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Patch 10.37 — Green Hands, And A Ladder Up

2026-08-20

Changes

BANDAGING A POISON OUT NOW HAS A FLOOR, AND THE FLOOR CLIMBS WITH YOU. It used to scale from your Healing and Anatomy and from nothing else, which meant it scaled all the way down to nothing: at 30 in each, a Lesser Poison came out on 9% of bandages, and at 10 in each on 1% of them. The player least able to afford a Cure Potion had, in practice, no cure at all — and a Lesser Poison is exactly what a snake in the woods leaves in a brand-new character.
However green the hands, a landed bandage now draws out a LESSER POISON half the time and an ordinary POISON two times in five. A GREATER POISON gets a token 10% — it is the first strength the Cure spell cannot touch, so an unskilled bandage against one should be a hope rather than a plan. A DEATHLY POISON gets nothing at all, and is the only one that does not: untrained, cloth does not answer that one.
A FLAT FLOOR ON ITS OWN WOULD ONLY HAVE MOVED THE DEAD STRETCH, so it is not flat. Left alone, a Lesser Poison would have sat at exactly 50% from your first afternoon all the way to 50 Healing and 50 Anatomy — twenty points of hard training buying nothing whatsoever against the two poisons you actually meet early on. Instead every ten points of average skill from 30 upward is a rung you can feel arrive: 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, and on up to certain at Grandmaster.
Every poison climbs its own ladder. An ordinary Poison steps five points a rung the whole way, 45% up to 80%. A Greater Poison runs 20% to 60% and is deliberately the shallowest of them — it should still have you reaching for a potion until you are most of the way trained. Even a Deathly Poison climbs, 15% to 40%, with the rungs crowding together near the top so that ceiling still feels like one.
NOTHING GOT WORSE AT ANY SKILL LEVEL. A Grandmaster’s odds are exactly what they always were, and every rung pays at least what the old scaling paid at that same skill — checked at every skill point, for every poison, including mismatched pairs like 90 Healing and 20 Anatomy. What has not changed either: it is still your HEALING ALONE that decides whether a bandage lands at all, and a bandage that fails does nothing, poison included.
The wiki’s poison page prints the whole ladder now, rung by rung, with every number on it run through the same code the bandage actually rolls against rather than written down beside it. It also states two things the old table left you to work out — that the columns are the AVERAGE of your Healing and Anatomy, and that a half-trained healer is landing only half the bandages these odds are rolled on.

Patch 10.36 — Something In The Rot

2026-08-20

✨ New

YOUR YARD'S LUMBER YARD CAN BE OPENED. It was the last plot whose row said only that the means to open it had not been discovered. It has a price now — fifty Merchant Tokens and a DUSTY KEY — paid at the Yard gump exactly like the fishing pond's chair and the mine's rock face. The tokens you already know how to earn: a wandering lumberjack's or miner's order pays them by the tier.
The key is the other half, and it is not bought from any vendor: it is an EXTREMELY RARE FIND WHILE CUTTING WOOD, one in a lumberjacking career and no more. It turns up in a hollow trunk with no gate anywhere in sight, and it turns out to fit yours.
It is the Miner's Cart's opposite number down to the odds — Mining and Lumberjacking swing on the same clock for the same yields, so the deepest thing each turns up arrives on the same terms. Keep chopping and it WILL come: it is guaranteed by fifty thousand Wood, and a flat roll on top of that finds it early for roughly two in five. Only your own live swings can get lucky; a night of offline progress, a pet's haul and a Reaper ambush all move the guarantee instead, so a long stretch away pays exactly what it is owed.
And like the cart, the key is ORDINARY PROPERTY — trade it, sell it, buy someone else's. A lumberjack with no interest in a field of their own has something worth selling, and a miner who was never going to chop fifty thousand Wood now has somewhere to look. The same goes the other way: between the two finds, either plot can be opened by someone who never worked the skill that drops it.

Patch 10.35 — Broken Means Broken

2026-08-20

🔧 Bug Fixes

A BROKEN PIECE OF ARMOUR NO LONGER SHOWS ARMOUR RATING IT WAS NOT GIVING YOU. Reported from in-game. A fight has always ignored a broken piece, so the protection you actually had was correct — but the shield badge in your header went on counting it, which made the one number you decide whether to repair by the only one that lied. It now reads what you are really wearing.
A BROKEN SHIELD STOPS BLOCKING. That one was not only cosmetic: a shield’s Armour Rating stopped the moment it broke and its Parrying block chance did not, so a ruined shield went on parrying at full strength for as long as you left it equipped.
Cindercall Plate stops burning your attackers and Frostguard Plate stops blunting them once the plate is broken — both kept working at full effect while contributing no Armour Rating at all, which is the same bug wearing a different hat.
The Attack badge does the same for a broken weapon. A broken weapon has always meant bare hands in a fight; the badge kept advertising the ruined sword’s damage, and now shows what your fists are worth instead.

Patch 10.35 — One Pool, Five Thousand Deep

2026-08-20

Changes

THE CRAFTING BENCH HOLDS ONE POOL NOW. Its storage was capped at 1,000 of each material, which made the limit something you only ever found out one row at a time. It is 5,000 units all told from here on, spent however suits you — five thousand ingots, or two thousand ingots and three thousand boards, or a little of six things. A CRAFTING STORAGE CAP BAR runs along the bottom of the bench window showing exactly where you stand against it, and it turns red when there is no room left.
A stack too big for the room left no longer bounces off entirely. Dropping 1,001 ingots into an empty bench used to deposit NOTHING rather than the thousand that fit, and 500 boards would refuse to move if 999 were already sitting there — the bench now takes as much as it has room for and leaves the remainder in your pack. Commodity Deeds are still all-or-nothing one deed at a time, since half a deed represents nothing.
A STOCKPILE NOW COSTS one Iron Commodity Deed and one Board Commodity Deed, down from two of each. The skill it wants is unchanged, and so is everything it does once it is standing.

Patch 10.34 — The Cure Rule Keeps The Poison’s Own Clock

2026-08-20

Changes

An Auto Cast rule set to "I Am Poisoned" now answers a poison OUT of combat as fast as it does in one. In a fight that rule is read constantly; out of one it was only read by the ten-second pass — and a Lesser Poison is over in nine seconds, so the rule you armed against poison usually never fired at all once the fight ended, and an ordinary Poison had already taken three of its five bites before anything looked. It is now asked on the poison’s own clock, the same clock an armed Cure Potion has always been drunk on, so the cast goes off ahead of a bite instead of after the poison has finished with you.
It still only casts what the spell can actually answer — a Greater or Deathly poison is potion work and the rule knows it, so nothing is burned attempting one. It works while you are travelling too, because the poison does.
SEA SERPENTS NO LONGER POISON YOU. A Sea Serpent is what a Fishing ambush spawns, and it was the only harvest encounter in the game that could poison anybody — Mining’s Earth Elementals and Lumberjacking’s Reapers never have. It was a Greater poison at that, the one strength the Cure spell cannot touch, left in somebody who was standing at a pond fishing. The serpent still bites as hard as it ever did; it just does not send you home venomous now.
The Cure spell’s own description in the spellbook says what it does and does not cover, instead of still calling itself flavour.

Patch 10.33 — A Practised Palate

2026-08-19

✨ New

TASTE IDENTIFICATION is a new skill, and it is the only one in the game you can never actually use. There is no button for it, nothing to start and nothing to equip — it climbs on its own every time you eat or drink, and everything it pays out is a bigger version of something you were already doing.
FOOD BUFFS LAST TWICE AS LONG at Grandmaster. A two-minute Valorfish bonus runs four; a fifteen-minute fish dish runs thirty, restoring twice as much over its life. That cuts in half how many fish the Food slot burns keeping a bonus up, which is most of the point of it.
FOOD RESTORES 25% MORE HEALTH and HEAL POTIONS RESTORE 20% MORE, at Grandmaster, whether you ate it by hand or the Food slot did it for you. Only health — a Cure, a Restore Mana and a Potion of Power taste exactly the same to a master as to a novice.
At Grandmaster there is also a 10% CHANCE A MEAL COSTS YOU NOTHING: you got everything out of it there was to get and the stack never moved. It stacks with Compassion’s Steady Care rather than replacing it, so someone holding both keeps three meals in every ten.
Every one of those climbs the whole way up rather than waiting for Grandmaster — half the skill is half the bonus.
It trains from eating and drinking and from nothing else. Every meal and every potion is one chance to gain, manual or automatic, in a fight or standing in town. It is a long climb — roughly six thousand mouthfuls from nothing to Grandmaster — and none of them cost you anything you were not already spending. There is a wiki page for it under Misc.

Changes

The total skill cap ceiling has gone up by 100, to 3,800 — every trainable skill at 100, and there is one more trainable skill than there was yesterday. Cap Stones drop and are worth exactly what they were; there is simply further to go.

Patch 10.32 — Come Show Me Yer Worth

2026-08-19

✨ New

Every town square now has a TRAINING YARD. A straw practice post stands in it, and a Combat Trainer stands beside it who will call you over if you look like you could use the work.
Hit the post. It never hits back, it never dies, and it trains your fighting skills for real — up to 30, and then it stops paying. That ceiling is the whole point: the yard exists to get you to the bottom of five ladders and then send you off them.
Reach 30 in Swordsmanship, Fencing, Macing, Archery or Wrestling and the trainer kits you out — 50 Lesser Bandages, 50 Cooked Fish, and a random iron weapon for that skill. Once per skill, so taking all five walks you away with 250 bandages, 250 fish and four weapons, without having fought a single thing that could hurt you.
Wrestling is on the list and pays the same, minus the weapon — it is the one skill whose point is having nothing in your hands, and a new player with no weapon at all is exactly who this is for. Tactics, Anatomy and Parrying climb quietly alongside whatever you are practising; none earns a kit of its own, they simply come with the swinging.
The Getting Started guide has a ninth chapter about it, and the closing checklist ends there now: when something kills you, go and hit the post.
None of this touches the Attack Dummy you can craft for your own house. That one still costs GM Carpentry, two Board Commodity Deeds and a rare Troll drop, and it still carries you to 75 — it is the deep end of the same ladder. The town post is the shallow end, it is free, and it is standing in the square you spawned in.

Patch 10.31 — The Heal Rule Follows You Out

2026-08-19

Changes

An Auto Cast rule set to "Heal when my health is below X" now fires OUT of combat as well as in it. It used to stop the moment a fight ended, which is the moment it was most likely to be wanted — you walk away from something that nearly killed you and your own heal rule sits there watching. It works anywhere now, in a dungeon or in town, and stops as soon as you are back above your threshold.
A bandage already running still wins. If one is going to finish before the spell could land, the rule holds off rather than spending mana and reagents to beat a free heal by half a second — the same courtesy it already extended during a fight.
Out of combat these rules are checked every ten seconds rather than continuously, so it is a safety net rather than a reflex. Nothing is draining your health out there except poison, which has its own Cure rule.

Patch 10.30 — Nothing To Cure

2026-08-19

🔧 Bug Fixes

A Cure Potion drunk while you are not poisoned is no longer swallowed. It used to empty the bottle, take one off the stack, and tell you that you felt no different — which was true, and cost you a potion for it. Now the click is refused and says why, and the potion stays where it is.
Armed Auto-Drink slots have always known better than to spend a cure on somebody with nothing wrong with them; it was only drinking one by hand — a hotkey, a double-click, either potion slot — that threw it away.

Patch 10.29 — Small Knobs And A Way Back

2026-08-19

💬 Quality of Life

The Journal has a settings cog. It sits at the right end of the All/Combat/Loot/Gains row, and opens a small panel with four things you can change: the TIMESTAMP FORMAT (full seconds or just the hour and minute), the TEXT SIZE, how many LINES the feed keeps (50 up to 500), and whether GAIN ROLLS show up on the All tab.
Gain rolls have always been kept off All because one fires on nearly every tick of every skill and would bury everything else. If you want them inline anyway, the switch is there now — and turning it on fills them into the history already on screen, in the right places, rather than only affecting lines that arrive afterwards.
Every one of those is remembered per browser, and every default is exactly what the Journal did before, so nothing changes appearance until you ask it to. Turning off timestamps entirely is listed but not available yet.
The crafting window has an Unselect cross. Pick a recipe by mistake and there was previously no way back to an empty preview short of picking a different one. The cross sits in the top-right of the preview box and only appears when something is actually selected — and clicking a recipe row that is already selected now unselects it too, which is where most people reach first. Blacksmithing, Carpentry and Tinkering all have it.

Patch 10.28 — The Market Comes to Town

2026-08-19

✨ New

The market has moved into Britain. Four striped awning stalls now stand in their own court on the green just northwest of the fountain square — the Red, Blue, Green and Gold Awnings, set among bushes and wildflowers — and together they are the MARKET SQUARE, the capital’s own bazaar quarter. The standalone Market Place location is gone from the world map: no more travelling out to a crossroads to sell a sword.
Every table that was open at the old Market Place made the move. Your table, its name, its till, its listings and its rent are all exactly as you left them — it now trades under one of the four awnings, and that awning is its address. New tables join whichever stall has the fewest, so the square fills evenly.
The stalls show their stock. Each counter in the square displays a small sample of items ACTUALLY listed under that awning right now — walk through the plaza and you can see at a glance which stalls are trading and roughly in what. An empty stall stands bare.
Walk up to any stall and click it to browse — the market opens on that stall’s own section. The directory is one searchable list grouped under the four awnings; search still covers the whole square, so finding a shop by name works exactly as before. "Browse the Market Square" on the World Map panel opens the whole directory, same as the old button did.
Anyone who was standing at the old Market Place, travelling to it, or holding a Recall Rune marked there has been moved along with the market: those runes now recall to Britain, which is where the thing they pointed at went.

Changes

The market no longer opens itself when you arrive. That was right when the market was its own location — the only reason to go there was the market — and wrong for Britain, where you arrive constantly for a dozen other reasons. Click a stall or the World Map button when you want it.

Patch 10.27 — Ride What You Paid For

2026-08-18

✨ New

The Nightmare and the Unicorn are now RIDDEN. Until today only the two dungeon-drop drakes put your character visibly astride them — the stable's two flagship horses, at 100,000 and 250,000 gold the most expensive horses Ander sells, sat in your mount slot as a speed number and an icon. Now they carry you everywhere your character walks: dungeons, towns, forests, mines and treasure sites.
The nightmare is the demonic warhorse it always claimed to be — black coat, ember eyes, small swept horns, and a mane and tail of actual fire that gutters while you stand and streams flat behind you when you run, with flame licking off its hooves. The unicorn is its opposite: pearl-white under a golden spiral horn, gold-shod, mane drifting as it breathes, and it moves in a faint trail of sparks.
And other people can finally SEE them. Until today nobody saw anyone else's ridden mount anywhere — the drakes included; the one screen that ever drew them went out with the old town plaza — so no one has been quietly hiding a burning horse from you. Now mounts show on other players in towns, forests, mines and around houses. Dungeons stay on foot for everyone but you: your own mount still renders there, but a boss room full of other people's unicorns is a crowd, not a fight.
One deliberate exception: Incognito hides your mount from others, the same way it already hides your name, title, guild tag and pet. There may be exactly one Unicorn on the shard, and a beast that distinctive would name its rider faster than any nameplate. On foot is what a disguise looks like.

Patch 10.26 — Your Body Lasts Six Times Longer Than We Told You

2026-08-18

Fixes

The Getting Started page said a death pile "decays in 10 minutes". It decays in SIXTY. The page was reading the timer for a pile you make by deliberately dropping something on the floor, which is a different and much shorter clock, and it has been quoting that number at every new player since the page went up. Nothing about death has changed — the hour was already the hour. Only the sentence was wrong.
This is worth saying plainly because people have been acting on it. The corpse timer was raised to an hour precisely so that a long run back could not cost you everything through no fault of your own, and a player who dies far from town, reads "10 minutes" and writes the trip off is abandoning a pile that is still sitting there for another fifty. If you have lost a Tool Bag this way, that is why — the bag itself is not destroyed by dying and never has been. It drops intact, with its charges, and waits.
What death actually does to a Tool Bag, since it keeps coming up: it takes 30% of every banked charge, and the bag then falls into your pile like anything else. It is not blessed, so it does drop, and the pile is public — but you have an hour, not ten minutes.

Patch 10.25.1 — Say What You Are About To Melt

2026-08-18

🛠️ Improvements

"Recycle All" now lists what it is about to recycle, by name, instead of only counting it. Reported as a sweep offering six items to a player who could only account for four — the two extras were an Iron Hammer Pick and an Iron War Hammer, which are Blacksmithing WEAPONS despite reading like tools, so the count was right and there was no way to see that. It cuts the other way too: a spare Blacksmith Hammer is a Tinkering item and is not in a Blacksmithing sweep, which is just as surprising from the outside. Naming everything answers both without anyone needing to know which recipe list an item came from. Identical items group up, so five pickaxes are one line rather than five.

Patch 10.25 — Melt It Back Down

2026-08-18

✨ New

Your tools can now unmake the things they made. Right-click a Blacksmith Hammer, Carpenter's Saw, Tinker's Tools or Tailor's Kit and there are two new options on the menu: "Recycle" melts down one item, "Recycle All" works through your whole backpack. You get back 30% of what the item cost to craft. It costs the tool no charges at all — recycling is free.
"Recycle" hands you a targeting cursor, the same one Recall and Mark use. Everything the tool can actually melt lights up, and the next thing you click goes in. It works this way rather than as an option on the item itself because right-clicking a weapon or a piece of armour equips it on the spot and never opens a menu at all — the cursor is the only gesture that could reach a dagger sitting in your pack. Instruments and Tool Bags, which do open a menu, get a plain "Recycle" row on it as well.
"Recycle All" works through everything that tool's skill made, one item per second, and tells you the count before it starts. A Blacksmith Hammer takes weapons and plate; a Carpenter's Saw takes wood weapons and instruments; a Tailor's Kit takes leather armour and empty Tool Bags; Tinker's Tools take tools. It runs like any other batch — it shows in the crafting pill, and the Stop button stops it.
A sweep deliberately leaves things alone. Anything equipped, anything magical or not yet identified, anything you have Locked, any tool currently set active, and a Tool Bag with charges still in it: all untouched, and the closing line tells you how many it stepped over. Targeting one item with the cursor overrides the magic and active-tool guards, because picking that exact icon out is a confirmation a sweep cannot ask you for.
Tinker's Tools will never recycle Tinker's Tools. They are the one item you need in hand to make any tool at all, so a sweep that ate them would be a machine for melting your own tools down at a 70% loss until you could not make anything again. They are excluded outright, including spares.
The 30% is rounded to the nearest whole unit, which means anything built from a single unit is worth nothing back. A Dagger costs 2 ingots and returns 1; a War Hammer costs 12 and returns 4; a Platemail Chest returns 6. This is for the pile of practice output at the bottom of your pack, not a way to fund anything.

Changes

A tool's old "Recycle"/"Recycle All" — melting the tool ITSELF back down for half its cost, scaled by the durability it has left — is now called "Dismantle"/"Dismantle All". Nothing about how it works has changed, and it is still the better deal for a tool you are finished with. The rename is because both actions now live on the same menu and needed names that say which is which: you dismantle a tool, you recycle the things a tool made.

Patch 10.24 — Four Books, One Open

2026-08-18

✨ New

Your spellbook can hold up to FOUR sets of Auto Cast rules, and you switch between them in a click. One set is yours already; the other three are on the Virtue Shop's Account Upgrades shelf at 100, 300 and 500 Virtue Points. All three are listed from the start, so you can see the whole ladder before deciding whether the first is worth it — they simply unlock in order.
The Auto tab grows a row of tabs across the top and a "Select as active" button. The tabs choose which loadout you are LOOKING at; the button arms it. Those are deliberately two different things: you can build a boss-fight set from scratch while the one you are currently running keeps running, and nothing you type takes effect until you say so. The armed loadout wears a gold underline on its own tab so you can always see which is live, even while editing another.
Loadouts can be renamed. "Travelling", "Boss fight", "AFK training" — four tabs numbered one to four would be four tabs nobody can tell apart.
Nothing changes for anyone who has not bought a thing. With a single loadout the whole row stays hidden and the Auto tab is exactly the panel it was. Your existing rules are already sitting in the first loadout, untouched — there was nothing to move and nothing to set up.

🛠️ Improvements

THE MOONGATE FLOURISH NOW TRAVELS WITH YOU RATHER THAN SITTING ON YOUR SCREEN, and this is a real change to something already bought, so it is worth reading properly. It used to dress up every arrival YOU watched — yours and every stranger's — and the one arrival it could never dress up was your own, because you were the one arriving. Now it is the opposite: step out of a recall and EVERYONE in the room sees the portal, whether they own it or not. The cost of the swap, stated plainly: other people's arrivals go back to being puffs of smoke on your screen unless they own it themselves. Reported by an owner who recalled past a friend and was told they had seen nothing but smoke.
The gate also holds open longer — a shade over a second now rather than three-quarters of one. It opens and shuts at exactly the pace it always did; the extra time is spent standing open, which is the part somebody watching actually needs in order to notice a person came out of it.

Patch 10.23 — Where To Begin

2026-08-17

✨ New

The wiki has a beginning now. "Getting Started" is the first card on the front page and the first link in the sidebar, and it is the one page here written as a journey rather than a reference table: eight chapters in the order a new character actually meets them, opening on Britain and closing on a list of what to go and do.
It says the things the game has never said out loud. That your three stats cap at 100 each but at 225 BETWEEN them, so you cannot have all three, and that the arrows beside them are how you move a build around afterwards. That every skill can reach 100, but your total skill cap starts at 1,000 — ten Grandmaster skills — against a ceiling of 3,700, and that Cap Stones are the only thing that closes the gap. Where the stones come from, at the real rates, with the fact that a starter quest tier pays ten of them per tier stated plainly, because it is far and away the fastest cap in the early game and nothing in the game tells you so.
It points new players at the rock face, deliberately. Mining and Lumberjacking are the only two things in the game that roll Strength AND Dexterity on every single attempt, and they hand you the ore and wood for your first real tools while they do it. That is the recommended opening, and the page makes the case for it rather than leaving it to be discovered.
It also covers the parts that are only obvious in hindsight: that your first full set of tools is free from the Provisioner and blessed, that a makeshift one is free every hour if you break your last, that an IRON tool will not train its skill past 75 however long you swing it — the single most common reason a skill appears to have stalled — and the ore-to-ingot-to-plank-to-tool loop that gets you off that bottom rung.
And it answers the question people are afraid to test. Dying takes your things, not your progress: every skill point and stat point survives, your bank and house are untouched, and your blessed kit stays on you. What it does take — the pile on the floor, public and gone in ten minutes, 20% off your equipped gear, 30% of a Tool Bag's banked charges, your mount — is set out beside it in full, along with the one exception that is genuinely permanent.
Every number on that page is read from the live game rather than typed into it, the same rule the rest of the wiki follows. If a cap is rebalanced tomorrow, the sentence about it changes with it.
A Tool Bag can be cut open. "Recover Tools" is the inverse of "Add All Tools" on the same right-click menu: every charge you banked comes back as real tools, and the bag is destroyed doing it — so it asks first, and the warning leads with what you lose. Charges that run to more than one tool can hold come back as several, with the last one part-worn, and nothing is rounded away in either direction: what comes out is worth exactly what went in. For the player who has crafted a better bag and had no way to move what was in the old one.

Patch 10.22 — The Road Takes Your Order

2026-08-17

✨ New

Right-click a place on the travel map and tell it what you are going there FOR. A mine offers "Go Mining", Yew Forest "Go Lumberjacking", and every dungeon "Go Fighting". You set out exactly as before — and the moment the road ends, you are already working. Nobody travels to Minoc Mines to stand in them.
The road tells you what is waiting at the end of it, in a line under the countdown, so a trip you ordered work at the end of never looks like an ordinary one. Right-click somewhere with nothing to do in it and you are simply offered the trip; right-click the mine you are already standing in and the work just starts. And nothing has been taken away from the left-click, which still does what it always did.

🛠️ Improvements

The Skills panel is picked up by its top edge at last. Its header is the handle you drag the window by, and it sat underneath the Stats section — so the one place you could grab the panel was a section and a half down its face. Stats has moved below the header, where every other panel keeps its grab bar.
That panel can also be dragged bigger. It is the one window whose contents genuinely outgrow it — every skill in the game, in as many groups as you care to make — and it now remembers the size you leave it at along with where you left it.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Every window you can resize was shrinking a little more each time you loaded the game, for anyone playing below 100% UI Scale: the size was measured on screen and handed back as if it were panel-sized, so at 70% a window left 340 wide came back 238, then 167. The Leaderboards, the Skills panel and the staff panels all hold the size you left them at now, at any scale.

Patch 10.21.1 — One Hook Is Enough

2026-08-17

🔧 Bug Fixes

Your fishing rod was carrying two hooks. The pole in an angler's hands is drawn from its backpack icon, and that icon has a line, a float and a barbed hook drooping off the tip — while the dock casts a second, real line out to the bobber in the water. So a rod that had plainly just been cast still had its tackle dangling off the end of it. The rod you hold at the dock now stops at the tip; the one in your pack keeps its float and hook, because at that size they are what tell you it is a fishing pole and not a stick.

Patch 10.21 — The Shrine of the Eight

2026-08-17

🛠️ Improvements

The Virtue Binding is a shrine now, not a spreadsheet. Each virtue keeps its own alcove — arched, and lit in its own colour: the Ultima principle hues, Honesty blue through Honor purple, with Spirituality in moonlit cyan and Humility in undyed wool. Tiers are rune-stones on a devotional thread that fill with the virtue's light as you bind points into them, and the next stone you can afford pulses to say so.
The Active/Suppressed switch is a votive candle: burning while the virtue is, a wisp of smoke once snuffed, and the whole alcove goes cold and grey with it. Same rules as ever — snuffing suppresses the unlocked bonuses without touching the points, and each candle still keeps its five-minute cooldown.
Hovering a stone or a candle now speaks in the shrine's own voice too — the virtue, the tier, what it does, and what a click would do right now, painted in the virtue's colour instead of the browser's grey strip. A cooling candle even counts down its own wax.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Cap Stones drop from ordinary monsters at 1-in-10 now, up from 1-in-25. Harvest ambushes (a coin flip), Paragons (1-3, always) and Dungeon Bosses (one per tier, always) pay what they always did — the climb from a fresh cap to the ceiling is simply less of a pilgrimage.

Patch 10.20 — You Dig Where You Stand

2026-08-16

✨ New

A treasure hunt is a place now, not a panel. Decode your map, travel out, and the dig drops you into a clearing you actually stand in — full screen, the way a dungeon floor plan or a mine already is. Every guardian is on the ground the moment you arrive, and they come at you one after another with no gap and no button to press. When the last one falls the chest rises in the middle of the clearing, and you walk to it and pick it yourself.
And the chest performs. What used to be a grid of small icons arriving all at once now plays back a piece at a time — the sprite large and lit, its name underneath — and any click skips the whole flourish. Collecting is still a click per item, which was always the point.
Your yard's Mine can be opened. The rock face has a price at last: fifty Merchant Tokens and a Miner's Cart, paid at the Yard gump like the fishing pond's chair and cool box. The tokens you already know how to earn — a wandering miner's or lumberjack's order pays them by the tier.
The cart is the other half, and it is not bought from anyone: it is an extremely rare find while mining Iron Ore, one in a mining career and no more. It is ordinary property, though — trade it, sell it, buy someone else's. A miner with no interest in a mine of their own has something worth selling, and anyone who would rather not wait out the iron has somewhere to look.
Ten seasonal leaderboards, and a shelf to put the trophies on. Every quarter the top three of each board take one home — bronze, silver and gold, engraved with the winner's name and the season — and they do nothing whatsoever beyond sitting in your house being a trophy. Prizes go to the bank, never the backpack.
Every board measures what you do DURING the season, not what you have piled up since the day you arrived. A player who started this morning is on level terms with one who has been here from the beginning. There is a wiki page for the boards, a card for it on the wiki front page, and a Leaderboards button in the header.
The Donation Store grows a Backpacks shelf: Sovereign Hide, Verdant Wayfarer, Corsair's Sailcloth, Shadowweave and Winterpelt. The whole satchel is repainted, interior included, and both side panels come with it — a skinned bag is never a themed front hanging off two plain brown panniers. Every card has a Preview that unfolds the real bag into it, and an owned card swaps Buy for Wear.

🛠️ Improvements

The Buy BritCoin page takes a typed amount. Players said the slider would not reach far enough, and the answer to that is a field you can type into rather than a longer track to drag along — with a live BritCoin readout and Enter to submit. The one-click rungs are back to 1, 5, 10 and 25, and the ceiling on a typed figure has been raised, with anything large shown to you written out before the checkout opens.
That shop also stops moving. The frame used to shrink to whatever tab was open — a 300-pixel jump on every click of the rail — and is a constant now, with the variation left inside the page that always scrolled.
A rune in your bank box can be recalled from, and so can one filed in a runebook in your bank. The old backpack-only rule was guarding an escape hatch that never existed: a bank is town-only, so a stored rune could only ever be cast from somewhere already safe.
The bestiary is alphabetical, with the boss still last as the page's apex, and it has an index box at the top that searches every dungeon at once — not knowing which of the twelve pages a creature is on is the whole reason you reach for it.
The leaderboard panel's footer stays inside the panel however you resize it, and says its three things separately: how long is left, how stale the numbers are, and what you win. The countdown says "Final day" rather than "0 days left".
A scene's running commentary — "You stumble into something hostile!", "The earth gives up a chest" — sits under the header with the scene's own title now, instead of being pinned to the far bottom of the screen with the entire map between them.
The "Established" date stitched into your backpack is thread-coloured to the hide it is stitched into. On Winterpelt the old gold thread was effectively invisible against pale fur; every skin now reads clearly, with the embossing flipped where that is what makes the words look pressed in rather than smeared on.
For staff: the Admin, Fight and Decayed panels give up their permanent seats in the header and become /admin, /fight and /decayed, alongside /goto and /kill where a GM already reaches. /refreshboards recomputes the standings on the spot. All three panel commands are documented on the GM Commands page.
All three Discord invites on the site and in game had quietly expired. They point at the same live invite now, which is also the fix for what let them drift apart.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Arriving somewhere "safe" healed you to full, and the rule for what counted was a list of what it was NOT — so Yew Forest, being neither a dungeon nor a mine, handed out a free full heal in the middle of the woods. Recall in, top up, recall out, bandages skipped entirely. Towns heal; forests, mines, dungeons and the Market do not.
Setting out on a treasure hunt left the game thinking you were still standing wherever you departed from, for the whole hunt. You could keep mining at a dig, start the fights of a dungeon you had long since left, summon its boss, use its blacksmith. Mining was what got reported; all of them are shut now, and a hunt puts you back where you came from when it ends.
In full-screen mode every prompt a scene wrote — including "the chest is here, click it" — was rendering a whole viewport height below the screen. Nobody could see them. Pinned now, for all three scenes.
The chest also used to be buried in whatever corner was farthest from the entry, which with a camera that follows you meant it was routinely off-screen at the exact moment it became clickable. It is in the middle of the clearing now.
Guardians looked like they arrived one at a time. They were standing there the whole time — they simply had no sprite until the fight reached them. That also closes a smaller lie: a Lich could walk at you and a Skeleton be what you actually fought.
Collecting the last item out of a chest dropped you into a bare location panel instead of the town, and the retired isometric plaza behind that panel could reappear on any town arrival. The plaza is gone entirely.
The leaderboard panel really was showing "1 maps".
A treasure map granted by a GM arrived already decoded, skipping Cartography entirely instead of needing to be read first.

Patch 10.19 — The Shard Would Like A Word

2026-08-15

✨ New

An unverified account now gets one Journal reminder a day — no more than that — carrying a /discord pill: click it and the linking window opens on the spot. Linking marks your account verified, with the mark beside your name in chat.
Had enough? /discorddismiss turns the reminders off for good, and /discord itself keeps working whenever you change your mind. Both commands work from any chat tab, anywhere, even mid-journey.
The wiki's Premium dyes finally look the part: their own gilded shelf on the Dyes page, each colour glowing in its own accent, and they no longer sit in the drop table pretending to be droppable — Sovereign and Emerald Void have only ever been sold, never found.

