Play

Major update

The game windows

Every skill and every place now opens in a game window of its own, with newly painted icons. Phones get full screen windows and a working Arena, and when you fall in a fight you now see it clearly.

The Groves window: every woodcutting world as a card with its level, your logs and axe on the left, the Elderwillow chosen on the right

A window for every skill

  • The benches: Smithing opens the forge, where you choose the furnace or the anvil. Fletching has the bowyer's bench and the fletching table, Herblore the cauldron and the potion shelf, Cooking the hearth, and Artifice the rune altar and the Mage's bench.
  • Gathering: Woodcutting and Mining open The Groves and The Deposits, Fishing opens The Shore, Thieving the Thieves' map, Diving the Dive charts and Exploration the Explorers' Lodge.
  • The Arena: all of combat is one window now: Training, Bosses, Dungeons and Trials, with your fighter beside them.
  • Every place: the Bank, the Store, the Market, the Journal, the Leaderboards, your Clan, Town Tasks, the Well, the Collection Log, Friends and Equipment open as windows too. The Bank shows all its tabs, and All items lists each tab under its own line.
  • The Mage's bench: Artifice's staff bench and loom are one bench now, with a tier's staffs, wands and robes together.
  • Where to get it: the pin beside every material and every item you make shows where to get it, in the Bank too.
  • Levels: a level you need now stands on a clear plate, red with a lock while you are not there yet, and a locked place tells you how many levels are to go.
  • Mastery: each skill's window shows its Guild crest, your rank and the Mastery points you have to spend.
  • Painted icons: every skill, menu and window icon is newly painted. Runes are rune stones now, every item has its own icon, and seeds look like seeds: a handful of each crop's own.

Better on phones

  • Full screen: every window and sheet now uses the whole screen, and the buttons at the bottom always stay in sight.
  • The Arena: combat works on phones now, with its four kinds of fight two by two at the top.
  • Farming: on a phone, Farming opens the Farm book with your beds first. The farm itself stays for computers.
  • Held sideways: a window takes the screen beside your buttons, the list on the left and what you chose on the right.
  • The camera: at your work the camera stands a little further back, so you see the others around your tree or rock and their hits.

Parties and chat

  • Parties: you can invite anyone to a party now, no friendship needed.
  • Chat: Activity and Loot are one tab, the Party tab is always there, and the cog lets you hide tabs and filter swear words.
  • Clan tags: they are no longer shown in chat. Profiles and your clan's pages still show them.
  • Profile card: it is simpler now, without Guild ranks, keepsakes and pets.

Other changes

  • When you fall: a defeat now shows a clear screen: who defeated you, and that you are back in town. You keep your gear and your gold. If it happened while you were away, it tells you when you come back.
  • Goals are gone: the goal row, the Goals panel and the pins are removed, so they no longer take room everywhere. The tutorial's guide is in the Menu now.
  • The top bar: the Discord and Vote Chest buttons moved to the bottom of the Menu.
  • Interface size: the size most of you play at now reads 100% in the Settings. Nothing on your screen changes size.
  • Shadowthread: the set is now a Cape, a Ring and an Amulet, and it only works while you wear it. Your spool and bolt are the Ring and the Amulet now.
  • Fixes: a level news line now names Diving properly.

Balance and content change often during the alpha. All patch notes