Changelog

Every change merged into Kheldra, one line each. 688 changes so far, newest first.

Grouped by date, then by area. The code at the end of each line is the pull request or commit that made the change.

2026-10-29

Server

Load-test mode needs `KHELDRA_NON_PRODUCTION=1` as well as `KHELDRA_LOADTEST=1`, so a copied environment file cannot switch off the login, registration and reset limits
Account ids are unique ignoring letter case, and reserved words such as admin and staff are refused as account ids
Authenticated responses no longer send a hardcoded localhost CORS origin, and every "not yours" refusal is a 403
A whisper that cannot be delivered gets one reply, so the reply no longer shows who is online
Game and site pages refuse framing and MIME sniffing in the app, not only at the proxy
Non-JSON action requests get 415, oversized action bodies get 413 and the connection closes, and prototype-named intents are refused
Chat refuses every invisible format character, counts any dotted word with a letter ending as a link, and refuses words that mix Latin with Cyrillic or Greek letters
Password reset checks the link before the password rules, and the account-wide login cap is 60 per 15 minutes
Play scripts run only with a per-response nonce, so an injected inline script is refused
A duplicate account id gets the same reply as other registration errors, so ids cannot be enumerated

2026-10-28

Gameplay

Durability now follows one tier model: a first-tier tool or piece of gear lasts 250 uses and higher tiers last proportionally longer; hardwood and bones can be gathered in town, and repair kits fix worn bows and other weapons
Resource nodes now have a cooldown for each hero, so one player can no longer strip a node bare for everyone else
Wilderness resources and monsters grow back on a steady timer, and busier zones hold more of them
World bosses appear on a schedule
Mazes work again: walking into a room now enters it, so you can solve the puzzle, beat the boss, loot and leave through the exit, and the last guard no longer stands on the exit tile
Pressing F to loot inside a maze or dungeon now finds the corpse next to you instead of reporting nothing to pick up
Every lake, pond, river and coast now has a place to fish, and the fishing board shows the spots on your own map
Gathering with a pickaxe now wears it by one point per gather, as intended
Every maze puzzle now has a riddle hint in the dungeon panel when you stand beside the puzzle room, so mazes can be finished without already knowing the answer
Mazes and Map 2 dungeons now appear in the Dungeons panel, the boss stays inside its room until you enter it, and Solve puzzle, Finish run and Leave are in the dungeon HUD
Leaving a Map 1 maze by abandoning it now puts you at the maze entrance, the same place finishing does
Homes are reclaimed after 120 days of inactivity, the same as guild land, with the same warnings before

Economy

Guild commissions, market orders and mail keep your gold and items safe if anything fails midway
Gold, item and experience rewards from fights and minigames are saved right away, so a restart cannot take them back
New players can be gifted items and gold by friends straight away, and there is no limit on how much gold you can hold, send or earn
Boss and group kill rewards are paid once per account, however many of your characters took part
Minigame rewards are checked by the server: a game must last a minimum time, the daily puzzle, card table and tag are replayed and checked, and results without a started session earn no bonus
The Town Bowyer's ashwood shortbow now costs 35 gold instead of 60, so a new player who follows the starter quests can afford their first bow

