Chris "Atos" Spears · Work Log

Headlines · 2026-08-04

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:44:37 -0500

Backed up the entire community wiki — 38,417 pages and 12,700 images, checksum-verified, after its host started failing.
Experience attenuation is gone. High level characters no longer hit an hourly ceiling on combat experience, and no kill pays zero.
Tamed pets stopped leash-looping: the tether changed the distance that starts a leash without changing the one that ends it, so pets set and cleared it on alternating ticks and dumped their fight on their handler every time.
Pet Taunting Training pulls creatures onto the pet. Three separate things were stopping it: no threat move when the buff landed, a buff most pets did not read, and a distance falloff that bottomed out at the range pets fight from.
The smoke bomb hides you. Obfuscate raised your stealth level but never faded you out, so you stood in plain view. It is now a camouflage that lands while you are targeted, and bleeds cannot strip the stealth you take underneath it.
Interface lockups. Two faults that killed chat focus and every drag for a whole session are fixed, and a watchdog now catches the rest and switches input back on by itself.
The map now shows every housing lot in town, coloured by whether you can claim it, each drawn as the lot's true boundary rectangle at its real size, rotation and facing.
Bug queue pass. A new automated run works the open bug reports one at a time, from fix through testing task through close, and keeps going until the queue is empty.
Guilds and Guild Wars Deep Dive published: twenty-five proposals open for votes and comments, headlined by war PvP scoped to your actual enemy, a guild vault, negotiated war terms, and each guild's own page on the web.
Dragging several glyphs at once into a deck slot works: all of them land, the slot stays unlocked, and a stack dropped on a locked slot no longer eats the glyph it displaced.
Player-Owned Towns Deep Dive published: twenty-four proposals open for votes and comments, headlined by a governor's console, an in-game town directory, a placeable town crier, and a donation board for the town square.
A Player Dungeons deep dive joined the proposals series: 25 proposals to give player-built dungeons an audience, from clear-check publishing and entrance plaques with record times to a Delve Board directory and a prize chest staked with the owner's own gold

UI: Made the health and focus bars on the new interface status plates thicker, 7 to 12…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:25:51 -0500

Made the health and focus bars on the new interface status plates thicker, 7 to 12 pixels, so the numbers on them sit inside the bar instead of poking out top and bottom.

UI: Lined the buff icons up with the left edge of the bars on the player, target, party, pet…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:25:51 -0500

Lined the buff icons up with the left edge of the bars on the player, target, party, pet and companion plates. They sat 12 pixels to the right, an inset carried over from the old interface layout.

UI: Removed the colored outline that framed the target plate whenever a target was locked…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:25:52 -0500

Removed the colored outline that framed the target plate whenever a target was locked. Party, pet and companion rows keep theirs, which is what marks the row you have targeted.

UI: The deck edit window got the polish pass a tester asked for. Dropping several selected…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:43:43 -0500

The deck edit window got the polish pass a tester asked for. Dropping several selected glyphs onto an empty slot used to lock in one and lose the rest from the deck; all of them now land in the slot and stay listed under In This Deck.

UI: The stack of glyphs above a deck slot is interactive again: drops aimed at the stack land…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:43:43 -0500

The stack of glyphs above a deck slot is interactive again: drops aimed at the stack land in the slot instead of doing nothing, each glyph in the stack can be dragged out or right clicked on its own, and a slot shows eight or more glyphs by squeezing the stack instead of cutting it off at three.

UI: Dragging rows out of the game's list windows starts reliably now, even on a quick flick…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:43:44 -0500

Dragging rows out of the game's list windows starts reliably now, even on a quick flick, and selecting several rows no longer loses the selection when the list refreshes.

UI: Raised the status plate bars again after an in-game look, 12 to 15 pixels, and centered…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:46:52 -0500

Raised the status plate bars again after an in-game look, 12 to 15 pixels, and centered the numbers on them. They sat low, nearly touching the bars bottom edge.

UI: Tucked the Options and Social window tab rows inside the window frame on the Bastion and…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:12:41 -0500

Tucked the Options and Social window tab rows inside the window frame on the Bastion and Citadel themes. The row spanned the full window width and sat across the picture-frame border, so the end tabs looked like they hung off the dialog. Tabs also compress to fit a narrow window now instead of poking out of the frame.

UI: Replaced the deck editor slot lock, a small dark square, with the gold padlock the old…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:45:24 -0500

Replaced the deck editor slot lock, a small dark square, with the gold padlock the old interface drew: a bit larger, closed when the slot is locked, open when it is not. The grandmaster arrow on skill cards moved back to the upper right corner with its old art and dark outline, and the apprentice arrow sits upper left again, on deck cards and the hotbar alike.

UI: The per-window opacity control (right-click a title bar) now thins the panels, list wells…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:54:30 -0500

The per-window opacity control (right-click a title bar) now thins the panels, list wells and text boxes inside the window along with its frame. Before this it moved the outer plate only, so a window set to 15% showed a nearly invisible frame with full-strength panels on top of the world. Dropdown lists and tooltips are still left alone at every setting.

UI: The per-window opacity control (right-click a window title bar) now reports the opacity…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:01:35 -0500

The per-window opacity control (right-click a window title bar) now reports the opacity the window is actually drawn at. At the glassiest end of the slider it read out a lower number than the window can reach, because windows are held at a minimum visibility so one can never fade to where it is invisible but still takes clicks.

UI: Fixed compass quest markers that never appeared. The compass and the world map share the…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:37:59 -0500

Fixed compass quest markers that never appeared. The compass and the world map share the same marker code, and the map's rule that a marker needs a label had been applied to the compass too, so anything the compass wanted to point at before its name was known got dropped. The tutorial task to find Edvard the Wanderer in Battle of Solace Bridge now shows its marker from across the bridge.

UI: The "Show Player Health Bar" option in Options, Interface now works on its own. It used…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:59:59 -0500

The "Show Player Health Bar" option in Options, Interface now works on its own. It used to follow the "Show Player Nameplate" setting, so with your own nameplate hidden the health bar never appeared, and turning it off left the focus bar behind. The two settings are now independent.

UI: Moved the pet status frame clear of your own: with a title, a guild line and a full row…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:20:51 -0500

Moved the pet status frame clear of your own: with a title, a guild line and a full row of buff icons showing, the pet's name and health bar were drawing on top of the player's buffs. The party list moved down with it, and a pet frame you had already dragged somewhere stays where you put it.

UI: Equipped items can be dragged out of the character sheet onto the backpack again. The…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:34:03 -0500

Equipped items can be dragged out of the character sheet onto the backpack again. The drag was being rejected before it started, which left right-click and Unequip as the only way to take a piece off. The same drag was dead on the mannequin, doll cabinet, fish tank and crafting tool slots, and works on all of them now.

UI: Fixed the Air and Citadel interface themes drawing an empty button frame in place of…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:54:55 -0500

Fixed the Air and Citadel interface themes drawing an empty button frame in place of small button art. The window close, pin and help buttons, the chat header buttons, the deck reorder arrows and the lot sign gear kept their own icons again, and interact menu rows went back to plain text rows with no frame behind them.

UI: Vendor listings in a zone show item tooltips on hover again, in the current zone and in…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:02:13 -0500

Vendor listings in a zone show item tooltips on hover again, in the current zone and in the All Zones search, where a result opens with the basic details and fills in the rest a moment later.

UI: Fixed the two option boxes above the vendor listings table. All Zones and Buy Orders each…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:15:16 -0500

Fixed the two option boxes above the vendor listings table. All Zones and Buy Orders each drew their check box well to the right of its own words and close to the next option, so it was easy to tick the wrong one. Each box now sits directly in front of the words it belongs to, with a clear gap between the two options.

UI: Fixed vendor listings in a zone printing colour codes inside item names. A stack of five…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:34:07 -0500

Fixed vendor listings in a zone printing colour codes inside item names. A stack of five cotton read as "Cotton (5)"; the rows now show the plain name with the count and the "(Dyed)" and "(Empty)" tags coloured as intended.

UI: Added an Interface option, Close Loot Window When Emptied, that makes Take All close a…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:59:23 -0500

Added an Interface option, Close Loot Window When Emptied, that makes Take All close a loot window once nothing is left in it. It is off by default, it leaves the window open when some of the loot would not fit, and it never touches your own backpack, your bags or lot storage.

UI: Pointing at a harvest node from out of reach now shows the same "too far to use" cursor…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:27:25 -0500

Pointing at a harvest node from out of reach now shows the same "too far to use" cursor as any other object. It used to show the plain arrow, so a cotton bush, ore vein or tree looked like bare ground from a few steps back even though its name still appeared under the pointer. The tool picture still means you are close enough to harvest.

UI: On the login screen, Enter now logs you in without clicking into a box first. The form…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:52:27 -0500

On the login screen, Enter now logs you in without clicking into a box first. The form only listened for the key while the caret sat in the user name or password box, so pressing Enter after the screen came up, or after clicking elsewhere on the form, did nothing. A Cancel button reached with the Tab key still answers Enter itself.

UI: Fixed the UI Scale slider in Options > Themes keeping the value a drag was abandoned on…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:04:58 -0500

Fixed the UI Scale slider in Options > Themes keeping the value a drag was abandoned on. Closing the window while still holding the handle left the slider and its percentage sitting on that number even though the interface size had correctly not changed; both now return to the scale actually in force.

UI: Fixed the crafting station losing its item list after a long run of queued crafts. The…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:22:52 -0500

Fixed the crafting station losing its item list after a long run of queued crafts. The queue list now stops at three visible lines and scrolls for the rest, and the Crafting Inventory pane keeps a minimum height so it stays on screen.

UI: The recipe book's Favorites chapter now opens directly onto your starred recipes instead…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:30:46 -0500

The recipe book's Favorites chapter now opens directly onto your starred recipes instead of a page of text you had to click past. Favorites also stays listed in the table of contents when you have nothing starred, and that page now says so.

UI: Applying a saved decoration layout no longer stalls: a change that goes quiet for a…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:43:37 -0500

Applying a saved decoration layout no longer stalls: a change that goes quiet for a minute is counted as skipped and the apply moves on, a change that fails is reported instead of ending the run, and Cancel now stops the apply straight away and keeps everything that already landed.

Performance: The faster loading is confirmed on the test shard rather than just in the editor. The…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:30:54 -0500

The faster loading is confirmed on the test shard rather than just in the editor. The fixed pause at the start of a load measured 0.42 seconds against 0.80 before, and the wait at the end of a load dropped from 2.4 seconds to 0.6 at the median. Both match what the change was expected to do. The sample is still small, so the figures will firm up over the next day.

Tooling: The new load timings were arriving as text rather than numbers, which would have left…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:30:54 -0500

The new load timings were arriving as text rather than numbers, which would have left them unchartable and the averages silently broken. Caught it on the first record from the new build, so exactly one was affected rather than a day of them.

Community: Filed four items from the forum into the tracker: a multi-destination POT teleporter…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:21:48 -0500

Filed four items from the forum into the tracker: a multi-destination POT teleporter idea, distinct buff icons, an optional double-press-to-cast targeting option for placeable skills, and a bug report about time-machine devices in a Player Owned Town over-triggering the comet meteor shower.

Community: Took a complete local backup of the community wiki at sotawiki.net after its hosting…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:38:57 -0500

Took a complete local backup of the community wiki at sotawiki.net after its hosting turned unreliable this week. The archive holds all 38,417 pages across every namespace, the 12,700 uploaded images at full resolution, and a browsable copy that opens with no network connection, alongside a dump that could restore the whole wiki into a fresh install. Every page and every image was checked against the wiki’s own checksums. This is a backup and nothing more — the content belongs to the players who wrote it, and we are not republishing it.

Community: Put a second copy of the wiki archive on separate hardware, and checked all 38,417 pages…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:24:57 -0500

Put a second copy of the wiki archive on separate hardware, and checked all 38,417 pages and 12,700 images against the wiki’s own checksums again once they landed there. One copy on one drive is not a backup.

Client: Starting the game with no scene name set, which is what an unsaved or scratch scene gives…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:47:26 -0500

Starting the game with no scene name set, which is what an unsaved or scratch scene gives you, threw during startup instead of reporting the problem. That startup path caches its failure for the rest of the session, so every later call into it threw again, once per frame per caller. One editor session recorded 699,708 of those and left a 4.1 GB log file. Startup now falls back to an empty scene id and reports the missing name once.

Client: The offline character load ran its completion callback inside its own error handler, so…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:47:26 -0500

The offline character load ran its completion callback inside its own error handler, so an exception raised by that callback was caught by the same handler and the callback ran a second time reporting no character found. It now picks a result first and calls back exactly once.

Client: Health, Focus, Gold and Weight on the character sheet now explain themselves on hover…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:02:00 -0500

Health, Focus, Gold and Weight on the character sheet now explain themselves on hover. They were the only rows on the Character tab with no tooltip at all, while Str, Dex, Int, Resist and Avoid all had one. Health, focus and weight each list where the number came from: the base value, what Strength or Intelligence adds and at what rate, the Adventurer Level multiplier, and a line for anything else moving the total. In a scene that caps your level, the tooltip names the cap and your real level, which is the only account a player gets of their maximums dropping when they zone in.

Client: The max health, max focus and carry capacity formulas now hand back their own terms, and…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:02:09 -0500

The max health, max focus and carry capacity formulas now hand back their own terms, and the game and the tooltip read the same result from one implementation. A tooltip carrying its own copy of the constants is what put a weapon damage range twice as wide as the game rolled in front of players for several releases. Twelve tests pin the explanation and the formula together, and pin that the printed terms add back up to the total.

Client: One point of interest changing used to refresh every marker on the map, which was fine…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:25:03 -0500

One point of interest changing used to refresh every marker on the map, which was fine for a scene with a dozen and expensive for a town with hundreds of lots. Each marker now refreshes only itself, and lot names are cached instead of being rebuilt every time.

Client: Fixed a meteor storm in towns that hold more than one time or weather device. A device…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:19:33 -0500

Fixed a meteor storm in towns that hold more than one time or weather device. A device that forces the time of day could leave the sky clock flipping between two hours, and the meteor timer read that as a fresh moment on every frame, so streaks crossed the sky several times a second. The timer now holds a real gap between meteors whatever the clock does. Covered by five new editor tests.

Client: Cat mounts (lion, black panther, jaguar, snow leopard) rode in silence because their…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:56:21 -0500

Cat mounts (lion, black panther, jaguar, snow leopard) rode in silence because their mounted animations carried no footstep events. Added the missing steps so they now sound at walk, jog and run speed, and change with the ground surface like every other mount.

Client: Fixed a saved decoration layout going missing after it was put in a container. A layout…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:24:12 -0500

Fixed a saved decoration layout going missing after it was put in a container. A layout recorded from a very heavily decorated lot was written but never came back down to the client, so it was in the container and in no list the player could see. Recording now refuses up front when a lot holds more decorations than one layout document can carry, and layouts already saved that way show up in their container again, with their title and decoration count.

Client: Fixed the Dash skill playing its cast sound twice at once, which made it about twice as…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:27:08 -0500

Fixed the Dash skill playing its cast sound twice at once, which made it about twice as loud as every other skill. It now plays once, at the same level as other casts.

Client: Fixed harvesting with a worn tool: pointing at an ore vein, tree, cotton bush or garlic…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:52:20 -0500

Fixed harvesting with a worn tool: pointing at an ore vein, tree, cotton bush or garlic plant from a distance no longer left the pointer stuck and the node unclickable once your pickaxe, sickle or harvest axe dropped below full condition. Skinning with a worn skinning knife was affected the same way.

Client: NPC voice-over no longer speaks a different word than the line on screen. Spoken lines…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:38:16 -0500

NPC voice-over no longer speaks a different word than the line on screen. Spoken lines are recorded ahead of time and cannot say a player name, so a greeting written as "Well met, ." was read aloud as "Well met, outlander". Lines that show your character name are now left unspoken; the far more common lines that address you by the NPC's general term still play.

Client: Steepened the distance fade on NPC voices. A voice now drops off clearly as you walk away…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:38:22 -0500

Steepened the distance fade on NPC voices. A voice now drops off clearly as you walk away instead of holding near full volume most of the way out, and still goes silent at the same range.

Rendering: Fixed an editor-side shader error on the world-space nameplate material. The shader was…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:19:04 -0500

Fixed an editor-side shader error on the world-space nameplate material. The shader was copied from the stock TextMesh Pro distance field shader and kept include paths that only resolve for shaders stored alongside TextMesh Pro's own files, so it failed to compile whenever the editor imported it. Player builds were unaffected.

Interface: A tester asked whether the three window opacity sliders work independently of each other…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:35:39 -0500

A tester asked whether the three window opacity sliders work independently of each other. They do not. The theme's own solidity, the Window Opacity slider in Options and the per window slider on a title bar all multiply together, so a window set to 100 percent could still look glassy because the Options slider sat at 60. All three controls were also called Opacity, and the per window popup used the same title text as the Options row. The Theme Editor's is now Surface Opacity, the popup is This Window Only and reports what the window actually ends up at, and the tip under the Options slider says the two multiply.

Interface: The per window opacity slider stopped at 100 percent while the global one reached 120, so…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:35:48 -0500

The per window opacity slider stopped at 100 percent while the global one reached 120, so a single window could only be made more see-through than the rest and never more solid. It now matches at 120. At the other end the two sliders combined could drive a window to 1.5 percent solidity on the Air theme, invisible but still catching clicks with no title bar left to right-click, so the composed value now floors at 5 percent. The popup also previewed by writing to disk on every frame of a drag, and now commits when you let go.

Interface: Found the cause of the Theme Editor throwing settings back to an earlier state whenever…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:35:57 -0500

Found the cause of the Theme Editor throwing settings back to an earlier state whenever you clicked anything. The colour boxes on the Simple tab saved their contents on every loss of keyboard focus rather than only on Enter, and edits made on the Advanced tab never refreshed those boxes. So one click after an Advanced edit wrote the stale colour back over the new one. Boxes now save only when they have been typed into, and every Advanced edit and tab switch refreshes the Simple side.

Interface: The attenuated experience icon and its tooltip are gone from the Skills window along with…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:26 -0500

The attenuated experience icon and its tooltip are gone from the Skills window along with the system behind them.

Interface: Two faults could leave the whole interface dead for the rest of a session while the…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:22:40 -0500

Two faults could leave the whole interface dead for the rest of a session while the world, the camera and the keyboard kept working. Chat would not take focus so you could not type, and nothing would drag out of inventory, containers or the deck lists. The only way out was to restart the client.

Interface: The first was dragging an item or a glyph out of one of the rebuilt list windows. The…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:22:41 -0500

The first was dragging an item or a glyph out of one of the rebuilt list windows. The drag-start code still wrote to a piece of per-event state that only exists when the click comes through the old UI layer, so a drag that started in a rebuilt window threw every time and took the whole window layer down with it. Eight of these turned up across six player sessions and four builds in a 36 hour window of logs.

Interface: The second was dropping an item back onto the row it came from. Picking an item up takes…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:22:42 -0500

The second was dropping an item back onto the row it came from. Picking an item up takes it out of the container, so that row is already out of date, and dropping there raised an error that ended the drag system for the rest of the session. Both cases now put the item back where it was.

Interface: Hardened five more places where a single error could switch the interface off and leave…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:22:43 -0500

Hardened five more places where a single error could switch the interface off and leave it off: the old UI layer's recursion guard, the stuck-cursor recovery, the modal input gate, the shared event system check, and the cooperative task loop. Any one of them could turn a one-off error into a session-long lockup.

Interface: Added a UI input watchdog. It samples the state that decides whether the interface can…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:22:44 -0500

Added a UI input watchdog. It samples the state that decides whether the interface can receive input at all, twice a second, and when it finds input switched off with nothing holding it that way it switches it back on and writes one line to the logs. Reticle mode, a held right mouse button, an open dialog and HUD-less mode all switch input off on purpose, so each one has a test proving the watchdog leaves it alone. 33 tests in all.

Balance: Removed experience attenuation. Characters above adventurer level 110 used to have their…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:19 -0500

Removed experience attenuation. Characters above adventurer level 110 used to have their combat experience shrink once they had earned 15 million in the past hour, and a kill paid nothing at all past 30 million. Every kill now pays its full amount no matter how long the session runs.

Taming: Tamed pets stopped leash-looping. The Pet Range tether changed the distance that starts a…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:14 -0500

Tamed pets stopped leash-looping. The Pet Range tether changed the distance that starts a leash without changing the one that ends it, so a pet set and cleared its leash on alternating ticks forever, dumping whatever it was fighting onto its handler two or three times a second. The two distances are now derived from one number and the release always lands inside the tether, pinned by test across the whole skill curve and all three follow bands.

Taming: Pet Taunting Training pulls creatures onto the pet. There was a hook for the buff ending…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:29 -0500

Pet Taunting Training pulls creatures onto the pet. There was a hook for the buff ending and none for it starting, so nothing ever pointed a creature at the pet, and a buff that scales future threat cannot out-earn a target that has been collecting attention for the last thirty seconds. Casting it now matches the handler threat the pet has to beat and commits the switch on the same tick.

Taming: Two more reasons the taunt read as doing nothing. The buff raised a value that nine of…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:30 -0500

Two more reasons the taunt read as doing nothing. The buff raised a value that nine of the ten pet basic attacks did not read, so it multiplied nothing for a bear, wolf or boar simply swinging at something. And the distance falloff on pet threat hit its floor at exactly the range a pet fights from, cutting every pet in every ordinary fight to a tenth of its threat.

Taming: Pet tether numbers loosened on top of the fix: 5m untrained, 8m at Pet Range 80, 12m at…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:30 -0500

Pet tether numbers loosened on top of the fix: 5m untrained, 8m at Pet Range 80, 12m at 150, up from 2m, 5m and 10m. Two meters put the pet inside its handler. Pet Range also moved up a tier, from behind Combat Training to a sibling of the other pet trainings under Summon Tamed Creature. Price unchanged.

Subterfuge: The smoke bomb hides you now. Obfuscate raised your stealth level, which stopped others…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:46 -0500

The smoke bomb hides you now. Obfuscate raised your stealth level, which stopped others selecting you and shrank how far creatures could notice you, but the fade and the per-observer visibility check both hung off the real stealth effect, so your character stood there in plain view. It cannot be a real stealth effect either: that path refuses to apply while somebody has you targeted, which is the only time you would throw a smoke bomb.

Subterfuge: Split the stealth effect in two. The concealment half (the dissolve, the fade, the…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:46 -0500

Split the stealth effect in two. The concealment half (the dissolve, the fade, the per-observer visibility channel) moved to a shared base, and stealth kept what it always was, the list of things that break it. Camouflage is the same concealment with none of them, so the smoke lands while you are targeted and being hit, and only its own timer ends it.

Subterfuge: Bleeds no longer strip the stealth you take inside your own smoke. While the smoke holds…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:21:47 -0500

Bleeds no longer strip the stealth you take inside your own smoke. While the smoke holds, a poison or bleed tick and a fresh target acquisition both stop breaking stealth, so you get a window to clear the damage and reposition. Narrow on purpose: a direct hit still gives you away, and a bleed still breaks a stealth taken anywhere else. The window runs 2 seconds untrained, 3.5 at Subterfuge Specialization 80 and 5.75 at 200.

Housing: The map you open with M now shows every housing lot in the town you are standing in…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:24:44 -0500

The map you open with M now shows every housing lot in the town you are standing in. Green means nobody owns it and you could claim it, amber means it is empty but locked to you, grey means someone else owns it, and a lot you own stays the blue it always was.

Housing: Lot markers are sized by tier, so a City lot draws larger than a Row lot and you can pick…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:24:52 -0500

Lot markers are sized by tier, so a City lot draws larger than a Row lot and you can pick the size you want out of a crowded street. Hovering one names the tier and either its availability or its owner.

Housing: The map's "..." menu switches lot markers between all lots, only the ones available to…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:24:53 -0500

The map's "..." menu switches lot markers between all lots, only the ones available to you, and off. A lot you own and a lot you have set as a compass destination stay on the map in every setting.

Housing: Player owned towns took the most work here, because a lot in one is a decoration the town…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:25:03 -0500

Player owned towns took the most work here, because a lot in one is a decoration the town owner places at runtime. Markers now appear and disappear as the owner adds and removes lots, without you reloading the area, and a lot on the far side of a town reads its real owner instead of showing as available while its data is still arriving.

Housing: The map's housing lot markers changed from tier-sized house icons to the lot's actual…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:46:56 -0500

The map's housing lot markers changed from tier-sized house icons to the lot's actual boundary: a rectangle at the lot's real size and rotation, drawn with the same green overlay a town owner sees when placing a lot, tinted by the same claim-state colours. The overlay's arrows sit on the lot's front edge, so the map also shows which way each lot faces.

Housing: A Row lot now reads as a narrow strip and a Castle as a large field, in true proportion…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:46:56 -0500

A Row lot now reads as a narrow strip and a Castle as a large field, in true proportion, and the rectangles rotate with angled lots and scale with map zoom. Tooltips answer anywhere inside a lot's rectangle, and the lot filter menu carries over unchanged.

Tools: Added an unattended pass over the open bug queue. It takes the newest report, works out a…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:28:01 -0500

Added an unattended pass over the open bug queue. It takes the newest report, works out a fix, tests it, commits it, files a testing task and closes the report, then moves to the next one and keeps going until the queue is empty.

Tools: Fixed a fault in the unattended bug-queue runner that made it quit on the first bug it…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:38:30 -0500

Fixed a fault in the unattended bug-queue runner that made it quit on the first bug it picked up: the claim step reported success but the runner read a leftover status value and treated it as a failure. It now reports its result explicitly, and the runner starts a fresh read each time.

Tools: The unattended bug runner allows one instance at a time, and it judged that by how…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:02:46 -0500

The unattended bug runner allows one instance at a time, and it judged that by how recently the lock file had been touched. A run that was killed rather than stopped cleanly left its lock behind, so the next start refused for two hours over a process that had already exited. It now asks whether the recorded process is actually alive, and reports a stale lock as stale.

Tools: Fixed the in-game Oracle answering "the knowledge base doesn't contain that" to every…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:09:23 -0500

Fixed the in-game Oracle answering "the knowledge base doesn't contain that" to every question. When its reference library failed to load, the Oracle could not tell that apart from a genuine gap in the docs, so it denied every question with no sign anything was wrong. It now says its library is temporarily unreachable and offers to take a report instead, the service health check reports whether the library can actually answer, and an update that leaves it unable to answer is refused.

Content: Town criers were greeting players with the wrong place name. The greeting is baked ahead…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:58:12 -0500

Town criers were greeting players with the wrong place name. The greeting is baked ahead of time, and it was keyed to the folder a conversation lives in rather than the town the crier actually stands in, so the generic crier used by around 426 player towns had one greeting that fit none of them and played silent. The zone now comes from where the crier is placed, and a line that names the town is baked once per town.

Content: When a town crier or guard lists the free lots in an area, that sentence is composed at…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:58:13 -0500

When a town crier or guard lists the free lots in an area, that sentence is composed at runtime, which meant it could never match a pre-recorded line. It now sits on its own segment so the text around it keeps its audio and the sentence can carry its own. No audio has been generated yet.

Content: Rewrote the New Player Handbook's help chapter. It pointed at a help site that no longer…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:41:34 -0500

Rewrote the New Player Handbook's help chapter. It pointed at a help site that no longer exists and treated a player-run wiki page as the place to go for new player help, so a player who arrived while that site was down read a blank page. The chapter now sends players to in-game chat and the official Discord first, and says plainly that the community wiki is run by players and is sometimes unavailable.

Combat: Fixed a dead safety check in the skill experience spend math: the overflow guard around…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:29:13 -0500

Fixed a dead safety check in the skill experience spend math: the overflow guard around the experience multiply could never actually run, so a runaway value would have wrapped around instead of being capped. The multiply now trips the guard, and new tests cover both the extreme case and an ordinary skill.

Combat: Fixed 64-bit math in the retired skill decay path, where a pooled experience balance…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:01:32 -0500

Fixed 64-bit math in the retired skill decay path, where a pooled experience balance above roughly 2.1 billion could wrap and take far more skill experience than the pool was meant to cover. Decay is still switched off, so nothing changes in game today; added tests so the arithmetic holds if decay ever comes back.

Combat: A Chaotic Clone now puts its weapon away and takes it back out whenever the player who…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:56:44 -0500

A Chaotic Clone now puts its weapon away and takes it back out whenever the player who cast it does, and a stowed weapon is no longer drawn on the clone. The state is worked out on every player's screen instead of only the caster's, so an onlooker sees the clone match the caster's stance and weapon. The clone still changes over without playing the draw or put-away motion; that half needs an animation change.

Guilds: Published a guilds and guild wars improvement plan: twenty-five proposals, from surfacing…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:08:06 -0500

Published a guilds and guild wars improvement plan: twenty-five proposals, from surfacing what the servers already know (join dates, an activity log you can read in game, scheduled war starts) to a guild vault with per-rank withdrawal caps, a guild finder with applications, alliances, negotiated war terms with counter-offers, war PvP scoped to your actual enemy instead of the whole world, persistent war history with craftable victory plaques, mercenary enlistment, guild PvE hunts, a quarterly ladder, and a bridge to each guild's own page on the web. The illustrated version is public at catnipgames.net/blog/proposals/guilds/ with a comment thread and vote arrows on every proposal.

Images: The three composed surfaces from the guilds proposal, as mockups: the Guild Ledger, the…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:08:16 -0500

The three composed surfaces from the guilds proposal, as mockups: the Guild Ledger, the War Council, and a guild's page on the web:

Images: Two composed surfaces from the towns proposal, as mockups: the Town Console and the Town…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:50 -0500

Two composed surfaces from the towns proposal, as mockups: the Town Console and the Town Directory:

Images: Two composed surfaces from the player dungeons proposal, as mockups: the upgraded Dungeon…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:47:23 -0500

Two composed surfaces from the player dungeons proposal, as mockups: the upgraded Dungeon Entrance window with its plaque and owner ledger, and the Delve Board directory:

Developer Portal: Added a Resource Atlas card to the developer portal landing page, so the public per-zone…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:33:53 -0500

Added a Resource Atlas card to the developer portal landing page, so the public per-zone resource map is reachable from the portal instead of only by typing the URL.

Deck Building: Dragging several glyphs at once into a deck slot now puts all of them in the slot and…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:00 -0500

Dragging several glyphs at once into a deck slot now puts all of them in the slot and leaves it unlocked. Only the first glyph of a selection was landing, and the slot locked itself around that one glyph.

Deck Building: A multiple selection dragged from the Glyphs list into In This Deck now adds every glyph…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:08 -0500

A multiple selection dragged from the Glyphs list into In This Deck now adds every glyph in it rather than one at a time. Dropping a multiple selection on a locked slot does nothing now; before it swapped the locked glyph out and the displaced one was lost.

Deck Building: The deck slot padlock moved back under the slot at the size the live game draws it, 12…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:08 -0500

The deck slot padlock moved back under the slot at the size the live game draws it, 12 pixels instead of 18, off the card art it had been sitting on since the window was ported.

Deck Building: Slots holding two or more glyphs now carry a small arrow button that opens a list of…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:17 -0500

Slots holding two or more glyphs now carry a small arrow button that opens a list of every glyph in the slot, with name and school, each row hoverable, right-clickable and draggable. In a 13-glyph stack the last glyph showed about 0.7 pixels of itself, and the 16th shrank to nothing at all; the stack also stops shrinking its tail away now.

Website: Added a Resources link to the work log header, on the current week and every archived…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:46:09 -0500

Added a Resources link to the work log header, on the current week and every archived week page, pointing at the public per-zone resource map at /resources/.

Tester Tools: The tester panel's Set ALL Skills button is now Buff ALL Skills : a level field and an…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:03:25 -0500

The tester panel's Set ALL Skills button is now Buff ALL Skills: a level field and an hours field (4 by default), and for that long every skill reads as the level you typed. It lapses on its own and your real character sheet is exactly where it was, so a tester can jump into high-level content and then go back to testing progression on the same character.

Tester Tools: The old button spent the experience pool, so a fresh tester character had to grant…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:03:34 -0500

The old button spent the experience pool, so a fresh tester character had to grant experience first and skills still stopped short of the level they asked for. The buff has neither limit: it works on a brand new character, always reaches the level typed, and costs nothing. The single-skill Set Skill is unchanged for anyone who wants a permanent change.

