Haven & Hearth news & patch notes

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World 16.2

• As was announced at the start of World 16, we intend to launch the next new world — World 16.2 — without resetting World 16.
• This post is to inform you that that, indeed, remains the plan, and that we intend to launch World 16.2 on Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 19:00 UTC.
• Worlds 16 and 16.2 will, then, run concurrently until the threads of their fates again unravel.
• World 16.1 will end with the launch of World 16.2.

Notable Changes in W16.2

• The exact changes are still pending at the time of this writing, but:
• Single continent spawn
• Changes to disempower characters without "Rage" in combat. The current line of thinking is to make it possible to "evict" characters without "Rage" from more or less anywhere.
• Reworked system for Gildings.
• A series of other changes, big and small, will, as usual, be left to the joy of discovery.

TL;DR: We will aim to launch the...

W16.2 server @ 19:00 UTC, Friday August 14th, 2026

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• Added "Hasenpfeffer", food item.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Reworked the crafting input menu such that:
  • You can hold an item, and left-click an input slot, to limit the slot to only take items of that type.
  • You can also limit an input slot to a particular input type by shift-left-clicking with the slot's input selection cursor active. (I.e. Left click input slot -> Shift-Left-Click a "Chantrelles" -> Slot is now limited to "Chantrelles").
• Added recipe search by input. In the "Action Search" menu, at the bottom, there is now a "Search by ingredient" button. Clicking this, and then some input type, presents all known recipes which accepts the item in question as input.
• "Mortar & Pestle"s can now be placed on "Alchemist's Table"s.
• Made it so that equippable tools placed on work-benches can be used directly/implicitly, without going through the lolercoaster of manually equipping them. This currently works for "Smithy's Hammer"s placed on "Anvil"s and "Mortar & Pestle"s placed on "Alchemist's Table"s. Note that a manually equipped tool will always have priority over a tool equipped to a work-bench.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Since my "Mound Bed"s ran out in the dead of winter: Reworked "Mound Bed" such that they can be replenished whenever they are below full levels of water/mulch. Should a "Mound Bed" deactivate due to running out of mulch/water entirely, it will need to be fully replenished before it activates again.

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• No patch next week, and summer will continue to be a bit patch-spotty as we entertain various other life commitments, but things are in motion. Stay tuned.
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• Added "Gong Stand", a decorative "instrument"/piece of furniture. Right-click to activate, and right-click again to whack. No two metal types sound quite alike!

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Reworked the crafting input selector a bit. Input slots are now highlighted in red if they lack input. You can hover over an input slot to highlight the item currently selected for it. You can left-click an input slot to get a cursor with which you can point at the input you would like to use for the slot. Noticed that e.g. alchemy recipes were quite unwieldy to craft.
• Did more work on the "Alchemy Book". Negative effects are now properly displayed. You can now filter your elixir list on effects and/or inputs. There is now a separate page which lists known effects on primitive alchemical inputs. (Some outstanding things left to fix: Favorites, ingredient entries for processed inputs, distinction between wound conversion and wound healing. The two pages in the book currently borrow icons from the Character Sheet.).
• Fixed a bug by which it was possible to bypass the give-hat-away timers by using Valhalla. The give-hat-away timers are now counted in objective UTC time, rather than server time. All give-away-hat timers have been removed, so if you had initiated donation of a hat, you will now have to redo that. Apologies.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• "Salt Crystal"s, "Curious Needle"s, "Ant Chitin", "Cave Louse Chitin", and "Ant Wing"s now all stack, and can be held in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Queen Ant/Bee Wings, and all "Bugs", can be held in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Fixed a bug by which dragging the map caused Thinwall connections to blink.

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• Added "Alchemy Book", helpful user interface. The "Alchemy Book" collects and remembers the recipes of all (effectful) elixirs you have discovered. Note that processed alchemical ingredients, e.g. "Herbal Grind"s, crafted before the patch won't be properly represented in the alchemy book. Additional feature requests and UI feedback welcome!
• "Crane Fly", insect, curiosity.
• "Duck à l'Orange", dish. Suggested here.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Reworked the internal wound healing definitions to make it so that time-to-heal is a function of wound and treatment, rather than just being a property of the treatment itself. This is mostly a technicality of specification, but the main idea is that a treatment should increase the native healing speed of a wound, rather than dictate the healing pace. Most wound treatment timers have changed on account of the change, some gaining and some losing, but we hope that the net effect is neutral. Let us know if something seems way off.
• Fixed a problem in the rendering code which caused crashes among other times when being attacked by multiple enemies. Reported e.g. here. Some speculation that this may have been the old "nVidia bug" which we organized a whole dev stream to try to reproduce a few years back. Big thanks to github user onefuncman for a strong lead.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Added support for high-resolution scrolling (on supported platforms) for such things as scrollbars, camera zoom and placement rotation, so that supporting devices (eg. touchpads) can scroll with pixel granularity.
• Fixed a bug by which "Willow Weep" and "Opium" would be listed as known wound treatments before being discovered.
• Fixed a missing whitespace in the tooltip for "Spherical Parchment Lantern".

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• Added "Duck"s! Mallards placed in coops may come to lay eggs, and those eggs will be "Duck Egg"s, from which "Duck Drake"s and "Duck Hen"s hatch, by way of "Ducklings". Feathers, eggs, and meat. Will add "Ugly Duckling"s at some point.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Thingwalls displaying their tooltip will now show their connectivity to other Thingwalls. In adding this we had the opportunity to extend generically the support for providing additional information through map markers. You may have to see a Thingwall again to update the resource to unlock this cool new info.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Map marker information should now be properly invalidated when relevant, and there should be no need to reload/reload to refresh them.

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• Added "Stone Arch Tunnel", a larger tunnel made from stone.
• Added "Henpecked", wound given by birds when you attempt to raid their nests.
• Added "Coq au Vin", food.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Refined some interactions for the "Produce Sack"s; When carrying and emptying a "Produce Sack", it moves to a held item on your cursor if able. The held cursor item should now more generally also support operations previously only available to the carried sack, e.g. drawing from "Tar Kiln"s or "Sawmill"s, drawing from other sacks, &c.
• Fixed auto-stacking in equipment containers ("Creel", "Poacher's Pouch", &c). Items in them should now auto-stack properly much like they do in the normal inventory, quite simply. Yay!

Small Fixes -----------------------

• May have a fixed a bug by which higher order map segments would not get properly discovered when discovering lower order map segments.
• Equipment hotkeys now toggle the equipment/unequipment of tools/weapons, rather than simply equip them.
• Nerfed "Corndolly Lantern"
• "Seasponge" can be placed in "Creel"s. "Sponge" stacks.
• "Disgusting Tapeworms", "Wool" and "Grotesque Tumour"s can now be placed in the "Poacher's Pouch"
• Character should no longer stop auto-mining when not planning to mine out unsupported tiles. Notable that the character would sometimes stop for no reason when excavating tunnels.
• Can now plant "Grapes" directly, without having to press or eat them.
• Buffed slightly the drop expiry timer on "Entrails" and "Intestines" as suggested here.