UI

Pressing F on a corpse now walks you to it from up to 14 tiles away and loots it in one go, instead of telling you it is too far
Looting with a bow or staff equipped no longer stops you several tiles short of the corpse
Looting waits for your last step to reach the server and tries once more if it was refused for range, and repeat presses no longer cause "already looted" errors
Looting shows what is happening ("Walking to...", "Looting..."), and a corpse still reserved for another hunter shows its "Loot in MM:SS" timer instead of making you walk over to be refused
Loot all explains why it found nothing, and opt-in auto loot stops retrying a corpse it could not take
Claiming a nearby item cache now walks you over to it instead of asking you to step closer by hand
Auto attack now follows a monster that steps out of reach instead of stalling, swings come closer to the weapon's real speed, and tapping attack just before it recharges queues the swing instead of showing an error
New players get a calmer first minute: the character screen shows one empty slot with the name box ready, the email verification reminder waits two minutes after you sign up, and the Town Crier greeting is no longer shown twice
Walking into something now says what is in the way (a building, a person, furniture, water or a cliff, or the edge of the world) instead of "map object blocks movement", and picking a taken or invalid character name explains the problem
The login screen no longer jumps while the player count loads, and the password box now says passwords need at least 8 characters
Fixed rubber banding when sliding along walls, stalls and building corners, and a busy server no longer snaps your hero back to an old spot
Fixed rubber banding when running past townsfolk: your hero now stops at people the way the server does instead of being snapped back several steps, and movement updates go out a little more often
Gathering, looting and walking up to a monster now walk around walls and people and arrive properly before acting, so "out of reach" and "blocked" errors no longer interrupt them
Click-to-move routes now keep a safe distance from townsfolk, walls and building corners, and a hero standing in a tight gap can walk out of it instead of being stuck
Clicking somewhere you cannot reach no longer freezes the game for a moment
Any blocked patch of ground inside the town walls is opened up when the server starts, so there are no unwalkable gaps in the streets
The game runs much smoother with lots of players on screen and while walking: the screen is painted once per frame, the ground scrolls from a cached picture, and new terrain loads in the background instead of freezing the game
New Options setting, Adaptive quality: on Automatic resolution the game lowers its internal resolution (the picture gets a little softer) while the frame rate stays low, and restores it when there is room
The game loads faster: the ground and building art now loads as smaller WebP images (about 36 MB of images down to about 9 MB on a first load)
Walking in busy areas is smoother again: the screen border shading, the glow around your hero and floating damage and XP numbers no longer cost extra work every frame, and clouds and lantern glows are dropped only while the game is struggling
Loading the game and walking into new terrain no longer freezes it: the ground textures are prepared in idle moments and new ground is rebuilt in fewer, larger steps
Card Table, Tag and Daily Puzzle now open from the minigame hub, and closing a minigame stops its timers so it can no longer score after you leave
Your saved Move, Loot and Journal key bindings now work in the game, and the loot hint says Press F
The game asks the server for far less in the background while you play, which helps on slow connections and phones
The public works page sorts by most progress correctly, and failed attribute point confirmations can be retried safely
The whole game and website now use the Grenze Gotisch Light typeface, loaded from our own server
Windows are easier to use on phones and tablets: text is never smaller than 12 px, buttons are at least 44 px tall, and windows stay clear of notches and the keyboard
The minigame hub shows a list and a detail view, ignores scores from games you already closed, and game keys stop moving your hero while a panel is open
Standalone pages (housing, shops, crafting, scavenging, guild land and more) share one look and one set of buttons, and open correctly inside the game
Signing in from a page that sent you there now returns you to that page
Pay upkeep buttons and a weeks behind banner appear on the housing and guild land pages
A window title follows the page it shows, and the crafting window has category tabs and a Show more button
Windows resize in height as well as width, stay inside short screens, and typing in a window never triggers game hotkeys
Fixed overlaps between the HUD, chat, tracker, coach tips, minimap and speech bubbles on tablets and phones, and the game screen stays clear while the sign-in gate is open
Esc clears your target, otherwise it opens Settings, and Help now says so
The player wiki now has a searchable game database (items, spells, skills, monsters, NPCs, shops, recipes, fishing spots, dungeons, zones, quests, mounts and vehicles) plus new guides for mazes, the world boss, economy tips, fishing, guild land, travel, classes, professions, PvP and a glossary
Windows stack in the order you click them, Esc closes the top window, window positions are remembered for each screen size, and on phones windows open as full screen sheets with a close button
The Features, Lore and Minigames panels can be resized and no longer block the game behind them

