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What's new in the MapleStory Classic World Public Release

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What did the Public Release add, and what did it take away?
iWhat What's new in the Public Release is
Classic World went from Closed Online Test 2 to the Public Release on 6 October 2026. This is what that build brought, read out of its files rather than its announcements: first what the original game never had, then what is new since the second test, then what the test had and the release does not. Every number is counted when the page loads.

The short answer

309 new items, 1 new boss (Shade), 1 new monster, 6 new maps, 2 homes with 63 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
63
pieces for a home

The game in numbers

iWhere this page's numbers come from
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.
KindPublic ReleaseClosed Online Test 2
Classes15+10 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.25
Monsters117+96 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.187
Maps336+121 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.426
Quests343+59 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.322
NPCs301+60 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.266
Skills96+70 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; kept here as a record.163
Setup items240chairs, furniture and home pieces23
Cash Shop lines3,116+22 from CoT2: From Closed Online Test 2 (Beta 2). Not in the Grand Launch; 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 63 pieces to put inside: 52 pieces of furniture in a Henesys set and a Kerning City set, 4 storage chests, 6 crafting stations, one per discipline, and a straw training dummy. 24 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.

New boss: Shade

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 Mystery Fashion Crate is on sale at 3,500 NX, the Founder's Mystery Fashion Crate is on sale at 3,500 NX, the Halloween Mystery Fashion Crate is on sale at 4,900 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.

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.

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.

Every new quest line

LineWhereFrom LvQuestsEXPMesos
What the City Taught MeCitizenship, Kerning City27516,5003,792
A Marble of FriendshipCitizenship, Henesys37532,1645,148
The Doctor Who Never ReturnedCitizenship, Kerning City37532,1645,148
A Grudge That Won't RestCitizenship, Kerning City47550,1606,497
Maya and Her Peculiar SaviorCitizenship, Henesys47557,0007,385
A Gift for a Citizen of HonorCitizenship, Henesys57578,3207,848
A Task for a Citizen of HonorCitizenship, Kerning City57583,6608,384
Caretaker's LedgerEllinia28624,5405,352
Event questsEvent1012--

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.

Changed monsters and skills

62 monsters revised. Seventeen new. Two bosses: Stumpy, level 35, in the new Parched Land, and Faust, level 65, with no spawn in the export. Eight for the Excavation Site: Ghost Stump, Wooden Mask and Rocky Mask on the dig itself, and Skeledog, Mummydog, Skeleton Soldier, Officer Skeleton and Commander Skeleton (level 73) in the Remains and the camps. Five arrived ahead of the Moon Bunny’s Rice Cake party quest, which the roadmap puts on 18 November: the Moon Bunny, and two Stirges, a Flyeye and Goblin Fire on Primrose Hill. And another Flyeye and a training dummy, with no map. Of the 15 revised, nine spawn somewhere new, Lupin and Tortie attack every 5 seconds instead of 3, and five are harder to knock back: Copper Drake, Tortie, Drake and Red Drake twice as hard, Wild Kargo three times (375 to 1,125). The export also stopped writing the regular 7.56-second respawn on each spawn; that is a change in the export, not the game, and it is not counted here. Every one, field by field

62 skills revised. Nothing new or gone. Of the 12 revised, the eight 2nd-job Final Attack skills last 60 seconds instead of 30, Improved HP Recovery and Iron Body start at 20% instead of 5%, Improved MP Recovery at 10% instead of 5%, and Dark Sight needs Disorder at level 3 instead of 1. 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 Grand Launch; kept here as a record., so a link from the test still lands somewhere, and no guide here sends a live player to them.

Forgotten Hollow

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

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.

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 63 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 itemEverything 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 63 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; 27 Forgotten Hollow maps; and third job, 10 classes and 70 skills. With them went 96 monsters, 59 quests and 60 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.

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