Land of the Morning Light Patch Guide - BDFoundry (2024)

Introduction

Land of the Morning Light is a new BDO region expansion that arrived on Korean Live servers on 29th March 2023, with a global release on 14th June 2023.

Land of the Morning Light is the expansion to the land on the Haso Continent across the seas, behind what we previously knew as Port Ratt and the homeland of the Musa, Maehwa, and Lahn classes. Now players will finally be able to explore the land behind this little town. The new region looks to be around the same size as Kamaslyvia. It has been talked about by Pearl Abyss for many years but was officially first teased at Heidel Ball 2022, with more information being revealed at Calpheon Ball 2022.

You can check out the new region on our Interactive Map!

Video Teasers

Nampo Moodle Village (Port Ratt)

The location previously known as Port Ratt has now been transformed and renamed to Nampo Moodle Village

Inspiration and Theme

The Land of the Morning Light is inspired by the Joseon Dynasty, the last dynastic kingdom of Korea. The region features unique terrain, buildings, and vegetation that are reminiscent of the era. The setting of the Land of the Morning Light is based on various folktales and legends passed down from ancient times to modern times.

There are lots of small references and places in the game that are based on real places in Korea.

Near Dalbeol Village, you can even find Dol Hareubang statues, which are found on Jeju Island in real life! They are considered to be gods offering both protection and fertility, and touching their nose can bring you good luck, so this is the perfect place to enhance in Land of the Morning Light.

New Races

New races are being introduced with the addition of Land of the Morning Light. The first is the Horang, which is similar to the Fadus we know from Kamaslyvia.

There are also the Hare and Tortoise Folk, which are similar to the Otter and Papu races.

New Emojis

There are 3 new emojis you can permanently unlock and use in chat.

• Chat (Enter) > Press the “[E]” button to open the Emoji list

To unlock the emojis, you need to be level 56+ and complete the following 2 quests. Make sure all quest type are turned on in your quest log!

After completing the quest, use the emoji item in your Pearl Inventory to unlock the emoji!

For players who would like to start their journey in Land of the Morning Light, you can select the Land of the Morning Light option when you create a new character!

The story quests will be full of Korean folklore and unlike other story quests, players will be able to choose their own path in the story. The Land of the Morning Light splits off into its own story, giving a break from the main plot of Ancient Relics and Illezra the White Witch. Adventurers will find themselves swept up into an incident with Dolswe, leading you to be under the watchful eye of Lee Duksoo, Warden of the Donghae Province.

Unlike previous regions with linear stories, Adventurers will be searching for information on their own and deciding where to explore based on those findings. For example, Adventurers will gather information from the town regarding a monster that eats people’s livers, and follow that information to discover who the Gumiho is, and how to solve that case.

There are 8 short stories available as chapters in your “Storybook”. The Storybook is a journal or diary that you can refer to for clues and it will store your current story progress. All of the stories begin in the village and you can do them in any order, but you cannot start a new story until you have completed the current one. After completing all 8 chapters, you will unlock 5 more stories in a second journal.

The story will not have linear progression like in the past, and there are actually 2 different endings for each story. The ending you choose will be stored in your new “Storybook”, along with illustrations from your journey. One of the main characters in the story is Yeonghwa. Adventures already met her in the Magnus, but it appears she already made it back to her homeland before us.

If you have completed the Magnus Questline and the extra LoML Magnus quests (3 extra puzzles), you can teleport between Nampo Moodle Village to/from the other cities.

The cost to teleport using the Magnus is as follows:

For players who have not unlocked the Magnus yet, you can either sail across the sea on your own ship or hitch a ride on the NPC Ferry.

The NPC Ferry is free to board and will take you from Nampo Moodle Village to Oquilla’s Eye, you can then catch another ship from there to Velia. You can also catch the Ferry in the opposite direction, from Velia to Nampo.

The NPC Ferry takes around 40 – 60 minutes, and you can see its current location on the world map:

Workers, Materials, and Nodes

For worker lodging, there are a couple of options available. Most of the Lodging at Dalbeol Village are level 1 only, so you can get 1 worker for 1 CP at each of the workshops. There is also one level 2 Lodging in Dalbeol Village, which is also 1 CP.

However, there is a level 3 Worker Lodging at the Dokkebi Forest node, allowing you to obtain 4 workers for just 1 CP.

Black Shrine (Boss Blitz)

Unlike previous regions, the Land of the Morning Light will not have the traditional grind spots. This new region will instead have various bosses.

There are 9 different bosses and each one has complicated mechanics and strategy. Some examples of these new bosses are the Gumiho, Songakshi, Duoksini, the Bamboo Legion Lieutenant and the Apex Changui.

