Our Wizard student body continues to grow and the Spiral is growing with it. Olde Town is the place to be this July - there you will find the new Bazaar, the boat to our new world Grizzleheim, and Eudora TangleTree who will get you started on your first steps to Crafting.

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Listed below are many new features that have been added to Wizard101, but there are many more small details that you may want to read up on before you adventure further. For a complete list of what was added to Wizard101 on 01 July 2009, please see our Update Notes page.

  The BIG NEWS this month is Grizzleheim! We've officially launched Grizzleheim, a new world on the Spiral.

Inspired by Norse mythology, Grizzleheim is an airy, outdoor landscape of snowy mountains, glacial ridges and towering trees that is home to three new Wizard101 tribes - Bears, Wolves and Ravens.

Players will first encounter the Viking Bears of Grizzleheim, great traders with the ability to travel the worlds of the Spiral, in the free-to-play zones of Wizard City.

As student wizards adventure through subsequent worlds, Grizzleheim will offer new quests, new locations to explore, new opponents and new Viking-themed decorative housing items interspersed throughout the mid and higher levels of the game.

To view screenshots, visit our Grizzleheim Page

 Players can sell their extra items to a new shopkeeper named Elik Silverfist. He'll pay you the value in gold for your items based on supply and demand. If he already has lots of the item you are selling him then he will pay you less gold for yours. If he's low or out of stock on the item you are selling, he will pay you more gold! No matter what, he will always offer a better price than other shopkeepers.

You can also buy items from him that other players have sold. The more of an item he has, the cheaper it will be, and the fewer of an item he has, the more expensive it will be. If you see an item you like, buy it, it may not be there next time you visit.

All prices are based on his current stock of items, so shop often for that special bargain, young Wizards! And don't worry, if someone sells an item on Wu Realm, and you're on Pixie, you'll see it in his inventory - he's got all the Realms covered!

   Wizard101 has added Crafting to the Spiral.

This Crafting system introduces hundreds of new items into the game - all new hats, jewelry, robes, wands and other equipment. This new equipment includes items that span bonuses for multiple schools. They will exist in all combinations, but are meant to enhance spells from your primary school, and any other school's spells that you have learned. One example is a Myth item that boosts the damage bonus of Myth Spells, but also increases the accuracy of any Storm spells you may have. You can also craft furniture, and you might be interested to know that there is a Recipe for a Carousel!

To get started in the world of Crafting, see Eudora TangleTree in Olde Town and follow her instructions carefully.

Invite a FriendWe've changed how you can Earn Crowns by inviting Friends, instead of a different code each time, your account has a unique assigned Friend Code - give this code to one friend or one million friends. You will earn 1250 Crowns for each new person who creates a new Wizard101 account and purchases a Membership or buys $10 of Crowns (in a single purchase) on that account. Plus the newly invited friends and family who make a purchase will also get 1250 Crowns!

To participate in our updated Invite a Friend program, log in to Wizard101.com the website and click Earn Crowns under your name.

GroupingPlayers can now group together and form a temporary team of up to four. This will allow players to more easily complete Dungeons and quests as a group and reserve slots in their duels for other group members. To put together a Group, simply click on another player and the Friends Panel will appear. Click the option to Add to Group.

Once that group invitation has been accepted, the player will show in the new Group panel of your Friends List, along with other players in the group.

Groups have their own chat channel, to chat in your Group channel, press enter and you will see an icon of two faces. Click on this icon to chat in your Group channel. Click on the single mouth icon to talk in the local area channel.

  Stun Block
When a player is hit with a Stun spell in combat they will still be stunned, but now a new Stun Shield will appear around them.

The next time that player is attacked with any spell that stuns, the stun will be blocked and the shield will be used up. This applies to creatures as well! The shield will be raised for them too.

You can also purchase this spell with Training Points at Sabrina Greenstar in the Wizard City Fairegrounds.

   Enhanced Boss Encounters
You may have noticed that bosses of the Spiral have a few new tricks up their sleeves!

Some of the bosses have been learning from all their encounters with the Wizards of the Spiral. Bosses may now cast additional spells, even when it is not their turn and they may call extra minions to their side to aid in the battle. When this happens, players will see the word "Interrupt" appear and they will know that their battle has been interrupted!

This provides a whole new challenge to those boss duels, so you may want to go back and revisit some of the bosses of the Spiral to see what they've learned.