On Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 1:00PM PST (January 17 9:00PM GMT) we will be deploying a publish to the Origin shard.

The update will contain the following changes:

* Fixed an issue that was causing Gingerbread houses to sometimes get destroyed after being axed or from customizing the in which house they were placed. NOTE: this does NOT fix currently placed Gingerbread houses.
* Characters 30 days or older will receive an extra holiday stocking with a deed for a Gingerbread house until Feb. 1st.
* The motherlode skill gain feature has been turned off. You can still get blackrock from mining in the motherlode regions, but the enhanced energy of the area has faded.
* Catskills downtime gifts will no longer be given out
* Trial of Ricardo no longer stops running part way through
* Fixed incorrect skill use text used by Lady Melisande
* Added four new quest giver npcs in the Lycaeum for this week's event

We expect Origin to remain offline for approximately two hours.

I thought i read this gingerbread house bug was also affecting the vet reward xmas houses too. Since presently placed gingerbread houses aren't repaired, does this mean those Christmas houses also will poof still on axing them? I'm happy you are replacing the gingerbread houses, but I'd hate to lose a vet reward!