The boss fights are designed to be challenging and intense, and there are up to 10 levels of difficulty for each boss, with new mechanics or attack patterns introduced as you climb to a higher difficulty.

Currently, you can only challenge up to level 7, and level 8+ will be unlocked at a later date to allow time for players to become more familiar with the bosses.

Any class can challenge up to level 5 difficulty straight away, but to reach level 6 and higher, the difficulty must be unlocked one by one. When the first player in each class clears a level for the first time, a message is displayed for all players to honor the achievement. This player then unlocks the next level for all players in the same class.

Black Shrine can be accessed by going to the ESC Menu > Adventure (F5) > Black Shrine menu.

Each time you complete a story chapter in Land of the Morning Light, you can unlock the boss that is connected to that story.

Boss Aura System

In the Aura Management tab of the Black Shrine UI, you can check which Aura each boss is weak towards.

Each boss has an Aura allocated to them (eg. Sun, Moon, Earth) and the Aura affects the attack and defense of the boss.

You may be able to defeat the lower levels of the bosses straight away, but to further progress and make the fight easier, you will need to collect points called “Light Orb” while completing the main quests in Land of the Morning Light, and then use these points to strengthen a certain Aura.

• For example, if you put points into the Earth Aura, you will become stronger against bosses that have that Aura. The amount of “Light Orb” you can obtain will be limited so you need to think carefully and plan how you want to allocate the points.

The Auras are very important, since 90% of your damage is determined by the Aura type, and the remaining 10% is determined by your character AP. The ratio for your defenses is the same as well, with 90% of your defenses determined by the Aura type, and the remaining 10% determined by your DP. However, your character stats will become more and more important when you reach the higher difficulty levels since the Auras can only be leveled so far.

You can reset your Auras at any time for 2 million silver. Currently, you can get 3 Light Orb from the Story quests.

Boss Kill Leaderboard

Completion time for boss kills will be recorded in a leaderboard against other players. The Black Shrine rankings are applied to each class separately, and not to your entire family.

The boss kills rankings are updated at 00:00 every day and on Sunday at 00:00, rewards are given to all players who successfully completed the boss. There are different tiers for the rewards, and the reward you obtain is based on your kill speed and ranking.

Example Boss completion reward (e.g. Golden Pig King)

– Right-click to acquire all of the items below. Imperfect Lightstone of Fire Sealed Black Magic Crystal Memory Fragment Sangpyeong Coin Trace of Battle Embers of Hongik Black Stone – The items below can be obtained additionally according to the specified probability. Dahn’s Gloves Flame of Hongik Bonghwang’s Tear (Calamity 8 – 10) Haetae’s Tear (Calamity 8 – 10) Girin’s Tear (Calamity 8 – 10) Bonghwang’s Crystal (Calamity 5 – 7) Haetae’s Crystal (Calamity 5 – 7) Girin’s Crystal (Calamity 5 – 7) Bonghwang’s Fragment (Calamity 1 – 4) Haetae’s Fragment (Calamity 1 – 4) Girin’s Fragment (Calamity 1 – 4) Deboreka Earring (Calamity 4 – 10) Tear of Illusion (Calamity 4 – 10) Essence of Taebaek Crystal of Harmony Crystal of Darkness Crystal of Bitterness Crystal of Decimation Resplendent Lightstone of Fire

New Adventure Logs

There is an Adventure Log for Land of the Morning Light, which offers once-per-family rewards for completing the different difficulty levels for each boss in the Black Shrine. For full details about the rewards, please check our Black Shrine guide.

There are also other new adventure logs, such as the “[LoML] Aventure Log – The Eyes of Adventure” journal. It can be completed with a character that is level 11 or higher.

And finally, the [LoML] Adventure Log – Storybook. This journal is for revisiting stories you have already completed.

Sangpyeong Coin

Land of the Morning Light has a new currency called “상평통보” which was used in the Korean Joseon Dynasty.

This currency can be exchanged for various new items that arrived with the Land of the Morning Light region!

Dahn’s Gloves

The “Dahn’s Gloves” are the Fallen God/Labreska equivalent for the glove armor slot.

There are 2 different versions of the gloves available for Damage Reduction and Evasion builds. You can also swap between the two gloves through an exchange quest.

To create the gloves, you require one of the following:

• PEN Blackstar Gloves
• or PEN Bheg’s Gloves (level 10 caphras)
• or PEN Leebur’s Gloves (level 10 caphras)

You then need to obtain the “Flame of Hongik” and complete a once-per-family questline to craft the gloves. This quest is obtainable through your Black Spirit and requires you to have completed all the main story quests in Land of the Morning Light.

