Relaunch: Beacon Boosting, Emberite and Viridium

The relaunch patch, released on March 23, 2026.

Beacon Boosting

• Beacon Boosting is live. Players can now spend gems to activate global buffs for everyone:
  • +50% XP
  • +50% max resources per node
  • +50% mount speed
  • +25% crafting speed
• Tradeable gem packs have been added to Gemmy's shop. These can be sold to other players through player-owned shops.

Gameplay and balance

• Multi-combat has been removed across the world (it now only exists in the skeleton boss room).
• Base Melee, Defense and Health XP increased from 6 to 10 (a 67% increase).
• Fixed the Skeleton Dungeon's level requirement checks.
• Added Emberite gear: the armor requires level 50 Defense, and the sword 50 Melee.
• Added Viridium gear: the armor requires level 40 Defense, and the sword 40 Melee.
• Added Emberite and Viridium tools.
• Planted 3 new kinds of tree: linden (near the castle), cherry (in the center of the port city) and maple (near the Ents).
• Processing is now slower than its gathering pair (in time, not XP).
• Made unarmed players much weaker.
• Increased the respawn delay for all NPCs (it used to be 1 second for all of them).
• Changed the combat formula a lot.
• LOTS of skilling rebalancing, spreading recipes out across many tiers. Too many to list here. All skills now have recipes up to the mid 70s or 80s.

Performance and engine

• Reduced the asset pack size by over 50% with Zstd compression.
• Switched to LZ4 for compressing packets between the client and server.
• Optimized world map performance.
• Upgraded the web client to WebGL2.
• Fixed pixel art blurring caused by anti-aliasing on the web.
• Reverted some engine updates from the last update that seemed to hurt performance.

Stability

• Fixed various Android crashes.
• Moved to a self-hosted database for better reliability.

Gameplay fixes

• Fixed a 16-bit item limit in crafting stations.
• Fixed crafting station titles (no more everything being called "Anvil").
• Fixed player movement being delayed by one frame.
• Fixed player sprite and name jitter when frame times are uneven.

UI and chat

• Fixed caret alignment in multi-line messages.
• Fixed overlapping messages in chat.
• Fixed player icons scaling incorrectly with multi-line messages.
• Messages no longer render outside the chatbox.
• Improved UI click handling so you can't interact with invisible or blocked elements (it now behaves more like a browser).
• Cleaned up the Premium Store UI.

Hotfix 1 (March 29, 2026)

• Removed the old message about limited-time desktop play.
• Fixed an issue with player-owned shops when listing some brand new items.

Hotfix 2 (March 30, 2026)

• Fixed a bug where XP or crafted items could be lost.
• Fixed Emberite and Viridium not being clipped.
• NPCs now wander less often, over a wider range from their spawn point.
• Increased respawn times for all ores, fishing spots and trees, to reward active play and make things harder for bots.