Patch notes

New

• The BESTIARY is a book now: categories with pictures, a search, how much of it you have filled, and a page for every creature you have defeated - its portrait, its danger, its kills and what hurts it.
• Four tiers for every creature: 1 kill for its picture and danger, 10 for where it lives, 25 for its life, speed and blows, 100 for its loot table and what hurts it. A boss tells the same at 1, 2, 5 and 10 kills.
• Open it with B, with the book button under the minimap or from the WORLD MAP. A line in the log tells you when a new tier is learnt.
• 3 new achievements: Open Book, Tracker and Know Thy Foe.

Fixes

• Drag a thing onto an empty square of its own bag and it moves to the front, as if you had put it down and picked it up again. Dropped on a stack of the same thing it still joins it.
• Website: every monster page has Normal, Nightmare and Hell tabs with their life, damage and experience, and a death by a Nightmare or Hell creature opens its page on that tab.
• Website: the Nightmare and Hell tabs show the real attacks now - every blow and spell twice or three times as strong, and the pulse of death, hellfire and soul drain those creatures gain.
• Website: the kill statistics show Nightmare and Hell creatures with their picture, glowing white or red, and count how many of them fell. Click a column title to sort the table by it.

New

• The icons under CAP that run out - haste, magic shield, the fight timers, world bonuses - show the time gone as a clock.
• What you buy from an NPC goes into the bag labelled for it - potions into your potion bag.

Balance

• The choirmaster sings faster: twice as fast at 55% life, 1.7 times as fast at 25%.

Fixes

• One AUTOLOOT button instead of two: it opens the window, which has the switch and the ignore list.
• A death by a Nightmare or Hell creature now names it - "a Hell orc leader" - on the death screen and in the death lists.
• When the bags for a kind of loot and your plain bags are full, it goes into a bag labelled for something else instead of staying on the floor.

New

• Point at a labelled bag: its tooltip says which loot it takes first and shows its icon.
• A bag window title starts with its icon and its label, the bag name last - GOLD - BACKPACK.

New

• Autoloot in a party: the loot of any kill by the party goes to the leader first; when the leader has no room or capacity left, or autoloot off, to the next member. Pass the lead to choose who takes it first.
• Nightmare and Hell creatures shine: a white or red aura follows their outline, easy to spot in daylight as well as in caves.
• 1 new achievement: The Party Purse (183 in all).

Balance

• Nightmare and Hell creatures come half as often: one time in two hundred.

New

• Nightmare and Hell creatures: now and then a monster comes back wrong - when it respawns, or rising again where it just died. A Nightmare (white skull) has three times the life and experience and hits twice as hard; a rare Hell one (red skull) six times the life and experience, three times the damage, two blows at once and a burst of hellfire. Each has its own glow and its own orb before it appears.
• They pay 1 (Nightmare) or 2 (Hell) Warden marks to everyone who brings them down.
• Bosses can come that way too - a seal keeper rolls again every time a group pulls the lever.
• The BATTLE window: the crossed swords left of the helmet open it. It lists the monsters on your screen you can reach or shoot - never one behind a wall, never a player or an NPC. Sort it by distance or life with the icons on top; click one to attack.
• Space now goes round the BATTLE list: the first, the second, the third, and back to the first.
• Twelve themed backpacks, all animated: each seal keeper and the wyrm mother may drop their own, King Haldor gives a royal one with the promotion, and the end of the story a seal backpack.
• The bags you had open when you left open again when you come back - by logging out or by closing the game.
• Closing the game while you are in the world asks first, and tells you how long your character stays.
• 5 new achievements (182 in all).

Balance

• Nightmare and Hell creatures drop 3% and 5% more often - rarity is never changed.
• Warden gear costs more marks: from 1,000 for the ring up to 6,000 for the blade, bow and sceptre.

Fixes

• A spell cast past a party member no longer hits them - party members never hurt each other.
• The songs of the choirmaster mark the burning ground; the safe quarter stays clear.
• The minimap you explored is kept even if the game is closed in an unusual way.
• Alt + click looting is gone - press G to grab everything around you.

New

• Put an open bag down at your feet or on a square beside you and its window stays open - and so do the windows of the bags inside it. Take things out of it right there; pick it up again and the windows stay where they are.
• 1 new achievement: Unpacked (177 in all).

Fixes

• Throwing an open bag a few squares away still closes its window, as it is out of your reach.

New

• The autoloot ignore list is now a plain list: drag a thing onto the LOOT LIST window - from your bags or from the floor - to ignore it, and click X to take it off again. It stays with your character on any computer.
• Everyone can grab the loot around them: press G (Pick up around you) to take the top thing of every pile next to you.
• A bag inside a labelled bag takes the same kind of loot once the outer bag is full, and its window title says so.
• Patch notes on the character screen: one card per version - click one to read all of it in its own window.
• Every list that scrolls has a bar you can drag or click - no mouse wheel needed.
• 2 new achievements: Quick Hands and Swept Clean (176 in all).

Balance

• Weapons and shots now hit for at least a fifth of their highest hit before armour: a weapon that hit 0-220 now hits 44-220.
• Autoloot and its ignore list are now for supporters; the grab around you is for everyone.

Fixes

• Choosing a bag label no longer walks your character to where you clicked.
• Window titles keep their size and are cut short when too long, instead of shrinking to tiny letters.
• Loot goes into the bag labelled for it even when a loose stack of the same thing is already in your backpack.