Flame of Hongik

Both of the Dahn’s gloves require the same flame item, which is called the “Flame of Hongik“.

The Flame of Hongik can be obtained as a drop when defeating any of the bosses in the Black Shrine (any difficulty). You can also craft Flame of Hongik by Heating (L) Embers of Hongik x500.

These embers are also available from all bosses at any difficulty and can be obtained from the Dokkebi Forest Excavation Node, or if you want the Gloves straight away, you can prepare and exchange Crystalized Despair x1 for Embers of Hongik x2 at an NPC in Nampo Moodle Village.

Gloves Exchange Quest

Since there are 2 different types of gloves for Damage Reduction and Evasion, you can exchange between the two types by completing an exchange quest.

Quest NPC	Requirements	Completion reward
Moodle Village [Chorong Merchant Guild] Hyunyong	Hand over 1 pair of Dahn’s Gloves Hand over Scorching Sun Shard x200	1 pair of Dahn’s Gloves – different from the one handed over (Same level of enhancement)

※ When the exchange quest is completed, the family name of the adventurer who completed the exchange quest will be engraved on the Dahn’s Gloves, regardless of the family name engraved on the gloves which were originally handed over.

※ This is a quest that can be completed without any limitations on the number of times it can be completed.

Taebaek’s Belt

Taebaek’s Belt is a new belt that can be crafted using a new item called “Essence of Taebaek“. This item can drop when you defeat a boss (any difficulty) in Land of the Morning Light.

Crafting Recipe for Taebaek’s Belt (Processing > Heating):

• Essence of Taebaek x1
• Tungrad Belt x1
• Magical Shards x50
• Black Stone x100
• Magical Lightstone Crystal x100

Taebaek’s Belt is a unique accessory because it unlocks a new skill when equipped. The skill depends on the level of enhancement and the belt cannot be unequipped while the skill is on cooldown.

Taebaek’s Blessing I~V
Effect of skill use	Preview
All AP +5/10/15/20/25/30 for 60 seconds when using the skill All defense +10/15/20/25/35/50 for 60 seconds when using the skill All Accuracy rate +0/1/2/3/4/5% for self and allies for 60 seconds Super Armor Cooldown time: 10 minutes

Deboreka Earring

The Deboreka Earring can drop from bosses (level 4+) in the Land of the Morning Light region. The higher the level, the higher chance of obtaining the earring when you open your Weekly Boss Rewards.

Deboreka Earringhas a 3-set bonus when equipped with the other Deboreka accessories:

• 3 set effect: All AP +12
• The set effect is applied even when wearing 2 Deboreka Earrings and 1 Deboreka Necklace or Belt

As well as the earring dropping directly, you can obtain ‘Illusion Tears’ from the Black Shrine weekly rewards (Level 4+). These have a higher chance of being obtained and can be used to create a Deboreka Earring

Tear of Illusion
How to Obtain	Usage
Obtained reward for defeating a Land of the Morning Light boss. (available from Calamity 4 in the Black Shrine)	Usage: Craft Deboreka Earring Tear of Illusion x20 Embers of Hongik x400 Magical Lightstone Crystal x200 Yona’s Fragment x100 Simple Alchemy (L)

New Crystals

If you complete the Land of the Morning Light main questline, you can obtain 2 items called “Kkebiwater”. These items can be used to unlock 2 new crystal slots.

Combat Crystals

There are also the Tear crystals which have lots of item effects and are new best in slot crystals. However, you can only equip one of the Tear crystals in your Crystal Presets. There are 3 different versions of each crystal, and also 3 different Tear crystals to choose from depending on what stats you would like and what content you are doing.

Next is the Crystal of Harmony item. This item can be combined with existing crystals to create a more powerful version of the crystal, and is available from an Excavation node in the Land of the Morning Light, and also as a drop from any of the bosses in Black Shrine.

Finally, the last of the new combat crystals are the Crystal of Decimation, Crystal of Bitterness, and Crystal of Darkness.

• Each crystal belongs to the following crystal group, and the maximum number of equipable pieces in a group is 2.
  • Crystal of Brutal Decimation: Decimation category
  • Crystal of Frozen Bitterness: Bitterness category
  • Crystal of Mysterious Darkness: Extra Damage category
• The crystals have a high chance of being destroyed when the death penalty occurs.

