Glenwich Idle MMO news & patch notes

More thieving locations added from level 20-60

Construction skill added to convert logs into planks and bars into nails

Player owned settlements have been added to the game

These are 10 new buildings per character which offer increases in idle time for each skill in +15 minute increments

Each building can be levelled up to a max level of 12 offering up to 3 hours of additional idle time

All combat stat orbs are now shown on the left sidebar

Stat orbs and level progress bars on the left sidebar now smoothly animate

Guest accounts now have a gold incentive and banner nudge to add an email and password for recovery

Level cap raised from 128 to 200

Fixed useless push notification error popping up on the settings page

8th June, 2026

Thieving skill added with two nodes

A/N: Please share any feedback in the forums and/or Discord!

16-hour timers fixed! 

A/N: Sorry for this one. Will post some EXP buffs to compensate.

Side-bar navigation revamped to be cleaner for web and mobile players

EXP orbs have been absorbed into the left sidebar interface

A/N: This will be adjusted some more in time to split combat skills

Relics now only require 1 relic to alchemize rather than 2 (officially)

Return to /home on character select rather than the last used page

A/N: This will get tweaked more in time

Durability has been removed. 

Items you have that have been depleted to zero will revert to a working item again

Exchange item value limit lifted to 250M

Glenwich Bond exchange value limit lifted to 500M

3rd June, 2026

Iron Man and Hardcore Iron Man modes now have separate hiscores

Light difficulty combat now includes boss fights

Shaft crafting requirements adjusted

Aligned recipes using tool handles to match the correct tiers

Shields now use the correct input tiers

New tree types mapped

Recipes for items no longer depend on the positions of items but are now structured as a ‘bag of ingredients’

You can speak to others in your guild in the new #guildtag channel

PVP and Help channels have been removed

You now gain 1 supporter point for every 1 primordial coin purchased

Notice Board tab under the Tavern has been removed

When you join a guild you can speak into a guild-members only chat

Players with >= 1000 supporter points can read and participate in an insiders only in-game channel

EXP Stat Orbs moved to the left-side of the panel

Players can only list up to 6 or 12 sell-side and buy-side orders on the exchange at a time for non-members and members respectively

20th May, 2026

Skill cape bonuses now stack with tool bonuses

Secateurs bonuses fixed

Iron equip reqs to level 5

Aspen gather/item/recipe reqs to 110

Scots pine weapon reqs/recipes to 100

Robes display names to singular robe

Titan smithing XP back to level-100 scale while keeping level 80 reqs

Obrakhil stats raised for level 110 gear

Leather/simple/soft leather reqs standardized to 1/5/10

Added pearl, ancient pearl, and abyssal pearl bolt tips/bolts

Shifted bolt recipe/req scale

Fixed ancient oak bolt shaft recipe to use ancient oak log

Fishing yields fixed

Allow higher tier tools to work on lower tier nodes

Max damage caps increased

27th April, 2026

NOTE: The developer is away dealing with personal issues so changes onwards will be flaky. Thanks for your patience!

👀

21st April, 2026

For 1,000 marks of favour you can now purchase an Adventurer’s Cache which drops an item from the new Adventurer Set!

Adventurer’s Set introduced. A set earned from hard-earned marks of favour. Wearing the whole set will give the player a 1% rare drop chance increase in all skills. The set can be equipped cosmetically and still have the effect work.

Penalties are now applied to the skill being levelled rather than the combat-level. This means you can now train at lower areas for low-level skills

Durability bumped to 100K rather than 1,000 uses

Ballyhoo can now repair enchanted items with 0 durability

17th April, 2026

You can now equip items with zero-stats into a ‘cosmetic’ gear slot

You can now see other players gear by clicking on their character names in the chat

EXP penalty if you are 10 levels above the dungeon you are fighting

Combat EXP is now rewarded per-kill rather than per-hit and scales from dungeon level

Chest gold rewards have been buffed by 25%

Forum posts can now be voted up or down, sorted, and filtered by tags.