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• Added "Reinforced Tunnel", a wider/longer tunnel mine support.
• Added "Wickerman Mask", mask.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added support for automatic update of map markers.
  • There is now support for updating map markers automatically with server side info.
  • Thingwalls now use this to attempt to communicate their status, if they are controlled, when they can be challenged, &c.
  • On existing maps, you must re-visit the Thingwalls to get them registered to your local map as updating objects.
  • Dynamic icons have some update problems to be ironed out in that you need to invalidate the client-side tooltips in order to refresh them properly. This can be done by logging out/in, or scrolling the icon out of view.
  • Relatedly, standardized the scale rendering of map icons. The immediate consequence is that all icons should now render in the same size. Arguably some wonders and such should perhaps remain large as they were. Considering.
  • The idea here is to provide all players ready access to public information without the need to run around the map. Arguably, natural wonders and such could also report their status.
  • Do note that updated clients will now save the map in a format which older clients are unable to read, so if you resave your map by logging in on an updated client, you may find it difficult to return. Backup your maps if you are worried.
  • Took the opportunity to improve the map marker save format to make it more forward compatible for future changes.
• When exiting mounts, "soft objects", i.e. most anything carryable, should no longer block you from dismounting. This may fix a certain bug I have had reported to me several times.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• "Brimstone" should now stack.
• Gave the "Timber Tunnel" an extra tile of extent. Felt cute.

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• Added "White Onion", a plant, and a variety of onion, complete with another variant of crying onion.
• Added "Millet Beer", beer brewed from malted Millet Seeds.
• Added the ability for (your, client local) map marker flags to also be displayed as in-world objects, by checking a box in their map gui. You can also now place the map markers in the normal game viewport. Felt this could be useful e.g. when planning base layouts and such. The placement mode could improve. Currently using a version of the land survey flag.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed the bug by which, if carrying a sled or corcacle on the "Shoulders" equipment slot, capes would spazz out a bit. The fix is a general fix for the problem that certain animations have not combine with certain other animations, e.g. chopping wood while on a horse.
• Fixed the bug by which animation sound and FX tracks would be split off to leg animations only, causing you to e.g. not play butchering sounds when butchering an animal while sitting on a horse (since that uses another leg animation/pose). We now have support for splitting them explicitly to particular groups, or, by default, including them in all animation split groups.
• Shift-Transfers should now always find a transfer target inventory/widget in order of last focused inventory.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Avatar cameras should now render outlines properly, visible on e.g. character selection screen.
• Scaled animal animations normspeed settings should scale with them. TL;DR, e.g. walking animations should look better on scaled versions of animals, e.g. calves/cows.
• Unified the size definitions for certain crop stockpiles, implying a consistent 60 units (also) for leeks, onions, grapes & lettuce.
• Fixed the repair resource (hard metal) for "Coin Press"es in World 16.1. Reported here.

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• Reworked mine supports to handle more arbitrary support definitions.
• Added "Monumental Column", a pretty massive mine support. Suggested here!
• Added "Timber Tunnel", a small, cheap, directional mine support used to form a tunnel.
• Added "Liver Paté", food.
• Added "Roe in Wine", signature dish for Roe Deer.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed a number of issues with the (dropped in water) trash, trash fishing, &c. Should work better now.
• "Produce Sack"s should now properly and more generically support substance and item transfers to (e.g. to troughs, tarkilns, &c) and from (e.g. sawmill, tarkilns) things.
• May have fixed the long-standing bug by which Mound Bed effects would occasionally be interrupted by grid borders. Let us know your mileage!

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Redrew icon for "seeds of Millet" in 4x resolution.
• Sleds & Skis can now be hung on walls.
• "Fine Sled" should now properly lean with terrain when pulled.
• Fixed a bug by which clients occasionally failed to properly apply poses to objects when first seen.
• You can now use the "Eat" cursor on item stacks (e.g. of carrots and such) to eat something in the stack, quite simply.
• "Poached Wolverine" moved from skill "Fishing" to skill "Cooking". Copy pasta error.
• Fixed the rotation of "Ice Bear Cape" when hung on walls as per this.

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• Added "Radish"es, plant. They have three harvestable stages, where the later stages give more seeds, and the earlier stages more radishes. They count as "Tuber"s. Radishes as such cannot be replanted.
• There is now a mass butchery command. You can Shift-click a carcass lying on the ground to get an area select indicator using the harvest pointer. The character will butcher anything in the commanded area from start to finish without asking questions.
• Added "Pickled Peas", food.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Reworked the quests for the "Fisherman" credo, pushing them more in the direction of catching generic categories of fish (E.g. "Catch Nx Big Fish", "...Ocean Fish", &c, and somewhat away from "catch these awfully specific ones". The latter quests still exist, but show up later in the credo and are rarer. Reduced prevalence of references to cast fishing specifically (craft cast-lures,&c). Let us know you mileage.
• Reworked the armor repair mechanic so that: The armor being repaired is never quality modulated by the armor used to repair it, but, rather, the amount of armor hit points restored by the repair is significantly dependent on the quality. The action now presents the amount of points you will repair before you actually do it.
• "Demijohn"s now present a progress indicator for whatever transformation is occurring in them.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed various map related bugs: Map could lose markers and whatnot when merging map segments, Icons could shake visually in the max zoomed out mode, notification sounds would sometimes be "retained" by the map, only to be spookily played when reopening. Clicking a map icon will now properly swap to the correct Placed/Natural icon list.
• Fixed a smol bug by which re-clicking in the wound list would flicker.
• Fixed smol bug by which one could get braaains without the "Fine Butchery" skill.
• "Cave Slime", "Caverat Whiskers" and "Suckling's Maw" all go in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Added a lore text to "Dead Woodscorpion".

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• Added "Watermelon", a crop.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Reworked the mine support display to one which properly indicates the actually supported tiles, rather than a somewhat difficult to read radius. The tiles indicated as supported are visually distinct; if only covered by a damaged support, if covered by mutliple supports, or if in the placement mode for a new support. Let us know your mileage, and feel free to suggest improvements.
• Reworked the (mini)map handling, in that:
  • You can zoom in further.
  • Terrain types now present a tooltip when hovered over in the map view.
  • Map icons (e.g. herbs) now present proper tooltips.
  • Clicking an icon should now always imply clicking the icon you have a tooltip for.
• Added variable materials to "Tanning Tub"s, such that they now reflect the woods they were made from. You love to see it.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Increased inventory of "Oven" from 4x2 to 6x3. Suggested here.
• "Beaver Teeth" and "Beaver Tail" can now be held in the "Poacher's Pouch".
• Added readable tooltips to most natural terrains. Will fix pavings as well.
• Added a descriptive text to "Boar Tusk Snuff".
• "Hartshorn Salve" now determines its quality by Perception/Lore, rather than Dex/Sewing/Lore, which was always a copypasta error.