Life Skill Crystals

• Crystals of Life and Vitality have been added, which can apply beneficial effects to life activities.
  • Crystals of Life can increase the amount of EXP gained by the life field.
  • Revitalization can increase life skills in the life field.
  • Crystals of life and vitality do not have crystal groups, so an unlimited number of them can be equipped in the crystal preset.

Gathering Mini-games

You can obtain knowledge of the Green Thumb Gathering by completing a series of quests in the Land of the Morning Light. This knowledge unlocks a green artisan skill, which adds a mini-game to the gathering life skill. The mini-game will trigger randomly and is different for each type of gathering.

The mini-game is easy to complete, and if you are successful, you will use more energy but will obtain a large amount of gathering materials all at once. This is expected to reduce the time required for gathering, and very rare materials can only be obtained through this new type of gathering.

For example, the Millennial Wild Ginseng is a highly prized item in the Land of the Morning Light, and when used, you can get a buff that lasts for 3 months. This item is exclusive to the new gathering ability but can be exchanged with other players on the central market.

You can also disable the mini-games if you don’t want them to appear.

Millennial Wild Ginseng

The Millennial Wild Ginseng is an item that can only be obtained through the new gathering mini-game, and is a very rare item.

The chance of the Ginseng being obtained is not affected by your gathering level, mastery, or the pet gathering item quanitity increase (such as Hedgehog).

The Ginseng can be sold on the central market, and when used, applies a 90 day buff to your entire family.

Other Gathering Materials

In addition, there are also lots of new materials you can obtain through gathering:

Marni Sniper Rifle and Hunting Lifeskill

Mad Scientist Marni has created a new invention in the Land of the Morning. Various improvements have been made to sniper hunting, including that the damage you deal depends on the area that you hit. For example, the greatest damage will be dealt with a headshot. The quality of the reward now also depends on your accuracy.

Marni’s Sniper Rifle allows you to see the exact area you shot.

To craft Marni’s Sniper Rift you must use the Dokkebi Tool Workshop in Land of the Morning Light.

The Sniper Rifle requires a new item called “Mystical Powder”. This can be obtained from the Dokkebi Forest, Haemo Island, and Golden Pig Cave nodes.

In addition, a “Sensitive Animal Habitat” is available in Land of the Morning Light, which is perfect for testing out your new sniper rifle on the wild boars, bears, and hawks in the area.

There is also a chance of rare animals being spotted, and these have a higher chance of valuable loot.

There is also stuffed furniture items that are obtained through Sniper hunting in this new area that Land of the Morning Light provides.

New Recipes and Utensils

New Recipes that are available using materials in Land of the Morning Light:

Item	Effects
Miraculous Tteokguk	Cooldown: 22 hr Recover HP +5000
Miraculous Herbal Medicine	Duration: 60 min Cooldown: 22 hr Energy +500 Restored Immediately Energy Recovery +30
Miraculous Nourishing Soup	Duration: 30 min Cooldown: 22 hr Max HP +200 Max Stamina +100 Does not stack with Iridescent Maehwa Liquor
Iridescent Maehwa Liquor	Duration: 30 min Cooldown: 22 hr All Damage Reduction +5 All Resistance +5% Special Attack Evasion Rate +2% Does not stack with Miraculous Nourishing Soup
Moodle Gukbap	Cooldown: 240 min Can only be used if the character’s Breath level is 40 or below. Use to gain Breath EXP
Dalbeol Gukbap	Cooldown: 240 min Can only be used if the character’s Strength level is 40 or below. Use to gain Strength EXP
Byeot County Gukbap	Cooldown: 240 min Can only be used if the character’s Health level is 40 or below. Use to gain Health EXP

※ The cooldown of all the above items continues to decrease even when the character is disconnected.

Below are some of the main materials needed to make the above recipes:

item	Where to get it
Strange and Beautiful Rice	Harvest from Strange and Beautiful Rice Seed, which can be obtained according to a set probability while farming Rice Seed
Strange and Beautiful Herb	Gather from Strange and Beautiful Herb, which can be found in specific places at “night” in Land of the Morning Light
Live Meat	Butcher Morning Light sniper hunting monsters
Iridescent Maehwa Liquor	Obtain at a set probability when gathering Maehwa from Land of the Morning Light

※Obtain at a set probability when gathering Maehwa from Land of the Morning Light
– Moodle Gukbap – Moodle Village [Big Auntie of Moodle] Wolim
– Dalbeol Gukbap – Dalbeol Village [Big Auntie of Dalbeol] Maksoon
– Byeot County Gukbap – Byeot County Village [Big Bad Auntie] Ahryung