Tester Tools: The buff survives changing scenes and logging out, and it never writes to the character…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:03:41 -0500

The buff survives changing scenes and logging out, and it never writes to the character sheet: the levels live in a read-only layer the save path cannot see, so nothing about it reaches the server. Zone skill caps still apply to it exactly as they do to a genuinely trained skill.

Towns: Published a player-owned towns improvement plan: twenty-four proposals, from a message of…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:37 -0500

Published a player-owned towns improvement plan: twenty-four proposals, from a message of the day with a real editor and an arrival welcome to a governor's console that runs the whole town from one window, an in-game town directory sorted by who is actually home, a placeable town crier who speaks the town's message aloud, named townsfolk, district signposts, multi-destination town teleporters, town banners and citizen titles, lot applications, a donation board that upgrades the town square and never downgrades it, market row vendor stalls, and shipping the five finished bespoke town maps that currently ship to nobody. The illustrated version is public at catnipgames.net/blog/proposals/towns/ with a comment thread and vote arrows on every proposal.

Dungeons: Published a player dungeons improvement plan: twenty-five proposals, from a doorway that…

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:47:06 -0500

Published a player dungeons improvement plan: twenty-five proposals, from a doorway that finally says why a piece will not place, to publishing a dungeon by clearing it yourself, an entrance plaque that remembers first clears and record times, a live map of your own halls, pressure plates and dart walls, new creature families, blueprints on booksellers, and a prize chest the owner stakes with their own gold that the first clean run claims. Every proposal has its own comment thread and vote arrows: the full write-up.

Headlines · 2026-08-03

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:55:39 -0500

A two-second escape skill turned out to be the biggest melee opener in the Subterfuge tree. Sneak Attack read the hidden-ness stat as an unbounded damage multiplier, and stealth effects stack, so layering a smoke bomb on top of Camouflage nearly doubled the hit. The term is now capped at fully hidden.
The Cave Wrasse fights like a wrasse instead of a crocodile: its own bite, a cinder spit and a sulfur roar, built on three attack IDs that had been reserved for it and left unused since 2015. It also ambushes now, crouching without a nameplate until it springs.
The launcher can keep a copy of a build and run it later. Players asked for it, and there was no way back to an old build before now.
Skill decay is retired. Dying no longer takes experience off any skill, at any level, in any scene.
Zone loads after the first are about 2.4 seconds faster. Most of what was left in a 10 second load turned out to be fixed waiting, not loading.
Pet Range was in the taming tree but no trainer taught it, so every tamer in the game has been stuck at a two metre pet tether. Trainers offer it now.
Four of the game's best-known artifacts finally count as artifacts in your inventory: the Scepter of Dread, the Heart of Sorrows, the Bonesteel Crown and the Shroud of the Avatar.
A public Resource Atlas went up at catnipgames.net/resources/: every harvestable node in the game, mapped per zone, with the zone tier and a lookup for which zones carry a given resource.
The 50% experience loss on unlearning a skill is gone. Every school now returns everything you drain, and the time it takes is the only cost of changing your build.
The Skills window shows its numbers. Experience in a skill, what the next level costs, what unlearning gives back, and a school total: all of it was computed on your client and printed nowhere, so players were buying unlearn scrolls just to read a figure off the confirmation box.
Buffs no longer wear off when you switch scenes. A bug reported since 2020: buff time was recalculated from your attunement during loading, when buffs and gear are not counted yet, and anything judged expired was deleted. Duration is now locked in when the buff is cast.
The encumbrance warning is readable now: the yellow and red marks draw large, bold and centered on the icon, and the icon no longer loses its picture when you log in light and get heavy later.

Community: Filed 10 tracker entries from the nightly forum sweep: nine wishlist ideas (skill…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:48:26 -0500

Filed 10 tracker entries from the nightly forum sweep: nine wishlist ideas (skill reworks, Lua localization APIs, NPC dialogue/faction depth, character customization, quest-item QoL) and one quest-flow bug the team already flagged in a forum reply.

Community: Added a card to the SQUIRREL! page on why untraining no longer destroys experience…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:06 -0500

Added a card to the SQUIRREL! page on why untraining no longer destroys experience, including the part where the only way around the loss was to buy the item that skipped it.

Build: Fixed the Mac update channel being left behind by the nightly release. The Mac launcher…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:15:17 -0500

Fixed the Mac update channel being left behind by the nightly release. The Mac launcher shipped on July 30 but the release pipeline still only published Windows and Linux, so Mac stayed on build 76 while the shard moved to 87 and Mac players could not log in. Build 87 is now published for Mac and every release carries all three platforms.

Build: When the Mac build agent is offline at release time, the release now ships Windows and…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:15:18 -0500

When the Mac build agent is offline at release time, the release now ships Windows and Linux as usual but flags itself so the missing Mac update gets noticed and re-run instead of sitting stale.

Build: The Mac build machine dropped off the build farm on the 2nd and stayed off. The disk…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:53:51 -0500

The Mac build machine dropped off the build farm on the 2nd and stayed off. The disk image that holds its build tree lost contact with the drive underneath it, which unmounted the volume but left the image loaded, so every attempt to reconnect the machine failed at that same step. Reattaching the image brought it back, and the build tree came through intact.

Build: Rewrote the Mac machine startup step so it recovers from that fault on its own: it clears…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:53:57 -0500

Rewrote the Mac machine startup step so it recovers from that fault on its own: it clears a stuck image before reattaching, and does nothing when the build tree is already mounted. Tested by unmounting the volume and reconnecting the machine, which came back up without anyone touching it.

Build: Corrected the Mac build notes while checking that machine over. They still said Mac…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:58:10 -0500

Corrected the Mac build notes while checking that machine over. They still said Mac builds had to skip the pre-build refresh because the machine kept no local copy of the large game files. It has held a full copy for a while now, and the nightly release has been refreshing normally the whole time.

Combat: Capped the stealth term in Sneak Attack's damage formula. It was the only place in the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:26:38 -0500

Capped the stealth term in Sneak Attack's damage formula. It was the only place in the game that read the hidden-ness stat as an unbounded multiplier, and that stat routinely goes past its intended maximum because stealth effects add together. A fully specialized Camouflage opener from behind drops from 312.5 to 275 damage at 100 melee damage, and the same opener with Obfuscate layered on top drops from 462.5 to 275. An unhidden Sneak Attack is unchanged.

Combat: Fixed timed buffs wearing off on scene changes and relogs, reported on the old forums as…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:18:31 -0500

Fixed timed buffs wearing off on scene changes and relogs, reported on the old forums as far back as 2020 (Strength of Earth was the usual victim). The saved buff record kept only a start time, and the loader recalculated total duration from current attunement, which dips while a scene loads because other buffs are not reapplied yet. Long buffs came back judged expired and were deleted. The duration resolved at cast time is now saved with the buff and reused on load.

Combat: The same fix covers potion buffs, whose elixir extension bonus was re-read from current…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:18:33 -0500

The same fix covers potion buffs, whose elixir extension bonus was re-read from current gear on load, and the buff icons other players see on you, which could vanish the same way. Multi-tick heals and damage-over-time keep their tick rhythm across the load, and pre-fix saves fall back to the old behavior until they expire.

Infrastructure: Fixed the client frame-rate dashboard, where most panels had been showing "Could not…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:55:46 -0500

Fixed the client frame-rate dashboard, where most panels had been showing "Could not locate that index-pattern-field" instead of charts. The telemetry was arriving fine the whole time; the log viewer caches each index pattern's field list inside its saved object, and that cache was written three days before the newer frame-timing fields started flowing, so every panel built on them failed to resolve.

Infrastructure: Added a script that rebuilds those field caches for all four log index patterns, and…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:55:54 -0500

Added a script that rebuilds those field caches for all four log index patterns, and wired it into the provisioner so it runs after every saved-object import. The import re-creates the index patterns from files that carry no field list, so each provisioner run used to wipe the cache it had just been handed. Applied to the shard: 595 fields on the debug stream, and the item and metrics patterns went from no cache at all to 50 and 64 fields.

Images:

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:56:01 -0500

Images: The new build archive controls, in the launcher's Show debug panel.

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:35:36 -0500

The new build archive controls, in the launcher's Show debug panel.

Images: Encumbrance warning marks after the pass, shown at actual size and zoomed:

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:43:46 -0500

Encumbrance warning marks after the pass, shown at actual size and zoomed:

Creatures: The Cave Wrasse family stopped borrowing the crocodile's attacks. Three attack IDs…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:57:04 -0500

The Cave Wrasse family stopped borrowing the crocodile's attacks. Three attack IDs reserved for this creature back in 2015 were still sitting unused in the game's tables, so it now has its own bite, a short-range cinder spit, and a sulfur roar that drops a target's Strength by 20 for 15 seconds on up to five people at once. The tier 15 and the Broodmother still escalate into dragon fire, which suits a thing that lives on dragon leavings.

Creatures: The wrasses ambush now. The behaviour flag that turns it on had never been set, so the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:57:12 -0500

The wrasses ambush now. The behaviour flag that turns it on had never been set, so the ambush tuning on all five did nothing at all. The animation for it was already built and unreachable: the creature crouches, waits, then springs with a roar, and shows no nameplate until it moves. The lower tiers, the ones you would write off as harmless, let you get closest before they go.

Creatures: Two faults in the same family, both found before anything was play-tested. Both of its…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:57:12 -0500

Two faults in the same family, both found before anything was play-tested. Both of its sound sources named a bone belonging to the crocodile it was copied from, one the wrasse skeleton does not have, so its audio played from the wrong place on all five creatures. Its gaits were tuned to between 1.2 and 3.5 metres per second against an animation whose feet only carry it 0.65, so it slid across the floor at up to five times its own stride. Measured the animation and matched the numbers to it, then checked the method against the crocodile, which sits within 14 percent of its own.

Creatures: The wrasse family's guard test ran for the first time since it was written. It had been…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:57:19 -0500

The wrasse family's guard test ran for the first time since it was written. It had been blocked by another session on the day it was added, so its checks were confirmed by hand and never actually executed. It passes, and grew from 44 checks to 60 to cover the new attacks, the sound bones and the ambush tiers.

Creatures: Pet Range, the taming skill that sets how far your pet will chase a target before…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:07 -0500

Pet Range, the taming skill that sets how far your pet will chase a target before breaking off, was in the skill tree but no trainer taught it. Every tamer was pinned at the untrained two metre tether, so pets disengaged almost as soon as they left your side. Taming trainers now offer it, and training it widens the tether to about ten metres at the top of the skill.

Creatures: Follow Close, Follow Near and Follow Far set the distance without putting the pet into…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:08 -0500

Follow Close, Follow Near and Follow Far set the distance without putting the pet into follow mode. A pet told to stay put would acknowledge the order and keep standing there. All three now start the pet following as well as setting the distance, the choice survives a zone change, and the matching chat commands work instead of doing nothing. Companions get the same fix.

Creatures: Four problems in how a taming attempt resolves. If the creature died or you left the area…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:17 -0500

Four problems in how a taming attempt resolves. If the creature died or you left the area as the attempt finished, the attempt could fail to resolve at all. A creature not on the tameable list could report success, take your collar and give you nothing. A tame that succeeded but could not hand you the pet cost you both the creature and the collar. The chance on the cast bar could also read above 100 percent or below zero, and a creature with no real chance could still be tamed on a lucky roll. All four are fixed.

Creatures: A pet emote item that could not be redeemed was rejected and then destroyed anyway, so…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:18 -0500

A pet emote item that could not be redeemed was rejected and then destroyed anyway, so the item was gone and nothing was unlocked. The item now stays in your inventory.

Creatures: Wrote up the whole pet, summon and taming system as a single audit, covering tamed pets…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:21:25 -0500

Wrote up the whole pet, summon and taming system as a single audit, covering tamed pets, the taming tree, magic summons, companions and deco pets. Five defects fixed, a set of hardening fixes in the summon path, and a dozen balance and intent questions recorded with the evidence for each rather than guessed at.

Creatures: Fixed a case where a room full of test bots could take over simulating the creatures in a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:49:17 -0500

Fixed a case where a room full of test bots could take over simulating the creatures in a scene. Bots do not run creature behaviour, so every creature there would freeze for the next real player to arrive. Bots now hand that role straight back when a player joins.

Creatures: Creatures could never see a test bot standing in front of them. Bots were missing one…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:28:16 -0500

Creatures could never see a test bot standing in front of them. Bots were missing one piece of the data a real player publishes on arrival, and without it every creature treated them as still spawning in, forever. They are visible to wildlife now, take real damage, and stop wandering off mid-fight.

Client: Tracked down why the draw-call panels on that dashboard were empty: no shipped client had…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:10:30 -0500

Tracked down why the draw-call panels on that dashboard were empty: no shipped client had ever reported a draw-call number. Across 27,471 frame-rate heartbeats there was not one, and the client has been trying to send them since mid-July.

Client: The cause was timing. The engine registers those render counters lazily, and the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:10:39 -0500

The cause was timing. The engine registers those render counters lazily, and the frame-rate meter asked for them at startup, so it bound to counters that did not exist yet and stayed broken for the rest of the session. It never showed up in the editor, which has them ready before anything asks. The meter now re-asks on a five-second cooldown for the first few minutes, and says so in the log if it gives up.

Client: The Journal opened itself on every login, whatever you had done with it beforehand. It…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:24:58 -0500

The Journal opened itself on every login, whatever you had done with it beforehand. It now opens only if you left it open, keeps the position and size you gave it, and stays put when you cross a zone line. Closing it with the X, the J key, or Escape all count as closing it.

Client: A tester reported the Journal was still doing it after the first attempt at a fix in…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:25:14 -0500

A tester reported the Journal was still doing it after the first attempt at a fix in July, and they were right. Two separate startup paths could each open a HUD window without consulting the other, and that first fix turned off the one that remembers your choice while leaving the one that opens the window outright. A new test rejects any window wired to do both, because that pairing can only ever save as open.

Client: Retiring Frenzy left a leftover glyph sitting on the hotbar of anyone who had it there…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:33:27 -0500

Retiring Frenzy left a leftover glyph sitting on the hotbar of anyone who had it there, looking clickable even though the skill was gone from the tree and its experience refunded. Combat decks already cleaned themselves up in that situation; the hotbar never did. It does now, and only for skills actually retired from the game, so potions, scrolls, tools and emotes on the bar are untouched. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Client: The character sheet's Masteries section rounded the mastery value to a whole number, so a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:54:39 -0500

The character sheet's Masteries section rounded the mastery value to a whole number, so a Blades Mastery of 1.6 showed as 2 on the line while its hover tooltip said 1.6. The line now prints the exact value, matching the tooltip. Reported by a tester with a screenshot.

Balance: Wrote a deep-dive analysis of the skill specialization system: how each school's…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:18:48 -0500

Wrote a deep-dive analysis of the skill specialization system: how each school's Specialization skill works, what it actually grants at level 80, and how the training and switching costs compare to nine other MMOs.

Balance: The specialization review turned up 13 effects that never apply or that read the wrong…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:18:48 -0500

The specialization review turned up 13 effects that never apply or that read the wrong school's specialization. All are documented with proposed fixes for a future balance wave; no gameplay changes shipped yet.

Balance: Fixed summoned Air, Earth, and Fire elementals leveling from Water Magic Specialization…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:28:41 -0500

Fixed summoned Air, Earth, and Fire elementals leveling from Water Magic Specialization instead of their own school. Each elemental now scales with its caster's matching specialization.

Balance: Cleaned up wild elemental attack data that scaled off Fire Magic Specialization for every…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:30:34 -0500

Cleaned up wild elemental attack data that scaled off Fire Magic Specialization for every element. The term was inactive for wild creatures; each elemental's data now names its own school.

Balance: Fixed the summoned Phoenix having zero magic resistance unless its caster had Sun Magic…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:30:50 -0500

Fixed the summoned Phoenix having zero magic resistance unless its caster had Sun Magic Specialization. It now gets the same base resistance as other summons, with Sun Specialization adding more.

Balance: Fixed the tamed Wyvern's tail attack ignoring the owner's Taming Specialization. The…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:31:17 -0500

Fixed the tamed Wyvern's tail attack ignoring the owner's Taming Specialization. The bonus hits now apply.

Balance: Fixed two unreleased Bard songs whose focus and reagent discounts were keyed to Ranged…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:31:51 -0500

Fixed two unreleased Bard songs whose focus and reagent discounts were keyed to Ranged Specialization instead of Bard.

Balance: Looked into the specialization elixirs: their bonus math needs a design pass rather than…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:32:07 -0500

Looked into the specialization elixirs: their bonus math needs a design pass rather than a quick formula fix. An initial tweak was reverted the same day while that decision is made; the drinks behave exactly as before.

Balance: Cleaned up four creature attack archetypes that read armor specialization stats no…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:32:20 -0500

Cleaned up four creature attack archetypes that read armor specialization stats no creature has. The data now points at the owner's specialization so it works if these attacks are ever given to pets.

Balance: Heavy Armor Specialization now raises the damage absorption cap as designed: at…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:46:13 -0500

Heavy Armor Specialization now raises the damage absorption cap as designed: at specialization 80 armor can absorb up to 90 percent of a hit instead of 80. The bonus existed in the design but never applied.

Balance: The taming success bonus from Taming Specialization now only applies while the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:46:55 -0500

The taming success bonus from Taming Specialization now only applies while the specialization is set to training or maintaining, matching every other specialization benefit.

Balance: Chance tooltips no longer display values above 100 percent. Combat rolls are unchanged.

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:47:01 -0500

Chance tooltips no longer display values above 100 percent. Combat rolls are unchanged.

Balance: Removed a leftover Obsidian Mastery entry from the specialization tables. It belonged to…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:47:21 -0500

Removed a leftover Obsidian Mastery entry from the specialization tables. It belonged to a school that was never built and could not be obtained.

Balance: Hardened the two-specialization limit: promoting a specialization now cleanly demotes the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:47:27 -0500

Hardened the two-specialization limit: promoting a specialization now cleanly demotes the others in every case, and a repair pass fixes characters carrying more than two active specializations from old data.

Balance: Added automated tests pinning the specialization fixes so the wrong-school and self-stat…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:47:32 -0500

Added automated tests pinning the specialization fixes so the wrong-school and self-stat reads cannot quietly return.

Balance: Wild elementals' melee strikes now count as their element, so elemental resistances and…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:53:16 -0500

Wild elementals' melee strikes now count as their element, so elemental resistances and wards reduce the whole attack instead of only part of it.

Balance: Skill decay on death is gone. Dying no longer removes experience from any skill, at any…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:12 -0500

Skill decay on death is gone. Dying no longer removes experience from any skill, at any level, in any scene. Decay had been running at the full rate from level 40 up to a scene level cap while characters at or above the cap lost almost nothing, because the rate was scaled by a ratio built from two different experience tables.

Balance: A specialization now switches all of its bonuses off when you stop training it. Only the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:13 -0500

A specialization now switches all of its bonuses off when you stop training it. Only the mastery bonus itself was gated before, so the school attunement a mastery grants, worth up to 16 points at mastery 80, kept applying to a specialization that had been parked. Levelling every magic mastery and parking them all granted attunement in nine schools at once while occupying two specialization slots.

Balance: Parties fighting in player basements were collecting the 25% open PVP experience bonus…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:14 -0500

Parties fighting in player basements were collecting the 25% open PVP experience bonus that basements are meant to be excluded from. The exclusion compared a whole set of scene flags against a single flag, so it never matched. 50 scenes carry the basement flag and none of them carry it alone.

Balance: Party experience is no longer dropped partway through a group kill in a scene missing…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:15 -0500

Party experience is no longer dropped partway through a group kill in a scene missing from the scene records on the server. Members earlier in the list kept their share and everyone after them got none.

Balance: Unlearning Lightning Storm returns all of its experience instead of half. It was the one…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:16 -0500

Unlearning Lightning Storm returns all of its experience instead of half. It was the one implemented Air skill left out of the full refund list, which cost about 1.2 million experience on a respec at level 100 while the other fourteen Air skills refunded in full.

Balance: Verdantis Shardfall no longer caps producer skills. The zone holds adventurer level and…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:06:54 -0500

Verdantis Shardfall no longer caps producer skills. The zone holds adventurer level and adventuring skills to 110 so fights there stay close, but it was applying the same 110 ceiling to production skills, which clamped the bonuses those skills grant and showed the wrong level in their tooltips. Production skills now count at their real level inside the zone. The adventuring caps are unchanged, and it was the only scene in the game capping production.

Launcher: Added a way to keep a copy of the build you have installed, and to run a kept copy later…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:35:27 -0500

Added a way to keep a copy of the build you have installed, and to run a kept copy later. Both live in the launcher's Show debug panel: one button keeps the current build, and a dropdown beside it lists your kept copies with a Play this build button. Players asked for this; until now an update overwrote the old build and there was no way back to it.

Launcher: Kept copies go in a folder you pick. On the same drive as the game a copy takes seconds…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:35:27 -0500

Kept copies go in a folder you pick. On the same drive as the game a copy takes seconds and no extra disk space, because it shares its files with the installed build until a patch replaces them. On another drive it does a real copy, with progress and a cancel button. Running a kept copy leaves your normal install alone, so the launcher goes on patching and playing the current build.

Launcher: Released launcher build 26 for Windows and Linux, carrying the build archive. Installed…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:49:01 -0500

Released launcher build 26 for Windows and Linux, carrying the build archive. Installed launchers pick it up on their next start. The Mac launcher stays on 25 until its bundle is rebuilt, which has to happen on a Mac.

Launcher: The Mac launcher is on build 26 as well, built and signed on a Mac and published to the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:12:03 -0500

The Mac launcher is on build 26 as well, built and signed on a Mac and published to the same channel. All three platforms now carry the build archive.

Crafting: The batch crafting experience penalty holds at half again across the whole curve. The…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:24 -0500

The batch crafting experience penalty holds at half again across the whole curve. The halved value and the lower floor were computed from different numbers, so the penalty faded from ten prior crafts of a recipe and was worth nothing from thirty on, where a batch paid exactly what single crafting paid.

Crafting: Crafting and gathering bonuses now use the production skill cap in the four scenes that…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:25 -0500

Crafting and gathering bonuses now use the production skill cap in the four scenes that cap adventuring at 100 while leaving production at 200. The cap was being read and then discarded, so a miner at 140 in those scenes had every mining bonus evaluated at 100 while the character sheet showed 140.

Crafting: Repairing an artifact at a crafting table now counts everything you put on the table…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:37 -0500

Repairing an artifact at a crafting table now counts everything you put on the table, including items inside a bag sitting on it. Before, only the top layer of the table was checked, so an artifact or a gold crown tucked into a bag was missed.

Crafting: Enchanting, masterworking, collecting a brew and pulling ingredients from a lot chest…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:38 -0500

Enchanting, masterworking, collecting a brew and pulling ingredients from a lot chest stopped dragging the chat window in front of the table you are standing at.

UI: The rune card list updates the right way round when a skill changes. Unlearning a rune…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:24 -0500

The rune card list updates the right way round when a skill changes. Unlearning a rune used to leave its row on the list, and lowering a rune skill with an unlearn item removed the row even though copies remained.

UI: Turning a specialization off now rechecks your decks straight away. The extra card a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:25 -0500

Turning a specialization off now rechecks your decks straight away. The extra card a specialization grants at mastery 80 stayed in the equipped deck until an unrelated later event removed it.

UI: Starting a third specialization now gives up the lower level of the two you already hold…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:26 -0500

Starting a third specialization now gives up the lower level of the two you already hold. It had been picking whichever the server happened to send first, so it could drop a level 100 specialization in place of a level 80 one.

UI: The daily pooled experience bonus compares whole dates, so a player returning exactly a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:23:27 -0500

The daily pooled experience bonus compares whole dates, so a player returning exactly a year later on the same calendar date is no longer refused the bonus for that day. Both records of the last claim now update together.

UI: The pet status bar only wired up its stance icon and movement letter when the pet was…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:18 -0500

The pet status bar only wired up its stance icon and movement letter when the pet was first summoned. A pet that came back with you through a zone change showed blank or stale indicators and stopped updating for the rest of the session. Both now fill in and keep updating however the pet arrives.

UI: The Scepter of Dread, the Heart of Sorrows, the Bonesteel Crown and the Shroud of the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:38 -0500

The Scepter of Dread, the Heart of Sorrows, the Bonesteel Crown and the Shroud of the Avatar now appear under the Artifact category in your inventory and render in the same bronze as every other artifact. Their tooltips already called them artifacts; the filter and the name colour did not agree. How you repair them is unchanged.

UI: The encumbrance warning in the top right corner draws its yellow and red exclamation…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:43:36 -0500

The encumbrance warning in the top right corner draws its yellow and red exclamation marks large and centered on the rune icon now, in bold with a black outline. They used to draw at the 16px body size with no outline over 32px of busy art, and players reported them as hard to see.

UI: Fixed the encumbrance icon losing its picture. The rune art only becomes available once a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:43:36 -0500

Fixed the encumbrance icon losing its picture. The rune art only becomes available once a character is over capacity, and the corner asked for it a single time at startup, so logging in with a light load left the warning drawing as a small bare exclamation mark for the whole session. The corner now keeps asking until the art arrives.

Performance: Zone loads after the first are about 2.4 seconds faster. Two fixed delays were being…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:42:19 -0500

Zone loads after the first are about 2.4 seconds faster. Two fixed delays were being charged to every scene change after the real loading work had already finished: a two second pause at the end so creatures would complete their spawn-in effect out of sight, and a half second pause at the start on top of a loading screen fade that had already completed.

Performance: Measured the load against 1,784 real loads on the test shard rather than one development…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:42:19 -0500

Measured the load against 1,784 real loads on the test shard rather than one development machine, which moved the target. The median load was 10.1 seconds and the phases accounted for all of it, so the largest remaining slice was fixed waiting rather than asset or engine work. Two earlier conclusions from the development machine were wrong: garbage collection costs 0.22 seconds, not about a second, and 2.2 seconds of apparently missing time was one phase being reported twice.

Performance: The end of the load was the biggest phase and reported a single opaque number. It now…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:42:19 -0500

The end of the load was the biggest phase and reported a single opaque number. It now breaks out shader warmup, the creature spawn wait, level finalize and the scene checksum separately, and it also measures the screen hide and fade that the old total stopped short of, so the reported figure now matches what a player actually waits through.

Performance: Wrote up four load-time ideas that were measured and rejected, with the reason each one…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:42:19 -0500

Wrote up four load-time ideas that were measured and rejected, with the reason each one fails, so the next pass does not spend the time on them again. One of them would have looked like a free second and would instead have left the master volume stuck partway up.

Performance: Measured the load changes in the editor: the fixed pause at the start of a load dropped…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:02:27 -0500

Measured the load changes in the editor: the fixed pause at the start of a load dropped from 0.8 to 0.2 seconds and held steady across a cold and a warm load. The new timing also showed that the old figure stopped counting 0.9 seconds before the player is actually looking at the world, and confirmed that one delay we had considered removing was already costing almost nothing.

Performance: One measurement is still owed. The part of the saving that applies to creatures finishing…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:02:28 -0500

One measurement is still owed. The part of the saving that applies to creatures finishing their spawn-in needs a scene with creatures in it, and the test shard was not reachable from the development machine, so that number will come from the shard once the change is deployed.

Performance: Checked two ideas for making loads faster by keeping more in memory, and rejected both on…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:23:49 -0500

Checked two ideas for making loads faster by keeping more in memory, and rejected both on the numbers. Returning to a scene you had already visited is barely cheaper than arriving fresh, and re-reading a map from disk costs nothing at the median because the operating system has already cached it, so neither trade was worth the memory.

Performance: The same measurement found a much larger target. Time spent loading art during a zone…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:23:49 -0500

The same measurement found a much larger target. Time spent loading art during a zone change tracks the decoration phase almost exactly: about a second on a map with no decorations, and nineteen seconds on a heavily decorated one, inside a load of thirty-six. One town template spends 41 percent of its entire load there. That is now the top candidate for the next pass.

Items: Your chat log now tells you when an item takes durability damage, naming the item and the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:37 -0500

Your chat log now tells you when an item takes durability damage, naming the item and the points lost. The matching lines for repairs already worked; the damage lines had never once reached a player.

Items: Artifact system deep dive: the combining ladder, the tier data and the ancient essence…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:35:03 -0500

Artifact system deep dive: the combining ladder, the tier data and the ancient essence loop read end to end, with the results written up so the parts that look wrong from a distance and are not do not get re-investigated. Four player-facing fixes came out of it, and the artifact repair rules now live in one place for both online and offline play.

Bug Fixes: The effect that plays when you find an artifact now plays once for the container you…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:49:38 -0500

The effect that plays when you find an artifact now plays once for the container you opened rather than once per artifact inside it, so a container paying out several no longer stacks the visual on you and everyone nearby.

Gathering: Added a public Resource Atlas at catnipgames.net/resources/. It lists every zone that has…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:18:41 -0500

Added a public Resource Atlas at catnipgames.net/resources/. It lists every zone that has harvestable resources with its tier and node count, and each zone opens a map showing where those nodes stand, seen from above. You can also pick a resource and see which zones carry it, ranked by how many.

Gathering: Each resource on the atlas lists both its placed spots and how many of those spots the…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:18:41 -0500

Each resource on the atlas lists both its placed spots and how many of those spots the zone keeps filled at once. A zone with 40 emerald spots and 23 live never has all 40 up together, which is worth knowing before you plan a gathering route.

Gathering:

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:18:50 -0500

Gathering: The atlas is live with the full world baked in: 221 zones carry resources, holding 16,260…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:37:48 -0500

The atlas is live with the full world baked in: 221 zones carry resources, holding 16,260 placed nodes across 29 resource types. Copper veins are the most common thing in the game at 1,961 spots, with cotton close behind at 1,908.

Gathering:

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:37:48 -0500

Tooling: New editor tests for the pet system pin the things that broke: that every taming skill a…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:21:25 -0500

New editor tests for the pet system pin the things that broke: that every taming skill a player is meant to buy is actually offered by a trainer, and that every pet command in the command list does something when issued. Both defects this pass found were invisible to the old tests because no individual piece was wrong.

Tooling: Test bots that populate a scene now walk around instead of standing in one spot. Each bot…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:49:04 -0500

Test bots that populate a scene now walk around instead of standing in one spot. Each bot is given the scene's own walkable ground, exported from the map data, and picks its way across it with real pathfinding, so it rounds corners and follows the terrain rather than sliding through walls.

Tooling: Added a check that guards the data channels those bots use to appear in the world. The…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:49:10 -0500

Added a check that guards the data channels those bots use to appear in the world. The channel numbers are positions in a list, so an unrelated change elsewhere could silently shift them and leave bots invisible or under the ground. That now fails a test instead.

Tooling: The walkable ground for the bots' default gathering scene is now shipped with them, so…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:12:04 -0500

The walkable ground for the bots' default gathering scene is now shipped with them, so they wander it for real. Running the new checks against it caught two things: long routes across a large area were being abandoned partway, and the documented channel numbers the bots publish through had quietly drifted by one.

Tooling: Bots that have arrived somewhere now bow, clap, wave and dance instead of standing to…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:18:16 -0500

Bots that have arrived somewhere now bow, clap, wave and dance instead of standing to attention. They only do it while stopped, so nobody bows their way across a courtyard.

Tooling: Bots can also speak ambient lines now, though it stays off unless asked for: a large…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:22:38 -0500

Bots can also speak ambient lines now, though it stays off unless asked for: a large group talking would bury the local channel for anyone standing nearby.

Tooling: Ran the bots against a real server for the first time, which found three things reading…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:59:51 -0500

Ran the bots against a real server for the first time, which found three things reading the code had not. Their path smoothing was inverted, so every route was about twice as long as it needed to be and bots minced instead of walking. The setting meant to keep a group together was being ignored on any large map. And a message the server sends back on arrival was going unhandled.

Skills: Unlearning a skill now returns all of its experience to your pool. It used to return half…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:30:45 -0500

Unlearning a skill now returns all of its experience to your pool. It used to return half for most schools and everything for Air, Fire and Bard, a split left over from old school reworks that was never explained anywhere in game: walking away from a specialization at level 80 destroyed 1,801,380 experience in one school and nothing in another. Unlearning speed is unchanged, so switching builds still costs the same play time, and unlearn items still do it instantly.