New

• Autoloot: switch it on with AUTOLOOT on the panel and what your kills drop goes straight into your bags.
• LOOT LIST shows everything monsters drop, by kind - set each thing or a whole kind to TAKE or SKIP; skipped things stay on the floor.
• Autoloot rests while you are in a fight with players (you attacked one, you have a skull, or one attacked you), so nobody can fight and sweep the floor at once.
• Bag labels: point at a bag in your backpack and click the + to choose which kind of loot goes into it first, and an icon for it.
• Loot you pick up or autoloot goes into the bag labelled for its kind first - rare finds into a Rare finds bag - then into bags without a label.
• A label stays with its bag: drop it, store it or trade it and it keeps its kind and icon.
• Point at a bag whose window is open and that window glows yellow, so you always know which window is which bag.
• The OUTFIT window is new: your look walking in all four directions, a tab for each part you can colour, and every outfit as a card - shop outfits you do not own yet shown dimmed.
• 3 new achievements: A Place for Everything, Hands Free and Never Bend Down (174 in all).
• One world for now: Silvaren is closed, and Grimvald is the world everyone plays on.

Balance

• Arrows and bolts now stack up to 1,000 instead of 100 - fill the quiver once and hunt.

New

• Sanctum hoards: a moment after a seal keeper falls, everyone in the party still standing is taken to its hoard, a room beside the arena.
• In the hoard each of you has a sanctum chest of your own, the boss loot rolled just for you - only you can open it, nobody can take from it.
• Open your chest and anything rare or better inside flares up for everyone in the room to see.
• The hoard closes 5 minutes after the boss falls and its portal leads back; anything left in a chest is lost.
• Bosses now fight with combos: a blow and two spells can land in the same moment.
• Deep wound: some boss blows tear, and for a few seconds every heal on you does less - an icon under CAP shows how much.
• Enraged: below a quarter of its life a boss hits harder.
• Fury: if a sanctum fight lasts past 6 minutes, the boss hits harder every 30 seconds.
• In a party, a boss may turn on someone who is not in front of it for 5 seconds - it calls out the name first.
• Patch notes: every update, newest first, on the website and in a window beside your characters when you log in.
• 4 new achievements: Spoils of the Sanctum, Hoarder, Light from the Chest and Before the Fury (171 in all).

Balance

• Every boss is much stronger: 4 to 13 times the life (the mire mother 2,400 to 32,000, the choirmaster 15,000 to 180,000), harder blows and spells, bigger heals.
• Each seal keeper is made for a party of up to three: the mire mother for level 45, the iron lord 58, the horned king 65, the sand pharaoh 70, the old widow 72.
• The frost jarl is made for level 80, the heartwood 88, the deep flame 100 and the choirmaster 115; the wyrm mother in the desert for level 80.
• Boss loot is rolled once for each survivor instead of once for the whole party.
• Bosses give four times the experience they did.
• Boss helpers (runesmiths, servants, eggs, giant spiders, saplings) grow with their boss, and the boss heals less from them.

Fixes

• Website: monsters that killed players before 0.32.0 now link to their wiki page as well.
• Website: the worlds overview now finds the numbers of every world.
• Website: each kind of world bonus is listed once instead of once for every bonus queued.

New

• The Online pages on the website are rebuilt in boxes, with an overview of every world, its record of players online and a chart of the last 24 hours.
• Character pages show the outfit in its own colours, world rank, an experience bar, achievement points, last seen and the experience of each of the last 7 days.
• Every death lists every killer: players link to their page, monsters to the wiki, with each share of the damage under the mouse.
• Highscores (was Ranking) add achievements and the experience gained today or in the last 7 days, with outfits and the top three marked.
• New Kill statistics page: for each monster, the players it killed and how many fell to players, today and in 7 days.
• The Deaths page has a tab with only the deaths a player had a hand in.
• The Supporter page now compares free and supporter accounts in a table.
• 3 new achievements: A Good Day of Hunting (250,000 experience in one day), A Great Day of Hunting (2,000,000) and Record Crowd (167 in all).
• Record Crowd unlocks when you are in the world as it sets a new record of players online.

Fixes

• Logging in after an update no longer floods the game with hundreds of picture requests that could leave the world black.
• The Supporter page now says correctly that free accounts sail home to Dillei and to Dawnwatch.

New

• Grothmar is redrawn as a black land: the island grows, with black mountains up to three floors high, crags and lookouts with beacons and banners.
• The Black Gate: three leaves of black iron two storeys high under a crown of spikes and a horned skull, between towers you can climb to great beacons.
• Before the gate lie the dead of a beaten host, and the dead on stakes line the causeway landing.
• The Spire now rises five floors to a great beacon on its terrace, and the warlord sits on a throne of bones.
• The valley is ash and black sand, with cinder fields, orc forges, war banners, gibbets, skull piles and new bone fields in the south-west.
• The Fire Mount now climbs four shelves of black basalt to a smoking crater.
• The Warlord Deeps keep their halls, now dressed in orc style: black columns, forges by the lava river, war banners and a throne of bones.
• 3 new achievements: The Iron Teeth, Fire on the Spire and Over the Black Land (164 in all).

Balance

• PvP damage goes up from 25% to 50% for every blow from a player on a player: weapons, runes, spells, wands and mythical edges.

New

• Dying is no longer a plain teleport: the world stands still, your figure leaves the body and a card shows what death took.
• The death card lists the experience, levels and skills lost, what lies on your body, who killed you, the body timer and your death count; press RISE AGAIN.
• Each kind of death has its own words: slain, defeated, consumed, murdered, fallen in battle and the red skull falls.
• You rise again in a column of gold light at the temple, and everyone there sees it.
• Your body shows as a gravestone on the minimap and the world map, with its time left under the mouse.
• Hotkeys now show how many of that thing you carry, even from a minimized bag; at zero the picture greys out with a red 0.
• A pixel-art orb now appears 5 seconds before a monster respawns, so you know where it comes from; a boss orb is gold and bigger.
• Mythical edge damage now rises as its own number in its element colour, with a small burst on the target, for everyone to see.
• Stairways down now show only their rim, so you can see the steps or the ladder on the floor below.
• 3 new achievements: Witness, Temple Keeper and the secret Phoenix (161 in all).

