Update 45.6 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 45.6, released on Thursday, October 9, 2025.

Of Special Note:

The Harvestmath Festival begins on Thursday! 

The Harvestmath Festival begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Thursday, October 9th, and continues until 3:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on November 3rd. This year's festival features new rewards, including a "Cobweb" cosmetic cloak, hat, robe, Harvestmath Cauldron, Fall Hobby-broom, decorative pumpkins and webbed hedges, new pets, "spooky" housing music themes and more! See this year's full reward list in our guide to the Harvestmath Festival on LOTRO.com.

News and Notes:

  • NPCs will no longer fall through the floor in the Tier 1 version of the raid "Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo",

  • The number of spawns from skills have been reduced in the Garash fight in the raid "The Temple of Utug-bûr". We have reduced most summoning effects by half as well.

  • A bug has been corrected that prevented characters under level 50 from accessing titles in the third Monster Player Reward Track.

  • Captain-General and Tyrant quests at Tol Ascarnen, Grimwood Lumber Camp, and Tirith Rhaw will now advance correctly.

  • The reset at the Grimwood Lumber Camp will now invoke an hour long cooldown on resetting the NPCs.

  • Legendary Worlds: Nazgul logic has been adjusted to trigger victory at the start of its defeat sequence.