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Clyffside grows up

4 October 2026 · version 0.78

Clyffside has tidied itself round a proper market square: the general store, the bank, the houses, the Wobbly Rat and a new smithy all face the cobbles, with stalls, flowers round the fountain, torches on the walls and signposts to point the way. The Wobbly Rat has a front door on the square now, and a table outside.
The village smith sells bronze and iron armour: helmets, chainmail, breastplates, leg armour and shields. Bronze costs what it is worth; iron costs rather more, as it does in Saltcrown. He has a furnace and an anvil for anyone who would rather make their own.
Fresh off the beach? A chicken run and a cow pen stand beside the lane up from Dangerhollow, gates and all, for your first fights. When you are ready for more, a track off the east road points towards a goblin watch camp north-east of the village, with a rickety lookout tower and a chest someone ought to check for traps.
Two new cottages on the edge of the village, and fenced vegetable patches behind the cottage on the north lane and the house by the road.
A trader whose stall you have just robbed won't buy anything from you for a while, so stolen bread no longer goes straight back over the counter.

4 October 2026 · version 0.77

Dangerhollow, the beach where every journey begins, now has a tune of its own: an unhurried, sunlit lute melody with harp, recorder, tambourine and the waves rolling in. It fades in as you come down to the shore and fades away as you climb out through the pass.
More places will get their own music in time. If you prefer the quiet, untick Area music in the Settings tab; Title screen music keeps its own switch.

4 October 2026 · version 0.76

Women, players and villagers alike, now have a figure of their own: narrower shoulders, a waist, wider hips and a modest bust, and they stand a touch shorter than the men. You can see it from across the square.
Chainmail, breastplates and leg armour are cut to fit a woman's figure when she wears them, so armour sits as well on her as on him.

4 October 2026 · version 0.75

Fishing spots show their ripple ring on the water again. It had sunk below the surface, so the spots were there but invisible, including the two by the wreck at Dangerhollow.

4 October 2026 · version 0.74

Aldmere's paladins now wear the King's tabard over their polished plate: deep blue, belted, with the Crown upon the Mere on the chest and back. No more mistaking a gate guard for a skeleton at a distance.

4 October 2026 · version 0.73

Highmere has changed shape: a long lake with a northern arm where the Aldwater comes down through its reed delta, an eastern lobe where the Raven flows in, reed beds, beaches, rocky crags on the north shore and three little holms. Its rivers wind into it now.
Crown Isle lies near the lake's north-western shore, and on it stands Highcrown, King Aldric's capital, walled in pale stone. Three stone bridges cross to it: King's Bridge from the King's road, West Bridge from the Mill and Elm roads, and Abbey Bridge from the north shore.
On the knoll at the island's end stands Aldric's palace. The old king receives visitors in his throne room. On Crown Square stand the boy-king's statue and the Accord Hall, where seven empty seats wait for seven crowns.
In the city you'll find the Royal Bank, the biggest on the mainland, along with the Chapel of the Accord, the Seventh Seat inn, a wine merchant, a general store and four armourers: Highcrown Plate, Greaves of Highcrown, the Twohander and Aldmere Arms.
Two guilds have opened. The Royal Forge lets in smiths of level 40. The Collegium Arcane admits mages of level 40 to its close, with a shard seller, and those of level 50 to its tower. A harbour outside the Water Gate has jetties to fish from.
The King's watch now keeps the markets of Highcrown and Ravensford. The Cutpurses' Den door asks for Larceny 28, and the bandits at Otter Holt camp a little further from the road.

4 October 2026 · version 0.72

Power still sets your max hit, but Precision now decides how often you get near it: a skilled fighter lands big numbers, a novice mostly small ones.
Block does more than make blows miss: against a well-defended opponent, the hits that do land are smaller. Good armour has never been worth more.
Bows and spells follow the same rule with Archery and Sorcery. Even matches feel just as they did.

4 October 2026 · version 0.71

The Kingsway now runs on from Brindle Cross to Ravensford, the river town at the old ford. The King's pale stone bridge crosses the Raven there, watched by paladins from the bridge warden's tower.
Ford Square has a market with a fish stall and a fur stall, a well, the bank, the Raven and Rod inn, and Bram's Battleaxes. The fishmonger sells tackle too: fish the river with a rod and feathers for trout, or bait for salmon.
Rumour has it that not everyone who goes down into the dyer's cellar comes back blue. Thieves with light enough fingers may find a door down there that opens for them, and a vault behind it for the very best.
Roads go on from the bridge: the Moor road climbs north towards Whitestone, the King's road follows the south bank west to the lake, and a towpath runs along the north bank to the shore. River bandits lurk upstream at Raven's Bend, with their chief, and downstream at Otter Holt.
The highwaymen's copse past Brindle Cross has grown thicker, the Downs lane now runs through to Barrowdown, and Gatehelm's iron armet helmet costs 188 coins.