Imperial Cooking Boxes have also been updated to include recipes from the Land of the Morning Light

cooking box	material item
Apprentice’s Cooking Box	Nurungji x30 / Jujube Tea x30
Skilled Cooking Box	Sungnyung x36 / Garaetteok x39 / Red Bean Sirutteok x39
Professional Cooking Box	Cooked Rice x15 / Red Bean Porridge x15 / Roasted Ginkgo x18
Artisan Cooking Box	Bean Sprout Salad x21 / Mungbean Jeon x15 / Buckwheat Muk x36
Master Cooking Box	Soybean Jjigae x18 / Skewer x15 / White Kimchi x21 / Dongchimi x24
Guru Cooking Box	Moodle Gukbap x12 / Dalbeol Gukbap x12 / Byeot County Gukbap x12

Items dedicated to the Land of the Morning have been added that plays the same role as the items below used in the existing areas.

existing item	new item
Cooking oil	Soybean Oil
Olive oil	Corn Oil
Deep frying oil	Cottonseed Oil
Cooking Wine	Matsul
Instant HP potion (extra large)	HP Gourd Bottle
Instant MP Potion (Super Large)	MP Gourd Bottle

Among the new material items in the Land of the Morning, the items that can be replaced with the existing items are as follows:

Existing items	Substitute items
Fruits such as strawberries, grapes, and apples	Wild Berry, Persimmon
Grains such as wheat, barley, and potatoes	Rice
Vegetables such as pumpkin and paprika	Napa Cabbage
Hides such as bear, wolf, lion	Tiger Hide
Blood such as Troll, ogre, bear, lion, yak	Tiger Blood
Meat such as Sheep, pig, cow, fox, wolf meat, etc.	Sea Lion Meat, Rabbit Meat

New Cooking & Alchemy Tools

In the Land of the Morning, you can cook and do alchemy using the following Cooking & Alchemy tools.

• Each tool can be exchanged for a repair tool from the NPCs below in each town, and through the repair tool, cooking/alchemy tools that have consumed durability can be repaired.
  • Cooking utensils : Moodle Village [Big Auntie of Moodle] Wolim / Dalbeol Village [Big Auntie of Dalbeol] Maksoon / Byeot County Village [Big Bad Auntie] Ahryung
  • Alchemy tools : Moodle Village [Blacksmith] Dalhoon / Dalbeol Village [Blacksmith] Sarang / Byeot County Village [Blacksmith] Old Man Sangcheol

New Housing – Mansions

Unlike other regions, there are no traditional player housing options in Land of the Morning Light. Instead, there are 2 available Mansions (similar to the Serendia Mansion).

With the addition of the Land of the Morning Light, 131 types of new furniture have also been added.

When you complete the main questline, you get the opportunity to rent the two housing options.

• You can also check the location of the manor through the manor icon on the world map (M).
• You can rent the manor for a certain period of time by paying silver coins and 5 contribution points during the rental period.

The rental costs and discount rates for the contracts are as follows:

New Ship – Panokseon

A new ship, the Panokseon, has been added that can be crafted at the Shipyard in Nampo Moodle Village.

This new ship is a warship that is mainly used for combat and is a mid-tier ship that is not as powerful as the carrack. What makes the ship special, is that it can carry a lot of sailors and a large crew, as well as exclusive equipment. The ship requires Ocean Coins to craft, so players that already own a mid-tier ship will find it easier to obtain.

※ Panokseon ship equipment installation will be added later.

※ Panokseon’s damage restoration cost is 3,000,000 silver per 10% damage. (Damage increases with remote retrieval or ship destruction.)

※ Panokseon needs to be supplied when registering as a ship for the first time.

Ship Skills

The ship skills that can be used on board the Panokseon are as follows.

How to Craft the Ship

The ship can be crafted at the level 1 shipyard in Nampo Moodle Village Workshop 4.

Ship License: Panokseon
Crafting Materials	Where to get it
Design: Panokseon x30	Complete “[Weekly] Pirate Trouble” from Yooan, the Nampo Moodle Village wharf manager (Obtain Design: Panokseon x2 upon completion)
Wooden Nail Soaked in Seawater x250	Defeat [Outlaw of the Vadabin Sea] Goldmont Small/Medium/Large Battleship
Finely Polished Pine Plywood x300	Exchange Sangpyeong Coin x10 with Yooan, the Nampo Moodle Village wharf manager
Glue With Traces of Deep Waves x200	Exchange Crow Coin x500 at the Crow Coin Shop

Official Links

Heidel Ball 2022 Livestream

Calpheon Ball 2022 Livestream

Calpheon Ball 2022 Recap

Korean Patch Notes 29th March 2023