Skills: The Skills window shows the experience numbers it always had and never printed. Hovering…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:44:10 -0500

The Skills window shows the experience numbers it always had and never printed. Hovering a skill gives the experience in it, what the next level wants, what unlearning would return, and how far it moved this session; hovering a school sigil gives that school levels and experience. The header shows both experience pools at once instead of only the tab you are on. A new Interface option, Show Skill Experience Numbers, turns the figures off for anyone who would rather not read them.

Skills: A skill set to unlearning now reports what it is losing each time you earn experience…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:44:16 -0500

A skill set to unlearning now reports what it is losing each time you earn experience, and about how many more experience gains it needs to reach its lowest level. The estimate is in experience gains rather than minutes because the drain ticks on each award rather than on a clock.

Documentation: Wrote down why the editor cannot connect to the test shard: the old fallback ports were…

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:23:49 -0500

Wrote down why the editor cannot connect to the test shard: the old fallback ports were retired in July and the replacement network stack is compiled out of a plain editor build. The port reference still described only the old scheme, so it now carries a warning and a pointer to the current one.

Headlines · 2026-08-02

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:56:44 -0500

Nightly chaos release is building again after two empty nights. The Linux build machine was crashing in its graphics driver; the build editor is back on OpenGL while the shipped client keeps Vulkan.
The Theme Editor has a real colour picker now: click any swatch, drag, and watch the interface change under the cursor.
Tester reports were going unread overnight. The nightly pass that reads them shared a lock with a job running every fifteen minutes and started on the same quarter hour, so it lost the race and skipped the night while reporting success. It now waits for the lock, starts off the quarter hour, and runs again four hours later.
Two new window looks, Citadel and Bastion: carved wood and metal, pick either one in Options under Themes.
A container holding a big saved decoration layout would open empty and stay that way. One oversized item made the whole container unreadable, and the same flaw sat under mail, bank, lot contents and the friends list.
A tester spotted that our report automation was only reading his most recent comment on each task. He was right, and the marker that records a report as handled then hid the rest for good. 96 skipped comments across 56 tasks have been read and answered, eight of which held real findings nobody had seen.
A day on the new bug reports: twenty-four interface bugs came in from testers and the in-game Oracle in twenty-four hours, and most of them turned out to be four shared faults wearing different hats.
Untouchable wolves. A creature that could not finish walking back to its spawn point stayed invulnerable and deaf to attacks for good. That walk now times out.
Italian filled back in. 458 interface strings had never been translated, so those windows fell back to English for anyone playing in Italian. All 458 are done and the language is back to 99.5 percent.
The Chaotic Clone stops giving itself away when it moves: its fighting stance now follows the caster instead of the pet AI, which counted running back to you as leaving combat.
Tamer rebalance. The taming tree splits in two, five innates go to 4x experience, and Pet Speed, Strength and Taunting Training become pet commands you cast rather than passives you forget. Only two run at once, each costs the pet something, and letting the taunt lapse sends the fight at you. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)
Tracked down the avatar that stops dead while you hold the forward key: one shared speed value, three separate copies of the latch that decides when to move it, and a spell cast writing the speed behind all of them.

Bug Fixes: A wall switch on the castle gates in Castle Atos put an error in the client log for…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:42:45 -0500

A wall switch on the castle gates in Castle Atos put an error in the client log for everyone who walked into the scene, without anyone touching it. The switch was set to open a door but pointed at a group of holiday decorations, which has no door on it. Using the switch also turned those decorations off, which was never the intent. It now pulls its handle and does nothing else.

Bug Fixes: Switches now report a setup problem once instead of every few seconds. A switch that…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:42:45 -0500

Switches now report a setup problem once instead of every few seconds. A switch that cannot run one of its actions disables itself, and the code driving it kept going and tried to start new work on the now-disabled object, so the pair of errors repeated every time the server sent that switch a state update. The failure is recorded once and the switch stops being driven.

Bug Fixes: The wall switch template that new switches are placed from shipped with open-door and…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:42:45 -0500

The wall switch template that new switches are placed from shipped with open-door and close-door actions pointing at nothing, so any switch built from it without a door wired in hit the same failure the first time it ran. Both actions are now blank.

Community: Nightly forum sweep filed 6 tracker entries: skill-balance asks for Blind, Tactics…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:22:17 -0500

Nightly forum sweep filed 6 tracker entries: skill-balance asks for Blind, Tactics Healthy/Train Strength, and Heavy Armor's Provoking Shout/Taunt; a monthly-replenish request for LB birthday cakes and fireworks boxes; a bundled wishlist from a player covering an aggro meter and a Tinkering crafting tree; and a bug blocking wall/ceiling deco placement in the Stone Dungeon Rotunda.

Community: Cleared the tester report backlog by hand while the nightly was down: fifteen reports…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:35 -0500

Cleared the tester report backlog by hand while the nightly was down: fifteen reports read, ten acted on. Nine new bugs went on the tracker, one closed issue reopened, one report added to an issue already open, and one tester suggestion went to the wishlist.

Community: What testers found this round: claiming a lot from its sign fails on the first attempt…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:35 -0500

What testers found this round: claiming a lot from its sign fails on the first attempt and works on the second, every time; the crafted decoration layout item cannot be named, reopened or applied once a layout is recorded on it; Use lot storage stays selectable at crafting stations that are not on your lot; clicking through a creature name plate does not reach a harvestable behind it; and a handful of interface strings are still English with Italian selected.

Community: Five reports were held for a decision rather than acted on, because a FAIL is not always…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:35 -0500

Five reports were held for a decision rather than acted on, because a FAIL is not always a failure. Two are checks the tester could not exercise, one is a checklist that describes something the game does not do, one is blocked on other work, and the oldest has been waiting eleven days as a design objection to event trophies being no-trade rather than a test result.

Community: A tester noticed the automation was only answering his most recent comment on a task and…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

A tester noticed the automation was only answering his most recent comment on a task and ignoring the rest. He was right. The tool that collects tester reports handed over just the newest comment, so when someone posted a checklist and then a follow-up a couple of minutes later, only the follow-up was read.

Community: The second half was worse. The marker that records a report as handled names one comment…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

The second half was worse. The marker that records a report as handled names one comment, so answering the follow-up made the whole task look done and the checklist underneath became invisible to every later run. On one task that meant replying "please run through the Expected list" to a tester who had posted that list two minutes earlier.

Community: A sweep of all 873 tasks in the project found 96 comments that were never marked as read…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

A sweep of all 873 tasks in the project found 96 comments that were never marked as read, across 56 tasks, 49 of them carrying PASS or FAIL lines. Every one has now been read and answered on its task.

Community: Most of those turned out to have reached the tracker anyway, because whoever triaged them…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

Most of those turned out to have reached the tracker anyway, because whoever triaged them at the time read the task rather than trusting the tool. Eight did not, and those were real: kobold archers in three locations using a genteel voice instead of a growl, an entire scene where creatures never leave their spawn points and no pet or summon can be called, dungeon map reveals clearing on relog, and merchant items not coming back to your inventory when you cancel a sale.

Community: Two of the replies that went out had told testers their checks "were not reported" when…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

Two of the replies that went out had told testers their checks "were not reported" when they had been reported, in the comment that was skipped. Both tasks have been corrected and the results recorded as the passes they were.

Build: The nightly chaos release failed two nights running and produced nothing. The Linux…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:16:18 -0500

The nightly chaos release failed two nights running and produced nothing. The Linux client build was crashing inside the graphics driver on the build machine, and because the release cancels every platform the moment one leg fails, the Windows build was stopped before it ever compiled.

Build: The trigger was the change that moved the Linux client to Vulkan. On Linux the editor…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:16:19 -0500

The trigger was the change that moved the Linux client to Vulkan. On Linux the editor picks its graphics backend from the same list the shipped game uses, so pointing players at Vulkan also pointed the build machine at it, and that machine faults there. Build machines now run the editor on OpenGL. The shipped Linux client keeps Vulkan.

Build: The client that comes out the other end is unchanged. Asset bundles still carry shader…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:16:19 -0500

The client that comes out the other end is unchanged. Asset bundles still carry shader variants for both backends, 403 of each, and the last passing build before the outage had used exactly this setup.

Build: Two separate driver faults turned up while narrowing it down: one on the threaded render…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:16:19 -0500

Two separate driver faults turned up while narrowing it down: one on the threaded render worker during the player build, one uploading a texture array during the asset bundle pass. Basic Vulkan works fine on that machine, and giving its display a fake attached monitor changed nothing, so both are filed with repro steps for a maintenance window.

Build: The profiler client build no longer runs on a nightly schedule. It is a large download…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:27:17 -0500

The profiler client build no longer runs on a nightly schedule. It is a large download for a specific job, on a machine that is often disconnected, so it now builds on request instead of every night.

Client: The Windows client now runs on DirectX 11 for everyone, and DirectX 12 is gone. DirectX…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:27:16 -0500

The Windows client now runs on DirectX 11 for everyone, and DirectX 12 is gone. DirectX 11 has been the default for new installs since mid-July, so most people are already on it and will not notice. It also stays the version that works under Linux compatibility layers.

Client: Two ways to end up on DirectX 12 are now closed: the launcher Graphics dropdown, which is…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:27:16 -0500

Two ways to end up on DirectX 12 are now closed: the launcher Graphics dropdown, which is hidden on Windows since there is nothing left to pick, and the game's own preference order, which applied to anyone starting the game without the launcher. An old saved DirectX 12 choice needs no action and will start on 11.

UI: The UI Scale slider in Options, Themes tab now applies when you release the mouse instead…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:28:33 -0500

The UI Scale slider in Options, Themes tab now applies when you release the mouse instead of on every frame of the drag. Applying it live resized the Options window under the pointer, which moved the handle away from the mouse and sent the value bouncing. The percentage readout still tracks the drag, and arrow keys on a focused slider apply right away.

UI: Drop-down lists now keep a solid backing at any window transparency setting. The…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:07:31 -0500

Drop-down lists now keep a solid backing at any window transparency setting. The transparency slider was thinning the list plate along with the windows, so at the low end a drop-down opened as floating text over whatever was behind it. Windows still fade as before; the list keeps the density its theme authored, and it now wears the same bracket frame as the other floating panels.

UI: Theme Editor label fixes: the "Ambient motion" and "Search" labels were having their…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:07:40 -0500

Theme Editor label fixes: the "Ambient motion" and "Search" labels were having their bottoms clipped by a fixed row height, and the Advanced tab search box could be squeezed to a few pixels wide on a narrow window. Both labels now size to their text, and the toolbar buttons drop to their own line instead of crowding the field.

UI: The Theme Editor got a colour picker. Every colour swatch in it is now a button that…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:25:30 -0500

The Theme Editor got a colour picker. Every colour swatch in it is now a button that opens a saturation and brightness square with a hue bar, a transparency bar on the Advanced tab, and the hex box still there for anyone who prefers typing a code. Colours apply while you drag, so the interface re-themes under the cursor.

UI: Gave the UI Toolkit window title bar its own art slot, so a theme can draw a dedicated…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:36:48 -0500

Gave the UI Toolkit window title bar its own art slot, so a theme can draw a dedicated top bar rather than leaning on the window frame's top edge. The slot ships empty, so every current theme looks exactly as it did.

UI: Fixed the Theme Editor turning up empty. The data file that carries the skins, backing…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:42:20 -0500

Fixed the Theme Editor turning up empty. The data file that carries the skins, backing patterns, ornaments and fonts is loaded a few seconds into a session, and if that one load came up empty the game gave up on it until you restarted, so the editor offered nothing and read every colour as white. The load retries now, and the editor refills its lists if the data arrives after you opened it.

UI: Added two new window looks, Citadel and Bastion , both carved wood with metal corner…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:25:12 -0500

Added two new window looks, Citadel and Bastion, both carved wood with metal corner pieces. Citadel runs a lion-head title bar across the top of each window and Bastion leaves it plain. Both are in Options under Themes.

UI: The wooden frame art arrived with its window interior painted solid, which would have…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:25:18 -0500

The wooden frame art arrived with its window interior painted solid, which would have left the window opacity slider doing nothing on that look. The interior is now cut out during art prep, so the slider works there the same as everywhere else.

UI: Opening a doll cabinet, mannequin, jukebox or automated phonograph a second time did…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:04:06 -0500

Opening a doll cabinet, mannequin, jukebox or automated phonograph a second time did nothing until you changed zones. The window was still being tracked from the first time, and the code that hands one back only ran when it was creating a fresh one, so the second request got nothing at all.

UI: That same gap explains two more phonograph reports: the wax cylinder limit was never…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:04:14 -0500

That same gap explains two more phonograph reports: the wax cylinder limit was never re-read, so a reopened phonograph insisted it could hold none at all, and its window had no way to close other than its own range check, so anything else that ended the interaction left it on screen.

UI: Selecting a recipe at a crafting station and then re-sorting the list kept the same row…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:04:57 -0500

Selecting a recipe at a crafting station and then re-sorting the list kept the same row highlighted rather than the same recipe. That was worse than it looked: Craft and Queue read the selected row, so they acted on whichever recipe had slid into that slot. Every list built on the shared roster keeps its selection on the row now.

UI: Vendor search results were shifted one column to the left: the date an item was listed…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:05:06 -0500

Vendor search results were shifted one column to the left: the date an item was listed appeared under Item Name, Time showed the weight, and Location was empty. The row builder was skipping the widest column when filling cells but the table was still drawing it.

UI: Adding a player to a lot access or banned list needed two quick presses of Enter. The…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:05:54 -0500

Adding a player to a lot access or banned list needed two quick presses of Enter. The text box was taking the first press as "stop editing" before the window ever saw it. Sixteen other text boxes had the same wiring and are fixed with it, including item search, rename, pick quantity and the chat tab options.

UI: Turning on the health and focus numbers squashed the two bars together and clipped the…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:07:51 -0500

Turning on the health and focus numbers squashed the two bars together and clipped the digits. The numbers sit outside the normal layout flow, so the rows only ever reserved the height of the bar itself and the focus bar painted over the health figures. The rows now make room while the numbers are on.

UI: Clicking through a creature nameplate to a tree behind it did nothing, even though…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:07:51 -0500

Clicking through a creature nameplate to a tree behind it did nothing, even though hovering showed the harvest cursor. The plate was taking the press before the world ever saw it, which also skipped double-click detection, and harvesting is a double-click. A plate over open sky still targets what it names.

UI: Empty equipment slots on the character sheet showed no slot name, only a silhouette, with…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:08:02 -0500

Empty equipment slots on the character sheet showed no slot name, only a silhouette, with the word available on hover. The name is back as a caption across the bottom of the slot art.

UI: Your own inventory window and an unnamed crafted backpack were both titled "Backpack" and…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:08:02 -0500

Your own inventory window and an unnamed crafted backpack were both titled "Backpack" and could not be told apart with both open. Yours now reads "Your Backpack". An NPC dialogue window could also lose its typing box entirely at narrow widths; the box has a minimum size now.

UI: Merchant window: the Exchange list now empties whenever the window closes. Cancelling a…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:01:04 -0500

Merchant window: the Exchange list now empties whenever the window closes. Cancelling a sale used to leave the items sitting in the Exchange, so the next merchant you talked to opened with your old proposal still in it, and the items looked like they had never returned to your backpack. Nothing was ever removed from the backpack while items sat there, so no items were lost.

UI: Right-dragging to swing the camera no longer opens a menu when the drag starts on a name…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:23:54 -0500

Right-dragging to swing the camera no longer opens a menu when the drag starts on a name plate. Your own name and health bar sit over the middle of the screen, which is where the swing starts, so the menu opened and the camera did not turn. The plate menu now waits for the button to come up and only opens if the press was a click rather than a swing.

UI: Typing a slash command with the chat window closed no longer sets off game keys on the…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:36:07 -0500

Typing a slash command with the chat window closed no longer sets off game keys on the way in. The window has to open before its text box can take the keyboard, and until it did, the letters were still being read as key binds, so typing /oracle opened the emote list in passing. Chat now holds the keyboard from the key that opened it until the box is ready, and hands it back if the box never gets there.

UI: The panel that slides out beside a skill icon when a skill goes up or down is now a size…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:54:40 -0500

The panel that slides out beside a skill icon when a skill goes up or down is now a size larger, bold, and drawn with a thin black rim, which is what the count beside the icon already had. Thin unrimmed text washed out against bright ground. The panel is the same size and in the same place, so the icons still line up in a column, and a test now holds the text size against the panel it has to fit in.

UI: New keybind: Close Loot Windows. It shuts every loot window you have open and leaves…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:00:58 -0500

New keybind: Close Loot Windows. It shuts every loot window you have open and leaves everything else where it is, which is what Escape does not do. It starts with no key on it, so pick one in Options under Key Bindings; jump is the key it was asked for. Loot means a corpse, a world chest or a dropped container, the same set the take-everything key already works on.

UI: Dungeon Piece window: the three lines under Dungeon Point Limits were printing on top of…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:10:47 -0500

Dungeon Piece window: the three lines under Dungeon Point Limits were printing on top of each other with the Upgrade Limit button over the last one. Each line now keeps a full line of height to itself. The rows are built while that panel is hidden, and nothing was holding their height up until it opened. Long captions shorten with an ellipsis rather than wrapping, and the numbers on the right are never the part that gets cut.

UI: Letter tails are back in list rows. The bottom of every p, y, g, j and q was being cut…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:01:06 -0500

Letter tails are back in list rows. The bottom of every p, y, g, j and q was being cut off flat in the teleport list, the verification window, the backpack, mail and the roster. Rows clip their text so long entries can end in an ellipsis, and the box they clip to was sized from the font's idea of a line, which is a fraction of a pixel shorter than the line actually drawn. That fraction is at the bottom, where the tails are. The box is now measured against what gets drawn, at every text size. Nothing else moved.

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Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:25:37 -0500

Tooling: The nightly pass that reads tester reports had gone two nights without doing anything. It…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:19 -0500

The nightly pass that reads tester reports had gone two nights without doing anything. It shares a single lock with the verify sweep that runs every fifteen minutes, so the two can never act on the same report at once, and its start time sat on the same quarter hour that sweep ticks on. They raced for the lock every night. Last night it lost by four seconds, exited with a success code, and skipped the night.

Tooling: The nightly now waits up to ten minutes for that lock instead of giving up on it, and it…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:19 -0500

The nightly now waits up to ten minutes for that lock instead of giving up on it, and it checks twice, because the report scan between the two checks takes minutes on its own. Its start time moved off the quarter hour, and a second run four hours later picks up anything the first one misses.

Tooling: Every run now writes a line to its log before it can fail. A missing line means the…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:09:19 -0500

Every run now writes a line to its log before it can fail. A missing line means the schedule never fired, which previously could not be told apart from a run that died before it logged anything. Errors carry their message into the same log, and the run's own summary is written there too, so one file answers whether last night did any work.

Tooling: The collector now hands over every unread comment on a task as one report, oldest first…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

The collector now hands over every unread comment on a task as one report, oldest first, and writes a separate handled marker for each so a partial answer cannot bury the rest. The skill that does the judging carries the rule and guidance for reading a report split across several posts.

Tooling: New supersede sweep for stale tasks. When a fix is revised and a second verify task is…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

New supersede sweep for stale tasks. When a fix is revised and a second verify task is filed, the first one sits there asking testers to check a build that no longer behaves that way. The sweep links the old task to the new one, notes where the work moved, and closes it. Nothing is deleted, so a wrong pair costs a reopen.

Tooling: Building it turned up its own trap worth recording: two bugs filed from one tester report…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:29 -0500

Building it turned up its own trap worth recording: two bugs filed from one tester report are linked to each other, and treating that link as "these are the same bug" would have closed a live bug filed an hour earlier. The sweep now only treats two tasks as the same when they name the same issue directly.

Inventory: A container holding a large saved decoration layout would open empty and answer with an…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:33:21 -0500

A container holding a large saved decoration layout would open empty and answer with an error. A layout saved from a lot with a couple of hundred decorations on it was too big for the container listing to carry, and one such item made the whole container unreadable for good. Containers of any size now read normally, and the same fix covers mail, bank listings, lot contents and the friends list.

Inventory: Consolidate Stacks now works on a stack kept inside a pouch. It was sending the merge to…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:33:29 -0500

Consolidate Stacks now works on a stack kept inside a pouch. It was sending the merge to your backpack rather than to the pouch the stack was really in, so the server refused it and your inventory refreshed itself. Consolidating past the maximum stack size now merges what fits instead of failing outright.

Inventory: A container that failed to refresh used to blank itself, leaving a window of items that…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:33:29 -0500

A container that failed to refresh used to blank itself, leaving a window of items that could not be clicked or dragged. It now keeps what it had, so a hiccup costs you slightly stale contents instead of a dead window. Dropping an item onto a container in that state no longer breaks the drag.

Crafting: Recipes you starred did not show up under Favorites in the recipe book contents until you…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:05:07 -0500

Recipes you starred did not show up under Favorites in the recipe book contents until you closed and reopened the book. The contents page now picks up pending stars on the way in. Obsidian Forge was also listed twice, the second entry holding only a Miscellaneous section; the single-player forge now folds into the one chapter.

Crafting: Use lot storage was selectable at crafting tables that are not on your lot, anywhere in a…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:06:55 -0500

Use lot storage was selectable at crafting tables that are not on your lot, anywhere in a player-owned town, and did nothing when ticked. It was only asking whether the table stood on a lot, not whether it was a lot you may use. The reverse was true of printing presses, which were greyed out even on your own property.

Crafting: Recipe rows at a crafting station overlapped each other, and at the smallest window size…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:09:23 -0500

Recipe rows at a crafting station overlapped each other, and at the smallest window size the Durability heading and the inventory filter were cut off the right edge. Two separate sums that were wrong: a row shorter than the card it holds, and a minimum window width narrower than the three panes inside it. Both are worked out from their contents now.

Housing: The lot marker window set no text heights anywhere, so on a claimed lot its rows…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:05:55 -0500

The lot marker window set no text heights anywhere, so on a claimed lot its rows collapsed and drew over each other: "claimed by" across "claim expires", the house icon across the lot size and buttons. It now sizes its rows properly, scrolls, and can be resized.

Housing: List For Sale appeared to do nothing. It was sending fine, but an empty or out-of-range…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:06:02 -0500

List For Sale appeared to do nothing. It was sending fine, but an empty or out-of-range price only wrote its complaint into a line that had been clipped off the bottom of the window. The price box now has a label saying what belongs in it, and the refusal says so out loud. The two option buttons that drew as "..." are cogs again.

Housing: Regenerated the scene server's network interface so the lot sale messages match their…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:33:39 -0500

Regenerated the scene server's network interface so the lot sale messages match their definition again. The client's copy of that generated code was updated in the same change, so both sides send and expect the same messages, and the check that watches for generated-code drift is green again.

Decorations: A crafted Decoration Layout document stayed blank after you recorded a layout onto it…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:06:43 -0500

A crafted Decoration Layout document stayed blank after you recorded a layout onto it. The recording reached the server, but the client never updated its own copy of the item, so the title never changed and clicking it asked for a name all over again.

Decorations: Flip, roll and scale refused on any decoration with something resting on it. They were…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:06:44 -0500

Flip, roll and scale refused on any decoration with something resting on it. They were counting the stacked item as a piece of the one you were holding. Ordinary rotate never had that restriction, and now these three match it.

Decorations: The decoration layout apply-changes view had its buttons hanging off the bottom edge…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:06:56 -0500

The decoration layout apply-changes view had its buttons hanging off the bottom edge. Fifth window to meet the same layout rule about a scrolling list squeezing the fixed rows around it.

Localization: Chat tab names stayed English no matter what language you picked, even though the…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:08:43 -0500

Chat tab names stayed English no matter what language you picked, even though the translations were already in the table. The names were being flattened to plain text and then saved that way, so the first session you ever played locked them in. Existing characters heal on the next load.

Localization: Two different strings were sharing one translation id, so the Options window toggle for…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:08:44 -0500

Two different strings were sharing one translation id, so the Options window toggle for the original title screen was one translation away from reading as an unrelated scene name. Twenty-eight more strings were declared in code but had no record to translate against at all. A new test now fails the build if one id is ever given two different strings.

Localization: A tester playing in Italian found several windows still coming up in English. 458 strings…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:22:17 -0500

A tester playing in Italian found several windows still coming up in English. 458 strings had no Italian text at all, most of them from windows added or rebuilt since the last translation pass, and the game was falling back to English for them. All 458 are translated now: the Report Bug label, the inventory and options tabs, the decoration placement messages, decoration layouts, the deck, glyph and mail windows, book writing, the lot sale sign, six loading tips and a batch of store and recipe names. Italian is back to 99.5 percent overall, with NPC dialogue at 100.

Combat: Creatures walking back to their spawn point cannot be hurt while they do it. On broken…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Creatures walking back to their spawn point cannot be hurt while they do it. On broken ground that walk could never finish, so wolf packs in Jotungrund kept slow-walking, took no damage and ignored every attack. The walk back now gives up after a minute and puts the creature back in play.

Combat: Whether a creature flies was being decided by whether its attack is a ranged one. Those…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:26:02 -0500

Whether a creature flies was being decided by whether its attack is a ranged one. Those are different questions, and a flying creature with a close-range attack could only stay in the air by claiming a minimum range it did not want, which then made it back away from a target it could already hit. Creatures can now be told to stay airborne while they chase, on its own, without touching how close they will come.

Combat: A Chaotic Clone now holds the same fighting stance you are holding while it moves…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:26:51 -0500

A Chaotic Clone now holds the same fighting stance you are holding while it moves. Testers watching one run back to its caster saw it drop the stance to run and take it back the moment it arrived, weapon drawn the whole way, which picked the decoy out of the pair for anyone who waited for them to move. The stance was still on the pet AI clock, and running back to the caster counts there as leaving combat.

Combat: Pet Speed, Pet Strength and Pet Taunting Training are now abilities you cast on your pet…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:25:46 -0500

Pet Speed, Pet Strength and Pet Taunting Training are now abilities you cast on your pet instead of passive skills, replacing Frenzy. Each gives the pet something and costs it something else: Quicken trades accuracy for speed and crit, Embolden trades damage resistance for strength and crit damage, Goad trades attack speed for holding everything on the pet. Only two can run at once, charging the glyph extends the duration, and letting Goad lapse sends everything it was holding at you. Auditing this turned up that four of the five pet training passives were doing nothing at all in combat: the stats they granted were written to the owner and read by no combat code, so Pet Strength, Pet Taunting and Pet Hide Toughness Training have never affected a pet. Three are now abilities; Pet Hide Toughness is wired to the damage resistance it always claimed to give. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Combat: New taming skill, Pet Range, tethers your pet to you. Untrained it fights within about 2…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:31:42 -0500

New taming skill, Pet Range, tethers your pet to you. Untrained it fights within about 2 meters of you, 5 meters at skill 80 and 10 meters at 150. Walk further than that during a fight and the pet breaks off and comes back, and everything it was fighting comes after you instead. Your pet also holds less of a creature attention the further it strays, so hanging back while it fights across the room no longer works. Every existing tamer starts this skill at zero, so pets will stay very close until it is trained. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Combat: Resurrect Creature now brings a pet back in better shape the higher the skill: about 10…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:37:13 -0500

Resurrect Creature now brings a pet back in better shape the higher the skill: about 10 percent health at skill 1, 50 percent at 80 and 75 percent at 100, where before every pet came back at a flat 20 percent no matter how good the tamer was. The summon cooldown now comes from Summoning instead of the retired Refresh skill: 120 seconds at Summoning 20, 10 seconds at 80 and 3 seconds at 150, and it never reaches zero the way Refresh did at level 120. Experience spent in Frenzy and Refresh comes back to your unspent adventurer pool on next login. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Interface: The weight in the over-encumbrance popover was always yellow, while the character sheet…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:07:42 -0500

The weight in the over-encumbrance popover was always yellow, while the character sheet turned the same number red past twice your capacity. Both readouts now use the same colour bands. The popover also stopped printing a "You" heading over lines nobody else could have applied.

Interface: Search All My Stuff could get stuck. The window turns its Search button off while a…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:40:58 -0500

Search All My Stuff could get stuck. The window turns its Search button off while a search runs and back on when it finishes, but a search lost on the way out never finished, so the button stayed off and the line stayed on "Searching..." until you changed zone. It now gives up after thirty seconds, says so, and lets you search again.

Interface: Escape now closes an open menu before it closes anything else. Opening the Skills…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:47:40 -0500

Escape now closes an open menu before it closes anything else. Opening the Skills window's Options menu and pressing Escape used to close the window and leave the menu sitting there with nothing under it. This covers every right-click menu and every window Options menu, not just that one.

Interface: The Linked Equipment strip in Edit Deck now names a piece when you hover it, and says so…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:53:56 -0500

The Linked Equipment strip in Edit Deck now names a piece when you hover it, and says so when you hover the red box of one you are not carrying. Both had hover text written for them, drawn by a mechanism that never reached the screen. The strip also keeps up while the window is open, so getting rid of a linked piece turns its icon red straight away instead of only after a close and reopen, and the two ring slots now sit next to each other.

Interface: Pinning a window is meant to make it immune to Escape, and one of the two things Escape…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:00:13 -0500

Pinning a window is meant to make it immune to Escape, and one of the two things Escape does was not checking the pin. That one closes everything it is allowed to in a single press, so closing a loot window with Escape took a pinned character sheet with it. Pinned windows now stay put.

Maps: Dungeon map bake: a large prop standing on the floor is a hole in the walkable surface…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:08:39 -0500

Dungeon map bake: a large prop standing on the floor is a hole in the walkable surface, and the bake was turning that hole into a dark square punched through the map floor. Enclosed pockets up to 16 square metres now fill back in, which covers furniture and statuary while leaving a pit or an interior courtyard open. Four tests pin the limit in both directions. The shipped maps carry the change once the dungeon fleet is rebaked.

Gathering: The dirt piles in Tanglemire came back as craters. A harvested node is meant to return to…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:32:30 -0500

The dirt piles in Tanglemire came back as craters. A harvested node is meant to return to its untouched look when it becomes gatherable again, but two parts of the code disagreed about which of a node's looks counted as the resting one, and the half that rebuilds a node with no saved state picked the worked-out one. Both halves now agree, so a node that can be gathered again looks like it.

Audio: Two NPC voices were re-cast. Scholar Vivienne Grava was speaking with a man's voice…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:56:02 -0500

Two NPC voices were re-cast. Scholar Vivienne Grava was speaking with a man's voice because her character record said male, which is what the voice is picked from; the record is corrected and she has a suitable voice. Edvard the Wanderer was reported as sounding too young, and the look at it found something bigger: his seven separate conversations had each been given a different voice, so he changed voice between Solace Bridge, Highvale and Blood River. All seven now use one older, gravelly voice.

Audio: A character whose name is also an ordinary word was losing NPC voice on lines that had…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:13:43 -0500

A character whose name is also an ordinary word was losing NPC voice on lines that had nothing to do with them. Spoken lines have the player's name swapped for the word the voice was recorded with, so the line still matches its recording, but that swap was being applied to every line rather than only the ones that name you. A character called Hero heard silence on "You are no hero yet." and one called Rose lost the lines about roses. Lines that never name you are now left alone.

Quests: Ten lines of NPC dialogue named a gesture that does not exist, so the character said the…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:07:38 -0500

Ten lines of NPC dialogue named a gesture that does not exist, so the character said the line and stood still. The names were near misses: a trailing full stop, a short form, an old name. Neese DelaRaven reads her paper again, Rykesh waves goodbye, the students of Courage and Truth salute, and three taunts land. Eight more lines the checker had flagged turned out to be fine: the Oracle uses that same field to mark which virtue you chose, so the checker now leaves those alone.

World: Kingsport townspeople call out to each other again. Fifteen exchanges were addressed to…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:11:39 -0500

Kingsport townspeople call out to each other again. Fifteen exchanges were addressed to names nobody in town answers to, written the old way round, so neither side ever spoke and you would never have known the conversation existed. Eight pairs are back: Harry and Powell the Guard, Innkeeper Abbott and Guyon the Bard, Justin and Julia the Alchemist, Marian and Jeremy the Tailor, Martin and Nahche the Farmer. No lines were written or reworded, they were being handed to the wrong name.

