race and gender combinations.
    • Updated the default enchantments for Beacon of Oblivion and Monolith of Storms weapons.
  • Verses and Visions
    • Updated the sound effects for the Grasping Limbs Verse and removed the erroneous icon from appearing in your active effects.
    • Updated the sound effects for the Extravagant Elixers Verse.
    • The Necrotic Support Vision will now always grant resources if you defeat a monster, not just went you get the final blow.
    • The erroneous Undead Avatar icon will no longer appear in your active effects.
    • The Adaptive Athlete vision will now correctly only grant additional stamina and magicka recovery when health is missing.
    • The Apocryphal Emmisary vision will now correctly apply or reapply to companions that are summoned or resummoned.
    • The Apocryphal Augur from Apocryphal Emmisary will no longer display a hostile telegraph.
    • The Scorching Support vision now indicates the time accurately on its tooltip.
  • Tho’at Replicanum
    • Tho’at’s Dragon Shard will now always be available to engage when intended.
  
  Witches Festival
  • Corrected the placement and visibility of an additional set of rogue decorations throughout Tamriel.
  
  Homes
  • Haven of the Companions
    • Cleaned up some texture issues on the roof of the home.
    • Closed a hole that was present under one of the rock overhangs.
  • Seabloom Villa
    • Adjusted the collision outside of the home so you can no longer reach unintended areas.
    • Slightly raised the height at which characters die when falling off the peninsula.
  Furnishings
  • Fixed the collision on the furnishing “Dawnwood Platter, Feast” so that you no longer will be able to pass through it.
  • Fixed an issue where you’d slide off the top of the furnishing “Colovian Glassblower's Furnace” if you tried to stand on it.
  • Adjusted the collision on the following furnishings to better match the visuals:
    • Colovian Staircase, Straight
    • Colovian Staircase, Westerly Bend
    • Colovian Staircase, Easternly Bend
    • Colovian Interior Archway, Plaster
    • Colovian Garden Wall, Straight
  • Reduced interact range of the Scribing Altar to bring it in line with other existing Housing crafting stations.
  • Removed Heartwood and Woodworking requirements from Praxis: Colovian Fireplace, Stone since it has no wooden components.
  • Altered ingredients and tradeskill requirements on several new Master Writ Gold Furnishing Recipes based on internal feedback to bring them up to standards:
    • Diagram: Colovian Chandelier, Grapes - Removed Enchanting Tradeskill Requirement and Mundane Rune ingredient; new ingredient is x20 Rakeipa.
    • Pattern: Colovian Tapestry, Red Diamond - Removed Provisioning Tradeskill Requirement and Decorative Wax; new ingredient is x50 Ruby.
    • Praxis: Colovian Glassblower's Furnace - Removed Woodworking Tradeskill Requirement and Heartwood; new ingredient is x20 Rakeipa.
    • Design: Dawnwood Platter, Feast - Enchanting Tradeskill Requirement and Mundane Rune ingredient; new ingredient is x25 Fish.
    • Blueprint: Colovian Keg, Gigantic Wine - Removed Provisioning Tradeskill Requirement and Decorative Wax; new ingredient is x50 Surilie Grapes.
  • Corrected an issue where the furnishing "Apocrypha Jewelry Crafting Station" would let you interact with it from much further away then you should have been able to.
  
  Cyrodiil
  • Fixed a spot near Farragut Keep Mine where you could get stuck inside a hill.
  Grahtwood
  • Fixed several locations where back-facing geometry (the inside “void” of placed fixtures) was visible.
  • Fixed a spot near the Falinesti Winter Site where you could get stuck between assets.
  
  Crafting
  • Fixed a UI error that could occur when viewing Outfit Styles after dyeing a costume.