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New helmets

7 October 2026 · version 0.102

Nasal helmets are now rounded domes on a riveted brow band, with straps over the crown, a nose guard and a flared neck guard. They sit above the brows, so your eyes show, in the world and in conversation.
Armet helmets close over the whole head: a visor with an eye slit and breathing holes, a ridge down the face, a comb over the crown and the red plume on top.
Spangenhelms are a hood of mail open to the face, falling into a short cape over the shoulders.

7 October 2026 · version 0.101

Where a town wall bends or runs on a diagonal, its stones now meet cleanly: no corners poke out of the wall's face, and no merlons cross one another on the battlements.
The merlons along a town wall are spaced evenly, two to every square of wall, and a square corner has one solid block on top.
Doors now stand in frames: dark oak in houses of plaster, boards or brick, and dressed stone in stone walls, with a sill underfoot. The wall carries on over the door instead of leaving a gap above it.

7 October 2026 · version 0.100

Shopkeepers now wear proper linen aprons: a bib over the chest, a strap round the neck, a bow tied at the back and a pleated skirt with a pocket, which swings as they walk.

7 October 2026 · version 0.99

Highcrown's wine merchant now has a paved yard beside his house, with pallets of wine bottles laid in straw, branded wine crates and a stack of empty pallets.
A flagstone path leads from his door down to West Street and along the house to the yard.

7 October 2026 · version 0.98

Town guards now wear a steel chain shirt under a tabard in the red of House Marlowe, and carry a truncheon.
New item: the truncheon, a turned ash club with an iron band and a wrist loop. A light one-handed weapon that needs no levels; guards sometimes drop one.

7 October 2026 · version 0.97

The ground at the foot of a house wall and beside its door now matches the ground in front of it, instead of odd patches of path or paving.
The bottom of a fountain no longer flickers against its walls.

7 October 2026 · version 0.96

Sawing a log now gives a plank of its own wood: ash logs make ash planks, alder logs alder planks, and so on for every wood. Pine logs make pine planks.
A finer plank is worth what its log is, and each wood has its own colour.
Planks are piled by wood: only planks of the same wood join into a pile, and a hammer unties each wood's piles into its own planks.
The lighthouse on the point takes planks and piles of any wood. The plainest pile in your pack is used first.
Using planks of two different woods on each other now says that they will not go in one pile.

7 October 2026 · version 0.95

Whoever carries a 2-handed sword now holds it in both hands, one fist under the crossguard and the other above the pommel, standing, walking and all through a blow.
At rest the great sword is carried on the right shoulder, and in a fight it is raised over the shoulder and brought down in front.