The Crafting System Update
The crafting system arrives with Mining, Smelting and Smithing, a blacksmith house with a furnace and anvil, and in-game chat linked to Discord.
It's finally here! The crafting system update! What is the crafting system? Well, the crafting system is the underlying foundation for how most skills will work in Legends of Taria.
Skills are generally broken into 2 different types, gathering and processing.
- Gathering skills are Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting and so on: anything where you're out in the world gathering resources to use later.
- Processing skills are what make gathering worth it. You take all the resources you gathered and start processing them into usable items like armor, swords, bows, potions, etc.
The first skills to use this system are Mining and Smithing. Since the crafting system just got released, there are initially limited recipes for Smithing until I make sure there are no bugs which cause players to lose items or let players dupe items. More recipes will be released once this system has been properly tested.
How to get started with crafting
Easy! If you walk north along the path from spawn towards the town center, you will find the blacksmith house along the way (north of the blacksmith is also a new bank location). Inside the blacksmith house you'll find a furnace and an anvil. These are called "machines". To process raw materials from gathering, you'll need to find the machine that processes them. For example:
- Want to smelt copper and tin ore into bronze bars? You'll need the furnace. Same with iron ore into iron bars.
- Want to use those bronze or iron bars you just made to create some new armor? You'll need the new anvil for that.
When the machines are working, they play an animation showing them at work. Items are crafted over time, and the machine keeps working while you go gather more resources!
Other changes
- In-game chat is now linked to our Discord. You can send messages from Discord and they will show up in game chat, and messages you send in game will end up on Discord.
- Added Mining, Smelting and Smithing.
- Added tin rocks and tin ore.
- Added iron rocks and iron ore.
- Added the north bank.
- Added the anvil.
- Added caching for animation sets.
- Added properties for future item, NPC, cosmetic, tile and UI use.
- Reduced UI flickering.
- Improved map drawing performance.
- Added a placeholder for the chat input.
- Added a message if assets failed to load.
- Disabled sounds for now (very slow load times).
- Added text wrapping.
- Added the ability to type numbers or letters, with support for holding down backspace, delete and the arrow keys in inputs.
- Updated the Android NDK to v28.
- The Android keyboard should now be fully working.
- Fixed hotbar items drawing over equipment.
- Fixed players not showing on the minimap.
- Fixed XP not syncing properly to the client (just a visual bug, your XP is fine).
- Lots of other small fixes.
Version 2025.6.20 (June 20, 2025)
- Added multi-touch support.
- Players can now walk and attack at the same time.
- Lots of little input and controls improvements.
- Fixed recipe items showing on the wrong stations.
Version 2025.6.21 (June 24, 2025)
- Fixed the keyboard not showing up in inputs.
- Added age verification to enable social features (required by Google's Family Policy).