Today's update adds more control over graphics and fixes several everyday interactions in Elderwood.
Graphics settings
- Added Graphics settings to the Escape menu.
- Choose Automatic, Low, Balanced, High, or Custom quality.
- Adjust render resolution, shadows, brightness, adaptive quality, and an optional FPS display.
- Settings apply without restarting and are saved on your device.
Inventory and gathering
- Click weapons, armor, helmets, boots, and rings in your inventory to equip them in the correct slot.
- Equipped items are marked, and items above your skill level show their requirements.
- Woodcutting, mining, and fishing nodes now warn you about missing levels before you walk over or begin gathering.
- Resource labels show the required skill level when hovered.
- Unavailable buttons no longer show a misleading loading cursor.
Kilns and smelting
- Added 23 brick kilns near workshops, including keep workshops.
- Copper-bar and frostiron smelting now take place at a kiln instead of a workbench. Ordinary crafting remains at workbenches.
- Updated the starter adventure, recovery directions, quest text, and skill guidance to explain where to smelt.
- Material costs, outputs, and Crafting XP are unchanged. The existing Field smelting spell remains a magical alternative.
- Keep kilns remain restricted to the owning clan.
Magic travel
- The travel spellbook now closes when the server accepts your cast.
- A portal effect, casting progress bar, and Cancel travel button show that the spell is charging.
- Casting continues while the book is closed. Moving interrupts the cast, and canceled casts do not spend runes.
Interface and world fixes
- Moved party health into the sidebar, with a collapsible, scrollable member list, so it no longer floats over other windows.
- Removed quest information from the party display.
- Added a Back to shop button to the monthly membership page that stays visible while scrolling.
- Moved the combat disconnect warning to the left of the players-online text.
- Removed the idle "Click the ground to explore" prompt while keeping useful action messages.
- Corrected grammar and awkward wording throughout quest descriptions and instructions.
- Renamed the Sunken March's Marsh bowman to March bowman and updated related quest references.
- Moved the Old Kingsroad story workbench clear of a nearby house so its approach is accessible.
Movement controls
Movement now uses click-to-move. WASD and arrow-key character movement have been removed. Camera rotation and zoom controls are unchanged.
To receive the update, restart the desktop client or refresh the web client. No separate Steam client download is required for this patch. Your characters, progress, and purchases are preserved.
Thanks to everyone reporting issues and sharing specific feedback. We will keep improving the adventure.