Fixes

• Shop outfits now lift their feet when walking north and south instead of just bobbing.
• Potion piles of 10 or more show a cluster of the potion itself instead of a crate, so you can tell the kinds apart.
• Bolts now point up and left and arrows up and right, so they are easy to tell apart.
• Achievement banners now wait until you have risen after a death.

New

• The exp bar is now as tall as the life and mana bars and shows how much is left to the next level.
• +N on the exp bar shows what a kill gave; kills less than a second apart add up into one number.
• The HUNT ANALYZER now says when your next level comes at your current pace.
• Drop flares: when a rare or better item falls, a burst of its colour lights the screen for 5 seconds, bigger for legendary and mythical.
• Mythical finds are now also written in the World channel.

Fixes

• Long messages on the screen now wrap at spaces instead of being cut in the middle of a word.
• Items inside an open bank box now show their tooltips.
• Item names read right: an iron helmet, not a iron helmet.

New

• New World channel: everyone in the world hears it, wherever they are; its tab comes right after LOCAL.
• The Trade channel is now for trades: one line every 2 minutes per player.
• Right-click a line in the chat for Send Message, Copy Message and Copy Name.
• + MESSAGE at the end of the chat tabs opens a private conversation with any player by name.

Balance

• Rune prices go up: explosion from 32 to 45, great fireball from 60 to 75 and sudden death from 162 to 200; sell-back prices and newbie runes stay as they were.
• The choirmaster: discordant notes are now two 2x2 runes at the players, and the hymns no longer paint the floor - watch the braziers.
• Every choirmaster song now has exactly one safe quarter: one brazier lit (stand in the light) or three lit (find the dark one); the two-lights song is gone.
• The sand pharaoh: the shade is now three squares wide for the whole party, often right beside the pharaoh, with 6 seconds to reach it (was 4).

Fixes

• Item counts in bags, the deposit box and the paper doll now sit on a dark plate, easy to read; 10,000 and more show as 10K.

New

• HUNT ANALYZER: a new window from the little chart button above the backpack shows experience, loot, supplies and balance, so far and per hour.
• It lists kills by monster, the loot you picked up and the supplies you used, priced at trader offers; RESET starts a new session.
• Rune tooltips in bags, hotkeys and shops show the level and magic level needed (red when you lack them), your damage or heal, area and range.
• The dwarf mines are much roomier: both floors are widened into new halls with lanterns, rails, carts and crates, and the same 110 dwarves.
• Deep in the dwarf mines the works of the dwarves begin: an unfinished gatehouse of dark stone round the stairs to the iron halls.
• 3 new achievements: In the Black, Gold Rush (100,000 gold profit in a session) and Fortune Hunter (1,000,000), 158 in all.

Balance

• The explosion rune now needs magic level 6 to use, and the great fireball rune magic level 12.
• Fireball now hits each creature a little harder than the great fireball, on its smaller 3x3 area.

Fixes

• Rune tooltips no longer repeat the description, and a hotkey rune that ran out says you have none.
• A lone rock square beside the ladder into the dwarf mines is now floor.

Fixes

• Creatures on another floor are now only drawn, with no name, life bar, skull or damage numbers; their hits and missiles still show.
• Look now reaches what is drawn: a creature on a higher floor, a roof or mountain top over the street, or the floor below through an opening.
• A dead monster no longer answers a look on its square.

New

• Creatures on the floors you can see are now drawn: from the foot of a mountain you see a fight on its ledge, and from above you see below.
• Nothing is fought across floors: attacks, spell targets and invites still need your own floor.
• Your mana bar: a thin blue bar under your own life bar, which can be turned off in Options.

New

• New island: Grothmar, a black isle south of the orc war camp, reached over a stone causeway to the Black Gate.
• Behind the gate: an ash valley with barracks, a forge yard, warg pens, a fighting pit and the Spire; in the south the Fire Mount with a lava crater.
• Under it lie the Warlord Deeps, from guard rooms down to the war halls and the hall of the warlords; 338 orcs in all.
• New: the brigand camp in the pine wood west of the cyclops plain, with hunters, and the Thieves Den below it with eight caves of assassins.
• New: the Brood, a floor under the Hive with hive queens, tunnel tyrants, kollos and spidris.
• Every hunting task can now be hunted: 1,142 new spawns are placed in the best area of each monster.
• New ways into the golem quarry: a cave mouth on the cyclops plain and a south door from the pine wood by the dock.
• 8 new achievements: Warlord Breaker, Queen Slayer, Outlaw Hunter, Through the Black Gate, The Fire Mount, Hall of the Warlords, Den of Thieves, Into the Brood.

Balance

• The leash: a monster dragged more than 50 squares from its spawn, or to another floor, vanishes and comes back at home, with no loot or experience.

Fixes

• Big drawings such as the amazon tents no longer show a line across them while you walk.
• The outfit window now opens on the outfit you wear, not the default Citizen look.
• The causeway to Grothmar is back over the lagoon.

New

• Boss mechanics: every seal keeper and the wyrm mother now fight with their own mechanics on top of their spells.
• Squares are marked on the floor before a blow lands; whoever still stands there loses a share of life that armour, protection or magic shield cannot soften.
• The first time a mechanic comes, its lesson is written big over the game view; most ask you to move, kill something in time or lure the boss.
• Each boss has its own: bog bubbles, hammer lines, aimed charges, a burning sun, egg sacs, rings of ice, roots, crosses of fire, hymns and burrowing.
• 2 new achievements: Read the Room and Flawless Hunter (147 in all).
• CHARACTER DETAIL: a DETAIL button on the BONUS tab opens a full status window with every skill, every gear bonus and where each comes from.

Balance

• PvP damage: every blow from a player on a player now lands at 25%, down from 75% for spells and full damage for weapons.
• Strong creatures (over 100 experience) now smash barricade barrels in their way; weaker ones are still stopped, and a magic wall stops everyone.
• Lured creatures go home: one more than 15 squares from its spawn with no player near for 30 minutes is put back at its spawn.

