Gameplay changes 30 October to 2 November

Combat & abilities

• Paladins can now use Iron Resolve, reducing damage taken by 50% for 6 seconds.
• Added Pyroclysm, a Pyromancer only spell with a 3 second cast, heavy Fire damage, a burn and no cooldown.
• Enemies far above your level are now much harder to hit and critically strike.
• Added glancing blows to ordinary melee attacks, with a minimum of 1 damage and labels shown only in the combat log.
• Reduced melee reach and improved weapon impacts and blood splatter so attacks connect more closely with their targets.
• Character creation now correctly shows Warrior and Paladin as Tank/DPS, and Cleric and Grovekeeper as Healer/DPS.

Spell effects

• Reworked fire spells with red molten projectiles, richer trails, casting hand bursts and stronger explosions.
• Fire Storm meteors now fall diagonally with burning trails.
• Fire Barrage now uses one firing sound per volley, with varied flight and impact sounds.
• Fireball and Pyroclysm burns now show rising flames whenever they deal damage.
• Verdant Heal now surrounds its target with green spirals, light and floating leaves.

Loot & enchanting

• Added world drop recipe: Berserker, giving melee hits a 3% chance to grant +50 Strength for 15 seconds.
• Cooking and Soul Leech recipe drops now use editable loot entries with their intended 0.05% chances.
• Mobs in forced PvP areas now award double Embers.
• Right clicking enchanted scrolls now adds them to an open trade, while normal right click use still applies their enchant.

Building & claims

• Fixed siege damage bypassing claim protection and destroying buildings or furniture below 25% health.
• Personal claims and boats now take 24 hours to decay from 25% to destruction; Town Halls take 48 hours.
• Breached guild storage becomes publicly lootable at 25% health, while protected personal homes inside retain their own protection.
• Fire bombs now deal 1 building damage on impact and once per minute afterward.
• Catapult building damage is capped at 50 per target, with wider shot spread and stronger recoil.
• Authorized guild members can now remove or cancel their own guild structures.
• Large bunker towers now appear in the guild building menu.
• Altar of Life now uses the correct model.
• Buildings automatically flatten suitable tiles at matching heights when placed.
• Fixed furniture placement being incorrectly rejected inside Stone Huts.
• Gold and iron replenish on claims without changing terrain height or removing covering soil.
• Natural trees no longer regrow inside guild claims.

Farming & gathering

• Improved watering with grounded animations, fuller streams, correctly positioned splashes and sound lasting throughout the pour.
• Planting now produces larger dirt effects and short digging sounds during the kneeling animation.
• Dropping materials now uses a shovel animation, a large dust cloud and varied landing sounds.
• Terrain actions remember your previous choice, while the material picker keeps your last material highlighted.
• Crop soil dries faster in sunshine and wind, more slowly under clouds or at night, and gains moisture from rain.
• Crop care on guild land now follows the Plant permission while normal growth and decay continue.
• Wood burning furnaces, stoves and campfires now produce charcoal.
• Added harvestable wild carrot and tomato patches that provide seeds.
• Queen Bees now have a 15% chance to drop from the final hit when cutting down a tree.

Map & cartography

• Added personal maps with exploration that becomes fogged again after 24 hours, while drawings and markers remain permanent.
• Cartographers can create Field Maps at skill 20, preserving a shareable snapshot on a blank scroll.
• Added canvas style painting controls with more colours, brush shapes, opacity, size sliders and brush previews.
• Added movable map symbols for resources, towns, vendors and other landmarks, with names optional where appropriate.
• Compass landmarks and saved markers now appear across navigation displays, with the closest five saved markers of each type shown.
• Edge markers show distance, while hovering a marker brings it forward and fades competing markers.
• Added a movable, resizable player centred minimap and an option to choose between it and the top centre compass.
• Map now defaults to M, and Vanity defaults to N.

Quests

• Mob tooltips now show relevant kill and item objectives for you and your party, including accepted quests that are not tracked.
• Updated the quest log and tracker with matching numbered badges, clearer difficulty colours, smaller outlined text and green completed objectives.
• Quest rewards now display item icons, quantities and hover descriptions.

Social & interface

• Added Who, with searchable online players, sortable columns and right-click player actions.
• Friends and Ignored now use profile portraits, smaller status badges and cleaner spacing.
• Guild roles now support creating, renaming and deleting directly from the role list, with clearer selection highlighting.
• Fixed Construction and Cartography displaying the wrong profession details.
• Added an option to stop the camera automatically following when moving forward.
• Added size based creature footsteps, with quieter and less repetitive small creature steps.
• Restored missing item and ability icons, including Catacombs icons, and corrected the ammo slot background.
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• Workshop & addons
• New community Workshop addons now appear in game without needing to subscribe through Steam first.
• Customize UI now supports the Character window, loot feed and mob hover card, with an option to hide the loot feed.
• Addons can now display equipped item details and attach their panels beside the Character window.
• Added support for addon party and raid messages, loot notifications, and player clicked copying or website links.

Cinematics & loading

• Added the Nightrun intro with close up portraits, subtitles, scene music, Highlands trolls and the mountain boss.
• Cinematic sights and sounds now follow the camera, including nearby players and live combat.
• Water and clutter now retain a Low setting instead of being switched off.