Patch 10.18 — A Fountain Worth The Square

2026-08-15

✨ New

Britain's fountain has been rebuilt to deserve its square: half again as large, standing dead centre of the paving, and finally SPRAYING — the jet climbs, sheds its droplets, and the ripples spread where the overflow lands. A ring of clipped hedges now encloses the square, a third of them flowering, with openings wherever the streets come in. And neither is scenery you can stroll through any more: the basin and the hedges turn a boot aside like any wall, though the ring's gateways keep every road open.
The BritCoin Shop is a proper storefront. The seal hangs top-left, the shelves — Logbooks, Comforts, Spectacle, Colour & Style — run down a rail on the left, and the shop opens on a Featured page that states its promises first and its best offers second, with the deepest discount wearing its percentage on the frame. Buy BritCoin sits apart at the foot of the rail. Nothing about prices, payment or what is sold has changed by a penny.
The Idle Shard's new seal now hangs from the header bar itself, in full — compass banner and all — with the title beside it and a line beneath it: A BRITANNIA THAT NEVER SLEEPS. It hangs over whatever sits below without ever stealing a click from it.
The Foreign Exchange in Britain runs two counters now, and both fit on a card instead of a scroll: +1 skill scrolls for skill cap as ever, and Common Spices — five for one Cap Stone, for every fighter whose pack fills with a cook's ingredient they will never fry. The Merchant and Dungeoneer token counters wear the same compact row, each showing the token it actually takes.

🛠️ Improvements

Casting Recall from a Runebook or Runetome now closes the book behind you — once the words are being spoken, a list of other destinations has no business floating over the journey. It closes only when the cast genuinely takes: a Recall refused for mana or combat leaves the book open exactly where you need it.
The Options gump's scroll grinder now says "Auto-Convert Scrolls to Arcane Dust", says that it runs every 30 seconds, and says what it will never touch: Scrolls of Recall, skill scrolls, and anything listed on the market or left in the bank. It was always this careful — it just never admitted it, which made an empty pack look like a broken setting.
The wiki's Dyes page now carries its rightful credit: Created by Chief Dye Coordinator Ruby W.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Foreign Exchange's spice counter insisted you were carrying no spices however many you carried, until you traded a scroll first. It counts honestly from the moment the shop opens.
Standing a Large Rock on your ring — or pouring dust into the offering sign — walked you back to your own front door mid-task. The yard still redraws to show the stone rise; you now stay exactly where you were standing while it does.
For a stretch this afternoon the interface lost most of its styling — panels collapsed into bare text. One missing character in the stylesheet; found, fixed, and the deploy checks now test for that whole class of breakage.

Patch 10.17 — Seven Pages, One Hand

2026-08-15

✨ New

The rites of the standing stones can be learned. You were born knowing one of them; the rest were written down, long ago, and the pages did not stay together.
Cryptic Texts have begun turning up on the dead. Each kind is a different hand, and every hand keeps to its own ground — a page found in one place will never be found in another. They are not common. Read the page and it will tell you what it wants.
Something that guards a dungeon has been hoarding Crafting Lace, and gives it up often enough that any boss is worth asking. A scribe of 80 Inscription can work it, with a good quantity of parchment, into a Rite Binder.
Right-click the binder and it will show you every hand you have collected and how far along you are with each. When one of them is complete the press will bind it, and binding never fails — the pages are far too dear to gamble twice.
What you get is a volume you can read. What reading it teaches, and what walking that teaching opens, is not written down here and will not be. Find out.
Every page and every bound volume is ordinary property — trade them, sell them, buy them. Whether that is easier than going and looking is between you and whoever else has been looking.

Patch 10.16 — Three Towns Dig A Pond

2026-08-15

✨ New

Skara Brae, Jhelom and New Haven have dug real ponds into their squares — the same wobbled-shore water your house yard keeps, fish, bubbles and all, each tucked into the quietest corner its streets allowed, with a fishing chair on the west bank.
And fishing in those three towns now happens AT the pond: click the chair, walk over, sit down, and the line goes out into water you are actually looking at — catches arc back to the rod, the town keeps moving around you, and anyone else in the square sees you sitting there working the water. The dock view is retired in those three towns only; everywhere else that fishes, fishes from its dock exactly as before.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Six towns had a fenced monument courtyard with nothing on the plinth — reported from Jhelom, whose picket garden stood around bare lawn. Every town now carries its signature: Jhelom the warrior city raises a hero of its own, New Haven digs a young settlement's first well, Occlo grows an island oak a sea away from Yew's, Serpent's Hold cuts standing stones with its order's runes, and canal-front Vesper and the pirates of Buccaneer's Den each drag up an anchor — a map-width apart from Skara Brae's and from each other's.

Patch 10.15 — Seven Stones And The Words

2026-08-15

✨ New

Your house sign has grown ambitions. Double-click it and the new Yard window opens: everything your grounds could become — Moongate, Fishing Pond, Lumber Yard, Mine — each marked unlocked or locked. Renaming the house lives in there now too.
The moongate can finally be EARNED. Miners will start turning up Large Rocks in the iron — seven in a lifetime, no more, and heavy enough (50 stones apiece) that you will want to stand them up rather than haul them about. Blessed, bound to you, and refused by every trade window and market stall: these belong in your yard and nowhere else. Expect the full set inside your first five thousand iron ore or so.
The ring of standing stones in your yard now shows the work: unplaced stones stand as grey ghosts, and each Large Rock you place (from the Yard window, with one in your pack) rises solid on the ring. When the seventh settles, an offering sign appears beside the circle asking for 250 Arcane Dust — pour it in across as many trips as it takes.
And then the words. With the stones standing and the offering paid, the Yard window offers one last button. Your character speaks the old Gate Travel incantation — VAS REL POR — and a moongate blooms on the ring, yours for good. Click it to travel, exactly as before.

⚖️ Balance Changes

The fishing pond in your yard is now LOCKED to start — the pond itself stays, fish and all, but the chair and the Cool Box are gone until you build them, and the line stays dry until you do.
Which you do under the new Upgrades heading at the foot of your house panel: 2,000 Boards and 250 Fish buys the chair and the cool box, and they appear at the water's edge the moment it is paid. A cool box that already had fish in it stays reachable meanwhile — you can always empty it, you simply cannot stock it again until the pond is yours.

Patch 10.14 — A Sky Over Britannia

2026-08-15

✨ New

The outdoor world now sits under a sky. A day-night cycle turns once an hour — golden dawns, long working days, violet dusks, and true night — and cloud shadows drift across the ground all the while.
And the sky has moods. A drizzle passes with a soft hiss and rings spreading where the drops land; a proper storm comes down in sheets, whips the gate pennants, and carries thunder that arrives late and low the way real thunder does — you will hear the rain as well as see it, through the same volume control as everything else.
The lawns finally grow something. Grass towns, your house yard and the forests used to be one flat green; the ground is now a meadow — tone drifts, mown-blade texture, clover, wildflowers, seeding tufts, the odd pair of field mushrooms — laid the same for every player, seeded from the map itself.
Every town gate is now a true gatehouse, and a true GATE: the wall used to run unbroken with nothing but a spot on the lawn for an entry, and it is now carved open — a proper three-wide passage through the full thickness of the wall, a trodden dirt road running out through it into the woods, a stone arch spanning it that you walk visibly under, and a half-raised cast-iron portcullis hanging in the arch with its teeth showing. The flanking courses are dressed as towers with quoined corners and arrow slits, iron braziers burn on the jambs, torches line the wall-walk the whole way round, and moss and hanging ivy age the stone. Each town flies its colours from pennants standing proud on the battlements either side of the gate — clear of the arch, where a flag belongs.
The storied towns' monuments now stand in their own picket-fenced courtyards, moved out of the arrival traffic — flagstone underfoot, flowerbeds in the corners, and eight benches in two facing rows that you can actually SIT on: click one and you walk over, sit down, and face the monument, and so does everyone else who joins you. A gathering place, not a prop. The monuments themselves grew into the honour: the hero statue gained its stepped plinth, worn plaque and gilded blade, the standing stones their climbing runes and gilt capstone, Yew's great oak a crown like a hill with offering stones at its roots. And no two neighbours share a signature any more: Cove keeps a village well — roof, windlass, bucket and all — and Skara Brae a retired ship's anchor with its chain draped to the plinth, where both had been wearing Yew's oak.
And the portcullis keeps hours: it cranks down for the night and winds back up at first light, slow enough to watch if you are standing at the gate when the light turns.
Vendors have stopped glowing — a shopkeeper behind their own counter never needed a halo — and their signs finally read like signs: the trade and the name sit bold on a dark plate now, legible over any shop floor, instead of soft bare text that vanished into the herringbone.
The storied towns carry a monument inside their gate: a verdigris hero on a plinth in Britain and Trinsic, standing stones in Minoc, Moonglow and Nujel'm, and a great oak older than the town around it in Yew, Skara Brae and Cove. By night the braziers breathe and the monuments catch the moon.
And the world is lived in: birds land on the green and startle when you walk at them, rabbits browse the fringes and bolt, leaves drift off the treelines, and fireflies come out after dark.

Patch 10.13 — Every Kill Is Worth A Stone

2026-08-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

The creatures that ambush you mid-harvest — the Sea Serpent on your line, the Earth Elemental out of the rock, the Reaper in the trees — now always leave a Cap Stone. They interrupt honest work at a rate you do not control, so the stone is the compensation for the interruption rather than something you can go looking for.
A Paragon now always leaves 1-3 Cap Stones instead of the ordinary one-in-twenty-five chance.
And a Dungeon Boss always leaves Cap Stones, scaled to how deep it lives: one from Grendel in the Britain Sewers, three from the Gravekeeper, five from the Wyrmguard, seven from the Lich Sovereign, and nine apiece from Malgorath and the Serpentine Sovereign. Bosses never dropped a single stone before this — the roll lives on the ordinary kill path, which a boss fight has never gone through, so the hardest fight in the game paid nothing at all toward your cap. Since a boss can only be summoned once a week, the payout scales with the boss rather than being left to a chance.
Everything else is unchanged: an ordinary monster still rolls at the same rate it always has, and a stone is still worth exactly 1.0 of total skill cap, still the same everywhere, still untouched by Dungeon Boons or any loot bonus.

Patch 10.12 — The Logbook Dresses For The Work

2026-08-15

✨ New

The Slayer Logbook now looks like what it is. Black leather where the Lore Book wears russet, a blood-red spine, paper gone cold and bone-grey, the page titles inked in dried blood under a skull — and the cover of the book itself carries a bone skull where a trophy cup briefly sat. If the Lore Book is a naturalist's field journal, this is the other kind of book.
A fourth trophy: Platinum, above Gold. The full ladder is now Bronze at 100 kills, Silver at 500, Gold at 2,500 and Platinum at 5,000 — a longer climb at every rung, because this is a lifetime record in a game that keeps fighting while you sleep, and the top of it should mean a creature you have decided to be known for. Bosses climb 3, 20, 50 and 100: with one kill a week possible, a Platinum boss trophy is the better part of two years of showing up. On this book's cold paper, Platinum is the one chip with a polished sheen across it.
Double-clicking the book opens it, alongside the right-click menu.
A trophy is now an occasion. The moment a tally crosses a rung, the book slams shut in your ear and a wax-sealed trophy card is stamped onto your screen — the creature's portrait under the skull, the rank named in its own metal — with a dark fanfare that climbs one note further for each rung, up to Platinum's full octave and shimmer. Yours alone to see and hear. Gold and Platinum are news, though: those get one line in your guild's chat, so the guild knows who among them has been keeping count.
And a second book: the Harvest Logbook, also 5 BritCoin. The Slayer Logbook's green-bound twin — forest leather, a bark spine, crossed pick-and-axe where the other carries its skull — with one page each for Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing and Begging, all 35 materials listed with their lifetime tallies. It counts everything: your own ticks, what your Giant Mole or Beaver or Otter fetches home, the ore you win back from a harvest ambush, and every unit gathered while you slept.
Its trophies are priced in each material's own currency. A single ladder would make Iron's Bronze a coffee break and Valorite's Platinum a decade — the ore comes in at nearly three hundred times the rate — so the eight coloured tiers are priced from the same hours of honest work: Bronze an evening, Platinum a long commitment, whatever the material. Valorite asks just 4 for Bronze and 250 for Platinum. The base tier is the exception, priced in clean decades because it floods in: Iron Ore, Wood and Fish climb 1,000 — 10,000 — 100,000 — and Platinum at one million units, the number a lifetime of gathering gets shown off with. The book always says how many more you need. The trophy strike and the guild line work exactly as the Slayer Logbook's — but in green and gold, with an axe-knock and a bright major fanfare where the other book is all black leather and minor keys.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Trophy announcements now only appear for characters actually carrying a Slayer Logbook. The tally was always meant to run for everyone, but the journal line congratulating you on your book's behalf was reaching players who do not own one — every first boss kill triggered it.
A Slayer Logbook resting in your own House Storage now opens. The book counted as readable from your pack, a bag, or the bank, but not from your own house — where the storage window was still cheerfully offering the Open option and delivering only an error.
The open Logbook no longer resurrects itself after you close it. It used to ride back in about a second after travelling (painted over the travel screen), kept your scroll position hostage by resetting the list four times a second mid-fight, and — if you traded or dropped the book while reading it — pinned a permanent error message to your screen. It now refreshes its counts quietly a few times a minute, keeps your place on the page, and simply closes itself if the book leaves your hands.

Patch 10.11 — What You Have Killed, And What Has Killed You

2026-08-14

✨ New

The Slayer Logbook, in the Donation Store for 5 BritCoin. A companion volume to your Lore Book — the same leather and parchment, one page per dungeon plus a thirteenth for The Wilds — listing all 111 creatures in the world, how many of each you have slain, and how many times each of them has slain you. Right-click the book to read it.
Trophies. Every creature earns its own Bronze at 25 kills, Silver at 150 and Gold at 500, and the book says how many more you need for the next one. Bosses run a much shorter ladder — Bronze on your first, Silver at five, Gold at twelve — because a boss can only be fought once a week, and a ladder nobody could climb in a lifetime is not a goal. A trophy is a mark in a book and nothing else: it changes no drop, no stat and no fight.
It opens on everything you have already done. The tally has been kept for every character from this deploy onward whether or not they own a book, so the Logbook is the reading glasses rather than the ledger — and a Logbook bought a year from now will open on a year of fighting. Kills from before today were never recorded anywhere and cannot be recovered, so every book starts from here.
Creatures you have never met sit as silhouettes, the same way an unstudied creature does in the Lore Book, and fill in the first time you kill one. The deaths column counts every way a creature has put you down, offline catch-up included. Deaths to something with no creature behind it — a poison finishing its work on the road home, a Gamemaster — are counted in your lifetime total at the foot of the book but belong to nobody's row.

Patch 10.10 — You Feel Sick

2026-08-14

✨ New

Poison. Four strengths of it, and the difference between them is how long you have to do something about it. A Lesser poison bites three times for 3-6 and burns out; a regular one five times for 4-12; a Greater one eight times for 10-15. A Deathly poison does not stop. It takes 15-23 every couple of seconds for as long as it is in you, and the only thing that ends it is a cure or a grave.
It keeps biting wherever you go. Poison is not a combat effect that ends when the fight does — walk out of the dungeon, go stand in a town, log out and come back, and it is still there. That is the whole reason to carry a cure.
You will know. Your character turns a sickly green — to you and to everyone else who can see you, on the dungeon floor plans and out in the forests and mines — and every time the poison bites, it says so over your head in red: you feel sick, very sick, extremely sick, or deathly sick, depending on what is in your blood.
While poisoned, everything that heals you is worth 30% less. Bandages, food, potions, spells, a Vampiric Band's leech, a fish dish, Compassion's regeneration — all of it. Poison does not only take health away, it stops you putting it back.
A failed cure is never wasted. Every Cure Potion that fails against a poison makes the next one 15 points likelier, until it is a certainty — so a Deathly poison breaks by the fifth potion at the very latest and a Greater one by the third, however the dice fall. The odds reset when the poison is cured or replaced by a worse one. It means the question is whether you brought enough, not whether you got lucky: nobody dies with a bag full of potions they drank.
Curing. A Cure Potion always answers the two weaker poisons, has a 3-in-4 chance against a Greater one and an even chance against a Deathly one on the FIRST attempt — and the potion is spent whether it works or not. The Cure spell is second circle and cheap, and it can only ever draw out the two weak ones; against anything worse the words simply are not strong enough. Both of them had been sitting in the game doing nothing at all until now.
The dungeons have been restocked to match. Twenty-one creatures that could poison you existed in the game but lived nowhere — you could only ever meet them on a treasure map. They have homes now. The Britain Sewers are the classroom: five of its eight residents can poison you and every one of them leaves the weakest kind, including a Ratman Mage who will speak In Nox at a character who has owned a spellbook for about ten minutes. From there it climbs — grave-seep in the Britain Graveyard, a Dread Spider in Vesper, scorpions and a savage warband holding the lower switchbacks at Wrong, an ophidian nest in the middle corridors of Covetous, and a Terathan hive that has rebuilt the deepest galleries of Despise. Shame has been finished as the elemental cave it always claimed to be, water and blood included, and something in its deepest gallery made of nothing but venom. Deceit gets a Mummy, the one thing down there still carrying flesh and so the only thing down there that can poison anybody.
Every one of them drops something now, and the poisonous ones fund their own cure — raised reagent rates and Cure scrolls, so a dungeon that teaches you about poison also pays for the answer. The Loremaster's Study got longer as a result: its bestiary is counted from the dungeon rosters, so it now asks for 73 creatures rather than 51.
Poisonous things are poisonous. Spiders, serpents, scorpions, the caustic slimes and the Terathans can all put it in you when they land a blow, at their own strength, and the Serpentine Dragon carries the deathly kind. Nothing else in the bestiary poisons anybody, however hard it hits: poison is what a creature IS, not how dangerous it is.
Some things say the words. A Ratman Mage, an Ophidian Mage, a Savage Shaman and the Poison Elemental cast In Nox at you — the real Poison spell, the same two words you would speak yourself — and it is their signature rather than an occasional variation, so those four throw it instead of the fireball their tier would otherwise have earned. It hits for exactly what their tier always hit for; what has changed is what it leaves behind. Resist the spell outright and it leaves nothing at all, which makes Magic Resistance the answer to a Poison Elemental — it no longer bites you as well, so the spell is the only way it can reach you.
Every other caster keeps it in the rotation. A Lich, a Daemon, a Bone Magi, an Elemental — any of them will occasionally reach for In Nox instead of the spell you were expecting, about one cast in twenty, at a strength that follows the caster: a scratch from the shallow ones, a Greater poison from the deepest. Not Deathly, though; that stays the preserve of the two creatures built around it. And the cast bar never lies to you — whichever spell it names in the wind-up is the spell that lands, so a Lich announcing Poison really is about to poison you, and one announcing Energy Bolt never will.
And the dead are unclean. Zombies, Rotting Corpses, Ghouls and Mummies have a small chance of leaving grave rot in a wound. Not every undead thing, though: a Skeleton or a Bone Knight has no flesh to rot and a Wraith or a Ghost is barely there at all, so the ones that can poison you are exactly the ones still carrying something that could.
And every town healer will draw a poison out of you for free, just for speaking to them — any tier of it, Deathly included, no roll and no charge. "Let's rid you of this illness." It is the surest cure in the game and it should be: the price is the walk back to town, which is exactly what a Deathly poison ought to be able to cost somebody who ran out of potions three rooms deep. It is also the one cure you cannot reach mid-fight, which is where a poison is actually dangerous.
You can set both cures to answer on their own. Auto Magery has a new condition — "I Am Poisoned" — which casts Cure the moment something gets into you, in a fight or walking home afterwards. It knows what the spell can and cannot do, so it will not sit there burning mana and reagents against a Greater or Deathly poison it could never draw out.
And a Cure Potion in an armed potion slot drinks itself. It tries roughly every three seconds for as long as you are poisoned, which is what makes the weaker odds against the two worst poisons worth having — a Deathly poison you cannot cure on the first attempt, you may well cure on the fourth, as long as you brought enough. Nothing is drunk when there is nothing to cure.

Patch 10.9 — A Steadier Hand On The Mana

2026-08-14

⚖️ Balance Changes

Leather armour gives half the mana regeneration it used to, right down the ladder — a full Valorite suit is +50% rather than +100%. Sustained casting is limited by how fast mana comes back, not by how much of it you have, so at +100% a suit was doubling the rate of every spell you cast AND making each one land 60% harder, from the same six pieces. At Grandmaster Meditation that was four mana a second where a bare caster gets two. It is three now: still the best armour a mage can wear, and no longer a clean doubling stacked on top of a damage bonus. The spell damage bonus is untouched.
An Inscribed Spellbook only reaches for mana on every third landed swing. The chance itself is unchanged — a Valorite book is still 90% — but it is 90% of every third hit rather than of every one, so a book hands back about a third of what it did. The tooltip says so.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Stockpile gump listed Valorite Leather above Verite, with every other tier in its right place. The ordering rule was there all along; the sort just was not applying it reliably.

Patch 10.8 — In A Puff Of Smoke

2026-08-13

✨ New

Recall looks like magic now. A short puff of smoke marks the spot you vanish from and another marks where you appear — on your own screen and on everyone else's. The people in the square you left see you go up in smoke and your figure leave with it, rather than a body standing there for a few seconds after its owner was gone; the people where you land see the smoke first and you step out of it. The same goes for a Runebook or Runetome recall and the yard moongate. A ghost walking back to town gets no puff — that is not magic, that is dying.
Arriving by Recall no longer pops in. The moment the targeting cursor arms, the game quietly fetches the scenery for everywhere your marked runes could send you — a full minute of warning before any click. Opening a Runebook or the moongate does the same for every destination on the page. By the time you land, the far end is already painted.

Patch 10.7 — What You Leave Behind, You Leave Behind

2026-08-13

⚖️ Balance

The dungeon takes a pack animal while you are logged out, too. Yesterday's rule only applied to fights you were present for, which left logging off auto-battling in a dungeon as the one way to keep a Pack Horse hauling all night — the exact thing the rule exists to stop. It is now slain at the first fight of the night, and the While You Were Away summary tells you so.

Fixes

Recalling away closes what you had open. A Bank window, your House storage, and any bag opened out of either used to stay on screen after an instant journey — a live-looking, still-draggable window onto a container in a town you were no longer standing in. Every move out of one was already refused, so nothing could actually be taken; the window simply had no business still being there. Walking somewhere now shuts them however you got there: Recall and Mark, a yard moongate, and the walk back to town as a ghost, none of which have the departure countdown ordinary travel closes them on.

Patch 10.6 — No Place For A Beast Of Burden

2026-08-12

⚖️ Balance

The Pack Llama and Pack Horse carry +200 stones, down from +450. Their prices, their durations and the rest of what they do are unchanged. +450 was most of a second character's worth of capacity for a flat fee, which quietly made the number a player could carry a question about gold rather than about Strength.
A dungeon kills a pack animal. Take one below ground and the moment anything attacks you, the creatures fall upon it and it is gone — the mount slot empties, the capacity goes with it, and the journal says so in red. Pack animals are for hauling ore out of a mine and timber out of a forest, which is where a laden, defenceless beast can plausibly follow you; a dungeon was never that, and using one as a mule down there was the one place the capacity stopped being a convenience and started being the point. Riding mounts are untouched, an ambush while gathering is untouched, and a treasure dig is untouched.
You are told this before it can cost you anything. The warning is written in red at the Stable Master where you would buy one — on the phone as well as the desktop — and on the desktop it is on the animal itself wherever you hover it, in your pack or in the mount slot, and on the wiki. And you are not allowed to walk into the trap sideways: if losing the animal would leave you over your carry limit, the fight is refused before anything dies, so you keep the beast and everything it is carrying and can put something down instead.

Patch 10.5 — A Currency For Each Trade

2026-08-12

⚖️ Balance

Every wanderer contract now pays Cap Stones, two per tier: two for a Modest Order or a Standing Bounty, and eight for a Master's Commission or a Warlord's Warrant. Harvesting contracts paid none at all before, which meant the only ways to raise a cap were killing things and the Foreign Exchange — a miner who never went down a dungeon had no road to one.
Dungeon bounties pay on that same ladder, which changes what they are worth. They used to be dealt a number out of a range — 1-3, 2-5, 5-7, and a flat 10 at the top — so two Blood Bounties side by side could be worth different amounts for the same work. Now the tier decides it outright. A Sworn Bounty is slightly better for it (4 rather than 2-5), a Standing or Blood Bounty lands near where it already sat, and a Warlord's Warrant is the one that gives ground: 8 stones where it used to be 10. That is the price of one rule covering both kinds of contract, and it seemed the right trade for a number you can now read off any contract before you take it.
The two token currencies now come from the work they are named after. A harvesting order pays Merchant Tokens and a dungeon bounty pays Dungeoneer Tokens, one per tier either way. Until now the miner and the lumberjack handed out BOTH currencies for the same job and bounties paid neither, so the Dungeoneer Token was earned exclusively by people who never set foot in a dungeon.

Fixes

You can see other people in towns again, reliably. Standing in a square is not something the game asks you to keep proving, but it was: your position was reported once when the town drew and never again, so a shard restart, a moment of lost signal or a phone waking from sleep left you invisible to everyone there until you happened to walk or reload. Worse, starting almost any activity in a town — Begging most of all, which can only be done in one — tore the whole square down and took your figure off everybody else's screen for as long as you worked. Towns now stay up whatever you are doing in them, and your figure keeps saying where it is.

Patch 10.4 — Appraising At Your Own Table

2026-08-12

⚖️ Balance

Item Identification can be run at home. It never needed anywhere in particular — it appraises what is already in your own backpack — and Cartography, which works the same way and was written as its twin, has always been allowed indoors. Now the pair of them are: come home with a full pack and sort out what you are actually carrying.

Fixes

A monster's health bar and cast bar no longer read backwards when it happens to be facing left. Both are pinned to the creature, so both were mirrored along with it, and the fill drained from the wrong end — the opposite way round to the same monster's bar on the Combat gump. A casting monster's spell name was coming out mirrored for the same reason.

Patch 10.3 — The Cap Comes Due

2026-08-12

✨ New

The Skill Cap at the foot of the Skills panel is no longer a suggestion. Once your Total Skill reaches it, every skill's gain chance reads a flat 0.0% with "(skill cap maxed)" beside it in the Journal, live and offline alike — training stops until you raise the cap with Cap Stones or at the Foreign Exchange in Britain, exactly the loop those have always fed. Only RAW skill counts against it: a +4 Band of Mining still makes you better at mining, it just never eats your room — a character at 994.0 wearing one can still train a full 6.0.
Every skill now has its own arrow on the left of its row in the Skills panel, just like the stat arrows above them: ▲ trains normally, — locks the skill exactly where it stands, and ▼ marks it a donor. At a full cap, a gain on a ▲ skill drains its tenth from a ▼ one — retraining by trade, so a capped character can still become someone new without buying another point of cap. Every skill starts at ▲; nothing changes until you click.
A +1 Skill Scroll read at a full cap is refused and NOT consumed — take it to the Foreign Exchange instead, where it buys the cap itself. A scroll read against a locked skill is refused the same way.

⚖️ Balance

Nobody was stranded by the new ceiling: every existing character past 1,000 total skill had their cap set to their current total plus 10%, rounded up — a 3,009.1-total veteran starts enforcement with a 3,311.0 cap and real room to keep training. Characters under 1,000 total live under the standard 1,000.0 cap, same as a freshly made one.

Patch 10.2 — Louder, Bloodier, With Music

2026-08-12

✨ New

Every kill bleeds now, and everyone sees it. A monster goes down in a spray of gore — a crimson burst, a shock of blood across the stone, arterial spurts finding their distance — and the body lies in blood pools that every player in the location sees on the same tiles, drying up together when the corpse decays to bones. Hits draw blood too: every real blow flecks red off whoever took it, crits gout, and a bleeding wound visibly weeps between swings. All of it shows on other people's fights exactly as on your own, and party kills — which used to vanish without so much as a body — now bleed and leave a corpse like every solo kill always has.
Barding has a voice. A song resolving used to be one line in the journal; now notes stream off the bard in the song's own colour — soothing blue for Peacemaking, sour violet for Discordance — with a real phrase of synthesized music behind them: a rising lullaby that chimes when a calm settles, two deliberately wrong semitones growling downward as a Discordance bites, and a clunk with a flat bent note for a fumble. A landed song bursts and shouts CALMED! or DISCORD! over the monster on both the combat gump and the dungeon map, party members see and hear an ally's song land on the shared monster, and everyone else on the floor watches the notes rise off the bard's figure. The Keep Playing loop performs at half volume, so an idle bard serenades rather than nags.
Master's Touch is a show with an audience. The finishers are far bigger — a felled tree tears its whole canopy apart over a pillar of light, twin shockwaves and a rain of glowing embers; a collapsing vein erupts in twenty shards under twin detonation flashes; a catch breaches in a droplet geyser with a starburst and a dense sparkle trail — and everyone working the same forest or mine watches the same spectacle on the same tree. The home pond finally gets the show too, matching the dock.

⚖️ Balance

Bloody Mess grew up with the world around it: now that every kill bleeds for everyone, the unlock is the amplifier — on an owner's screen every death, theirs or a stranger's, sprays double and pools wider. What it adds is still visible only to its owner.

Patch 10.1 — Runes By The Handful

2026-08-12

⚖️ Balance

A Recall Rune costs 1,000 gold, down from 5,000. Matching the Reg Bag was the wrong comparison — you buy a Reg Bag once and it changes how you play forever, whereas runes are bought by the handful, and filling a Runetome's thirty pages came to 150,000 gold before a single place had been marked. A rune is priced as what it is now: the cost of one more destination, not of joining in.

Patch 10.0 — A Town With Doors On It

2026-08-12

✨ New

Every town has streets and buildings. A square used to be one open clearing with the traders stood loose on the grass; now there is a road in from the world, lanes between the shops, and a plaza at the meeting of them. You arrive on the road, because you walked in by road.
The traders are indoors. Each has their own premises, built the way your own house is built — walls around a floor, a door in the near wall, no roof, so you can see straight in from the street. The bank has its counter and its strongboxes, the smithy its lit forge and anvil, the mage a mortar and pestle and a shelf of potions, the healer a cot, a wash basin and a basket of used bandages, the provisioner shelves and crates and sacks. Cottages fill the rest of the ground, because six buildings is a trading post and a town is more than its shops.
The stable has a paddock, with a water trough and horses grazing in it.
No two towns are alike. Britain and Vesper are crossroads towns, Trinsic and Moonglow are built around ring roads, Minoc and Nujel'm along a single high street, Skara Brae along a harbour promenade, and Yew, Cove and Buccaneer's Den are scattered hamlets with lanes worn between the houses. Underfoot: granite flags in the capital, crushed rock in Minoc, warm sandstone in Nujel'm, plain trodden earth in the hamlets.
You can see other people in town. Everyone standing in a square is now drawn walking it, the same way a forest or a mine has always shown you the people working it. Towns were the one populated place in the world where everybody was invisible to everybody else.
The traders dress for the job. The mage keeps to deep indigo and carries a spellbook, the smith wears leather and holds a hammer, the stable master carries a shepherd's crook, the healer keeps bandages to hand, and the banker is in plain shirt and trousers. You can read a shop from across the street now, before you have read a word.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Your Skill Cap updates the moment it changes. Using a Cap Stone, or buying cap at the Foreign Exchange, raised it for real and said so in the journal — but the number under Total Skill went on showing the old one until you reloaded the page.
Five more things that were quietly waiting for a reload: which floor of your house you are looking at, your Fame, whether death offers to send you home, the Auto-Convert Scrolls toggle in Options, and the Mage Shop's send-to-stockpile toggle. All six were being computed and none were being sent.