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• Added "Totemic Gate". A massive building project requiring the Totemic Skull of a mighty beast to construct. The gate has all the functionality of a normal gate, in that it can be closed and locked, but it needs to be manually placed. For purposes of W16, the "Totemic Gate" is always a visitor gate.
• Added "Thatched Hut", the smallest buildable house yet. They have no internal walls.
• Added "Pipes & Pipeweed", skill (now) required for planting Pipeweed, and which unlocks Pipeweed related recipes.
• Added "Adder's Lying Tongue", curiosity occasionally dropped when cleaning "Adder"s.
• Added "Nasty Pond Scum", curiosity occasionally found in Bogs, Swamps, Ponds, and Tidepools.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added/Reworked handling of skeletons for Mammoths & Trolls by creating/exporting/using proper animated skeletons for them. Mammoths now for no reason in particular drop a discrete skull object, much like Cachalots.
• You can now, while carrying a "Produce Sack" shift-click the ground to dump the sack into a new stockpile. Would like to provide a proper placement mode, but didn't get the time for that today.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• You can now restore decayed "Mound Bed"s by simply dumping "Mulch" on them (hold Mulch and right-click). Don't quite know what we were thinking in enforcing a re-build every winter.
• Fresh and Cured Pipeweed Leaves can now both be used as "Thatching".
• Cleaned up various internal definitions of hair and feathers, and used that to allow the "Poacher's Pouch" to hold those, as well as various one-offs such as troll parts, "Adder Fang", "Bat Wings", "Eagle Owl Eye", "Fresh Sly Ear of the Fox", "Fresh Squirrel Tail", "Magpie's Thieving Claw" "Raw Lucky Rabbit's Foot". Hairs now consistently stack 3 high, sorry "Badger Hair", I loved you at 4. Troll Hair is no longer "String".
• "Lynx Claws" now stack 4 high.

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• Added "Produce Sack". Produce Sacks are crafted using a bunch of cloth (and sundry), and can hold the contents of one stockpile of any kind. Hold (or carry) the sack, and Right-Click a stockpile, to bag it. When in a sack, the stockpile can be carried around, stashed in e.g. carts, sleds, and all such. Produce Sacks stack three high when in your inventory. Variable materials, cute icon upfront, otherwise pretty much a stockpile variant.
• Added "Wood Scorpion". A nasty li'l stinger of a guy who lives occasionally in select forest biomes, and abundantly in "Badlands". Scorpions can be picked up, at risk of stinging, but can also decide to attack, and can't be picked up while in combat. Ultimately, when dead, they are a curiosity, and a bug.
• Added "Fine Sled", an improved sled carrying three, rather than two, objects.
• Added "Pearl Oyster", a forageable accessible only using a "Diver's Weight".

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added a proper icon and description for quests performed for the Ancestors — bless them!

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Minedust indicating nearby collapse tiles should now drop on the center of the tile.
• "Lynx"es now have "Big Brain"s.
• Fixed a hotkey conflict in the action menu. (Birch Bark Cap/Rathat).
• Added a new submenu "Ships & Boats" under "Vehicles & Movables", and moved appropriate builds in under that.
• "Grind Pipestuff" recipe action now uses the correct, new, icon for Pipestuff.
• Added a small puddle to "Bee Skep"s which displays if the Skep is more than half full of honey.

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• Added "Ice Bear"s. These are what you and I would know as Polar Bears, but Hearthlings have no conception of poles. "Ice Bear"s appear only during Winter, as the colder season extends their range from out of the farthest, uncharted, North, angrier and deadlier than ordinary "Bear"s. (I realize that ingame Winter just having ended makes this slightly anti-climactic, but maybe something to look forward to for the next?). They come complete with teeth, meat, hides and a cape.
• Added "Crocus", springtime flower. Can be planted. Very common on snowy tiles while they last during spring, but generally present on several grassy terrains.
• Added "Chewing Straw", curiosity. Equippable in the mouth slot for mild bonus.
• Added "Silk Suture Kit", medicine. Suggested here. Treats a variety of open wound types.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed stacking of items inside container items (e.g. "Creel", "Poacher's Pouch", "Seedbag"s). Some caveats apply, as auto-stacking will not (yet) be able to detect existing stacks/items inside container items, but it seemed like a significant improvement that they are able to hold stacks at all that we decided to push it in a slightly unfinished state. There is a plan for the fuller fix.
• Destroying "Thing Challenge"s or "War Flag"s now requires "Rage". Both builds now also have "Rage" as an unlock prerequisite.
• Reverted the mechanic introduced in Game Development: Grammophne Crane by which going up Mineholes conferred the visitor debuff where applicable, as announced in Game Development: Narwhal Study.
• Nerfed Narwhal Tusk from base damage 90 to base damage 45.
• The final tier unlock of the "Wandering Sage" credo has been replaced with "+15% bonus to quest rewards", to replace the no longer desired bonus to local quality increases.
• Significantly reduced the bounding footprint of "Soil" stockpile. It now fits neatly on a tile.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Added variable wood materials to "Coffer"s, which now take color and texture from the wood types from which they were made.
• Land Surveys now indicate their area with the same li'l construction-site ropes used for buildings under construction. Do note that they may/will pop a bit when you approach them if larger than client render distance. Will hopefully fix later.
• Object Stashes with inventory style GUIs, (e.g. "Knarr", "Wagon") should now properly display tooltips for held objects.
• Building input slots should now display their tooltip pages properly when hovered over.
• The Construction Object sign should now be properly hidden when inspecting building previews, so as to not obscure the preview. Reported somewhere around here.
• Hotkeyed items should no longer be put into stockpiles when shift-(ctrl)-placed. Looking at you, "Rope"!
• Brains now stack in inverse order of size (i.e. tiny stacks 4 high, small stacks 3 high, "normal" stacks 2 high, and big does not stack). They can be put in "Poacher's Pouch".
• "Pelican's Pouch"es and "Magpie's Thieving Claw"s can now be hung on walls.
• "Badger"s now have some chance to drop "Scent Gland"s. "Scent Gland"s also now allowed in "Poacher's Pouches".
• Character now plays the lighting animation when lighting "Kiln"s and "Tar Kiln"s. "Tar Kiln"s will tell you how full they are if inspected.
• "Tidepool"s should now appear visually on the lowest point under them where they are standing. Noticed a couple of mildly floating ones. Hope they don't bleed too badly into the ground in places, and that it looks better. Report your mileage, and other objects with same problem.
• "Butcher's Cleaver" now requires "Fine Butchery" to make.
• Removed redundant "Primitive Tools" unlock requirement from several metalworked weapons/tools.
• Bark can now be used as fuel, and can, thus, be burnt much like branches. Both Bark and branches can now also be turned to ash in various heaters, e.g. "Fireplace" or "Kiln".
• "Mound Bed" tooltip now explains that you can plant in it.
• Morels should now properly display their alchemical properties in tooltips. Reported here.
• Increased capacity of "Snow" stockpile from 40 to 250, corresponding to the "Soil" stockpile.
• "Blade Kiss", "Nasty Laceration" and "Cruel Incision" wounds can now all become infected.
• Hopefully improved the readability of the default client's quality overlay for items, by adding a black, semi-transparent, background, and using a more saturated color.
• "Smithy's Hammer"s can now be hung on "Anvil"s, by simply holding the hammer, and right-clicking the anvil. They will not be automagically equipped when using the anvil (yet?), but being able to leave them on the anvil is perhaps an improvement? Suggested various places.