Mob/player combat ‘cards’ have been re-styled to show off more of the skin. We have also moved the health ‘shade’ indicator to be underneath the skin rather than on top of it.

Purple Candy renamed to Purple Sweet

Remove combat restrictions on all dungeons

Move the flee in combat button on web devices to the bottom left

Forum posts can now be linked to directly (requires account log-in however)

You can now explore the game menu whilst in combat

16th April, 2026

Total Level requirements for chatting lowered from 50 to 30

In-game rules can be found at

glenwich.com/rules

Epic and normal Treasure Chest loots have been swapped (excluding capes) for a more natural progression from chest to chest

Aligned the crafting levels required for creating gloves with the cooking level required to benefit from the gains

Whispers now show up in the ALL chat

Forum replies will now show up immediately after replying to a thread

Assignments now have more variance in the tasks given

WIP: We now show the game version in the top-left corner to help with debugging

We will soon be using this to try and force clients to refresh on new updates to circumvent the ‘stale caches’ problems we often encounter

Abilities tab has been made visible for mobile players

Quick-crafting a recipe will populate any relevant modifiers for the item (e.g. bone arrow tips)

Workshop modal now uses item icons with the fallback TODO sprite if the image cannot be found

Added a button to make it easier to exit combat

Added a button to re-try combat after escaping, victory, or failure

Default to 1v1 combat rather than 1v3 to make the first fight easier for new players

Active orders are pinned at the top of the order book in the Exchange

Added a button to claim all in the Exchange

14th April, 2026

FEATURED: We have refreshed the web interface!

Show confirmation dialog before doing something that interrupts an action

Bank has been moved to its own page

Show what skill an item trains on the item details modal

Bug fix: item images load in the exchange

Bug fix: combat does not stop farming actions anymore

Bug fix: character selection screen shows what action your character is doing

Buff: pies now heal much more HP

Shift+Click a node to start an action defaulting to indefinite

You can now click a character in chat to view their profile, send a trade request, friend request, or ignore them

In-game moderators are now distinguished by a (placeholder) crown emoji

Players must re-accept terms & conditions and privacy policy to continue playing

Bug fix: incident resolved leading to ±7 hours of downtime. In-game exp and drop buffs have been set to make up for the lost time – sorry!

13th April, 2026

1 experience point of Zeal now costs 1,000 gold coins

Players can now purchase exp and drop boosts with gold coins

Steam client players can now access the shop to spend Primordial Coins or access exp & drop buffs

Combat stability improvements: progress now continues offline and will persist over server restarts (!)

Purple candies can be consumed multiple times during combat

The ‘you died’ screen will show after seeing the killing blow that leads to defeat

Minor tweaks to improve the spacing and margins in the web and mobile interface

Empty pie containers are refunded after consumption in combat

You can now make more pies!

Bug fix: pies now require cooking levels not crafting levels

Defence exp can be gained without a shield in combat at a reduced rate

12th April, 2026

VCHAT is a new experimental feature to visualize the chat room for those who want to socialize in-game. Check it out in the main tab!

More fun added to the chat including :ohno: and colours! red: cyan: etc. 

Fix for the experience de-sync bug – massive credit to @Boksan for identifying the issue

Bond messaging fixed to be adjusted to 14 days

Primordial coin clicker easter-egg added

Chest conversion rates nerfed at Ballyhoo

Gathering skills no longer cross-train

… unless the skiller is wielding a Ring of Discipline

Steam client:

Added an achievement for dumping money into the Fountain of Wealth

10th April, 2026

Purple candy added to the vendor shop

Consumed from the inventory after death to give you a chance to keep on fighting in combat

All-but-1 button added to the banking interfaces

Fixed idle timers on the top-left sidebar and introduced sub-timers

Removed ‘alpha’ and reset messaging

Massive improvements to server stability and lost items after restarts (i.e. when crafting)

Daily rewards fixed. Limited to 1-reward per account per day – any character so choose wisely!

Bugfix: default recipes are now showing again in quick-craft and on the crafting page

This was a pretty nasty bug that made the tutorial very hard to understand. Apologies for the inconvenience caused on this one!