Update 46.0.1 Release Notes

Here are the Release Notes for Update 46.0.1: Kingdoms of Harad, released on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.

Of Special Note:

The Yuletide Festival begins at 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) tomorrow (Thursday, December 11th)!

The Yuletide Festival has returned for 2025 along with Yule Hobbit Presents! Hobbit Presents have a chance to drop bonus Yule gifts including a mount, cosmetic pets, and housing decorations. A slate of new rewards is also available in this year's Yuletide Festival. Read more in our guide on LOTRO.com! 

  • Available during the Yule festival this year, you can get weekly and daily quests from Mara Sandydowns in Winter-home or Calúrmin at Sul Madásh. For the weekly quest, Mara and Calúrmin will accept 2500 Embers of Enchantment for 5000 Virtue XP added directly to your current virtue. Daily quests from Mara require you to obtain 10 Perfect Snowballs from the barter vendor in Winter-home or to provide 10 Mûr Ghala Sarzái for Calúrmin to receive 500 Virtue XP.
    • Note: You may have to re-log after acquiring enough of the token to complete the turn in.

News and Notes:

  • Planning Note: With the release of Update 46.1 in January, we will be restoring our prior Homesteading Coin return rate of 90% when selling premium homes. Note that premium houses that are released automatically as part of the transfer process will continue to return 100% of their Homesteading Coin cost via in-game mail on the destination world. Foreclosed premium houses will continue to refund 80% of their homesteading coin cost.

Legendary Items and Traceries

  • With the release of Update 46 we encountered an issue where Legendary Items were, in some cases, incorrectly displaying un-leveled or empty tracery slots. Most items at or near the 150 level cap were unaffected, but lower level items were generally affected. While no Traceries were actually lost from these affected items, the data indicating which levels went with which slot was shuffled.
  • With this Update 46.0.1 game update any affected items should once again be displaying their proper Tracery slotting, but unfortunately, the levels on those Tracery slots may be re-arranged, with the levels re-assigned to a different slot of the same type.
  • Note that if you re-slotted an affected item in the meantime, this fix will not revert your item to its prior state, but will likely still reorder your item's Traceries and slot levels to ensure that there are no lingering issues with the item data.
  • Tier 16 Word of Craft Traceries will now correctly contribute to normal set bonuses, while Tier 15 and below Traceries will contribute to 'Faded' set bonuses.
  • Tracery boxes granting level 151+ rewards now correctly require players to be level 151 or higher to open them.
  • Ettenmoors weekly quests now reward a scaling box to provide a Tracery token appropriate to your character level.
  • We corrected an issue where occasionally Sealed Tracery and Tracery, Lvl 151 packages were giving level 131 heraldries to level 151+ characters.
  • Reward Track 16: Tiers 40, 65, and 90 rewards no longer grant Umbar-specific Tracery recipes. These rewards now grant players a Tracery token and a Delving Box of Crafting Materials. The repeatable level 101+ reward can likewise no longer award players with crafted Tracery recipes.

Quests & Reputation

  • We addressed an issue where Mizadi and crew did not respawn properly after the ambush in “To Shield the Shepherds.”
  • An issue has been resolved that made it difficult to advance the An Shêru quest “Gathering Friends” when other players were doing the same quest objective at the same time.
  • Made an adjustment to prevent the whispers from getting stuck on characters that progress “The Song of Waves and Wind.”
  • Updated the bestowal text for the Kintai Reputation to reflect needing to speak with the Quartermaster.
  • Altered the reputation tiers for the Kintai reward quests to the correct values.
  • Removed duplicate map-notes for Bâdrasag, the Bladehorn in Kighân.
  • Fixed several floating quest items in Kighân.
  • Corrected objective text in the An Shêru quest “Mounting a Rescue” to be more clear.
  • Altered the reputation tiers for the Temamir of Jiret-menêsh reputation reward quests to the correct values.
  • Altered the reputation tiers for the Hamat Renewed reward quests to the correct values.

Crafting

  • Woodworker recipes for the Simple Axe, Club, Bow, and Crossbow no longer require Brushed Múrai Leather
  • The farming recipe for Chickpeas now properly gives out Chickpeas for its critical output.

Monster Play

  • Ettenmoors chests found at Glân Vraig are updated to contain scholar mats, gems, and essences for characters 151+.

Miscellaneous:

  • Roc monsters found throughout An Shêru now have unique skills.
  • Addressed a visual artifact where new spider models introduced in Update 46 were stretching. This change will fix both monsters on landscape and monster play appearances.
  • Normal travel routes from Jiret-menesh no longer get stuck shortly after leaving.
  • The normal travel route from the Hallows of Gadim to The Dawn-Warden no longer gets stuck near the end of the route.
  • Adjusted placement of an Idagal Treasure Cache to avoid players getting stuck.
  • GERMAN: Updated translations for the Community Loot List title prefixes "Artist" and "Musician" in German.
  • GERMAN: The bug causing difficulty for German players to join the German world chat has been corrected.  
  • FRENCH: The French client will now display text properly in French.

Known Issues:

  • We are aware of an issue with the Cosmetic Outfits panel not always displaying properly on some characters.  We apologize for this troublesome bug and are working on a fix for our next game update.
  • We are aware of an issue where a string table error will sometimes appear when harvesting wood nodes.  We are investing the cause and hope to have a fix soon.
  • German and French game clients: Some new Yule items, in particular the packages, do not yet have translated text.