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Gardens and gates

30 September 2026 · version 0.22

Fences need not go all the way round any more: a fence can run along a garden or across a yard, with a gate in it.
Garden beds: dark soil in a border of kerbstones.
The starting village is called Clyffside now, and it has a fountain, market stalls, flowers and a fenced garden.
Clicking a door walks you to stand straight in front of it, not at its corner.
Gable ends sit flush with the walls below them, instead of a step back.

30 September 2026 · version 0.21

New characters wash up on a beach by the wreck of their ship, with nothing but the clothes they stand in. The sea chest by the wreck holds a fishing net, a tinderbox, a hatchet, a longsword and a wooden shield.
Mountains wall the beach in. The only way out is the path north through the pass, to the village of Clyffside: a general store, a bank, an inn and a wizard.
Two new quests to begin with: the captain of the wreck needs help, and the wizard of Clyffside sees potential in you.
Giant rats on the beach, palm trees to chop and fish to catch.
Clyffside stands on a hill: the path from the beach climbs through the pass up to it.
Signposts you can read, their boards pointing the way they name.
Cobblestones lie seamlessly, without a line at every tile.
After dying you wake in Clyffside.
Bankers, barkeepers and shopkeepers can be spoken to across their counters.
The bank window is much bigger: sixteen items to a row, and it scrolls when full.

30 September 2026 · version 0.20

City walls: tall stone with battlements and towers at the corners.
City gates, as wide as the builders like, with a tower on either side. Both leaves open at once.
Cobbled streets round their corners too.
New icons for remains, meat and cowhide.
Vegetable beds can be walked across. You still pull the crop from beside the bed.
A cabbage grows as one cabbage, leaves and all, instead of four green lumps in a bed.
Breastplates and leg armour have their edges taken off, and your shirt no longer pokes out through your armour.

30 September 2026 · version 0.19

30 September 2026 · version 0.18

Everything that will chase you shows red on the minimap, not just rats and goblins.

29 September 2026 · version 0.17

A town to the west of Runmere: Lanster, with its lake shore, its squares and its streets of cobbles.
Shopkeepers and townsfolk speak in bubbles over their heads, and anyone nearby can read along. Some of them open their shop when they are done talking.
The shop window is bigger, with ten wares to a row.
Houses can be built in L and T shapes.
Banks have proper counters, with brass grilles.
New furnishings: rugs, candelabras and torches on the walls.
Fountains side by side make one big basin.
The mines are dark, and deeper is darker. Bring a lantern — you do, now.
Stairs, ladders and voyages fade through black instead of flinging the camera across the world.
New animals: pigs, wild boars and deer. Pork and venison can be cooked.
Plate armour looks the part: armets with visors, breastplates with pauldrons that move with your arms, and leg armour that walks with you. Mail is made of rings.
Spangenhelms can be forged from any metal.
A new skill: Herbalism. Clean the marshwort goblins drop, and brew your first precision potion — three doses to a vial.
Bigger icons in the backpack, and the fishing rod finally looks like one.
The minimap shows north, and now turns the same way as the camera — it used to turn the other way.

29 September 2026 · version 0.16

The world has texture: grass has blades, paths have pebbles, sand has ripples, and floors, decks and bridges are made of planks.
Roofs are tiled, and walls are plaster, stone, brick or timber.
Counters standing side by side join into one long counter.
Doors now say Close when they are open.
Shopkeepers wear aprons, and the shop window speaks English at last.
A villager who had stood inside an alder tree since the village was built has been let out, and a sheep has left the wheat field.

29 September 2026 · version 0.15

A new skill: Athletics. Balance along logs, climb nets and walls, squeeze through pipes and swing on ropes.
The Runmere athletics course lies east of the village. Take the obstacles in order for a lap bonus.
Stepping stones cross the river between the market and the east bridge — Athletics 5, and mind your footing.
Running: the Run button under your vitality makes you take two steps a tick while your energy lasts. Energy comes back as you walk or rest, faster with a higher Athletics level.