Patch 9.99 — Mark The Place

2026-08-12

✨ New

Recall and Mark replace Recall Town and Recall Home. Both are third-circle spells costing the same three reagents, and neither does anything on its own — each hands you a targeting cursor and waits for you to click a Recall Rune. Mark writes the place you are standing into the rune; Recall reads it back and takes you there. Where you can go is no longer a list the game keeps: it is whatever you have taken the trouble to mark, dungeons and mines and the Yew forest included.
Recall Runes are on sale at every Mage Shop for 5,000 gold, and you may buy as many as you have places worth going. A blank rune is a dull grey stone; a marked one wears its mark lit, and takes the name of the place it points at, so a pack of them reads at a glance.
Runebooks. Bound at 50 Inscription from 250 Wood Parchment and 100 Arcane Dust, they file ten runes away and give each one its own Recall button. Pressing it is still casting the spell — it wants the mana, the reagents, thirty Magery and a spellbook that knows Recall — the book only saves you hunting through your pack for the right stone.
Runetomes. The full archive, bound at 100 Inscription from 1,000 Wood Parchment and 500 Arcane Dust. Thirty runes, and a crystal in the spine that banks up to fifty Recall charges. Drop Scrolls of Recall onto the tome to charge it; spend a charge and the journey costs you no reagents at all. You still need the spell, and you still need the book that taught it to you.
Scribes can write Scrolls of Recall. Ten Wood Parchment and one of each of the spell's own reagents, from 45 Inscription. The same scroll a ghoul drops — read it into a spellbook, sell it, or bind it into a Runetome as a charge.
Bless Deeds, 100 Virtue Points at the Offering. Drop one onto a Runebook or a Runetome and that book — and every rune filed inside it — stays with you through death. It works on nothing else. A book full of places you marked one at a time is worth more than the vellum, and losing it lost all of them at once.

⚖️ Balance

Recall Town and Recall Home are gone, and so are their scrolls. Anyone who knew either has simply forgotten it; there is no compensation. Recall is learned again from the ghouls in Britain Graveyard, who now carry its scroll at the rate they carried Recall Town's, and Mark is learned from the golems in Shame. Neither spell is craft-only, so a warrior who never picks up a quill can still get both.
A Scroll of Recall cannot be ground into Arcane Dust, unlike every other spell scroll. It is the one scroll a scribe can make, and a circle-3 scroll grinds into three dust while three dust buys thirty reagents — so grinding what you had just written would have been thirty reagents back on a recipe costing three, without limit.
Your house is somewhere you ARE now, not a state layered over the town you last set out from. Mark works indoors and a rune can hold your own home, so Recall — from the spell, or from a Runebook page — brings you back to your own front door. Somebody else's house is still refused: a rune records a place, and "a house" is not one place.
Neither Recall nor Mark can be cast in a fight, and the refusal now comes from one shared rule rather than each spell naming itself — which had already let one of the two slip through.
The Virtue Shop sells you as many of a reward as you want. Buying a second Safe, or a third Bless Deed, used to be refused on the grounds that one Ankh is all a house can use — an argument about the Ankh that had quietly become the rule for everything. Once-only now belongs to the Account Upgrades section, where it was always the real rule.
The Ghoul in Vesper Graveyard drops the Scroll of Mark as well as the Scroll of Recall. Mark was only carried by the Golem in Shame, a tier deeper, so a player could earn Recall and then find they could do nothing with it — a rune with no Mark is a blank stone. The Golem still drops it for anyone already down there.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Clicking a Tome on a freshly loaded page opens the Tome, not an inline bag grid. The flag that tells the two apart was only ever set when the page redrew itself, so the first click after a reload always opened the wrong thing.
The game knows you are at home. Standing in your house used to leave you recorded as still being in whichever town you had walked out of, which every shopkeeper, vendor check and "who is here" list read as the truth. Being indoors is its own place now, and stepping outside still puts you back exactly where you came from.
A party leader setting out no longer drags along a member who is sitting at home on the other side of the map.
An item weighing one stone says "1 stone", not "1 stones".
The travel scene clears when you arrive. It could linger over the world afterwards, leaving you looking at the road while you were already standing in the town.
A Craft Station cannot run the same tick twice. An overrunning sweep could start again before the previous pass had finished, which would have taken the material twice and paid the output twice.

💬 Quality of Life

A rune, or a book of them, works from your pack and from a bag in your pack — not from your bank box. The same rule your reagents have always followed: what is on your person is what casts the spell. A book left in the bank still opens, and you can still tidy it; only the Recall buttons go quiet, and the book says why.
A parked spell macro for a spell that no longer exists stops coming back as a broken tile. Old Recall Town macros clear themselves on the next reload.
A Recall Rune says where it points. Its name takes the place it was marked to, its stone lights up, and the description underneath matches — it used to go on calling itself a blank slate waiting for a name while the name sat right above it. A rune whose destination no longer exists says so plainly instead of reading as marked.
Rune books no longer offer "Hold to see contents". Their whole interior is one kind of item with one name, so the breakdown read "Recall Rune" ten times over; the book's own pages list every destination with a Recall button beside it, one click away.

Patch 9.98 — Follow The Leader

2026-08-11

⚖️ Balance

Only the party leader starts a fight, and only with the whole party standing with them. Attack and Auto Battle both refuse anyone else, and they refuse the leader too if somebody is elsewhere, sat in their house, or still on the road — the refusal names who is missing. A party shares one monster and splits what it drops, so a member pulling something spent everyone else's time and paid everyone else a share whether they wanted the fight or not. It is asked between fights as well, not only when you press the button: a party that sets out together and then wanders apart stops, rather than quietly paying an absent member for every kill.
Recall cannot be cast in a fight. Recall Town was a way out of one — cast it and you left, monster and all — while Recall Home refused with "You have no home set", which was flatly untrue for anyone who had one. Both now give the same honest answer and neither works. Fleeing is what leaving a fight early is for, and it has its own costs. Invisibility still slips you away.
Recall Town takes 3 seconds to cast instead of 10.
The grounds around a house belong to whoever owns it. Visitors still come in, look around and use whatever the owner has opened to them indoors — they simply no longer step out of the front door into the garden, which means the lumber field, the mine and the pond are the owner's to work. This reverses the note two days ago that said guests may walk the grounds and there was a switch for it: the switch is gone, because a garden stopped being scenery the day it grew a working timber plot and a mine, and a guest could strip both on unlocks they had never paid for and keep every log. Co-owners keep the run of the place.

🔧 Bug Fixes

You can recall home from a friend's house. The Shardbinder's Ring and the Recall Home spell both answered "You're already home" while you were stood in somebody else's one — and with no Leave button for a visitor, that was most of why a visit could feel like being trapped in there.
Setting out from a friend's house measures the road from THAT house. It was measured from your own front door wherever that happened to be, so the same journey took wildly different times depending on whose house you left.
Coming away from an upstairs floor of somebody else's house no longer leaves you standing on a floor your own house does not have.
Recalling home puts you in the room with anyone already standing in your house. Every other way in did this; the two instant recalls did not, so a host could arrive invisible among their own guests until somebody reloaded.

💬 Quality of Life

Your party walks the dungeon with you. When the leader starts Auto Battle it starts for everyone standing with them, and the dungeon map comes up for the whole party: followers fall in behind the leader in a line, share the monster, and take a place around it when the fighting starts. Until now only the leader ever saw that map — everyone else was pulled into fight after fight looking at the plain combat window while the leader walked a dungeon. The leader stopping calls it off for all of them. Anyone who cannot fight at that moment is simply left out rather than holding up the rest.
Leaving a party as its leader now ends the party. It used to hand the job quietly to whoever had been in it longest, which cost nothing back when leading meant nothing — but the leader is the only one who can call travel, and now the only one who can start a fight, so everyone else was left following somebody who had never agreed to lead them, pressing buttons that did nothing.

Patch 9.97 — A Bigger Target

2026-08-11

💬 Quality of Life

A party travels together, and that now includes recalling. Recall Town, Recall Home, the Shardbinder's Ring and the moongate in your own yard all moved a party member out on their own — the rule that only the leader starts travel was only ever enforced on the World Map, and the instant doors went around it. All four refuse now, and say why. The refusal used to read "You are not in combat", which explained nothing and named no rule; it now says only the party leader can start travel, and nothing is spent finding out.
The Hitching Post has a window of its own now. Double-click a locked-down post and you get two slots: drag a Pack Llama or Pack Horse in, click one to take it back out, with the time frozen on each mount written underneath it. Unhitching used to mean right-clicking the mount's own picture on the post, which was about fourteen pixels across with another one beside it — miss it and you were offered "Reclaim" on the post instead, which is not what anybody was aiming for. The pictures are still there, a little larger, and they now just show you what is hitched.

Patch 9.96 — Out The Front Door

2026-08-10

✨ New Features

Your house now stands in a clearing of its own, and you can walk out of it. The cutaway room you have always had is the same room, with the same floor, the same chest and the same fixtures in the same places — it simply sits in the middle of a wood now, with grass around it and a door you walk through. Going outside and coming back in is one step either way; there is no separate view to switch to.
A signpost stands by the door. It is yours to name: double-click it and write whatever the place is called, up to thirty letters. Anyone can hover it to read the name. Until you name it the sign carries the house’s own style — "Small Brick House", "Small Stone Tower" — so it is never blank.
Two braziers burn either side of the door, and a pond lies at the bottom of the grounds with fish moving under the surface. There is a chair on its bank: click it and your character walks over, sits down and casts. Fishing at home happens there and nowhere else — the Skills panel will point you at the pond if you try to start it from your armchair. Walk away from the chair and you stop fishing.
A cool box sits beside the chair. It is the Iron Stove’s Fish Store, standing where the fish are actually caught: one slot per kind of fish, no skill needed to store anything in it. Put your catch in with one press, take a stack back out, or send one straight to your stove without carrying it through your pack.
Two corners of the grounds are ground the house can grow into. A fenced lumber field of full-grown timber, gated and shut, and a mine cut into the rock with an ore cart parked at its mouth. Neither opens yet — both will tell you what they are waiting for — but they are laid out now so nobody’s garden has to be rearranged the day they do.
A moongate stands on the far side of the grounds, ringed with standing stones. It opens onto any town or any dungeon, chosen from its own two lists. It is not unlocked for anyone yet; that comes later.
Visitors can walk your grounds. Open by default — a garden is outdoors, and somebody you would let through your front door should not be stopped at the gate to your lawn — with a switch in the house access window if you would rather keep it to yourself.

⚖️ Balance

Recall Dungeon has been retired. Dungeon travel now belongs to the moongate in your grounds, which reaches every dungeon rather than the handful a scroll happened to drop for. Recall Town is unchanged. Nobody on the shard was carrying the scroll or had the spell learned, so nothing has been taken away from anyone.

🔧 Bug Fixes

You no longer stand there with no gear on after a refresh. The game never sent you your own equipment when a page loaded — it waited for the next thing to happen, which if you were stood still doing nothing could be a very long time, and taking a piece of armour off and putting it back on was the quickest way to force it. Everything that draws from your character now arrives the moment you connect.
A tool kept in a Tool Bag is the tool you are actually using. A Verite hatchet banked in a bag was being swung and worn down while the game reported no bonus at all and drew a plain iron one in your hands — two different parts of the game had drifted apart on which tool was in use.
Walking onto the far row of your own house no longer makes you vanish behind the back wall.
The tops are no longer cut off the trees along the edges of every outdoor scene, or in a repeating line across the far woodland.

Patch 9.95 — Counting Straight

2026-08-10

🔧 Bug Fixes

Crafting through the night no longer stops at your first tool. Offline catch-up counted the uses left on whichever tool was active when you logged out and then stopped there — however many spares sat in your pack, and however long you were away. A Tinker's Tools with seventy uses left returned seventy attempts and nothing more, which is why a night away could come back looking like an hour. It now works through your spares exactly as it does while you are watching, and only stops when the last one breaks.
The Crafting Bench reaches the Stockpile beside it while you are away. Offline it picked one pile when it started and stayed with it, so a bench holding a handful of ingots ignored a Stockpile holding tens of thousands for the entire night — and because it preferred the bench the moment it held enough for a single craft, a nearly-empty bench was worse than an empty one. It now works the bench dry and carries straight on into the Stockpile, the way it always has while you are stood at it. Brewing was doing the same thing and is fixed with it.
A Pack Horse now counts for the whole time you were away. Offline catch-up was asking whether the mount was still alive at the moment you got BACK rather than while you were gone, so a horse that carried for you all night counted for none of it — your pack filled at bare capacity a few hours in and the rest of the window quietly earned nothing. Reported as a night of Lumberjacking returning about half what it should. A pack-bred pet and the carry bonus on worn gear were being left out of that same sum, and now count too.

💬 Quality of Life

The "welcome back" summary now tells you when a night ended early, and why — your pack was full, you ran out of tools, or you ran out of materials, with the time it happened. Any of those could cut a window short with nothing said about it, leaving only the note about the offline cap, which describes a completely different limit. Covers gathering, hand crafting and the Crafting Bench.
Gathered materials are listed in tier order — Wood, Dullwood, Shadowwood and on up — rather than the order each tier first turned up. A lucky early Veriwood used to land halfway up the list and make a perfectly correct haul look scrambled.
Double-clicking something in your house opens it where you stand. Your figure walked over to it first and only opened on arrival, which was a nice touch back when the floor plan was all there was of the house — but now that the house stands in its own grounds that figure is not even the one you can see, so all it bought was a pause before the window appeared. Clicking bare floor still walks you there.

Patch 9.94 — Paying For Dead Things

2026-08-08

✨ New Features

A Wandering Bounty Hunter now walks the dungeons. He turns up where somebody is already fighting, stays ten minutes, and pays for kills — a named creature off that dungeon's roster, or whatever dies there. You have a day, and kills count whether you are at the keyboard or not.
He pays out of the dungeon's own takings: a share of its weekly boss bar (five to twenty-five percent by contract size), Cap Stones, bandages graded to how deep you are, and reagents. A chance of a Dye Tub too, and a smaller one of that dungeon's own Slayer.
One bounty at a time, in its own slot, so it never blocks a tradesman's order. One you cannot fill can be abandoned rather than waited out. The Town Crier announces him in red, apart from the tradesmen.
Local chat now appears over the head of whoever said it, on the dungeon floor plans and in the mines and glades — so a busy floor shows who is talking, not only what was said.
Three more tracks join the playlist: Standing Stones, Under Skara Brae, and The Old Mage's Fire.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Your own reconnection no longer reads as somebody else logging in. A phone waking or a laptop changing network came back as a connection the server could not tell from a rival login, so it closed your session and showed the full-screen notice — for a connection that was only ever yours.
Dragging a stack around a station's store no longer destroys it. The rack is one drop surface, so a stack nudged towards another slot was handed back to itself, doubled onto itself and deleted. Reported as 88 Agawood vanishing. The Raw Material column had the same trap.
Clicking a vein or tree you are already standing beside now works. It always worked from across the cavern, which is what made it so odd — but a click on one right next to you was silently thrown away.
Clicking to walk and then clicking a vein no longer sends your worker sprinting across the map. The second click started a fresh walk on top of the running one, and the two drove the figure together.

💬 Quality of Life

The Ore Smelter, Saw Pit and Iron Stove have a Deposit All. It takes everything that station works out of your pack AND out of the bags in it — a Log Roll, an Ore Bag — and puts each stack where it can actually go: the tiers you can work into the queue, and everything above your skill onto the store instead. No more dragging a mixed haul across two columns one stack at a time.
Their output side has an All to Stockpile to match, emptying the finished goods straight into the Stockpile in the same house rather than by way of your backpack. It works when the house is nearly full, too — material moving from a station to a shelf under the same roof was being charged for space it already occupied.
The Deliver and Collect buttons in the Quest Journal are finally part of the game rather than bare browser buttons, and both light up when the job is actually done.

Patch 9.93 — Somewhere to Put It

2026-08-08

✨ New Features

The Ore Smelter, Saw Pit and Iron Stove each have a store now — a rack of slots down the bottom of the gump, one for every tier of the material that station works. The Ore Store, the Log Store and the Fish Store. Drag ore, logs or raw fish onto the wood to put it away; click a stack to take it back.
The point of it is the tier you cannot use yet. Loading a station has always demanded the skill to work that material by hand, so a miner turning up Valorite long before they can smelt it had nowhere in the house to leave it — house storage is refined goods only, and a Gather Bag has to be carried. The store takes any tier at any skill, and a slot you have not filled yet shows the material greyed out, so the rack reads as a list of what that station can eventually work. Tiers still beyond you are marked as such, but you can stock them all the same.
What the store will NOT do is let you skip the skill. It only holds material — the station never draws from it, and moving a stack across to the Raw Material column still asks for the skill it always did. A running station cannot touch what is on the shelf.

Patch 9.92 — Por Ort Grav

2026-08-08

Changes

Lightning now staggers what it hits. Three casts in ten leave the target reeling for three seconds — and it is the same stagger a Mace Fighter lands, not a lesser cousin of it: the creature loses whatever swing it was winding up and has to start a fresh one once it comes round, so the three seconds cost it rather more than three seconds of attacks.
It shows the way any stun does — the Stunned mark on the creature, its swing timer pinned flat for the duration, and a shout on the floor plan. Nothing else about the spell has changed; it still costs the same mana and hits for the same 16 to 22.

Patch 9.91 — The Lumberjack Keeps His Own Boards

2026-08-08

Changes

Carving logs into boards now trains LUMBERJACKING, not Carpentry — and so does the Saw Pit. This is the arrangement Mining has always had with smelting: the skill that gathers the raw material is the skill that refines it, and the crafting skill begins at the finished material. Carpentry now starts at the board, where the bows, instruments and house fixtures are.
Carving trains Lumberjacking as far as 75, exactly the ceiling smelting has for Mining. Past that the axe is the only way up. Your existing Carpentry is untouched — nothing was taken away, and every bench recipe still trains it as before.
Wandering tradesfolk arrive about a third as often. Each of the three workings rolls for one independently, which meant the shard was announcing eighteen a weekday and twenty-seven at a weekend — several times any other event in the game. It is now six and nine, in line with the Dungeon and Harvesting Boons.

Fixes

Hiding and showing the Skills panel no longer makes every running skill look finished. The progress bar was left frozen at the end of its sweep while the panel was closed, so it read as a completed tick until the next one actually landed. It now picks up wherever the real work has genuinely got to.

Patch 9.90 — The Dead, the Wandering, and an Honest Day’s Work

2026-08-08

✨ New Features

Mining and Lumberjacking can now be worked BY HAND. Arriving at a mine or the forest offers you a choice: Auto works exactly as it always has, and Manual hands you the reins — you walk where you like and click a vein or tree yourself. A manual swing comes round every 8 seconds against the usual 14.3, so working by hand out-earns idling by about four fifths. What it costs is your attention.
Only the glowing veins and trees can be worked by hand, they are always a plain material rather than a coloured one, and a struck one takes 40 seconds to come back — so you work a rotation of them rather than standing at one. Your tool becomes the cursor when you hover one that is ready. They only appear in Manual; in Auto your character picks its own workspots as before.
The dead now stay where they fall. A slain creature lies on the ground for five minutes, decays to a skeleton for another ten, then fades — and so do you, wearing what you died in, at the spot you died on. Everyone working the same place sees the same bodies, and they are still there if you travel away and come back inside the quarter hour. Bodies fall four different ways, and the blood dries up when the flesh does.
A Wandering Miner and a Wandering Lumberjack now turn up unannounced in the mines and the glade — named tradesfolk with histories of their own, one of twelve faces each time. Speak to one and they will name an order of ingots or boards, sometimes both; fill it within two hours through your Quest Journal and they pay in kind. Never coin: geodes, better material than you handed over, a tool of the trade, and at the very top a Deed of the Vagabond. They stay ten minutes and then move on, and the Town Crier calls out their arrival in Discord so you have a chance of catching one.
Resurrection works. Cast out of combat it raises every dead character where you are standing — on the spot, whole, beside their own belongings, however deep in a dungeon that happens to be. It still cannot be cast in the middle of a fight.

Changes

The full-screen floor plan is now how the game looks, for everyone. It is no longer an option you can switch off — the scenes are built around it, and everything from the corpses to the wandering tradesfolk to clicking a vein assumes the world is the backdrop rather than a panel.
Only one session per account. Opening the game somewhere else closes the older one and tells it why, rather than leaving two of you quietly fighting over the same character.
The wandering tradesfolk walk properly — they stride, and they turn to face wherever they are heading, instead of gliding about face-on.

Fixes

Another player working the same patch could appear to teleport back and forth between two points. If they had the game open twice, both windows walked their figure independently and everyone watching saw it flip between the two. One session per account removes the cause.
A player whose outfit could not be assembled was drawn as a nameplate over empty ground, and two people standing on the same tile hid one another. Both now resolve — in the mines, the forest and the dungeons alike.

Patch 9.89 — Tie Up, and Stop the Clock

2026-08-08

✨ New Features

The Hitching Post has arrived as a new house placeable — a Carpentry recipe (1,000 planks, 500 ingots, 50 skill) alongside the Saw Pit and Parchment Press. Drag a Pack Llama or Pack Horse onto a locked-down post and its decay clock freezes entirely for as long as it stands there, holding up to two mounts at once. Right-click a hitched mount to take it back, and its clock picks up again exactly where it left off — no more racing a wearing-out pack mount home before it gives out.

Patch 9.88 — Keep Working, and Room to Read

2026-08-08

Fixes

Lockpicking training stopped dead the moment a Training Lock broke, even with a pack full of spares — you had to start the activity again by hand every time one wore out. It now simply takes the next lock out of your pack and keeps working, and only stops when you have genuinely run out. Training away offline already behaved this way; it is the watching-it-happen half that was wrong.

Changes

The Journal and Chat panels can now be dragged wider or narrower, not just taller and shorter. Grab the same corner handle you already use for height and pull sideways — the panel follows. Whatever size you leave them at is remembered, the way the height always has been.

Patch 9.87 — The Cart Weighs the Bag

2026-08-07

Fixes

Sending a bag home from the bank now costs what is actually in it. The horse and cart was pricing a bag at the weight of an EMPTY bag, so a full one rode home for a handful of gold no matter what was inside — the menu had been quoting you the honest price all along while the cart charged a fraction of it. The two now agree. Nothing else about the fee has changed: it is the same rate per stone it always was.
A bag sent home also has to FIT now. Its contents were invisible to the house-storage capacity check and then counted the moment they landed, which could push a house past its own limit.
Sending a bag home while another bag of the same kind already sat in that storey's chest destroyed the incoming bag and everything inside it. Bags are no longer merged into one another — only stackable goods ever were meant to be.

Patch 9.86 — Panels, Half Off

2026-08-07

Changes

Backpack Side Panels are on launch offer: 6 BritCoin instead of 10, until the end of 21 August. The Store marks a reduced item with an Offer badge, the old price struck through beside the new one, and how long is left to take it.

Patch 9.85 — Room to Spread Out

2026-08-07

✨ New

Backpack Side Panels have arrived in the Donation Store: 10 BritCoin unfolds two leather panels onto the sides of your backpack, each a full drop surface of its own. They ARE your backpack in every way that matters — same carry weight, same rules on death, same reach for crafting and trading — just more room to lay your things out the way you like them. Unlocked forever for the character who buys them.

Changes

The Lost Purse a Forensic Evaluation turns up when the ground has nothing real left to give was arriving far too readily — on a shard whose lost-item pool has been picked clean, every find became one. It is now limited to one per twelve hours. Genuine relics dug out of the pool are untouched and as common as they ever were.

Patch 9.84.1 — Point Me at the Rock

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

Arriving at Minoc Mines, Britain Mines or Yew Forest now puts a panel in the middle of your screen offering to get on with it — "Start Mining" at a mine, "Start Chopping" in the forest. One click and you are working, and it steps aside the moment you are. It only ever appears when you are not already doing that job, and never while you are travelling, at home, out on a dig, or in a fight.

Fixes

The gathering bags now size their panel to their grid, the same fix the Tool Bag gump got just above. A Lumberjack's Log Roll in its two-column shape was carrying 75 pixels of dead leather past the last slot purely because its own name was wider than its grid; every bag now sits snug to its slots in every rotation.

Patch 9.84 — A Bag That Fits

2026-08-07

Fixes

The Tool Bag panel was far wider than the tools inside it — worst in the tall two-column layout, where more than half the panel was empty parchment, and worse still on a bag with nothing banked yet. It now sizes to the slots themselves, in every layout.

Patch 9.83 — A Grip Worth Holding

2026-08-07

Fixes

A Makeshift Pickaxe or Hatchet used to float at the wrong angle beside your character instead of sitting in their hand while you worked — the artwork wasn't wrong, it just wasn't drawn where the game expects a carried tool's grip to be. Both now carry exactly like their Iron counterparts.

Patch 9.82 — A Loaner, Not an Upgrade

2026-08-07

Fixes

A Makeshift tool from the Provisioner was training its skill straight past the cap a real Iron tool holds it to, letting a free hourly loaner quietly out-train the tool it stands in for. It now caps at 75, exactly like Iron, as it always should have.

Patch 9.81 — Deeper Workings

2026-08-07

Changes

The mines and the forest are considerably bigger — half again the ground to work, with more than twice as many veins and trees standing in it. A busier cavern, not just a wider one.
You no longer arrive at the same spot as everybody else. Gatherers now start scattered across the workings, the way a working mine actually looks, instead of all filing in through the one entrance.

Fixes

A rare vein could be right across the map, and the walk to it took longer than the time until your next find — so your character set off, got re-tasked partway, turned around, and spent the session darting about without ever arriving. Rich ore is now found in a vein you can reach, and no walk is ever longer than the time you have to make it.
Two people standing on the same tile drew one figure on top of the other, which read as a name floating over nobody. Whoever is sharing your tile now steps aside far enough to be seen — in the mines, the forest and the dungeons alike.
Another player whose outfit could not be assembled was drawn as a nameplate over empty ground. They now fall back to a plain figure, which is a missing hat rather than a missing person.

Patch 9.80 — One Monster, Not Three

2026-08-07

Fixes

A party encounter drew a monster for every member — two of you fighting one creature saw two of it, three saw three. A party shares a single encounter, so there is now a single creature on the floor however many of you are hitting it.
The same applies from the outside: a party you walk past is fighting one monster on your screen too, not one per member.

Patch 9.79 — Walk With Me

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

A party can now walk the dungeon floor plan together. The view used to switch off entirely the moment you joined one; it stays on, and the party walks the floor as a group.
You follow the leader's own route rather than wandering your own: whoever joined first walks one step behind them, the next two steps behind, single file along the path the leader actually took.
When the party engages, everyone fans out around the monster into their own place in the ring, so nobody is hidden behind anybody and you can see the whole party working the same target.
The fight itself is drawn for the party at last. An ally's swing lands on the ally's own figure, the monster turns on whichever member it is actually hitting, and a breath or a thrown boulder washes over every one of you at once — which is what it has always done mechanically, without anyone being able to see it.
And everyone else in the dungeon sees the whole line: a party walking past reads as a party, not as three unrelated people who happen to be heading the same way.

Fixes

Spell words of power stopped appearing over anybody, self included. The label looks for whichever of your figures is on screen, and it was checking only the FIRST candidate it found rather than the first VISIBLE one — so once a house-view figure existed, it won that check, tested as hidden, and silently took the whole search down with it. Words are back, and other players' incantations now appear over their heads too.

Patch 9.78 — Every Spark, Shared

2026-08-07

💬 Quality of Life

Other people's spells now play out in full on your map. A Flame Strike erupts in its column of fire, Lightning comes down out of the dark, a Fireball crosses the room and detonates, heal sparkles rise around whoever cast them — all of it exactly as it looks when the spell is yours, because it is drawn by the same code.
You can see when someone is mid-cast, too: the channelling glow that hangs on your own figure while a spell winds up now hangs on theirs.
Explosion Potions go off where you can see them, and a monster's breath, cast or thrown boulder washes over its victim on your screen with the same colour and the same shout it has on theirs.

Patch 9.77 — Blow for Blow

2026-08-07

💬 Quality of Life

Monsters now visibly fight back against other players. Watching someone in your dungeon used to be watching one person swing at a statue — their opponent now lunges at them in return, and they take the same flinch your own figure does when something connects.
Damage numbers float over other people's fights, both ways: what they hit their monster for, and what it hits them for. Their crits read as crits.
A monster now appears on your map the moment its fight starts and leaves the moment it ends, rather than turning up several seconds late and then standing over its own corpse. Most fights are over inside that old delay, so the part worth watching was frequently the part you missed.

Fixes

Misses and parries deliberately do not float over other players. In your own fight a miss explains why nothing happened; a dungeon full of strangers' misses is just noise over the map.

Patch 9.76 — Same World, Same Fight

2026-08-07

💬 Quality of Life

Other players in your dungeon now visibly fight. The monster they are working on stands in front of them, they swing at it on the beat their own screen swings, and it flashes as each blow lands. When their fight ends, the monster fades out the way a real kill does.
Other players in a mine or forest now carry their tool and use it. A hatchet or a pickaxe is never equipped — it lives in the pack — so other workers previously turned up empty-handed and stood there motionless while their own screen showed them chopping. They now hold the real tool they are actually swinging, and you see every blow land.

Fixes

Watching a player with the All-Seeing Eye shows them somewhere other than where their figure stands on your map. That is expected rather than broken, and the figure is the accurate one: spectating re-renders their world on YOUR screen, which picks its own route through the trees, while the figure on your map is the cell their own client actually reported.

Patch 9.75 — Mended, Not Mistaken

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

The Repair Bench can now mend an Inscribed Spellbook. Its charges mend with Arcane Dust rather than ingots: 1 Dust restores 5 charges, at a flat rate that does not move with your Blacksmithing or Inscription.

⚖️ Balance

Cooked Fish, the plain starter tier, now heals 10 instead of 5 — it was healing barely half a Bandage's minimum and is a real bite of food now, next to Cooked Dullfish's 15.

Fixes

An Inscribed Spellbook no longer flashes red on your paperdoll while you cast. That warning means "this weapon is doing nothing right now" — true of a real weapon mid-cast, never true of the book itself, which keeps working the whole time.

Patch 9.74 — Company at the Rock Face

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

Other players now show up in the mines and the forest as well as in dungeons. Anyone working the same patch you are — mining Minoc Mines, chopping Yew Forest — is drawn walking between the veins and trees, with their name over their head, exactly as they already were on a dungeon floor plan.
Their tamed companions come too, in all three places. Somebody else's pet trots one step behind them the same way yours does, at the same size its level has earned, with a bonded one wearing the same standout hue it wears everywhere else.
Only people actually working the place are drawn — mining while you mine, chopping while you chop. A lumberjack and a miner standing in the same location are doing two different jobs and do not appear on each other's screens, and stopping work quietly takes you off everyone else's.
Fishing is the exception: the dock has no ground to walk around, so every angler would stand on the same plank. Nobody is drawn there.

Patch 9.73 — You Are Not Alone Down Here

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

You can see other players on the dungeon floor plan. Anyone else farming the same dungeon is drawn on your map as their own paperdoll — their armour, their cloak, the weapon they are carrying — with their name over their head, walking their own route as they hunt.
They appear wherever they actually are, not as a marker: their figure steps tile to tile at the same pace yours does, so a dungeon two people are working now looks like a dungeon two people are working.
It shows who is WANDERING, which is not quite the same as who is in the dungeon. Someone standing down there with Auto Battle switched off is not drawn — their own map is not walking a figure either, and putting a stranger on a tile nobody chose would be inventing a position rather than showing one. Switch Auto Battle off and you quietly leave everyone else's map; switch it on and you are back.
A disguise still holds. Incognito swaps the name over your head in a dungeon exactly as it does in town — a spell that worked in the square but not underground would be no spell at all.

Patch 9.72 — Two for the Price of One

2026-08-07

⚖️ Balance

The Humility talent Grounded Focus does more. It keeps its -10% fail chance everywhere it already applied, gathering included, and adds this: at a Crafting Bench, every craft that succeeds has a 50% chance to finish a second one free.
The free craft is earned, not luck bent in your favour. It is only ever rolled after a craft has already succeeded, so a failed attempt gets nothing, and because the one that bought it succeeded the free one cannot fail either. It is a real craft in every other way: it spends its own materials and trains you exactly as the first did.
It only rolls while more than one is still owed. Asking for one gets no roll at all, since there is nothing to double; asking for three and landing it on the first leaves one to finish on its own. A failed craft does not use up its place in the run, so a run of two that fails its first attempt still gets another chance at the double.

Patch 9.71 — Leave It to the Bench

2026-08-07

💬 Quality of Life

Inscribed Spellbooks can now be bound at the Crafting Bench. The Inscription tab is split into Parchment and Spellbooks, and a spellbook run works like any other: it takes ten Parchment of that tier per book, out of the Bench or an adjacent Stockpile, and keeps going while you do something else. Binding by right-clicking a Parchment stack still works exactly as it did.
Binding at the Bench cannot fail, because binding by hand never could — the ten sheets always become a book. Automating it should cost you attention, not materials.
The Mage Shop reagent stall has a new tick: "Send purchases to my stockpile". With it on, a bulk reagent buy is carted straight into your Stockpile instead of landing in your pack — no charge for the delivery, since it never had to come out of your bag in the first place. Buy five hundred at a time and they are simply waiting at home next to the Crafting Bench that wanted them.
The tick is remembered per character and does nothing at all if you have no Stockpile placed — your reagents just arrive the usual way, so there is no purchase to lose.