Fixes

• Things laid on stairs, holes and cave mouths now go through to where a player comes out, however they got there.
• The BONUS tab no longer scrolls; when there is too much, it points you to DETAIL.
• The amazon shore is rebuilt with a proper beach of sand and grass instead of square cuts.

New

• SEND COINS: a new SHOP tab to send Dillei Coins to a character on another account, in steps of 25, up to 1,000 a day.
• To send coins, your account needs a character of level 15 or more in that world.
• Market sell offers can now ask for Dillei Coins instead of gold, with a 2% fee in coins.
• New warriors pick a starting weapon on the new character screen: sword, axe or club.
• Smart follow: chasing a target takes the shortest way round obstacles, and Space picks a target and chases it.
• The target marker is blue while attacking and following, red when attacking only and green when following only.
• With your deposit box open beside you, drag a thing from the floor straight into it.
• 2 new achievements: Generous and Paid in Coin (145 in all).
• A new guide mark for Caravan Master Sahir at the Sunscar oasis.

Balance

• Starter items now sell for 1 gold; a rolled one still sells at its rarity price.
• A diagonal step now costs two straight steps (was 1.94), for monsters too, so they no longer close in so fast.
• The food spell (tesh bri) is removed from every spell book.

Fixes

• The most you can buy from an NPC now also counts your capacity, and the window says how many you can carry.
• The BONUS tab is readable: short bonus names, the name of a rolled item on its own row and long lines wrapped.
• The training window shows its gold and Dillei Coin options in their own colours.
• The Frost Seal hint now says the Greyspine can be reached on foot across the Sunscar, and the training isle mark names Drillmaster Tarn.

New

• Item rarity: every piece of gear is rolled once as it enters the world - Regular 85%, Magical 13%, Rare 1.5%, Legendary 0.4%, Mythical 0.1%.
• Drops, quest rewards, chests and Warden wares can all roll; NPC traders sell regular items only, and bags, ammunition and stackables never roll.
• Rolled items carry bonuses (1-2 magical, 3 rare, 4 legendary, 5 mythical) such as hit points, mana, skills, speed, protection, critical hits and regeneration.
• A mythical weapon gets an Edge (part of every blow again as an element); other mythicals get a Ward (one element protection up to 100%).
• A boss mythical carries six bonuses and the name of its boss.
• Rarity shows in colour in bags and on the paper doll, with a glow under rolled items on the floor and a beam over legendary and mythical ones.
• A mythical find is announced to the whole world, with a MYTHICAL! banner for its finder.
• Traders buy rolled pieces one at a time at 1.25x, 2x, 4x or 8x the price, and the market lists them under RARE PIECES.
• Quartermaster Ilda now recycles Warden items from your bags for an eighth of their price in marks.
• NPC windows v2: shops and the task board use the width of the game view, with a search, filters, a big item card and quick amounts.
• 8 new achievements, from A Touch of Magic to Nothing Wasted (143 in all).
• The wiki has a new Item rarity page.

Balance

• Bonus ceilings: critical hit 20%, spell critical 20%, cooldown cut 15%; protection stays at 60% per element except the element of your strongest Ward.
• A critical blow deals 1.5 times the damage (1.3 times on a player).

Fixes

• Traders no longer buy bound items.

New

• New region: the Sunscar, a vast desert east and south of the islands that joins the dunes of the Eastern Isle and the Greyspine.
• The Greyspine can now be reached on foot through the Sunscar.
• Sunscar places for levels 15 to 110: the salt road and a nomad camp, the scorpion dunes, the redrock badlands, the buried city and the deep dunes.
• The glass waste round the crater where a shard of the fallen star struck, and the wyrm hollow with the wyrm mother, a boss that returns after 30 minutes.
• The oasis holds the caravan rest of Caravan Master Sahir (a protection zone), who buys every creature product and sells potions, runes, arrows and bolts.
• New desert creatures such as hyenas, nomads, scorpions, djinn, basilisks and sand wyrms, and ten new desert products.
• Mirela, Orla and Sindri buy the ten desert products too.
• 4 new achievements: Sand Walker, Mother of Wyrms, Water in the Desert and Where the Star Fell (135 in all).

Balance

• Food is gone: no monster drops it, nobody sells it, and the meat you carry disappears; life and mana come back on their own.
• Traders no longer pay for the starter kit items given to new characters.
• Every class now carries twice as much.

Fixes

• Things thrown onto stairs, a hole or a mine shaft now go through like a player; a ladder or a portal keeps what is laid on it.
• Only Warden items are bound now: quest items can be put down and moved, but are still kept at death and never sold on the market.
• A bag holding something bound now says which item is bound.
• The small bag can be worn on the back and has twelve slots, as its card now says.
• A thing on the floor can be dragged into a bag lying open on the floor beside you.
• Map fixes: a pond shore corner, and the grass between the training yard path and the cobble road.

New

• Place marks on the minimap and the world map: temple, shops, bank, market, boats, tasks, training, promotion and Warden stores; hover one to see what it is.
• A 9-page tutorial for new players opens once at the first login under level 20, and any time from Options.
• Options can switch quest marks and place marks on or off.
• 2 new achievements: First Steps and Know Your Way Around (131 in all).

New

• Many more monsters in the hunting grounds of Grimvald.

New

• New island: Stormcrown, a storm isle for levels 85-115 in the sea west of the Elderwood.
• A blasted heath, a mountain three floors high and a ruined temple of white columns on its crown.
• Reached only by boat, a supporter island: 280 gold from Dillei to the pier of Captain Tarrow on its east beach.
• New creatures: the storm giant, the thunderbird and the storm elemental, all hitting with energy.
• They drop the energy-guarding sets (nightguard, shadowhide, starweave), sunsteel two-handers, storm and glacier wands and master rings.
• Three new products: thunder stone, thunderbird plume and storm core.
• 3 new achievements: Storm Landing, The Crown of Storms and Storm Breaker (129 in all).

