• Wurmian dendrologists have noted that the girth of Olive and Chestnut trees has diminished. (olive and chestnut tree trunks are now thinner by 60%)
• Cave entrances can now be reinforced, prepared, and paved like other cave floors.
• Priests that can dig without going faithless can now dredge.

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where keys ended up in a bugged state if they were inside a bank or mailbox when the lock was destroyed.  Now the keys should be destroyed as well.
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug that caused cave ceilings to examine as floors and requirement remove reinforcement permissions when above a reinforced floor.
• Bugfix:  Fix for some underground bridges causing errors resulting in players rubberbanding as they travel across the bridge.
• Bugfix: Hota should no longer break if there is a server restart during an active event – remaining pillars should spawn seconds before the shutdown.
• Bugfix: Fixed the issue causing decayed organic material from being stuck in a your bank taking up a slot until server restart.
• Bugfix:  Metallic Liquid will now come in a potion bottle when looted and will actually work when ‘smeared’ onto an item.
  • The imbue will start with 100 power, no matter what your actual skill is as long as the action succeeds.
  • Protect against items “cracking” 5 times, lose 20 power from the imbue every time it “forms cracks”
  • Protect against a single shatter. As long as the power of the imbue even exist listed on the item, it will be protected.
  • You can NOT smear another potion to “refill” the lost power, effect must be gone.

Client updates

• 4.0 Client fix: Straightened out reinforced walls next to veins with cave detail set to high.
• 4.0 Client fix: Wild hive message on screen should now appear again if you  do not have it hidden in settings.
• 4.0 Client fix:  Rangefinder numbers are again visible when using a spyglass.
• 4.0 Client fix: Corona position (glow) for some items was fixed from hovering above to a center position.
• 4.0 Client fix: Fixed orientation issues of embarked players.
• 4.0 Client fix: There should be no more ‘lightning’ flashes on animals, people and items.
• 4.0 Client new:  Added a post-process tab in client settings to to add or remove some effects.
  • Bloom
  • FXAA (antialiasing)
  • Vignette

• Can use keybinds FLATTEN or LEVEL on tile borders resulting in the raising or lowering of the tile border.
• Less random slopes when mining forward,  depending on skill level.
  • skill less than 50, +-3 (current)
  • skill = 50, variance is +-2
  • skill = 70, variance is +-1
  • skill = 90+ no variance
• Tile corners are now available on bridges.
• Champion changes
  • Kingdoms will no longer require the player god to favour them in order to ascend a champion
  • Each kingdom may have one champion per god, with a maximum of three champions
• Courier and dark messenger no longer have cooldowns
• Genesis now has a cooldown of 30 seconds

• Bugfix:  Creatures without bodies should play a proper death animation before being deleted.
• Bugfix: Strange devices courier casts can now be improved while in the correct spirits domain
• Bugfix: Fixed the bug that caused the pave option to show on packed dirt with floor boards, resulting in a gravel tile.

• Bugfix: The issue causing underground fence gates and doors to lose locks has been identified and fixed. All underground houses and fence gates that were locked prior to yesterdays update will again be locked, but permissions will need to be recreated. Unfortunately to address this bug all new underground houses and fence built since yesterdays update will lose their locks. PLEASE ensure to re-lock any doors or fences built underground in the past day.
• Bugfix: Bridges can now be properly built from underground dwellings (addressing walls too weak message).
• Bugfix: Reinforced walls now have flat visual on high cave detail

Bridges 2.0

• Bridges can now be planned and built inside caves.
• Pottery, slate, sandstone, rendered and rounded stone bridges can now be built.
• Minimum height from water level has been reduced to 1 dirt above water.
• You can now pave bridges to match your roads by preparing them with mortar then paving them as you would a normal surface tile.
  • This does not apply to rope or wooden bridges

Other changes and additions:

• The weight of an almanac has been reduced to .25 weight empty
• Cooking times have been tweaked so that they are a bit faster than the previous patch.  Lag will be monitored with this setting.
• When shearing sheep, the wool will now go directly into inventory instead of on the ground.
• Spawn of Uttacha will now have more unique combat features on the Epic cluster.

Client Changes:

• New combat log will colour code messages according to your relationship with the subjects.
• The colours may be set by using the text colour options in the client settings.
• (Unstable)New player texture compression has been added to improve performance in large gatherings.

Bug Fixes:

• Bugfix:  Fixed the issue with not being able to improve metal mine doors when lump quality and skill should have allowed improvement.
• Bugfix:  You can now dig near pavement without having to remove and replace it again.
• Bugfix:  Restricted prospecting on reinforced floors.
• Bugfix: You should no longer be able to surface mine next to bridge entrances/exits.
• Bugfix: Contents from decayed Easter Eggs will have the same last owner as the egg itself.
• Bugfix: Disembarking on a bridge should no longer make you stuck.
• Bugfix:  Erupt ability should again work on sandstone and other veins.