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• Added "Grand Study Desk", a massive Study Desk with an 11x11 inventory for curiosities, and five display points.
• Added "Pearl Glue", and "Wet Pearl Glue". A concentrate glue made from, 10x "Bone Glue" + processing in the form of Coal, Lime, Lye, and Salt. Craft "Pearl Glue" by a cauldron to recieve "Wet Pearl Glue", and then dry that on a "Herbalist Table" for an ingame week to turn it into "Pearl Glue". Required for "Grand Study Desk".
• Added "Pickling Crock", a free-standing larger crock for pickling, holds some combination of 36 items and 20l of "Pickling Brine". Thread here. Displays whatever is picklin' at the moment. Variable metal material on the lid.
• Added "Smokering". Occasionally when puffing a pipe, you will blow a "Smokering". If you catch it in time, it is a curiosity, and a ring. Further occasionally you may instead blow a "Smokeship". Suggested/discussed here. There is, of course, a new Ship-in-a-Bottle variant for "Smokeship"s.
• Added Brains. Most all animals can now yield a brain as the final step in the "Clean" butchery step, in four different sizes: Tiny, Small, Medium (simply called "Brain") and Large. Brains are curiosities, can be used as tanning material, and can, of course, be pickled.
• Added "Fine Butchery", skill. "Fine Butchery" is required for butchering Brains and Bollocks, and unlocks the "Pearl Glue" recipe. Note that you can still castrate animals without the skill, but that you need it to get "Bollocks".
• Added "Seedbag". Can hold crop seeds and tree seeds. Can be carried in a pouch slot, or in any inventory, quite simply. From Legacy, but more recently discussed here and here.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Made it, for fences/walls, so that you can extend/place additional corner posts from existing corner posts, if you so desire. Perhaps helpful when building tight turns and such.
• Made it so that you can disable editing of surveys by a toggle in the interface.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• "Narwhal Tusk" can now be used as a spear. Suggested various places. Catch, coles!
• Increased internal inventory of "Pickling Jar" from 3x3 to 3x5, and extended maximum fluid capacity to 4l. It should now be able to pickle a full inventory without going below the amount of "Pickling Brine" needed to pickle the final items in it. Added small icons for "Pickling Jar" variants (used in e.g. barter stands and such).
• Redrew icons in 4x resolution: "Bone Glue", "Smoke & Fire"
• Added Skill Requirements: "Granary" -> "Farming", "Cistern" -> "Stone Working", "Demijohn" -> "Glass Blowing"
• Fixed a bug by which the "Poacher's Pouch" was unlocked by "Fishing". Moved to "Tanning".
• "Mirkwood Log"s have a chance to dissolve in a flurry of insects and wood when chopped or put down. Pls no raeg, it's very aesthetic.
• "Bough Pyre"s now rotate with the ground they are built on, and have greater tolerance for being built on steep slopes.
• Made a unique tileset "Acre Clay Field", such that Acre Clay areas no longer have to use the same tileset as "Dirt".

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• Added "Belltower", A massive structure to support a bell. You ring the bell by pulling (Right-click) the rope. The sound it makes varies with the metal used to build it.
• Added buildable chess pieces.
  • The ability to build chess pieces is acquired by learning a new skill "Boardgames".
  • Chess pieces are built from a new input type "Sculptable Material": wood, metal, clay, or stone. (Debated including snow, but decided against it for now.)
  • If you use Wood Blocks for "Sculptable Material", it will present visually as the bark material of the wood type in question, whereas Boards will present as the pulp material.
  • Moved the old curiosity "Tafl Board" in under the "Boardgames" skill.
  • You can, of course, put hats on the chess pieces.
• Added "Poacher's Pouch", a "Creel" alternative for hunters. The "Poacher's Pouch" can hold: Raw hides, raw meat, bone, animal fat, intestines, entrails, and small animals/birds both dead and alive. Suggested, perhaps among other places, here.
• Added "Dumbledore", a friendly beetle which sometimes lands on its back, needing help to find even keel again.
• Added "Driftwood Crown", crown, curiosity. Suggested here.
• Added "Black Henbane", flower, curiosity. Grows in "Badlands".
• Added "Raven Black", hair color. Suggested here.
• Added "Mouflon Horn", finebone recieved (between 0-2) when butchering Mouflon Sheep.
• Added "Cavecakes", hardtack bread made from "Cavedust".
• (Re)Added "Glow of the Cavebulb", a buff recieved when eating most any food made from Cavebulbs. Makes you glow slightly for a spell.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added a brief hourglass timer to the action of taking possession of "Study Desk"s, to prevent you from accidentallying your buddies' desks. Suggested here.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Redrew icons for "Driftkelp" and "Fairy Mushroom" in 4x resolution.
• Made stackable: "Driftkelp". "Fairy Mushroom"
• Fixed a bug by which "Lake Snail"s were accidentally no longer "Snail"s. (AKA: padding out the changelog by introducing dumb bugs and then fixing them.)
• Improved the error messages when attempting to found a new village too close to, or on the land of, an already existing village, by presenting the blocking village's name, and by being hopefully a bit better worded.

