Idle Crown news & patch notes

Milestones and Many Hands

Fixes

• Offline smithing works properly. With Master Stoker, the forge only fed itself while the game was open — away from it, it burned through banked heat and then quietly stopped your smith. It now draws on your whole log stockpile for the entire offline stretch, so an overnight session comes back with thousands of bars instead of a couple dozen. Thanks to everyone who reported it.
• Selling mass-produced gear works again. "Sell all" used to skip an entire stack if one copy was equipped — 500 forged swords, unsellable. It now keeps the one you're wearing and sells the rest. It also no longer touches your pets.

New: Skill Milestones

New: Worker Synergy

Coin and Counsel — Updates 1.0.5 & 1.0.6

🏛️ The Academy

• Fund it with gold — 100M to raise, scaling into the billions — and a share of all the XP you earn (yours and your minions', online and offline) also pours into your single weakest skill.
• Climbs to +5% at max level. Dragging a neglected skill up from the ground now happens quietly in the background while you train whatever you like.
• A proper home for overflowing late-game coin: maxing it runs into the billions.

⚔️ Fixes & Balance

• Crimson Pact actually heals you now. It was quietly broken — instead of restoring HP it only shaved a sliver off incoming hits. It now genuinely returns HP for every monster you kill, shown right in the combat log.
• The Sawmill now boosts Carpentry too, not just Woodcutting — a sawmill is where logs become planks, after all.
• Vintner's Cellar raises the buff-duration cap. With enough ranks you can bank consumable buffs well past the old 60-minute ceiling.

A Realm Alive

New

• Community XP boost. The more players online, the more bonus XP everyone earns, up to +20%. A new chip in the top bar shows the live player count and your current boost.
• Sell or donate exact amounts. Every inventory stack and the Renown donation now have a clean quantity input.
• Jump to the source. Click any material in your Holding or in a recipe to jump straight to the skill that makes it.
• Localized patch notes. The What's New screen is now translated into all 31 languages.

Balance

• Daily quests scale with your rank. They stay meaningful into the late game, with bigger targets and bigger rewards.
• Combat is a touch tougher. Monsters hit a bit harder, so bring food and armor instead of charging in bare-handed.
• Battle-Scarred. The death leaderboard now honors the most battle-scarred and is renamed to match.

Quality of life

• New option in Settings to hide the leaderboards entirely.
• Steam achievements you already earned now sync reliably on launch.

Fixes

• Fixed an auto-sell trap where a group could get stuck auto-selling with no way to reach the toggle. Its tab now stays available so you can switch it off.

🌍 Idle Crown now speaks 31 languages

🎒 Inventory & Selling

• Sell All now asks first — on single stacks and whole groups. No more one-click regret.
• Auto-sell, redesigned — a clear on/off switch, a warning before you arm it, and it will never sell scrolls, blessings, or potions.
• Sell your old tools — outgrown axes, picks and the rest can finally be cashed in. Your equipped tool stays safe.
• Inventory sorts by tier by default, and the scrollbars got a cleanup.

⚔️ Balance

• Mastery is now a true post-99 prestige — each rank costs more, and the track caps at +500% on your chosen path. Heads-up: existing post-99 mastery is recalculated to the new cost.
• “Master of the Holding” is finally obtainable — it had been quietly stuck one building short.

🐛 Fixes

• Leaderboard standing reads sanely again (no more “top 120%”).
• Buff timers no longer nudge the top bar every second.
• Fixed the Realm Discord invite and the in-game Steam Overlay button.

The throne is almost ready.

Idle Crown launches on Steam on June 23, 2026 at 10:00 UTC / 12:00 CEST.

The final build has now been approved, and we are using the last day before release to do final checks and prepare for launch.

Idle Crown is a medieval idle RPG where you rise from serf to sovereign. Train 15 skills, build your Holding, unlock workers, earn permanent upgrades, chase achievements, climb leaderboards, and grind your way to the throne.

No energy bars. No premium currency. No waiting.

Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted, followed, tested, or given feedback so far.

See you tomorrow.