Light a fire with Use
- Using a tinderbox on logs, or logs on a tinderbox, now lights a fire where you stand.
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What has changed in the realm, newest first.
Skills with names of their own
- Every skill has a name of its own. In a fight: Precision, Power, Block, Vitality, Archery, Sorcery and Devotion.
- And for everything else: Forestry, Quarrying, Forging, Angling, Kindling, Cookery, Bowcraft, Handicraft, Larceny, Athletics, Herbalism, Carpentry and Bartering.
- Only the names changed: your levels, experience, quests and combat style are just as you left them, and every requirement asks the same level as before.
- The potion that raises Precision is the precision potion.
- The older notes below use the new names too.
- The Precision guide in the skills tab is rewritten: what the skill does, how to train it, and which weapons and axes ask for it.
Birches that look like birches
- Birches stand tall and slender now: white bark ringed with black, a dark, furrowed foot, and a light, airy crown with thin twigs hanging from it.
- Some birches grow as a single bending stem, some fork high up, and some grow in clumps of two or three stems from one foot.
New leg armour
- Leg armour has been reforged: tassets of three lames over the thighs, shaped thigh plates with a ridge down the front and rivets along the rim, knee cops with a fan on the outside, greaves that follow the calf, and plated shoes with a rounded toe.
- The knee plates slide over one another as the knee bends, so nothing opens or pokes through when you walk, kneel, sit or fall.
Shrimp and lobster, at a glance
- Shrimp have their own pictures in the pack: a curled, banded tail with a fan, small legs and long feelers. Raw ones are a translucent grey, cooked ones pink-orange and burnt ones charred.
- Lobsters have been redrawn too: two big claws held forward, one heavier than the other, a segmented tail ending in a fan, legs along the sides and long feelers. Dark blue-green raw, bright red cooked.
Words in the window only
- When you talk to someone, their words are in the conversation window only, no longer also floating over their head.
Axes that bite
- Woodcutters now swing the axe with both hands on the haft, from high by the head down into the trunk, and the blade meets the bark edge first, level and square, low on the trunk.
- A woodcutter steps up to the trunk to chop, so the blade lands on it whichever side you stand, even from a corner.
- A pickaxe in hand now looks like a pickaxe. Miners swing it over the head and drive its point down into the top of the rock.
Hedges in Aldmere
- Clipped hedges have been planted in Aldmere. Sir Cheddar's garden behind the palace kitchens now has a low hedge instead of its wooden fence, with the same two gates.
- The flower beds below Aldric's Palace have a box border, open at the corner by the path from King's Gate.
- At Brightholm Abbey, a low hedge borders the herb garden, and a tall hedge now encloses the graves, with a gate on the abbey's road.
- The wine merchant's paved yard in Highcrown now runs right up to the cobbles of the square.