Patch 9.70 — Cut and Pressed

2026-08-07

✨ New Features

A fourth Craft Station: the Parchment Press. Build it with Carpentry for 1,000 Wood Planks and 500 Iron Ingots — the same price as a Saw Pit — place it in your house, lock it down, and feed it logs.
It is the only station that spans two refinements. Everything else takes one step: ore to ingots, raw fish to cooked. The press does the cutting AND the pressing, so what goes in is a log and what comes out is parchment, with no plank stage in between and nothing for you to move from one machine to the next.
What it will accept is gated on your Inscription, not on the Carpentry that built it — the same rule every station follows, that a machine can never process a tier its owner could not legally make by hand. A carpenter can build one for a scribe; neither of them can launder wood through it that the scribe could not scribe themselves.
Own both a Saw Pit and a Parchment Press and your logs will offer you both destinations when you send them from the bank or house storage, so you can decide per stack whether you want planks or parchment.

Patch 9.69 — Both Hands

2026-08-07

⚖️ Balance

Casting costs you your weapon and shield for as long as the spell is in flight. Both slots turn red on the paperdoll — the same red a broken item gets, because mechanically that is now exactly what they are: your swing drops to Wrestling, your shield stops blocking and stops counting toward your Armor Rating, and neither takes any wear while it is doing nothing. A spellbook is unaffected; its wisp bolt was always Wrestling. Spells landing alongside a full weapon swing for free is over — casting mid-fight is a trade you make.
Mana regeneration now scales with Intelligence. Meditation still sets the rate; Intelligence scales it, straight down the line — 100 Int gets the full curve, 25 Int gets a quarter of it. A warrior who dabbles in magic recovers mana far more slowly than a real mage does, whatever their Meditation.
Intelligence now decides how hard your spells hit. Half of a spell's damage is fixed and the other half scales with Int, so the Lightning that lands for 19 in a mage's hands lands for 12 in a warrior's. Poison's damage over time scales the same way.
Bless counts toward both of those, and can carry you past 100 — so it is a genuine caster buff now rather than a wider pool you refill at exactly the same speed.

💬 Quality of Life

Dungeon floors are properly inhabited. Monsters are now placed to cover the whole map instead of being counted out and scattered at random — Destard held eighteen of them across nearly twenty thousand tiles of floor, which is how you could walk a screen and a half of open cavern and meet nothing at all. No stretch of any floor plan is wide enough to be empty any more, and when something dies its replacement fills the thinnest part of the map rather than dropping in wherever chance put it.
The floors are furnished, too. Chests hanging open, chests staved in, stacks of crates and barrels — tucked against the walls where somebody camped, so a long trek across one of these maps passes something. They are scenery, and deliberately never an intact closed chest: a real Dungeon Chest still looks like a real Dungeon Chest.

Patch 9.68 — Brick by Brick

2026-08-07

💬 Quality of Life

Mobile can now fund a house under construction directly. While home, tap an Iron Ingot or Wooden Plank (or their Commodity Deeds) and choose "Add to Building Site" — the same delivery desktop has always made by dragging materials onto the Construction Site. Once the house is finished, that same tap offers "Store at House" instead.

Fixes

Tapping an item on mobile while your house was still under construction used to offer "Store at House" regardless — and it worked, tucking things into a chest that had no floor plan around it yet. That path is now closed, on mobile and on the server underneath it.

Patch 9.67 — What the Ground Remembers

2026-08-06

✨ New Features

A new skill: Forensic Evaluation. Train it in any town, the same way you train Tracking. Every attempt reads a story out of the ground beneath you — an old murder, a badly dressed carcass, a scrubbed flagstone — and some of those stories are true ones, pulled from deaths that really happened on this shard.
It also finds things, and this is the part worth understanding. Every item this world has permanently destroyed is still down there: gear carried into a Dungeon Boss fight and lost, and anything scattered on a death that nobody came back for before it decayed. A forensic reading occasionally digs one of those out — the same sword, the same wear, the same enchantment, the same maker's mark, and the journal tells you whose it was.
An item is only in the ground once. Whoever finds it has it, it leaves the ground for good, and nobody will ever find it again — including the person who lost it. If an item was looted back off the ground it was never lost at all, and was never down there to begin with.
When the ground has nothing left to give, a find turns up a Lost Purse instead, which opens exactly like a Geode.
Forensic Evaluation also sharpens your skinning. It lifts the leather you take from every kill, climbing the whole way up to +20% at Grandmaster — half the skill is half the bonus, and it changes how much comes off rather than which hide drops.

Fixes

A bag left on the ground long enough to decay used to take its contents with it only in appearance — everything inside was quietly left behind in the world, owned by nobody and reachable by no one. Decaying bags now properly destroy what is inside them.

Patch 9.66 — A Slot for Every Find

2026-08-06

✨ New Features

Three new bags for harvesters, tailored at 80: a Miner's Ore Satchel, a Lumberjack's Log Roll and a Fisher's Creel. Each one costs its own line's rare find — Pristine Ore, Pristine Wood — so the bag that organises a material is bought with that material's own scarcity.
They are organisers, not sacks. Each opens as a grid with one slot per tier of its line, in order from Iron up to Valorite, plus a last slot for that line's rare find. A resource you have never gathered sits there greyed out, so the bag doubles as a checklist of what the line contains; tiers still above your skill are marked out with a dashed edge.
While you carry one, what you gather goes straight into it instead of scattering through your backpack — the same way leather has always found its way into a Leather Sling. Right-click for "Add All" to sweep up anything you gathered before you owned the bag.
Every bag can be rotated between three shapes with the ⟳ in its header — a wide block, a tall column, or a single long strip — and remembers which you chose.
Your Reg Bag gets the same treatment: one slot per reagent, in alphabetical order, since no reagent is rarer than any other. It still packs reagents down to a tenth of their weight — it remains the only bag that lightens what it holds.

⚖️ Balance

Carving plain Wood into planks now starts at a 75% success rate instead of 50%. The climb to 95% at Grandmaster is unchanged, and every wood above plain — Dullwood and up — still starts at 50%, so unlocking a new tier is the same coin-flip it always was. This is the early game being less punishing, not the whole ladder moving.

💬 Quality of Life

The Leather Sling is now one of these bags. Same bag, same recipe, same hide — it simply gained the grid, so your leather is laid out by tier like everything else. Anything already inside carries over untouched.
Bags that hold one particular thing now say so. You could previously drag a longsword into a Leather Sling and it would take it; a Sling, a Satchel, a Roll and a Creel now each accept only what belongs in them, whether you drag from your pack, your bank, a house or the ground.
A bag opened from your bank is no longer titled just "Bag".
If one of these bags is already holding something that has no slot of its own — anything you tucked into a Reg Bag or a Sling back when they would take absolutely anything — it is shown in a row beneath the grid so you can drag it out, rather than quietly disappearing.

Patch 9.65 — A Way Back to the Bench

2026-08-06

⚖️ Balance

Crafting without tools earns no Tinkering. Making that emergency pair trains nothing — skill still requires the tool, so the way out of the trap is not also a way to level. Everything else about the attempt is normal, and gains resume the moment you have tools active again.

💬 Quality of Life

You can no longer be locked out of crafting entirely. Tinker's Tools are made by Tinkering, and every other craft tool — the Blacksmith Hammer, the Carpenter's Saw, the Sewing Kit, the Mortar and Pestle — is tinkered too, so breaking your last pair with nothing spare used to close a circle you could not get out of. At a Crafting Bench you can now make base Iron Tinker's Tools with no tools in hand at all.
It is a way back to work, not a shortcut: it applies only to the plain Iron ones, only at the Bench, and the attempt still costs its ingots and can still fail like any other.

Patch 9.64 — Books to Hand

2026-08-06

✨ New Features

Your Spellbook and your Lore Book now have keyboard shortcuts — B and L. Both toggle, so the same key puts the book away again, and both rebind in Options under Hotkeys alongside everything else. As with every shortcut, they stay out of the way while you are typing: pressing B in chat still types a B.
The Spellbook key says so plainly if you do not own a spellbook yet, rather than opening an empty book at you.

💬 Quality of Life

Opening a panel now brings it to the front. Every panel was raised when you clicked it, but not when you opened it — so asking for the Spellbook while something else was on top handed you a Spellbook underneath it, and you had to go and find the thing you had just asked for.

Patch 9.63 — Your Screen, Your Keys

2026-08-06

✨ New Features

A Panels menu in the header, next to the padlock, with a switch for every standard panel — Paperdoll, Backpack, Skills, Ground, Session Gains, World Map, Journal and Chat. Switch one off and it goes; switch it back on and it returns to exactly where it was, docked or floated, with its position untouched. Handy if you never look at the Ground panel, or want nothing on screen but the fight.
Every one of those panels also has a keyboard shortcut. S for Skills and I for Backpack, plus P paperdoll, G ground, M map, J journal, C chat and N session gains. All of them rebind in Options under Hotkeys, alongside the auto-cast and potion keys, and they only fire when you are not typing — pressing S in chat still types an S.
One warning worth reading before you use it: hiding the Chat panel hides the box you type into, and typing in Local is how you reach the bank, the stable, the healer and every vendor. The switch says so before you flip it. Press C again, or use the Panels menu, to get it back.
Lockpicking now trains while you are logged out. Start Lockpicking Training with Training Locks in your pack and it keeps picking overnight, working through your spares in turn — one lock is 100 attempts, which is about ten minutes, so carry as many as you want the session to last. It was one of three activities that quietly earned nothing at all while you were away.
A new wiki page, Offline Progress, that says plainly what keeps earning while you are logged out and what does not. Which activities count, what has to be in your pack, and the things that quietly cut a night short — a full backpack ends a gathering session the moment one more swing would not fit. Cartography and Item Identification still earn nothing offline; now at least the wiki admits it.

⚖️ Balance

Offline time is now capped at 8 hours instead of 12. Anything past the cap is discarded rather than banked, exactly as before — coming back after two days pays the same as coming back after eight hours. Eight is roughly a night, which is the absence the catch-up was meant to cover; twelve was most of a day, and made simply not logging in a reasonable way to play.

Patch 9.62 — Hard Times for Beggars

2026-08-06

⚖️ Balance

Begging brings in half as much. A plea now yields from 3 reagents at no skill up to 10 at Grandmaster — it was 5 to 20, which quietly out-earned every skill that involves a tool and a sweat.
Begging no longer earns Virtue Binding XP. The gathering trickle scales with how much a tick actually hauls in, which is fair for ore and absurd for handfuls of free reagents — holding out a hat had become the best Virtue farm on the shard, several times what honest mining paid. The reagents are still the reason to beg; Virtue now asks for real work.

Patch 9.61 — Straight to the Stockpile

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

Right-clicking something in your house storage now offers to send it to your Stockpile, or to a Craft Station standing next to it. Ore you carried home and put away had no way across to the Smelter in the same room short of dragging it back into your pack first — the menu simply had nothing on it but the bank rows, which are no use to something already at home.
It reaches inside bags. A Reg Bag sitting in storage is exactly where a stockpiling player keeps their reagents, and its contents are offered the same rows as anything loose on the shelf — however deeply you have nested it.
Sending from your own house is free. Only the bank rents a horse and cart, because only the bank is somewhere else.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Ghosts can no longer loot. Death leaves you standing over your own remains, and with nothing stopping a corpse being picked clean on the spot, the walk back for your body — which is the death penalty — could be skipped entirely. Taking anything from the ground, and dropping anything onto it, now waits for a proper resurrection. You can still open your corpse and look, so you can decide whether the run back is worth it.

Patch 9.60 — Hotfix — Study Takes Time

2026-08-05

🔧 Bug Fixes

Clicking a creature in the Animal Lore book by hand now respects the same 6-second pace the Start loop already kept. It didn't — every click was a full study attempt with a full skill-gain roll, so mashing a row trained Animal Lore as fast as a finger could tap. Skill earned that way stays earned; the door it came through is closed.
Clicking a creature while the loop is running now just tells the loop to turn to that creature next, rather than sneaking in a free extra attempt on top of every tick.
Thanks to <@134375374162231297> for reporting it the right way — found, written up, and handed over within the hour.

Patch 9.59 — Open House

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

You can see who else is in a house. Until now a house had no notion of who was standing in it at all — arriving home left the town behind and joined nothing in its place — so anyone who came in, a visiting Gamemaster included, was simply invisible. Everyone under one roof now shows on the floor plan, walks around it, and is drawn with their own gear, guild tag and title, exactly as they are in a town square.
You only see the people on your own floor. Two players on different storeys of the same house are in different rooms, and the guest list upstairs is nobody downstairs' business.
Players can visit each other's houses. Anyone with standing access travels there from the Friends panel whenever they like, owner at home or not — and an owner can invite anybody over on the spot for a single visit, friend or not.
A new House Access panel, on the House View header, decides who may come in and what they may do. Co-owners are trusted with everything inside; everyone else is governed floor by floor: allow visitors, use fixtures, use storage, add items, remove items.
Rules are per floor because each floor already has its own plan and its own chest. A ground floor can be a workshop your friends are welcome in while the storey above stays entirely yours.

⚖️ Balance

Visiting a friend requires the friendship to run BOTH ways — you each need the other on your friends list. The friends list has never asked for confirmation, so treating a one-way entry as a key to somebody's house would have let anyone on the shard add themselves and walk in. The Friends panel shows the Visit button greyed out, and says so, rather than hiding it.
Co-ownership needs no friendship, since adding a co-owner is an explicit act by the owner. A co-owner may use anything in the house on any floor, whatever the floor rules say, but may never move, upgrade or re-deed it, nor change who else gets in. Ten per house.
An invitation is good for one visit. It gets a guest through the door regardless of the friends rule, and ends when they leave.
Every house on the shard starts with its ground floor open to visitors and nothing else granted, upper floors closed. If you never touch the new panel, your house behaves as it always has — with the single difference that an invited friend can stand in the hall.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed a serious fault found while building the above: walking across your own house could be mistaken for asking to relocate the building. On an unmoved house that would have charged the full move cost — up to 1,500,000 gold for a Castle — and shifted the house to the corner of the world map. Nobody was affected; it never reached a live shard.

Patch 9.58 — A Fetcher Learns Fast

2026-08-05

⚖️ Balance

The harvesting trio levels on a ladder of its own now: the first level costs 500 Harvesting XP, and each one after costs a little more, up to 10,000 for the final level into 10 — 47,250 in total. The old curve borrowed the combat pets' shape and priced the climb for looted gold, which Harvesting XP trickles in far slower than; a fetcher was going to sit at its 5-minute cadence for weeks.
Any mole, beaver or otter already tamed keeps every point of XP it has earned — the thresholds just moved down to meet it, so it may well level the moment its owner next swings a pick.

Patch 9.57 — Working Animals

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

Three new tameable companions join the wilds at 30.0 Taming: Digger the Giant Mole, Chips the Beaver, and Brook the River Otter. They are working animals — the first pets classed for Harvesting rather than combat or carrying.
Take the right one out while you work its trade — the mole while Mining, the beaver while Lumberjacking, the otter while Fishing — and it will periodically run off to a node on your screen, work it, and trot back with 1 to 3 of whatever it found. Nothing lands in your pack until it is back at your feet; then the haul pops up over its head and the journal notes what it brought.
What it fetches follows you: the ore, wood or fish it can find rolls at your own skill, with your own chances — a Valorite miner's mole digs from a Valorite miner's odds.
Fresh from taming, a fetcher heads out once every 5 minutes. Levelling shortens the trips all the way to once every 30 seconds at Level 10 — the cadence is the whole growth curve, and the Stable shows it on the pet's own row.
These three level differently: they gain XP only from Harvesting — your successful gathering ticks and their own hauls, in their own trade. Gold from kills teaches them nothing, so a mole carried through a dungeon comes home no wiser.

⚖️ Balance

The fetch is a plain draw from your own table: no yield bonuses, tier bumps or doubling apply to what the pet brings back. It fetches what you could find, on top of everything you are already finding.

Patch 9.56 — Back To Work

2026-08-05

🔧 Bug Fixes

Beating a PK who ambushed you while harvesting no longer leaves the mine or forest frozen on the fight. The victory was being handled as though you had just cleared a dungeon room and were waiting for the next monster to wander in — but you were stood at a vein with a pickaxe, so nothing ever came and the scene never moved again. Winning now hands you straight back to the work you were doing, exactly as beating a wildlife ambush already did.
A PK who jumps you at a vein or a tree now looks like the person the journal says they are, with their own gear and the red glint, instead of borrowing an Executioner's sprite. That is how they have always appeared underground; the harvesting view simply never got told.

Patch 9.55 — No Unexploded Ordnance

2026-08-05

🔧 Bug Fixes

A thrown potion whose target died before the fuse ran out used to just sit there on the floor plan, counting down to 1 and staying put. It now goes off regardless — it simply has nothing left to hurt, and says so in the journal. The flask you threw is still the one you watch explode.
That stranded fuse was also staying armed on you behind the scenes, so a bomb thrown at one monster could turn up and detonate in a later fight you had not thrown anything in. A potion that outlives its target now ends with it.

Patch 9.54 — Your Bags Come Back As Bags

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

You can open a bag lying on a corpse. Click Open on it in the loot window and its contents list underneath, each with its own Take — for the times you want four garlic back and not the other four hundred. Taking a reagent out on its own costs full weight, since the discount belongs to the bag and you are choosing to leave it behind.
The loot window can now be dragged even with your layout locked. A pile decays while you stand over it, which is the worst possible moment to find the window pinned on top of your own backpack.
A Bosses page has joined the wiki. All twelve, each with its portrait, its dungeon, what it costs to summon, what its signature ability does to you, and the trophy it guards. What they drop is listed; how often is not, same as everywhere else on the wiki.
That page also writes down two things that were previously only learnable by dying. Every boss hits half again as hard once you get it below a third health, not just the two whose whole gimmick is the rage. And losing empties your gold bar but does not spend your weekly kill — a win locks the boss away until Friday noon GMT, a defeat leaves it standing there, so you can farm the bar back up and go again the same week.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Loot All no longer tells you your own corpse is too heavy. Dying used to tip every bag out, so a Reg Bag holding five hundred reagents became five hundred loose items on the ground — and loose reagents weigh ten times what the same reagents weigh inside the bag. The pile you could carry a moment before you died was suddenly far too heavy to pick up, and the only way home was to lift everything by hand and rebuild the bag reg by reg. Bags now drop whole, and Loot All prices one exactly the way your backpack will charge for it.

Patch 9.53 — Light The Fuse Yourself, Or Don't

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

Auto Throw. Right-click a throwable potion sitting in a Potion slot and enable it — the bottle is hurled once, automatically, at the start of each fight, whenever the 20-second throw cooldown allows. The beginning of the fight and nowhere else: it will never spend a second bottle mid-brawl, and it skips the Training Dummy entirely rather than feed it your reagents.
The Greater Explosion Potion joins Alchemy at 80.0 skill: 30-40 damage, armour still ignored, brewed from 3 Black Pearl and 10 Sulfurous Ash.

⚖️ Balance

The ordinary Explosion Potion is now the entry-tier bomb: 5-15 damage, brewed at 30.0 Alchemy for 1 Black Pearl and 3 Sulfurous Ash. Bottles you already own are these — every existing Explosion Potion wakes up weaker today, because the 30-40 blast it used to carry now lives in the Greater tier. If you brewed a stockpile at the old strength, this is the line telling you so plainly.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Explosion Potions can now actually be thrown from a Potion slot. The hotkey was quietly trying to drink them — and the server refused a throw from an equipped slot even when asked properly — so a bomb on your belt was a bomb you could not use. Both ends are fixed: the hotkey now throws a throwable and drinks a drinkable, and the slot's right-click Throw works.

Patch 9.52 — A Ceiling, And Somewhere To Raise It

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

The Skills window now shows a Skill Cap beside your Total Skill. The cap is a ceiling on the sum of every skill you have — not a limit on any one of them, which still stops at 100 as it always did. Everyone starts at 1,000.0.
Nothing enforces it yet. It is there to be seen and to be raised; no skill will stop gaining for passing it, and a total above your cap is not a problem. When it does start to matter you will hear about it well beforehand.
A Foreign Exchange has opened in Britain. It buys +1 skill scrolls — any skill, all worth the same to them — and raises your skill cap by 1.0 for each one. Drag the slider to choose how many to hand over; ten scrolls, ten points.
That is what those scrolls are for now. A skill scroll only works on a skill below 80, so every one you have hoarded for something already mastered has been dead weight until today.

⚖️ Balance

The Exchange is in Britain and nowhere else. Every other vendor exists in every town because being unable to buy bandages somewhere would simply strand you — this one sells progression rather than supplies, so the capital keeps it.
Only scrolls you are carrying count. Anything in the bank stays in the bank; bring it with you.

Patch 9.51 — Fire In The Hole

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

Explosion Potions are now a lit fuse rather than a dart. The flask arcs across the floor plan, lands at the monster's feet, and counts down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 before it goes off for 30-40 damage — no longer reduced by armour.
The countdown you see is the real one, read from the server, so a refresh or a reconnect mid-fuse picks it back up rather than losing track of a bomb you have already thrown.
The blast gets its own purple line in the journal, naming the potion and what it hit for, so it does not vanish into a column of ordinary swings five seconds after you threw it.
One thrown potion every 20 seconds. The cooldown is on throwing rather than on the bottle, so switching between Explosion and Poison does not get you around it.

⚖️ Balance

Cooked food now heals 5, 15 and 20 for Fish, Dullfish and Shadowfish — Dullfish and Shadowfish both restore more than before.
An Explosion Potion cannot land the killing blow; it will leave a monster on its last point of health for your next swing to finish. Every damage-over-time effect in the game already works this way, for the same reason: kills are resolved by a real attack, which is what makes sure loot, gold and quest credit all follow.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Explosion Potions were being stopped by armour. Thrown damage ran through the same mitigation a sword swing does, and against a heavily armoured monster that removed most of it — a potion averaged about 9 damage against a Balron, which is why they felt like they did nothing at all. A blast is not a blade, and it no longer cares what the target is wearing.

Patch 9.50 — Sit Down To A Proper Meal

2026-08-05

✨ New Features

Four fish dishes join Cooking at the very top: Fish Patty, Fish Stew, Fish Chowder and Fish Feast. Each needs 100.0 Cooking and a Cooking Stove locked down in your own house, plus a new ingredient — Common Spices.
The recipes name exact fish rather than any old catch: a Patty takes 2 Cooked Agafish and 1 Spice, a Stew 5 Agafish and 3 Spices, a Chowder 3 Cooked Verifish and 5 Spices, and a Feast 3 Cooked Valorfish, 2 Verifish and 10 Spices. No substituting a pile of Copperfish — a dish is gated on your Fishing as much as your Cooking.
A dish restores nothing when you eat it. Instead it pays out every second for fifteen minutes — the Patty 1 health a second, the Stew 2, the Chowder 3 mana, and the Feast 2 health and 3 mana together. Unlike your own passive regeneration, a dish keeps paying inside a dungeon and in the middle of a fight, which is where you want it.
The Cooking Stove is a new house placeable, made by a Tinker at 75.0 Tinkering for 4,000 iron ingots. It is not the Iron Stove — that one still quietly turns raw fish into cooked fish while you are away. This is the bench you stand at to make the dishes themselves.
Common Spices drop from any monster anywhere, roughly one every twenty-odd kills. The fish are the real cost of a dish; the spices just mean a cook has to leave the water occasionally.

⚖️ Balance

Every recipe spends Agafish or better, so the three fish that still heal are never eaten by one and the early Cooking ladder never becomes a feeder for the endgame one.
There is no failure roll. A Fish Feast costs three Valorfish, and losing that to a bad roll would make dishes something to avoid rather than aim for; at 100.0 Cooking the gate is the skill itself.
No two dishes that restore the same thing run at once. Eating one clears any dish it overlaps with: a Patty and a Stew replace each other, a Feast replaces everything since it restores both, and a Stew alongside a Chowder is the one pair that genuinely runs together. Last eaten always wins — so eating a Stew while a Feast is up ends the Feast, mana and all.
The Feast costs more than a Stew and a Chowder together. What it sells is one dish to cook and one buff to watch instead of two, not a discount.

Patch 9.49 — Something Worth Fishing For

2026-08-04

✨ New Features

The rarer cooked fish no longer heal. From Copperfish up, eating one restores nothing and grants a short bonus instead — Copperfish +10% Double Harvest chance and Bronzefish +10% Craft Success chance for a minute; Goldfish +10% gold from kills, Agafish +10% Virtue XP, Verifish +5 to Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence together, and Valorfish +10% to every skill gain chance, for two.
Fish, Dullfish and Shadowfish are unchanged and still heal, so there is still food to put in the Food slot if that is what you want it for.
A buff fish can go in the Food slot too, and is eaten automatically each time its bonus lapses — one stack keeps the bonus running continuously. Ordinary food still works the old way, eaten when your health drops below your threshold. The two triggers are separate, so a buff fish is never eaten just because you got hurt.
You can also eat one by hand at any time, including at full health — the bonus is the point, not the healing.
Each running fish bonus shows in the buff bar with its own fish icon and countdown, alongside a Potion of Power rather than hidden behind it.

⚖️ Balance

Every fish bonus is +10%, the same figure a Potion of Power grants. What separates them is time: a potion runs for one to three hours, a fish for one to two minutes. They do not add together — the stronger applies, and the fish takes over when the potion ends.
This turns the top of the Cooking ladder from a slightly bigger heal into a reason to fish a particular tier: Goldfish before a boss run, Copperfish before an afternoon of mining.

Patch 9.48 — Twice The Room

2026-08-04

⚖️ Balance

Every house tier now holds twice as much. A Small House goes from 7,000 stones to 14,000, a Villa from 28,000 to 56,000, and a Castle from 60,000 to 120,000 — the whole ladder doubled, nothing else changed.
It applies the moment you next look at your house, on the house you already own. Nothing needs rebuilding or upgrading to get it.

Patch 9.47 — Walk Where You Like

2026-08-04

✨ New Features

Click any empty square of your floor to walk there. Until now your figure only ever moved on its way to opening something, so with nothing nearby to open you were rooted to the doorway — in a Castle, that is a lot of floor you could see and never stand on.
Fixtures are unchanged: double-click one and you still walk over and open it in the one motion. Clicking the floor part-way through simply changes your mind and cancels the trip.

Patch 9.46 — Stand Closer To The Floor

2026-08-04

🔧 Bug Fixes

The floor no longer looks wrong in a house bigger than a Small House. A big house is scaled down so the whole of it fits the panel at once, and that scaling used to land on an awkward fraction — so the floorboards and the grid lines fell between pixels and every seam came out a slightly different width, which read as a mistake rather than as a smaller room.
The scale now always puts a floor tile on a whole number of pixels, so every seam is identical and the boards are crisp again. Your whole house still shows at once, with nothing to scroll and nothing to pan; it just gives up a pixel or so per tile to land on the round number, and sits centred in what is left over.
A Small House is unchanged — it always fitted comfortably.

Patch 9.45 — Upstairs

2026-08-04

✨ New Features

Houses have floors now. From the Two-Story House up, your house has more than one storey and a Ground / 1st / 2nd strip appears in the house header to move between them. Two floors at Two-Story and Large Two-Story, three at the Large Patio Home, Villa and Large Workshop, four at Keep and Castle.
Every floor is the same size as the house itself — a 7×7 house is 7×7 upstairs too — and each has its own layout and its own storage chest. Nothing about the ladder changed except this: same prices, same materials, same build times, same plot sizes, same storage caps.
Storage is still one shared pool. Each chest holds its own items, but they all draw on the same house capacity, so a Castle holds its 60,000 stones however you choose to spread them. The weight bar reads the same from every storey.
If you already own a house that is entitled to more floors, they are there the next time you walk in — new chests included, already locked down. Everything you own stays exactly where it was, on the ground floor.

⚖️ Balance

Fixtures still work house-wide wherever they stand. A Saw Pit upstairs speeds your crafting downstairs and an Ankh anywhere in the house still resurrects you — a house is a home, not a set of separate rooms.
The single exception is standing next to something: a Crafting Bench only draws from a Stockpile beside it on the same floor. It cannot reach through a ceiling.
Fixtures cannot be moved between floors directly for now. Release one, change floor, and place it again.

Patch 9.44 — Things Stay Where You Put Them

2026-08-03

🔧 Bug Fixes

Items no longer jump back to where they came from when you move several of them quickly. Every move asked the server for a fresh picture of everything you own, and moving ten things in a row started ten of those at once — so a picture taken before your last move could arrive after it, and your pack was repainted as it had been a moment earlier. The next one put it right, which is why things appeared to slide back and forth on their own. The server now finishes one of those before starting another, and folds any that pile up in the meantime into a single answer.
This was only ever the picture being out of date, never the move itself. Nothing was going to the wrong place, and nothing was ever lost — where an item had actually landed was correct throughout, even while the screen was disagreeing with itself.

Patch 9.43 — The Book Passes To The Next One

2026-08-03

✨ New Features

An Inscribed Spellbook that runs out is now replaced from your pack automatically, mid‑cast, without you noticing it happen. It reaches for another of the same book first so you keep the tier you chose, falls back to any other inscribed spellbook you are carrying, and only if you have none at all does the slot empty — and even then you simply carry on casting unaided. The Journal says which book you drew.
A book stashed in the Bank is deliberately out of reach; it has to be on you. A spare that is already spent gets skipped rather than drawn and instantly broken.

⚖️ Balance

Auto Cast works in fights you did not start with Auto Battle. It used to require Auto Battle to be switched on, which meant a mage who pressed Attack, got jumped while harvesting, or was ambushed by a player killer stood there swinging while their spell rules never fired once. Auto Battle decides whether a new monster is picked for you automatically; it was never meant to be the on/off switch for casting during a fight you are already in.
Dungeon chests turn up around two and a half times more often — roughly one every four hours of solo Auto Battle in a dungeon, where before the first one was eight to twelve hours of unbroken play away. The old figure was set from a miscalculated kill cycle, which is why so few people had ever met one. Chests themselves are unchanged: same locks, same dust, same loot.
The weekly boss bar now fills with the gold you actually looted rather than the monster’s base value. A Gold Rush boon, a Potion of Power, a Paragon kill and a gold‑finding pet all paid you while doing nothing whatsoever for the bar you were watching. With a Gold Rush up, Grendel now takes fifty kills to summon instead of seventy‑five.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Recalling out of your house actually leaves it. You arrived wherever you were going but stayed flagged as being indoors, so the house floor plan sat over the location view and your storage, crafting bench and stockpile all stayed reachable from another town.
A spent spellbook no longer leaves a phantom in your weapon slot. The book was deleted without clearing the slot that pointed at it.

🎨 Visual Improvements

Your pet follows you into the forest and the mine. It walked beside you in a dungeon and vanished the moment you started chopping or mining — the companion was simply never built for those scenes. It now trails a step behind as you work, and passes correctly behind and in front of the trees.

Patch 9.42 — Somewhere To Put The Good Stuff

2026-08-03

✨ New Features

The Display Case is a new house placeable, built at the Carpenter’s bench for 1,000 planks and 500 iron ingots at 75 Carpentry. It holds two of the carried crafting charms — the Smith’s Lucky Hammer, the Silver Thimble and the Jeweler’s Loupe — and keeps their bonus working while you craft at home. A charm that took a very long hunt to find no longer has to ride in a backpack you might drop.
Read the trade before you commit a charm to one. Carried in your pack those three buff you anywhere; sitting in a case they buff you only at your own house, which is the same reach the Dwarven Anvil and the other craft decorations have always had. If you craft at home, where your Craft Stations and Crafting Bench already are, it is a straight win. If you craft in town, keep carrying it. Nothing is taken away — leave the charm in your pack and it behaves exactly as it always has.
The case shows what it is holding. Each charm’s own icon sits in the glass on the floor plan, so you can tell a case holding a hammer from one holding a thimble without opening either.
It is a heavy piece of furniture: a Display Case takes 1,000 of your house’s storage, and whatever you put inside counts toward it as well. On a starter house that is a real slice of the shelf. It also cannot be reclaimed while there is anything inside it.

