Update log
Updates are organised around the protocol version, because the server matches it exactly — when the protocol changes, older clients can’t connect at all. That axis answers two questions at once: what changed in the game, and whether you need a new client.
Categories
Section titled “Categories”| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| New system | A new gameplay mechanic |
| Balance | Changes to numbers, the economy, or drop rates |
| New items & assets | New weapons, armor, models, music |
| Fix | Bug fixes |
| Performance | Runtime efficiency and load times |
| Client | Desktop client only; nothing to do with the game server |
Protocol v19 — client v0.19.0 (current)
Section titled “Protocol v19 — client v0.19.0 (current)”This is what the live server requires. Older clients are refused.
New item
- Lembas Wafer — elven waybread. 600 nutrition at only 0.15 kg for 60 copper, which makes it the most weight-efficient food in the game (4,000 per kg against bread’s 540) and the obvious choice for long trips. Rica now stocks it.
Protocol v17 — client v0.18.0
Section titled “Protocol v17 — client v0.18.0”An interim version. The server has already moved past it to v19, so this client version can no longer connect either.
Client updates (nothing to do with the game server)
Section titled “Client updates (nothing to do with the game server)”Client ・ Settings tabs reorganised (from v0.18) — the old Automatic play and Advanced tabs merged into Agent, Actions was renamed Display, and a new Audio tab was added (BGM and sound effect volume).
Client ・ A pause button in the header. While paused the agent makes no LLM calls, so it costs nothing — use it to take over by hand or to save money.
Client ・ Amounts now display as 1g = 100s = 10,000c rather than one long copper figure.
Not yet in a client release
Section titled “Not yet in a client release”These are live on the game server but don’t correspond to any released client version yet.
Balance
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Provisions rebalanced (2026-08-04). Bread becomes the “one meal a day” staple and jerky moves to the lightweight slot:
Food Nutrition Weight Price Bread 180 → 540 0.5 → 1 kg 8c → 20c Jerky 540 → 300 0.5 → 0.25 kg 40c → 30c Cheese 300 → 180 0.5 → 0.4 kg 20c → 12c Apple 60 (unchanged) 0.3 kg 3c Full efficiency comparison in Food and satiation.
New systems
- HUD minimap below the time widget (can be turned off), along with improved landmark and world-map markers.
- Operator commands:
/kick,/mute,/summon,/goto.
Fixes
- One active session per account, enforced.
- Deletion refused for characters active in another session.
- Server-side player attack interval enforced.
- Game entry refused when dungeon chest history can’t be loaded (fail-closed).
- Party positions are pushed by the server instead of polled per client — and no longer wake agents.
Protocol v16 — client v0.17.0
Section titled “Protocol v16 — client v0.17.0”New systems
- Hunger and satiation, implemented end to end. The character sheet gains a status tab for hunger effects, and the HUD shows satiation with a tooltip.
- Campfires reworked — replacing the procedural ones, with softened flames and better placement.
- Food can be grilled on a campfire (the
grillsIntocolumn in the item data).
Balance
- Item economy rebalanced across the board, with the weapon tier ladder laid out.
- Ambient monster spawns now require a server allowance rather than being decided client-side.
- Monster drops are held server-side until the killing blow lands, which stops sniping and duplication.
New items & assets
ring_of_protection, with the cross-shield ring accessory model.- The dagger gets its own model and icon.
- An ornate cross belt model and icon.
Other
- The world map records dungeon entrances you have discovered.
- Party invites show a draining countdown gauge.
- Worn torch particle rendering fixed.
July 2026
Section titled “July 2026”7/17 — Google Sign-In
Section titled “7/17 — Google Sign-In”New system ・ Password login replaced entirely by Google Sign-In: the login screen is a single Google button and the server verifies the ID token. The old password path was retired for security.
New accounts get a random player_xxxxxx name, and no email or profile name
is stored.
7/16 — Off-hand shields, solid furniture blocks movement
Section titled “7/16 — Off-hand shields, solid furniture blocks movement”New items ・ Wooden and Raven shields, each with a Guard stat that feeds into combat and shows on the character sheet.
New system ・ Solid furniture now seals the tiles it occupies, so players and NPCs walk around it rather than through it. The collision logic is shared Rust, so the browser, bots and server all agree on which tiles are blocked.
7/14 — Dressing up Rica’s shop
Section titled “7/14 — Dressing up Rica’s shop”Other ・ A procedural “Rica’s General Store” sign, the interior decorated with item models placed as furniture, and stock updated to sell Healing Potions and Scrolls of Return.
7/13 — Horizontal world wrapping
Section titled “7/13 — Horizontal world wrapping”Fix ・ Completed the half-finished X-wrap, so the east and west edges genuinely connect — no more fallback terrain or stuck map marker.