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Perpetually tipsy in a daze of glitter and glitz, this hat is a jingling toast to life! All Gold subscribers have been awarded the "Cocktail Hat", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/005d53b3dda0d17860127905c7ba4644c3c3a842.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added "Narwhal", fun-loving deep ocean dwelling whale, often found in pods, and often equipped with a mighty tusk!
• Added "Fine Study Desk", a more spacious study desk!
• Added "Sackcloth Cloak", a piece of clothing.
• Added "Ashen Faced". You can now hold at least 0.25kg of Ashes, and right-click a player (yourself or someone else) to paint them with ashes. The (de)buff can be removed by going for a swim (will fix so soap can be used, but reasons).
• Added "Chitterlings", offal food made from boiled intestines.
• Added a new input type "Frutti di Mare". Fruits of the Sea include Edible Seashells, such as Mussels and Clams, and crustaceans such as Crabs, Lobsters, or Shrimp.
• Added "Surf'n'Turf", food item made from "Meat" and "Frutti di Mare".
• Added "Pelican Pouch Pocket", pocket made from a pelican's pouch.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added variable material to "Crate"s, which now reflect the wood which made them. Love it!
• PSA: As it can be used to create various traps and such, we intend to revert the recent change by which going up Mineholes gives the Visitor debuff where applicable. Consider this your fair warning.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Added object icons to "Rat's Chest", "Giant Cheese" and "Giant Spool", all from the Rat Dungeon, can now be placed in object stashes with a GUI e.g. Knarr/Wagon.
• Redrew the buff frames around the various character buffs in 4x resolution.
• Redrew icons for "Travel Weariness", "Oyster", and "Opened Oyster" in 4x resolution. Redrew the icon for "Realm Management" in 4x resolution, and also use a variant of that icon for the buff recieved upon entering a Realm.
• Added a stockpile for "Oyster"s.
• Improved error messages for (War Flag you're trying to place can't see Thingwall) and (Thingwall cannot currently be challenged). The latter now presents time until challenge, the former is more explicit about pointing out that it needs line of sight.
• Crafting anything with "River Pearl Mussels" or "Oyster"s will now return any potential pearls found in the mollusks, meaning that it is now safe to cook with them without losing pearls by doing so. On account of this, the "Moules Frites" recipe now takes mussles, quite simply, rather than boiled mussels.
• Added minor light source to "Hearth Fire"s.
• Added a small animation/delay to cleaning out "Garden Pot"s. Suggested here.
• Food items now display their applicable food categories in their tooltips. Suggested here.
• You can now place curiosities on unclaimed Study Desks, allowing them to be used for display and/or storage.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7, is the "Alpine Gnome's Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/55508fbb1ae83556fcb6a0815be6e92458c2d10b.png

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This mountaineering cap echoes its YODELI-HI-HO triumphant from peak to shining peak! All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Alpine Gnome's Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/013eb28c0dfcbe23cc5e1133054a256c6c9e2e21.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added "Crane", a water/swamp dwelling birb!
• Added "Frost Flower", winter curiosity.
• Made it so that armor can be repaired using another piece of (the same type of) armor. A piece of armor restores armor HP by conferring the amount of HP it has left to the piece being repaired, plus an additional amount (20%) based on its total HP, soft capped by the crafting ability values used by the crafting recipe for the armor type. The repaired armor will be proportionally quality adjusted. This means that broken armor pieces have at least some potential use as a few points of repair conferred to another piece. Do note that it, thus, is probably a bad idea to repair a mildly damaged high quality piece of armor using a destroyed piece of low quality armor.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Improved login handling such that it should be possible to log in to alternate servers even if the "main" server is down. Further, the initial server connected to is prioritized to the last used server, hopefully mitigating various connectivity issues.
• Ensured that destroy actions are canceled if a building completes its soaking timer while being destroyed.
• Going up mineholes now confers the visitor debuff where applicable.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Swamps should now produce some, albeit lower, frequency of Dragon Flies during Spring.
• "Peculiar Flotsam"s, and "Petrified Seashell"s should now stack.
• "Cave Louse Leg"s now count as "Bone Material" for all purposes (e.g. crafting, repairing, stacking, stockpiling).
• "Precious Snowflake", "Rabbit Frost" and "Whirling Snowflake" all count as "Snow", can be used as that for purposes of crafting and repair, stack as snow, and can be stockpiled as snow. They do, however, not melt.
• Player Characters should now attempt to face fires when crafting over them. The vicious exploit party of (appearing to be) cooking meat over open stockpiles confirmed for over.
• The "Falling Star" star experience is now only available to characters with "Hearth Magic", to prevent e.g. new players from seeing it when they ought not to, and such.

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Perpetually dancing to its own, old, ragtime tune at 78rpm. All Gold subscribers have been awarded the "Grammophone Hat", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• 2026: We are so back!
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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/d0df315de9b68dc32f05fd64c92462ad24674850.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added the ability to ride "Primitive Sled"s. Pull it to the top of a high hill, and bomb's away!
• Added "Primitive Backpack Extension", a simple piece of equipment carried in the "Shoulders" slot which adds 1 extra slot, scaling as normal with quality.
• Added "Twist Bread", simple flour/bread recipe made by a fire.
• Added "Moundwood Bough", a wood bough picked from "Mound Tree"s. Came up here.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Inventory extending items are no longer automatically unequipped, when auto switching gear, if unequipping them would cause you to become "Overloaded".
• Re-enabled the fix we attempted last time, allowing you to put curiosities on "Study Desk"s belonging to other, offline, characters.
• (Updated) Client now indicates focused windows by highlighting their title text.
• Action cursors (Lift, Fish, Plant, &c) and placement modes can now be closed/canceled using 'Esc'.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed a bug by which some wound treatments would show their quality percentage, rather than the number of wound points they can heal.
• Effect played when disappearing in thicket is now the effect played when kicking up leaves, rather than the logout effect, to hopefully alleviate confusion.
• Added stacking to: "Whale Barnacles" (they now also go in "Creel"), "Common Starfish", "Seahorse", "Crab Claw", and "Uncrushed Husk".
• Moved "Meat Stuffing" recipe to "Sausage Making".
• Reduced study time of "Wildflower" to 1/4, and gave it a mild buff in LP/h.
• Reduced the FEP/Hunger ratio of "Boiled Mussels".

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Items, for the fair pricec of $5, $7, and $9 respectively, are the "Cookiecap", "Gingerbread Crown", and "Chimney Stovepipe". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/5dadc29efb945d1d1f5c404343edc0da8f09b136.png$5 A cap so iconic that its very name has become a byword for 'a new and inexperienced celebrant of the season'. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/8a3103eafd8f49709583de7d9b15efab103b4956.png$7 This hat crowns you, in seasonal splendor triumphant, the Candy King! All hail the Candy King! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/0671f4927fcaed33381d0eec2cd0c97ba5c7a183.png$9 A festive portal to joyous dimensions beyond, through which the Jolly Giver may enter your thoughts, and prayers. All Bronze subscribers have been awarded the "Cookie Cap", free of charge, all Silver subscribers have also been awarded the "Gingerbread Crown" free of charge, and all Gold subscribers have also been awarded the "Chimney Stovepipe", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• With this patch we will be heading out for some R'n'R over the holidays. Thank you to all who helped make 2025 a much better H&H year than we did or deserved! Best wishes to you and yours for wonderful holidays, and see you again in the new year. Merry Christmas!
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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/fdca60cc4509cd4dd122b3c947d5fa52ce639ab0.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added two new equipment slots: "Shoulders" & "Mask" (names could be debated). Wings (Bee/Ant Queen, Hussar Wings) now consistently occupy the "Shoulders" slot, leaving them uncontroversially compatible with backpacks and capes. "Coracle"s now also occupy the "Shoulders" slot, avoiding conflicts with capes and backpacks. Masks (e.g. "Goat Mask", "Boreworm Mask", "Jack-o'-Mask") now go in the "Mask" slot, leaving them compatible with e.g. pipes and spectacles.
• Added "Primitive Sled". A simple sled for pulling cargo overland. The sled can be carried on your back if empty, or pulled behind you if loaded. Do note, as with Corcacles, that variable materials on the sled won't be properly represented while carried on your back, fix pending. The "Primitive Sled", if carried as equipment, sits in the "Shoulders" slot. The "Primitive Sled" can pull two pieces of cargo. Slaem & Hearth confirmed!
• Added "Silk Backpack", expands your inventory by 3 columns, rather than the 2 of the leather backpack.
• Added "Rope Belt", a simple toolbelt made from rope.
• Added "Feather Tassel", gilding made from "Feather".
• Added "Bushmeat Strips", simple meat recipe.
• Added "Wound Glue", bushcraft medicine treating "Cruel Incision", "Fell Slash", and "Nasty Laceration".

