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Copperhollow's old mine

8 October 2026 · version 0.118

A new quest starts in Copperhollow: Stay Out of the Old Mine (2 quest points). Somebody has dropped a letter by the road into the village. Read it, and then ask the elder about it. No levels are needed, but bring a tinderbox.
Lanterns: the deepest places are pitch dark, and there you need a lit lantern to see what you are doing. A tinderbox lights one.
Some things can now be read from your backpack: letters, maps and the like.

8 October 2026 · version 0.117

The music on the login screen is now off unless you switch it on with the music button.

8 October 2026 · version 0.116

Every rock you can mine shows what it holds: copper nuggets with green weathering, pale tin, rust-red iron veins, black lumps of coal, soft red clay, bright silver, glinting gold, crystals of blue, green and cyan, and the dark violet seams of deep iron. A mined-out rock is bare and cracked until its ore comes back.
Cave mouths are rock outcrops with a dark way in. The mines at Copperhollow and Knollside are timbered, with rails running out and a lantern by the door, and the barrow on Sorrow Knowe has a doorway of standing stones in its mound.
Inside, the way out climbs as steps towards the light, a way down to a deeper level is a dark hole in the rock, and the cellars under the Runmere inn and the dyer's house in Ravensford are reached through a hatch in the floor.

8 October 2026 · version 0.115

When the hall under the Runmere inn begins to come down, you feel it now: the ground shakes, and it rumbles, as you run for the stairs.

8 October 2026 · version 0.114

Armour has names of its own: the breastplate, chainmail, leg armour and the kite shield, and three helmets: the nasal helmet, the armet helmet and the spangenhelm. Every metal's piece follows its kind, polished ones too.
Gems are named by their colour, as the finest metals are: the aqua, mint, orange, blue, green, red, white, lavender and magenta gem, uncut or cut. Every ring, necklace and amulet set with one carries the gem's name.
What creatures leave behind is now called their remains: remains, big remains and the remains of cows, chickens, rats, bats and dragons. You bury them for Devotion as before.
The mage in Clyffside who gives you a new look is the transformation mage. Her sign, her cottage and her price are as they were.
Only the names changed: everything you carry, wear or keep in the bank is still there under its new name, coupons included, and every level, price and recipe is as before. The older notes below use the new names too.

7 October 2026 · version 0.113

An enemy that lost you behind a wall no longer stands there waiting for you long after you have gone. It gives up the chase, goes home and minds its post again.

7 October 2026 · version 0.112

Herbs and potions have names of their own: marshwort (grimy marshwort before it is cleaned), the toad's eye and the unfinished marshwort potion. The precision potion keeps its name.
The rarest gem has a name of its own, and so does every ring, necklace and amulet set with it.
The giants of the bogs and the knolls are bog giants and knoll giants. The shard sellers sell shards, and the tower's keeper of them is its shardkeeper.
Places have names of their own too: the Sorcerers' Spire, the Anglers' Guild, the Cooks' and Artisans' Guild, the Quarriers' and Forgers' Guild and the Cutpurses' Den. Signposts, guards and guides use them.
The wizard's quest is called A Spark of Sorcery. Nothing about it changed, and if you have done it, it stays done.
Only the names changed: everything you carry, wear or keep in the bank is still there under its new name, and every level, price and recipe is as before. The older notes below use the new names too.

7 October 2026 · version 0.111

The finest metals are named by their colour: blue, green, cyan and red. Blue ore, green ore and cyan ore come out of the deep rocks and smelt into blue, green and cyan bars.
The stones spells are cast with are shards: gale, tide, stone, ember, thought, star, grove, oath and vein shards.
The spells have names of their own too: Gust and Cinder.
Trees and their wood have names of their own: pine, ash, alder, beech, ironwood and starwood. Logs, planks, piles and bows carry the name of their wood.
Only the names changed: everything you carry, wear or keep in the bank is still there under its new name, and every level, price and recipe is as before.
The older notes below use the new names too.