Patch 9.41 — The Phone Says What It Is Doing

2026-08-02

🔧 Bug Fixes

The phone client now shows which skill you are training. Starting an activity left no mark anywhere on the page — the buttons were drawn once when the client loaded and never touched again, so after tapping Mining you could scroll back to the same wall of identical buttons with nothing to say it had begun. The running activity’s button now turns green and reads “Active”, and its row in the Skills list does the same.
Virtue Binding XP on the phone was showing your LIFETIME total against the size of the current level, which is two different measurements side by side. A level 3 character with 60,000 XP earned was told “60,000 / 25,000” — a figure larger than the target beside it. It now reads the XP earned since that level began, matching the desktop client and the bar it is meant to describe. Nothing about your actual progress changed; only the number on screen was wrong.

Patch 9.40 — The Road Home Runs Both Ways

2026-08-02

🔧 Bug Fixes

Setting out from your house now costs the journey it should. Travelling back to the town you had recalled home from was instant and free — the timer read 0:00 — and heading anywhere else charged you the road from that town rather than from wherever your house actually stands. Every trip out of a house has been wrong since house travel arrived.
The cause was a single mistyped word: the code that looks up your house before a journey asked for a status no house has ever had, so it never found one and quietly fell back to measuring from the last town you were in. Your house is now what the road is measured from, as it was always meant to be.
The world map’s hover preview was reading the same wrong figure and showing “0 min” for the town you came from. It now shows the real distance from your house, so what you are quoted is what you are charged.

Patch 9.39 — Everything On One Clock

2026-08-02

🔧 Bug Fixes

Progress bars, countdowns and timers no longer glitch when your computer’s clock differs from the server’s. Craft bars were the worst of it — snapping straight to full, sitting at zero, or drifting out of step — but the same fault ran through virtue cooldowns, respawn waits, dungeon boon timers, house construction, ground-loot decay, mount expiry, and both travel and treasure countdowns. All of them now measure against the server’s clock rather than your own.
The phone client had no clock synchronisation at all, so every countdown there was measured against the handset. It now syncs like the desktop does.

🎨 Visual Improvements

Only one crafting sound plays at a time. Carving wood resolves faster than the saw recording lasts, so several used to overlap into a permanent rasp — each attempt now cuts the previous one off, which is also rather more like how a saw actually sounds.

Patch 9.38 — The Bosses Pay Out

2026-08-02

⚖️ Balance

Boss trophies drop far more often. Every boss is locked to one summon a week, so the old 1.5%–5% chances meant the Gravekeeper’s Cauldron was a sixty-seven week wait and even Malgorath’s Voidforge was twenty. Worse, the ladder ran backwards — the tier-2 Gravekeeper held the rarest trophy in the game, rarer than either tier-8 boss. Trophies now run from 16% up to 25%, climbing properly with difficulty, and Grendel keeps his 30%.
The aim is that farming three or four bosses a week earns you at least one trophy per fortnight. That is an average rather than a promise, so a quiet run of weeks is still possible.
Bosses are also a real source of special loot now instead of a token one. They used to roll the same one-in-ten-thousand chance an ordinary monster does — a rate built for the thousands of kills a day that hunting produces, and quietly absurd on something you can only kill once a week. Depending on the boss’s difficulty you now have between a 5% and a 23% chance of a special item per kill.
The Infernal Duke and the Frostwyrm Matriarch can drop their own dungeon’s exclusive items — the Salamander’s Signet, the Glacial Signet, Cinderfang, Rime Fang and the rest. It never made sense that the Fire Dungeon’s own lord was the one thing down there that could not.

Patch 9.37 — Sawdust And Loose Ends

2026-08-02

🔧 Bug Fixes

Recalling out of a fight no longer leaves the combat window stranded on screen. It used to sit there showing a frozen fight you could neither act in nor dismiss — the fight had genuinely ended on the server, but nothing told your client. The Shardbinder’s Ring, the Recall Home spell and both admin teleports all announce it properly now.
The combat window also has a close button at last. It only hides the window — it does not flee, and it cannot be used to escape a fight, so a live one carries on exactly as it was and reappears on the next attack.

🎨 Visual Improvements

Carpentry and carving wood into boards now draw from three different saw recordings at random rather than the same one every time. Woodworking is among the most repetitive loops in the game, and an hour of the identical two-second saw was a lot to ask of anyone.

Patch 9.36 — The Phone Gets Its Due

2026-08-02

✨ New Features

Bards can play on mobile. With an instrument in hand the Now card grows Peacemaking and Discordance buttons, the live charge count, and the Keep Playing loop — everything the desktop client offers.
Auto Cast can be toggled from the Magic section, so you no longer have to open the desktop client to turn spellcasting on or off.
Titles and the Alpha Event standings both have panels on the Home tab now. Tap any title to wear it, or No Title to go bare.
Three more actions on the item sheet: Scribe a Wood Plank into Parchment, Bind a Spellbook from a Parchment stack, and spend a Pet Bonding Deed on your active companion.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The mobile Skills list was missing twelve of the game’s thirty-five skills — every one trained by an activity, including Mining, Fishing, Lumberjacking and Taming. A miner could not see their Mining anywhere on the phone. All thirty-five now appear, grouped as they are on desktop.

🎨 Visual Improvements

The whole mobile client has been given a pass: cards now sit as raised panels with a soft shadow and an ember edge, buttons press when you tap them, the active tab is capped with an ember bar, vitals bars glide rather than jump, and the action sheet slides up from your thumb. Anyone who has asked their phone for less motion gets the still version.

Patch 9.35 — A House Is A Place

2026-08-02

⚖️ Balance

Your house is now a real location on the map, and the Leave button is gone. To leave, you travel somewhere from the World Map — exactly as you would from any town. The journey is measured from where your house actually stands, so heading out costs the same as Recall Home cost to get there.
This closes a genuine exploit. Leaving used to be instant and free, and it put you back in whichever town you had departed from — so with a Shardbinder’s Ring you could recall home from the middle of a dungeon, press Leave, and be standing back in the fight having paid nothing at all. A house was effectively a two-click teleport to anywhere.
Turning back part-way through a journey now returns you to your house rather than to the town you set out from, so cancelling cannot be a free exit either. Recall Home itself is unchanged — still instant, still every fifteen minutes.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Crafting Bench, house storage and the Ankh now correctly stop being reachable the moment you set out on a journey, rather than the moment you arrive somewhere.

Patch 9.34 — A Proper Vat

2026-08-02

🎨 Visual Improvements

Dye Tubs have been redrawn. The old icon was a flat-sided pot with a disc of colour on top; every tub is now a proper coopered vat — squat and wide-mouthed, built from individually shaded staves that curve around a bellied body, banded with two iron hoops, and rimmed in lighter wood. The dye sits a little below the rim so you look down into it past the tub’s inner wall, with a wet highlight across the surface.
All 57 colours share the one drawing, so every dye in the game — common through to the dungeon exclusives — picks up the new look, each still tinted with its own shade.

Patch 9.33 — The Scribe’s Bench

2026-08-02

✨ New Features

Inscription joins the Crafting Bench. Pick a wood tier and the Bench will scribe Boards into Parchment unattended, drawing material from its own storage or an adjacent Stockpile, training the skill exactly as scribing by hand does, and carrying on while you are logged out. It needs an active Writer’s Quill in hand, same as every other Bench skill needs its own tool.
Binding an Inscribed Spellbook is deliberately left as a manual act on a Parchment stack — that is a single deliberate craft, not something to leave running.
Parchment is now a Stockpile category, all nine tiers. Scribes can bank the ten-per-book binding cost somewhere other than their backpack, and a Stockpile beside a Bench can swallow the Bench’s own output.
The Crafting Bench panel is wider to fit its sixth tab comfortably.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Instruments can actually be made at the Crafting Bench now. The Bench offered every instrument on its Carpentry tab and then quietly refused to make any of them — it was resolving them down the same path as a Saw Pit, which meant looking for an item that does not exist. Lutes, drums, harps, tambourines and flutes all craft properly.
The leather hood got a proper cowl. It was drawn as a metal great helm wearing leather colours; it is now modelled on the hooded figure at the Britain bank — a peaked cowl with your face set back in its shadow, sitting over the robe rather than swallowing it.

Patch 9.32 — Robes For The Robed

2026-08-02

🎨 Visual Improvements

Leather armour now dresses you as what you almost certainly are: a caster. Instead of the stitched tunic and trousers, anyone in a leather chest piece wears a full-length hooded robe — ankle-hem, contrasting trim down the front, a sash at the waist, trimmed shoulders and cuffs, boots just peeking out beneath. The robe follows you through every view: the dungeon floorplan, the gather scenes, the Town Square and your house, from all sides.
The trim does the talking. The robe body keeps your leather tier’s colour — tanned brown for plain Leather up through Valorite’s purple — while the panel, sash and hem wear a bright contrast of it, so a robed figure reads as a robe at a glance and as YOUR tier a half-second later.
Sitting on the dock to fish, the robe folds to your lap rather than swallowing your legs, and mid-swing your sleeves read as pushed up. The hood stays exactly as it was: open-faced, stitched brim — a closed metal face plate still means plate.

Patch 9.31 — The Virtuoso

2026-08-02

✨ New Features

A second Deed arrives for the bards: The Virtuoso. Land 500 songs — Peacemaking calms or Discordances that actually took hold, fumbles and resisted attempts count for nothing — and turn it in for the Virtuoso title alongside a bag of three random Goldwood instruments.
The instruments are the real article: full charges, three different flavours, and deliberately not blessed — play them, sell them, or hand them to an apprentice. The title sits in the Deeds section of the Titles panel next to Loremaster.
The count starts from this update — songs played before it were never being tallied, so every bard starts the race from the same line. The journal shows your progress live.

Patch 9.30 — Wyrms With Legs

2026-08-01

🎨 Visual Improvements

The White Wyrm and Ancient Wyrm no longer look like worms. Both were drawn as a bare, legless curve — an unflattering thing to meet at the top of a dungeon — and have been redrawn as proper standing dragons: four clawed legs planted, two tall membraned wings raised, a spined ridge from neck to tail, and the head up where it belongs.
The Dragon and Drake joined them, since standing next to the new wyrms made the old serpent shapes look worse than ever. The family now reads as a proper progression: the Drake is visibly the smallest with a single wing and one horn, the Dragon stands full-size with both wings, and the two wyrms wear the twin swept-back horns.
The Serpentine Dragon, Wyvern and Swamp Dragon keep their coiling shapes on purpose — serpentine is rather the point of the first two.
You will see the new art everywhere the old art appeared: in combat, on dungeon floorplans, in the Lore Book and across the wiki bestiary.

Patch 9.29 — The Loremaster

2026-08-01

✨ New Features

A new quest for the completionists: Loremaster’s Study. Fill every page of the Lore Book — all 49 creatures across every dungeon, bosses included — and turn it in to earn the Loremaster title, worn above your head like any boss or skill title. It sits in its own new Deeds section at the top of the Titles panel, and exactly one of anything is the rarest thing you can wear.
The quest sits in your Quest Journal alongside the starter lines and shows live progress toward the full book, so you always know how many creatures you still owe your studies. There is no gold and no experience on this one — the title is the reward, and it says precisely what you did to get it.
Fair warning: the deep pages need serious Animal Lore before those dungeons will even open to study, and every boss must be met to be recorded. This is meant to be earned late, not collected early.

Patch 9.28 — Something Still Out There

2026-08-01

💬 Quality of Life

The Stable's Companions tab now shows the whole ladder rather than only what you have tamed. Your own companions sit in it as before, with every creature you have yet to find slotted into place between them as an undiscovered entry — so you can finally see at a glance whether you are missing any, and roughly where.
The list is ordered by the Taming each creature needs, which is also the order you will meet them in. Anything within reach of your current skill reads "Findable now"; anything beyond it tells you the Taming to aim for, so the tab doubles as a plan for what to train toward next.
A running count sits at the top — "3 of 20 companions found" — for when you just want the number.
What an undiscovered entry will not tell you is what it is. No name, no species, no bonus: finding out is still the point of taming. And if you have never tamed anything at all, the tab stays hidden exactly as before, with no hint that a roster exists.

Patch 9.27 — Dressed The Part

2026-08-01

🎨 Visual Improvements

Leather armour finally looks like leather armour. A character wearing a leather tunic used to render in the exact same breastplate, pauldrons and greaves as a plate fighter of the same tier — indistinguishable on the dungeon floorplan, in the gather scenes, in the Town Square and in houses. Leather wearers now get their own look everywhere: a belted, stitched hide tunic with bare arms, tinted to the tier of the leather, so a Valorite Leather caster still reads as the purple tier — just in matte hide rather than polished metal.
A leather cap no longer renders as a full metal great helm. It draws as an open-faced leather hood with a stitched brim, and your face actually shows — which no metal helm ever allows. At a glance, the closed face plate now genuinely means plate.
Inscribed Spellbooks are no longer enormous in your house. The book was already carried at a sensible size in dungeons and the Town Square, but the house view missed the same treatment and rendered it as a huge slab across the figure at a sword's chop angle. Bows and crossbows had the same problem there and hung like blades; all three now carry correctly at home.

Patch 9.26 — Keys To Hand

2026-08-01

🎒 New Content

Options has a Hotkeys tab. Three things you reach for mid-fight can now be put on a key: Auto Mage Toggle on F1, Drink Potion Slot 1 on F2 and Drink Potion Slot 2 on F3 to begin with. Click the key box next to an action, press the key you want, and it is done — there is no Save button to forget, and the × beside each one clears it if you would rather that action had no key at all.
Each key does exactly one thing. Taking a key that another action is already using simply moves it — the action that had it becomes unbound, so your newest choice always wins rather than the click appearing to do nothing.
Enter and Escape cannot be reassigned. Enter opens chat from anywhere and Escape closes whatever window is on top, and anyone who bound one of those away would have no route back to the panel that took it. Function keys F1 to F12 and the number row are what the boxes accept; letters are deliberately left out, because which letter a key reports changes between keyboard layouts and a binding made on one would quietly stop working on another.
Your keys are saved to your character rather than to the browser, so they follow you to another machine and are already correct the first time you open the tab.

Patch 9.25 — A Plot Near Britain, And Poison With Teeth

2026-08-01

⚖️ Balance Changes

Poison now scales with your spell damage. Every source counts — Grandmaster Inscription, Grandmaster Evaluating Intelligence, an Inscribed Spellbook, a leather suit and a spell-power pet — so the damage-over-time improves alongside everything else you have invested in as a mage, instead of being the one spell your gear never touched. A well-equipped caster poisons for roughly twice what an unequipped one does.
The bonus is locked in when the spell lands, so swapping gear mid-fight will not weaken a poison already running. Poison still cannot land the killing blow — it stops at one health, as before.

💬 Quality of Life

A newly built house is now placed in the countryside around Britain, within sight of the Graveyard, the Sewers and the Mines, instead of anywhere on the map. Nobody else has to start their first house on a distant shore they have no reason to visit, and new houses now appear near other people's.
If that neighbourhood ever fills up, the search widens outward rather than failing — you might get a slightly more distant plot, but a build will always find somewhere.
Existing houses are untouched, and moving house is unchanged: a paid relocation still lets you drop your house anywhere on dry land.

Patch 9.24 — The Mage Gets Its Due

2026-08-01

✨ New Features

Hitting something with an Inscribed Spellbook equipped now has a chance to give mana back. The book drinks in the strike and returns 10 mana, on a tier-scaled chance running from 10% with an Iron book to 90% with a Valorite one. The mana floats up over your mana bar, in the dungeon floorplan as well as the combat window. It costs the book nothing extra — swinging wears it exactly as it always did.
The point of it is that the melee half of a caster’s kit is no longer just what you do when you have run dry. Swinging is now part of how you stop being dry.
Spellbook tooltips finally tell you what the book does. Spell Power and the mana-restore chance both show on hover, in the pack and once equipped. Those two numbers decided which book you should carry and previously appeared nowhere in the game at all.
Auto Cast can be toggled without opening anything. Right-click your Spellbook for Auto Mage On/Off, or press F1 from anywhere — F1 is ignored while you are typing, so it will not fire mid-sentence in chat.
While Auto Cast is on, your Spellbook wears a small "A" in the corner, the same way an equipped item wears its "E". No more wondering whether you left it running.

⚖️ Balance

Leather armour is worth twice what it was. Both of its caster bonuses have been doubled: a full Valorite suit now gives +60% spell damage and +100% mana regeneration, up from +30% and +50%. Every tier moved by the same factor, so the whole line is worth wearing earlier as well as at the top.
Inscribed Spellbooks have gone from a nice-to-have to the single biggest decision a caster makes. The spell damage they grant used to run from 2% to 10%; it now runs a clean 10% per tier, from +10% with an Iron book up to +90% with a Valorite one. Which book you carry now matters more than any other piece of caster kit.
Taken together an endgame mage — full Valorite leather, a Valorite book, Grandmaster Inscription and Grandmaster Evaluating Intelligence — now does roughly three times the spell damage of an unequipped one. All of it still adds together rather than multiplying, so the numbers stay readable, and none of it helps you survive a hit.

Patch 9.23 — Any Hide Will Do

2026-08-01

💬 Quality of Life

Tailoring now lets you choose which Leather you are working. A new dropdown on both the Tailoring gump and the Crafting Bench covers the Bag, both resist Cloaks, the Leather Sling and Animal Tackle — five recipes that until now demanded plain Leather and nothing else, so a full bag of Shadow or Bronze hide sat there useless while you went hunting for the one tier they would accept.
Bandages are the deliberate exception and still take plain Leather. They are the bulk consumable every fighter gets through by the hundred, and letting them soak up rare hide would quietly make Valorite the correct thing to shred for field dressings. The dropdown greys itself out when a bandage is selected, so it is clear rather than silent.
Tool Bags and the new leather armour are unchanged too — for those the tier is already part of the recipe, and the Valorite version was never going to be made of anything else.
One thing to know before you reach for the good hide: working a rarer Leather now asks for the Tailoring that Leather deserves — 70 for Shadow, 99 for Valorite. That is the same rule Tool Bags have always followed, and it is what stops the dropdown becoming a way to sew a novice’s Bag out of the rarest hide in the game. Tiers you cannot work yet show red in the list, exactly like the metal and wood ladders elsewhere.

Patch 9.22 — A Bard Walks Into A Dungeon

2026-08-01

✨ New Features

Three new skills arrive together, and none of them is any use without the other two. Musicianship decides whether the song you meant to play is the song that comes out. Peacemaking calms a monster until something hits it. Discordance makes a monster measurably worse at fighting. Together they are the shard’s first support role: a bard contributes by making everyone else’s turn better rather than by out-damaging anyone.
Instruments are a new Carpentry line — Lute, Drum, Lap Harp, Tambourine and Bamboo Flute, six boards each. All five are mechanically identical, so pick whichever you like the look of; what actually changes the numbers is the wood you make it from, which sets how many charges it holds. Wood gives forty, Valiwood gives two hundred and sixty.
They carry charges rather than durability, and they cannot be repaired. One charge is one attempted song, spent whether it lands, misses, or falls apart in your hands — so a poor musician gets through a lot of instruments. When the charges are gone, so is the instrument.
An instrument goes in your weapon hand. That is deliberate: you cannot fight and play at the same time, and swinging at something with a lute out means punching it. Losing your turn is the whole cost of the role, which is why barding is at its best in a party — one person losing a turn buys everyone else several safe ones.
Peacemaking stops a monster attacking for twelve seconds, or until something strikes it. A landed hit may snap it out early, and the better your Peacemaking the more likely the calm survives being hit. Damage over time will not wake it — a bleed or a poison ticking away leaves the calm intact. When it does break, the monster has to wind up a fresh swing rather than hitting you instantly for the trouble.
Discordance strips a flat amount of damage and armour for thirty seconds, and unlike a peace it runs its full course no matter how hard you hit. The amounts scale with the monster as well as with your skill — a few points of armour is a real dent in a rabbit and nothing at all to a balron — so it stays worth playing at every tier.

⚖️ Balance

Peacemaking and Discordance can never train past your Musicianship. Raise that first or you will stall both other skills at once.
Both are also hard capped by what you play to. Every monster tier trains you exactly as far as that tier can teach — which is precisely the skill at which it stops failing you — and then stops. A bard cannot grind to Grandmaster on rabbits; getting there means going somewhere worse. Your journal says so outright when the cap bites, and names whether it was the monster or your own Musicianship holding you back.
The three toughest monster tiers never become a certainty. Even a Grandmaster bard fumbles roughly one song in fourteen against something Legendary.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Monster debuffs now show up in party fights. Bleeding, stuns and everything else have been landing correctly in parties all along, but the icons above the monster were never sent — so a whole row of information simply was not there. Joining a fight already in progress also started you with a blank row; you now see whatever is already afflicting the monster the moment you arrive.
Being logged in with an account that no longer exists now returns you to the login page instead of a wall of error text you could not get out of.

Patch 9.21 — The Alpha Event

2026-08-01

✨ New Features

A weekend event arrives: Alpha Tokens. While the event is running, absolutely anything you do has a small chance to turn one up — swinging a pickaxe, stitching a bandage, killing a dragon, or leaving a macro running in town. They are blessed, cannot be traded or dropped, and weigh nothing, so once one is yours it stays yours.
The chance scales with how long the thing you did actually takes. A mining swing is worth far more per attempt than a single cooking attempt, and a full fight — counting the time it takes to find the next one — is worth more again. The upshot is that every skill in the game pays about the same per hour, so you can chase tokens doing whatever you already enjoy rather than being herded into one activity.
Speed matters not at all. If your gear has your gathering ticks down to a third of the usual time, each tick is worth proportionally less — a fully kitted miner and a bare-handed one earn at the same rate. The event rewards time spent, not gear owned.
Progress made while you are logged out counts too, at three quarters of the live rate. You can compete without living in the tab, but showing up and playing will still finish ahead of leaving something running.
A new Alpha Event panel in the header ranks everyone by their haul. You can see who is ahead of you and by how many places — but never by how much. Only your own total is ever shown to you, including your own rank when you are nowhere near the top.
When the event closes, the player holding the most Alpha Tokens will be awarded 5 BritCoin. Standings stay readable after it ends, so you can see exactly where you landed.

💬 Quality of Life

Your token balance is recorded the instant one drops, separately from the token itself. Should a token ever go astray, your standing on the leaderboard is unaffected — the count is what is ranked, not what is in your pack.

Patch 9.20 — Reagents Without The Wardrobe Change

2026-07-31

💬 Quality of Life

The Equipment Locker’s Equip button is now Restock All, and it does exactly what it always did — swaps you to that gear set and tops your reagents up. It was only ever telling you about the gear half, so the name now covers both.
Beside it is a new Restock Regs, which refills your reagents and leaves your gear completely alone. This is the one you want when you come home mid-session: before, topping up meant running the full swap, which re-equipped a set you were already wearing and cycled everything else back through the Locker for no reason at all.
The old Regs button is now called Targets. It never restocked anything — it opens the editor where you set how many of each reagent to carry — and leaving it named one word away from Restock Regs would have been a coin flip as to which one you clicked.
Restock Regs also tells you why when nothing happens, rather than sitting there silently: whether there is no Stockpile beside the Locker, no targets set on that loadout yet, or you are simply already carrying everything it asks for.

Patch 9.19 — Straight From The Shelf

2026-07-31

💬 Quality of Life

Craft Stations now load directly from house storage. Drag ore, logs, fish or hides out of your storage and onto a Smelter, Saw Pit, Stove or any other station and it goes straight in — no more pulling a load out into your pack first, dropping it in, and finding yourself overweight halfway through.
Nothing about weight changes: house storage and a station's own contents already sat in the same pool and counted against the same house capacity, so moving between them costs you nothing and never was going to.
Your finished goods still come back to your pack when you collect them, as before.

Patch 9.18 — Counting the Rare Things

2026-07-31

🔧 Bug Fixes

Tool Bags no longer warn that they are "Destroyed outright on death". They have not been since the last patch — they drop with your body and lose 30% of their banked charges instead — and the old red warning was left behind saying the opposite of what actually happens. The bag's own tooltip already explains the real rule.

💬 Quality of Life

The Gains panel now tracks two more things worth bragging about: how many Paragons you have killed this session, and how many Dungeon Chests you have found. Paragons are counted as a share of your total kills rather than on top of them, so "50 slain, 3 of which Paragons" means fifty fights, not fifty-three.
Your welcome-back summary calls out Paragons too. If Auto Battle ran into any while you were away, it now says how many of the night's kills were Paragons instead of lumping them in with everything else.

Patch 9.17 — What Death Takes Now

2026-07-31

⚖️ Balance Changes

Your Tool Bag is no longer destroyed when you die. It drops with your body like everything else you were carrying, so you can go back and reclaim it — but 30% of every banked tool charge inside burns away in the process.
Dying now batters what you were wearing. Every equipped item that tracks durability loses 20% of its maximum — the same absolute hit whatever condition it was already in. An item taken to zero is broken rather than destroyed: it stops working until repaired, and never drops below zero, so the repair still prices normally.
Blessed gear is exempt. Your starter Sword keeps the same promise it always made — it cannot be lost on death, and it will not be worn down by one either.
A Tool Bag stored in the bank is untouched by any of this, exactly as it always was.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Boss trophies no longer claim they can be opened. Placing one in your house gave it a "double-click to open" tooltip, which was simply untrue — a trophy is passive and has no window of its own. Every trophy now states what it actually does instead, whether that is shaving time off a Craft Station or raising a crafting skill's success chance.
A Tool Bag now explains itself on hover: what it holds, how to manage it, and exactly what dying costs you.

💬 Quality of Life

"Exclude Regs" in the Stockpile is now ticked by default, so "Add All" leaves your reagents in your pack instead of sweeping a caster's whole supply into the house. Untick it whenever you do want them stored, and the per-tab "Add Regs" button still deposits them in one click.

Patch 9.16 — Quick Hands, Soft Armour

2026-07-31

🎒 New Content

Tailors can now make armour. A full six-piece leather set — Cap, Gorget, Tunic, Sleeves, Gloves and Leggings — is craftable in all nine leathers, wearing in the same slots as platemail, so the two are a straight choice rather than something you mix.
Leather protects roughly half as well as plate. What it gives back is what plate never has: spell damage and mana regeneration. A full Valorite set is +30% spell damage and +50% mana regeneration, alongside 39 Armour Rating; a plain Leather set is +3% and +5% alongside 9. Every piece carries its own share, so a partial set is worth exactly the part of it you are wearing.
Worth understanding before you grind for it: the armour rating holds steady across pairs of tiers, while the spell damage and mana regeneration go up at every single one. Upgrading your leather is a spell-power decision. If what you want is protection, wear plate — that is the trade, and it is meant to be a real one.
It costs no metal at all. A full set is 140 hides of whichever leather you choose, which gives Camping a serious use beyond bandages, and it repairs with the same leather it was sewn from.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Dexterity now decides how fast you swing. Until today it did almost nothing — a character with 10 Dexterity and one with 100 swung every weapon at exactly the same speed, and the only thing Dexterity touched was a small share of your Attack Rating. A weapon’s listed speed is now what it does at 100 Dexterity; below that, the same weapon is genuinely slower in your hands, down to a little over a third of that speed at 10.
Read that as the warning it is: almost everyone is currently below 100 Dexterity, and almost everyone will swing slower today than they did yesterday. The good news is that the penalty falls away fastest at the bottom — half of it is gone by 30 Dexterity, which is not far at all — so the fix is quick, and it never gets worse than it is at the very start.
Dexterity is therefore now the single most valuable stat a fighter can raise, and the first points are worth far more than the last. It trains from fighting and from Mining, Lumberjacking and Fishing, so most of you have been raising it already without knowing what it was for. Agility Potions and Bless count toward it too — a Greater Agility Potion is a real, immediate increase in how fast you attack, not just a number on your sheet. Anything above 100 Dexterity does nothing for speed, so there is a clear finish line.
Hovering a weapon now shows what it swings at for YOU underneath its listed speed, whenever the two differ. The Weapons page and the Tactics page explain the whole thing — Dexterity’s role in combat was never written down anywhere before.

Patch 9.15 — Bigger Beasts, Better Hides

2026-07-31

⚖️ Balance Changes

Tougher creatures now yield considerably more leather when you skin them. A kill’s leather is worth 1.75 units per difficulty tier rather than 1, so a Legendary creature hands over 15 leather where it used to give 9, and the tiers in between all rise with it. The weakest creatures are unchanged at 1 — the whole point is to widen the gap, so that hunting deep is the way to keep a Tailor supplied rather than farming whatever dies fastest.
What has not changed: how often leather drops at all, still an even chance on any kill, and which grade of leather you get, which continues to ride on your Camping skill, your knife and your ring rather than on what you killed. A Grandmaster skinning something small still takes better hide than a novice skinning a dragon — the dragon simply gives far more of it.
The Skinner’s Bounty dungeon boon multiplies the new, larger number, so it is worth meaningfully more in a hard dungeon than it was.
No single stat can now exceed 120, however it is raised. Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence each stop there once potions and blessings are counted — so a Grandmaster at 100 Strength drinking a Greater Strength Potion sits exactly on the ceiling, and your maximum Hits, Mana, attack rating and every heal now agree on that same number rather than one of them quietly disagreeing.

Patch 9.14 — The Bar That Would Not Leave

2026-07-31

🔧 Bug Fixes

Casting bars now clear the moment the cast finishes, instead of occasionally sitting there full and reading 0.0s. The bar used to wait to be told by the server that the spell had resolved — and if you killed the caster partway through its wind-up, that never happened, because the spell never resolved. Nothing was left to hide the bar, so it stayed, and followed you into your next fight. Fleeing or dying mid-cast stranded it the same way.
It now clears itself the instant the countdown reaches zero, which is the point at which it had already told you everything it was there to say. This covers incoming spells, thrown boulders and boss wind-ups alike, as well as your own casting bar.

Patch 9.13 — One Blessing, One Icon

2026-07-31

🔧 Bug Fixes

Bless now recasts properly while a Strength Potion is up. It used to register as three separate buffs — Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence — and the "Buff Missing" rule that recasts it watched the Strength one. A Strength Potion writes that same buff, so for as long as the potion ran the rule believed Bless was already active and quietly stopped recasting it. Bless now has a buff of its very own, so the rule asks about Bless rather than about strength.
Bless also takes a single slot in your buff bar now, with its own icon, instead of three. It still raises all three stats exactly as before.
The two no longer fight over your Strength, either. Whichever is stronger wins that one stat — a Greater Strength Potion outranks a Bless while it lasts — and your Bless keeps supplying its full Dexterity and Intelligence the whole time, since nothing else grants those. If your Strength is already sat at the cap, the rest of the blessing is still worth having.

Patch 9.12 — Heal In Time, Bars That Tell The Truth

2026-07-31

🔧 Bug Fixes

Auto Magery now checks your heal rules constantly, instead of only when your weapon was ready to swing. A rule like "heal below 50%" could previously go unread for the whole gap between two swings — and with a slow weapon, a fast monster, and poison or bleeding ticking away in between, that is more than long enough to die at full alert with a heal you had configured and never got. Your health is now re-checked several times a second, the instant after any damage lands.
Your attack rules are deliberately unchanged: a fireball landing a moment later costs you nothing, and putting everything on a hair trigger would make fights feel quite different. Only the "am I about to die" question is asked in real time.
Every timer bar in the game now runs on the server's clock rather than your computer's. If your machine's clock was even slightly out, every countdown you saw was wrong by that much — swing timers, cast bars, debuff durations, bandage cooldowns, respawn waits and the crafting station cycle alike. It was easiest to spot on a smelter, where a long cycle makes a small error obvious, but it mattered most in combat: against a two-and-a-half second swing, a two second error is the entire bar. Bars should now fill smoothly and finish exactly when the action does.

Patch 9.11 — The Shimmering Aura Earns Its Keep

2026-07-31

⚖️ Balance Changes

Magic Resistance is stronger. At Grandmaster it now takes 40% off every spell that lands on you, up from 35% — and every point below Grandmaster scales up with it, so the skill is worth more at any level you have it.
Magic Reflection now does something for its whole duration, not just once. On top of the charge that throws the next spell straight back at whoever cast it, the ward takes 20% off any hostile spell damage that does land — for as long as it lasts.
That 20% stacks on top of Magic Resistance rather than replacing it. A Grandmaster resister with the ward up takes 60% less damage from every spell thrown at them, and still gets the reflected hit on top.
The ward runs on the same clock as Protection — two minutes at a standing start, five at Grandmaster Magery. Eating the reflect charge no longer ends it: the charge is spent, the 20% keeps running until the timer does.

