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Aldmere opens: the Kingsgate

4 October 2026 · version 0.70

The border on the Neck is open. Northwatch's guards still stand at their gate, but anyone may walk through it now, north up the Kingsway into Aldmere.
At the far end of the Neck stands the Kingsgate, Aldmere's toll castle of pale stone: a wall from sea to sea, paladins in polished plate at the gate, and a toll of ten coins going north. Going south is free: Aldmere does not tax the road out.
A new quest, The King's Writ: the toll clerk will put your name in the gate book, and let you through free for good, if someone of standing vouches for you. On this side of the Neck, that means the Warden of Northwatch.
Kingsgate has a bank, Gatehelm the helmet shop, the Tollhouse Inn, a chapel and a keep on the knoll. North along the Kingsway, Brindle Cross has a furnace, an anvil and the Brindled Ox. Mind the copse past the crossroads: the highwaymen there keep a toll of their own.

4 October 2026 · version 0.69

Kite shields now look like kite shields, long and pointed at the foot, instead of square boards.
The realm now tells your game only about what is near you, and packs it tightly, so the game uses a small fraction of the data it did. Slow and mobile connections should keep up much better.

4 October 2026 · version 0.68

Goblins have 12 hit points again. Somebody had been feeding them.
Rats now drop raw rat meat. Cook it on a fire for a small meal, or burn it for a smaller one.

4 October 2026 · version 0.67

The game draws the world in far fewer pieces, so towns, forests and crowded squares run much smoother, especially on laptops.
Walking into new country no longer makes the game stutter while the land ahead is made ready.
Clicking on things in a busy town answers quicker.

4 October 2026 · version 0.66

The land north of the Greyspine no longer ends at the edge of the world: the hills run down to a real coast of heather, shingle and sandy coves, with sea crags off the points and the river's mouth opening into the sea north of Rushford.
A shepherd keeps her ewes on the ness at the north-west corner of the hills, and somebody has been piling stones on the knowe above her cottage for longer than anyone remembers. Bring a net to the river mouth: the fishing is good.
West of the hills the marsh's moor runs down to dunes and the sea, and the shores of the marshes and the east coast are no longer ruler-straight.
Gloam Bay is open water all the way across, Coldhythe's beach is uneven like a real beach, and the sign on the lane by Barleyknowe now points east to Coldhythe.

4 October 2026 · version 0.65

The game loads faster: the world now builds the land around you first and the rest while you play.
The ground far out of sight is no longer drawn, so the game runs smoother, and clicking on the ground answers quicker.
South of the starting coast the open sea now reaches the horizon, where a strange plain of grey rock used to lie.

4 October 2026 · version 0.64

Saltcrown has a north gate. Through it runs the Kingsway: across the Marlowe chase and the windswept Whinmoor to Northwatch, House Marlowe's fortress on its headland above the strait.
The Northwatch garrison will tell you about the war in Greyhelm, the mountain folk and the closed border, whether you ask or not. The quartermaster sells bows, arrows and bread, and the fortress keeps two chests worth a careful thief's attention.
Train at Northwatch: hit the dummies on the parade ground, or bring a bow and arrows to the archery butts below the head. They teach the basics, up to level 10.
Beyond the fortress the Kingsway runs out along the Neck to the border with Aldmere. The gate is barred. For now.
The north-east is a real coast now: Gloam Bay under the Sorcerers' Spire, beaches and shingle, sea cliffs and rocks offshore. The fishing hamlet of Coldhythe sits on the bay, on a new lane from Barleyknowe to the Kingsway.
Bandits have made camp in Gallows Pines on the moor, and the Whin Beacon watches the east cliffs for sails.

4 October 2026 · version 0.63

The beach where you come ashore has a name now: Dangerhollow. One look at the sea in front of it tells you why.
Rocks and reefs break the water off Dangerhollow: a black stack at the wreck's bow, skerries across the bay and reefs just awash, white with surf.
Places have their English names everywhere: the village by the river is Runmere, the island off the harbour is Sealskerry, and the mountain south of Runmere is Stone Mountain.