7/12 — Water shader rework
Section titled “7/12 — Water shader rework”Other ・ Sea and river shaders rewritten and unified so the boundary blends seamlessly, ocean wave motion improved, and splash effects added around river obstacles like rocks and bridge posts.
June 2026
Section titled “June 2026”6/30 — Quickslot bar
Section titled “6/30 — Quickslot bar”New system ・ A 10-slot quickslot bar across the bottom of the screen. Drag a bag item onto a slot to bind it (showing the icon and remaining count); double-click or press the slot’s number key (1–9, then 0) to use it — equippables equip, consumables get used. Right-click clears it.
Bindings are keyed by item definition, not instance, so they survive a stack being consumed and recreated, and persist per character in local storage. The bottom HUD was reorganised at the same time: chat, quickslots and menu buttons now share one row.
6/28 — Healing Potion
Section titled “6/28 — Healing Potion”New system ・ The first drinkable consumable. Double-click a Healing Potion in the bag and the server rolls 6d4 HP (NetHack dice), capped at max — a full-health or downed character keeps it instead of wasting it. One is consumed per drink and the health change broadcasts to nearby players.
Other ・ The item data’s damageDice / healDice columns were folded into a
single category + dice pair, where category decides how dice is
interpreted (weapon → damage, healing potion → heal).
6/27 — Corridor doors
Section titled “6/27 — Corridor doors”Other ・ Corridor mouths into rooms now get a click-to-open wooden double door (the same leaves and stone arch as the surface entrance) instead of a bare gap.
6/25 — Distinct corridor walls
Section titled “6/25 — Distinct corridor walls”Other ・ Dungeon corridors use a separate wall texture from rooms: rooms keep the medieval stone blocks, corridors get rock, and wall runs break where the texture flips. Useful for telling whether you’re in a corridor or a room.
6/20 — Dungeon click pathing
Section titled “6/20 — Dungeon click pathing”Fix ・ Fixed a dungeon entrance-stair click bug where clicking the red-marked floor area in a room routed the player back outside. The culprit was the hidden surface entrance building: Three.js raycasts still hit invisible objects, so its walls and roof were intercepting underground floor clicks.
6/18 — Breakable props, interactive chests and coin pickups
Section titled “6/18 — Breakable props, interactive chests and coin pickups”New system ・ Barrels and crates are breakable — click one and your character walks up and swings once, and the whole model swaps to its broken-debris variant at the contact frame (chests stay intact). Server-authoritative, and the smashed cell becomes walkable.
New system ・ Dungeon chests are interactive — clicking one walks the player up and swings the lid open. Opening spawns a real coin pile ground item in front of the chest; picking it up credits 1–10 copper straight to the wallet instead of taking a bag slot.
6/17 — Stair passability
Section titled “6/17 — Stair passability”Fix ・ Blocked passability flags so current-floor monsters can’t enter the high side of the stairs — they were marching up the shaft and clipping through the floor above.
6/15 — Torch shadow artifacts
Section titled “6/15 — Torch shadow artifacts”Fix ・ Fixed dungeon torch-light shadow glitches. The key detail: three.js records the shadow map from the backface by default, which self-biases against acne but makes contact shadows peter-pan. Fixed with a 0.02 m contact lift plus a larger shadow map and smaller bias.
6/14 — Procedural dungeons
Section titled “6/14 — Procedural dungeons”New system ・ Seed-deterministic, NetHack-style maze dungeons, fixed per entrance and up to 20 floors. Surface entrances reuse the housing procedural geometry as a stone building, with terrain holed out to expose the stairs. The final floor holds a boss with loot.
6/11 — Economy phase 2: LLM haggling
Section titled “6/11 — Economy phase 2: LLM haggling”New system ・ Rica’s LLM can grant per-player price deals via a new
offer_deal action. The server clamps offers to a CHA-derived price band,
enforces daily budgets and cooldowns, logs every decision, and the trade window
shows the haggled price.
The CHA-linked band runs roughly ±5–25 percentage points, with a 1 gold per game day merchant budget, 40 silver per player, a 30-second cooldown, and deals that are single-use and expire after 5 minutes.
6/10 — Goblin, player control FSM, economy phase 1
Section titled “6/10 — Goblin, player control FSM, economy phase 1”New monster ・ The Goblin.
New system ・ Player control converted to an explicit finite state machine.
New system ・ Single-currency gold and fixed-price merchant trading with Rica (base price data, trade protocol, server validation, trade window UI).
6/08 — Kobold, Small Sword
Section titled “6/08 — Kobold, Small Sword”New monster ・ The Kobold.
New item ・ The Small Sword.
The 2D → 3D asset workflow was documented at the same time.