Bandits, Banks, and Better Battles

Enemies, Creatures, and Combat

• Added hostile Bandits to the Forest.
• Added the Rogue Hideout, run by the rogue leader Melvus
• Added a rare drop from Melvus's Chest, and a rare glove drop from Melvus
• Bandits patrol the area, pursue nearby players, and shout threats when attacking.
• Bandits can drop gold and will sometimes spawn with equipment.
• Added Rabbits to the River.
• Added the rare Crimson Rabbit.
• Rabbits flee from nearby players and can drop gold or Rabbit Pelts.
• The Crimson Rabbit can drop additional gold and the rare Crimson Rabbit Pelt.
• Improved mob roaming, patrol, and pursuit behavior.
• Improved mob obstacle avoidance around walls, foliage, paths, bridges, and docks.
• Improved eight-direction mob facing and movement animations.
• Mob animation speed now scales with actual movement speed.
• Humanoid enemies can continue moving while performing upper-body attack animations.
• Improved physical-contact validation for enemy attacks.

Player Combat, Allies, and Duels

• Added Neutral, Hostile, Wanted, Dangerous, and Wanted & Dangerous combat states.
• Players can enter Hostile mode after unlocking PvP, turning their name red.
• Hostile players can attack other eligible players outside protected areas.
• Attacking neutral players can make the attacker Wanted, enclosing their name in excalamation points.
• Killing players marks the attackers as Dangerous (Darker red).
• Non-neutral players cannot enter protected towns or vaults.
• Players can cast scrolls after a short cooldown after turning hostile.
• Added mutual player alliances.
• Use ally <name> to request an alliance.
• The other player can use ally <name> to accept the alliance.
• Use unally <name> to end an alliance.
• Use allies to list your current allies.
• Mutual allies are protected from accidentally attacking one another.
• Added non-lethal player duels inside safe zones and banks.
• Use duel <full player name> to challenge another player.
• The challenged player can enter the same command to accept.
• Duel opponents are displayed with orange names.
• Duels end before either participant can be killed.
• Duels automatically end if a participant leaves, camps out, changes zones, or enters a non-neutral combat state.

Shops, Items, and Potions

• Added two new shopkeepers to town.
• Melody the alchemist sells Healing Potions, Ale, and Juice.
• Tonlak the hunter sells Wooden Clubs, Crude Bows, and Arrows.
• Merchants have limited stock that replenishes over time.
• Merchants can purchase appropriate items from players.
• Merchant greetings, prices, transaction results, and farewells now appear in Game chat under the merchant’s name.
• Added Ale, which restores a small amount of health and temporarily makes the player drunk.
• Added Juice, which gradually restores health.
• Added the Barkskin Potion, which temporarily increases armor.
• Added the Potion of Greater Life, which restores a larger amount of health.
• Added the Potion of Stoneskin, which greatly increases armor but reduces movement speed.
• Added the Potion of Charging, which greatly increases movement speed.
• Added the Potion of Concealing, which temporarily makes the player nearly invisible.
• Added the Potion of Agility, which temporarily increases dodge chance.
• Added the Potion of Perception, which increases visibility and helps reveal concealed characters and hidden names.
• Improved the display and handling of temporary buffs, debuffs, and consumable effects.

Banks and Vaults

• Gold can now be deposited into a bank account while inside a bank.
• Use drop X or deposit X inside the bank to deposit gold for safe keeping.
• Use withdraw X to return banked gold to your wallet.
• Banked gold survives death.
• Only gold carried in your wallet can be dropped on death.
• The HUD displays your bank balance while inside a staffed bank.
• Account summaries and leaderboards now count wallet and banked gold together.
• Gold physically stored inside a vault is separate and unaccounted for.
• Improved the vault-renovation store and vault customizer.
• Added layout quotes and confirmation before applying renovations.
• Improved module rotation, mirroring, placement previews, and invalid-placement feedback.
• Improved the handling of stored items and existing modules while renovating.
• Failed vault loads now retry and safely return the player to the bank if recovery is unsuccessful.
• Items in the vault no longer fall through the floor. Lol.

Achievements

• Added 11 hidden achievements covering gold, total levels, unlocked skills, tutorial completion, and vault progression.
• Added achievement-completion banners and sounds.
• Achievement progress, completion, and rewards are saved per character.
• Achievement rewards can only be granted once, including across reconnects and world handoffs.
• Existing characters automatically receive progress for requirements they had already completed.