Balance: Split the Taming skill tree into two branches under Tame Creature: Collar Recovery holds…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:00:25 -0500

Split the Taming skill tree into two branches under Tame Creature: Collar Recovery holds Heal and Resurrect, and Summoning holds the three pet trainings, Taming Specialization and Combat Training, with Precision and Hide Toughness below it. Tame Creature, Summoning, Combat Training, Pet Attack Precision Training and Pet Hide Toughness Training now cost 4x experience per level instead of 1x, matching the Focus tree, whose equivalent pet innates have been 4x since they shipped. Existing skill levels are untouched; only the next level costs more. Frenzy and Refresh are retired. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Balance: Rebanded all 178 tameable creatures onto seven summoning tiers, needing Summoning 1, 30…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:41:56 -0500

Rebanded all 178 tameable creatures onto seven summoning tiers, needing Summoning 1, 30, 80, 100, 120, 140 and 150. Most requirements went up: a creature that needed Summoning 79 now needs 100, and the top creatures moved from 99 to 150. Combined with Summoning costing 4x experience per level, this is the gate that keeps new characters off the strongest pets. Taming and collaring are unchanged; this only affects fielding a creature. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Testing: Added 55 EditMode tests pinning the tamer rebalance: the whole prerequisite graph against…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:51:09 -0500

Added 55 EditMode tests pinning the tamer rebalance: the whole prerequisite graph against the design diagram, the 4x pricing, each command carrying its drawback and sitting on the two-slot channel, both burst windows staying shorter than their cooldowns, the taunt not gaining power from charging, and the pet range, resurrect and cooldown curves at their anchor points. Also pinned that the pet manifest agrees with the prefabs, since the built client reads the manifest and only falls back to the prefabs in the editor. DO NOT PANIC! (just experimenting)

Movement: Fixed an avatar that could stop dead while you held the forward key, where letting go and…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:55:27 -0500

Fixed an avatar that could stop dead while you held the forward key, where letting go and pressing again gave you a few feet and then another stop. The client only changes your speed under an acceleration ramp, and it only starts a new ramp when its idea of your target speed changes. A spell cast that locks you in place was setting the speed straight to zero without telling the part that decides whether a new ramp is needed, so once those two disagreed nothing started you moving again until you released the key. Reported by a tester who had been hitting it about once a day with no pattern.

Movement: Added a watchdog underneath that fix. If your avatar is asking to move at a normal speed…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:55:35 -0500

Added a watchdog underneath that fix. If your avatar is asking to move at a normal speed but has not moved for half a second, the client corrects itself and writes one record of what was happening at that moment. Roots, stuns, knockdowns, casts and being over-encumbered cannot trip it, because those all work by lowering your speed or by blocking the movement request outright, and there is a test for each one. Since nobody can reproduce this on demand, the record is how we find out whether any version of it is still out there.

Movement: A review pass over the first version caught that the diagnostic record was being written…

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:55:44 -0500

A review pass over the first version caught that the diagnostic record was being written at a level the log triage does not read, so every record would have landed in the index and never been looked at. Also split the position into separate fields, since the ingest would have stored it as one opaque string, and pinned the number formatting to a fixed locale so a tester on a comma-decimal machine does not emit values the index rejects. Two of the three problems only showed up by reading the ingest rules rather than the client.

Headlines · 2026-08-01

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:18:25 -0500

Test bots now appear in the world as real characters, and running two hundred of them showed the game client hits its limit long before the server does.
Searching all your stuff now reaches your bank from anywhere, with no trip to a banker first, and the window stopped swallowing its own "type at least three characters" message.
The encumbrance warning appears the moment you go over your carry capacity again, with a yellow exclamation mark as you near the weight that blocks pickup and a red one at it.
A player report of poor performance on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 laptop turned into a measured finding: on Linux, OpenGL was costing about four times the processor time per frame that Vulkan does. Same machines, both drivers, 1,700 samples. The Linux client now defaults to Vulkan.
Texture streaming was off across every quality level, so the client uploaded every texture at full detail with no memory budget. That is why one Linux session logged 13,184 low-memory warnings from the graphics driver and then sat at 11 frames per second. Streaming is on now, with 3,964 world textures swept onto it.
Distant players are simulated cheaply again, and the client now caps how many other players get full physics rather than only how far away they are. A crowd of 500 costs what a crowd of 15 costs.
Stealth now actually hides you. Other players saw a shimmering outline of every stealthed character; they now see nothing unless they are within about 3 meters and facing you.
Quest reset stopped eating your travel list. Resetting a character's quest state kept clearing every map and arrival point that character had discovered, so a reset character could not teleport anywhere it had already been. Places you have found now survive the reset.
Stealth got its escape back: break line of sight and hide, and whatever was chasing you loses you. It never worked before.
Riposte and Opportunity Strike say "immediately after" a parry or dodge. The windows were around 11 seconds. They are 2 now.
Obfuscate: throw a smoke bomb, break line of sight, vanish. New Subterfuge skill with a craftable bomb behind it.
A new testers-only /reactions readout finally makes reaction-skill timing visible: how long the window really is, how far into it you pressed, and whether the bonus landed.

Combat: A Chaotic Clone now reads as the player who cast it. Its name plate carries the caster's…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:37 -0500

A Chaotic Clone now reads as the player who cast it. Its name plate carries the caster's title line, the caster's name with whatever PVP and faction tags are on it, the caster's guild line, and the same name colour. Before, it printed the caster's name once plain and once in angle brackets, which is where a guild name goes, with no title and an NPC colour.

Combat: The clone takes the caster's health pool instead of a flat 28 hit points. The old value…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:37 -0500

The clone takes the caster's health pool instead of a flat 28 hit points. The old value meant the numbers under its name read 14 out of 28 beside a real avatar's 1400 out of 1751 the moment anyone hit it, so the deception ended at the first blow however well the text matched.

Combat: It only wears what the caster is wearing. A helmet or cloak you have hidden stayed…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:38 -0500

It only wears what the caster is wearing. A helmet or cloak you have hidden stayed visible on the clone, because the code deciding whether to draw a piece of an outfit asked whether the entity was a player and drew everything when it was not.

Combat: It sheathes and draws its weapon when the caster does. It used to stand around with the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:38 -0500

It sheathes and draws its weapon when the caster does. It used to stand around with the weapon out permanently, which is what a summoned creature does and no avatar does.

Combat: Its run speed went from 5 to 5.5, matching an avatar, so the pair no longer drifts apart…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:38 -0500

Its run speed went from 5 to 5.5, matching an avatar, so the pair no longer drifts apart over a few seconds of running.

Combat: Right-clicking somebody else's clone offers the menu that player's character offers. It…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:38 -0500

Right-clicking somebody else's clone offers the menu that player's character offers. It used to offer a pet sheet, so one click identified the decoy. Right-clicking your own clone still gives you the pet controls.

Combat: All of this is one idea: a new identity lookup that answers "which player is this entity…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:38 -0500

All of this is one idea: a new identity lookup that answers "which player is this entity presenting itself as". A player is itself, a clone is its caster, everything else is nobody. The name plate, the party typeface, the guild leader and grandmaster marks, the outfit visibility checks and the context menu all read through it. Combat, aggro and pet ownership deliberately do not, so a clone is still a summoned creature everywhere the rules are concerned.

Combat: The clone follows the caster for as long as it lives, so changing your title, joining or…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:39 -0500

The clone follows the caster for as long as it lives, so changing your title, joining or leaving a guild, or flagging for PVP while one is out updates its name plate too.

Combat: Nineteen tests cover the decision rules: when the owner-name format applies, which player…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:47:39 -0500

Nineteen tests cover the decision rules: when the owner-name format applies, which player a plate speaks for when the caster has walked away, which health pool wins, and which right-click menu is offered.

Combat: Stealth now hides you from other players. A stealthed character was still drawn for…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:36:37 -0500

Stealth now hides you from other players. A stealthed character was still drawn for everyone else as a shimmering, body-shaped outline that followed them exactly, so stealth gave away the position it was there to conceal. Other players now see nothing at all unless they are within about 3 meters and facing you, which is the same range at which they could already target you. Party members and Game Masters still see you, and stealthed creatures keep their existing faint shimmer so ambushes still read.

Combat: Fixed two related problems found while tracing that one. A stealthed player could be…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:36:45 -0500

Fixed two related problems found while tracing that one. A stealthed player could be moused over and click-selected from any distance, where the reticle had always blocked it past a few meters. Stealth ending during a scene change also left that character's lights switched off permanently.

Combat: Breaking line of sight while hidden now works. A creature that had already spotted you…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:43:33 -0500

Breaking line of sight while hidden now works. A creature that had already spotted you kept tracking you no matter how well you hid, so re-hiding could never shake anything already chasing you. Get out of its sight and hide, and it loses you.

Combat: Camouflage promised a higher stealth level from Subterfuge Specialization and delivered…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:43:42 -0500

Camouflage promised a higher stealth level from Subterfuge Specialization and delivered none of it. The bonus was reading Tactics specialization instead, so a Subterfuge specialist saw no change in the tooltip or in play. It reads the right one now. Silent Movement and Camouflage cooldowns also came down, from 30 and 15 seconds to 20 and 10.

Combat: Riposte and Opportunity Strike are both described as following immediately after a parry…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:43:42 -0500

Riposte and Opportunity Strike are both described as following immediately after a parry or a dodge. Riposte's window was 11.25 seconds at Blades 100, and Opportunity Strike's armor-piercing bonus was guaranteed for about 11 seconds after a dodge. Both are 2 seconds now, still widened by specialization. Damage is unchanged until the shorter windows have been played with.

Combat: Sneak Attack now requires a melee weapon. It had no weapon requirement at all and used…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:43:52 -0500

Sneak Attack now requires a melee weapon. It had no weapon requirement at all and used your weapon's range, so a bow got the full stealth opener from bow range with none of the risk of closing in. Poison coating duration now grows with Subterfuge Specialization on top of the existing chance to save the potion, Smelling Salts takes 1.5 seconds to use instead of 0.5, and Distract covers more ground when specialized.

Combat: Pugilism moved from the Subterfuge tree to Tactics. It had no mechanical tie to…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:43:52 -0500

Pugilism moved from the Subterfuge tree to Tactics. It had no mechanical tie to Subterfuge left: its description claimed Subterfuge Specialization extended unarmed reach, but the reach was a fixed number that specialization never touched. Characters who already trained it keep it at the same level.

Combat: New Subterfuge skill: Obfuscate. It throws a crafted smoke bomb that hides you sharply…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:40:40 -0500

New Subterfuge skill: Obfuscate. It throws a crafted smoke bomb that hides you sharply for a couple of seconds, in the open and even while something is hitting you, which is the window you need to break line of sight and get back into stealth. It sits where Pugilism used to be in the tree, behind Engage Opponent. Smoke Bombs are an Alchemy recipe, three per craft.

Combat: Engage Opponent gives Subterfuge specialists a brief stealth boost while they close the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:40:40 -0500

Engage Opponent gives Subterfuge specialists a brief stealth boost while they close the distance, on top of the focus discount it already had. Without the specialization it behaves exactly as before.

Combat: Added a testers-only timing readout for reaction skills. Riposte, Opportunity Strike…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:17:16 -0500

Added a testers-only timing readout for reaction skills. Riposte, Opportunity Strike, Aetheric Feedback and Fortify Defenses all give a bonus for acting quickly after a parry, dodge or critical hit, and until now there was no way to see whether you made the window or missed it. /reactions shows the window that is open with a countdown, then logs each cast: how long the window was, how far into it you pressed, how long the answer took to come back, and whether the bonus applied.

Combat: The readout also drops a one-line summary into chat after each reaction cast, so a tester…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:17:24 -0500

The readout also drops a one-line summary into chat after each reaction cast, so a tester can paste it straight into a verification task instead of describing what they saw. It carries the window length, the time of the press, the round trip, and the result.

Combat: Reaction skills are detected from the skill data itself rather than by name, so a new one…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:17:25 -0500

Reaction skills are detected from the skill data itself rather than by name, so a new one is covered automatically, and a test fails if the set ever changes without anyone noticing. That test immediately caught Opportunity Strike being wired one level deeper than the other three, which is why its listed chance has always read 100%.

Community: Nightly forum sweep filed 10 wishlist suggestions from the community to the tracker: more…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:24:01 -0500

Nightly forum sweep filed 10 wishlist suggestions from the community to the tracker: more tameable mounts, a Crown Store dye preview tool, a PvP pickpocket/combat-deck idea, deco placement on city-home windowsills and railings, a per-player FX mute option, reviving the monthly fishing contest, custom boss names in player dungeons, a new Castle Atos child quest, a feathers turn-in bin, and a Death Magic aura ability.

Build pipeline: The profiling client builds and downloads. Getting there turned up a real repo bug: the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:22:56 -0500

The profiling client builds and downloads. Getting there turned up a real repo bug: the ignore rule meant to skip a package-restore folder had no path anchor, so it also matched the plugins folder holding the spline library the game compiles against. Anyone building from a fresh copy of the source got a wall of compile errors on types that were simply absent. The plugin is now tracked, so a clean checkout compiles.

Build pipeline: Both builds ran at the same time on the one machine and both passed: the profiling client…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:23:02 -0500

Both builds ran at the same time on the one machine and both passed: the profiling client on its own copy of the source, the nightly release on the original, overlapping for about 25 minutes with no interference. The second build also finished in 62 minutes rather than eight hours, since its asset cache was warm by then. First build off a cold tree is the slow one.

UI: Buff icons on the status bars line up under the bars again. The conversion carried the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:48:55 -0500

Buff icons on the status bars line up under the bars again. The conversion carried the authored grid's nine-per-row wrap and 26-pixel cells across but not its position, so the strip drew flush with the health and focus bars instead of 12 pixels in under them. A new test pins the full strip at 246 pixels against the 280 between the player and target plates, which is the overlap a tester reported before last week's wrap fix landed.

Crafting: The first disagreement the new recipe matching reported on the test shard turned out to…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:59:33 -0500

The first disagreement the new recipe matching reported on the test shard turned out to be a false alarm, and would have been followed by one for roughly every third craft. Recipes that take a category of ingredient rather than a specific one have several equally valid identity codes, and the two sides were reporting different ones for the same recipe. The check now compares the recipes themselves.

Tooling: Our test bots now stand in the world as real characters. Getting there needed two more…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:40:50 -0500

Our test bots now stand in the world as real characters. Getting there needed two more pieces than expected: a bot has to keep publishing where it is standing, or the world puts it at the map origin underneath the terrain, and it has to say it finished loading, or nobody else ever builds a body for it. Until both were in place the bots were in the player list and setting off fireworks with nothing visible underneath.

Tooling: Ran the bots up from ten to two hundred in a single town with no dropped connections. The…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:40:50 -0500

Ran the bots up from ten to two hundred in a single town with no dropped connections. The server barely noticed, sitting around 94 percent idle, and each extra character costs it about a sixth of one percent of a processor core. The limit turned out to be the game client instead: with two hundred characters in view it was pinned to a single processor thread while the graphics card sat mostly idle, which is the kind of thing a server-only test would never have shown us.

Tooling: The Editor report and validate menus stopped popping a dialog to say they finished. Every…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:40:48 -0500

The Editor report and validate menus stopped popping a dialog to say they finished. Every one of those stopped the Editor until somebody clicked it, which blocks automated runs and tells you nothing you cannot see when the import stops. 84 of them now write a console line instead. Failure dialogs all stayed.

Social: Fixed a partner dance that never ended. Ending one only broke the pairing between the two…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:25:02 -0500

Fixed a partner dance that never ended. Ending one only broke the pairing between the two players, and the dance animation loops with no natural finish, so the character kept dancing afterwards. Worse, nothing checked whether your partner was still dancing, so if they stopped an arm's length away you waltzed on alone with nothing to tell you.

Social: A dance now ends for both dancers when either one moves, when either stops dancing, when…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:25:03 -0500

A dance now ends for both dancers when either one moves, when either stops dancing, when they drift more than about 7.5 metres apart, or when a partner logs out, and both people get a line saying so. Added /partner off to end one on purpose; typing it used to answer "off isn't nearby" as though it were somebody's name.

UI: The deck name and swap display in the lower right can be moved again. A small grip handle…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:40:09 -0500

The deck name and swap display in the lower right can be moved again. A small grip handle above the two deck names drags the names and the swap button together as one piece, and where you drop it is remembered between sessions. It had been pinned in place since an earlier version let the deck names be dragged away from their icon one at a time.

UI: Reset Positions on the Interface tab now puts that deck display back in the corner as…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:40:20 -0500

Reset Positions on the Interface tab now puts that deck display back in the corner as well, and a remembered spot is pulled back on screen whenever the resolution or the UI size changes, so it cannot be left stranded past an edge.

UI: Searching all your stuff now looks in your bank from anywhere. Before this, a banked item…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:05:55 -0500

Searching all your stuff now looks in your bank from anywhere. Before this, a banked item only turned up if you had opened a bank window that session, or if you happened to be carrying another one of the same kind.

UI: The search window also stopped losing its own message. Typing fewer than three characters…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:05:55 -0500

The search window also stopped losing its own message. Typing fewer than three characters and pressing Enter showed the reminder for a fraction of a second before the previous result count wrote over it, so anyone who had already searched once never saw it.

UI: Two smaller improvements came with those. Search results now fill the list as they arrive…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:05:55 -0500

Two smaller improvements came with those. Search results now fill the list as they arrive instead of appearing all at once at the end, and a search that matches more kinds of item than one request can carry now says so instead of returning a short list with no explanation.

UI: Highlighted inventory rows now belong to one window at a time. Clicking anywhere in…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:03:31 -0500

Highlighted inventory rows now belong to one window at a time. Clicking anywhere in another container window, its title bar included, drops the previous window's highlights, and clicking the world clears them. Before this, a bag, a chest and the backpack could each hold a selection at once with nothing to say which one an action would use. Reported by a tester who also proposed the fix.

UI: The tester Duplicate tool follows the same rule, so it copies the rows in the window you…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:03:39 -0500

The tester Duplicate tool follows the same rule, so it copies the rows in the window you were last working in instead of everything highlighted anywhere. Crafting stations are the deliberate exception: their side-by-side lists keep their own highlights, because moving reagents between them means having rows picked in two lists at once.

UI: Glyphs on the hotbar were reported as showing no tooltip. A plain hover renders the full…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:24:21 -0500

Glyphs on the hotbar were reported as showing no tooltip. A plain hover renders the full tooltip on the current build, and nothing changed between the reported build and this one in how a hover is resolved, so that report stays open until it can be reproduced. The hover path picked up automated coverage in the meantime: the tests mount the bar the way the game does, pick the element under each slot, and follow it to the tooltip that slot should answer with.

Performance: Profiled the client in a crowd on the chaos shard: stood in Castle Atos and ramped test…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:56 -0500

Profiled the client in a crowd on the chaos shard: stood in Castle Atos and ramped test avatars 0, 50, 100, 150, capturing at each step. Frame time rises about 0.89 ms per added player, taking the client from 30 fps alone to 6 fps in a crowd of 150.

Performance: The graphics card is never the hold-up. The counter that measures the main thread waiting…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:56 -0500

The graphics card is never the hold-up. The counter that measures the main thread waiting on the GPU read 0.002 ms at every population, so the whole cost is on the processor side. A faster graphics card would not move this number.

Performance: Found two pieces of code whose cost grows with the square of the crowd: doubling the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:57 -0500

Found two pieces of code whose cost grows with the square of the crowd: doubling the players quadruples the work. One is a player lookup that walks the entire list every time it is asked, hidden behind a property that looks free to call. The other is every visible character running its own search for who is standing near it, including the ones that are just puppets of other players.

Performance: Re-ran the 150-avatar test with the fireworks switched off to separate the two costs…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:57 -0500

Re-ran the 150-avatar test with the fireworks switched off to separate the two costs. Fireworks are 20 percent of the frame at that size and almost all of it is drawing, adding 3,365 draw-state changes because each burst brings its own effect that cannot be drawn together with the others. The crowd itself is the other 100 ms, and that part is nearly all code.

Performance: Fixed the first of the two costs that grew with the square of the crowd. Looking up a…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:21 -0500

Fixed the first of the two costs that grew with the square of the crowd. Looking up a player by id walked the whole list of everyone in the scene, and it sat behind a property that looked free to call, so it ended up running for every character every frame. It is now a direct lookup. At 150 players that removes about 48,000 list reads and 27,000 comparisons per frame.

Performance: The second one turned out to be a missing limit rather than a bad design. Each character…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:21 -0500

The second one turned out to be a missing limit rather than a bad design. Each character searches for who is standing near it, and that search is meant to run about once a second. The version that runs for other players nearby had no such limit and ran every frame, while the copy that runs for your own character was correctly limited. Restored the limit: at 150 players that is 153 searches per frame down to roughly one per character per second.

Performance: Resisted the tempting version of that second fix. Skipping the search entirely for other…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:21 -0500

Resisted the tempting version of that second fix. Skipping the search entirely for other players would have been faster still, but abilities that jump from target to target read the list belonging to whoever cast them, and the caster can be another player. Keeping the list and restoring its limit gets almost the same saving without touching how those abilities pick targets.

Performance: Next candidate found while measuring: character animation. Non-player characters are told…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:03:22 -0500

Next candidate found while measuring: character animation. Non-player characters are told to skip animation work while off screen, but player characters never were, so every avatar behind you keeps doing full animation. That is about 27 ms of work per frame at 150 players.

Tools: Added a small harness that triggers a profile capture in a running client from the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:58 -0500

Added a small harness that triggers a profile capture in a running client from the command line, so a measurement run does not need someone typing into chat between waves.

Tools: Fixed the example test-fleet config, which set the bots up to perform in a private room…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:42:58 -0500

Fixed the example test-fleet config, which set the bots up to perform in a private room no player could ever reach; its own comments described the opposite behaviour. Also fixed the fleet stop script, which threw an error at the exact moment every bot had shut down cleanly.

Tools: Caught a test that was passing without testing anything. The new coverage for the player…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:29:16 -0500

Caught a test that was passing without testing anything. The new coverage for the player lookup needed a live network connection to set up, which does not exist when tests run outside the game, so every case quietly skipped and the run still reported success. Rewrote it to cover the one case it can actually reach, which happens to be the one the change put at risk.

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Images: The new Summon window, filtered to tiers 8 through 12.

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:24:14 -0500

The new Summon window, filtered to tiers 8 through 12.

Inventory: Container windows no longer open on top of each other. Every bag and chest loaded the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:11:37 -0500

Container windows no longer open on top of each other. Every bag and chest loaded the same saved position, so the second one you opened covered the first completely, title and all. Each additional container now steps 40px right and 32px down from the one before it, and closing one in the middle puts the next container you open back in that gap.

Inventory: The remembered size and position still belong to the first window you open. The rest…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:11:44 -0500

The remembered size and position still belong to the first window you open. The rest match its size and step off it, so every title stays readable and no window has to be dragged aside to find the one behind it.

Interface: The encumbrance warning in the top right corner now appears as soon as you are carrying…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:20 -0500

The encumbrance warning in the top right corner now appears as soon as you are carrying more than your capacity. On the new interface it stayed hidden until you were roughly two and a half times over, so through most of the range where your movement is already slowed there was nothing on screen saying so.

Interface: The exclamation mark over that warning is yellow as you approach the weight that stops…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:29 -0500

The exclamation mark over that warning is yellow as you approach the weight that stops you picking anything else up, and red once you reach it. The conversion had carried the mark across but not the colour it was drawn in, so both looked identical.

Options menu: A tester went looking for a search box in the Options window's Controls tab and reported…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:28:42 -0500

A tester went looking for a search box in the Options window's Controls tab and reported there was none. There never had been one, in the current interface or in the one it replaced. The tab now has the filter that report assumed: the keybinding list carries close to two hundred actions, and typing part of an action name narrows the list to what matches, ignoring capital letters and matching anywhere in the name. Clearing the box, or closing and reopening the window, brings the whole list back.

Options menu: Building that filter exposed two faults in key rebinding. A row waiting for a key press…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:28:42 -0500

Building that filter exposed two faults in key rebinding. A row waiting for a key press reads the keyboard directly and treats Delete as clear this binding, so clicking into the new box while a row read Press a key would have bound the first letter typed, and Delete would have cleared that action's key. The capture now ends the moment the filter box takes focus. Resetting to defaults also left a capture running against keys that had just changed under it.

Housing: Fixed Tighter Fit not re-checking the item you are holding when you toggle the mode…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:15 -0500

Fixed Tighter Fit not re-checking the item you are holding when you toggle the mode. Slide an item against a wall until the ghost turns red, press the key without moving the mouse, and the ghost stayed red until you nudged the item. Turning the mode off while tucked in had the reverse problem and left the ghost green on a spot the item no longer fit.

Housing: Tighter Fit now says which kind of item it refused. Wall art, containers, display cases…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:16 -0500

Tighter Fit now says which kind of item it refused. Wall art, containers, display cases and lot markers all gave the same line about chests, crafting stations and planting beds, which named none of them. Each category has its own message now, and an excluded item held with the mode on says so in the placement status instead of the Tighter Fit line disappearing.

Housing: Tighter Fit works on a decoration that has something resting on it. A rug with an item on…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:17 -0500

Tighter Fit works on a decoration that has something resting on it. A rug with an item on top read as a multi-part decoration and was refused. The rug now gets the narrower placement collision while its passenger keeps full size, so the pair still stops against a wall. The same fix stops a table with a chest on it being treated as a chest.

Maps: A tester checking the Vauban Pass map reported their marker sitting slightly off the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:11:32 -0500

A tester checking the Vauban Pass map reported their marker sitting slightly off the trail they were standing on. Built a tool that measures the question directly: it puts an object at a known spot in the world, photographs it the same way the map itself was photographed, and compares where it landed against where the map says it should be. Twenty-five spots across the zone, at two different heights.

Maps: Vauban Pass came back accurate to six centimetres across the whole zone, with no stretch…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:11:32 -0500

Vauban Pass came back accurate to six centimetres across the whole zone, with no stretch and no turn in the result. The map picture, the frame it was shot in and the numbers the game uses to place your marker all agree, so the map is not what is wrong. The map edge fix from the day before is cleared too. The search moves to the client.

Maps: Added two tests that hold the same relationship without needing the editor open, so a…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:11:33 -0500

Added two tests that hold the same relationship without needing the editor open, so a future recapture cannot quietly reframe a map and leave every marker on it pointing at the wrong place. One of them covers the case where the map is drawn turned to face north, which had been carrying every rotated zone with nothing checking it.

Client: Tracked down a report of poor performance on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 laptop. The chaos…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:21:55 -0500

Tracked down a report of poor performance on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 laptop. The chaos telemetry happened to contain the same physical machines running under both Linux graphics drivers, which made it a controlled comparison: OpenGL averaged 25.7 fps and 78.6 ms of processor time per frame, Vulkan averaged 58.7 fps and 19.8 ms. Roughly four times the processor cost for the same work.

Client: The Linux client now starts on Vulkan by default. Anyone who already picked a graphics…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:21:55 -0500

The Linux client now starts on Vulkan by default. Anyone who already picked a graphics option in the launcher keeps their choice, OpenGL stays selectable, and it remains the automatic fallback if Vulkan cannot start. Windows and Mac are untouched.

Client: The per-minute frame rate report now records which graphics driver, quality level and…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:21:55 -0500

The per-minute frame rate report now records which graphics driver, quality level and texture detail setting a session is actually running. Without the driver field the OpenGL gap above could only be worked out by reading renderer name suffixes, which is how it stayed hidden this long.

Client: A fresh install now picks its starting video settings from the machine it is on. Before…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:32 -0500

A fresh install now picks its starting video settings from the machine it is on. Before this, the client read the graphics chip only to write it into a log line, so a new install started on the same preset on a top-end desktop card and on a laptop with built-in graphics. Existing players are left exactly as they are.

Client: Texture streaming was off across every quality level, so the client uploaded every…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:33 -0500

Texture streaming was off across every quality level, so the client uploaded every texture at full detail with no memory budget at all. It is on now, with a budget per quality level and a ceiling worked out from the machine, and 3,964 world textures were swept onto it. Interface art, cube maps and textures without mipmaps are deliberately left out.

Client: Found why one Linux session logged 13,184 low-memory warnings from the graphics driver…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:33 -0500

Found why one Linux session logged 13,184 low-memory warnings from the graphics driver and then sat at 11 frames per second: with no texture budget the allocator falls off the fast memory and the processor starts stalling inside the driver. The giveaway is processor and graphics frame times reading the same number, which looks like a processor bottleneck in the charts and is not one.

Client: The automatic quality adjustment had a check that could never pass, so distant ground…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:34 -0500

The automatic quality adjustment had a check that could never pass, so distant ground detail has never once been turned down on a struggling machine while shadows and level of detail have been adjusting for years. Its trigger also only fired below 25 frames per second, so anyone sitting at 30 to 45 got no help at all. It now aims at a target worked out from your own frame rate limit.

Client: Re-measured the crowd cost in Castle Atos on a build carrying the two fixes from this…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:00 -0500

Re-measured the crowd cost in Castle Atos on a build carrying the two fixes from this morning. With 150 other players standing in one scene, the script work the client does per frame for the crowd fell from 49.9 to 39.0 milliseconds, and the cost of each additional player dropped from 0.258 to 0.180 milliseconds.

Client: The saving grows with the crowd the way the fix predicted: 1.0 millisecond at 50 players…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:00 -0500

The saving grows with the crowd the way the fix predicted: 1.0 millisecond at 50 players, 5.1 at 100, 11.0 at 150. Both problems removed work that grew with the square of the player count, so a bigger crowd was always going to gain more. Predicted 9.6 milliseconds at 150, measured 11.0.

Client: The profiles show each fix doing its own job. The per-avatar search for nearby characters…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:00 -0500

The profiles show each fix doing its own job. The per-avatar search for nearby characters went from 153 sweeps every frame to 18, which is the once-a-second cadence it was always meant to run at. The player-list scan behind it disappeared from the profile entirely: it was being read 48,873 times a frame at 150 players.

Client: Frame rate at 150 players with fireworks still reads the same number, because the client…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:00 -0500

Frame rate at 150 players with fireworks still reads the same number, because the client runs with vertical sync on and frame times land on fixed boundaries. An 11 millisecond saving is not enough to cross one. With fireworks off it does cross, and the rate went from 7.5 to 8.6 frames per second.

Client: With those two gone the ranking of what is left changed. Checking whether an object still…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:00 -0500

With those two gone the ranking of what is left changed. Checking whether an object still exists is now the largest remaining script cost at 9.2 milliseconds per frame, down from 12.2 but still the biggest single item. Roughly a quarter of it had been sitting inside the unthrottled search.

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Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:31:10 -0500

Client: The fireworks-off capture gave the throttle fix a second, independent check. If each…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:35:03 -0500

The fireworks-off capture gave the throttle fix a second, independent check. If each avatar now searches once a second rather than every frame, the per-frame count should follow the frame rate instead of the crowd size, and it does: same 150 characters at 8.6 frames per second instead of 6.0 gave 19 searches a frame against the 17.8 that cadence predicts.

Client: Chased down where the client frame actually goes with 150 players on screen. The…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:08:11 -0500

Chased down where the client frame actually goes with 150 players on screen. The profiling report had been adding up work across all 56 threads at once, which buried the answer: the job workers alone come to 17,373 milliseconds per frame against a 164 millisecond frame. It now separates the main thread, and that total lands at 163.87 milliseconds against a 163.87 millisecond frame. The whole frame is accounted for.

Client: That closes a question that had been recorded as "a third of the frame is unattributed"…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:08:11 -0500

That closes a question that had been recorded as "a third of the frame is unattributed". Nothing was missing. The earlier number was frame time minus three named engine stages, and plenty of real work happens outside those three. The split at 150 players is game script 33 percent, engine and waiting on jobs 10, rendering 10, animation 6, particles 6.

Client: Other players now stop doing their full animation work while they are off your screen…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:08:11 -0500

Other players now stop doing their full animation work while they are off your screen. They keep tracking what they are doing, so anyone walking back into view is already in the right pose. Characters run by the game have always worked this way; player characters never got the same treatment, so 150 of them were each posing a full skeleton whether or not you could see them.

Client: The compass was re-sorting which icon draws in front on every frame: 888 comparisons…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:08:11 -0500

The compass was re-sorting which icon draws in front on every frame: 888 comparisons, each doing two lookups and four flag reads, about 1.4 milliseconds a frame. It costs that in an empty scene as much as in a crowd. Icons still follow the camera every frame; only the front-to-back order settles at ten times a second now.