New

• 73 new items fill the gaps between tiers: bronze (level 14), runesteel (27), rimesteel (45), sunsteel (65) and obsidian (100).
• Two-handed swords, axes and clubs at levels 30, 70 and 105: about 15% more attack, but no shield.
• New class sets at level 45 (rimesteel, rimefur, rimeweave: ice and energy) and level 100 (obsidian, emberhide, cinderweave: fire).
• New wands for the missing elements, master rings at level 65, new bows and crossbows, and ammunition at 27, 45, 65 and 100 from Garrick.
• Brokk in Hammerhold sells the runesteel one-handers, shield and crossbow.
• Burning and glowing items are animated wherever they are drawn, and things that burn or shine give light when held or worn.
• 6 new achievements in a new Gear group: Five Metals, Every Element, Bowyer, Both Hands, Dressed for the Frost and Forged in Fire.

Balance

• Weapon lines now climb 4-6 attack a step instead of about ten, so there are more choices at every level.
• The new materials drop from 86 monsters, each a common drop of its level and place.
• Deep monsters drop more platinum: kollos, spidris, chasm spawn, diremaw, hellhounds, magma colossi and fire devils.

Fixes

• The screen no longer freezes after logging out during a fight.
• A bag no longer shows the login picture (the forest) through it after a reconnect.

New

• The Gate of Six is rebuilt: the four arrive trapped in a one-wide corridor, with six demons waiting in the hall beyond.
• A seal pillar of burning runes rises on the door when the lever is pulled and sinks when the last demon dies.
• The reward room: a bridge over lava, and each reward on show on a pedestal above its chest.

Balance

• Demons are much harder: melee up from 450 to 650, with stronger great fireball, energy beam and soul drain - a challenge for a well-geared party of level 130.
• The demons of the Demon Halls are the same creature: a hunt for level 130 and up.

New

• New region: the Cinderreach, a volcanic island south of Dawnwatch over the causeway of the Wardens, open from level 50.
• Emberwatch, the frontier town of the Wardens (a protection zone), with Tamsin, Orla, a deposit box and a forge.
• On the surface: the Ashwood, the Smoking Peaks, the Fallen Keep and the lava fields round the Maw, with dragons, dragon lords and black knights.
• Underground: the Smoke Tunnels, the Cinder Vaults, the Ember Halls and the Demon Halls, each floor a ring with two ways down.
• New monsters: the demon, the three-headed hellhound, the fire devil and the magma colossus, with products to sell.
• The Gate of Six: four level 100+ players of one party pull the lever and face six demons in a trap behind a level 100 door.
• Its four chests hold the demonforged plate, the ashbrand, the hellfire longbow and the wand of the pit; each character takes one, once.
• 5 new achievements: Into the Cinderreach, Ash and Ember, Demon Slayer, Through the Gate and a secret one (120 in all).
• On a PvP world a skull under CAP shows how many unjustified kills you have left before a red skull today, this week and this month.
• The wiki map fills the screen with zoom and drag, and monster and NPC pages open as compact cards.

Balance

• The choirmaster sanctum now starts at the Choir Threshold, the far east end of the Demon Halls.
• Tamsin moves from the Dillei harbour to Emberwatch and now buys back gear up to level 119.
• Voices in the Ash: a wrong answer to Lorekeeper Wynn now crumbles the hymnbook, and you must find it again.

Fixes

• The quest badge is smaller and tucked into the top-right corner of the slot.

New

• The chat scrolls in every tab with the wheel, PageUp/PageDown or the bar; a NEWEST button takes you back, and each channel keeps 500 lines.
• The CHARACTER panel is fixed to the right edge, as tall as the screen, and can be dragged up to twice as wide - the gear grows with it.

Balance

• Every monster now respawns 60 seconds after it dies (it was 20 seconds for rats up to 15 minutes for undead dragons); bosses keep their own time.

Fixes

• Quest items now carry a yellow ! badge, and item names are no longer written over item pictures.
• The training isle has a rounder coast, out of sight of every other shore.

New

• The wiki has a new Systems page (parties, skulls, protection zones, death, training, points and more) and NPCs grouped by type with a search.

Balance

• A red skull can now enter the temple, the bank and Hammerhold; only a PZ lock or a white skull keeps a player out.
• Red skulls still come at 3, 5 or 10 unjustified kills in 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, and everything carried drops at death.
• The training isle refuses every red skull, and Tarn says how long until the skull fades.

Fixes

• A red skull whose training isle time runs out is now sent to the temple.
• The red skull tooltip now says what it does: everything drops at death, and no training isle.

New

• The training yard outside the south gate: twelve training dolls where every blow trains at 80%, the shield or spellbook too.
• The yard is open PvP, and the goblins of the meadow roam round it.
• On the dolls a ranger spends no arrows, and a mage wand costs no mana while each bolt counts toward magic level.
• The training isle: Tarn sells time at 40,000 gold or 1 Dillei Coin an hour (packs of 1, 3, 6 or 12 hours) on a safe island where dolls train at 100%.
• The isle clock runs only while you are there and online, with warnings at 30, 10, 5 and 1 minutes; Mora on the isle sells more time.
• 18 new achievements for training, the bestiary, character points, messages, VIP, parties and three secrets (115 in all).

Balance

• One teacher at a time: for 5 seconds after a blow at a doll, nothing else trains any skill or magic.
• Tarn will not take anyone with a protection zone lock or a white skull.

Fixes

• Time achievements now show hours instead of seconds.

Fixes

• The CHARACTER POINTS window no longer breaks: it sizes itself to fit its cards.
• Every text box now takes accented letters of any language, such as c with a cedilla or n with a tilde.