Fixes

Fixed your hero snapping back when walking past the town gates and wall ends, which could stop you reaching the rocks beside them, and pressing Loot or F repeatedly while walking no longer pulls you back to an old spot
Fixed your hero jumping back and forth to several spots while walking or mining on a weak phone connection: a short signal drop or slow reply no longer snaps you back to an old position, and late replies no longer pull you off the spot you just walked to
Fixed "Something is in the way" when mining or gathering a rock that sits against a stall or prop: if you are standing right beside it, you can gather it from any side
Accounts with a 6 or 7 character password can log in again
Right-clicking the world works again: the menu with Walk here and the player actions no longer fails to open
Fixed a missing combat image that was requested on every page load
The Lost Forge Ore Cart no longer sits beside the map 2 gate, and rocks never respawn within 3 tiles of a gate, so walking up to a rock can no longer send a high level hero through it
Locked items can no longer leave your bag through guild halls, home storage, mount packs or a PvP death drop
Re-equipping an item you are already wearing no longer destroys the spare copy in your bag
Recovering your belongings from a corpse always returns the full pile, and reclaimed home and guild land belongings can always be taken back however heavy they are
Pet and summon kills now expire their loot window like any other kill
Shrines, caves, discoveries, resting, fishing, ferries, farming, construction and other map specific places can no longer be used from the wrong map at the same coordinates
Trade, bank, guild, party and other actions no longer fail when the server's event log is full, and your achievement and quest progress survive the log being trimmed
You stay logged in across server restarts, and logging out, being banned or resetting your password ends every session on that account
Many small fixes from a line by line audit: marketplace best price flags, news post ids, quest progress after trimming, hall of fame names, contract delivery respecting locked items, and stale or dead code removed
Choosing an account or hero name now checks it against a naming policy, and passwords are checked against a list of common passwords
Registration is limited to 15 accounts per address per hour, and the error says how many minutes remain
Whispers need level 3 or a friend list entry, and error messages no longer reveal internal details
Staff rank is matched to exact account names, so a lookalike name can never claim it
Developer pages (console, map editor, art gallery) and the shutdown route need developer or staff access
Money and item moving actions get a request id automatically, so a repeated click or retry cannot pay out twice
The shops page no longer crashes, and the scavenging page shows your session
The accommodation page no longer inserts server text as raw markup

Server

Audited every place the server writes a hero's position and added tests (mining session, concurrent requests, 12,000 call fuzz, rollback copy round trip): only accepted moves and explicit teleports ever move a hero
The server does less work behind every action and every refresh, so the game stays responsive when many players are online at once
Pages and files are sent compressed (the main page goes from 488 KB to 135 KB, the art catalog from 10 MB to 255 KB) and are no longer read and hashed on every request
Saves write only the sections that changed, quiet servers skip the per second world tick, and gather, craft, buy, sell, bank and trade actions copy only what they touch
Gateway zone keys now use the same map and channel format as the zone code, and guild treasury and project history use their own bounded audit log
The mail and recovery secret is kept in a private file next to the save instead of inside it
The server notice poll keeps running so restart and maintenance notices arrive
Map 1 quest content is checked against the live item, NPC and monster registries, with a register of every stage's IDs and an audit of settlement NPC roles
Map 1 geography is pinned by a test, so the east gate and Kheldra Town anchor cannot move without a failing check
Map 1 new-player journey runs as an automated check (character, spawn, two players, quest talk, shop, roads to three towns, play page) and writes a report
Quest-giver dialogue has server-side help and denial replies for wrong-NPC, objective-incomplete and already-complete cases, and they never change progress
Servers can drain: new actions stop, in flight ones finish, then it is safe to restart
Saves are versioned with migrations, older events move to an archive, and a metrics page and slow action log show how the server is doing
Staff commands are written to an audit file, with staff accounts set by KHELDRA_GM_ACCOUNTS
Map based helpers share one near point check, and map 2 content now has a checked layout
About 850 audit findings were turned into stable tests that no longer rely on timers
Many more tests run on real behaviour instead of timers and fixed waits, and a hung test server is force-stopped after a few seconds
Wiki and developer docs now cover drain mode, metrics, the name and password rules, per-hero resource cooldowns, window controls and the minigame hub
The sqlite save no longer rewrites an unchanged world, the map loader skips the extra map data files, and a duplicated block of server routes was removed