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Inventory extending pieces of equipment can now, quite simply, be uneuipped, even if doing so would leave your inventory overloaded. While you have items in unequipped inventory slots, you will have the "Overloaded" debuff. The "Overloaded" debuff will, periodically, attempt to move items into your inventory, or, failing that, drop them to ground. The "Overloaded" debuff will not take effect if you are knocked out, or dead. Happy to take input on this, as it may be at least somewhat controversial.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Fixed a small problem which prevented one player from adding curiosities to another, logged off, player's study table.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7 is the "Chernobyl Ushanka". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/dcf560f4f81782de03497264cc781cafd7e4bcf8.png $7 This hat saw a strange flash from the local power plant illuminate the night, and has felt glowing ever since! All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Chernobyl Ushanka", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• We hope you have been enjoying the new World 16.1 we launched last week, and are grateful for all the support and kind words we have gotten on account of it!
• We will be announcing a Christmas stream sometime next week, and aim to push a small Christmas patch while doing it. (Re)post your favorite complaints and we'll see if we can't address some of them!
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We've been developing, and here's what's new... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/97a0265c9ccb09fe78088a851ade61c3a3bbb040.png New World Launch -----------------------

• Tonight we launch a new world, W16.1, with the unusual twist that we are not resetting the running W16, as first announced here!
• Both Worlds will run concurrently until further notice.
• The choice on which world to play will be made with the Wizard during character creation.
• We have made no changes which should impair custom clients.
• This post contains an updated, non-exhaustive, change log. Much has been left to the joy of discovery.

Payment Model -----------------------

• All store hats given as rewards for subscriptions have been replaced. Anyone who purchased a subscription between the World 16.1 announcement, and the time we took the store down for refurbishing, will have received both the old and new hats relevant for his or her particular subscription level.
• As per the standard from World 14, higher subscription tiers give, apart from the hat unlocked with the tier, all hats belonging to the lower tiers.
• Three additional hats have been added to the store! Thank you for your consideration!

Changes Only Applying to W16.1 -----------------------

• New Gilding System
  • Gildings have been reworked to emphasize churning Gildings, more so than the gear you are gilding. The intention is to buff higher tier equipment.
  • Pieces of gear have a predefined number of gilding slots from the start.
  • If a gilding roll is successful, you will slot the gilding into the piece of gear without consuming a slot.
  • If a gilding roll fails, you have an additional roll to "rescue" the gilding. If the rescue roll is successful, you will slot the gilding into the piece of gear, but consume a slot on it.
  • The chance to succeed with a rescue roll is 1 / (NumberOfSlotsRemaining + PiecesOfGildingOnTheItem).
  • If the rescue roll fails, both a slot in the gear, and the gilding piece, are consumed.
• Visitor Gates
  • Non-visitor gates for siege significant wall types (Palisade, Brickwall) have been removed, and all gates in such walls will now be visitor gates.
  • No gates will therefore any longer be visually distinguished with the red flags traditionally indicating a visitor gate, as the distinction will no longer be made.
  • All siege significant gates will, thus, confer the visitor debuff.
  • By default, you are able to pass through (visitor) gates while in combat.
• Thingwall Travel has been modified. Joy of discovery!
• The swirly-leaf speed boosts on the map are now always visible to everyone, but are only half as common.
• Time moves strangely in W16.1.

Additional Changes Also Affecting W16 -----------------------

• Gilding actions have a new and more communicative UI.
• Implemented a hopefully graceful rate limit to mounting mounts (e.g. boats, horses, chairs, &c) to avoid various shenanigans.
• Spitroasting now requires a sharp tool.
• "Coin Press"es now require only Hard metal, rather than Steel.

In the Pipe -----------------------

• Many of you have decided to use the store since we announced World 16.1, and we are very grateful for this. Thank you for supporting us, and the game.
• 2025 could have been a lot better development wise. We are hopeful for 2026.
• Object-Controlled-Objects remains the primary development goal.
• I may update this post with answers to question that may come up, and edits for clarity, or whatever.

We are on track to start the server at 20:00 UTC, and aim to do so

The best of luck in World 16.1, and... ENJOY!

We've been developing, and here's what's new... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/aa166ef9261a36eeee770a6ab67681bbe0892f0e.png "Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour." — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

World 16.1

• As was announced at the start of World 16, we intend to launch the next new world — World 16.1 — without resetting World 16.
• This post is to inform you that that, indeed, remains the plan, and that we intend to launch World 16.1 on Friday, December 5th, 2025 @ 20:00 UTC.
• Worlds 16 and 16.1 will, then, run concurrently until the threads of their fates again unravel.

Notable Changes in W16.1

• Non-visitor gates for siege significant wall types (Palisade, Brickwall) have been removed, and all gates in such walls will now be visitor gates. No gates will therefore any longer be visually distinguished with the red flags traditionally indicating a visitor gate, as the distinction will no longer be made.
• The Gilding system for equipment has been reworked to put a greater emphasis on the clothes, as opposed to the gildings, seeking, effectively, to buff the cooler/rarer/more expensive clothes, and hopefully reduce the meta of churning the most inexpensive clothes possible.
• A series of other changes, big and small, will, as usual, be left to the joy of discovery.

&c

• The choice on which world to play will be made with the Wizard during character creation.
• Do note that the significant changes mentioned here, made for World 16.1, will NOT take effect in World 16. Uncontroversial content changes may/will take effect in World 16 as well, but the ones mentioned above will specifically apply to World 16.1
• We consider World 16.1 — as World 16 can remain a stable main version of the game — to be somewhat experimental. If you have any cool experiments you would like us to try for great science in World 16.1, feel free to share ideas!

Development Radio Silence

• Radio silence is easy for us to choose for a variety of reasons: Personal comfort, certain technical dislikes of the communication platforms, lack of meaningful development to communicate. It compounds negatively over time, as the mountain of owed replies and missed upd00ts accrue. Some things can and should be changed and improved, some may belong inexorably to our personal equations.
• If we ever do decide to truly throw in the towel, you will be notified. Our course, however shaky, has never really changed, and we have continued to meet, talk, and build, on our regular schedule, and have no intention or reason to do otherwise!
• The traditional Christmas dev-stream is, for our part, on like Donkey Kong! I look forward to engaging face-to-the-black-void-of-the-interwebz with you all, should you care to be there, and we can perhaps speak more of these and other matters!
• I am fundamentally happy, and there is, for my part, no terrible tragedy to excuse or explain. A wizard is never late! :)
• <3

Our Gift to You

• We removed the Verification requirements for playing Legacy. Play away! Free!