Client: Checked whether firework effects were missing their batching settings. They were not…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:08:11 -0500

Checked whether firework effects were missing their batching settings. They were not: 2,595 of the 2,606 effect materials already had instancing switched on, including all four firework ones, which share a single shader. The 11 that lacked it are on now for consistency, but they are not the cause. The real number is roughly 2,800 live particle systems at once, with no limit anywhere on how many effects can run together.

Client: Cleared the last 242 build warnings out of the editor console, left over from the engine…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:09:59 -0500

Cleared the last 242 build warnings out of the editor console, left over from the engine upgrade. The bulk of them, 175, are fields the old interface still owns inside saved layouts that no code reads any more. They are kept on purpose so the saved wiring stays intact, so they are marked as expected now rather than deleted. Checking the result meant replaying the compiler command the engine itself runs, because a plain command-line build and the editor console do not agree on what counts as a warning.

Client: One of those warnings was covering a real bug. The compass strip and the map picture are…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:10:08 -0500

One of those warnings was covering a real bug. The compass strip and the map picture are drawn by the same code, and it was lining the artwork up twice over: once by hand, once in the engine, which does that step by itself now. The doubling only bites when the game packs that artwork in with other images while running, so it shows on some machines and quality settings and not others, and when it does, the wrong slice of the picture gets drawn. It lines up once now.

Client: The client had a complete system for simulating distant players more cheaply, switched…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:53:24 -0500

The client had a complete system for simulating distant players more cheaply, switched off with its call commented out, so every other player in the scene was being run at the most expensive setting no matter how far away they were. It is on now, with one change to how it decides.

Client: The original design cut players off by distance, which bounds how far away they can be…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:53:24 -0500

The original design cut players off by distance, which bounds how far away they can be but not how many there are. Everyone inside about 14 metres counted as close, so a packed tavern still ran the expensive path for the whole room. It now also caps the number, nearest first, which means the cost of standing in a crowd of 500 is the cost of standing in a crowd of 15.

Client: The cap deliberately applies to physics only. The same setting also gated two things you…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:53:24 -0500

The cap deliberately applies to physics only. The same setting also gated two things you can see, the jump and attack animation blend and the model size change, and those still go by distance. With a count cap the sixteenth-nearest player can be three metres in front of you, and freezing their jump animation there would be obvious.

Client: Also removed a debug line in that switched-off function that wrote once per player per…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:53:24 -0500

Also removed a debug line in that switched-off function that wrote once per player per frame. With 150 players at six frames a second it would have written about 900 lines a second into the log.

Client: Reviewing that change caught a problem with it before it went anywhere. Switching off a…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:27:49 -0500

Reviewing that change caught a problem with it before it went anywhere. Switching off a distant player's physics also took away the collider that area effect abilities search for, so casting into a crowd would have found only the few players nearest you. The cap now covers the expensive movement work and leaves the collider in place, which was the part actually worth removing.

Web: Added a SQUIRREL! card explaining what the client performance work is actually in service…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:46:56 -0500

Added a SQUIRREL! card explaining what the client performance work is actually in service of: a hundred and fifty people in one room with the fireworks going, still dancing. It notes in passing that large fights get the same benefit.

GM Tools: New Summon window in the GM tool suite: the whole monster library as a filterable…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:14 -0500

New Summon window in the GM tool suite: the whole monster library as a filterable, sortable list showing name, tier and family, with a count, a placement ring, a tier band, the five pre-built encounter groups, and a Clear My Summons button. Before this the only way to summon a creature was typing one of 1,376 prefab paths into the dev console, and that console command is compiled out of release builds, so on a release client there was no way to summon anything at all.

GM Tools: Added war party presets to the GM Summon window: build a list like 1 lich boss + 5…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:04 -0500

Added war party presets to the GM Summon window: build a list like 1 lich boss + 5 skeleton archers + 10 skeleton warriors, save it under a name such as Lich War Party, and summon the whole group in one click. Presets are plain files that copy between machines.

GM Tools: GM summons can now drop loot: a Normal loot toggle rolls the creature's own drop table on…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:05 -0500

GM summons can now drop loot: a Normal loot toggle rolls the creature's own drop table on its corpse, and an Extra bundle picker adds one chosen loot bundle on top. Corpses from GM summons used to always open empty.

GM Tools: Added a My Summons window: every creature a GM has summoned in one list with dismiss…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:05 -0500

Added a My Summons window: every creature a GM has summoned in one list with dismiss, heal, +10 levels, and attack-my-target buttons, per creature or all at once. Clicking a row targets the creature in game.

GM Tools: GM-summoned creatures can no longer be tamed. Tameable species summoned for events were…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:05 -0500

GM-summoned creatures can no longer be tamed. Tameable species summoned for events were effectively free max-tier pets.

GM Tools: Dying to GM event monsters no longer counts as a PvP loss. When the summons out-damage…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:44:05 -0500

Dying to GM event monsters no longer counts as a PvP loss. When the summons out-damage every player in the fight there is no ransom; a kill where a player did most of the damage still ransoms as before.

Client Performance: Creature summon slots are now created on demand instead of 32 being pre-allocated on…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:23 -0500

Creature summon slots are now created on demand instead of 32 being pre-allocated on every player whose account carries dev, admin or VIP. Those 32 were built on every client that could see that player, so a crowded scene paid for them repeatedly, and the same 32 was also the hard ceiling on how many creatures could be summoned at once. A player who never summons now carries none.

Bug Fixes: Fixed a client crash that could hit anyone standing near a summoner. When a client could…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:16:24 -0500

Fixed a client crash that could hit anyone standing near a summoner. When a client could not match a summoned creature to its owner it logged the failure and then read from the empty result anyway, ending the creature load with an error. The lookup now builds the missing entry, and the read is guarded.

UI Themes: Retuned window transparency on every UI theme. Obsidian, Fire, and Arcane panels went…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:20:11 -0500

Retuned window transparency on every UI theme. Obsidian, Fire, and Arcane panels went from 96 percent opacity to 80 with popups at 88, Classic stepped from 90 to 82, and Air is unchanged. More of the world reads through the glass while the text stays legible; new tests pin the transparency bands and check text contrast composited over worst case scenes.

UI Themes: New default corner ornament art for themed windows, Quill : the bottom corners keep the…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:20:11 -0500

New default corner ornament art for themed windows, Quill: the bottom corners keep the engraved flourish, the top corners now carry a small tapered line with a floret, and a tinted chip backs the close, pin, and help buttons. The titlebar buttons no longer sit on dense filigree.

UI Themes: Fixed the purchase signature line, which borrowed the corner ornament styling and was…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:20:11 -0500

Fixed the purchase signature line, which borrowed the corner ornament styling and was invisible on the Classic theme. Fixed the ambient glow on modal dialogs, which never animated. The theme editor motion speed slider now covers the full 20 second range that shared theme codes allow; it stopped at 10 before.

UI Themes: Two new controls on the Options Themes tab: a Window Opacity slider from 30 to 120…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:34:40 -0500

Two new controls on the Options Themes tab: a Window Opacity slider from 30 to 120 percent that sets how solid every window background is on any theme (text and frames stay fully visible), and a Corner Ornaments dropdown that turns the decorative corner art off on stock themes, which used to require saving a custom theme first. Both apply live and stack with custom themes.

UI Themes: The Corner Ornaments option grew into a style pick: Quill (the quiet default), Flourish…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:42:51 -0500

The Corner Ornaments option grew into a style pick: Quill (the quiet default), Flourish (the older full filigree), the new Rail (a thin double line frame with corner diamonds), or Off, on any theme including Classic, which never had corner art before. Custom themes can also carry an ornament size now; the size control arrives with the theme editor rework.

UI Themes: Window backgrounds can now carry a texture: a Backing Pattern pick on the Options Themes…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:57:50 -0500

Window backgrounds can now carry a texture: a Backing Pattern pick on the Options Themes tab offers Parchment, Leather, Smoke, Sigil (a centered chaos star watermark), or Glass on any theme. The textures derive from the game's own book and window art and combine with every theme color, the opacity slider, and custom themes.

UI Themes: Every window can now carry its own opacity: right-click a window's title bar for a small…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:09:35 -0500

Every window can now carry its own opacity: right-click a window's title bar for a small popup with a 15 to 100 percent slider and a Reset to Global button, so chat can run glassier than inventory. The setting saves per window, combines with the theme and the global Window Opacity slider, and a new Reset Window Layout button in Options clears all saved window positions, sizes, and per-window opacity.

UI Themes: The Theme Editor window moved onto the shared window chrome: it now remembers its…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:37:27 -0500

The Theme Editor window moved onto the shared window chrome: it now remembers its position and size, clamps to the screen like every other window, and stopped leaking gameplay keys, so dragging a color slider no longer walks your character or fires hotbar binds. Unsaved edits also survive now: the editor auto-stashes your working theme and restores it the next time it opens, after a logout or a crash included.

UI Themes: The Theme Editor got a Simple view: pick an accent color, a text tone, a surface color…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:49:54 -0500

The Theme Editor got a Simple view: pick an accent color, a text tone, a surface color and opacity, a backing pattern, an ornament style and size, fonts, and motion, and the editor derives the full 49-color set for you. The old full color list lives on in an Advanced view with a search filter, a visible selected row, Reset All, and Revert to Saved. Controls that Advanced edits have diverged from show a (custom) marker instead of lying about their state.

Docs: Wrote up the UI theme overhaul in the skins doc (opacity system, ornament styles, backing…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:51:45 -0500

Wrote up the UI theme overhaul in the skins doc (opacity system, ornament styles, backing patterns, per-window opacity, the editor rebuild) and added the shipped entry to the roadmap.

Quests: Reset Quest State no longer erases the places a character has discovered. The reset…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:41:08 -0500

Reset Quest State no longer erases the places a character has discovered. The reset rebuilt the character's knowledge list from a short keep-list and dropped everything else, and discovered maps and arrival points sit in that same list, so a reset wiped the whole teleport destination list along with the quest progress. Discovered places are now kept through a reset; journal entries, quest flags, and quest items are still cleared.

Quests: Added nine editor tests over the quest reset filter covering what it keeps and what it…

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:41:15 -0500

Added nine editor tests over the quest reset filter covering what it keeps and what it clears, plus the value clamping the changed branch touches. The existing bot test seeded only NPC-style flags, which is why the travel loss went unnoticed, so it now seeds and checks a discovered map and an arrival point as well.

Headlines · 2026-07-31

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:14:18 -0500

Right-clicking an enemy sends your pet at it again, from anywhere on screen and on the very first click after a camera swing.
World text got a readability pass. Nameplates, speech bubbles and overworld town labels are drawn from fonts baked at twice the detail, with the heavy black outline and the synthetic bold both cut back.
The skill training tracker looks like its old self again: icon-only rows with the sliding Level Up! reveal restored
The typing cursor now sits where the text lands. In most entry boxes it drew high and the first letter you typed dropped below it, by 3 pixels on ordinary boxes and 30 in the big multi-line ones.
Double-click now equips gear, and rings fill the first open slot or a per-ring preferred slot set from the right-click menu.
The Remember User Name box on the login screen works again, and the setting now survives a patch instead of being thrown away every time the game updated.
The test suite is green end to end for the first time in weeks, and clearing it turned up four real bugs the red tail had been hiding.
Dragged items stay in front of open windows again, including bottles, chairs and anything else that doubles as a decoration.
The character window got its rework: a much larger character model, slot silhouette icons back in the gear slots, and bottom tabs for Stats, XP, Pet, and Titles.
Ten visible bots ran on a test shard for ten minutes without a drop and set off 481 fireworks, after a first run turned up three connection bugs.
The /fps window now breaks the frame down into CPU, render thread and GPU time, and its graph splits every column into a processor bar and a graphics bar so you can see which side caused a spike.
A profiling build of the client landed, with in-game capture and a readable report, so we can finally measure where client frame time goes in a crowded scene on the test shard.
Names in angle brackets read as themselves again on the new interface: a pet's owner, a guild beside a character name, the lot list status rows. The bracket had been rewritten to an HTML entity as an injection guard, and UI Toolkit never decodes one.

Community: Filed five new wishlist ideas from the forum: knight tournaments, a PvP…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:17:28 -0500

Filed five new wishlist ideas from the forum: knight tournaments, a PvP collision-encounter idea, splitting off a PvP server, rare unique mob drops, and a UO Doom dungeon recreation.

User Interface: Right-clicking a creature itself opens its menu again, wherever the creature happens to…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:07:40 -0500

Right-clicking a creature itself opens its menu again, wherever the creature happens to be on screen. The game was deciding what the menu should be about a couple of frames after the button came up, and by then the pointer had been moved back from the middle of the screen, where it sits hidden for as long as the right button is held. A creature near the middle usually still worked and one off to the side opened nothing. The menu is now built from what you were pointing at when you pressed.

User Interface: The first right-click after a camera swing no longer gets thrown away. Right-dragging…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:07:46 -0500

The first right-click after a camera swing no longer gets thrown away. Right-dragging turns the camera, and the game refuses a menu when you have done that, but the leftover turn from the last drag was being charged to the next click before the mouse had moved at all. Half a unit of it was enough. Camera turns now start from a stop, which also removes a small jolt at the beginning of every one.

User Interface: The Remember User Name box on the login screen works again. Ticking it had stopped…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:29 -0500

The Remember User Name box on the login screen works again. Ticking it had stopped filling your name back in, and logging in from that blank screen also wiped the name the game had stored, so it could never come back on a later launch.

User Interface: Your login choice is now written to disk the moment you press Log In. It used to wait…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:30 -0500

Your login choice is now written to disk the moment you press Log In. It used to wait until the game shut down properly, which is exactly what did not happen on patch day, so the setting was lost every time the game updated.

User Interface: The password box stays empty on every build. A remembered user name no longer brings a…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:31 -0500

The password box stays empty on every build. A remembered user name no longer brings a stored password along with it.

User Interface: Dragging an item now draws it in front of every open window. Anything that can double as…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:46:25 -0500

Dragging an item now draws it in front of every open window. Anything that can double as a decoration was drawn on the older interface layer whenever you stood on a lot you could decorate, so moving one between two open containers left it hidden behind the window it was crossing.

User Interface: The dragged icon now picks which layer draws it every frame, from where the cursor is…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:46:34 -0500

The dragged icon now picks which layer draws it every frame, from where the cursor is rather than from the item. Dropping a decoration out in the world still shows the placement preview and the permission text exactly as before, and the choice is covered by seven new editor tests.

Crafting: Double-clicking a recipe at a crafting station no longer brings the chat window to the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:38:20 -0500

Double-clicking a recipe at a crafting station no longer brings the chat window to the front of the station you are working at. The same now goes for craft results, queue messages, repairs and salvage.

Crafting: Those messages still go to the chat log and can be searched back later. The crafting…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:38:21 -0500

Those messages still go to the chat log and can be searched back later. The crafting window shows the last three of them itself, under the crafting summary, with problems in the same red the recipe cards use for materials you are short of.

Crafting: The lines about individual materials being used up during a craft stay in chat. A…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:38:22 -0500

The lines about individual materials being used up during a craft stay in chat. A ten-ingredient recipe produces ten of them and they would push the result sentence out of the readout.

Tooling: The nightly job that reads the forum wishlist board missed a night after a restart left…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:21:07 -0500

The nightly job that reads the forum wishlist board missed a night after a restart left this machine sitting at the login screen. Its schedule now retries a missed run once the machine is back, and the task setup is checked into the repo instead of being configured by hand.

Tooling: Our test bots can now stand in the world as ordinary player characters. Until today they…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:07:42 -0500

Our test bots can now stand in the world as ordinary player characters. Until today they logged in, held their connections and counted toward a shard's population, but they had no body, so anyone standing in the same scene saw an empty room. They now spawn a character, spread out around a chosen spot, and set off fireworks on a timer.

Tooling: The bots take the same route through the game a player does: each one joins the instance…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:07:52 -0500

The bots take the same route through the game a player does: each one joins the instance players are already in, gives itself a firework, uses it, and consumes it. The launcher that spreads bots across test machines drives the new mode too, so a display can be run from any of them.

Tooling: First live run of the visible test bots, ten of them against a test shard from a Linux…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:09 -0500

First live run of the visible test bots, ten of them against a test shard from a Linux box. Three bugs surfaced in a row: the logging connection used a fixed port number so no bot ever finished connecting, an inventory reply the bots never listened for killed each session about twelve seconds in, and the avatar's identifier went out in the wrong form. With those fixed, ten bots held for ten minutes with no drops and set off 481 fireworks.

Tooling: Ten bots cost the machine running them almost nothing: about 114 MB of memory between…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:10 -0500

Ten bots cost the machine running them almost nothing: about 114 MB of memory between them, a sixth of one processor core, and roughly 95 kbit/s of traffic. The game server stayed near idle throughout.

Decorating: Resizing a decoration showed two size readouts: the real one, and a second panel pinned…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:16 -0500

Resizing a decoration showed two size readouts: the real one, and a second panel pinned over your own avatar and name plate that always read the same wrong number. The second one was a leftover panel from the old interface carrying placeholder text a prefab save had captured years ago; it appeared alongside every decorating message, not just resizing. Removed, along with the placeholder itself.

User Interface: Re-cut the fonts behind world text: the name over a character, the title and guild lines…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:56 -0500

Re-cut the fonts behind world text: the name over a character, the title and guild lines under it, speech bubbles, and overworld town labels. All three faces were baked at 46pt (one into a 512x256 sheet); they are now 90pt into sheets up to 2048x2048, so letters hold their shape when you walk right up to someone.

User Interface: Took the weight back out of that text. The synthetic bold went from 0.75 to 0.1, the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:56 -0500

Took the weight back out of that text. The synthetic bold went from 0.75 to 0.1, the black outline from 0.386 down to 0.15 (party plates were at 0.5, the maximum the shader allows), and sharpening is now switched on. It had never been written into the materials, so it had been sitting at zero.

User Interface: Lightened the shading down each letter from 28% grey at the bottom to 65%, and turned on…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:56 -0500

Lightened the shading down each letter from 28% grey at the bottom to 65%, and turned on the extra padding that keeps an outline from being clipped at the edge of a glyph.

User Interface: Added a thin-outline material and wired it into the world label font registry. That slot…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:56 -0500

Added a thin-outline material and wired it into the world label font registry. That slot had been empty, and the lookup falls through to the thick outline when it is, so labels authored with a 1px outline had been drawing with the heavy one.

User Interface: Added six tests over the world text materials. They pin the outline and bold ceilings and…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:56 -0500

Added six tests over the world text materials. They pin the outline and bold ceilings and check that each material still agrees with its font atlas on gradient scale and texture size, which is what catches a font re-bake that only got half finished.

User Interface: Same name, same size, same position. Left is what shipped, right is what the next build…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:41:08 -0500

Same name, same size, same position. Left is what shipped, right is what the next build draws.

Launcher: The launcher now asks the game to close itself before an update instead of closing the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:38 -0500

The launcher now asks the game to close itself before an update instead of closing the window and killing the process eight seconds later. The game shuts down through its normal quit path, so a character in world sits out the logout timer first and nothing you changed that session is thrown away.

Launcher: The wait before a forced close went from 8 to 45 seconds to leave room for that logout…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:39 -0500

The wait before a forced close went from 8 to 45 seconds to leave room for that logout timer. Anything still running at the end is still closed the old way.

Launcher: Settings survive a reset of the local settings file again. The game stamps a version into…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:02:40 -0500

Settings survive a reset of the local settings file again. The game stamps a version into that file when it clears it, and the stamp was being written without being saved, so a game that ended badly could clear every setting once more on the next launch.

UI: Skill training tracker went back to its compact look: each tracked skill is just its icon…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:35:44 -0500

Skill training tracker went back to its compact look: each tracked skill is just its icon with a thin green experience bar along the bottom edge, and the always-on name and level text from the UI Toolkit conversion are gone. The skill name still shows on hover.

UI: Restored the level-up reveal on the tracker: the icon slides left and a panel with Level…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:35:45 -0500

Restored the level-up reveal on the tracker: the icon slides left and a panel with Level Up! and the new level fades in, holds five seconds, then slides back. Level downs show the same panel in red, and a green +1 counter marks levels gained this session. Filed tester task #3011.

UI: Fixed the typing cursor sitting higher than the text in most entry boxes. Clicking into…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:46:29 -0500

Fixed the typing cursor sitting higher than the text in most entry boxes. Clicking into an empty box put the cursor near the top of the field, and the first character you typed then landed lower than the cursor had shown. The two now share the same line, so there is no jump.

UI: The offset measured 3 pixels on an ordinary single-line box and 30 pixels in the large…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:46:39 -0500

The offset measured 3 pixels on an ordinary single-line box and 30 pixels in the large multi-line ones used for guild descriptions, item text and book pages. Those multi-line boxes also start their text at the top of the box now rather than floating it in the middle.

UI: Added two regression tests for the cursor offset: one reads the shared interface theme…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:46:45 -0500

Added two regression tests for the cursor offset: one reads the shared interface theme, the other stands real entry boxes up on a live panel and measures where the cursor sits against where the text draws.

UI: Double-clicking equipment in your inventory now equips it. Loot and bank containers still…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:48:10 -0500

Double-clicking equipment in your inventory now equips it. Loot and bank containers still take the item instead.

UI: Rings fill the first open ring slot on double-click instead of always replacing the left…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:48:10 -0500

Rings fill the first open ring slot on double-click instead of always replacing the left one, and the right-click menu can give a ring a preferred slot (left, right, or none). A preferred ring always equips into its slot, swapping out whatever is worn there, and the preference is saved on the ring itself.

UI: Chased the skill tracker report that rows vanish after a level up: live traces showed the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:31:37 -0500

Chased the skill tracker report that rows vanish after a level up: live traces showed the row stack itself is sound, but the reveal animation could collapse into a single frame when the level-up moment hitched, and the first level up of a session played before the row finished building. Both fixed: the slide now always animates over several frames and waits for the row to exist.

UI: Tracker polish from the original prefab data: the +N session counter got its 1px black…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:31:37 -0500

Tracker polish from the original prefab data: the +N session counter got its 1px black outline back, the notification panel text inset matches the old bracket, and queued level-ups advance at the original pace again.

UI: The /fps window now reports CPU, render thread and GPU milliseconds alongside the frame…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:51:27 -0500

The /fps window now reports CPU, render thread and GPU milliseconds alongside the frame rate, so a slow scene tells you which half of the machine is the limit. CPU is measured as real main thread work with the wait for the display subtracted, because a frame rate cap or vertical sync otherwise pins that number to the cap and makes an idling machine look processor bound.

UI: The frame time graph under those numbers split in two. Each column used to be one bar for…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:51:34 -0500

The frame time graph under those numbers split in two. Each column used to be one bar for the whole frame; it now carries a processor bar and a graphics bar side by side across the same fifteen seconds of history, so a spike shows which side caused it. They sit beside each other rather than stacked because the two run at the same time, and adding them would show a frame time neither one spent. Machines whose drivers report no graphics timing show dashes instead of a misleading zero.

Engineering: The automated test suite is fully green for the first time in weeks: 7108 passing, none…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:17:09 -0500

The automated test suite is fully green for the first time in weeks: 7108 passing, none failing. The red tail had been carried long enough that its size kept changing, which is how a real problem hides in it.

Engineering: Four of the sixteen were the tests being right and the code being wrong. The character…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:17:10 -0500

Four of the sixteen were the tests being right and the code being wrong. The character sheet never actually shrank its equipment slots on a short window, so the bottom of the taller column stayed cut off; the fix that was supposed to do it had been left disabled on the line that applies the size.

Engineering: The conversation editor accepted names on macOS that Windows cannot store, because it…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:17:11 -0500

The conversation editor accepted names on macOS that Windows cannot store, because it asked the machine it was running on which characters were legal. It now uses the strictest rule wherever it runs, so a name written on one machine still opens on the other.

Engineering: Five audio, Steam and mouse plugin settings claimed macOS support for binaries that…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:17:12 -0500

Five audio, Steam and mouse plugin settings claimed macOS support for binaries that cannot run on an Apple Silicon Mac. Turning that off changes nothing in the shipped client, which was already leaving them out, but it stops a later change from quietly shipping a library that cannot load.

Testing: The Duplicate button in the tester panel copies the items you have highlighted. In the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:39:26 -0500

The Duplicate button in the tester panel copies the items you have highlighted. In the backpack, bank and container windows it had been copying whichever item most recently arrived in the bag, so moving anything in or out changed what the button acted on.

Testing: The status line under that button now names the items it copied, and the same selection…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:39:34 -0500

The status line under that button now names the items it copied, and the same selection fix covers the crafting station, quest turn-in, mail attachment, decoration palette and jukebox lists.

Character Sheet: The character window's paper doll now fills its frame. The render textures were square…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:24:15 -0500

The character window's paper doll now fills its frame. The render textures were square while the visible window area is portrait shaped, so the model floated small in letterboxed space; the local and inspect textures went to 640x1024 and the model draws 20 to 30 percent taller at typical window sizes.

Character Sheet: Empty gear slots show their silhouette icons again (helmet, ring, boot and the rest)…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:24:15 -0500

Empty gear slots show their silhouette icons again (helmet, ring, boot and the rest), restored from the old interface's per slot art. Slots that never had art, like crafting tools and pet gear, keep the text label. The mannequin and doll cabinet windows picked up the same silhouettes.

Character Sheet: The Show More button was replaced with tabs along the bottom of the window: Character…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:24:15 -0500

The Show More button was replaced with tabs along the bottom of the window: Character, Stats, XP, Pet, and Titles. Stats carries everything Show More had plus weapon damage, spell damage, and new Attunements, Resistances, and Masteries sections. XP shows both experience pools, Pet shows your active pet's numbers and behavior, and Titles switches your active title in place. The window reopens on the tab you left it on, and the inspect and pet sheets carry Character and Stats tabs. Covered by 23 new EditMode tests.

Character Sheet: A review pass over the new tabs caught four problems before they shipped to chaos: a dye…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:51:46 -0500

A review pass over the new tabs caught four problems before they shipped to chaos: a dye preview started before the window finished building could open on the wrong tab and hide the character being dyed, the resize grip ate clicks on the right end of the last tab, the XP tab's progress row mixed lifetime totals with a within level percent so its two numbers disagreed, and mastery tooltips carried a stray blank line. All four fixed.

UI: A pet or summon shows its owner's name in angle brackets. Hovering a debuff the pet had…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:50:04 -0500

A pet or summon shows its owner's name in angle brackets. Hovering a debuff the pet had applied printed that owner line as <Name>, four extra characters on each side, while the nameplate over the same pet read it correctly. The text converter for the new interface was rewriting a bracket to an HTML entity to stop typed text from injecting formatting, and UI Toolkit reads formatting tags but never decodes entities, so the rewrite went straight to the screen. It now wedges a zero-width space behind the bracket instead, which is what the world-space converter has always done. Measured on a live panel, the name draws 66.0px either way, against 100.0px for the escaped form.

Build pipeline: The client we ship to chaos is built optimised, so Unity's profiler cannot attach to it…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:59:03 -0500

The client we ship to chaos is built optimised, so Unity's profiler cannot attach to it and the frame-timing capture already in the client reported zeros for every measurement. There is now a separate profiling build of the client that the profiler can attach to. It is downloaded by hand from its build page and is refused by the publisher on every patch channel, so it can never reach players.

Build pipeline: Recording a profile happens from inside the game. A command records a fixed stretch of…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:59:09 -0500

Recording a profile happens from inside the game. A command records a fixed stretch of seconds and writes the capture beside the client, so a scene that only struggles when it is full of players and spell effects can be caught while it is struggling, rather than guessing at launch which scene will be the bad one. A second tool turns that recording into a ranked list of where the frame spent its time, so a capture can be read, filed and compared without opening the profiler.

Build pipeline: The profiling build runs on its own copy of the source tree so it can build alongside the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:59:16 -0500

The profiling build runs on its own copy of the source tree so it can build alongside the nightly release instead of queueing behind it. One Unity project cannot host two builds at once, so parallel work needs a second tree rather than a second worker. The two builds do share one thing on the machine, the editor's licensing helper, which each build restarts before it launches; a lock now keeps them out of each other's way for those few minutes and lets the rest of the two builds overlap.

Server: Raised every test-shard account to 3 character slots. The account system computes the…

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:13:18 -0500

Raised every test-shard account to 3 character slots. The account system computes the slot count from purchase and pledge records at each login, and the rebuilt test accounts have none of those, so the count bottomed out at 1 and testers could only keep one character. The shard now adds 2 slots on top of whatever the account system reports, applied during server config assembly so it survives every deploy.

Headlines · 2026-07-30

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:13:33 -0500

The 2,500-player scale push began: a full server audit, a four-week plan with a staged bot-load ladder, the first fixes, and the login gate raised from 16 to 2,500, all in the same day.
Items inside a house can no longer be reached from outside it. Window openings have no collision in almost every house, so distance-only interaction let anyone in the yard work the containers in the room. Interaction now compares which side of the shell you are on. Owners and anyone they have granted rights to are unaffected.
Every dungeon has a 3D map now: the whole pipeline went from design to a 59-dungeon fleet in one day. Press M in any dungeon, sewer or mine and a see-through model fills in as you explore, with your position glowing inside it.
NPCs stopped calling everyone "outlander". Two thirds of the voiced cast said it out loud no matter what their written line read, and the word they were supposed to use was sitting in their character data the whole time. A guard who calls you "friend" on screen now says "friend".
Decorating gained a Tighter Fit mode: the item you are placing gets a 25% narrower collision so furniture finally sits where you want it. Placement only, and containers, crafting stations, and planting beds keep their full footprint.
The guide light went from code nobody could reach to a feature you can use: click a map marker in a town and a light leads you there, one corner at a time.
The Mac launcher installed a copy of itself instead of the game. Fixed, verified end to end on a Mac, and build 25 is on the tester page.
NPC conversation text reads properly again: topic words sit inline in the sentence instead of stranded on a line of their own, and a reply keeps its colour to the end.
Destroying several selected items at once works again across the backpack, containers, the bank and the crafting table.
Vendor listings no longer open two windows at once, and the old one is gone from the corner of the screen.
Floating names take clicks again: click one to target, right-click one for the menu that sends your pet in.
Five faults in the Edit Deck window fixed in one pass, including a Bard school that never had a filter box.
Crafting: fixed a long-standing defect where clicking a recipe mid-batch pulled your ingredients back off the table, and started moving recipe matching off the server round trip.
Crafting: the batch queue works end to end. Stack recipes onto a running craft and walk away.

Community: Nightly forum sweep filed five wishlist ideas: alphabetizing the crafter book, an 8-part…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:24:02 -0500

Nightly forum sweep filed five wishlist ideas: alphabetizing the crafter book, an 8-part Death Magic rebalance series, a resizable/previewable heraldry-art tool, a hotkey to clone a placed deco item stack, and a visual marker for a scene's default entrance.

Quests: Players can reset their own quest progress again on the test shard. The option has been…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:11:57 -0500

Players can reset their own quest progress again on the test shard. The option has been in the game the whole time, on the character select screen under Character Options, but a character got one reset and then the button vanished for good. The limit was tied to a date that stopped being moved forward in 2022, so anyone who had used their reset was locked out permanently.

Quests: Lifted the cap on the test shard so a character can reset as many times as needed…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:11:58 -0500

Lifted the cap on the test shard so a character can reset as many times as needed. Testers no longer have to roll a new character to replay quest content. A reset still clears quest progress and destroys quest items, so it is a deliberate choice rather than a casual one.

Quests: Wrote down how the reset actually works while it was fresh: which setting hides the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:11:59 -0500

Wrote down how the reset actually works while it was fresh: which setting hides the button, where the test-shard override has to live so a redeploy does not wipe it, and the fact that a second, older re-reset path built around a token item was already dead and could never have worked.

Maps: Dungeon maps are changing direction: instead of flat floor plans, each dungeon will get…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:36:43 -0500

Dungeon maps are changing direction: instead of flat floor plans, each dungeon will get an auto-generated see-through 3D model of its shape, shown on the map window with your position inside it and fog of war that fills in as you explore. All levels of a multi-level dungeon like The Rise read at once. Design and docs landed today; The Rise is the pilot.

Maps: The 3D dungeon map went from design to a working pilot in one pass. A new bake tool turns…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:25:16 -0500

The 3D dungeon map went from design to a working pilot in one pass. A new bake tool turns each dungeon's navigation mesh into a small see-through model: The Rise's 150,000 triangles of navmesh become a 7,050-triangle map split across its four floors, with fog-of-war cells stamped into the mesh so the model and the map agree about what you have explored.