2026-10-27

Gameplay

Movement can follow the server world tick: your hero still moves the instant you press a key or click, and is gently corrected to the server position when it disagrees by more than a tile
Spells attack from 6 tiles for 2 mana, and the range circle shows that
Worn gear has its own 40-unit limit, separate from carry weight; equips and swaps over it are refused
Map 1 quests for Neris in Riverlands can be accepted, tracked, guided to and claimed from the journal
Failed actions say why: out of range, not enough mana, cooldown, nothing to loot, NPC too far
Talk replies show under the NPC card, and a walk that stops short still opens the NPC dialog
A quest you are already tracking shows as tracked, not with an Accept button
Your hotbar layout is now saved to your character, so it follows you across browsers and devices instead of resetting
Pressing Loot with nothing to loot, or attacking a target clearly out of reach, no longer sends a request to the server, and an identical refusal message now shows once every two seconds instead of repeating
Map 2 guild trainers in all three cities teach all 29 trainer-sourced spells
Skills and abilities on Map 2 train by use, the same as Map 1; there are no skill or ability trainers

Economy

One repair kit fully restores one item; repair all spends one kit per worn tool
Map 2 dungeon runs pay items only, with no gold

UI

Error and refusal messages now say what happened and what to do next in plain words, with no internal ids, codes or technical terms
A full channel now tells you plainly: "This channel is full right now. Try again in a minute" instead of a raw error
The login screen shows each channel as open, busy or full when the server reports zones
Your equipped title now shows on the nameplate of players near you
The news panel always shows a Close button in its header, and long news scrolls
The abilities window is called Hotbar Settings, and K opens Skills & Progression
Social, Guild, Shop and Options open their own windows
Inventory opens on I; other windows no longer show Crafting in their place
Chat tabs for Party and Trade explain how to fill them; collapsing the chat keeps the tabs
Next steps sits above the chat, the activity box stops short of the hotbar, and the star toggle is clear
The first click on the menu is no longer swallowed by the login news
Guild hall shows a loading line instead of a blank window
Map labels are larger and skip overlapping labels
Character stat names no longer break mid-word
On phones, the side menu, damage numbers, banner, tracker and equipment labels fit the screen
On phones, the game menu bar sits under the character card, Quests and Next steps fold to one tap-to-open row, the minimap and location card fit, the Activity tabs scroll sideways, and the hotbar slots are larger
Leaving town no longer freezes the game for seconds: the ground textures are prepared while you are still inside, and the town ground overlay draws faster