💬 Quality of Life

The new reduction shows in your buff bar as its own icon with a live countdown, so you can tell at a glance whether the ward is still up after its charge has been spent.

Patch 9.10 — And Counts What It Made

2026-07-30

🔧 Bug Fixes

A Craft Station's input and output counts update again while you watch it. Yesterday's bar fix accidentally tied the "ask the server what is in there now" refresh to the bar restarting — and since the bar now runs its own cadence and rarely restarts, that refresh stopped happening after the first pass, leaving the ingot count frozen even though the station was quietly working the whole time. The two are now on separate clocks, as they should have been.
Worth knowing while you watch it: a station is deliberately a little worse at the craft than you are, so some attempts genuinely produce nothing. A Grandmaster smith smelting iron succeeds about four times in five — a count that pauses for one unit is usually a real failure, not a stuck display.

Patch 9.9 — A Bar That Finishes What It Starts

2026-07-30

🔧 Bug Fixes

Craft Station progress bars now sweep cleanly from empty to full, once per unit produced. They were restarting part-way through — a Saw Pit or Ore Smelter would jump to somewhere around halfway, fill from there, then sit stuck at full before snapping backwards, over and over. A station sped up by boss trophies had it worse: the bar spent longer frozen at full than the whole attempt took.
The cause was the bar waiting for the server to tell it the next unit had started, on a schedule deliberately offset from the units themselves. It now follows the station's own cadence directly and rolls straight into the next unit as each one finishes, so it never stalls and never jumps back.

Patch 9.8 — Make Yourself at Home

2026-07-30

💬 Quality of Life

You now stand in your own house. Your character appears on the floor plan by the door, wearing exactly what you have equipped — armour, helm, shield, cloak and the weapon in your hand, the same figure that walks the dungeon floors.
Opening anything in the house now walks you to it first. Double-click a chest, a craft station, a tome or the training dummy and you stroll across the room, turn to face it, and it opens as you arrive rather than the instant you click. You cannot redirect mid-stride — finish crossing the room, then choose again.

Patch 9.7 — Somewhere to Put the Ingots

2026-07-30

🔧 Bug Fixes

House upgrades shipped yesterday with nowhere to actually put the materials — the panel that takes them opened in a window that was never positioned on screen, so it could not be dropped onto. Everything now lives inline in the house itself, directly under the hammer: what the upgrade will become, a bar for each material, a drop zone, and the Build button.
Each material bar now says how many MORE units it wants, not just the running total, so you can see what you still have to go and buy at a glance.

Patch 9.6 — Room to Grow

2026-07-30

✨ New Features

Your house can now be upgraded in place. There is a hammer slot under the floor plan — drop a House Placement Deed of a larger house onto it to commit it, feed the works Iron Ingots and Wooden Planks, then press Build when you are ready to begin. A deed for the same size or smaller is refused outright and stays in your pack.
The house stays open the whole time it is being enlarged. Storage, craft stations and Recall Home all keep working, and nothing inside moves — when the work finishes, everything is exactly where you left it and the storage cap simply goes up.
An upgrade only costs the DIFFERENCE in materials between the two houses, since the walls you already paid for are still standing. Climbing the ladder one house at a time therefore costs exactly the same in total as building the biggest one outright — you just pay for it as you go. The deed itself is still full price.
One honest caveat: a couple of steps on the ladder are a slightly different shape rather than simply bigger (a Stone Tower is deeper than the Two-Story House above it). If the new floor plan would leave a chest or a craft station outside the walls, it is moved just inside and you are told. Anything that still fits is left untouched.

Patch 9.5 — The Movers Need a Rest

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

Moving your house now carries a 12-hour cooldown. The gold cost was meant to make relocation a considered decision, but with enough money a house could hop around the map like a market stall. The clock starts only when a move actually succeeds — a refused attempt costs nothing and starts nothing — and placing a fresh deed doesn't start it either, so correcting a bad random placement right after construction stays free.
While the cooldown runs, right-clicking your house's map pin tells you exactly how long until the movers will come again, instead of letting you drag the pin somewhere it can't go.

Patch 9.4 — Dressed the Part

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

A restyled cloak now looks restyled everywhere. Applying the Alpha Cloak Restyle changed the walking figure in dungeons and gathering spots, but the cloak's own picture in your backpack, on your paperdoll and in the bank stayed the original — which read as the restyle simply not working. The item art now swaps with the style.
The town square was the one place your figure genuinely ignored the restyle — everyone in the plaza saw your cloak's original colours. It now wears the restyle there too.

Patch 9.3 — Coin In Hand

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

Every UI theme now costs 5,000,000 gold, up from 250,000. At the old price a theme was an early-game curiosity; it is meant to be something to spend a fortune on once there is nothing left to buy. A Theme Token in the shop still unlocks any one of them outright.

💬 Quality of Life

BritCoin is a real coin now. Support the shard and a stack of them is minted straight into your bank, where you can see it, count it, hand it to a friend or leave it sitting there — rather than a number tucked away on an account page. It is blessed, so it is never at risk, and it is yours to trade.
The Donation Store shows you a picture of what you are buying, and the panel is wider so it no longer runs off the bottom of the screen.
Everything in the shop is now cosmetic, with no exceptions. The Alpha's Supporter Cape has been withdrawn: it carried real stats, which is not a thing this shop is willing to sell. In its place is the Alpha Cloak Restyle — drag it onto any cloak you own and that cloak takes on the Alpha's crimson-and-gold trim while keeping its own name and everything it does. The two capes already out there have been converted, so nobody loses the look they paid for.
Also new: a Loadout Token, which unlocks one more slot on your Equipment Locker up to the same maximum of five that gold already buys, and Sovereign — a premium royal-purple-and-gold dye sold nowhere else and dropped by nothing.

Patch 9.2 — Where You Left Them

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

Your window layout now survives resizing the browser. Going fullscreen and back — or any resize at all — was quietly resetting saved window positions: any panel the shrink pushed off-screen was snapped back to its default spot permanently, and worse, every window that happened to be CLOSED at that moment had its saved position wiped too, so the scrambling hit windows you weren't even looking at. A resize is no longer treated as you rearranging anything: your saved layout is only ever changed by you actually dragging something.
If a resize leaves a window's saved spot outside the visible screen, it is shown at a default position just for the moment — the instant the window grows back, it returns to exactly where you put it.
With the layout locked, windows now do not move at all, full stop — even a window stranded off-screen by a shrink stays put and simply comes back when the space does. Unlocking is the escape hatch: any window stuck off-screen pops back into view the moment you unlock, ready to be dragged, with its saved spot still intact.

Patch 9.1 — One Companion, Not Two

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

Companions in the Stable roster were being drawn twice each, squashed to half width. A creature's art is a two-frame animation strip, and the roster was fitting the whole strip into a space meant for one frame — so every pet on the list was a squeezed pair of itself. It now shows a single, correctly proportioned companion, the same way the dungeon map and the town square already did.

Patch 9.0 — The Empty Dungeon

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

The dungeon map really is fixed after a restart this time. If you were reloaded while Auto Battle was already running, the map came back named correctly and completely empty — no monsters, and your character nowhere to be seen. The map was in fact drawn perfectly: the camera had simply never been told to look at you, so it sat in an empty corner of a dungeon that can be a hundred and sixty tiles across while you stood far outside the view.
The same fault was doing quieter damage underneath. Whatever stopped the camera also stopped the rest of the map's code from loading, so for the whole of that session the map heard nothing the server told it — fights starting and ending, blows landing, chests appearing. That is the other half of "auto battle stops working properly after a reboot".
It only ever happened on a page load that began with Auto Battle already switched on, which is precisely what a restart does to everyone at once, and why it never showed up in ordinary play. The fix in 8.4 was a real bug in the Auto Battle button, but it was not this one — this is what was actually emptying your map.

Patch 8.9 — Twenty Faces

2026-07-29

💬 Quality of Life

The tameable creatures on the Animal Taming page now show their own sprites rather than sitting as a list of names. Still no bonuses, no odds and no thresholds — finding that out is still the skill — but you can at least see what you are looking for.

Patch 8.8 — A Picture of Every Reagent

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Tools page understated pickaxe, hatchet and fishing pole charges by two and a half times at every tier. Those three spend a charge on every gather tick, so they run their own far longer ladder — an Iron pickaxe has 250 uses and a Valorite one 1,450, against the 100 and 650 the page was quoting off the crafting-tool curve. Both ladders now sit side by side, here and on the Tinkering page.
The Tools page also claimed a makeshift tool lasts "about a third of an Iron tool". That is true of an Iron crafting tool and badly wrong for an Iron pickaxe, so it now just states the 35 uses and leaves the comparison alone.

💬 Quality of Life

The wiki has pictures now. Every reagent, ore, log, fish, hide, ingot, board, plank, potion, cooked dish and bandage is shown with its own sprite beside its name, so a page of names reads as a page of things instead of a spreadsheet.

Patch 8.7 — Two Boards Is Not Two Thousand

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Carpentry table was quietly lying about the Attack Dummy. It costs two Board Commodity Deeds — two thousand boards — and was printed as "2x" in a column headed Boards, directly under a Saw Pit whose "1000x" really did mean a thousand boards. Two rows in the same column, three orders of magnitude apart, formatted identically. Anything priced in Commodity Deeds or a special material now says so outright, on the Carpentry, Blacksmithing and Tinkering tables alike.
The Camping page's skinning knife table was printing each knife's name twice and a meaningless skill requirement of 0.0 against every one — those tiers have no skill requirement at all. It now shows what they genuinely differ in: how many uses each has, and which ones a vendor will actually sell you.

💬 Quality of Life

A recipe that anyone can make now says "No requirement" rather than "0.0", which read like a threshold you had to meet instead of the absence of one — and buried the handful of rows that really are gated.
Quantities are centered in their own column and have lost the trailing "x", so a column of numbers reads as a column.

Patch 8.6 — Show Your Working

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

The Cloak of the Hourglass now only hurries Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing and Begging. It used to shorten every activity's tick, which quietly made it the strongest item in the game for the town skills — Hiding, Tracking, Evaluating Intelligence, Lockpicking, Animal Lore and Taming are all paced in real hours rather than attempts, and taking 2 seconds off a 6-second tick was cutting a third off every one of those without the Cloak ever having been balanced against them. It is a gathering item, so it now only helps gathering. This supersedes the note in 8.5, which said it was unchanged.
The Shardbinder's Ring recall cooldown is now 15 minutes, up from 5.

💬 Quality of Life

The wiki now tells you what the numbers actually are. Every weapon line's signature effect has its own table: Execute's chance and the health it needs, Bleed's damage per tick and how many ticks, the Mace stagger's length, and Archery's critical chance and what it adds. All four scale with your skill in that weapon, and the page now shows the full range rather than only the figure you reach at Grandmaster.
Mace Fighting's special is called Concussion on the wiki. It was written as "Paralyze", which is also a circle 5 spell and nothing to do with it — the page now says outright that it shows on the monster as Stunned, so there is no guessing whether the two are the same thing.
Bandages list what they heal for, whether they land at all — your Healing skill read straight across, so 40 Healing is a 40% chance — and what Anatomy adds on top.
Every potion and every spell now names its effect: what it heals, what it restores, what it buffs and by how much, and the damage range it rolls. The magery tables note that the figures shown are the base roll, before Eval Int and an Inscribed Spellbook push them higher.
A new Tools page collects the whole tool ladder in one place: what skill level each tier will train you to, the bonus it adds while you hold it, and how many uses it has before it breaks. If you have ever wondered why a skill stopped climbing, that answer used to live only on the Tinkering page — it is now linked from Harvesting and Crafting both, and from the sidebar.
The skill category pages no longer run their card list straight into the section below it.

Patch 8.5 — Crimson and Gold

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

The Cape's tick bonus now applies to Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing and Begging only, and has been adjusted from 3 seconds to 2. It was written as a flat cut off any activity, which read fairly against a 14-second gather but was far too strong against the short ones — Animal Taming was being cut clean in half. It now speeds up harvesting, which is what it was always meant to buy, and its tooltip names the four skills outright.
The Cloak of the Hourglass is unchanged and still hurries every activity — that one is all-skill by design.

💬 Quality of Life

The Alpha's Supporter Cape is now actually worn. It had an inventory picture but no figure art, so equipping it changed nothing you could see — your character walked around a dungeon, a gathering spot or the town square with nothing on their shoulders. It now hangs in crimson velvet with gold braid, matching its own icon, and drapes properly from every angle: a clasp and swinging hem from the front, streaming off your back in profile, and the full cape from behind.

Patch 8.4 — One Press, Not Two

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

Stopping Auto Battle now works on the first press. After a restart the button could come back reading "Start Auto Battle" while your character was quite happily still fighting — and because the button acted on what it believed rather than what was true, pressing it to stop instead told the server to carry on. The first press only corrected the label, so stopping took two.
The cause was a timing one, which is why it struck hardest right after an update: every client reloads at once onto freshly-rebuilt files, and the message telling the page whether Auto Battle was running could arrive before the part of the page that listens for it had finished loading. The button now reads its state directly from the page it loads with, so it is right from the very first frame whether or not that message arrives in time.

Patch 8.3 — Growing Up Together

2026-07-29

💬 Quality of Life

Tamed companions now grow as they level — a little taller with every level, until a max-level friend stands more than a quarter bigger than the day you coaxed it out of the wild. The growth follows them everywhere: trotting behind you in a dungeon, at your side in the town square, and in the stable roster.
A Bonded companion now wears its own shifted coloration, so a creature raised all the way stands out at a glance from one freshly tamed. No two species wear the change the same way.

Patch 8.2 — A Paw on the Crest

2026-07-29

💬 Quality of Life

Your companion now has its own level bar, tucked just beneath your Virtue Binding bar at the top of the screen and marked with a small paw. It fills as they grow and names their level at a glance, so you can watch a friend coming along without opening the Stable Master.
It is deliberately slimmer and violet rather than ember, so there is never a moment where you mistake your companion's progress for your own. Hover it for the exact figures and how much further to the next level. It only appears while a companion is out with you, and sits full once they are fully grown.

Patch 8.1 — Bonded Sooner

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

Your companion now Bonds at level 3 rather than at full growth. Bonding is what makes a pet permanent — a Bonded animal stays with you through death, where an unbonded one panics and bolts for the wilds. That safety used to sit at the very top of a long climb, which meant the rarest creature you had ever found was also the one you could least afford to walk into a dungeon with. Now it costs roughly a twentieth of the journey.
Companions still grow all the way to level 10, and their gift still reaches its full strength only there. Bonding early changes when your friend stops being at risk, not how far they can come — the seven levels after it are pure upside instead of seven levels of holding your breath.
This applies to companions you already have: any of yours already at level 3 or beyond is Bonded from this moment, with nothing to re-earn.

Patch 8.0 — A Cleaner Kill

2026-07-29

⚖️ Balance Changes

Swordsmanship's Execute has been reined in. At Grandmaster it fires on 7% of landed hits against a wounded monster, down from 20% — the finishing blow is meant to be a moment you notice, not the way most fights quietly end. Everything else about it is unchanged: it still only looks at a target already down to a quarter of its health, and it still pays full loot, gold and experience.
Training the skill matters as much as it ever did. Execute now runs from 1.75% with a blade you barely know up to that 7% at Grandmaster — the same fourfold climb the old 5%-to-20% curve had, just centred lower. An untrained swordsman lands noticeably fewer of them than before; a Grandmaster still executes four times as often as a novice.

Patch 7.99 — Your Remains, Kept

2026-07-29

🔧 Bug Fixes

Your own corpse is now visible the instant you die. It was being created correctly and left lying exactly where you fell — the game simply never told your client it was there, so the remains sat under your feet undrawn until you reloaded the page. Walking back never helped either, which is why refreshing seemed to be the only thing that worked. Anyone else standing where you died had the same blind spot, and now sees it drop in real time too.

💬 Quality of Life

Corpses now last a full hour, up from fifteen minutes. Getting your things back means resurrecting, crossing the map and fighting your way back to where you fell — and the old window could run out before you managed it, turning one bad fight into losing everything. Remains still vanish the moment the last item is lifted from them, so an hour is the longest an abandoned pile can linger, not how long a picked-clean corpse sits around.

Patch 7.98 — Best in Show

2026-07-29

💬 Quality of Life

Every tameable companion has been redrawn from the ground up. Where they were flat little silhouettes, they now carry real shading, a soft shadow underfoot, and the small things that make an animal an animal — ears that flick, tails that wag and sway, wings that beat, a proper trotting gait instead of a shuffle.
Each creature now looks like itself rather than a colored shape. We will not spoil who is out there waiting to be found — but if you have already befriended someone, take them for a walk through a dungeon and see them anew. The rarest of them got the royal treatment.

Patch 7.97 — Sealed Pages

2026-07-29

✨ New Features

The Stable Master has found her voice. Ask for the Stable and she greets you aloud — one of three lines at random, so she does not repeat herself every time you come to collect a horse. She speaks on the Voices channel alongside the blacksmith, so the same slider in Options covers them both.

⚖️ Balance Changes

The harder dungeons now keep their secrets until you have earned them. Each page of the Lore Book demands Animal Lore before its creatures can be studied at all — nothing for the Britain Sewers, 20 for the Britain Graveyard, up to 80 for Destard and Hythloth. A sealed page still lists its residents as silhouettes, and tells you what it wants.

💬 Quality of Life

The Lore Book no longer changes size. It used to grow and shrink as you turned pages and inked creatures in; it now holds one fixed shape, sized to fit the largest roster in the realm.

Patch 7.96 — A Friend at Your Heel

2026-07-29

✨ New Features

New skill: Animal Taming. Stand in any town and try your patience on the local wildlife — six seconds of soft words per attempt, trained like any other macro skill. What answers your call, and when, is yours to discover.
A tamer's hand is steadied by knowledge: your Animal Taming can never climb past your Animal Lore. Study the creatures of the world before you presume to charm them.
A tamed companion follows at your heel — in the town square for all to see, and into the dungeons at your side — and lends you its own particular talent while it does. One companion out at a time; the Stable Master will happily board the rest, and swap whichever you fancy walking with today.
Companions grow. Gold looted while one walks beside you feeds it, its gift strengthening as it goes. Reach its full trust and it is Bonded — yours forever. Until that day, mind yourself: a companion that watches you die will bolt for the wilds, and no whistle brings it back. Stabled friends stay safely stabled.
Tames cannot be traded, sold, or taken. A creature gives its trust to one person.

💬 Quality of Life

Global and Guild chat now survive being logged out. Come back after ten hours and the conversation is right there where it happened — the last stretch of each channel replays into your chat panel on login, timestamps and all. Local stays in the moment, as it should.

Patch 7.95 — The Lore Book

2026-07-29

✨ New Features

Animal Lore now lives in a proper book. Every character owns a Lore Book — blessed, granted on arrival, and already sitting in the pack of everyone who joined before today. One page per dungeon: creatures you have not studied appear only as dark silhouettes, and everything you lore is inked in for good.
The book opens anywhere — right-click it, or use the Lore button on the Skills panel. Reading is free; studying still means standing in the creature’s own dungeon, and each page tells you where to go.
It cannot be dropped, and it cannot be lost to a death. Your bestiary is yours.

Patch 7.94 — Know Thy Enemy

2026-07-29

✨ New Features

A new skill: Animal Lore. Stand in any dungeon, open it from the Skills panel, and study the creatures that live there. Succeed and that creature is recorded in your bestiary for good — its real health range, damage, armour rating, gold and swing speed, along with the drops it is actually worth hunting for. The Slime in the Britain Sewers, it turns out, is the only thing down there carrying a Magic Arrow scroll.
Every dungeon lists its own roster plus its boss, so you can weigh up a boss fight before you commit to one rather than after.
Tick Loop and it studies on its own, so the skill can be trained unattended — and it keeps going while you are logged out, like Hiding and Tracking. Rarer creatures are harder to read: a Balron gives up its secrets far more grudgingly than a Giant Rat.
At Grandmaster, a Lore button appears in the combat window: one look at whatever you are fighting is enough, no roll needed. Mastery means never having to stand and stare again.

Patch 7.93 — The Smith Speaks

2026-07-29

✨ New Features

The blacksmith has found his voice. Open his shop and he greets you out loud — one of three lines, picked at random, so he does not repeat himself every time you come in to mend a helm.
The Voices slider added yesterday now has something to carry. Set it wherever you like in Options, independently of Sound Effects and Music, or take it to zero and he goes back to being the strong silent type. The Toggle Sound button in the header silences him instantly either way.

Patch 7.92 — Heads Up

2026-07-28

⚖️ Balance Changes

A hurled rock lands on the whole party, not one unlucky member. Same rule the Dragon breath follows: each of you takes a full hit rather than a share of one, so bringing friends does not soften it. The "heaves a rock overhead..." wind-up is your warning, and it is the same one a solo fighter gets.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Rock throwers now throw rocks in party fights. Trolls, Ettins, Ogres, Cyclopes, Golems and Earth Elementals had been fighting groups with their fists alone — party combat runs on its own separate footing, and the throwing half had never been wired into it. That was the last of the three monster abilities missing from group fights.

💬 Quality of Life

Audio settings have a third slider: Voices, alongside Sound Effects and Music. It controls spoken lines from the people you meet, so you can keep the soundtrack and your combat cues exactly where they are and still turn the talking down. There is nothing for it to carry just yet — it is in place ahead of the voices themselves.

Patch 7.91 — Thinner Plate

2026-07-28

⚖️ Balance Changes

Armour now deflects a quarter less than it did, at every material tier. A full Valorite suit turns aside about 52% of a hit rather than 70%; plain Iron about 27% rather than 37%. The shape of the ladder is untouched — every tier is still worth climbing, and the gap between Iron and Valorite is as wide as it ever was — the whole thing simply sits lower.
This is a change to what YOU take, not what you deal. Monsters mitigate exactly as they did before, so your own damage output is unchanged; fights get longer because you are softer, not because they are tougher.
Magic Resistance has come down with it. At Grandmaster it now cuts 35% of the damage from a spell rather than 50%, and shrugs one off entirely 5% of the time rather than 10%.
Fair warning: this lands alongside dragons learning to breathe on your whole party. If you have been walking into Destard in plate and treating it as routine, it will not be. Bring bandages.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Offline progress now fights by the same rules you do. A monster hitting you during an offline catch-up was running a slightly different armour calculation than the same monster hitting you while you were at the keyboard — harmless while the two happened to match, but it would have quietly left offline play easier than live play from today onward.

Patch 7.90 — Shared Flame

2026-07-28

⚖️ Balance Changes

A dragon's breath hits the entire party at once. A cone of fire has never much cared how many of you are standing in it, and now the game agrees: everyone present wears it on the same beat.
Each of you takes a full hit rather than a share of one — bringing friends does not thin the flame. You each get your own chance to resist it, and each train Magic Resistance off it, exactly as you would meeting the same dragon alone.
The wind-up is your warning. "The Dragon takes a deep breath..." is the same telegraph a solo fighter gets, and it lands on the whole group about two seconds later.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Monsters cast again in party fights. Every caster in the game — the whole Dragon family, Liches, Daemons, Elementals — had been fighting groups with nothing but their claws, because party combat runs on its own separate footing and the spellcasting half was never wired into it. Take a party into Destard now and the dragons breathe.

Patch 7.89 — Closing Time

2026-07-28

🔧 Bug Fixes

Bags now close when you travel. A bag opened at your bank, or inside your house, used to stay open for the whole journey — a live window onto storage you had walked away from, and anything dragged through it moved in or out as though you were still standing there.
The rule underneath has been tightened, not just the window. Whether you can reach into your bank or your house is now judged by where your things actually live, rather than by the bag they happen to be sitting in, so routing a move through a bag no longer sidesteps it. Equipping, stacking and splitting are held to the same rule as ordinary dragging.
That also closes the more serious half of it: gear can no longer be posted into your bank from somewhere no banker could reach, which had made it possible to put valuables beyond the reach of death entirely.
Nothing you could legitimately do has changed. Your bank and your house storage behave exactly as before while you are actually there, and bags in your own pack are untouched wherever you happen to be.

Patch 7.88 — Wear and Tear

2026-07-27

⚖️ Balance Changes

Platemail costs considerably more to forge. A full suit is now 100 ingots rather than 36 — Chest, Legs and Shield 20 apiece, Helm and Arms 12, Gorget and Gloves 8. Nothing got heavier to carry; only the forging cost moved.
Because a repair is priced off the same recipe, keeping a suit standing costs more than it did too. Armour was cheap enough that wearing it barely registered as an expense — now a suit is something you invest in and maintain.
Repairs above Iron have moved to the Repair Bench. Everything from Dull Copper up to Valorite is mended at your own Bench, paid in that item's own ingots and discounted the higher your Blacksmithing climbs — up to 40% off at Grandmaster. The town Blacksmith still mends Iron for gold, always, so a starter kit is never stranded behind owning a house.
Magic weapons no longer repair at the Repair Bench at all. The town Blacksmith is the only smith who will touch them, and the price is Virtue Points, scaled by the weapon's rung — a Vanquishing blade costs five times what a Ruin one does for the same damage. Slayer weapons price at their underlying Power or Vanquishing rung.
Taken together: a worn-out magic weapon is now a real decision rather than pocket change, and a Repair Bench is worth building.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Summon button on the dungeon boss banner no longer hangs outside the banner itself. On the fixed-width map panel there was never room for the portrait, the progress bar and the button on one line, so the button simply spilled ~50px past its own frame. It now sits on its own row, tucked against the right edge.

💬 Quality of Life

The dungeon boss banner has been redressed in the game's own colours. The bar and the Summon button were a leftover green and gold that belonged to no palette in the game and clashed with each other; both now use the same ember treatment as every other button and meter, and — unlike the old green — they follow whichever theme you have chosen. The "ready to summon" state now announces itself with a slow pulse rather than a green outline.

Patch 7.87 — Known By Name

2026-07-27

✨ New Features

Titles have arrived. Every skill grants one at 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 — Neophyte, Novice, Apprentice, Journeyman, Expert, Adept, Master and Grandmaster — so a Grandmaster smith can go by Grandmaster Blacksmith, and a hundred-point miner by Grandmaster Miner.
Defeating a Dungeon Boss earns its own trophy title instead: put the Serpentine Sovereign down and you may call yourself Dragonsbane. There is one for each of the twelve bosses, and more kinds of title will follow.
Open Titles from the button under your backpack to see everything you have earned and switch between them freely — including taking your title off again. Nothing shows until you have unlocked something and chosen to wear it.
Your title hangs above your name in the Town Square and shows when someone Inspects you. Everything you had already earned before today is waiting for you — no need to re-train or re-kill anything.
One exception: Incognito hides your title along with your name. A Grandmaster Blacksmith label over a disguise would rather give the game away.

Patch 7.86 — Housekeeping

2026-07-27

💬 Quality of Life

The Stockpile's deposit button now says what it will actually sweep — "Add Boards" on the Boards tab, "Add Ingots" on Ingots, and so on — instead of the vague "Add to Stockpile".
Both Stockpile buttons are now the same width, rather than the left one stretching to fit whatever its label happened to be.
New "Exclude Regs" tick beside Add All. Leave it on and the everything-sweep will skip your reagents, so you can dump a full pack into storage without having to withdraw your spell components again afterwards.
The Virtue Binding has been redrawn. It is the forged iron ring and chain it was always described as now — heavy band, riveted hinge, clasp and coiled chain — rather than the gold pendant standing in for it, with the ember still set into the clasp.

Patch 7.85 — Reds

2026-07-26

✨ New Features

PK Ambush — the first zone event that makes a place WORSE. From time to time word will spread that killers are hunting a particular mine, forest or dungeon, and while that lasts anyone working there can be jumped. Watch the Active Boons panel: a PK Ambush shows there in red alongside the ordinary blessings.
The killers are not monsters. They arrive with a real name and a guild tag, in randomised armour, helm, shield, cloak and weapon drawn from the same gear you wear yourself — so no two look alike. They fight like players too: expect to be cursed, weakened and paralyzed while they work on you.
They carry nothing worth taking, and you get no gold for putting one down. What you get instead is Fame — a new mark of reputation shown beside your Attack and Armour once you have any. It only accrues for now; what it unlocks is coming.
Tougher killers hunt more dangerous ground, and the deeper the dungeon the more Fame their heads are worth. They never set foot in towns, so a fishing dock is always safe, and they keep out of the shallowest dungeons entirely.
Some hard protections, so this can never be something that simply happens to you: any one killer will only come for you three times per ambush, they never appear while you are logged out, and anyone below Virtue Binding level 5 is Protected and will not be touched at all.
A killer is meant to be a genuine fright rather than a death sentence. Go in with bandages, food and your armour on and you can take one — go in unprepared and you will not.

Patch 7.84 — Incoming

2026-07-26

✨ New Features

The brutes can throw now. Ogres, Ogre Lords, Cyclopes, Trolls, Ettins, Earth Elementals and Golems will heave a rock or boulder at you mid-fight — you will see them rear back and get a moment of warning before it lands, and you can watch the boulder tumble across the floorplan on its way in.
A thrown rock hits considerably harder than an ordinary swing, and it is physical — so Armor Rating deflects it exactly as it would a claw, and good plate makes a real difference. Plate is the answer here, not Magic Resistance. If you fight in Despise, Wrong, Covetous or Shame, wear your armour.
Winding up a throw does not cost the monster its swing: it keeps hitting you on its normal timer the whole time, so a rock is extra damage on top rather than a pause in the melee. Having thrown, it needs a few seconds before it can throw again.
This closes the gap left by the recent caster damage pass — until now anything that could cast was simply more dangerous than anything that could not, and the melee half of the bestiary had no answer.
Miners take note: the Earth Elemental that ambushes you at a rock face is the same creature, and it throws too. Going unarmoured to the rock face is now a genuine risk.

Patch 7.83 — Open Book

2026-07-26

✨ New Features

Tomes now open on a double-click as well, matching how one placed in your house already opens — so the same gesture works whether the tome is in your pack, your bank, or sitting on your floor.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed tomes appearing not to open at all. The panel was opening correctly the whole time, but it was being drawn behind every other window with no position of its own, so there was nothing to see — right-click Open, Add All and a plain click all now bring it up properly, centred on screen and draggable like every other panel.
The tooltip on a tome placed in your house no longer mentions dragging it to reposition.

Patch 7.82 — Worth What You Put In

2026-07-26

⚖️ Balance Changes

Crafting skill gain now scales with how much material an attempt actually spends. A recipe costing 3 units trains three times as fast per attempt as one costing 1, so reaching Grandmaster costs roughly the same total material whichever recipe you train on. Previously the chance was flat per attempt regardless of cost, which quietly made the cheapest recipe in every craft the only sensible one to train on and turned everything else into a trap that cost several times the resources for the same skill.
This covers Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Tinkering, Tailoring and Alchemy, by hand, at a Crafting Bench, and in offline catch-up. The published targets are unchanged and now hold for every recipe rather than just the cheapest: about 150,000 Iron Ingots, 200,000 Leather, and 150,000 reagents to Grandmaster. Smelting, Cooking and Plank carving always consumed exactly one unit per attempt, so nothing changes for them.
Two paths that were cheaper than those targets have been brought in line: brewing the 2-reagent potions now costs about the same reagents to Grandmaster as any other potion, and the Shepherd's Crook no longer trains Carpentry for fewer planks than the rest of the bench.
Evaluating Intelligence now only ever turns up the smallest Scroll of Devotion. An unattended town macro should not be a source of the large Virtue XP scrolls at any rate — the bigger three still drop from Special Loot on monster kills, so earning those means fighting for them.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed a crafter at Grandmaster having their skill knocked back down to 75 if they picked up an Iron-tier tool, which caps skill gain at 75.

Patch 7.81 — Mind the Bag

2026-07-26

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where dragging any item into a bag in your backpack could throw an error and fail to move it.