Maps: The map window (M) learned to show the model: drag spins it, the wheel zooms, Follow…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:25:16 -0500

The map window (M) learned to show the model: drag spins it, the wheel zooms, Follow keeps you centered, and your position is a glowing beacon with a heading arrow. The floor you stand on is brightened, unexplored areas stay hidden until you walk them, and dungeons that only had a joke placeholder card will show the model instead. The Rise is baked; the in-game check and the fog switch come next.

Maps: The Rise pilot went live end to end in an offline editor session: fog switched on with a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:54:13 -0500

The Rise pilot went live end to end in an offline editor session: fog switched on with a 14 meter reveal, the model fills in as you walk, and the whole chain held up. The live run caught a real bug the tests could not: on maps with flipped calibration the baked fog cells were mirrored, so explored corridors stayed invisible. The bake now copies the game's own sign convention exactly, with a test pinned on The Rise's markers. Two smaller finds rode along: opening a fogged dungeon now starts the camera close to you instead of framing the whole dungeon, and switching windows no longer resets your view. Filed for tester verification.

Maps: The owner's first look at the 3D map caught stray polygons slicing across the model. The…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:15:23 -0500

The owner's first look at the 3D map caught stray polygons slicing across the model. The cause: each floor was flattened into one height field, and The Rise's catch-all floor spans 103 meters of geometry that overlaps in plan, so surfaces smeared between levels. Floors now split into height layers before meshing, surface rectangles stop at ledges, and wall skirts follow the slope. The model rebakes at 10,576 triangles and rooms now read as rooms.

Maps: The 3D map fleet baked: all 59 player-facing dungeons, sewers, mines and undergrounds…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:08 -0500

The 3D map fleet baked: all 59 player-facing dungeons, sewers, mines and undergrounds that showed the "map missing" joke card now carry a 3D map, baked in one 20-minute batch with zero failures and a median of 3,044 triangles per dungeon. Fog of war is on everywhere with the 14 meter reveal. The accept step's safety check earned its keep on day one: two scenes carry map calibration that disagrees with their baked fog cells, so their fog switched itself back off and they stay on the joke card until a config pass fixes them. A review sheet with two renders per dungeon covers the whole fleet.

Maps: The zone map for Vauban Pass had a black wedge on its top edge, about 36 metres across…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:35:21 -0500

The zone map for Vauban Pass had a black wedge on its top edge, about 36 metres across. The map was being drawn a little wider than the zone itself, and along that stretch there was no cliff or mountain hanging past the boundary to fill the gap. The map is now drawn to the exact size of the zone: the wedge is gone, so is a second smaller gap on the west edge, and the picture itself did not move.

Maps: Checked the rest of the surface maps for the same fault. Eight of them carry a black…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:35:31 -0500

Checked the rest of the surface maps for the same fault. Eight of them carry a black border on 47 to 70 percent of that outer strip, worst in the Quel and Majestic Forest zones. Clearing those means redrawing all 25 maps and rewriting their calibration, so the measurements are written up and the change is queued rather than taken now.

Maps: Map exploration gained a way back. Reveals were stored with a merge that could only ever…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:51:02 -0500

Map exploration gained a way back. Reveals were stored with a merge that could only ever add explored cells, so once an account had walked a dungeon its map stayed uncovered for good. There is now a server operation that clears a scene back to unexplored, restricted to tester accounts.

Server: Traced the suspected presence-sharing break between the two social server processes…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:10:52 -0500

Traced the suspected presence-sharing break between the two social server processes (#2833) end to end. The delivery path checks out at every hop, and the counts the bug was filed on came from a log line that never records a successful remote update, so they could not tell a healthy system from a dead one. The servers now log remote presence updates, the once-a-minute roster exchange, and anything dropped while the link is down, so the next build can prove the answer instead of guessing.

Server: The trace also surfaced two real weaknesses, now on the tracker: a fixed buffer that…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:10:52 -0500

The trace also surfaced two real weaknesses, now on the tracker: a fixed buffer that would break the presence self-heal once a server passes roughly 250 concurrent players (#2842), and a pair of quiet failure points on the server-to-server link (#2843). A deploy-script port rewrite that misbehaved for small offsets got a one-line fix.

Server: Started the server scale push. The goal is 2,500 players online at once, proven by a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:12:02 -0500

Started the server scale push. The goal is 2,500 players online at once, proven by a staged bot load test before the next server milestone. A three-way audit of the server code, the deployment shape, and the test tooling produced a ranked bottleneck list and a four-week plan; the original service carried 2,500 players on one far weaker machine, so the current shape stays and the ladder of test runs proves it.

Server: First scale fixes landed. Chat moderation now runs a bounded number of language-model…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:12:02 -0500

First scale fixes landed. Chat moderation now runs a bounded number of language-model checks at once and lets messages through unmoderated when overloaded instead of queueing without limit, and the chat relay to the team channels posts one batched update per interval instead of one call per chat line.

Server: The chaos login limit turned out to still be a development value of 16 concurrent…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:12:02 -0500

The chaos login limit turned out to still be a development value of 16 concurrent players. It now deploys at 2,500, matching what the live service always allowed.

Server: The load-test harness gained its swarm mode: one command ramps up any number of bot…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:48:58 -0500

The load-test harness gained its swarm mode: one command ramps up any number of bot players and holds each one exactly the way a real player connects, all four server connections at once, idling, chatting on a schedule, and cycling a few relogs per hour. Each run ends in a report with connect success by stage, disconnect rates, latency numbers, and a minute-by-minute timeline. First live run is the 250-player rung.

Server: The presence self-heal between the two social server processes now sends its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:11:42 -0500

The presence self-heal between the two social server processes now sends its once-a-minute roster in bounded pieces instead of one message listing every session, removing the ceiling that would have broken it past a couple hundred players; the receiving side moved to per-entry claim timestamps with an expiry, which tolerates lost pieces by construction. A unit test pins the piece size against the message limit with thousands of characters to spare.

Server: Players also stop being lifetime subscribers to the server game list: the subscription…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:11:42 -0500

Players also stop being lifetime subscribers to the server game list: the subscription that matchmaking opens now closes the moment a zone assignment completes, instead of every online player paying for game-list updates they never read. The next zone change opens a fresh one.

Server: The bot fleet got its conductor: one command publishes the bot to the runner machines…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:29:08 -0500

The bot fleet got its conductor: one command publishes the bot to the runner machines, plans the process shards, launches and watches them, pulls every result file back, and merges them into a single pass-or-fail report for the run. Stopping a run drains the bots cleanly so their numbers still come home. With this, the harness, and the first fix train landed, the 250-player rung is ready to fire as soon as the next server deploy carries the fixes.

Server: The zone-in game list no longer arrives as one oversized message. Both the list a client…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:10:43 -0500

The zone-in game list no longer arrives as one oversized message. Both the list a client gets when it starts a zone transition and the running stream of instance changes now go out in measured pages, so a busy shard cannot silently drop the whole update and leave a player waiting on an empty list. Instance lists also get built once per matchmaking query instead of once per waiting player, so a crowd zoning at the same moment costs one pass.

Server: Message packing got faster under load. Every message a server sends or receives used to…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:10:52 -0500

Message packing got faster under load. Every message a server sends or receives used to pass through a small shared set of large scratch buffers behind one lock, and when they ran out it allocated a fresh 64 KB buffer per message. Each worker thread now keeps its own buffer that starts small and grows to fit the traffic it actually sees, which removes the busiest lock in each server process along with that allocation churn.

Server: Channel chat now gets packed once instead of once per listener. A line in a busy channel…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:28:42 -0500

Channel chat now gets packed once instead of once per listener. A line in a busy channel used to be encoded separately for every player who could see it, so one message at full population meant thousands of identical packing passes; the server now builds it a single time and sends that one copy to everyone subscribed. The online and offline check behind friend notices was also doing one lookup per connected player per login, and now runs once per event, which additionally means every client acts on the same answer.

Crafting: The crafting window remembers how many of a recipe you last made. Set a batch of 12 iron…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:51:37 -0500

The crafting window remembers how many of a recipe you last made. Set a batch of 12 iron ingots, and the next time that recipe goes on the table the quantity reads 12 instead of resetting to 1. It is kept per recipe, per station and per character, and it survives logging out.

Crafting: An empty crafting table now carries a Craft again button naming the last thing you made…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:51:38 -0500

An empty crafting table now carries a Craft again button naming the last thing you made at that station and how many: "Craft again: Iron Ingot x 12". Pressing it gathers the same ingredients back onto the table, the same way double clicking the recipe in the list does.

Crafting: The offer covers recipes that make something new. Enchanting, masterwork, socket and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:51:39 -0500

The offer covers recipes that make something new. Enchanting, masterwork, socket and pattern recipes are left out, since each of those consumes a particular item you picked, so repeating one would reach for a different item. The button hides itself while a craft is running and while ingredients are being gathered.

Crafting: This is the third proposal from the public crafting deep dive, after the two tooltip…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:51:40 -0500

This is the third proposal from the public crafting deep dive, after the two tooltip items that shipped earlier in the week.

Crafting: A Max button sits between the quantity stepper and Craft in the crafting window. It sets…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:52:48 -0500

A Max button sits between the quantity stepper and Craft in the crafting window. It sets the count to the most your staged materials will make, and greys out when the count is already there, so an empty table says so instead of letting you press it.

Crafting: The Max button and the quantity field share a tooltip the window never had: crafting…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:52:57 -0500

The Max button and the quantity field share a tooltip the window never had: crafting several at once earns less experience for each item and returns no materials when one fails. That has applied to every quantity above one for years and was stated nowhere.

Crafting: Moving the batch ceiling into its own tested class found three defects. A table holding…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:53:03 -0500

Moving the batch ceiling into its own tested class found three defects. A table holding nothing the recipe wanted wrote a 0 into the quantity field and erased that recipe remembered quantity. A negative refining bonus could push the cap below one and abandon the craft. And the ingredient lookup ran up to fifty times per material for an answer that cannot change; it runs once now.

Crafting: Double clicking a recipe you cannot afford used to empty the crafting table and put one…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:47:16 -0500

Double clicking a recipe you cannot afford used to empty the crafting table and put one vague line in chat about missing ingredients. The crafting window now names them: a red line under the summary reading "Missing for Longsword: 1 Sword Hilt, 2 Iron Ingot", listing every material you are short of and how many more you need. The same sentence goes to chat in place of the old one.

Crafting: The number is the shortfall rather than the requirement, so being short one of three says…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:47:17 -0500

The number is the shortfall rather than the requirement, so being short one of three says two. The line counts materials exactly the way the recipe rows already tint them red, which is why the two cannot disagree about which ingredient is the problem. It clears when you put something on the table, when you close the window, or when you double click a recipe again.

Crafting: Every failed staging path reports through it, including the one that pulls from lot…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:47:18 -0500

Every failed staging path reports through it, including the one that pulls from lot storage. That one deliberately ignores the storage counts when it reports, since those counts are what planned the pull that just failed. A pass that fails with nothing actually missing, an equipped tool with no durability left for instance, still gets the general message.

Crafting: Fifth of the twenty two proposals from the public crafting deep dive, and the fifth of…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:47:19 -0500

Fifth of the twenty two proposals from the public crafting deep dive, and the fifth of phase one. Favourites and book success chances are what remain of that phase.

Crafting: Item repair now checks which crafting station you are at before it checks anything else…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:53:02 -0500

Item repair now checks which crafting station you are at before it checks anything else. The list of stations that can repair is unchanged (blacksmithing, tailoring, carpentry, alchemy), and the check already existed, but it ran five checks late. Salvage has always checked its station first; repair now matches it.

Crafting: The crafting station recipe list can be sorted now. A Sort dropdown sits beside the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:13:30 -0500

The crafting station recipe list can be sorted now. A Sort dropdown sits beside the category one, offering Name, Success chance, Can make and Skill, and the window remembers which you picked. The list had exactly one order before this, ascending name, with no header to click and no way to ask for anything else.

Crafting: Recipe names carry a colour. Red is a recipe your skill cannot reach, orange one that…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:13:39 -0500

Recipe names carry a colour. Red is a recipe your skill cannot reach, orange one that fails more often than it works, then yellow and green as the odds improve, and a dim grey once the craft cannot fail at all. The colour reads off the success chance already printed on the card, which folds difficulty, skill and tool bonus into one number and tops out at 100%.

Crafting: Can make counts what your materials actually cover rather than answering yes or no. It…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:13:40 -0500

Can make counts what your materials actually cover rather than answering yes or no. It reuses the read of your bags the Only craftable filter already does, widened from a yes/no to a yes/no and a number, and the window only asks for it when that order is chosen. Tools and optional ingredients stay out of the arithmetic but still have to be present, or one hammer would pin every recipe that wants a tool at one.

Crafting: Every recipe card leads with a star now. Click it and the recipe goes gold and rises to…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:37:53 -0500

Every recipe card leads with a star now. Click it and the recipe goes gold and rises to the top of the list, in whichever order the list is sorted. A Favorites entry sits under All Recipes in the category dropdown, and the recipe book opens a Favorites chapter ahead of the crafting schools.

Crafting: Stars belong to the character rather than to a station, so a recipe starred at a forge…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:37:54 -0500

Stars belong to the character rather than to a station, so a recipe starred at a forge reads as starred everywhere it appears, including the book. Two characters on one machine keep separate sets.

Crafting: The recipe book chapter is deliberately left out of the jump-to-recipe map: a starred…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:38:05 -0500

The recipe book chapter is deliberately left out of the jump-to-recipe map: a starred recipe lives in two places, and learning it should take you to its own school rather than to the favourites shelf. Starring while the book is open repaints the star but does not restructure the pages under the reader.

Crafting: Crafting stations have a Quick Craft option. With it turned on a craft finishes right…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:38:03 -0500

Crafting stations have a Quick Craft option. With it turned on a craft finishes right away with no timer and grants no experience. The materials it consumes, the chance of failing, the wear on your tools and the item you end up with are all the same as before, so it is a straight trade of experience for time.

Crafting: Quick Craft covers crafting, brewing, masterworking, enchanting, socketing and pattern…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:38:11 -0500

Quick Craft covers crafting, brewing, masterworking, enchanting, socketing and pattern work. Salvage and repair keep their own short timer and still give experience, so turning the option on never costs you experience without also saving you the wait. It is off by default and stays where you leave it.

Crafting: Recipe cards quote your chance of a successful craft everywhere they appear now, not only…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:40:59 -0500

Recipe cards quote your chance of a successful craft everywhere they appear now, not only at a station. Open the recipe book at home and the percentages are there, with recipe names carrying the same red-through-grey relevance colour the station list has.

Crafting: Hover a recipe card and the chance of an exceptional item sits under the success chance…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:00 -0500

Hover a recipe card and the chance of an exceptional item sits under the success chance. On recipes that make nothing wearable it reads as a critical success instead, matching what the crafting window already said.

Crafting: Away from that craft's own table, the book and the hover both add a line: Chance shown…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:01 -0500

Away from that craft's own table, the book and the hover both add a line: Chance shown for a standard station and your equipped tools. The tool bonus is yours rather than the station's and it is in the number, so reading the book with nothing equipped shows a lower chance than the forge will.

Crafting: The odds follow the recipe's craft rather than the station in front of you, which fixed a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:02 -0500

The odds follow the recipe's craft rather than the station in front of you, which fixed a bug nobody had reported: with a forge open, the recipe book's tailoring pages were quoting your blacksmithing. Hovering a recipe at a printing press also used to do nothing at all.

Crafting: The Filter box at a crafting station and the search in the recipe book match a recipe's…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:09 -0500

The Filter box at a crafting station and the search in the recipe book match a recipe's ingredients and what it makes, not just its name. Type iron ingot and you get the recipe that produces one alongside the recipes that consume one.

Crafting: Recipes matched on their own name float above the ones matched only through an…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:10 -0500

Recipes matched on their own name float above the ones matched only through an ingredient, under your starred recipes. Without that, iron ingot at a stocked forge buries the smelting recipe under a hundred blacksmithing recipes.

Crafting: Three words narrow a search: uses:coal for recipes that consume it, makes:ingot for…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:11 -0500

Three words narrow a search: uses:coal for recipes that consume it, makes:ingot for recipes that produce one, name:sword to search names alone. A minus excludes a word, quotes match a phrase whole, and hovering the box explains the syntax.

Crafting: A word the search does not know gets a short line under the box naming the ones it does…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:12 -0500

A word the search does not know gets a short line under the box naming the ones it does, rather than quietly searching for that text and finding nothing. Those spellings are being kept clear for the inventory window's own search.

Crafting: Began moving crafting recipe matching out of the server round trip and into the client…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:00:16 -0500

Began moving crafting recipe matching out of the server round trip and into the client. The matching rules are in place, along with tests that walk the whole recipe database and recompute every recipe stored ingredient hash, check each hash expansion covers its own recipe, and check the whole set for collisions.

Crafting: Proved the new client-side recipe matching against the real recipe database rather than a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:18:50 -0500

Proved the new client-side recipe matching against the real recipe database rather than a captured fixture: stage exactly what a recipe asks for and the client has to answer with that recipe. 3,159 of the 3,161 craftable recipes pass; the two that do not have a classification ingredient with no members, which is a data gap rather than a matching one.

Crafting: Fixed a defect that has been in batch crafting since it shipped: double-clicking a recipe…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:53:00 -0500

Fixed a defect that has been in batch crafting since it shipped: double-clicking a recipe in the list while a batch was running could pull your ingredients back off the table, leaving the rest of the run producing nothing and your materials split between the table and your pack. Recipe rows now stay inactive for the whole run.

Crafting: The new client-side recipe matching now runs alongside the server on every table change…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:53:00 -0500

The new client-side recipe matching now runs alongside the server on every table change, with the server still deciding what the window shows. Any disagreement is logged with enough detail to rebuild the table, which is how the client answer earns the right to take over.

Crafting: Rebuilt the crafting loop to run a list of work rather than a single press of the Craft…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:00:52 -0500

Rebuilt the crafting loop to run a list of work rather than a single press of the Craft button. Nothing can add to that list yet, so with it empty the loop behaves exactly as before; a queued batch of five still costs what a batch of five has always cost, which is the point of wrapping the existing loop rather than replacing it.

Crafting: The crafting queue is now usable. Start a craft and the Craft button reads Queue…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:12:33 -0500

The crafting queue is now usable. Start a craft and the Craft button reads Queue: highlight another recipe, set a quantity, and it joins the back of the line, with each waiting entry drawn under the progress bar and removable on its own. A queued batch of five costs what a batch of five has always cost, so this buys you the keyboard time back and nothing else.

UI: Crown Shop: hovering one item lit up the entire row it sat in, empty space after the last…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:12:56 -0500

Crown Shop: hovering one item lit up the entire row it sat in, empty space after the last item included. Only the hovered item highlights now. The shelf lays items out in rows and the row itself was still being drawn as a highlightable list row; that is off for grids like this one, and the property manager deed grid gets the same fix. Reported in game by a player.

UI: The Decorations window was drawing its own rows on top of each other on a well-decorated…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:58:40 -0500

The Decorations window was drawing its own rows on top of each other on a well-decorated lot. The list is the part meant to scroll, but every other row was being squeezed along with it, collapsing to a few pixels while the text inside kept drawing at full size. That put the row of recently touched items across the column headings and the headings across the first item in the list. The Find button was pushed down onto the window border by the same thing, where its corner sat under the resize grip and answered a drag instead of a click. Every row now holds its height at any window size and any number of decorations.

UI: Two more on the same window, both from a player report through the in-game Oracle. The…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:58:46 -0500

Two more on the same window, both from a player report through the in-game Oracle. The row of recent items ran off the right edge and the last name was cut through the middle of a word; it now shows the items that fit and drops the rest, so a wider window brings more back. Hovering the Find button showed a small unreadable box instead of the hover panel the rest of the game uses.

UI: With 'Show Health and Focus Stats' turned on, the player status bar showed a health…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:16:56 -0500

With 'Show Health and Focus Stats' turned on, the player status bar showed a health number only, drew it under the bars instead of on them, and slid it sideways as buffs piled up. Both numbers now sit centred on the bar they report: health on the health bar, focus on the focus bar. The focus number had never been carried across when that bar was rebuilt, and the health one was being stretched over a box as wide as the whole buff strip.

UI: Buff icons on the status bar wrap again. Seventeen active effects drew a single row about…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:16:57 -0500

Buff icons on the status bar wrap again. Seventeen active effects drew a single row about 440 pixels wide; they now break into rows of nine and only spill into the +N icon past 18, which is how the live shard has always laid them out. Reported in game by a tester.

UI: The window a quest uses to hand items over had to be stretched wide before its item names…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:27:14 -0500

The window a quest uses to hand items over had to be stretched wide before its item names could be read. Both of its panes were drawing the full inventory table, whose fixed number columns need 294 pixels of a pane that has 291, so every name came out about eight characters short. Both panes are a single column of names again, the way the window was originally built, with the stack count back in the name, and it opens at 680 pixels instead of 640.

UI: Two more windows split their width the same way and carried the same table. The mail…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:27:22 -0500

Two more windows split their width the same way and carried the same table. The mail attachments pane and both crafting station item lists are back to the columns their original windows were built with, which for crafting also means dropping a quantity column that was never part of it.

UI: Item lists now drop number columns on their own when a pane is too narrow to leave the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:27:22 -0500

Item lists now drop number columns on their own when a pane is too narrow to leave the item name room to read. They go from the right, so quantity is the last to go and the count moves into the name when it does. The backpack keeps its full table, where the name shortens and the numbers hold.

UI: The deck builder's ten glyph slots drew their key numbers about four pixels below the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:04:40 -0500

The deck builder's ten glyph slots drew their key numbers about four pixels below the bracket that hangs under each slot, so a number sat under the rounded bump instead of inside it and the bottom of the digit fell outside the bracket. The slot's own border was moving them, so a slot's border now draws on a layer of its own and the numbers centre in the bump again.

UI: The same drift was on the main skill bar while a key was held: the border that lights a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:04:49 -0500

The same drift was on the main skill bar while a key was held: the border that lights a slot pushed its key number out of the bracket for as long as the light was on. Both rows share the fix, and the deck builder's glyph art, glyph stack and padlock lost the two-pixel offset they inherited from the same border.

UI: The key numbers under every glyph slot were being centred on the whole bracket shape…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:32:20 -0500

The key numbers under every glyph slot were being centred on the whole bracket shape instead of the round bump a number sits in, so they read a shade low on the main bar, the combat bar and the emote bar. They move up onto the bump, and the offset now comes from the artwork itself rather than a number typed alongside it.

UI: Measured the bracket artwork gap row by row and moved the key numbers up again, into the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:49:44 -0500

Measured the bracket artwork gap row by row and moved the key numbers up again, into the open spot rather than onto the closed part of the cup below it. The offset is now read from where the artwork actually opens, on the main bar, the combat bar, the emote bar and the deck builder.

UI: The login window now speaks the language you picked. Its labels had lost the link to…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:46:26 -0500

The login window now speaks the language you picked. Its labels had lost the link to their translations when the window moved to the new interface, so it came up in English no matter what Options said. The same fault was turning translated text back into English across the other converted windows, and roughly 240 already-translated strings come back with the fix.

UI: Enter logs you in again. Typing a username and password and pressing Enter did nothing…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:46:35 -0500

Enter logs you in again. Typing a username and password and pressing Enter did nothing, because the text box treated the key as "finish editing" before the login form saw it. Enter now does what the Log In button does, from either box or the Remember User Name checkbox, and Enter on a highlighted Cancel still cancels.

UI: The deck builder could show an empty or stale linked equipment row for a deck that had…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:15 -0500

The deck builder could show an empty or stale linked equipment row for a deck that had equipment linked to it. The list it walked included a terminal marker that is not a real equipment slot, which aborted the refresh before anything was drawn.

UI: The online friend count next to the social panel could stop updating, and said nothing…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:16 -0500

The online friend count next to the social panel could stop updating, and said nothing when it did. It now reports which panel lost its label instead of failing quietly.

UI: NPC conversation and chat text now wraps like ordinary prose. Clickable topic words used…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:39 -0500

NPC conversation and chat text now wraps like ordinary prose. Clickable topic words used to end up alone on their own line, with the rest of the sentence pushed below them and a stray space starting the next line.

UI: A reply now holds one colour from start to finish. The words after a clickable topic used…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:40 -0500

A reply now holds one colour from start to finish. The words after a clickable topic used to change colour partway through the sentence.

UI: A conversation topic you have already asked about shows greyed out again, matching how it…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:40 -0500

A conversation topic you have already asked about shows greyed out again, matching how it looked before the interface was rebuilt.

UI: Player names and item links in chat flow inline the same way, and window copy that…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:49 -0500

Player names and item links in chat flow inline the same way, and window copy that carries a link, such as store descriptions and lot signs, no longer breaks its paragraph where the link sits.

UI: Long replies in Japanese and Chinese wrap correctly too, using the line-breaking rules…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:49 -0500

Long replies in Japanese and Chinese wrap correctly too, using the line-breaking rules the text system already carries.

UI: Selecting several items and choosing "Destroy Selected Item(s)" destroyed only the row…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:35:41 -0500

Selecting several items and choosing "Destroy Selected Item(s)" destroyed only the row you right-clicked. The converted inventory windows were passing the context menu a single item instead of the selection, so the menu's multi-item path never ran. Backpack, containers, the bank, the crafting table, the decoration list and the music cylinder list all take the whole selection now, and the confirmation says how many items it is about to destroy.

UI: Right-clicking an item that is not part of your selection now acts on that item alone…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:35:47 -0500

Right-clicking an item that is not part of your selection now acts on that item alone. The old list passed its selection whatever you clicked, so a right-click outside a selection could open a menu naming one item and destroy a different set.

UI: Listing an item on a vendor opened two windows: the current price window on the vendor…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:37:24 -0500

Listing an item on a vendor opened two windows: the current price window on the vendor, and the older version it replaced, sitting near the top left with placeholder text in it. The old window is switched off when the game starts, but opening a listing switched it back on. It stays off now, and the space it took no longer swallows mouse clicks.

UI: The same leftover window turned up in two more places while tracing that one: the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:37:31 -0500

The same leftover window turned up in two more places while tracing that one: the quantity window for a purchase order, and the equipped-deck names in the lower right, which could draw twice once you had both a main and an alternate deck equipped. Both fixed in the same change.

UI: The PVP stats window was printing a display code in the Time column for a player who had…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:37:52 -0500

The PVP stats window was printing a display code in the Time column for a player who had been around less than a minute, showing "< 1m" where it meant "< 1m". The text converter behind every rebuilt window escaped every angle bracket as a safety measure, and the new interface layer draws those escapes instead of decoding them. It now escapes a bracket only where one could start a formatting tag, so the Lot Deeds day count and the theme picker's "< New Theme >" entry read correctly too.

UI: Both PVP stats windows got their titlebar pin back. The open-PVP list and the team…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:37:59 -0500

Both PVP stats windows got their titlebar pin back. The open-PVP list and the team scoreboard each had one before they were rebuilt on the new interface toolkit, and the rebuild left it off. A pinned window ignores Escape and comes back pinned after a scene change, the same as every other window that offers a pin.

UI: Five problems with the Edit Deck window, all reported together, are fixed: the Schools…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:13:27 -0500

Five problems with the Edit Deck window, all reported together, are fixed: the Schools filter now applies to the Glyphs tab as well as Combos, the Bard school has a box at last, the window stops drawing over itself at its smallest size, the Linked Equipment strip shows your gear again with an outlined slot for a piece you are not carrying, and combo rows draw one glyph each instead of a full-size one plus a tiny copy.

UI: The Bard school had never had a filter box: both filter prefabs author twenty toggles and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:13:36 -0500

The Bard school had never had a filter box: both filter prefabs author twenty toggles and the school sits one bit past them, so every combo built from a Bard glyph was filtered out with nothing on screen to explain it. The list is read off the code now rather than the prefab, so the next school added needs no art work at all.

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Conversation Studio: Started the Conversation Studio project to replace ConvoBuilder, the old external…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:53:16 -0500

Started the Conversation Studio project to replace ConvoBuilder, the old external dialogue tool that needed its own machine and database. NPC dialog will be authored inside Unity with the same validation, undo, and history as the rest of our tooling, plus a team web page for viewing and editing conversations and AI-assisted drafting. The full build plan is written and approved.

Conversation Studio: Moved all 4,606 NPC conversation data files from binary LFS storage to plain text in git…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:53:16 -0500

Moved all 4,606 NPC conversation data files from binary LFS storage to plain text in git. Dialogue edits now get real line diffs and clean three-way merges; before this, two people touching the same NPC produced an unresolvable binary conflict.

Conversation Studio: The Conversation Studio window opened for the first time inside Unity: pick any scene and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:04:08 -0500

The Conversation Studio window opened for the first time inside Unity: pick any scene and NPC and read the whole conversation as an ordered tree, every section included, with that character's validation findings underneath. Read only for now; editing lands next.

Conversation Studio: Dialogue gates and action lines now parse into a structured model instead of raw strings…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:04:08 -0500

Dialogue gates and action lines now parse into a structured model instead of raw strings, verified by round-tripping all 14,220 gate expressions and 16,671 action lines in the game with zero failures. The sweep also found nine shipped action lines with verbs the game would reject, now fenced so no new ones can land.

Conversation Studio: The editing engine now covers every field on every conversation element type: toggles and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:17:54 -0500

The editing engine now covers every field on every conversation element type: toggles and timings, keyword labels, query branch text with its display overlay kept in step, and removal that matches the game's omit-defaults file convention. A new localization guard detects when editing an English line would orphan its translations, checked against live translation files in all eight languages.

Conversation Studio: NPC dialogue is now editable inside Unity: click any element in the Conversation Studio…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:41:03 -0500

NPC dialogue is now editable inside Unity: click any element in the Conversation Studio tree and a typed form opens for it, with live checks on flag expressions and action lines, emote and faction pickers, undo and redo, and a warning before an English edit orphans its translations. Saves re-validate the conversation and offer a one-click undo if new errors appear.

Conversation Studio: The structural engine landed: conversation elements can be added, deleted, and reordered…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:55:25 -0500

The structural engine landed: conversation elements can be added, deleted, and reordered with corpus-safe id allocation, reference-guarded deletes that list every place an element is used, and display-overlay entries kept in step. A full-corpus sweep verified the splice math applies to all 39,142 file sections and re-emitting every element round-trips faithfully.

Conversation Studio: Conversations can now be restructured in the editor: add, duplicate, reorder, and delete…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:25:29 -0500

Conversations can now be restructured in the editor: add, duplicate, reorder, and delete elements with reference-guarded deletes that list every place an element is used, and a chatter assist that writes an NPC-to-NPC exchange into both characters' files as one undoable step.

Conversation Studio: The conversation engine now also runs outside Unity as a command-line tool: corpus…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:25:30 -0500

The conversation engine now also runs outside Unity as a command-line tool: corpus scanning, validation, a byte-fidelity gate over all 4,605 conversation files, and the server mode the upcoming team web interface will drive. All 214 editor tests for the new tooling ran green today.

Conversation Studio: The dialog corpus now opens in a web browser: every scene and character, all fifteen…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:30:35 -0500

The dialog corpus now opens in a web browser: every scene and character, all fifteen sections of a conversation in file order, and search across lines, flags and character names. The pages ask the same engine the Unity tool uses, so the two cannot disagree about what a character says. Nothing is deployed yet.

Conversation Studio: Archived the quest records that only ever lived inside the old dialog authoring tool and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:30:52 -0500

Archived the quest records that only ever lived inside the old dialog authoring tool and were never exported into game data, together with the extractor that produced the archive and re-verifies it. That tool is being retired, and this was the one piece of content that would not have survived it.

Conversation Studio: Conversations can be created now, not just edited: a new character conversation, or the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:58:54 -0500

Conversations can be created now, not just edited: a new character conversation, or the missing half of one that only had barks, or a copy of an existing character to start from. Undo removes a newly created file the same way it removes a line. Journal entries can be written from the same place, in the exact format the file already uses.

Conversation Studio: The dialog checker went from 16 rules to 30, and the new ones found real problems in…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:58:55 -0500

The dialog checker went from 16 rules to 30, and the new ones found real problems in shipped content: 15 character-to-character exchanges aimed at names that no longer exist, so those lines never play; 4 conversations bound in a way that leaves the character silent; 18 unknown emotes; and 5 responses marked required that nothing can reach.