New

• Character points get their own button row and are renamed VITALITY (more health), MIGHT (more damage) and FORTITUDE (less damage taken).
• The WORLD MAP now shows every quest mark for you across the whole world; the minimap keeps only nearby ones.

Fixes

• Floating windows now stack: the one you click comes to the top, and only it answers your clicks.
• The hotkeys bar no longer sits above every other window.
• The CHARACTER POINTS window is laid out again with a clear + ADD POINT button on each card.

New

• Character points: one every 5 levels from level 5, spent on VIGOR (more health), MASTERY (more damage) or RESOLVE (less damage taken).
• The first reset of your points is free, then 500 gold a level.
• WORLD MAP (BIG MAP or M): everything you have seen, floor by floor, with your party and quest marks.
• BESTIARY: every monster you defeated; at 25 kills it shows health and experience, at 100 its loot and weaknesses.
• Quest marks: a yellow ! over an NPC with a quest for you, and a ? where one of yours goes on, also on the minimap.
• Newest first: what you pick up, buy or loot goes into the first slot of the bag.
• Quest items carry a small blue (i) mark and say quest item in their tooltip.

New

• A player who invited you offers JOIN PARTY only; anyone else ADD TO PARTY.
• A pink shield marks the player who invited you, and a hollow one the players you invited.
• Party members show on your minimap in their own colours, the leader ringed in gold, with name, floor and distance under the mouse.

New

• VIP list: see which friends are online, add them by name and write to them; up to 50 names per account.
• Private messages: a chat tab for each conversation, orange while unread.
• Shopkeepers, boat fares and the challenge of the king now take gold from your bags first, then from your bank.
• Achievements get filters and points, and 27 new secret achievements arrive (97 in all).

New

• Achievements: 70 in 7 groups - hunting, bosses, experience, skills, wealth, tasks and quests, and the world.
• An unlock shows in the log with an ACHIEVEMENT! banner; the trophy button beside QUESTS opens the window with progress bars and dates.
• What a character had already reached unlocks quietly at its next login.

Fixes

• The three tomb gates under the Eastern Isle tomb now look like gates, with a bronze grate.
• The first bogbloom has its purple flowers back.
• Heartwood Sap: the three bushes are now old sap trees with running amber sap, glowing at night and easy to find.
• A quest handed in to someone other than its giver now says where to go - The Dawnwatch Beacon points to Lorekeeper Wynn.

Balance

• A fresh start: every world begins anew, at normal (1x) experience, skills and magic level.

New

• Two worlds: Grimvald (PvP) and Silvaren (no PvP), each with its own accounts, characters, banks, market and coins.
• Pick your world on the login screen, with how many play on each.

Fixes

• Stairs now wait half a second after a change of floor, so nobody can hop up and down to shake off another player.

Balance

• Pulling a sanctum lever no longer clears the arena: the bodies and backpacks of a fallen group stay for the next group.

Fixes

• NPC windows now fit on small screens such as notebooks and tablets: goods, amounts and buttons always show.
• The walls of the timber house north of the tavern and of the fur shop of Mirela are fixed.
• The rock at the north exit no longer hangs over the farm road.

Fixes

• Pots on the Shore: all three pots look alike now, twinkle by day and glow at night.
• Pots on the Shore: the crab claw count in the QUESTS window now follows your bags.
• The Goblin Drums: the quest now stands on a real war drum, not a totem.
• Light on the Water: the lamp to light is the brazier on the top floor, by the stairs.
• The Warden Archive: the tablets are now carved dwarf tablets with glowing runes.
• The north exit: one clean dirt road now runs from the farm road into the pass.

New

• The wiki has a Bosses tab with the sanctum rules, fifteen what-happens-if cases and the nine sanctums.

Fixes

• Leaving a sanctum through its portal no longer leaves you on a black screen.
• If your connection drops during a sanctum fight, coming straight back carries on the fight.
• The sanctum lever is redrawn as a rustic stone one.

New

• Sanctums: the nine seal keepers now fight in arenas of their own, entered by rune plates and a lever in their old lairs.
• Up to three players of one party go in; each player has one attempt per boss a day, spent when the lever goes down.
• 15 minutes to win, with warnings; after VICTORY there are 3 minutes for the loot, and the portal takes you back at any time.

Balance

• Seal keeper gear is much rarer: item level 80 and up at 0.6%, 55-79 at most 3%, under 55 at most 8%.

Fixes

• Market: only the character that made an offer can cancel it, and market answers now show in its window.
• NPC speech balloons stand still over the name.
• Death messages now read killed by the mire mother, not a the mire mother.

New

• An NPCs tab in the chat keeps every line NPCs said and the answers you picked.
• Every quest step now has a hint of where to start, shown in the QUESTS window.
• Story NPCs now take a slow stroll near their place; merchants, the banker, the market, captains and the king stay put.
• NPCs show their name in blue with no life bar, and a small speech balloon when the mouse is over them.
• The wiki has a Warden marks tab: how to earn and spend them.

Fixes

• Bank amounts no longer show stray signs around the numbers.
• The SHOP outfit list now scrolls smoothly with the wheel or its bar.

Balance

• Quest rewards are the same for everyone: rates, world bonuses and supporter bonuses no longer change quest experience.

Fixes

• Fast characters no longer stand still and snap back while walking: no step is dropped any more.
• The HOW MANY? box no longer piles its text on top of itself with big fonts.
• The last stairs drawn the old way (the Cinder Sanctum, the house of Corvin and four cave exits) now use the compact flight.
• 24 flowers that grew on water are gone.
• Stairs blocked by monsters work again: no monster spawns on or next to a staircase step or landing.
• After an update the game window now comes to the front.
• PLAY and LOGIN are greyed out while connecting, so extra clicks do nothing.
• Northgate Farms has one fence round all three fields, with two gates.
• The fallen soldiers of The Lost Patrol now lie in armour with sword and shield, easy to see.