Patch 7.80 — The Scribe, the Scholar and the Archive

2026-07-25

✨ New Features

Inscription has arrived. Scribe Wood Planks into Parchment with an active Writer's Quill, and bind Parchment into an Inscribed Spellbook — a caster's alternative to carrying a real weapon. At Grandmaster it grants a permanent +10% to every offensive spell you land, plus an opt-in sweep that converts carried magic scrolls into Arcane Dust.
Evaluating Intelligence, a new Magic skill. Start it in any town and you'll spend your time quietly sizing up whoever is standing around — real players and townsfolk alike — and forming opinions about their wits. Some of those opinions are kinder than others. At 100 skill, your offensive spells strike 20% harder.
While Evaluating Intelligence is running there's a small chance to turn up a Scroll of Devotion dropped underfoot, the same way Tracking occasionally digs up a treasure map. Roughly one every four hours, and it works offline too.
Tomes: three specialised archives crafted through Inscription at 95 skill, each costing 1,000 Wood Parchment and 2 Pristine Leather. The Map Tome files every treasure map away in level order, the Skill Scroll Tome holds all your +1 scrolls, and the Dye Tub Tome stores every dye with its actual colour shown beside it.
Right-click a tome for "Add All" to sweep every eligible item straight in, the same way a reagent bag works — then take back any amount, any time. Tomes work from your backpack, your bank, or placed in your house.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Grandmaster Inscription and Grandmaster Evaluating Intelligence stack to +30% spell damage, not +32% — the two milestones are summed before the damage is applied rather than multiplied one after the other, so the numbers mean what they say.
Binding a tome is a genuine endgame sink: 40% success at 100 Inscription, rising to 80% at 120 effective skill, and the parchment is spent whether the binding takes or not.

Patch 7.79 — Meet Me at the Fountain

2026-07-25

✨ New Features

The Town Square has had a full makeover: a mixed stand of oak, birch and blossom trees swaying in the wind, richer grass with sunlit patches, a worn path up to the bank doors, flower beds and benches — and a fountain. Toss a coin in; it might have an opinion.
The square is alive now too: butterflies flutter about, leaves and blossom petals drift down from the trees, and a town cat strolls the plaza. Yes, you can pet the cat.
Two more tracks have joined the Town Music playlist: Foxfire Cup and Lanterns On The Beam.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Base materials can now train every craft all the way to Grandmaster — no more hard stop at 90 forcing a switch to colored materials. It is a genuinely long road: roughly 150,000 Iron Ingots for Blacksmithing, 200,000 Leather for Tailoring, 150,000 reagents for Alchemy, with Carpentry and Tinkering on the same curve. Colored materials remain by far the faster path — Iron to 100 is for the stubborn.
Verite and Valorite crafting is no longer capped at 80%/70% success forever: skill bonuses from your tool and ring now push those ceilings upward past raw 100 skill, closing toward the universal 95% at 120 effective skill. The best gear is what makes the rarest materials reliable.
Boss kills now roll their Special Loot chance multiple times, scaled by the boss tier — harder bosses drop noticeably more rare loot.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The dungeon floorplan view could stay stuck off after a server restart even though Auto Battle itself kept fighting — it now resumes correctly on reconnect.

Patch 7.78 — Shardbinder

2026-07-25

✨ New Features

Everyone who tested The Idle Shard before launch has been given the Shardbinder's Ring — it's already waiting in your backpack. Wear it and right-click to recall home instantly, once every 5 minutes: no Magery, no reagents, no spellbook needed. It's blessed, so you'll never drop it on death.
A founder's item that won't be handed out again — it carries its own violet aura wherever its icon appears, so it never gets lost among ordinary loot. Thank you for helping build the shard.

Patch 7.77 — Touch and Go

2026-07-25

✨ New Features

You can now drag and drop items using touch, not just a mouse — equip gear, move stacks around your backpack, deposit at the Bank, and everything else drag-and-drop already did, all now work with a finger on a touchscreen.
Every chat line — Local, Global, Guild, DMs, and system messages — now shows a [HH:MM] timestamp, on both the desktop and mobile clients.

Patch 7.76 — Every Trade, Same Rule

2026-07-24

⚖️ Balance Changes

Blacksmithing, Tailoring, Tinkering and Alchemy now count your tool and ring bonuses toward your crafting success chance, matching the change Smelting, Cooking and Carpentry got in the last patch. All seven crafts now follow the same rule: raw skill decides what you may attempt and still governs skill gain, while your gear makes you more reliable at what you have already earned.
This applies everywhere you craft — by hand, at a Crafting Bench, and in offline catch-up. Recipes with a fixed success chance are unaffected, as skill never applied to those in the first place.

Patch 7.75 — Tools of the Trade

2026-07-24

✨ New Features

Added a master volume slider, in a new Audio section of the Options panel alongside the Britain Bank ambience setting. It controls every sound in the game — combat, gathering, crafting, ambience and chimes — and takes effect as you drag, even on sounds already playing.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Smelting, Cooking and Carpentry now count your tool and ring bonuses toward your success chance, not just your raw skill. Your raw skill still decides which tiers you're allowed to attempt and still governs skill gain — gear makes you more reliable at what you've already earned, it doesn't unlock recipes or train for you.
Following on from that, Verite and Valorite smelting have been rebalanced across the full gear range. At a bare Grandmaster 100 Mining, Valorite now succeeds 40% of the time (was 70%) and Verite 60% (was 80%) — but a Valorite Pickaxe and a Greater Band of Mining carry them to 80% and 90% respectively. The top-tier tools are now genuinely worth chasing. Every ore below Verite is unchanged.
Craft Stations (Saw Pit, Ore Smelter, Iron Stove) no longer ignore skill. They used to convert anything with a flat 10% failure rate, which made a placed Ore Smelter the single best way to refine Valorite despite it being the hardest smelt in the game by hand. A station now rolls your own skill's odds for that craft, minus a flat 15% automation penalty — so it's convenience, and always a little worse than doing the work yourself.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The angler at the fishing dock now sits properly on his chair instead of hovering above it — his rod sits correctly in his hand again too.

Patch 7.74 — Strike the Vein

2026-07-24

✨ New Features

Mines have been rebuilt from the ground up: warm, mottled cave floors, rough-hewn rock walls, and abandoned ore carts scattered through the dark. Ore veins are now tall outcrops studded with jagged, glossy ore nuggets, the top four tiers (Golden and up) catch a faint sparkle, and every swing visibly chips rock loose as the vein is worked down.
Mining, Lumberjacking, and Fishing can now turn up a rare find: a Geode, a Lost Satchel, or a Message in a Bottle. Right-click one to open it (or Open All on a stack) for a payout: 45% a purse of gold, 50% a random +1 Skill Scroll, or a 5% shot at a genuinely rare item pulled from the same table dungeon chests draw from. Mining and Lumberjacking need 60+ skill to find theirs; Fishing's bottle has no skill gate.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Going overweight in a dungeon no longer leaves Auto Battle stuck trying (and failing) to start the next fight forever. It now cleanly switches Auto Battle off and tells you to drop something before it'll resume - whether that happens mid-fight, between fights, or while you were away.
Gathering characters now correctly turn to face a mining or lumber node standing right beside them, instead of occasionally swinging at empty air next to it.

Patch 7.73 — Turn and Face

2026-07-23

✨ New Features

Player sprites now actually turn to face the way you're walking or fighting — a proper side-on profile heading east or west, your back (cloak billowing, shield slung and all) climbing north, the classic front view heading south. Applies everywhere: dungeons, gathering, and Town Square.
Parrying with a shield now physically snaps it up into the blow instead of just flashing a color — no shield equipped falls back to a weapon jolt instead.
Spells finally look like spells: Fireball flies from you to the target and detonates on arrival, Energy Bolt streaks across the gap, and a dragon's breath washes over you as a real cone of fire or frost.
Cloaks now render on your character — visible from the front, side, and slung across your back.
Tear a spell icon straight out of your Spellbook and drop it anywhere on screen for a one-click cast button. Left-click to cast, right-click to remove, and drag two together to snap them into a spell bar you can move as one.
Chat tabs now show a small unread badge when a message comes in on a tab you're not looking at — Local, Global, Guild, or a DM.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed shields floating disconnected behind the character in side and back views, a frozen-looking side walk cycle, and weapons that kept swinging after a fight had already ended.
Fixed a shield slung on your back showing its strap side instead of its proper decorated face.
Fixed gathering characters sometimes not turning to face a mining or lumber node they were already standing beside when the scene first loaded.

💬 Quality of Life

The dungeon boss Summon button is now a proper solid green when it's ready to click, instead of looking greyed-out and disabled.
Floating spell icons now hide themselves during travel instead of sitting on top of the road scene.

Patch 7.72.5 — Fitted Plate

2026-07-23

🔧 Bug Fixes

Earth Elementals no longer cast spells — including every ore-tier Elemental ambush while Mining (Iron through Valorite), which shared the same creature under the hood. They're back to being the purely physical bruisers they were meant to be.

💬 Quality of Life

The Platemail Chest, Legs, and Gloves icons got a full redraw — a real breastplate with a fauld skirt, armored leggings with knee cops and sabatons, and a proper pair of articulated gauntlets — across every material tier and every dye color.

Patch 7.72.4 — Show Your Work

2026-07-23

⚖️ Balance Changes

Magic Resistance now has its own gain curve: a flat 100% chance to gain from 0 all the way to 90, dropping to a flat 30% for the last stretch to GM.

💬 Quality of Life

Combat messages now show their own math: a monster's hit tells you how much your Armor Rating deflected ("hits you for 6 (12 deflected)"), and a monster's spell attack tells you how much Magic Resistance absorbed ("sears you for 11! (8 absorbed)") — both only appear when they actually did something.

Patch 7.72.3 — Withdrawal Slip

2026-07-23

✨ New Features

Added a Withdraw button to your market table — pull gold straight out of the till into your bank without closing up shop. The till keeps paying rent out of whatever you leave behind.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Closing a market table (and clicking a listing on your own table) could silently fail to show its confirmation menu — it opened and closed in the same instant, so nothing ever appeared to click. Both now stay open properly.

Patch 7.72.2 — A Proper Tabletop

2026-07-23

💬 Quality of Life

Market tables now display their goods on a proper hand-crafted rustic tabletop — timber frame, corner caps, nails and all — instead of a flat painted surface.

Patch 7.72.1 — Tidier Stalls

2026-07-23

💬 Quality of Life

The market table view slimmed down about 30% so it no longer dominates the screen, the Market panel now opens dead-centre of the window every time, and it stays draggable even with the layout padlock on.
Stacked listings on a table now show their quantity badge, same as stacks in your backpack.
The Open-a-Table popup got full-width fields, and table names are letters and spaces only — no numbers or special characters.

Patch 7.72 — Market Day

2026-07-23

✨ New Features

The Market Place has been rebuilt from the ground up. The old fixed grid of rental rows is gone — the market is now a directory of named tables, searchable by name and shuffled into a fresh order on every visit, so no stall ever owns the front row. Tables are anonymous: browsers see the name you gave your shop, never who runs it.
Your table is now a real, physical tabletop twice the size of your backpack — drag items from your pack onto it and they sit exactly where you place them, rearrangeable any time. Drag one back to your pack to take it off sale.
Opening a table is one step: name it and fund its till (drawn from carried + bank gold together). Rename it whenever you like.
Buying got smarter: pay straight from your bank balance — no need to carry coin — and choose where each purchase is delivered: your backpack, your bank box, your house storage, or (for raw materials) straight into your Stockpile.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Table rent is now 20 gold + 0.2% of your table's total listed prices, charged from the till once per real day — a bigger, pricier inventory costs more to keep on display. Close up early and you only pay a pro-rata slice for the time you actually used; the rest of the till goes to your bank.
Compassion's Gentle Hands talent now adds a flat +5 HP to every bandage application, replacing its old 15% multiplier — it stays meaningful at every bandage tier instead of compounding on the biggest heals.
Bandage healing rebalanced: Lesser 5, regular 10, Greater 20 (down from 10/20/35).

Patch 7.71 — One Bag Isn't Enough

2026-07-23

✨ New Features

Reg Bags are no longer a one-time purchase — buy as many as you want from the Mage Shop to spread your reagent storage across.
Right-click any Reg Bag for a new "Add All Reagents" option — it sweeps up every reagent you're carrying, whether it's loose in the backpack or tucked in another bag, and sorts it straight into that bag.

Patch 7.70 — Topped Up

2026-07-23

✨ New Features

Right-click an equipped Strength/Agility Potion or Potion of Power and choose Auto-Drink — it automatically redrinks another one from the same stack the instant its buff runs out, as long as you're actually out in a dungeon, mine, or forest. It goes quiet the moment you're back somewhere safe in town, so it can't burn through your stockpile for nothing.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Slayer weapons are now twice as rare to drop, and their top (Vanquishing-equivalent) rung is ten times rarer than a Power-tier weapon — bringing them back in line with how special a dungeon-locked magic weapon is meant to feel.

🔧 Bug Fixes

A buffed max Hits (from a Strength Potion or Bless) always showed correctly on your health bar, but bandages, heal spells, heal potions, passive regen, the auto-eat/auto-bandage/Auto Magery triggers, and even arriving safely in town were all still capping at your UNBUFFED Strength — so seeing "120 Str" never actually let you heal past 100. Every one of those now heals (and triggers) against the true, buffed maximum.
Trading a bag now carries its full contents with it instead of leaving them behind ownerless, and dropping a bag on the ground now spills its contents into the pile alongside it instead of stranding them out of sight.
Once you've actually arrived in a dungeon, your Mount can no longer be unequipped — closes an exploit where slipping it into your backpack right before dying let it survive as ordinary, recoverable ground loot instead of dying with you as intended.
Buff and debuff tooltips (Status bar, Combat gump) could get stuck reading a frozen "0:00 remaining" forever if the row underneath rebuilt mid-hover — they now notice and disappear within about a second instead.
A mount's travel-speed bonus now also applies on the way to a Treasure Site, not just ordinary town-to-town travel.
Sword grips now sit properly in hand across every blade (daggers/cutlasses/scimitars/kryss no longer float at the chest, longsword's pommel no longer dangles at the thigh), and the biggest axes/maces had their heads pulled in a notch so they no longer cover the character's face on the heroic carry.

💬 Quality of Life

The Virtue Shop shrine now reskins with your active theme instead of always showing a fixed violet-and-gold look.

Patch 7.69 — Smooth Operator

2026-07-23

💬 Quality of Life

Inventory items no longer teleport around on quick drags — icons now glide into place, fast back-to-back moves of the same item land exactly where you dropped them, and new items pop in with a little settle instead of just appearing.
The Crafting Bench progress bar is finally honest: every fill is synced to the attempt's real finish time, so the green always reaches the end instead of getting cut short — and a failed attempt now pulses the bar red without dragging the fill backward.
Craft Station gumps (Saw Pit, Ore Smelter, Iron Stove) stopped flickering their contents and restarting their progress bar every time anything else happened in the world — they only redraw when that station actually changed.
The World Map button's icon is now a hand-drawn map that looks identical on every device and recolors with your theme, replacing the emoji that rendered differently per platform.

Patch 7.68 — A Bigger Locker

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

The Equipment Locker now caps at 1 loadout slot to start, but you can unlock up to 4 more for 1,000,000 gold each — a permanent upgrade to that Locker.
Stored Gear now has category tabs (Weapons, Armor, Jewelry, Consumables) and a search box, so digging through a packed Locker is a lot less scrolling.

💬 Quality of Life

The Equipment Locker gump is noticeably wider, and the reagent-target icons in each loadout's restock editor are bigger and easier to read.

Patch 7.67.1 — The Square Comes Alive

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

The Town Square is now walkable: click anywhere on the lawn and your character strolls over — and everyone else in the square sees you standing exactly where you walked. The crowd idles about on its own too, rather than posing like statues.
Right-click anyone in the Town Square to Trade with them or Inspect them — a full read-out of what they're wearing and every skill they've trained. Show off properly.
A hooded figure known only as "Man" is slumped against the back tree, fast asleep. Click him and see how much he cares. Rumour has it he might once have run this place.

💬 Quality of Life

The square zoomed out a notch: smaller sprites, a smaller bank, six trees around the plaza, and chat bubbles that now always stay inside the frame instead of clipping at the edges.
Weapons finally sit properly in the hand — held near-upright from the fist instead of floating sideways at the hip. Fixed in the dungeon view too, where the same wonky carry angle had always been.
The Bank/Quests/Friends buttons under the backpack no longer dissolve into the scenery — they're proper solid buttons now, themed to whichever palette you play in.

Patch 7.67 — Meet Me at the Bank

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

Every town now has a Town Square — the bank building sits at the heart of the World Map panel, and everyone currently in town stands around it in person, wearing exactly what they have equipped: armor tier, helm, shield, and weapon (dyes included, so your Slayer colours are on full display).
Names float above each character in classic blue, and anything said in Local chat pops up as a speech bubble over the speaker's head. The panel opens out wider in towns to give the crowd room — the bank is the place to be seen.

Patch 7.66 — Of the Same Ore

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

Mining, Lumberjacking, and Fishing ambushes are no longer always the exact same monster — the creature that jumps you is now named after the material tier your roll actually landed on. Mining can meet anything from an Iron Elemental up through a Golden Elemental to a rare Valorite Elemental; Lumberjacking runs Reaper through Valiwood Reaper, Fishing runs Sea Serpent through Valorfish Sea Serpent. You can only ever meet a tier your own skill has unlocked — no Golden Elemental without the Mining to actually reach Golden Ore.
Nothing about the underlying fight changed: it still scales stronger the higher the tier, still drops that same tier's own material on a win, and that bonus haul still shrinks the rarer the material gets — only the name (and the ambush announcement) now reflects which one you actually met.

Patch 7.65 — Lessons From Every Kill

2026-07-22

⚖️ Balance Changes

+1 Skill Scrolls no longer hide inside the ultra-rare Special Loot table (they used to share odds with things like a whole new mount). They now have their own roll on every kill — about 1-in-200, any of the 27 trainable skills — so they show up far more often.

Patch 7.64 — Small Fixes

2026-07-22

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Admin Panel's player roster was too narrow for its own action buttons — Summon/Goto/Kill/Revive/Manage were wrapping onto a second line. Widened the panel and floored the button column so that can't happen again.
The dungeon boss progress card could overlap the status message just below it (e.g. "You stumble into something hostile!"). It now clears that line.
The Inspect Binding gump's XP bar showed only a fill percentage — the actual numbers behind it are now shown too (e.g. "3,396 / 12,500 XP to next level"), matching what the bar's own hover tooltip already knew.

Patch 7.63 — The Shrine Awakens

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

Every town now has an Offering shrine — click the new Virtue Statue tile to enter the Virtue Shop, the home of the end-game Virtue Points economy. Make a Bind Offering right from the shrine (sacrifice identified magic items for Virtue Points), then spend them on its rewards.
The first ten offerings are on display now as a preview — sealed relics marked "Coming Soon" while their powers are forged. The shrine itself is fully live, glowing and waiting.

Patch 7.62 — Read the Room

2026-07-22

💬 Quality of Life

Every crafting menu now colours what you can make by how much it still trains you: red means your skill is too low to make it at all, yellow means it still gives good skill gains, green means only the last trickle of gain is left, and plain grey means you're maxed out and it won't train you further. This was only on Tailoring before — it's now on Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Tinkering, Alchemy and the Crafting Bench too, and it updates live as your skill climbs.
The Spellbook now shows each circle's mana cost once on the circle header, instead of repeating the same number down every spell in that circle.

Patch 7.61 — Know Your Ceiling

2026-07-22

🔧 Bug Fixes

The crafting gain-chance preview now explains a 0% instead of just showing it. When you've hit a skill ceiling — like Tinkering stuck at 85 because your Tinker's Tools are too low a tier — the preview tells you exactly what's capping you and what to craft to train past it, rather than a confusing decline curve that quoted impossible skill levels (a "2% floor by skill 147" on a scale that stops at 100).

Patch 7.60.1 — Now Actually Visible

2026-07-22

🔧 Bug Fixes

The dungeon boss panel pinned to the Auto Battle map never actually showed up while fighting — only right when you arrived, or after stopping Auto Battle. It's fixed now: the panel stays up and live the whole time you're auto-battling.

Patch 7.60 — A Place for Everything

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

A new Tinkering-built house fixture: the Equipment Locker. Lock one down, stash your spare gear inside, and save named loadouts — then swap your whole kit to any of them with one button. Whatever a loadout doesn't use is tucked back into the Locker, never lost.
Place the Locker next to a Stockpile and each loadout also restocks your reagents from it — topping up to the amounts you saved with that set, so switching to your caster kit refills your regs in the same click.

Patch 7.59.1 — Know Thy Prey

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

The dungeon boss bar now lives right on the Auto Battle map — a small progress panel pinned in the corner, so you can watch it fill without stopping to open the roster. Once it's full, a Summon button appears there too.
You'll get a toast the moment a boss becomes summonable, even mid-run in a background tab, so you never have to keep checking.

🔧 Bug Fixes

The boss gold bar on the World Map now updates live as you farm, instead of only refreshing after you traveled, begged, or reloaded the page.

Patch 7.59 — Something Stirs Below

2026-07-22

✨ New Features

⚠️ In Testing: every dungeon now has its own named boss. Fill that dungeon's gold bar by fighting its regular monsters, then summon the boss for a solo showdown through the World Map. Numbers are still being tuned and may change without notice.
A boss pays no gold, but delivers a big guaranteed haul of leather (with a bonus chance at a finer grade), a flat chunk of Virtue Binding XP, and a guaranteed magic weapon — with a real shot at a Slayer weapon for that dungeon. There's also a rare chance at a house-placeable trophy that boosts a craft skill or speeds up a Craft Station.
Each boss's summon bar resets every Friday at 12:00 noon GMT, and can only be beaten once per week. Die to a boss, though, and it's not a normal death — everything you were carrying is lost for good, no walking back to collect it.

Patch 7.58 — Rest In Peace

2026-07-21

🔧 Bug Fixes

A dead character could still equip, drag, split, merge, and bank their own gear — a ghost has no business rearranging its own backpack. Every inventory action now waits for a proper resurrection first, same as combat, crafting, and travel already did.

Patch 7.57 — Grind Harder

2026-07-21

⚖️ Balance Changes

Breaking down a spell scroll now pays Arcane Dust by circle instead of a flat 1 — a Circle-1 scroll still grinds down to 1 dust, but a Circle-8 scroll now pays 8.

Patch 7.56 — Every Tier Counts

2026-07-21

⚖️ Balance Changes

Armor's per-tier AR bonus used to tie two tiers together at a time (Dull Copper/Shadow Iron shared one bonus, Copper/Bronze shared the next), so upgrading into those tiers gave zero extra protection. Every material tier now grants its own distinct AR bonus, same shape as the weapon damage curve already uses — Iron through Valorite, no two tiers alike. Existing armor updates automatically, no need to recraft.

Patch 7.55 — Make It Stop

2026-07-21

✨ New Features

The Crafting Bench can now be told exactly how much to make. Set a "Make x, then stop" count alongside (or instead of) the skill-level target, and the Bench shuts itself off the moment it's produced that many successful items — no more babysitting a run that was only ever meant to make 20 arrows.
Works the same unattended, offline-friendly way the skill-level target already does: it survives a disconnect and picks up where it left off, whether you log back in or come back after Offline Progress has already caught it up.

Patch 7.54 — Just Ask It

2026-07-20

✨ New Features

The Wiki front page now answers questions directly. Ask it something in plain English — "how much damage does a dragon do?", "where do I find a lich?", "what does Master's Tongs do?" — and it replies with the real numbers instead of just pointing you at a page.
It reads those answers straight out of the live game data, the same source every wiki page is built from, so it can't quote you a drop rate or damage range the game doesn't actually use. When a word matches several things it asks which you meant, and when it genuinely doesn't know it says so rather than guessing.
Ordinary keyword searching still works exactly as before — the topic cards keep filtering underneath, so a one-word search behaves the way it always did.

Patch 7.53 — The Shard in Your Pocket

2026-07-20

✨ New Features

The Idle Shard now plays on your phone. Open the game in a mobile browser and you'll land on a new touch-friendly client — five tabs covering the whole core loop: Home (vitals, what you're doing now, quests, guild and party, chat, live journal), Items, Craft, Skills and World.
Nearly everything works on the go: tap any item for its actions (equip, eat, drink, cook, smelt, carve, activate tools, bank and house storage moves), run all five crafting trades, cast spells, spend virtue talent points, work treasure hunts stage by stage, shop every town vendor, buy off the Market, travel, and fight — including Auto Battle.
Prefer the classic layout? The "Desktop version" link switches you over and remembers the choice. Trading, decor placement and Market listing stay desktop-only for now.

Patch 7.52 — Seeing Stars

2026-07-20

✨ New Features

A stunned monster is now marked like a bleeding one: spinning gold stars sit over its head on the dungeon map, and a Stunned icon joins the Combat window's debuff row with a live countdown.
Its attack bar now shows the stun honestly too — the bar empties the instant your crushing blow lands and stays flat for the whole stagger, then visibly starts a fresh swing from zero, so you can see exactly how long you have.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Mace Fighting's Paralyze now buys noticeably more than its 3 seconds suggested. A stunned monster throws away whatever wind-up it had in progress and must start a completely fresh swing once the stun lapses, instead of connecting the moment it recovers. Against a 1.8-second attacker caught mid-swing that's 4.8 seconds of free hits rather than 3 — the stagger finally reads as the heavy interrupt it was meant to be.

Patch 7.51 — First Blood

2026-07-20

✨ New Features

Weapon specials now land with real weight in the dungeon view: a Swordsmanship execute erupts in a shockwave, a Fencing bleed bursts into a crimson splatter, and a Mace paralyze rings the monster in a spinning stun — each shouting what just happened, so you can read a fight at a glance instead of hunting the journal for it.
A bleeding monster is now marked: a blood drop sits over its head for as long as the wound runs, both on the dungeon map and in the Combat window's debuff row, with the damage ticking up in blood-red numbers.
Treasure chests now reward Devotion. Springing the lock grants Virtue Binding XP scaled to the map's level — 500 at level 1 up to 3,000 at level 6 — paid the instant the chest opens, on top of the gold and unidentified weapons already inside.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Fencing's bleed has been reworked from a small trickle into a real opening strike: each tick now deals 5% of the monster's maximum health (so it bites just as hard on a dungeon brute as on a rat), but it can only open once per fight. It still never lands the killing blow itself.

Patch 7.50.1 — Dust Yourself Off

2026-07-20

🔧 Bug Fixes

The Arcane Dust economy is back after briefly vanishing earlier today: right-click a spell scroll to Break Down for dust, spend it at the Mage Shop's reagent stall, and dungeon chests once again pay their guaranteed dust. Any dust you were already carrying was never lost — its icon just showed broken while the feature was out.
Arcane Dust also has a proper new icon — a glittering violet mound in place of the old broken-looking placeholder.

Patch 7.50 — Signature Strikes

2026-07-20

✨ New Features

Each melee weapon family now has its own signature move that can trigger on a landed hit — and it applies to that skill's one- and two-handed weapons alike.
Swordsmanship — Execute: a 20% chance, when a hit leaves a monster at or below 25% of its health, to strike it down on the spot for full loot and XP. A finishing blow only — it never fires on a healthy target.
Fencing — Bleed: a 10% chance to open a bleeding wound that keeps dealing damage on its own for a few seconds, ticking away between your swings. It softens a target up but never lands the killing blow itself.
Mace Fighting — Paralyze: a 10% chance to land a crushing blow that staggers the monster — resetting its attack and stunning it for 3 seconds, buying you free hits.
Archery keeps its existing bonus-crit edge. See the Wiki's Skills page (Weapon Specializations) for the full details.

Patch 7.49 — Tools of the Trade

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

The Skeleton Key and Masterwork Lockpicks have been retired from the Special Loot table — dungeon chest locks now work exactly as before, with no bypass or boost. In their place: thirteen new items spanning gathering, combat, crafting and everyday utility.
Gathering gets two Very Rare rings: the Prospector's Dowsing Rod (5% chance per Mining tick to bump the ore a material tier) and the Woodwose Charm (the same for Lumberjacking). The Chum Bucket (Common) is a 50-use pack item that lifts fishing success +10% while carried.
Combat gains three new rings and a quiver: the Executioner's Band (Rare, +10% damage against monsters below 25% HP), the Vampiric Band (Very Rare, heal 2% of damage dealt), and the Ring of Second Wind (Very Rare, an automatic 15% heal the first time you drop below 20% HP each fight). The Sharpshooter's Quiver (Rare) is carried, not worn — it gives bows and crossbows +3 minimum damage just by sitting in your pack.
Three Rare pack items bring your crafting bonus with you anywhere, no house required: the Smith's Lucky Hammer (+5% Blacksmithing), Silver Thimble (+5% Tailoring), and Jeweler's Loupe (+5% Tinkering) — they stack with the existing house craft decorations if you have both.
Rounding out the batch: the Feedbag of Plenty (Common, pauses a pack mount's decay 48 hours), the Auctioneer's Bell (Common, announces your Market listing once in Global chat), and Master's Tongs (Very Rare, the armor twin of the Whetstone of the Master — drag onto an owned armor piece to upgrade it one material tier).

Patch 7.48 — The Chest-Robber's Toolkit

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

Twelve new Special Loot items now drop from kills and Dungeon Chests alike, including the Chestfinder's Compass — chests spawn twice as often while worn.
Alongside them: the Bottomless Coin Purse (while carried, gold you earn is deposited straight into your bank — income a death can never drop), the Boonstone (consumed in a dungeon with a live Boon to extend it 30 minutes for the whole server), the Elemental Ward Ring (halves the Fire/Ice Dungeon's environmental damage — the budget alternative to a resist cloak), a Band of Skinning (+5 Camping) and a Ring of Devotion (+5% Virtue Binding XP).
Six Ultra Rare house decorations join the Devotion scroll at the very top of the table — the Dwarven Anvil, Golden Spinning Wheel, Clockwork Curio Cabinet, Heartwood Sawhorse, Alchemist's Athenaeum and Hearthfire Mantle. Place and lock one down at your house and it grants +5% success in its craft skill while you're crafting at home. The rarest items in the game — high-tier Dungeon Chests are the realistic way to find one.

Patch 7.47 — A Change of Heart

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

Talent points spent on the Virtue Binding are no longer set in stone: right-click the deepest unlocked tier of a virtue in the Binding gump to unbind it, reclaiming that talent point to spend elsewhere. Each refund costs 50 Virtue Points — the currency earned by sacrificing identified magic items with "Bind Offering" — making this its first real use. Only the bottom of a virtue's chain can be unbound, so re-speccing a whole track means working your way up from the deepest tier, paying the fee each time.

Patch 7.46 — Scrolls, Dust and Devotion

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

Arcane Dust: unwanted spell scrolls can now be ground into Arcane Dust — right-click any spell scroll to break it down (1 dust apiece). Spend it at the Mage Shop's new reagent stall, where 1 dust buys a bundle of 10 of any reagent — turning a pile of duplicate scrolls into your casting supplies.
+1 Skill Scrolls join the Special Loot table (Rare tier): each names one random skill from across the whole game, and reading it grants a flat +1.0 to that skill. They only work while the skill is below 80 — an early-training boost, not a shortcut to Grandmaster — and a scroll is never wasted on a skill that's already past the bar.
Scrolls of Devotion also drop as Special Loot at every rarity: 250 Virtue Binding XP at Common up to a colossal 5,000 XP from a new Ultra Rare (~1%) tier — the single rarest thing the loot table now holds.

Patch 7.45.1 — Odds and Ends

2026-07-19

🔧 Bug Fixes

Dropping a Gold Pile or Bank Check into your Bank no longer leaves a ghost pile sitting in the bank box — the gold was always deposited correctly into your balance, but the icon could linger until a reload. It now vanishes into your account the moment the banker takes it.
Your character now carries their bow properly upright in hand on the dungeon and gathering maps, instead of tilted at an awkward angle across the body.

Patch 7.45 — Buried Treasure

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

Dungeon Chests: while Auto Battle wanders a dungeon, your character can stumble on a half-buried treasure chest — rare enough that a long session might turn up one or two. They walk over and work the lock; opening it takes Lockpicking scaled to the dungeon's difficulty (nothing in the Sewers, up to 80 in Destard and Hythloth), so keep a Training Lock handy if you plan to chase them.
An opened chest pays 1 to (dungeon tier x 10) Arcane Dust, has a slim tier-scaled shot at an item from the rare Special Loot table (Fire and Ice Dungeon chests can even hold their exclusives), and rolls a Lockpicking gain. Too little skill and the lock defeats you — the corroded chest crumbles away, so train up before the deep dungeons.