TL;DR: We will aim to launch the...

W16.1 server @ 20:00 UTC, Friday December 5th, 2025

We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/e9c07459bc778a7f3343fd88ca3ee5cbcc503cbb.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Implemented client-side authority surveys.
  • The client can now arbitrarily set and transfer the desired height of individual survey points to the server.
  • Used that to implement some basic sculpting tools.
  • You can pull a corner point of a survey to raise the slope of the surveyed area relative to that point.
  • You can pull any other point to move the survey area generally.
  • You can hold shift to select/create a sub-area of multiple survey points, which can be similarily modified as the survey generally.
  • Realize fully that this is not the full 3d-modelling tool required to perfectly terraform, but it is perhaps a start, and it should allow custom client makers to create their own tools to aid in surveying.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Significant server side optimization work has been performed on hittesting, object delta transfers, protocol object lists, &c, which should imply significant performance gains not least in terms of peak user capacity.
• Fixed a bug, active since the attribute modifier remake, by which the loss of knockout protection from murderous raged failed to apply correctly.
• Fixed a bug, active since the attribute modifier remake, by which the attributes previously buffed by various alchemical ingredients accidentally changed. Previously modified attributes have now been restored.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Redrew several icons, mostly under the "Crafting" submenu, in higher resolution.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7 is the "Flower Cup Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/9b2487d1fe9099649ef3ba803c45f732cb3fcd1b.png$7 Blooming in spring, sprouting to a full head of flowery fragrance and beauty. All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Flower Cup Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/94ac803e71524ba886e6146b6f6be5dbcc9d000b.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Significantly reworked the decay mechanics.
  • When a claim (village or personal) runs low on authority, the immediate effect is that (only) the claim's claim marker will begin to decay, rather than, as has historically been the case, anything and everything on the claim. The claim, thus, continues to protect things on it from decay while the claim itself lasts.
  • Walls are still possible to hand-bash if the claim is low on authority.
• Significantly reworked the life cycle of tame animals.
  • Animals will, if they fail to find proper nutrition a couple of times, but are on a claim, go dormant, rather than starve to death, indicated by the animals lying down, appearing to relax.
  • Animals off claim will still starve, rather than go dormant.
  • If an animal goes dormant, any active processess on it will pause, such as: producing milk, advancing pregnancies, &c.
  • If a dormant animal is interacted with, or given proper food in a trough or the like, or if the claim disappears from under it, it will awaken from dormancy.
  • Animals in coops/hutches respect the spirit of these changes, pausing their existence if without food, but still on claim.
  • This implied an unexpectedly invasive rewrite of the animal handling logic, and some artifacts/unintended differences may exist. Feel free to report.
• The basic gist of this is to support taking a break from the game and increasing odds of having something fun to come back to if you do. Feel entirely free to give additional suggestions.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added attributes for "Digging Speed" and "Digging Stamina", relevant for shovels.
• Added an attribute for "Harvesting Stamina", relevant for scythes.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• "Chopping Speed" should now be properly used as intended.
• "Root-Fill" medicine did not apply properly to "Deep Cut" wounds. Should be fixed.
• Redrew some icons under the "Crafting" submenu in higher resolution.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7 is the "Goblin Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/6845a7cfb499f839712f2355aa28ad0ee0d923a2.png$7 A rascally cap, full to the brim with mischief and monkey tricks, and with a penchant for shiny trinkets. All Gold subscribers have been awarded the "Goblin Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/fb18265a877acfa92bd0ed526ffa23fd89a5e773.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added support for more arbitrary attribute definitions. Many of the smaller/more specific bonii which the game has historically had have been somewhat hidden and never clearly communicated. With the new attribute system, defining and tracking such mechanics/values can now be done in a more formalized system, which also allows for greater ease in e.g. providing multiple sources for increasing a particular value.
• The following minor attributes have been implemented.
  • Butchering Speed
  • Demolition Damage, damage when destroying things.
  • Cave-in Damage, additional demolition damage when destroying cave-in stones.
  • Tree-stump Damage, additional demolition damage when destroying tree stumps.
  • Board Yield, more output when sawing boards.
  • Woodblock Yield, more output when chopping woodblocks.
  • Tree Chopping Speed,
  • Mining Strength, Speed, and Stamina.
  • Shearing Speed
• All of those were previously implemented more or less ad hoc as particular tool mechanics, but are now, indeed, generalized. It would now, for example, be relatively easy to design gildings, wounds, or other effects which buff or debuff those values.
• Note that most of these buffs only apply "when used", that is to say when the tool carrying them is in use, but that it would be easy for us to also implement passive versions.
• Furthermore, the UI is now capable of properly presenting these values to give some idea of what the various tools actually do, and how they compare.
• It should be a pretty faithful conversion of old implementations to this new on, but some math has changed. Notably, "Quarryman" and "Lumberjack" bonii, to Mining Strength and Board/Block Yield respectively, used to be applied multiplicatively, but are now rather applied additively. Buffed the base values of those credo buffs a bit to compensate ("Quarryman" from +20% to +40%, "Lumberjack" from +30% to +50%).