New

• The QUESTS window has ACTIVE, WAITING and DONE tabs, scrolls, resizes and shows a card for each quest with its step, giver, place and progress.
• WAITING lists every quest you can take now and the ones a few levels away.
• Moonpetals, bogblooms and frost blooms now glow at night so you can find them.

Balance

• The moonpetal quest of Healer Sarne pays more: 5,180 experience, 750 gold, 6 marks and 10 strong health potions.

New

• A clearer reading font for NPC talk, trade, the market and the QUESTS window, with a wider talk window and bigger item pictures.

Fixes

• Your own floor now loads first: a lower floor no longer shows through gaps while the world loads.
• The stairs out of the Cinder Sanctum work, so the sanctum and the Choir hall have a way out again.
• The assassin tower by the north beach has a hatch down from its roof.
• The second moonpetal moved to the open meadow east of its hill, where it can be reached.

New

• The Ember Seals: a story in four chapters about a fallen star, the Emberheart, its eight seal keepers and the Cinder Choir.
• 30 quests, once per character: deliveries, questions, kills, items to bring, objects to use and places to reach.
• 21 new NPCs and 51 quest spots across the map; rewards include experience, gold, items, Warden marks and perks.
• Access quests: Sea Legs (every captain sails you for a fifth less), The Master Trader, The Dawnwatch Beacon and The Choir Camp.
• Warden marks: earned by quests, hunting tasks and seal keepers, spent at Quartermaster Ilda on bound Warden gear or an extra hunting task.
• New isle: Dawnwatch, the town of the Wardens west of the Dillei sea, with the beacon on its hill and a dock open to everyone.
• Under the ruined chapel lies the Cinder Sanctum, with the choirmaster, a new boss of 15,000 hit points.
• A new QUESTS window and button.

Balance

• Garrick now buys back only gear worn below level 35; Tamsin, new in the harbour, buys up to level 80; Brokk buys everything once The Master Trader is done.

New

• Nine new cosmetic outfits, three per class: Emberforge, Stormguard, Dreadknight, Sandstrider, Tidehunter, Petalwind, Stargazer, Blightcaller and Sunweaver.
• They cost 1,000 or 1,250 Dillei Coins, each with its own tomb and spells in its own colours.
• Every cosmetic outfit now leaves a walking trail, from gold glints and pawprints to petals and stardust.
• The SHOP outfit list now scrolls.
• The Supporter page on the website shows every outfit walking, with its spell, tomb and trail.

Fixes

• The Sandstrider tomb is redrawn as a stepped sandstone pyramid half buried in a dune.

New

• The Online page lists players world by world, with each PvP rule and how many are on.

Fixes

• The world pages use the look and font of the website again.

Fixes

• Flame strike, hells core and the great fireball rune now deal fire damage, not physical.
• The market allows one open offer per item per account, and its list says 6 FOR SALE or 2 WANTED in words.
• The Dillei Coin looks the same everywhere: the SHOP button, the shop and the market.
• A failed update no longer loops forever; the game says what went wrong and offers RETRY.
• Stairs are redrawn compact and one square wide, as wide as the opening above.

New

• Promotion: King Haldor in Hammerhold sets players of level 30 or more a challenge for 10,000 gold: kill 50 dragons or wyverns within 24 hours.
• Promoted characters become Elite Warrior, Royal Ranger or Master Mage and regenerate health and mana twice as fast.
• Walk with the number pad: with Num Lock on, 8 4 6 2 and the diagonals 7 9 1 3; Ctrl turns.
• The NPCs of Hammerhold are dwarves now, and Varek moves into the hall of the king as huntmaster.

Fixes

• The road through Northgate Farms is a clean road three wide, with a new arm to the bridge of the Anvil.
• The west gate towers no longer carry house walls and roofs.

New

• The market: Corvin keeps it in a new hall two floors above the bank.
• Sell offers take items from your bags or deposit box, and buy offers are paid from your bank; bought items go to your deposit box.
• Offers meet at once at the best price, can be taken in part and last 30 days; Dillei Coins can be traded too.
• A 2% fee (at least 1 gold) is paid by whoever creates an offer and is kept on a cancel or expiry; accepting is free.
• The market window has shelves, a search and 30-day price history, and you can drag an item from a bag onto it to sell.

New

• More minotaurs at the farm: 10 more on the field and more of every kind below, with minotaur champions, the strongest, found only here.

Balance

• A fight with monsters no longer stops you boarding a boat; only fugitives are refused at the normal fare.
• Fugitives (a white skull, or a red skull with a PZ lock) can still sail at 30 times the fare.

New

• The ridge of the Ashen Reach now has dragon hatchlings, dragons and wyverns on its mountain tops.
• The Webwood gets 56 new spawns of insects and spiders.
• The minotaur farm on the Castle Isle: minotaurs on the field and three floors below - the burrows, the warrens and the deep meadow.
• New monster: the centaur, a fast archer that keeps its distance, in the deep meadow; Mirela pays 100 gold for its hoof.

Fixes

• Steps are no longer lost when walking fast, so gates and stairs such as those of Hammerhold work every time.

New

• New: the Anvil, a lone mountain in the strait west of the north pass, five floors high, joined to the farms by a stone bridge.
• Its south face is the carved front of Hammerhold, with giant guardian statues, waterfalls and a great gate.
• Hammerhold, the dwarf city (a protection zone): the great hall, the hall of the king, the treasury, the forge, the market and the tavern.
• Brokk the smith and Sindri the trader sell and buy at the same prices as the city.
• The mine below: four floors, weakest first, from rats and goblins to berserkers, runesmiths and magma golems round a lava lake.

Fixes

• Changes to the map during play no longer make every creature vanish and respawn, or bring back a boss killed a minute ago.

New

• New mage spell: fire burst (dru vor), magic level 12, 100 mana, hits everything within 2 squares every 3 seconds.

