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PortalbornNewsPortalborn — Compass Navigation Fix
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Portalborn — Compass Navigation Fix

Portalborn · published 12 Aug 2026, 20:46 UTC · build 24700446

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Hello everyone!

🧭 Up and Down on the Compass

The clickable compass had buttons for all four diagonal directions — despite the fact that no room in Portalborn has ever used diagonal movement. Clicking any of them simply produced an error.

Meanwhile, the compass had no UP or DOWN buttons.

Plenty of rooms actually use those.

That's now fixed.

UP and DOWN have replaced the unused diagonal buttons, and the diagonal controls are gone.

If you navigate by clicking rather than typing, this matters considerably more than it might sound:

58 rooms across Portalborn were previously unreachable through the clickable compass.

That included:

  • the entire second and third floors of Dread Catacombs

  • the lower portions of Celestial Rift's Celestial Foundry and Nexus Core

  • Elder Kenneth's cabin above Oakhaven's town square

If you've ever thoroughly searched a dungeon and been certain you'd explored everything — you may well have been right about everything the compass actually allowed you to reach.

Keyboard navigation was never affected. Typing u and d has always worked, and still does.

The unused diagonal keybinds have also been removed from Settings along with the diagonal compass buttons.

Thank you all, as always.

— TheHand

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