Conversation Studio: Dialog now has history. The tool lists every commit that touched a conversation, shows…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:58:55 -0500

Dialog now has history. The tool lists every commit that touched a conversation, shows what changed element by element rather than as shifted lines, and can put an old version back as a normal undoable edit. Text from before the corpus left large-file storage is recovered on the fly so old revisions read properly.

Conversation Studio: Groundwork for AI-assisted dialog landed, with no model called yet. A draft is produced…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:59:03 -0500

Groundwork for AI-assisted dialog landed, with no model called yet. A draft is produced as a structured plan rather than as text: gates and effects use the same typed model the future quest system will read, a verb the game does not implement cannot be expressed at all, and a draft only reaches a file through the normal editing path, so it is validated, undoable, and reviewable first. Character backstory files are fenced as untrusted input.

Conversation Studio: Making a new character conversation is now a button rather than a database chore: pick a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:53:45 -0500

Making a new character conversation is now a button rather than a database chore: pick a scene, type a name, and the files, ids and optional prefab are created as one undoable step. Existing characters can be duplicated to start from. Adding a line to a character who only had barks no longer refuses; it creates the missing half in the same step.

Conversation Studio: Conditions and effects on a dialogue line are pickers now, not hand-typed strings: flags…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:53:45 -0500

Conditions and effects on a dialogue line are pickers now, not hand-typed strings: flags, items and skills come from a list of what the game actually uses, with the comparison and the arguments typed per action, so an action the game cannot perform is no longer possible to write. The raw text stays available behind an advanced toggle and an untouched line is byte-identical.

Conversation Studio: Editing English text can now carry the translations with it. Until now changing a line…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:53:45 -0500

Editing English text can now carry the translations with it. Until now changing a line warned that the eight translated languages would lose their match; the confirmation offers to move each existing translation to the new text instead, showing a per-language count first, with one undo for all of it.

Conversation Studio: The web view gained history: every commit that touched a conversation, and a diff that…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:53:45 -0500

The web view gained history: every commit that touched a conversation, and a diff that names the section and element on each changed line instead of showing shifted text. Old revisions from before the dialog files became plain text are recovered on read.

Conversation Studio: Designers can edit dialog from the browser now, not just read it. An edit becomes a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:57:58 -0500

Designers can edit dialog from the browser now, not just read it. An edit becomes a commit in that person's name, and when two people save at once the second one's change is replayed against the first rather than rejected, so ids stay correct instead of colliding. Reverting an old change writes a new one; history is never rewritten. Not deployed yet.

Conversation Studio: Character personas and backstories can be written and generated alongside a conversation…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:57:58 -0500

Character personas and backstories can be written and generated alongside a conversation. They live as plain text next to the dialog files and are kept out of player builds by the packaging filter, with a test that fails if that filter ever widens, since without it a future build change would ship every designer note in the game.

Conversation Studio: A character's shared-content list can be edited at last, which was the one thing missing…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:57:58 -0500

A character's shared-content list can be edited at last, which was the one thing missing that would have blocked making a new NPC. Checking the data first turned up something the plan did not know: that list is stored twice, once in each half of a conversation, so every change now writes both together and one undo takes both back.

Conversation Studio: The checker regained three warnings the old tool had and this one had lost: a character…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:57:58 -0500

The checker regained three warnings the old tool had and this one had lost: a character with no greeting, no farewell, or no working goodbye. Getting the exemptions right mattered more than the checks, since shared fragments legitimately have none of those; tuned against the whole corpus they report 19, 13 and 12 real cases instead of about 320 each.

Housing: Fixed three alignment defects on the Stone Five-Story Wizard's Tower village home, all…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:08:19 -0500

Fixed three alignment defects on the Stone Five-Story Wizard's Tower village home, all from a player report. One balcony railing run sat at five different heights spanning 20mm, which read as a step in the top of the cap. A column of angled wall sections drifted up to 61mm sideways across four floors, and one stone pillar cap sat 65mm low and 49mm off the pillar beneath it.

Housing: Audited the same home for the reported missing textures and found none. All 27 materials…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:09:13 -0500

Audited the same home for the reported missing textures and found none. All 27 materials resolve, every albedo texture is present on disk, and all 271 mesh references are valid. The remaining candidate is UV stretch from the non-uniform scaling applied to 46% of the home's 244 modular kit pieces.

Housing: Reaching into a house from outside it now requires being inside. Interacting with a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:14:06 -0500

Reaching into a house from outside it now requires being inside. Interacting with a decoration was gated on distance alone, five metres with no test for what stood between you and it, so a window opening put every item in the room within reach of anyone in the yard. An item placed on an interior floor, wall or ceiling is now refused to a player who is not under that house's roof, and the right-click menu is refused with it. A container opened by the door closes when you walk out.

Housing: The check compares which side of the house shell each of you is on, using two things the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:14:06 -0500

The check compares which side of the house shell each of you is on, using two things the game already records: the surface a decoration was placed on, and what is overhead at a point. It also records which shell it found, so standing inside the next row house along does not count as inside yours. It stands down whenever any of that is unknown, which is what keeps the 208 house prefabs that answer open sky over their own interiors, pavilions and covered porches among them, behaving as they did. Anyone holding move, modify or take rights on an item is exempt, so owners and trusted visitors are unaffected.

Housing: Decorations placed inside a player dungeon could fail to appear when the dungeon loaded…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:39:02 -0500

Decorations placed inside a player dungeon could fail to appear when the dungeon loaded, and items resting on other items took the worst of it: a chest standing on a table or a shelf went missing while the table and the shelf loaded fine. The same items disappeared every session, through relogs and through leaving and coming back. A plot now loads its decorations in the order the server sends them, so an item is never built before the thing it is sitting on.

Housing: A busy lot could also stop loading part way through, leaving the decorations near the end…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:39:10 -0500

A busy lot could also stop loading part way through, leaving the decorations near the end of the list absent entirely. The loader was watching for the last item to arrive rather than counting what it had received, so a reordered batch ended the load early. It counts now.

Housing: Moving a decoration that has other decorations sitting on it no longer leaves those…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:39:11 -0500

Moving a decoration that has other decorations sitting on it no longer leaves those hidden. The children travel with the parent, but each one tracks its own position for distance culling and nothing was updating them, so they kept being hidden as though they were still at the old spot while their collision stayed where you could see they should be. Moving a dungeon room piece was the easy way to hit this.

Housing: Added an optional Tighter Fit mode to decorating. While it is on, the item you are…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:39:37 -0500

Added an optional Tighter Fit mode to decorating. While it is on, the item you are holding gets a placement collision 25% narrower than normal, so a chair goes under a table and two crates can touch. Height is untouched, so resting and stacking work the same. Alt+C or the new button on the decoration strip, remembered between sessions, off by default.

Housing: Tighter Fit only changes the item being placed. Once it is down it has its full collision…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:39:43 -0500

Tighter Fit only changes the item being placed. Once it is down it has its full collision back, so walking into it and placing the next item against it are unchanged, and it still cannot cross your property line. Chests and other containers, crafting stations, planting beds, wall-hung items, vendors, and lot markers stay at full size so they remain reachable and correctly placed.

Client: Fixed the vanishing mouse cursor on Mac. Holding the right mouse button to turn the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:07:25 -0500

Fixed the vanishing mouse cursor on Mac. Holding the right mouse button to turn the camera hid the cursor and never gave it back, for the rest of the session. The mouse still worked and still clicked, it was just invisible.

Client: The cursor restore ran through an old third-party plugin whose Mac library was never…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:07:26 -0500

The cursor restore ran through an old third-party plugin whose Mac library was never shipped inside the app bundle. The failure left a busy flag stuck on, and the code that makes the cursor visible again was waiting on that flag. Mac now moves the cursor itself through the system framework, with no plugin involved.

Client: Rebuilt the restore path so a failed cursor move can no longer cost you the cursor…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:07:27 -0500

Rebuilt the restore path so a failed cursor move can no longer cost you the cursor: visibility is now restored from a guaranteed cleanup step, the wait is time bounded, and a watchdog hands the cursor back if it is ever left hidden with nothing owning it. Windows and Linux keep their existing path.

Client: The guide light is now something a player can actually use. Open your map in a town…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:57:06 -0500

The guide light is now something a player can actually use. Open your map in a town, click a marker you have found, and a light rises beside you and flies the walking route ahead, waiting on each corner so you can see which way to turn. It never walks your character for you and it fades on its own after a few minutes.

Client: Three ways to summon it: click a marker on the map in a town or player-run town, type…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:57:12 -0500

Three ways to summon it: click a marker on the map in a town or player-run town, type /guide, or bind the Summon Guide key under Options. /guide off puts it away. There is an Enable Guide Light checkbox in Options for anyone who would rather not have it at all.

Client: The light only leads to markers you can already see on your map or compass, so it will…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:57:21 -0500

The light only leads to markers you can already see on your map or compass, so it will never point at a place you have not discovered. It stays out of dungeons, basements, random encounters, sieges, battlegrounds and the overworld: working out where to go is the point of those places.

Client: A bare /guide leads to the destination you set or the quest objective you are on, and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:57:28 -0500

A bare /guide leads to the destination you set or the quest objective you are on, and stops there rather than guessing at the nearest point of interest. Added 22 more editor tests covering what the light is allowed to lead to, how it reads a route by distance, and which marker a click lands on.

Inventory: Inventory rows are back to the density the old window had. The converted table was…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:53:57 -0500

Inventory rows are back to the density the old window had. The converted table was drawing rows half again as tall as before, so the same full-height backpack showed about 26 items where it used to show 41. Rows are 24 pixels again, matching the list the conversion replaced. This covers the backpack, containers, the bank, lot storage, vendor windows, the crafting station, the deco palette and the jukebox.

Inventory: The backpack window spends less of its height on controls: the category filter button and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:54:05 -0500

The backpack window spends less of its height on controls: the category filter button and the search box now share one line instead of stacking, which is another item row back. The filter button is capped and truncates, so a long category name cannot squeeze the search box out on a narrow window.

Inventory: Take All no longer closes the container it just emptied. The window stays open until you…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:55 -0500

Take All no longer closes the container it just emptied. The window stays open until you close it, so you can see what is left, put something back, or keep working out of it.

Inventory: Take All also used to close the window when only part of the contents moved. Anything too…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:56 -0500

Take All also used to close the window when only part of the contents moved. Anything too heavy to carry stayed in the container and went off screen with it. Those leftovers are now still listed in front of you.

Inventory: The interact key stops counting as a Take All once a container is empty. An emptied…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:57 -0500

The interact key stops counting as a Take All once a container is empty. An emptied window left open was about to start swallowing that key, which would have blocked talking to people and opening doors while it sat there.

Inventory: Item list column headings now show the whole word. Durability was labelled "Dur" and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:33:47 -0500

Item list column headings now show the whole word. Durability was labelled "Dur" and quantity "Qty" in the backpack, bank, containers and the crafting table, and testers read those as headings the window had cut off. Both columns were widened to hold the full word while sorted, which draws the heading in bold with an arrow beside it.

Combat: Body Slam, Charge and Engage work again on rooted creatures. A charge moves the caster…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:01:43 -0500

Body Slam, Charge and Engage work again on rooted creatures. A charge moves the caster, but the code checked whether the target could move before allowing it, so a rooted enemy cancelled the whole glyph: no slam, no damage, no stun, and the card spent anyway. Root now stops the character it actually holds. Rooted creatures are still immune to being dragged by Pull, and they still take the rest of the hit.

Combat: While you are rooted the three charge glyphs grey out and refuse with a reason instead of…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:01:43 -0500

While you are rooted the three charge glyphs grey out and refuse with a reason instead of playing a run-in-place animation and eating the glyph, and a root that lands mid-charge stops it. Rooted creatures follow the same rule: a held boar picks a different attack rather than a charge it cannot make. Two more copies of the same wrong-entity check, in the movement-field effect and in the charge coroutine, were fixed alongside.

Combat: Swept all 1664 rune assets for the minimum-range problem that was fixed one rune at a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:16:07 -0500

Swept all 1664 rune assets for the minimum-range problem that was fixed one rune at a time in Death Field and Discharge. 233 of them are area attacks centred on the caster, and 16 of those advertised a minimum casting distance they do not have. Among them were the creature versions of Death Field and Discharge, which the earlier fix had left alone. Creatures using these attacks now close in and land them, where before they backed off to a distance the attack could not reach.

Combat: The regression test behind that fix pinned two runes by name. It now enforces the rule…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:16:22 -0500

The regression test behind that fix pinned two runes by name. It now enforces the rule across every rune in the set, so a re-authored minimum fails the build instead of sitting in the data. Three runes keep a minimum on purpose and each carries its reason in the test: a flying kobold whose minimum is what keeps it airborne, and two runes using the shared value that means no range gate at all. A second test fails if one of those exemptions goes stale.

Tooling: Shortened how long an abandoned editor reservation can block other work: the idle timeout…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:15:45 -0500

Shortened how long an abandoned editor reservation can block other work: the idle timeout drops from 10 minutes to 4, and the longer hold that protects a call already in flight drops from 30 minutes to 15. Only a test run keeps the long hold now, since it is the one call that legitimately goes quiet for minutes.

Tooling: Wrote a one-click setup script for new developer machines. It checks what is already…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:26:25 -0500

Wrote a one-click setup script for new developer machines. It checks what is already installed, warns when the target drive is too small, and runs the whole first-time download. If the transfer drops partway, running it again resumes rather than starting the 150 GB over.

Tooling: Gave the setup script two guards, since it reconfigures whatever folder it is pointed at…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:26:26 -0500

Gave the setup script two guards, since it reconfigures whatever folder it is pointed at: it refuses a folder that is not a checkout, and refuses a checkout belonging to a different project. Without the second one it would have hidden files in an unrelated working tree.

Creatures: Killing a Watcher now always leaves a Metal Scrap. The two small Oracle machines that go…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:54:39 -0500

Killing a Watcher now always leaves a Metal Scrap. The two small Oracle machines that go by that name had the scrap slot already wired up but set to drop once in a thousand kills, and neither carries any other reward bundle, so the body came up empty about 99% of the time on the flying one and 90% on the crawling one. Reported by a player through the in-game Oracle.

Creatures: The rate follows what already shipped elsewhere in the family: every Oracle machine from…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:54:40 -0500

The rate follows what already shipped elsewhere in the family: every Oracle machine from tier 5 up drops scrap on every kill, and a tier 1 copper golem already gives a guaranteed one. A Watcher has 1 health and pays 1 experience, so its payout stays at a single scrap.

Launcher: Checked the Linux launcher and patch channel against what the source says should be live…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:51:57 -0500

Checked the Linux launcher and patch channel against what the source says should be live. Both match, and the Linux game build ships from the same source revision as Windows about a minute behind it. Mac still has no launcher, so Mac testers re-download the whole client every build.

Launcher: Started the Mac launcher. Cleared two things that would have broken the first Mac patch…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:52:05 -0500

Started the Mac launcher. Cleared two things that would have broken the first Mac patch release: the deploy stored Mac files under a folder name the launcher never asks for, and the Mac launch target named the application bundle instead of the program inside it. Also measured the Mac client for symbolic links and found none, so the patch format did not need a new field for them.

Launcher: Built the Mac launcher application bundle, along with the companion bundle the game…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:06:49 -0500

Built the Mac launcher application bundle, along with the companion bundle the game itself launches, and scripted the whole assembly so it can be repeated.

Launcher: Settled where a Mac install keeps its files. On Windows and Linux the launcher, its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:06:58 -0500

Settled where a Mac install keeps its files. On Windows and Linux the launcher, its settings and the game all share one folder. On Mac the launcher lives inside a signed application bundle that cannot be written to and is replaced whole on every launcher update, so the settings and the game tree now sit in the user Application Support folder instead. Windows and Linux keep the layout they had.

Launcher: Taught the launcher to update itself on Mac. Everywhere else that means replacing one…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:18:06 -0500

Taught the launcher to update itself on Mac. Everywhere else that means replacing one file; on Mac it means replacing a folder, so the old copy is now moved aside rather than deleted and put back if anything goes wrong, instead of leaving no launcher at all.

Launcher: Found the Mac launcher would not have started the game: the way it worked out which…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:18:15 -0500

Found the Mac launcher would not have started the game: the way it worked out which program to run inside an application folder guessed from the folder name, and the Mac folder and program names differ. It now reads the name the system itself uses. Two tests caught this before it shipped.

Launcher: Prepared the patch server for Mac downloads, including teaching the cleanup job about the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:18:15 -0500

Prepared the patch server for Mac downloads, including teaching the cleanup job about the Mac launcher file shape. Without that, every Mac launcher ever published would have been kept on the server forever.

Launcher: The Mac launcher is live. Mac testers can download it from the tester page instead of…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:14:40 -0500

The Mac launcher is live. Mac testers can download it from the tester page instead of re-downloading the whole 16 GB client after every build: it installs the game, patches only what changed, and keeps itself up to date. The full-client download has been retired from the page. First launch still needs a right-click and Open, since the app is not notarized yet.

Launcher: Published the Mac game files to their own patch channel, from the same source revision as…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:14:40 -0500

Published the Mac game files to their own patch channel, from the same source revision as Windows and Linux, so all three platforms now patch from one build number. The Mac launcher had to be built on a Mac: built from Windows it comes out with no signature at all, and Apple Silicon refuses to run that rather than warning about it.

Web: Clicking a screenshot on this page opens the full-size image again. Screenshots added…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:53:07 -0500

Clicking a screenshot on this page opens the full-size image again. Screenshots added since the twenty-fifth were written in a slightly different shape to the ones before them, and the click-to-expand code only recognised the older shape, so the nine newest thumbnails did nothing when clicked while still showing the zoom cursor. It now works off the thumbnail itself, so both shapes open, and so do the copies the newest-first view makes.

Web: Newest first now shows images in the timeline on every day. Whether a day put its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:53:15 -0500

Newest first now shows images in the timeline on every day. Whether a day put its screenshots in the timeline or in a block at the bottom had been decided by which way those screenshots happened to be added, so the front page disagreed with itself day to day. The arrows and the picture counter also count only the images on screen now, instead of counting the hidden copy of every one of them twice.

Web: Publishing the page now refuses two kinds of markup that render fine and behave badly: a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:53:23 -0500

Publishing the page now refuses two kinds of markup that render fine and behave badly: a thumbnail frame with no picture inside it, and a whole section pasted into a single bullet. Two bullets from the twenty-eighth carried the second one and were repaired. The five days of dead thumbnails got past every existing check because they all read either page furniture or bullet text, and nothing read shape.

Web: The X that closes an expanded image works. It sits inside the right-hand arrow, which is…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:11:42 -0500

The X that closes an expanded image works. It sits inside the right-hand arrow, which is a full-height strip and was drawn over the top of it, so the X answered nothing on hover and a click there paged to the next picture instead of closing. The arrow still pages everywhere else along that edge. Escape and a click on the dark background have always closed it and still do.

Chat: Chat tabs answer the mouse again. Dragging a tab out of the window makes a window of its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:13:14 -0500

Chat tabs answer the mouse again. Dragging a tab out of the window makes a window of its own, dropping one on another chat window's tab line moves it into that window, and a short sideways drag reorders it along the bar. Tuesday's fix gave the window its move handle back, and the tab drags themselves still did nothing in any direction.

Chat: The press a drag begins with was being taken by the tab's own click handling before the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:13:15 -0500

The press a drag begins with was being taken by the tab's own click handling before the drag could see it, so every gesture read as a click. A tab now owns the whole gesture from press to release. New tests press, drag and release through the real input path, where the old ones built the window in isolation and never dispatched anything, which is how a drag wired to nothing passed them twice.

Chat: The chat window's cog menu had two settings that did nothing. "Use Transparent…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:29:51 -0500

The chat window's cog menu had two settings that did nothing. "Use Transparent Background" now clears the window's panel and the backing behind the messages so chat reads over the world, while the frame, tabs and typing field keep theirs; "Use Opaque Background" puts the dark panel back. The window still opens with the dark panel unless you pick transparent.

Chat: The "Enable / Disable Clickable Keywords" setting now applies to every line already in…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:29:59 -0500

The "Enable / Disable Clickable Keywords" setting now applies to every line already in your chat log rather than only to lines spoken after you flip it, and turning keywords back on restores all of them. The markup was being baked into each line as it arrived, so old lines stayed clickable forever; the log now decides when it draws the line.

Interface: The school filter in the deck editor ran a column of twenty checkboxes off the bottom of…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:22:12 -0500

The school filter in the deck editor ran a column of twenty checkboxes off the bottom of the window with no way to scroll, so the schools below the fold could not be ticked or cleared at all. The list now scrolls inside a box sized to the window, and the glyph list underneath keeps a visible strip instead of being pushed out of the way.

Interface: Two more things in the same panel: the open school filter had no background behind it, so…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:22:19 -0500

Two more things in the same panel: the open school filter had no background behind it, so the checkboxes drew straight over the card list, and neither the Glyphs nor the Combos tab ever showed which one you were on. Both were style names that matched nothing, and both windows that share the filter got the fix.

Interface: A follow-up in the same filter, found while reviewing the fix: a school box and the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:51:07 -0500

A follow-up in the same filter, found while reviewing the fix: a school box and the school it stood for could drift apart in the list, which would have shown ticked schools as clear and clear ones as ticked whenever the window reopened. It needed a school with no category behind it to trigger, and there is not one today, so nothing was visibly wrong yet.

Interface: The countdown on the need or greed loot popup runs cyan, then yellow, then red as its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:45:23 -0500

The countdown on the need or greed loot popup runs cyan, then yellow, then red as its twenty seconds drain. The red stage never arrived: its threshold sat behind the yellow one, so every value that reached it had already been claimed. The number held cyan until fourteen seconds remained, then went yellow the rest of the way to zero. It now holds cyan to fourteen seconds, turns yellow from thirteen down to seven, and runs red for the last six. The bands moved into a helper with tests that walk a full countdown, so the order cannot invert again.

Interface: Swept the rest of the client for the same mistake, on the theory that one unreachable…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:45:31 -0500

Swept the rest of the client for the same mistake, on the theory that one unreachable colour band rarely travels alone. The encumbrance, fizzle chance, frame rate and housing readouts all order their thresholds correctly. The loot countdown was the only one that did not.

Interface: The charge bar is back above the hotbar. Holding a locked glyph drew the skill name with…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:22:48 -0500

The charge bar is back above the hotbar. Holding a locked glyph drew the skill name with nothing under it. When these readouts moved to the new interface, the bar they draw in was left to a style rule that was never written, so it collapsed to no size at all and the fills inside it had nothing to fill. Five more readouts shared the gap: the casting bar, the melee attack charge bar, the harvesting bar, the control point capture meter and the resurrection shrine meter.

Interface: Put the charge bar back to the look it was built with. All three of its colours had been…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:23:00 -0500

Put the charge bar back to the look it was built with. All three of its colours had been redrawn from scratch during the move, so the fill is yellow again with the orange band riding over it as whole charges complete, and spent charges shade in red from the right hand end instead of covering the progress just earned. The dividers now land on the charge marks rather than between them.

Interface: Every one of these bars had been positioned by working out a fraction of the screen…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:23:00 -0500

Every one of these bars had been positioned by working out a fraction of the screen height, which put them in three different bands and moved them whenever a player changed resolution. They now use the fixed offsets they were built with: 160 pixels above the bottom of the screen for the charge, casting and attack bars, 188 for the capture meter, and just above centre for harvesting.

Interface: Added the check that would have caught this. The old tests asserted percentages, which a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:23:00 -0500

Added the check that would have caught this. The old tests asserted percentages, which a zero sized bar satisfies perfectly, so the suite stayed green while nothing drew. The new ones lay each bar out on a real panel and measure it. Two further guards stop the next conversion repeating the mistake: no view may reference a style class the theme does not define, and no combat bar may go back to placing itself by screen fraction.

Interface: The Options button in the skills window did nothing when you pressed it. It was asking…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:14:11 -0500

The Options button in the skills window did nothing when you pressed it. It was asking the old tab strip which category was on screen, and the rewritten window stopped answering, so the menu came back empty and an empty menu opens nothing at all. It now reads the selection the window is actually showing, so the two instant unlearn entries are listed again for the tree and the category you are looking at.

Interface: Rows in right-click and options menus lost their tooltips somewhere in the move to the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:14:12 -0500

Rows in right-click and options menus lost their tooltips somewhere in the move to the new menu, which left a greyed-out entry with no way to find out why it was greyed out. Rows carry their tooltip again, and the menu layer now sits under the tooltip layer instead of tied with it, so a row explanation draws over the menu rather than behind it.

Interface: The check that guards those column widths now measures the headings on a live panel…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:33:55 -0500

The check that guards those column widths now measures the headings on a live panel instead of storing numbers from an old measurement. It had been measuring them unbolded, so it could not see that a sorted heading draws about 7 percent wider, which is how the abbreviations came to look necessary. A weight heading was already a couple of pixels over its column on that count.

Decorating: Lot layouts got a new name. The feature that shipped yesterday as Blueprints is now…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:59:18 -0500

Lot layouts got a new name. The feature that shipped yesterday as Blueprints is now Decoration Layouts, because blueprints have meant the dungeon pieces you craft for a player dungeon since 2018 and two of them under one name helped nobody. The window, the deco strip button, the craftable item and its recipe all read layout now.

Decorating: Saved layouts came along with the rename. Files move from the old folder to a new…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:59:28 -0500

Saved layouts came along with the rename. Files move from the old folder to a new DecorationLayouts folder the first time you open the window, layout codes shared before the change still import, and an item you already recorded still previews and applies.

Decorating: The Open Folder button in that window did nothing, so there was no way to reach your…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:59:29 -0500

The Open Folder button in that window did nothing, so there was no way to reach your saved files from in game. It used a Windows-only call that fails outright on Mac, and the failure went to the log rather than the screen. It now opens the folder on all three platforms, and prints the full path to the window and chat if the system refuses.

NPCs: Two testers reported NPCs in the Isle of Storms tutorial that could be heard but not seen…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:39:03 -0500

Two testers reported NPCs in the Isle of Storms tutorial that could be heard but not seen or clicked, and the client had said nothing about it. Every way an NPC can end up with no body was silent, so the client now names any NPC that finishes spawning with nothing to draw.

NPCs: Swept the whole Isle of Storms tutorial for the same fault: all seven Anais spawn points…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:39:11 -0500

Swept the whole Isle of Storms tutorial for the same fault: all seven Anais spawn points, the automaton, Arabella, the Oracle and the practice dummies build a body and a click target correctly, so the cause is not in the content. A new test walks every spawn point in that scene and fails if one of them would come up empty.

NPCs: Added a developer command that answers why an NPC is missing: it reports whether the NPC…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:45:10 -0500

Added a developer command that answers why an NPC is missing: it reports whether the NPC never appeared, appeared with no body, or appeared and was then hidden. Those three faults look identical in game and the client used to tell them apart not at all.

NPCs: Fixed a report that NPCs kept calling out their passing lines at players who were dead. A…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:46:09 -0500

Fixed a report that NPCs kept calling out their passing lines at players who were dead. A dead player is a ghost, so NPCs now ignore them entirely: no bubble, no chat log line, no voice, and the NPC does not turn and gesture at you either. NPC to NPC chatter and NPC death cries still play, and the Isle of Storms opening is unchanged since you are meant to be a ghost there.

NPC Dialogue: NPC voices now stop when you leave a conversation. A spoken reply used to keep playing…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:05:43 -0500

NPC voices now stop when you leave a conversation. A spoken reply used to keep playing after you pressed Escape, so you would hear the rest of the sentence while walking away.

NPC Dialogue: A farewell you asked for still plays to the end. Clicking Goodbye ends the conversation a…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:05:44 -0500

A farewell you asked for still plays to the end. Clicking Goodbye ends the conversation a tenth of a second after the line starts, so cutting every exit would have clipped every goodbye.

Testing: Tester reports now get read and acted on every night. The existing sweep only understood…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:09:28 -0500

Tester reports now get read and acted on every night. The existing sweep only understood one comment format, and testers were writing a different one: the task template asks them to copy the checklist into a comment with PASS or FAIL after each line, and that is what almost all of them do. None of it was being processed, so it piled up. 81 verification tasks sat parked, 57 of them with no development issue anywhere, which meant the finding existed only as a comment on a task nobody would open again.

Testing: Cleared the whole backlog in one pass: 112 tester reports read, 68 new bugs filed and…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:09:28 -0500

Cleared the whole backlog in one pass: 112 tester reports read, 68 new bugs filed and assigned, 19 existing issues reopened, 17 tasks closed as verified. 50 bugs testers had filed themselves were sitting unowned and now have someone on them. Three reports were left alone on purpose because they need a human decision rather than a fix.

Testing: A failed verification now closes its task and moves the finding onto a development issue…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:09:28 -0500

A failed verification now closes its task and moves the finding onto a development issue, instead of parking the task. Parking was a dead end: the note promised the task would come back when a fix landed, and nothing in the system could ever bring it back.

Testing: Testers can now clear or reset the fog of war on a dungeon map from the tester window…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:50:55 -0500

Testers can now clear or reset the fog of war on a dungeon map from the tester window. Clear reveals the whole dungeon on every floor at once, reset puts it back to unexplored so the reveal can be walked and watched again.

Oracle: The Oracle can now answer where a trainer is. Its knowledge base had nothing on trainers…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:02:53 -0500

The Oracle can now answer where a trainer is. Its knowledge base had nothing on trainers at all, so a player who asked it where to find the Master Air Magic Trainer got no answer. There is now a trainers guide covering all 21 master trainers, the towns they live in, and which skills only they teach, and every school guide gained a "Where to train" section. Live on the Oracle now.

Gameplay: Kingsport townspeople can point you at the trainers. Asking a local where something is…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:03:06 -0500

Kingsport townspeople can point you at the trainers. Asking a local where something is worked for the bank, the tavern and the market, but there was no answer for any trainer, so "I can't find the air trainer" got nothing back. The player who reported it was standing about five metres from the town's general trainer and twenty-eight from the master they wanted. Locals now give directions to the air trainer, the moon trainer and the general trainer, and they sort out the two Jeremys in town.

Audio: NPCs now say the same word for you that their text shows. Characters who do not know your…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:34:07 -0500

NPCs now say the same word for you that their text shows. Characters who do not know your name call you "friend", "stranger", "human", "traveller", "your grace" and about ninety other things depending on who they are, but every spoken line said "outlander" regardless. The written word was already stored per character; the voice pipeline was never reading it. 1,945 of the 2,873 voiced characters were affected, so roughly two thirds of the game.

Audio: While fixing that, found 669 characters with no audio at all on the lines where they say…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:34:07 -0500

While fixing that, found 669 characters with no audio at all on the lines where they say their own name. Generic townsfolk share one conversation file, and the generator was only ever recording the first name in each group, so Brittany's guards produced audio for "Guard" and nothing for Lucas Porter, Neil Landry or the four others behind the same file. Regenerated 4,138 clips to cover both fixes.

Docs: Wrote a setup guide for developers who have never used git, taking a bare Windows machine…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:52:47 -0500

Wrote a setup guide for developers who have never used git, taking a bare Windows machine through to the game client running in the editor. It covers the disk and time budget (around 400 GB, most of a day), the exact commands to run, and a troubleshooting list for the ways it usually goes wrong.

Docs: Replaced the download instructions in the developer docs. A plain clone of the repo…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:52:48 -0500

Replaced the download instructions in the developer docs. A plain clone of the repo stalls while the server tries to pack 178 GB into a single archive; the partial checkout the guide now uses finished in 16 seconds in testing, and lets the art content download separately so an interrupted transfer resumes instead of starting over.

Docs: Corrected the old developer setup page. It still named the previous editor version…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:52:48 -0500

Corrected the old developer setup page. It still named the previous editor version, carried a placeholder where the repository address should be, and recommended a git setting that disables large-file support.

Docs: Added guidance for artists and designers moving over from Perforce on which git app to…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:26:26 -0500

Added guidance for artists and designers moving over from Perforce on which git app to use for day-to-day work, and which to avoid: one popular client puts a status icon on every file in Explorer, which does not hold up on a project of 400,000 files.