NPCs, Skills, and Quests

• The Old Traveler can now help players focus the Life skill.
• Eilune can now help players focus the Survival skill.
• Skill-focusing prices scale with the player’s current skill level.
• Dialogue choices with gold or item requirements remain visible when their requirements are not met.
• Dialogue requirements are color-coded to show missing, partial, and completed requirements.
• Dialogue requirements are now validated by the server before a choice is accepted.
• Dialogue layouts now use one column for smaller conversations and two columns for larger conversations.
• Improved the Survival Quest’s Chicken Foot and Bat Wing objectives.
• These objectives now require the player to continue possessing the items until they are turned in.
• Quest readiness is removed if a required item is dropped, spent, or lost.
• Added alert banners for newly unlocked skills and completed quests.
• Existing alerts are remembered so they are not replayed after reconnecting.

UI, Fonts, and Accessibility

• Reworked fonts throughout the game for a cleaner, sharper, and more consistent interface.
• Improved font sizing, outlines, contrast, spacing, and pixel clarity throughout the interface.
• Reworked the main menu, login screen, options screen, loading screen, death screen, dialogue window, inventory, gear, quest, skill, and vault layouts.
• Gear, Quests, and Skills now share a cleaner bottom HUD panel that smoothly reveals upward.
• Reorganized options into expandable Display, Audio, World Detail, Lighting and Color, and Atmosphere and Weather sections.
• Improved dialogue wrapping, content sizing, choice placement, and NPC portraits.
• Improved quest titles, descriptions, objectives, tabs, and empty states.
• Improved inventory and equipment-label readability.
• Improved achievement, quest, skill-unlock, and general alert banners.
• Added clearer overhead-name colors for neutral, hostile, allied, wanted, infamous, and dueling players.
• Allied players are green, allied Wanted players are orange, and allied Infamous players are dark orange.
• NPC names are now hidden at long distances while interaction prompts remain limited to interaction range.
• Improved spoken text, status labels, interaction prompts, and damage-number styling.
• Improved loading-progress and death-loss information.
• NPC dialogue opening and closing lines now appear in Game chat using the NPC’s name and color.

Wildlife and World

• Expanded the ambient-wildlife catalog to 31 species.
• Improved wildlife reactions to terrain, water, foliage, flowers, weather, seasons, and time of day.
• Added obstacle-aware duck families with following ducklings.
• Bees and butterflies can land on flowers.
• Improved river and ocean surface behavior.
• Improved water coverage around terrain, bridges, docks, shores, and cliff edges.
• Improved directional river currents and the visual distinction between rivers and oceans.
• Added shallow-water footstep splashes.
• Rain puddles now add splash effects over the underlying surface footsteps.
• Improved water occlusion inside boats.
• Reduced fog during normal Rain while retaining the heavier Storm atmosphere.
• Improved the menu’s world view so it reflects current weather, clouds, wind, and time of day more efficiently.

Website and Launcher

• Expanded leaderboards to the top 250 characters, with 50 results per page.
• Added leaderboard categories for Total Level, Combined Gold, Achievements Completed, Player Kills, Enemies Slain, Deaths, and Active Wanted Time.
• Improved leaderboard tie handling, ratios, duration formatting, and empty-score filtering.
• Improved responsive leaderboard navigation.
• Further improved website text readability and update spacing.
• Improved account-summary gold totals to include banked gold.
• Signing out of the launcher now immediately revokes the launcher session.
• Improved launcher update, packaging, and account-session reliability.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several lighting and environment problems when entering or leaving vaults.
• Fixed vault interiors occasionally modifying the outdoor world’s lighting.
• Fixed failed vault rendering occasionally leaving the player in an invalid state.
• Fixed damage numbers occasionally becoming permanent status labels.
• Fixed several death and respawn state inconsistencies.
• Fixed damage sometimes being accepted during the death transition.
• Fixed the death screen occasionally showing incorrect dropped-item information.
• Fixed remote players occasionally receiving duplicate physics collision.
• Fixed authoritative arrow impacts disappearing with predicted projectile effects.
• Fixed mobs briefly appearing while the wrong world was active.
• Fixed Rabbits occasionally facing away from their movement direction.
• Corrected Rabbit and Bat gold-drop ranges.
• Fixed collidable foliage disappearing or losing density at lower foliage settings.
• Fixed cloud shadows failing to follow day and night correctly.
• Fixed cloud-shadow settings occasionally hiding the clouds themselves.
• Fixed cached bridge and tree materials using incorrect visual properties.
• Fixed several bridge, dock, shoreline, and cliff pathing or collision problems.
• Fixed quest objectives occasionally failing to reset after advancing to a new stage.
• Fixed achievements occasionally replaying alerts or rewards after a world handoff.
• Fixed delayed movement snapshots occasionally pulling players backward.
• Fixed several shader and lighting initialization errors.
• Improved main-menu recovery when its world view cannot be loaded.
• Fixed an issue where the launcher would fail to update files due to a bad server response.