Patch 7.44 — Straight to the Forge

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

The horse and cart will now haul raw materials from your bank straight into the right craft station. Right-click ore in your bank for "Send to Ore Smelter", logs for "Send to Saw Pit", or raw fish for "Send to Iron Stove" — the whole stack is delivered into that station's input, ready to work. The option only appears if you own a house and that set-up station, and the delivery is paid by weight (5 gold per stone), just like the house-storage haul.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Ore, logs and fish can now also be sent to House Storage and the Stockpile from your bank — the "Move to…" options were missing on those raw materials before, hidden behind their Smelt/Cook/Carve menu.

Patch 7.43 — Horse and Cart

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

You can now move items into your house right from where they sit. Right-click a stack inside an Ore Smelter, Saw Pit or Iron Stove for "Move to House Storage" — it stores what fits and leaves any overflow behind. If you own a Stockpile, eligible materials also get a "Move to Stockpile" option. Both are free when you're at the house.
House owners can also right-click an item in their Bank to have it hauled home by a rented horse and cart — "Move to House Storage" or "Move to Stockpile" from wherever you are. The cart charges gold by the weight it carries (5 gold per stone), so a heavy load costs more, and you only pay for what actually fits.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed splitting a stack inside a smelter (or the bank) making the split-off pile disappear — it now stays right where you split it.

Patch 7.42 — The Bestiary, Repainted

2026-07-19

💬 Quality of Life

Every monster in the game — 99 sprites, from the sewer rats to the Balron — has been repainted with real surface texture and consistent lighting. Bears and wolves grew fur, dragons and serpents scale rows, slimes glossy bubbles suspended in the gel, skeletons hairline bone cracks, liches a worn weave to their robes, spiders a hard chitin sheen, and demons ember pinpricks smouldering through charred hide. Each of the seven elementals now wears the texture of its own element — cracked rock, smoulder, rime, drifting light. One shared key light across the whole bestiary makes every creature read rounder and more solid on the dungeon floor.
Weapons carried on your character in dungeons and gathering scenes are now properly proportioned: bows sit angled at your side instead of covering your torso, and blades ride over the shoulder instead of the face.

Patch 7.41 — Dungeon-Forged Dyes

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

Two new Dye Tubs can only be won inside their namesake dungeon: the Ice dye — a glacial cyan — drops rarely from the Ice Dungeon, and the Inferno dye — a blazing red-orange — from the Fire Dungeon. Neither ever turns up in the ordinary any-monster Dye Tub roll, so the only way to earn one is to brave the dungeon it belongs to. Like every dye, they permanently recolour any weapon or armour piece, purely cosmetic.

Patch 7.40 — An Armory Reforged

2026-07-19

💬 Quality of Life

Every weapon and tool icon in the game has been redrawn — over 2,200 sprites. Weapons now strike a heroic diagonal pose that fills the frame: two-facet blades with grooved fullers and white-hot edges, steel reflection bands, gold guards set with a gem in your material's colour, leather-wrapped grips and jewelled pommels. Axes get beveled edges and riveted sockets, bows get laminated limbs and metal nock caps, crossbows a proper stirrup and trigger, and the fishing pole a cork grip, spinning reel, threaded line guides and a little red-and-white float. Every material tier and all 54 dye colours carry the new look — and the weapon in your character's hand on the dungeon and gathering scenes uses it too.
The Double Axe got a dedicated redesign: a symmetric twin-crescent labrys with a spike finial, lit consistently across both blades.

Patch 7.39 — The Attack Dummy

2026-07-19

✨ New Features

The Attack Dummy: a new house fixture crafted at GM (100.0) Carpentry. Place it in your house, lock the house, then double-click it to start a training session — you automatically swing (or cast) at a passive dummy that just heals itself and never dies. It trains every weapon skill, Tactics, Parrying (which climbs on every hit, since the dummy never swings back), and Magery — all the way up to 60. A safe, risk-free way to get a new fighter or mage off the ground; past 60, you'll need real monsters. No loot, gold, or XP — it's pure practice.

Patch 7.38 — Gathering Comes Alive

2026-07-18

✨ New Features

Lumberjacking and Mining now play out on a living scene: your character works a forest glade or mine gallery, walking up to a tree or ore vein and chopping/picking away at it with every gather. The COLOR of the tree or vein is the material tier you just pulled — plain green trees give Wood, a gleaming gold canopy is Goldwood, a violet-shot vein is Valorite — with the yield floating up in that tier's own colour. Higher skill fills the scene with richer trees and veins.
Fishing gets its own dockside scene: your character sits at the pier's edge over rolling waves, casting their rod with every attempt and swinging each catch up onto the planks — each fishing town with its own sky and sea palette.
Harvest ambushes are now visible where you work: a Reaper lurches out of the treeline, an Earth Elemental bursts from the rock — and at the docks, a Sea Serpent rises out of the sea to loom over your line until you put it down, all with the same full fight theater as the dungeon map.

💬 Quality of Life

The scenes only take over while you're actually working — press Stop (or the scene's own "Stop Working" button) and the normal town view, vendors and all, comes straight back. Numbers are untouched: the same ticks, chances and yields as before, just visible now.

Patch 7.37 — Bank Box Weight Enforcement

2026-07-18

🔧 Bug Fixes

Combining a stack onto one already sitting in your Bank box, House storage, or a bag no longer skips the weight check — every container now enforces its capacity the same way whether you're dropping an item in or merging it onto an existing pile.

Patch 7.36 — Split Stacks on the Ground

2026-07-18

💬 Quality of Life

Ground loot piles now have a Split option alongside Take for any stack larger than 1 — pick how many you want, leave the rest on the ground for later.

Patch 7.35 — Faster Bandages, Nimble Fingers

2026-07-18

✨ New Features

Nimble Fingers: every successful bandage stitch has a Skill/10 chance (10% at GM Tailoring) to also stitch a duplicate at the same time, doubling that attempt's yield for free — no extra Leather spent, and Virtue Binding XP is unaffected either way.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Stitching a bandage is much faster now: 1 second for a Lesser Bandage, 1.5 for a Bandage, and 2 for a Greater Bandage, down from a flat 2 seconds for all three — on the manual gump, the Crafting Bench, and while resolving offline alike.

Patch 7.34 — Sharper Dungeon Theater

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Your dungeon-map character now turns to face the way they're moving — and squares up to whatever they're fighting, mirroring the whole figure (armour, helm, shield and weapon together) when heading left.
Real attack animations: on every melee swing the arm visibly thrusts forward with the blade swinging through at the fist, and every bow shot shows a proper full draw — lead arm out holding the bow, rear hand pulling the string to the chest.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed the character freezing in place after each kill — they now prowl the dungeon halls through the respawn wait and close in on their next target as it lifts, instead of standing dead still beside it until the timer ran out.
Weapons now sit properly in the character's hand on the dungeon map — the grip is pinned to the gauntlet and swings pivot at the fist instead of floating alongside the sprite.

💬 Quality of Life

Corpse looting is slower and more deliberate — each find now gets a proper beat on screen before it's collected, so you can actually see what dropped.

Patch 7.33 — Dungeon Combat, Up Close

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Ranged combat now plays out on the dungeon map. Wield a bow or crossbow and your character opens the fight at a distance, looses an arrow across the gap with every shot, and backs off a step to keep the range — while the monster charges in to close the gap before it can land a blow. Melee weapons now swing right through each strike instead of just jabbing.

💬 Quality of Life

Your dungeon-map character now runs properly — a detailed plate-armoured figure whose legs stride as it crosses the floor, instead of gliding along.
Weapons are drawn much larger and more heroic in hand, and monsters loom bigger on the map, so both your own gear and the threats you face read clearly at a glance.

Patch 7.32 — Tracking

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Added Tracking, a new Misc skill — a Start/Stop macro in any town (6s tick) that trains up trail-reading. The higher your Tracking, the faster you move while wandering dungeon floors on the Auto-Battle map, up to 1.5x normal pace at GM (purely cosmetic pacing — it doesn't change fight timing or the respawn wait between kills). Every tick also carries a small, independent chance to dig up a Level 1 or 2 Treasure Map.

Patch 7.31 — Your Character, On the Map

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

The dungeon-map character is now a proper paperdoll that reflects your actual gear: the body takes your equipped chest armor's look — its material tier, or its dye colour if you've dyed it — and helmets and shields appear as their own layers, each coloured by the piece you're wearing. Change or dye your armour and your map sprite changes with it.
Spellcasting is now visible on the dungeon map: your character glows while channelling a spell, and a burst in the spell's own colour lands on whatever it hits when it resolves — matched to the same effects the combat window shows.

💬 Quality of Life

The map sprites got a full art pass — taller, more detailed figures with proper armour plating, shading, and faces, so your character and the monsters read clearly at a glance.

Patch 7.30 — Dungeon Fights Come Alive

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Fights on the dungeon map now play out visibly: both combatants jab at each other with every swing, hits flash and shake the sprites, and floating damage numbers (with the same crit styling as the combat window) rise off whoever got hit — including the killing blow over the falling monster. Misses float a quiet "Miss".

💬 Quality of Life

Bows and crossbows on the map sprite are now carried properly — flipped the right way round and tucked in against the character instead of hanging off at a sword's angle.

Patch 7.29 — True Dungeon Crawling

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Dungeon floorplans are now full-scale — sprawling generated caverns and tunnel warrens up to 200 cells across, with winding corridors, chambers, and genuine dead ends, each dungeon keeping its own themed props and colors. The view now follows your character: the sprite stays centered while the map scrolls beneath as you walk, at full-size tiles. The map only moves as you do — no dragging or scrolling it by hand.
Monsters now actually roam the dungeon floor: real mobs from each dungeon's roster wander the halls, and your character hunts down the nearest one and attacks the exact creature you see them run into. Fight pacing stays on the standard Auto Battle cadence — the respawn wait between kills is unchanged.

Patch 7.28 — Arrange Your Screen

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Every panel on the game screen is now yours to arrange: grab the Character, Backpack, Skills, On the Ground, Session Gains, World Map, Journal, or Chat panel by its title bar and drag it anywhere — it pops out of the page and stays exactly where you put it, remembered per character across sessions.
A single padlock button in the header now locks or unlocks your entire layout at once — every window and panel together, just like the speaker button next to it mutes all sound. The old tiny padlocks on each window are gone.

💬 Quality of Life

A "Reset Window Layout" button in the Themes panel puts every panel and window back in its default spot in one click.

Patch 7.27 — Bigger Dungeon Floorplans

2026-07-17

💬 Quality of Life

All 12 dungeon floorplans rebuilt taller and narrower to fill the World Map panel — cells (and every sprite on them) now render about 40% bigger, so you can actually see your character and what they bump into.
Bows and crossbows are now carried upright on the map sprite instead of brandished sideways at a sword's angle.

Patch 7.26 — Dungeon Floorplan Polish

2026-07-17

💬 Quality of Life

The dungeon floorplan now scales to fit the World Map panel exactly — no more scrolling sideways to see the far end of the map.
Dungeon floors got a decorative pass: free-standing obstacles now render as themed props — stalagmites in the caves, gravestones in the graveyards and Deceit, ember rocks in the Fire Dungeon and Hythloth, ice spikes in the Ice Dungeon, moss-slick boulders in the Sewers — with small scatterings of mushrooms, bones, pebbles, and glinting gold flecks across the open floor.

Patch 7.25 — Pack Llama and Pack Horse

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Two new mounts at the Stable Master: the Pack Llama (10,000 gold) and Pack Horse (25,000 gold). Neither gives any travel-speed bonus — instead, equipping one adds +450 stones of carry capacity for 6 hours (Llama) or 12 hours (Horse) from the moment you put it on. A horseshoe icon on your buff bar (and a countdown on the mount's own tooltip) shows how much time is left. Once the timer runs out, the bonus disappears and the spent mount wanders off — if that leaves you overweight, whatever you're doing (gathering, fighting, crafting) stops the same way it always has, live or while resolving offline.

Patch 7.24 — Dungeon Floorplans

2026-07-17

✨ New Features

Every dungeon now has its own floorplan: press Auto Battle and your character appears on a small top-down map of the dungeon, wandering its halls between fights — when you stumble into a monster, it pops in beside you and the combat window opens, instead of fights just materializing out of thin air. Each of the 12 dungeons has its own hand-drawn layout and color theme. Purely visual: respawn times, monster selection, and combat itself are completely unchanged.
Your map sprite reflects your gear — the body is tinted by your equipped chest armor's material tier, and your equipped weapon is carried in hand (including its material and any dye).

Patch 7.23 — Crafting Gain-Chance Rework

2026-07-16

⚖️ Balance Changes

Iron (and its equivalent base-tier material in every other crafting skill) now hard-stops training at skill 90 — reaching GM requires switching to a colored material (Dull Copper or better) for the final stretch. Every colored material can carry you the rest of the way to 100, and rarer materials make that final push noticeably faster, rewarding the investment in better material rather than just grinding Iron forever.
Smoothed out the flat, unchanging 2% gain-chance floor that used to kick in the moment skill passed a recipe's difficulty (around 49 for a base-tier item) and stay there all the way to 65 with no way to improve it — the chance now keeps gradually declining through that stretch instead of going flat immediately.

Patch 7.22 — Crafting Now Trains Virtue Binding

2026-07-16

✨ New Features

Every crafting skill now grants Virtue Binding XP equal to 3x the raw material actually spent per attempt — success or failure both count, since the material is already spent either way. Covers every craft: Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Tinkering, Tailoring, and Alchemy (manual gump and Crafting Bench alike), plus Cooking, Smelting, and Carpentry Plank/Carving, live and while resolving offline.

Patch 7.21 — Crafting Bench Now Brews Potions

2026-07-16

✨ New Features

The Crafting Bench can now run Alchemy too, alongside Blacksmithing/Carpentry/Tinkering/Tailoring — brew potions unattended with an active Mortar and Pestle, drawing Empty Bottles and reagents from the Bench's own storage or an adjacent Stockpile (which now has a dedicated Bottles tab). Auto-Recycle and a target skill level to auto-stop at both work the same way they already do for the other four skills.

Patch 7.20 — Crafting Bench and Faster Spellcasting

2026-07-16

✨ New Features

The Crafting Bench: a new placeable house fixture that runs Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Tinkering, or Tailoring as an unattended Start/Stop loop, drawing material from an adjacent Stockpile or its own storage instead of your backpack. An Auto-Recycle option skips producing the item on a would-have-succeeded roll and refunds half the material instead, for training a skill indefinitely without piling up output — and you can set it to stop automatically once a target skill level is hit.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed spellcasting during Auto Battle padding out every recast with a full extra weapon-swing's worth of dead time after damage landed — casts now chain back-to-back at the spell's own cast speed, no more waiting around between one spell resolving and the next one starting.
Fixed dragging a Crafting Bench onto your house floor silently doing nothing.

💬 Quality of Life

Skill-gain chance lines stop appearing in the Journal's Gains tab once a skill hits GM (100) — nothing left to gain, nothing left to report.

Patch 7.19 — Party System

2026-07-16

✨ New Features

Parties! Team up with up to two other players via the new Party panel (header nav) — the first invite you send both forms the party and makes you its leader. Fight a monster while partied and every other member standing there with you gets automatically pulled into the same fight, no click needed; the monster targets a random party member on each of its swings. Gold and Virtue XP are split evenly (any odd remainder goes to one random member); loot splits evenly if it's a stack big enough to share, otherwise it's rolled to one random member — nothing ever duplicates to everyone. Only the party leader can start travel, and it moves every present member together at the pace of whoever's slowest-mounted. Fleeing a shared fight only pulls you out — the fight continues for whoever's left. Your party's live HP bars are always visible on the Party panel.

Patch 7.18 — Special Loot Rings and Dungeon Gear No Longer Blessed

2026-07-16

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed a stray flag that made Special Loot rewards with an equip slot — the Bands of Mining/Lumberjacking/Fishing, Salamander's/Glacial Signet, Cinderfang, Rime Fang, Cindercall/Frostguard Plate, Ashen Drake, Frostwyrm Hatchling, and Phoenix Down — silently Blessed and immune to death-drop. They now drop on death like any other rare gear, as intended.

Patch 7.17 — Faster Durability Wear

2026-07-16

⚖️ Balance Changes

Equipped weapons/armor now lose durability 25% faster on a hit, landed or taken.

Patch 7.16 — Potion of Power Bounty Now Works Offline Too

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

Potion of Power's Bounty flavor (double-harvest chance) is now rolled during offline catch-up, same as its other four flavors already were — previously it only ever fired on a live tick, so drinking one and going AFK got no benefit from it at all.

Patch 7.15 — Banked Bags No Longer Emptied by Death

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed dying dumping the CONTENTS of bags and Reg Bags stored in your Bank (or House) onto the ground with the rest of your carried loot — the bag itself stayed safely banked, but arrived back empty. This covers bags nested inside other bags to any depth (everything inherits wherever the outermost bag actually sits), Tool Bags tucked inside a stored bag, and raw material loaded into a placed Craft Station. Bags you're actually carrying still drop with their full contents as before.

Patch 7.14 — Slayer Weapons

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

A new rare magic weapon tier: Slayer weapons. Each is tied to one specific dungeon, can only drop there, and arrives already dyed to a color reflecting its home — even before you've identified it. Their damage bonus matches Power or Vanquishing, but only while you're actually fighting in that weapon's home dungeon.
See the Weapons wiki page for the full list of dungeons and their Slayer dye colors.

Patch 7.13 — Buffed Armor Rating Shows in the Header

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

The header's Armor Rating badge now includes an active Protection buff (+20 while it lasts) — combat mitigation always counted it, but the displayed number kept showing your unbuffed AR for the spell's whole duration.

Patch 7.12 — Blacksmith Shop Repair Improvements

2026-07-15

💬 Quality of Life

The Blacksmith Shop's gold repairs now pull from your bank balance too, not just what you're carrying — no need to withdraw first.
The Repair button in the Blacksmith Shop and Repair Bench now matches the rest of the game's look instead of rendering as a plain unstyled button.

Patch 7.11 — Treasure Hunt Flow Overhaul

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

Clearing the last guardian at a Treasure Site now reveals the chest itself — click it to pick the lock, and once it springs open, the treasure sits inside for you to click out piece by piece. Leaving with an open chest sweeps whatever's left into your pack automatically, so nothing you earned is ever lost.

💬 Quality of Life

Traveling to a Treasure Site now shows the full-screen traveling scene, same as any other trip — it used to quietly tick down in the World Map panel only.
The Treasure Site panel is now a centered layout with a proper Fight button front and center.

Patch 7.10 — Slower Durability Wear

2026-07-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

Cut the chance for equipped weapons/armor to lose durability on a hit by another 12.5x on top of last patch's halving — gear was still breaking well within a single unattended Auto Battle session. Now even the single most fragile piece in the game lasts north of 12 hours of continuous combat.

Patch 7.9 — Guaranteed Reagents from Challenging Mage Types

2026-07-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

Mage-type monsters at Challenging tier or above (Elementals, Skeletal Mage, Lich, Lich Lord) now always drop reagents on a kill instead of it being a roll — Earth Elemental, which never dropped reagents at all before, now does too.

Patch 7.8 — Longer Mage Buffs

2026-07-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

Protection, Bless, and Magic Reflection now last much longer — 2 minutes at 0 Magery, scaling up to 5 minutes at GM (100), up from 20 seconds to 1 minute.

Patch 7.7 — Empty Bottles Now Stack When Crafted

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

Crafting multiple Empty Bottles (Tinkering) now merges them into one backpack stack instead of leaving a separate item behind for every single one you made. Alchemy potions already stacked correctly and are unaffected.

Patch 7.6 — Earlier Auto-Bandaging

2026-07-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

Bandages now auto-apply at 80% of max Hits instead of 70%, giving a bigger buffer before you're caught unequipped mid-fight.

Patch 7.5 — Blacksmith Shop Now Repairs Magic Weapons

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

The Blacksmith Shop can now repair magic weapons too, not just mundane gear — priced in Virtue Points instead of gold, flat 1 Virtue Point per 10 missing durability (rounded down, minimum 1). No Blacksmithing discount, same as the shop's gold prices.

Patch 7.4 — Combat Gump and Journal Color Fixes

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

Manually applying a bandage with no fight going no longer shows a broken monster-portrait icon in the Combat gump.
Bandage success/failure messages are back to their old green/red in the Journal instead of blending into the Combat tab's orange.

Patch 7.3 — Stockpile Commodity Deed Fix

2026-07-15

🔧 Bug Fixes

Depositing a Commodity Deed into a Stockpile now correctly expands it back into that material's own count (e.g. an Iron Commodity Deed adds 1,000 Iron Ingots) instead of sitting as its own separate row. Any deed already deposited before this fix has been automatically converted.

Patch 7.2 — Journal Scroll Lock and Tab Cleanup

2026-07-15

⚖️ Balance Changes

Halved the chance for equipped weapons/armor to lose durability on a hit, landed or taken.

💬 Quality of Life

Scrolling up in the Journal to read history now stays put instead of getting yanked back to the bottom on every new line — it only resumes auto-following once you scroll back down yourself.
Bandage application (success or fail) now logs to the Combat tab instead of getting lost under All, alongside every other hit/miss/parry line.
Monster-kill gold now logs to the Loot tab instead of Combat — it's loot, same as everything else that drops off a kill.

Patch 7.1 — Journal Combat Tab

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

New "Combat" tab on the Journal panel, between All and Loot — filters down to just the swing-by-swing combat log (hits, misses, parries, damage taken and dealt).

💬 Quality of Life

Gain-chance rolls no longer clutter the Journal's All tab — they only ever fire that often to feed the dedicated Gains tab, so All stays readable during a long grinding session.

Patch 7 — Gains Journal Tab

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

New "Gains" tab on the Journal panel — every skill-gain roll in the game (harvesting, crafting, combat, magic, all of it) now logs its exact computed chance to gain right before it rolls, including any active Virtue Binding or Potion of Power bonuses, so you can see your real odds before committing to an attempt.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed the Journal's Loot tab filter silently doing nothing.

Patch 6.2 — Shimmer Dye Tubs

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

Four new Ultra Rare dye colors — Opal, Aurora, Solar, and Abyssal Shimmer — join Prismatic Shimmer at the top of the dye tier list, with the same discontinuous, multi-hue iridescent treatment and full sprite coverage across every weapon and armor shape.

💬 Quality of Life

The wiki now documents Dye Tubs (drop chance, tier odds, and the full color list per tier) under Dungeons.

Patch 6.1 — Weapon/Armor Durability and Repair Bench

2026-07-15

✨ New Features

Equipped weapons and armor now wear down in combat — a weapon on every landed hit, armor on every hit taken. A broken (0 durability) piece stays equipped but stops contributing: a broken weapon fights bare-handed until repaired, broken armor stops adding Armor Rating. Blessed gear is exempt and never wears down.
Repair Bench — a new house fixture (Blacksmithing 50, 1500 Ingots) that lists every equipped item needing repair and fixes it on the spot, consuming that item's own crafting material (scaled down by how much durability is missing, and further discounted the higher your own Blacksmithing climbs — up to 60% off at GM). Magic weapons repair with Virtue Points instead of material.
Blacksmith Shop — the town Blacksmith tile now offers the same repair list as a paid, gold-only service: pricier than the Bench and with no skill discount, but no house or materials needed. Magic weapons are Repair Bench-only and never appear here.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Widened bandage stitching yields per Tailoring attempt — Lesser 2-5, Bandage 1-4, Greater 1-2 — up from a flat 1-3 across every tier.

Patch 6 — Craft Stations, Stockpile, and Elemental Dungeons

2026-07-14

✨ New Features

Craft Stations (Saw Pit, Ore Smelter, Iron Stove) — house fixtures that run Carpentry, Smelting, or Blacksmithing unattended from a distance. Lock one down with a chat phrase, deposit raw material into it (gated by your own crafting skill), and it draws from your house's own weight pool instead of your carry weight.
Stockpile — a house fixture for bulk-counting storage of common goods (Ingots, Boards, Leather, and more) across labeled tabs, with Add All and quantity-withdraw controls. Commodity Deeds compress a big stack of a material down into a single item so it can actually be handed to a Stockpile.
Special Loot — every kill now has a small extra chance at a Common/Rare/Very Rare rare-drop roll, on top of everything else already dropping. First content: Band of Mining/Lumberjacking/Fishing rings (Lesser/Regular/Greater, +3/+5/+10 flat skill while worn).
Fire Dungeon and Ice Dungeon now carry a permanent environmental hazard: 9-20 bonus damage on every landed monster hit, bypassing armor entirely — negated only by the new Cloak of Fire/Ice Resistance (Tailoring, 60+ skill). Each dungeon also has its own exclusive Special Loot: a +10%-damage-in-that-dungeon ring (Salamander's/Glacial Signet), an elemental-damage weapon (Cinderfang/Rime Fang), a chest piece (Cindercall Plate's thorns / Frostguard Plate's numbing), a mount (Ashen Drake/Frostwyrm Hatchling), a death-cheat potion (Phoenix Down, Fire only), and a reagent that upgrades a Cloak of Ice Resistance into the Cloak of the Glacier (Ice only).
Password reset — forgot your password now gets you a reset link by email instead of a locked account.
Bulk Lock Down/Release chat phrases now target every placed house fixture at once instead of one at a time.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Lowered Smelting's Mining skill-gain cap from 80 to 75.
Raised prices on every high-tier mount.
Craft x now targets x successes instead of x attempts, so a run of bad luck no longer leaves you short of the amount you actually asked for.
Make Commodity now requires being at your own house or a town.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed grantResource silently swallowing stackable equipped items into orphans instead of stacking them.
Fixed offline gathering catch-up never applying a tool's or ring's skill bonus — only a live tick did before.
Fixed offline gathering overshooting the weight cap on bonus-yield ticks.
Fixed Craft Stations counting toward carry weight instead of house weight.
Fixed the Craft Station gump never refreshing its contents while left open.
Fixed Stockpile not placing when dragged onto the house floor.
Fixed atHouse still being treated as the town you'd left, which was also silently blocking Lock Down/Release phrases in Local chat.

💬 Quality of Life

The Construction Site gump now shows a time-until-completion countdown.
Craft Station lock-down now uses the same chat-phrase targeting cursor as every other lockable fixture, replacing its old right-click menu.
Craft Station deposits are now gated by the depositor's own crafting skill.
Tool Bag sprite redesigned as an open-top contractor tote.
All 98 monster sprites received a full production art pass — more consistent shading, ground shadows, and species-specific detail across the whole bestiary.
The wiki now documents Craft Stations, Stockpile, and Commodity Deeds under Housing, and the Special Loot system and Fire/Ice Dungeon hazards under Dungeons.

Patch 5 — Tool Recycling

2026-07-13

✨ New Features

Recycle / Recycle All — right-click any tool to dismantle it (or every copy of it in your pack) back into ingots and wood, 1 second per attempt. The return scales with how worn the tool is: half its original crafting cost at full durability, tapering down to nothing as it nears its last use.

Patch 4 — Harvesting Yield Scaling

2026-07-12

⚖️ Balance Changes

Mining, Lumberjacking, and Fishing now have a chance at bonus yield per successful gather as skill rises — always exactly 1 below skill 30, then a growing (but diminishing per extra unit) chance of a 2nd or 3rd from the same swing above it, the same curve Begging already used for reagents.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed Virtue Binding XP from gathering being flat per tick regardless of how much was actually hauled — a tick that lands 2 or 3 units (bonus yield, a matching-tier Pickaxe, or a Potion of Power) now grants proportionally more Binding XP instead of the same amount as a single unit.

Patch 3 — Two-Handed Weapon Rebalance

2026-07-12

⚖️ Balance Changes

Every two-handed weapon (melee and Archery alike) now hits noticeably harder — a flat damage boost bringing their average DPS to roughly 6.9, clearly ahead of one-handed's 5.94. Previously two-handed weapons actually dealt LESS raw damage per second than one-handed ones despite giving up the shield slot entirely, so a magic weapon's rung (Ruin/Might/Force/Power/Vanquishing) could look meaningless when compared across different base weapons — a Force-enchanted one-hander could match or beat a Power-enchanted two-hander purely because the base two-hander was already behind. Archery keeps its own bonus crit chance on top of this same boost.

Patch 2 — Paragon Monsters

2026-07-11

✨ New Features

Paragon monsters — any direct dungeon fight has roughly a 1-in-200 chance to spawn a Paragon variant, hitting harder and tankier (+30% HP and damage) but paying out double gold and double loot-table odds on the kill.
Potion of Power — a Paragon-only drop (50% chance, in Lesser/Regular/Greater tiers), named for the one bonus it grants: Wealth (gold from kills), Luck (skill-gain chance), Devotion (Virtue XP), Bounty (double harvest chance), or Craft (craft success chance). +10% for 1-3 hours depending on tier, fixed the moment it drops so the bottle's name always tells you what you're getting.
Ring of Death Cheat — an extremely rare Paragon drop (1%). Wearing one saves you from a killing blow: it's consumed, fully heals you, and recalls you to Britain instead of you dying, with a Global chat announcement.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Further nerfed Meditation's mana regen ceiling to 2/sec at GM (100) — down from the 6/sec introduced last patch, which was refilling a full mana pool in mid-fight in seconds.
The hits/mana/stamina bars above your head now ease smoothly into a new value instead of snapping instantly.

Patch 1 — Quest Journal, a spell overhaul, and the Tool Bag

2026-07-11

✨ New Features

Quest Journal (say "/journal" anywhere) — six starter quest lines guiding new characters through Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing, Camping, Healing, and Magery, each a 3-tier chain of gold, an unidentified weapon, and Virtue XP.
Miner's Bounty and Woodsman's Due add a 4th capstone tier — turn in refined Ingots/Planks for a pure Virtue XP payout.
Sewer Slayer — a kill-count quest line through the Britain Sewers, capping off with the game's first ring: the Band of Early Fortune (+10% gold from every kill).
Complete every starter quest line and receive the Cloak of the Hourglass — the game's first cloak, cutting 2 seconds off every gather tick and every post-kill respawn wait.
Friends list and DM conversations — add a friend by name, see their live location and activity, and message them straight from the Chat panel.
Session Gains panel — tracks every skill point and Virtue XP earned since you logged in, with current level and running totals per skill.
Tool Bag — a Tailoring recipe (30+ skill) that banks up to 5,000 tool charges per material tier, so a full pack of spare Pickaxes/Hatchets/Skinning Knives is no longer necessary.
The Virtue Binding panel now has an on-panel switch to suppress or reactivate each virtue's bonuses without spending points to do it.

⚖️ Balance Changes

Bless now scales with Magery instead of granting a flat damage buff — up to +10 Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence for up to 10 minutes at GM (100).
Every spell now requires real Magery to attempt (10 more per circle, up to 70 at Circle 8) and can fizzle on cast — a genuine coin-flip right at the minimum, tapering to a sure thing 10 points above it. Getting hit mid-cast now only risks interrupting it (down from an automatic fizzle every time), mitigated by Wrestling.
Mana regen is now a flat rate instead of a percentage of max Mana — 0.125/sec untrained up to 6/sec at GM Meditation, always doubled while out of combat.
Meditation, Healing, and Anatomy no longer wall out at a 2% gain chance partway through their range — the curve now spreads smoothly across the full 0-100.
Weapon skills, Parrying, and Tactics all gain a random 0.1-1.0 per success below skill 50 (up from a flat 0.1), so a new fighter's first stretch of combat moves the number fast.
Archery has its own bonus crit chance, independent of Virtue Binding investment.
Humility's virtue tree reworked: Tier 1 is now a skill-gain bonus, Tier 2 a crafting material-save chance.
Mining/Lumberjacking/Fishing harvest-encounter ambushes fire roughly twice as often (~once per 15 minutes of continuous gathering).
Carpentry's plank-carving now caps its own skill gain at 50, matching every other capped crafting path.

🔧 Bug Fixes

Fixed a bandage applied right after a harvest-encounter kill resurrecting the dead monster's sprite in the Combat gump.
Fixed the Scroll of Devotion's right-click menu offering Sell instead of Read Scroll.
Fixed spell casts sometimes rejecting mana that the player's own mana bar showed as enough to afford.

💬 Quality of Life

The browser's own right-click menu no longer appears anywhere in the game — every right-click now goes straight to the game's own menus.
The Friends gump's Add Friend and Message buttons are properly themed (previously looked disabled); the roster now sorts online-first, then alphabetically.
New Bank/Quests/Friends quick-action buttons sit under the inventory bag.