Player Dungeons: Dragon totems attach to the Rise Shaft socket again. The statue was being measured…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:53:15 -0500

Dragon totems attach to the Rise Shaft socket again. The statue was being measured wingtip to wingtip when the game checked whether it fit on the pedestal, so it always came back blocked. It is now measured the same way every other totem is, at 0.23m across instead of 1.11m. The statue itself is unchanged and still matches the other totems for height.

Player Dungeons: Level 1 totems spawn creatures again. Four rooms had no creature listed for the lowest…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:53:15 -0500

Level 1 totems spawn creatures again. Four rooms had no creature listed for the lowest totem tier, and the Rise Shaft was the worst of them: a Level 1 elf or troll totem lit up eleven spawn points with nothing in any of them. Levels 2 through 6 were never affected. The Troll room, the Hilt Rotunda and Challenge Dungeon 01 are filled in too.

Player Dungeons: Two spawn rooms in one dungeon no longer cancel each other out. Every room numbered its…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:53:15 -0500

Two spawn rooms in one dungeon no longer cancel each other out. Every room numbered its spawn points from one and the game kept a single list for the whole dungeon, so a spawn point in one room could quietly displace one in another and neither would ever appear. Spawn points are now tracked per placed room.

Decorations: The three Ornate Elven planting beds carried no collision shape on the bed itself, so the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:31:40 -0500

The three Ornate Elven planting beds carried no collision shape on the bed itself, so the game refused to place them on a lot and gave no name when you hovered the frame. Both problems came from that one missing piece. All nine framed planting beds now share the same box collision, sized from the collision shapes the art already ships.

Decorations: The Ornate Viking beds were the ones the earlier rollback missed, so they were still on…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:31:49 -0500

The Ornate Viking beds were the ones the earlier rollback missed, so they were still on mesh collision while every other bed used a box. They now match the rest of the set, which also takes them off a drag-time collision path no other bed used.

Decorations: The small Ornate Elven bed dropped to its low detail level about five times closer to the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:31:50 -0500

The small Ornate Elven bed dropped to its low detail level about five times closer to the camera than any other bed, and the watered patches went with it. Its threshold is back in line with its siblings, so watered ground stays visible at a normal viewing distance.

Decorations: The check that stops you sowing into a bed something else is intruding on had come…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:31:58 -0500

The check that stops you sowing into a bed something else is intruding on had come unwired on six of the nine beds, where it passed everything instead of checking. It is wired on all nine again. Beds placed flush side by side keep 0.23 to 0.36 metres of clearance, so ordinary layouts are unaffected.

Decorations: Added an editor test that checks every planting bed for its root collider, its overlap…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:31:58 -0500

Added an editor test that checks every planting bed for its root collider, its overlap wiring and its detail threshold. It was run against a deliberately broken copy first to confirm it catches all three of the shipped faults.

Marketplace: Timed marketplace settlement could stall. Auctions ending, purchase orders expiring, tip…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:03 -0500

Timed marketplace settlement could stall. Auctions ending, purchase orders expiring, tip jar payouts and lot sale orders are all settled by one routine that runs every minute, and they shared a single error guard, so one failure aborted the run and every later step was skipped until the next restart. Each step now runs on its own.

Telemetry: Server log stack traces were being thrown away in transit. The log reader kept only the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:05 -0500

Server log stack traces were being thrown away in transit. The log reader kept only the first line of each message, so an error arrived with its type and text but no location, which is why the most frequent error of the day could not be traced to a line. Full traces now survive the trip.

Telemetry: Log records now carry the build they came from automatically. The number was documented…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:15 -0500

Log records now carry the build they came from automatically. The number was documented as a manual step, so it had never been set, and every record read as generation zero. That made a genuine regression indistinguishable from a fix that simply was not published yet. The step that flips the build channel now writes it down.

Patching: The macOS chaos channel pointer is recorded in the repo alongside the Windows one, so the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:17:24 -0500

The macOS chaos channel pointer is recorded in the repo alongside the Windows one, so the build each platform serves is written down in the same place.

Mac launcher: The Mac launcher could not install the game. On first run it copied itself into a folder…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:49 -0500

The Mac launcher could not install the game. On first run it copied itself into a folder and stopped, and reopening it showed the same install screen again. Fixed, and launcher build 25 is on the tester page.

Mac launcher: Two separate faults, either one fatal. The installer copied the program file out of the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:55 -0500

Two separate faults, either one fatal. The installer copied the program file out of the Mac app package, which produces something macOS will not launch. And it wrote its settings to the folder the player picked while the launcher reads them from a different one, so the install never registered and the first-run screen came back every time.

Mac launcher: On a Mac the app you download is already the launcher, so first run now copies nothing…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:55 -0500

On a Mac the app you download is already the launcher, so first run now copies nothing and restarts nothing. It asks where the game should go, then opens the launcher window in the same window and starts patching.

Mac launcher: Ran it end to end on a Mac from a clean machine, which is the step the previous release…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:23:03 -0500

Ran it end to end on a Mac from a clean machine, which is the step the previous release skipped. First run to a finished install: 707 files, 16.9 GB, the game launching from the folder the player chose and nothing written inside the app package.

Mac launcher: The self-update had the same fault in two more places, including one that handed the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:23:03 -0500

The self-update had the same fault in two more places, including one that handed the system a folder where it needed a file. Both now go through one shared routine. That path had never been run on a Mac either.

Mac launcher: The launcher test suite is green on a Mac for the first time: 344 of 344. Six failures…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:23:03 -0500

The launcher test suite is green on a Mac for the first time: 344 of 344. Six failures were older and Mac-only, five of them asserting a settings folder that moved months ago and stayed invisible on Windows because there the two folders are the same one.

Mac launcher: The release script would have published the wrong thing for Mac: the bare program file…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:23:15 -0500

The release script would have published the wrong thing for Mac: the bare program file rather than the signed app package, replacing a working pointer with one aimed at a build Apple Silicon refuses to run. It now takes the package the Mac build step produces.

Mac launcher: Closed a related hole in the release script. Building the Mac launcher on a machine that…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:29:37 -0500

Closed a related hole in the release script. Building the Mac launcher on a machine that cannot sign it produced a package that looked shippable, and the publish step only checked the file was there. An unsigned build now leaves nothing to publish.

User Interface: Windows that were open when you logged out no longer follow you onto the login screen…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:09:34 -0500

Windows that were open when you logged out no longer follow you onto the login screen. The tester tools window, GM tools, the social window, a tip jar, a game table, and the theme editor all stayed up there, drawn over the login form and still clickable. Every one of them closes on the way back now.

User Interface: Only one teardown existed for windows that survive a scene load, and it could only see…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:09:41 -0500

Only one teardown existed for windows that survive a scene load, and it could only see one family of them. It is now a shared registry any long-lived window joins, plus a test that fails the build when a new one forgets to.

User Interface: Equipment slots on the character sheet shrink with the window now. They used to draw at…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:41:06 -0500

Equipment slots on the character sheet shrink with the window now. They used to draw at one fixed size whatever you did to the sheet, so making it smaller pushed the bottom slots out of the row entirely. At the default size and larger nothing changed.

User Interface: The floating name above a creature answers the mouse again. Clicking a name targets…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:52:08 -0500

The floating name above a creature answers the mouse again. Clicking a name targets whoever it belongs to and right-clicking one opens their menu, which is where the option to send your pet or summon after them lives. Names went back to the old text renderer a few builds ago so they would stop drawing through walls, and that quietly took them out of the click handler along with it.

User Interface: A name still cannot be clicked in the way that matters: the plate stays invisible to the…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:52:14 -0500

A name still cannot be clicked in the way that matters: the plate stays invisible to the pointer, so a click passes through it to whatever it is naming, and a name faded out by distance or hidden with the rest of the interface takes no clicks at all. The hit test measures the text itself rather than the box it sits in, so overlapping names resolve to the one the cursor is actually inside.

Build pipeline: Fixed a gap in the client build's bundle caching. The cache decided whether packed…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:53:35 -0500

Fixed a gap in the client build's bundle caching. The cache decided whether packed interface files needed rebuilding by watching three source folders, but the packed files also pull in 7,459 referenced files from 31 other folders, and a change to one of those reused the previous build's copy with nothing in the log. Build 79 shipped the tester window's new fog buttons in code but not in the visible panel this way. The cache now tracks every file the packed assets reference, a stale panel logs a warning naming what is missing, and the fog buttons arrive with the next build.

Build pipeline: Closed the older half of the same caching gap. The check that decides whether packed…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:35:53 -0500

Closed the older half of the same caching gap. The check that decides whether packed world files need rebuilding watched only the scene files themselves, and scenes pull nearly all of their art in by reference, so an art-only change could reuse stale packed copies. This bit once in early July and had been on the books since. Both checks now follow every reference, and a failed check refuses to reuse anything rather than guessing.

Build pipeline: Measured the new rebuild checks: the world-file check needs a little over half a minute…

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:47:30 -0500

Measured the new rebuild checks: the world-file check needs a little over half a minute once warmed up, but more than three minutes the first time a fresh build machine runs it, so the overnight build pays the higher price. The numbers now print in every build log, and a cheaper fallback design is written down if that cost proves too much in practice.

Headlines · 2026-07-29

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:32:48 -0500

Shareable blueprints complete: craft a blank Decoration Blueprint, record your lot's layout under a title, and trade it. The holder applies the arrangement with their own items.
The skill tree looks like the skill tree again. Crest frames on every tile, the level back in its badge tab, a green experience bar, and the circular school sigil rings in place of a row of text buttons.
Drag a column heading to resize it, in the backpack, the journal, your deeds, the friends list, merchants, mail and the rest. The game remembers your widths per window.
The map window controls work again: centered zoom, wheel zoom on the cursor, click-drag panning, and a Follow box that really turns following on and off.
Player-to-player lot sales are built: sell a claimed lot from its own lot sign with the house and every decoration intact (wishlist #2758). Listing freezes the lot and hands roommates their things back; buying is one typed confirmation; crashed sales refund by mail.
SQUIRREL! is live: a new page off the work log where the wild ideas get written down, voted on, and argued about. The first residents include something that lives on dragon droppings.
Creature Balance went from nothing to live in a day: every creature in the game scraped through the real combat math, curve-fitted, and browsable on the dev portal and tester hub, ready to drive the balance pass.
Precision on the harvesting meter pays: the centre of the target zone doubles a bonus pull, three times per node, and no longer shrinks past the point of being hittable.
Decorating got its screen back. A long recent-changes list had been growing the deco bar into an invisible rectangle that took most of your clicks, so the avatar would not walk and decorations would not drag. The list now floats on its own panel, the bar takes only the clicks that land on its buttons, and Ctrl+Z stopped reaching your decorations while you type in chat.
The Property Manager rebuilt to the shape it shipped in: house pictures back on every storage row, sortable columns with widths you can drag, and parchment deed cards listing the house, basement and dungeon on each lot.
The chat box takes the keyboard only when you ask for it now: using a glyph while running no longer stops you and types a row of w into the chat line, and a window coming forward keeps your caret where it was.
Fixed chat announcing the same friend online up to 8 times for one login, and the hunt uncovered a deeper server presence sync gap, filed as its own bug.

Community: Nightly forum sweep filed 10 wishlist ideas and 2 bug reports from the last two days of…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:22:49 -0500

Nightly forum sweep filed 10 wishlist ideas and 2 bug reports from the last two days of forum activity — house/lot deed transfers, harvestable tree variety, guild culling rules, a Deco Palette locate button, damage-type masterworks, a full-repair item, new creature types, a new soloable dungeon, new artifacts, a coastal siege map, a housing geometry/sprite bug, and a house-window exploit letting players reach through walls into houses.

Community: Opened SQUIRREL! , a page off the work log for the ideas that run across the road…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:56:51 -0500

Opened SQUIRREL!, a page off the work log for the ideas that run across the road mid-task. Each idea takes anonymous up and down votes and carries its own discussion thread on the same comment service as the proposal pages, and the work log header links to it.

Community: Added a card to the SQUIRREL! page about the wrasse screenshots in the work log: that art…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:34:50 -0500

Added a card to the SQUIRREL! page about the wrasse screenshots in the work log: that art is the untouched ten-year-old original, and the creatures get a quality pass before any of them go out.

Housing: The Decorations window can find things now. Pick a decoration from the list and press…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:33:42 -0500

The Decorations window can find things now. Pick a decoration from the list and press Find, and it is marked on your compass strip and on the map, stays pinned to the edge of the strip while it is behind you, and clears itself when you walk up to it. The decoration glows gold once you are near enough to see it. Double-clicking a row and the Find entry on the right-click menu do the same.

Housing: The Location column stopped printing coordinates. It reads in words instead, along the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:33:43 -0500

The Location column stopped printing coordinates. It reads in words instead, along the lines of 'Interior, on a wall, front left', with front and back as you see them standing at the front of your lot. A decoration you have hidden reads Hidden and can still be marked, which is the one the old coordinates helped with least.

Housing: The Decorations window also gained a Category filter and a Recent row. The filter offers…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:33:44 -0500

The Decorations window also gained a Category filter and a Recent row. The filter offers only the kinds of decoration your lot actually has, so a house with lights and furniture gets three entries rather than ten. The Recent row lists what you last placed or moved, and clicking a name selects that decoration and finds it in one step.

Housing: Where a decoration sits is still shown only to somebody allowed to move it. Find follows…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:33:45 -0500

Where a decoration sits is still shown only to somebody allowed to move it. Find follows the same rule: on a lot where you cannot move the decorations, the button, the menu entry and the Location column are all absent rather than greyed out.

Housing: Started on player-to-player lot sales , a long-standing wishlist ask (#2758): the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:08:27 -0500

Started on player-to-player lot sales, a long-standing wishlist ask (#2758): the groundwork landed for listing a claimed lot for sale on its own lot sign and buying it with the house and every decoration intact. The sale records, the fee and price rules, and the recovery bookkeeping that lets a purchase survive a crash mid-transfer are in. No player-visible change yet; the listing and purchase flow come next.

Housing: Lot sales moved from groundwork to a working listing: an owner can now put a claimed lot…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:35:49 -0500

Lot sales moved from groundwork to a working listing: an owner can now put a claimed lot up for sale on its own lot sign (server side). Listing hands back anything other players had placed there, freezes the lot so nothing can be added or removed while it is on the market, and discloses up front which untradeable items will stay with the seller. Unclaiming, foreclosure, and moving the deed all know about listings now, and the sign shows its for-sale face to everyone in the scene. The buy flow is next.

Housing: The money side of lot sales landed: a buyer at the sign can now be checked against every…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:44:47 -0500

The money side of lot sales landed: a buyer at the sign can now be checked against every eligibility rule (town reservations included), hold a short exclusive lease on the listing, and pay. Gold moves before anything else does, into a durable order record a background job settles by mail: the seller gets the price minus the sale fee once the transfer completes, and a purchase that cannot finish refunds the buyer automatically. The transfer itself is the last server piece left.

Housing: The transfer itself landed: a paid lot sale now changes hands with the claim, both deeds…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:51:19 -0500

The transfer itself landed: a paid lot sale now changes hands with the claim, both deeds, the house, and every decoration and chest exactly where the seller left them. Untradeable items go back to the seller instead of crossing accounts, the seller keeps unused prepaid tax as credit, the buyer starts a fresh tax clock, and access lists reset. The handover survives crashes at any point: it resumes from a journal on the next sweep, and a sale that cannot finish refunds the buyer by mail instead of leaving gold in limbo.

Housing: The lot sign itself learned to sell: owners set a price (and can reserve the sale for one…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:11:06 -0500

The lot sign itself learned to sell: owners set a price (and can reserve the sale for one named player) with a confirmation that spells out the fee, the freeze, and the return of items other players had placed; buyers see the price on the sign and confirm by typing BUY LOT. The whole feature is in, five commits from database records to the sign window, with the fee preview pinned to the server's settlement math by a test. Not on chaos yet; a verification task is filed for the testers.

Housing: Lot sales went under the microscope before anything ships: a new test harness drives the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:51:40 -0500

Lot sales went under the microscope before anything ships: a new test harness drives the real transfer code against its own database and simulates a crash at every single write, then checks that every item still exists exactly once, in the right hands. The harness caught two bugs that reasoning alone had missed (a resumed sale that could wedge forever, and a settlement rule that could pay a seller twice off a duplicated payment record), and the review pass around it closed three more crash windows, including one that could destroy the deed items themselves. All five are fixed and the whole suite passes for every crash point.

Build pipeline: The two images that draw the night sky were importing uncompressed, which put them in the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:49:22 -0500

The two images that draw the night sky were importing uncompressed, which put them in the player build at 24 MB each. Both now use block compression at their full 4096x2048 resolution, taking the pair from 48 MB down to 8 MB.

Build pipeline: Checked the compression against the uncompressed originals before keeping it: 51.5 dB and…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:49:23 -0500

Checked the compression against the uncompressed originals before keeping it: 51.5 dB and 51.9 dB of signal to noise, with 0.06% and 0.02% of colour channels off by more than 8 of 255. Compared the densest star fields side by side at full magnification and rendered the result through the sky shader the game actually uses. Every star is still there at the same brightness.

Build pipeline: Audited the third-party demo content that ships purely because it sits in a folder Unity…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:49:24 -0500

Audited the third-party demo content that ships purely because it sits in a folder Unity force-includes. Half of it turned out to be load-bearing: three of six lighting noise textures are referenced by the weather data, one of them is loaded by name so it cannot even be renamed, and a vendor folder that looked like dead demo art holds two materials used by a real weapon and dozens of buildings. The genuinely unused parts come to about 12 MB.

Build pipeline: The check that catches that exact mistake now runs when code is committed, not an hour…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:03:12 -0500

The check that catches that exact mistake now runs when code is committed, not an hour later on the build server. It also reads the committed files instead of whatever happens to be open on the machine, so one person half-finished with a change can no longer block someone else from committing.

Decorating: Groundwork for lot layout blueprints landed: a lot's decoration arrangement can now be…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:31:27 -0500

Groundwork for lot layout blueprints landed: a lot's decoration arrangement can now be captured to a named local file, with a compact share-code format behind it. Capture records where everything sits and what it is, and deliberately leaves out permissions, ownership stamps, and container contents. Not player-visible yet; the save and apply tools come next.

Decorating: The blueprint matcher and preview landed. A saved layout is reconciled against what is on…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:49:46 -0500

The blueprint matcher and preview landed. A saved layout is reconciled against what is on the lot and in your bags (exact item first, then the same kind of item, pattern and dye preferred), and a dry run reports what would move, what would be placed from inventory, what would return to your backpack, and what cannot be applied and why, using the same denial reasons and count limits live placement uses. Overlap and surface fit stay a live-placement concern and the preview says so.

Decorating: Undo now understands a whole blueprint apply as one step. Applying a layout will record…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:59:34 -0500

Undo now understands a whole blueprint apply as one step. Applying a layout will record every move, placement, and removal into a single history entry, so one press of Ctrl+Z walks the entire apply back: items return to their original spots, placed items go back to your bags, and removed items return to the lot, in the right order for stacked decorations. If any placed item came from a stack the undo is one way, and the history says so, matching how single placements already behave.

Decorating: The blueprint apply engine landed. Applying a layout moves items in batches, returns…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:05:04 -0500

The blueprint apply engine landed. Applying a layout moves items in batches, returns displaced items to your backpack, places matching items from your bags in the right stacking order, and reports what it did and what it skipped. A refused batch retries its items one at a time so a single stuck item cannot stop the rest, and nothing already applied is ever silently rolled back.

Decorating: Blueprints shipped. The housing strip has a new Blueprints button: save your lot's…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:16:50 -0500

Blueprints shipped. The housing strip has a new Blueprints button: save your lot's arrangement under a name, preview what applying it would change, and apply it in one pass that also lands as a single undo step. The preview uses the same denial reasons and count limits as live placement and says plainly what it does not check. Blueprints are files in your game data folder, so two names make a seasonal swap and a file can be shared outside the game.

Decorating: Groundwork for shareable blueprints: a blueprint item can now carry a recorded layout…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:24:34 -0500

Groundwork for shareable blueprints: a blueprint item can now carry a recorded layout, its title, its author, and its item count as ordinary item data, so trading, mailing, and vendor listing a written blueprint just works. Not craftable or usable yet; the recording tools come next.

Decorating: The recording wire for shareable blueprints is in: a blank blueprint item can be…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:37:16 -0500

The recording wire for shareable blueprints is in: a blank blueprint item can be inscribed with a captured layout over the same kind of chunked, size-capped upload player-written books use, with the author stamped by the server. A written blueprint cannot be rewritten; recording again takes a fresh blank.

Decorating: The Decoration Blueprint item works end to end: use a blank one on your lot to record the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:44:12 -0500

The Decoration Blueprint item works end to end: use a blank one on your lot to record the layout under a title, hand the written blueprint to anyone, and they can preview and apply the arrangement to a lot they may decorate using their own items. The written title shows as the item name the way player-written book titles do.

Decorating: The Decoration Blueprint recipe is in: Tailoring skill 30, 12 Wood Pulp and 4 Cotton…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:53:27 -0500

The Decoration Blueprint recipe is in: Tailoring skill 30, 12 Wood Pulp and 4 Cotton, with the recipe sheet sold beside the blank book recipe. That completes shareable blueprints: craft a blank, record your lot under a title, and hand the written blueprint to anyone. It arranges decorations they already own and never contains yours.

Decorating: Saving a decoration blueprint would have failed for everyone. The request left the client…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:03:12 -0500

Saving a decoration blueprint would have failed for everyone. The request left the client and arrived at the server, but nobody had connected it to the code that handles it, so every save came back as an unknown command. Wired it up before the blueprint feature reached a build.

Decorating: The Blueprints preview now counts stacked decorations whose base item is missing. A saved…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:43:19 -0500

The Blueprints preview now counts stacked decorations whose base item is missing. A saved table with eight plates on it, applied without the table, warned about one missing item and said nothing about the eight plates that had nowhere to go.

Decorating: Rows in the blueprint preview's left-out list now read as sentences such as "sits on…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:43:25 -0500

Rows in the blueprint preview's left-out list now read as sentences such as "sits on something you do not have". They had been printing the internal reason name, so players saw "(ParentMissing)" whatever language they played in.

Decorating: The deco bar's recent-changes list no longer swallows the screen. A long list used to…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:28 -0500

The deco bar's recent-changes list no longer swallows the screen. A long list used to grow the bar upward behind an edge you could not see, and clicks aimed at the world landed in that empty space instead: the avatar barely moved, decorations would not drag, and the bar flickered as you clicked. The list is now a small panel floating above the bar with a background of its own, it scrolls once it fills, and the bar stays one row tall.

Decorating: Rows in that list read what happened. "Moved Oak Table" and "Picked up Oak Table" replace…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:29 -0500

Rows in that list read what happened. "Moved Oak Table" and "Picked up Oak Table" replace a symbol that was not in the font and drew as the wrong character, and item names that carry formatting now show it rather than the tags around it.

Decorating: Leaving a lot says the undo history is gone. Walking off the lot, or travelling out of…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:30 -0500

Leaving a lot says the undo history is gone. Walking off the lot, or travelling out of the area, clears the fifty-change history and now puts a line on screen telling you so. The one for leaving the area waits for the new scene to finish loading, since nothing can be read over a loading screen.

Images: The night sky after the change, rendered through the sky shader the game uses. This is…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:49:42 -0500

The night sky after the change, rendered through the sky shader the game uses. This is the 4 MB version of a texture that used to take 24 MB.

Images: The SQUIRREL! page on launch day: the intro, the first three squirrels, and the vote…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:56:52 -0500

The SQUIRREL! page on launch day: the intro, the first three squirrels, and the vote arrows waiting for opinions.

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Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:31:09 -0500

Images: The Fire school tree after the connector fix, with the lines joining each skill to the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:52:40 -0500

The Fire school tree after the connector fix, with the lines joining each skill to the ones below it.

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Images · 2026-07-29

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:01:30 -0500

UI: Fixed the login window drawing far wider than the original. The converted panel set no…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:06:13 -0500

Fixed the login window drawing far wider than the original. The converted panel set no width at all, so it sized itself to the welcome message below the form on a single unwrapped line and stretched across most of the screen. It is back to 456px, the width the pre-conversion panel was authored at, and the welcome text wraps to three lines inside it.

UI: Capped the connecting and login queue message at that same width. It draws on top of the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:06:20 -0500

Capped the connecting and login queue message at that same width. It draws on top of the login window, so a long queue string used to leave it overhanging the panel behind it.

UI: Skill tree tiles draw their crest frame art again, with the level number back in the tab…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:39:37 -0500

Skill tree tiles draw their crest frame art again, with the level number back in the tab moulded into the top of the frame, a green experience bar along the bottom, and the grandmaster badge as an icon instead of the letters GM. The training marker at the top left is back to its old small, dim form rather than the large triangle it had become.

UI: Those tiles were 68 pixels wide sitting on a 64 pixel column pitch, so a row of them…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:39:47 -0500

Those tiles were 68 pixels wide sitting on a 64 pixel column pitch, so a row of them overlapped and read as one continuous gold bar. They are back to the 78 pixel box the art was drawn for, with the frame inset by the padding it was packed with, which puts an 8 pixel gap between neighbours. Clicks and tooltips also went back to the old 52 pixel hit area, so hovering the gap between two tiles no longer pops a tooltip.

UI: Picking a school is back to the three circular rings of sigils per tab, in place of the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:39:54 -0500

Picking a school is back to the three circular rings of sigils per tab, in place of the wrapped row of text buttons the conversion left behind. The rings are rebuilt from the arrangement component that baked the original layout, so all 35 sigil positions land where they always sat.

UI: With the rings come the things only the rings ever had: the school sigil art, your total…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:40:03 -0500

With the rings come the things only the rings ever had: the school sigil art, your total skill levels printed under each one, the school name fading in on hover, the faded state and note for schools a trainer will not teach, and the right-click Train All and Unlearn All menu for a whole school. The plate that marks which skills a trainer can actually teach you was never carried over either, and is back.

UI: Column headings in the game's list windows can now be dragged to resize, and the sizes…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:27:05 -0500

Column headings in the game's list windows can now be dragged to resize, and the sizes you set are remembered per window across a relog. Hover between two headings for the resize cursor; double-click a divider to put those two columns back to their starting widths.

UI: The Journal's entry list changed width depending on which entry you had selected, because…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:27:15 -0500

The Journal's entry list changed width depending on which entry you had selected, because a long description pushed the list narrower and cut off the titles. Both panes are now pinned to a fixed share of the window.

UI: The decoration palette's Item Name and Location columns had the same problem as the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:27:16 -0500

The decoration palette's Item Name and Location columns had the same problem as the Journal: the split between them moved with whatever was in the list. Both are pinned to a ratio now, and that ratio is yours to set.

UI: Roster list headings had been drifting a few pixels off their own columns whenever a list…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:27:16 -0500

Roster list headings had been drifting a few pixels off their own columns whenever a list was long enough to show a scrollbar. The heading bar now tracks the scrollbar the way the inventory table already did.

UI: Fixed the map window controls from a tester report. Zoom from the buttons now works on…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:31:35 -0500

Fixed the map window controls from a tester report. Zoom from the buttons now works on the middle of the window, the mouse wheel zooms on the spot under the cursor, and the map can be dragged with the left mouse button. Dragging switches the Follow box off and checking it again snaps the map back to the player.

UI: With Follow on, the map position marker now stays centered at every zoom level while…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:31:35 -0500

With Follow on, the map position marker now stays centered at every zoom level while moving. Scenes that ship a preset map zoom treat it as the starting zoom, so the zoom buttons work there too.

UI: The jukebox track list joined the same pass: Song, Composer and Album now hold a fixed…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:37:04 -0500

The jukebox track list joined the same pass: Song, Composer and Album now hold a fixed share of the window and can be dragged to whatever split you want.

UI: Fixed the utility hotbar jumping into the combat bar's place when leaving combat (#2804)…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:10:38 -0500

Fixed the utility hotbar jumping into the combat bar's place when leaving combat (#2804). The bar now remembers its position by its centre and bottom edge, so the utility row stays where you put it and the combat bar appears and disappears centered above it. Saved bar positions reset once with this change.

UI: The hotbar key numbers sit centred in their brackets again. Slot views are built at 48…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:13:58 -0500

The hotbar key numbers sit centred in their brackets again. Slot views are built at 48 pixels and then drawn at their row's own size, 46 on the utility bar, and only the bracket was following that resize, so every digit landed 2.0px below the bulge it belongs in with its bottom edge 0.6px outside the bracket.

UI: Resizing a hand slot now moves the box and every offset measured from it in one call, so…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:14:04 -0500

Resizing a hand slot now moves the box and every offset measured from it in one call, so the two cannot drift apart. The emote bar and the deck swap button carried the same fault without showing it, since neither draws a key caption at all.

UI: Fixed the quit confirmation opening behind the login box when the game window was closed…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:38:20 -0500

Fixed the quit confirmation opening behind the login box when the game window was closed from the login screen. Front end screens now always draw beneath open windows, so this layering bug cannot come back for other dialogs on those screens.

UI: Fixed the connecting lines in the skill tree, reported by a tester on the restored Skills…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:52:39 -0500

Fixed the connecting lines in the skill tree, reported by a tester on the restored Skills window. Each piece of path art was stretched across its whole grid slot and drew as a wide block that never reached the tiles; the pieces now draw at their recorded size, so the lines run thin, bend at the right spots, and join tile to tile. The extra empty space the blocks created between skills is gone.

UI: The chat window follows new messages again. The auto-scroll ran before the arriving line…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:55:36 -0500

The chat window follows new messages again. The auto-scroll ran before the arriving line had been measured, so it clamped to the old height and stopped one line short, and because that reads as the player having scrolled up it switched following off for the rest of the session.

UI: Scrolling up to read chat history still holds your place, and reaching the newest line…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:55:41 -0500

Scrolling up to read chat history still holds your place, and reaching the newest line starts the following again. The same fix covers the NPC conversation and custom NPC story windows, which share the chat log, plus the Oracle transcript window, which carried its own copy of the bug.

UI: The theme editor could be dragged shorter than the controls it holds, and the colour…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:07:02 -0500

The theme editor could be dragged shorter than the controls it holds, and the colour sliders and hex row then drew on the game world with no window frame behind them. Its floor is now measured from the content it actually has (474px against the 320 it carried), and the frame clips anything that would fall outside it.

UI: The clip that stops a window drawing outside its own frame moved onto the window-body…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:07:10 -0500

The clip that stops a window drawing outside its own frame moved onto the window-body style itself, so it now covers windows that build their own frame instead of only the ones that use the shared one. The theme editor was the window that had been missing it.

UI: Windows that manage their own frame now pull themselves back on screen when the game…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:07:18 -0500

Windows that manage their own frame now pull themselves back on screen when the game window shrinks under them, from a resolution change or the UI size slider. The oracle window, table game boards and the theme editor had no such handling, and a window taller than the screen cannot be dragged back. The three copies of that wiring are one shared piece now.

UI: The Property Manager is back to the shape it shipped in. Your storage is a list on the…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:48:02 -0500

The Property Manager is back to the shape it shipped in. Your storage is a list on the left again, each row led by a picture of the house with its name, town, lot type and item count as sortable columns whose widths you can drag and which the window remembers. Your deeds are parchment cards on the right again, each listing the house, the basement and the dungeon on that lot with the art for whatever sits in each one.

UI: Almost all of that came from one wrong style class. The card was written as three stacked…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:48:15 -0500

Almost all of that came from one wrong style class. The card was written as three stacked lines but carried the theme class for a horizontal row, so it laid itself out sideways: the name, town and detail landed on one line, and the three parts of a lot squeezed down to one character each and rendered as three dots. The rows kept reserving 88 pixels for three lines while drawing one.

UI: Two more bugs were hiding under it. The smaller lines used the modal-veil class for their…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:48:15 -0500

Two more bugs were hiding under it. The smaller lines used the modal-veil class for their colour, which is a background, so the town and lot type each drew inside a dark box. And a storage with no name of its own fell back to the scene name, the same text the town column already showed, which is why unnamed storage printed its town twice.

UI: Every existing test on that window checked source text and wiring, so all of them passed…

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:48:16 -0500

Every existing test on that window checked source text and wiring, so all of them passed while the card was sideways. There is now one that lays a deed card out on a real panel and measures the boxes, so slot labels with room for a single character fail the build.

Audio: Nineteen NPCs in Grusk moved onto a shared kobold voice: a hoarse, hissing rasp layered…