Patch Notes 9/29

[Daniel]

• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
  • Changed both; you are asked to accept them the next time you play
  • Added a rule of one account per person
  • Added checks for faked locations, emulators and modified versions of the game, described in the Privacy Policy
• Phone app
  • Changed the app to ask for your location when it opens
• Tutorial
  • Changed the last step to wait for a good location fix before you surface
  • Fixed the last step waiting forever when your device never answers about your location: after a few seconds it says what to do and offers Try again
  • Changed a blocked location to be reported at once, with steps for your device, including Windows and Mac
• Burning buildings
  • Changed a burning building to show a flickering flame and a glow at its center
• Chat
  • Added a Kingdom tab, reaching every member of your kingdom wherever they are
  • Added a Trade tab, reaching everyone and posted to its own Discord channel
  • Added item links: type an item's name in brackets, like [Iron], and tap it to open its Info page
  • Changed the chat line to show the newest message from every channel, tagged [Global], [Trade], [Local], [City] or [Kingdom]
• War Golems
  • Changed a Golem that cannot follow your jump to stay where you left it, instead of walking back to its post
  • Changed it to stay there until you give it an order in person, call it to your War Camp with a Compass, or release it from the Compass map
• Dungeons
  • Blocked building and planting anything in a dungeon, flags and berries included
  • Changed the Plant Flag and Plant Berry Quick Slots and the Build button to be grayed out in a dungeon
  • Fixed the Spider Queen vanishing with no drop when your poison killed her while you were disconnected
• Connection
  • Fixed your character staying in the world for minutes after your connection was lost: it now leaves within 2 minutes
• Starter Food and Gifted Food
  • Changed new characters to start with 200 Starter Food instead of 200 Food
  • Set Starter Food to pay for leveling up only, spent first when you level
  • Added Gifted Food: Food from a game gift arrives as Gifted Food, spent before your own Food
  • Blocked trading, selling, posting and dropping Starter Food and Gifted Food
  • Blocked Gifted Food from paying for Roc Shrine Tickets, Parchment, forging a gem, refining oil, a Library, or hatching, feeding, training or teaching a pet whose whistle can be sold
• Actions
  • Fixed walking while chopping, mining, harvesting and other work: starting any action except attacking now stops you where you stand
  • Changed moving to cancel any action except attacking
  • Changed setting a building on fire to take 3 s, with the Crude Oil spent only when it catches
  • Changed starting a repair to take 3 s
  • Changed taking a hit to cancel setting a fire, starting a repair, brewing, assembling and refining, keeping any units already made
• Friends and Enemies
  • Changed marking a friend as an enemy to end the friendship for both of you, or cancel a waiting friend request
• Characters
  • Replaced every character's body with a painted one to match the faces: wool shirt, belt, gloves, trousers and boots
  • Fixed legs not moving while you walked over to chop a tree or pick berries
  • Fixed characters gliding across the floor inside buildings
  • Raised every character's head slightly, onto the shoulders
  • Changed a worn Breastplate or Leather Armor to be drawn on your character, tinted by its Special Metal, instead of beside you
• Sieges
  • Fixed Burn doing nothing on an enemy flag below half health
  • Fixed Burn on a City Center starting right away instead of showing its cost first
• Kingdoms
  • Added Lay Siege to every kingdom building for players outside the kingdom, opening from the border inward as for a city
  • Fixed a War Camp offering no way to attack it
  • Fixed a kingdom's buildings showing its Warehouse, perks, Repair and Demolish to players outside the kingdom
  • Fixed Repair appearing twice for a kingdom's members
• Carried weapons
  • Moved every carried weapon and shield across the front of your character, instead of off to one side
  • Fixed a carried crossbow being drawn across your character's face
  • Increased the size weapons are carried at: the spear and the longbow by about a third, the axe by a fifth, the dagger by a tenth
  • Sword, crossbow and shield sizes unchanged
  • Moved every weapon carrying a Special Metal to match
  • Moved the Sewer Torch into your hand, held out to the side
• Fighting other players
  • Added Attack to another player's card, which puts you on their Enemy list
  • Added weapon-versus-armor matchups to hits between players
  • Changed a player you attack to fight back on their own while you are in reach
  • Blocked attacking players in a dungeon, in your own kingdom, or in a kingdom allied with yours
  • Added fighting between a kingdom's ruler and its members, during Anarchy only
  • Blocked attacking a player who has just arrived, until they move or act
  • Added the Battle Scar: dying to a player, their pet or their Golem costs 5 max health, with 1 back every hour
  • Set Battle Scars to stack 5 per death, up to half your max health. Tower kills leave none
  • Fixed a player you follow to the same flag not being drawn when you arrive
  • Fixed a player who travels near you walking over from where they left, or lingering there, instead of appearing where they land