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Deeper pockets and a market watch

3 October 2026 · version 0.54

More people are worth robbing: farmers (Larceny 10), wizards (20), guards (40), knights (55), paladins (70) and heroes (80). Farmers and wizards are pickpocketed from the right-click menu, so a click still talks to them.
Pickpocketing is now harder against a better mark: half your attempts succeed at the mark's own level, and each level above it helps a little more. A failed grab at a knight or a hero hurts more than one at a farmer.
Knights stand in the castle courts at Runmere and Castle Marlowe, paladins keep the keeps and heroes drink upstairs in their halls.
The markets of Falbridge, Clyffside and Saltcrown have a watch. Get caught at a stall and the watch comes for you: a guard for bread and herbs, two guards for leather and fish, and knights for metal, shards and gems.
Only a stall with a trader minding it can be stolen from. The stalls set out for show in Clyffside are just stalls now.

3 October 2026 · version 0.53

The world has grown north and west. North of Runmere rise the Greyspine hills, with the river running down from them through birch and spruce woods.
A new road leaves the Clyffside road by Runmere's farmhouse and climbs north to Copperhollow, a mining village in a hollow under the grey ridge. Iron and coal in the west cut and the east pit, silver under the ridge (Quarrying 20) and two gold rocks for the strong-armed (Quarrying 40). Smelt at the village furnace, keep your ore in House Marlowe's strongbox at the ore office, buy picks at the pick shop and drink with the miners at the Crooked Pick.
Knoll giants roam the downs east of the village and Harrow Hill west of the road. They don't care for visitors.
Behind the ore office the old mine is shut, and nobody listens. Its workings run all the way under the hills into Runmere's mine cave. Mind the mine rats.
West of Runmere and the port lie the salt marshes: pools, creeks and mud flats down to the sea. A boardwalk leaves the end of Runmere's west road, and a shore path leaves the west side of Falbridge's market, and both lead to Brackwater, a fishing village of thatched huts on decks over a mere. Fish from the decks, cook your catch at the Eel Trap, buy tackle, and keep out of the customs man's way.
Swamp rats, bog lurkers and the drowned haunt the marsh, and out in the drowned fen lives the marsh witch, who has opinions about all of them.

3 October 2026 · version 0.52

Click a skill in the Skills tab (or tap it on a phone) to open its guide: everything the skill unlocks, level by level, with the xp each gives. What you have reached is ticked off, the next unlock stands out, and the rest waits further down the scroll.
Picking flax no longer gives Handicraft experience, like picking vegetables.

3 October 2026 · version 0.51

A 2-handed sword is as big as it sounds now, and it is carried and swung with both hands.

3 October 2026 · version 0.50

Runmere has been rebuilt as a proper village. A river comes down from the north past the castle, runs through the village under a bridge and winds away west to the bay by Sealskerry.
On its bank stands a watermill: the river turns the wheel, and you grind your grain at the millstones inside. On Mill Hill east of the village a windmill turns its sails over fields of wheat and flax. Go in, grind at the stones, and climb the ladder to the grain loft. The old windmill in the field is gone.
Thatched cottages line the lanes behind the inn. The smithy, the general store, the inn and the tanner face the castle square and its well; the potter and the weaver have workshops of their own, with a vegetable garden between them.
Across the bridge stand a stone church and its graveyard, behind a low wall with an iron gate: crosses, slabs and old stones, mossy, chipped and leaning. The graveyard in the Port of Falbridge got the same treatment.
Runmere castle is bigger now, with four corner towers you can climb, two round and two square, and a guard keeping watch on top.
Everything you could do in the old village you can still do in the new one; most of it has simply moved house. The goblins are still south of the river.

3 October 2026 · version 0.49

The game has a new name: Tale of Seven Crowns, after the seven kingdoms of the old story. Your characters, your bank and everything else are just as you left them.

3 October 2026 · version 0.48

What you carry weighs now, your pack and the gear you wear, and the weight shows beside your coins. The heavier the load, the faster running tires you: a full suit of plate takes about a third off how far you can run.
Shards, arrows, coins and coupons weigh nothing; leather is much lighter than metal.

3 October 2026 · version 0.47

The title screen has music now: the realm's own theme, played while you log in or make a character. A harp starts a quiet, pulsing figure and lute, basses, drone, timpani and trombones join one by one until the trumpets break out with the theme's fanfare. The trumpets carry the tune from there, with recorder, harp and lute around them, and the round closes on the same fanfare before the harp begins again. It fades away as you step into the world.
Switch it off with the Music button in the corner of the title screen, or with "Title screen music" in the Settings tab. The volume slider sets its level too.