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Added some "Tree Chopping Speed" to the "Woodsman's Token" gilding.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7 is the "Summer Satin Hat". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/8724bad402569873ffa3d1a98622893dc4020717.png$7Blowing softly in the summer breeze, soft fabrics, soft to the touch. All Silver & Gold subscribers have been awarded the "Summer Satin Hat", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• Hang in there. Bigger things to come.
• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/b20ce41813735609fb84b55f37a5426dc10f75e9.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added a "News" prompt to the Character Selection screen. When you log in, you will, thus, be presented with a list of previously unread announcement posts. May need some arting, but works for now. Note that it will not show anything this first time you log in, as all old threads are considered read.
• Added automatic propagation of wound treatments. Wounds will now dynamically and programatically list their treatments, and, inversely, medicines will likewise present the wounds they can treat. This saves us the trouble of manually maintaining wound treatment documentation, and guarantees more accurate, easily propagated, and properly maintained lists. Made some effort to clean out the old, manual texts, but may have missed some.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Dropped, as announced for a few years or whatever now, support for the old pre-render-rework game resources. Yay!
• "Catapult"s can now only destroy ships and other siege engines.
• Ranges for "Archery Tower"s and "Catapult"s are no longer randomized, but rather fixed to their medium ranges (~20 tiles for "Catapult"s, and ~18 tiles for "Archery Tower"s)
• Reworked ingame transfers of account-bound items (e.g. Store hats)
  • Account-bound items (mostly store hats) can now be handled and worn by characters not on the account the item is bound to. Naturally, they can still be recalled by the owner at any time, even if, for example, the handling character is offline.
  • Account-bound items are no longer transferred to other accounts by right-clicking a character to give them to. Rather, the owner can right-click the item to initiate a transfer. 24 RL hours later, any character who is in physical possession of the item at that time can right-click it to actually claim ownership of it. "Physical possession", here, means having it on their actual character (ie. in the character inventory, or equipped), as opposed to it eg. lying in a container.
  • Once the 24 RL hours have passed, the item will be ready to accept new ownership indefinitely. This status can be canceled by the owner by recalling the hat from the Hearth Fire. Contrariwise, if you have hats that you know you want to trade with, you can put them in such "tradeable status" well in advance.
  • The main intention with this change is to prevent sudden, unintended or forced hat transfers. It is probably unsound that wearing a store-hat is as wearing a bullseye.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• A member leaving a village no longer costs the village any authority.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $7 is the "Caiman Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/0438b2faff34883f59822d3748b0850df902273a.png$7Lying in wait in dark waters for passing prey, with sharp, glistening teeth. All Silver & Gold subscribers have been awarded the "Caiman Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• The year got off to a pretty rough start on account of (both of us) having been (quite) ill. Back in the saddles now, and hoping to deliver meatier things down the line!
• Some of the changes here could be controversial. Happy to take input on most anything!
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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/71fde143bbce8ea876dfa2590ff3b0fe1104229e.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added Rat Dungeons. Occasionally a hole in the wall may spawn inside houses, to which is affixed a myserious nail. Incanting the strange words upon the nail, by right-clicking, will allow you to enter the Kingdom-under-the-Floorboards of Ratdom. "Plaguemaw's Chittering Labyrinth of Cheddar", "Gorgobrie's Deathless Nook of Villainy", and "Rennettigan's Rancid Basement of Brie", all await the intrepid adventurer!
• Added "Yule Cracker". A new strange growth has sprouted on trees everywhere in the Hearth, in festive celebration of the season!

Small Fixes -----------------------

• "Candy Cane", "Mulch", "Cucumber", and "Pipeweed Leaf" are now stackable
• Baby Reindeers now give "Suckling's Maw"s when butchered.
• Removed armor from "Hussar Wings". Made them gildable. "Hussar Wings" can no longer be equipped in the backpack slot.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Items, for the fair price of $5, $7, $9 is the "Giftwrap Cap", "Rudolph Cap", and "Christmas Wizard's Hat". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/691a6a060fd5c0ab5ad56fed05a3cc4102a2b6e5.png$5 A wonderfully boyish gift, wrapped with gold and ribbon, to put a ribbon on any occasion. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/f8c10958906336969b3b5469a89484c402dc23a2.png$7 Santa's most trusty steed need not dread the cold this season, decked out in the warmth of a knitted cap! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/31cc480170ec66c4050c902364cc4b280627ee80.png$9 A well kept secret at the Invisible College is that the vast majority of the season's magic is produced by this hat alone. All Bronze subscribers have been awarded the "Giftwrap Cap", free of charge, all Silver subscribers have also been awarded the "Rudolph Cap" free of charge, and all Gold subscribers have also been awarded the "Christmas Wizard's Hat", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• With this patch we will be heading out for some R'n'R over the holidays. Thank you to all who made 2024 the fantastic H&H year that it was! Best wishes to you and yours for wonderful holidays, and see you again in the new year. Merry Christmas!
• Again urging any custom client maker who wishes to stay relevant to get with the new rendering times. Support for the old resources will be dropped at some point.
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We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/f273ec2224d09bfb7b38ce9bbfe333a2877665a6.png New Implementations -----------------------

• Added "Leg of Boar", food, something to unlock when learning of Boar Meat.

Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added variable materials to "Herbalist Table".
• Added a print out of FEP-score-to-hunger ratio to food items, to give some idea of which food items are better/worse.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Again adjusted the ingame season timer to ensure a white Christmas. Will try to avoid doing this manually again!
• Domesticated horses can now be guided or led on a leash through thickets.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Items, for the fair price of $7, is the "White Duck Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/6f2b7138cabfcaa9049ceb37e690cc40dd3bacfb.png$7 If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then logically it has to be this sweet cap in the image and likeness of a white duck! All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "White Duck Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• Minor patch today. Working on a bigger one! Will also, TBA, do a Christmas livestream.
• Again urging any custom client maker who wishes to stay relevant to get with the new rendering times. Support for the old resources will be dropped at some point.
• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS... to get the new FEP-to-hunger tooltips Enjoy!

We've been developing, and here's what's new. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/c9af70263a9426476af0ce451eb9cae31a7200d7.png Key Fixes -----------------------

• Added variable materials to "Stone Casket".
• Information gleaned when using the "Inspect" action now remains stored for the duration of the game client's knowledge of the object inspected, remaining available in the Inspect-cursor tooltip on the object. So basically, info you have gotten by "Inspect":ing will linger until you lose sight of the object by e.g. moving away from it or into a house, or the like. NOTE: This may cause unupdated custom clients to crash. The client codes were pushed earlier in the week, and most appear to have merged it.
• Can "Inspect" setting buildings to find out how much of their damage soak they have built up.
• Holding Shift-Ctrl when right-clicking to transfer into stockpiles will now transfer only items of the particular type you are currently holding. Useful, for example, to draw all stones of a particular type, but not all stones in general, into a stockpile you want to place.
• Fixed a client bug where "deattaching" from an object (like a cauldron, quern, mount, &c) could/would cause a following movement to jerk for a while.
• Fixed a client bug where network retransmission could cause overlay animations (like combat animations) or other effects of a transient nature to play multiple times.
• Made slight astronomical adjustments to ensure that ingame winter falls on RL Christmas. The ingame calendar may shift around a bit.

Small Fixes -----------------------

• Added an error msg when trying to pickup small animools w/o hunting suggested here
• Fixed an issue with the shovel sometimes visibly disappearing after walking during survey work.
• Added some almost visible graphical fur to "Cave Rat".
• Natural "Wellspring"s can now be destroyed using Siege Engines, e.g. Wrecking Balls.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/1f58c2f30e682ba1baaf1b0be5cb6ddbab7a27de.png As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch. Today's Patch Items, for the fair price of $7, is the "HBI Cap". {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45223854/dd4c81a01a1c7b076be8c13f3b9fdce9f6c0d9d9.png$7 Emergency lights shredding through the morning fog announces a dawn raid by the Haven Bureau of Investigation! All Gold subscribers have been awarded the "HBI Cap", free of charge. In the Pipe -----------------------

• Minor patch today. Working on a bigger one!
• Again urging any custom client maker who wishes to stay relevant to get with the new rendering times. Support for the old resources will be dropped at some point.
• Our primary development direction is toward object-controlled-objects.
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UPDATE YOUR CLIENTS... to get the relevant client side bugfixes. Enjoy!