Balance

• Magic level now grows at its own pace per class: mages are unchanged, rangers and warriors are recounted on a steeper curve.
• Spells now use level and magic level, and warrior and ranger spells also the blow of the weapon in hand.
• Runes now use only level and magic level; the class factor on rune damage is gone.
• Hells core now costs 1,200 mana every 10 seconds and is the hardest hit in the game.
• Arrow rain is stronger, and berserk, brutal strike and ethereal spear grow with your weapon.
• Explosion grows more with level than with magic level, so warriors and rangers can count on it.
• Lower magic level needs: berserk 3, brutal strike 2, haste 3 and great light 2.

Balance

• Potions now restore 80% to 120% of their value each drink (health potion 64-96, mana potion 48-72); the average is the same.

Fixes

• Click-walking can now go diagonally between two blocked corners, as the keys can.
• Eating off the floor now says eat, not drink.
• Every staircase is shorter, none stands over a wall or furniture, and the small towers have two flights and a ladder.

New

• Supporters sail to every dock; anyone else is taken home to Dillei, so nobody is stranded.
• Supporters get +5% experience from monsters and from task rewards.
• The deposit box holds 40 slots, or 8 pages (320) with filter tabs for supporters; nothing is lost when the days run out.
• Hunting tasks: 1 at a time, or 3 for supporters.
• A new SPELLS chat tab shows spell words, which are always spoken on Local.
• Haste, magic shield and light spells show under CAP with their icon, and the time left on hover.
• The BONUS tab shows item pictures, and skills have little icons.
• The south beach of the city is rebuilt with palms, shells, tide pools, a wreck and a two-floor fisherman house.
• New monsters on the south beach: shore crabs and rock crabs; Mirela buys crab claws.
• The north pass is now a mountain neck with a canyon road, and the north mine below it is a second dwarf place.
• The amazons get a rocky hill and the amazon hideout underneath, with valkyries and shamans.
• Every staircase is redrawn as a flight of six steps in five materials.

Balance

• World bonuses are now +15% (was +50%) for the same 250 coins.
• Pickups never take a bag; bags are always dragged.

Fixes

• The supporter grab takes the topmost item that fits from each pile and names what did not fit.
• Spells typed in the Trade tab no longer go to the whole world.
• The game takes a click only when it is the window in front and the pointer is over the game itself.
• The report window uses the reading font and wraps over 4 lines.
• Fishing is hidden from the skills.
• 154 see-through squares of ground are fixed, and the troll coast has lost its water notch.
• The Dillei Coin is now the D of the logo on gold.

New

• A new reading font with real lower case and accents for the chat, names and speech over heads, item info and tooltips.

Fixes

• The basalt stairs in the sea cave are redrawn as rough rock steps.

New

• Cosmetic tombs now rise out of the ground and float up as they fade, in 2.6 seconds.

Fixes

• WEAR on an outfit in the SHOP now updates the rows at once.
• Bag windows now draw a row cut at the window edge instead of leaving it empty.

New

• Drop an item on a bag picture, including your worn backpack, to put it inside.

Fixes

• Nobody can be pushed out of a protection zone any more; pushing someone in still works.
• Links in the world pages now work when opened from the website.

New

• The world pages and the wiki now live on the website, in its look.
• New wiki page Getting started: install, controls, the townsfolk, first hunts, tasks and where to hunt at every level.
• The wiki shows hunting grounds as areas, and Show on map lights up where a monster lives.

Fixes

• The character finder also finds names with digits.
• The wiki shows the starting kits again, and the sea cave is a hunting ground of its own.

New

• The long bridge from the troll coast to the Eastern Isle is now a mountain neck with a narrow pass.
• The bridge from the south beach to the castle island is gone; a basalt sea cave under the strait leads across.
• A new installer fetches the newest game and makes shortcuts, in English, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.

Fixes

• A connection that fails during a restart no longer leaves LOGIN and PLAY stuck; the game says to try again in a moment.

New

• Public world pages: who is online, a character finder, the latest deaths, PvP kills and rankings by level, magic level or skill.
• An Online link in the website menu.

Fixes

• The title bar no longer shows a count of players in view that looked like the world count.

New

• Cosmetic outfits in the SHOP, two per class: Lionguard, Bloodfang, Wildwarden, Duskstalker, Frostweaver and Voidcaller (750 or 1,000 coins).
• They are worn in your own colours and give your spells, runes, wand bolts, arrows and spears a theme of their own.
• A tomb of the outfit rises where its wearer falls, bigger at higher levels.

New

• Every window button has an icon (close, minimize, open out) with a tooltip.
• The map zoom buttons moved to a row under the map, beside its size and floor.

Balance

• White skull: 2 minutes after an unjust attack, kept up by every blow, and 15 minutes after an unjustified kill.
• The one attacked first is defending: no yellow skull, and killing the attacker is justified; killing a skulled player is always justified.

Fixes

• The HOTKEYS bar can only be minimized, never closed, so it can no longer get lost.
• A supporter grab with full bags now says your bags are full.

New

• Dillei Coins in the in-game SHOP: supporter days and world bonuses (+50% experience, loot or skill for an hour).
• The PK system: skulls, battle, PZ lock, red skulls and automatic bans.
• LEVEL, SKILL and TASK banners, item tooltips and panel buttons with icons.
• Readable names and chat, with a colour for each speaker.
• Hotkeys show the seconds left of an exhaust or cooldown; rune spells have icons, and the SPELLS tab has filters.
• A login line when a world is full, supporters first.
• Supporters can grab the top item of every pile around them.
• Lost your account? A recovery mail can be sent to your email.
• Minimap zoom buttons, windows that resize from any edge and bigger item slots.
• A view of 15 x 11 squares, and walking that answers at once.

Balance

• Food gives 7 life and 3 mana.
• A monster targeting you now puts you in battle.

Fixes

• Clear messages instead of raw errors when a world is offline.
• Names and bars are cut at the edge of the view, and banners are smaller.