An old-school world built to last

Cooking is live. It is the third profession after woodcutting and carpentry, and it works the same way: you cook, the skill rises, the next recipes unlock. It never touches your combat levels, so a knight can spend an evening at the stove without giving up his hunt.

Fourteen recipes ship today, from plain bread to a pot-roasted boar that restores health every few seconds for ten minutes. A meal keeps its remaining time when you log out, so a half-eaten feast is still waiting when you come back.

What is in 2.14:

• Cooking skill 10 to 80, trained at any hearth, camp fire or house oven
• Fourteen recipes; food stacks with potions, but two meals never stack with each other
• A camp kitchen in Carlin, where the new cook sells spices and teaches the first three recipes
• Woodcutting now yields kindling for camp fires, and carpentry adds two kitchen sets for houses

Patch 2.14 is scripts and data only, so it went live with a reload. Nobody was kicked and the server did not restart. The full changelog is pinned in the Discord.

The crypt under Vandrel's old chapel opens every evening from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November. It is a timed dungeon for parties of two to six. You get forty minutes, the lanterns go out one floor at a time, and something large waits at the bottom.

A new run starts at the chapel door every hour from 16:00 to 23:00 UTC. The door closes when a run is full, so bring your party and be early.

• Level 40 and up, parties of two to six
• No PvP inside the crypt. The chapel yard outside stays open PvP, like everywhere else
• Standard 1x experience and loot, and no gear that is not already in the game
• Rewards are cosmetic and tradeable: a carved lantern for your house, a bone key keepsake and a place on the run record board

The run record board is on the website during the event and closes on Monday at server save.

Hotfix 2.13.2 went out on Monday at 13:15 UTC with a five-minute restart. Three fixes, nothing else changed.

• Stackable items no longer split into 99 and a remainder when you move them between depot chests
• The captain in Venore sails to the dock you picked. Since 2.13.1 some trips ended at the wrong harbour
• Fixed the crash behind the unplanned restarts on 14 and 16 October. It happened when a player with a summon logged out on a staircase tile

Nobody lost items or experience in the crashes. If you did, open a ticket on Discord with the character name and the time, and we will check the logs.

Season 1 ended with 31 wars and a final that nobody who watched it will forget. Season 2 starts on Monday 28 September and runs for eight weeks. Guild leaders can sign up from the guild page until Saturday 26 September.

Every war now has a page of its own. It shows frags, assists, damage dealt and time in war for both sides, refreshed every minute while the war runs. The page stays on both guild profiles after the war ends, and the same numbers feed the season table.

• A war ends at 100 frags, on surrender, or after seven days, whichever comes first
• Kills inside a declared war are never unjustified: no frags, no skulls
• A guild needs ten members at level 40 or higher to enter the season

The top three guilds get a banner for their hall and their name on the season board. There is no prize that makes the next season easier.

The Sunken Quarter, our fourth map expansion since launch, opens today on the eastern coast. It is a half-flooded port district with 40 houses, a depot and a temple, reachable by boat from Venore.

Alongside it come lands. A land is an open plot outside town that you claim for the price of a small house and then build on with carpentry: walls, floors, a roof, a stable. Rent is the same as for any house.

• 40 houses in the Sunken Quarter, from 12 to 96 sqm
• 18 lands on the northern moor, open to premium accounts
• Extensions: add a floor or a cellar to a house you own, within the limits of its plot
• Beds in extensions count toward the house's bed total

Rent is the usual 50 gold per sqm each month, taken at the first server save of the month. The houses page lists what is still free.

On Sunday evening 1,204 characters were online at the same time, the most since we opened in May 2024. The previous record was 987. The server stayed under 40 percent CPU and the slowest save took under a second.

That headroom is not luck. In June we moved the world to a dedicated machine in Frankfurt with a faster disk, and rebuilt the save process so it no longer blocks the game loop. You were not supposed to notice, and you did not.

The next goal is 1,500, but we are not chasing the number. The map and the spawns were drawn for a crowd like this, and the new quarter coming in August is meant to spread people out, not pack them in.

Thank you for the guild recruitment threads, the Discord screenshots and everyone who spent Sunday walking rookies to the temple.

Otsnalata opened on 28 May 2024 with forty players and a map that ended at the third bridge. Two years and three expansions later it is a world with thousands of characters and one rule we have never broken: no resets.

Anniversary week starts at server save on Thursday 28 May and ends on Wednesday 3 June.

• A world hunt every day at 19:00 UTC: one boss somewhere on the map, announced a minute before it spawns
• A server-wide raid on Saturday 30 May
• Every character that logs in during the week gets an anniversary lantern for the house or the depot
• Experience and loot stay at the normal 1x. The week is not a boost

The week closes with a developer Q&A on Discord. Questions are open in the anniversary channel until the 27th.

Patch 2.9 adds the first two professions. Woodcutting and carpentry are skills like any other: they have levels, they train by doing, and they never touch your combat stats.

Take an axe to a tree and it drops logs. Take the logs to a workbench, a house or a camp, and carpentry turns them into planks, furniture and decorations. Rarer woods unlock as your skill grows.

• Woodcutting 1 to 60 with six kinds of tree, regrowing after thirty minutes
• Carpentry 1 to 60 with 40 recipes, including house decorations that no NPC sells
• Forests are open PvP like everywhere else, so bring a friend with a sword

Professions sit outside the combat economy on purpose. They give you something to make and to trade, not a faster way to level.