Server

A refused move into a full channel now answers with the same error shape as other refusals, an error message plus a zone_full code, with the status unchanged
Chat messages are now checked more strictly on the server: control and zero-width characters are refused, runs of more than 8 of the same character are shortened to 8, messages with no letter or number are refused, and at most one link is allowed per message; length, rate and duplicate limits are unchanged
Click-to-walk and guide routes in town now plan in about 3 ms instead of about 50 ms: only the solids near each checked step are tested, and the guide route is planned once per waypoint instead of every half tile walked
Added a shared database layer for the global world store (`server/db/`): a store interface that SQLite now implements with no change in behaviour, and a Postgres backend with one snapshot row and an events table, one transaction per save and the same checksum, chosen with `KHELDRA_STORAGE=postgres` and `KHELDRA_DB_URL` (SQLite stays the default; Postgres is not yet opened by server.mjs and the `pg` driver is not installed)
The bot stress tool has a `--movement intent` option (default `move`, unchanged) that walks bots with POST /intent at up to 10 a second with a rising seq per character, and its report counts intents accepted, stale and refused
Zone stores are now wired into the server behind `KHELDRA_ZONE_STORES=1` (off by default, so nothing changes): each zone's characters and mobs are saved to that zone's own file beside the world save and merged back at boot, while accounts, gold, guilds and the market stay in the global store, which wins any conflict
A map change between two zones that run in different zone processes now goes through the durable zone-transfer record: the source worker drops the character, the destination worker accepts it, and only then does the main process move it; if the destination refuses or does not answer the character stays where it was, and a crash part-way is finished or undone by the boot recovery (only with `KHELDRA_ZONE_PROCESSES`, no money or items travel this way)
61 more single-character actions (titles, item locks, talents, outfits, mounts, vehicles, companions, cooking, livestock, town interiors, quest and story syncs and similar) now undo a failed save from a small snapshot of just your character instead of a copy of the whole world; money, market, bank, trade, guild, party, dungeon and duel actions are unchanged
After login, if the server routes your character's zone to a different address, the game page reconnects there and carries the session token in a hidden form instead of the address, only when the login included a gateway token and `/route` answers (a 404 or the same address changes nothing)
The movement-intent route can now send a listed zone's intents to that zone's worker process (`KHELDRA_ZONE_PROCESSES`, empty by default so nothing changes); the main process still applies every move, and if a worker crashes it is logged and that zone's intents run in the main process again so no player gets stuck
Added a prototype of running one zone as its own worker process (`server/zone-worker.mjs`, started and fed intents by `server/zone-host.mjs`), only for zones listed in `KHELDRA_ZONE_PROCESSES` (empty by default, so nothing spawns); the worker loads just its zone's characters, answers tick and intent messages, and never saves, so the main process stays the only writer
Login can also return a signed gateway session token behind `KHELDRA_GATEWAY=1` (key in `KHELDRA_GATEWAY_KEY`, off by default); requests accept either the normal session or an unexpired gateway token for an existing account, and nothing changes while the flag is off
The game client now reconnects to the live feed with a randomised delay (10 s doubling to 60 s on repeated failures, plus 0 to 5 s of jitter, reset when a connection succeeds) so clients do not all return together after a server restart, and with the movement-intent flag on it uses the feed's "ack" event to drop acknowledged inputs immediately
Added a second admission rule behind `KHELDRA_ADMISSION_V2=1` (off by default, not wired into the server yet): busy-server refusals start when the queue passes 4 per active player (50 to 1000) or when the median tick over 5 seconds is slow, instead of at a flat 200 queued or one slow tick; still a 503 with Retry-After
A new GET /route?zone=<key> route (only with `KHELDRA_GATEWAY=1`, otherwise 404) returns the address that serves a zone from `KHELDRA_ZONE_ADDRESSES` (comma list of zoneKey=url, defaulting to this server), and login also returns the zone key your character is in
A new GET /capacity route (only with `KHELDRA_ZONES=1`, otherwise 404) lists each zone with its member count, cap and whether it is still accepting players
Added `server/zone-store.mjs`: one checksummed SQLite file per zone, behind `KHELDRA_ZONE_STORES=1` (off by default); accounts and money stay in the single world store, and nothing is wired into the server yet so nothing changes in play
Added a short status page for the server scaling work: which phases are done behind flags, the flags and their defaults, load results at 25, 100 and 180 bots, and the decisions still open
Zone placement is wired into the server behind `KHELDRA_ZONES=1` (off by default): characters are placed in their map and channel at login and creation, map changes go through the saved transfer record and are finished or undone on restart, and a channel at `KHELDRA_ZONE_CAP` (default 125) refuses with a "zone full" error
Saving a hotbar layout and turning in a Map 1 quest step now roll back only the touched character instead of copying the whole world on every request
Large unchanged server objects can be marked stable so their JSON text is built once and reused instead of re-encoded on every response
Movement checks (step size, speed cap and moveDebt, walkability, collision, stamina) now live in one shared module, `server/movement-rules.mjs`, used by the existing /move route with identical accept and refuse results; groundwork for the flagged fixed-rate tick, nothing changes while the flag is off
Added an optional fixed-rate world tick scheduler (10 ticks a second, off unless `KHELDRA_WORLD_TICK=1`; `KHELDRA_TICK_HZ` sets the rate) that applies each character's latest intent once per tick, runs at most 2 ticks after a stall and skips instead of queuing when a tick runs long; not wired into the live server yet
Added the POST /intent route and a per-character intent store behind `KHELDRA_WORLD_TICK=1` (off by default, 404 otherwise); it keeps only the newest intent per character for the world tick
The POST /intent route has its own per-account limit of 15 a second (the client sends at most 10), so intents are not starved by other actions and cannot flood the world tick
Added the client half of intent-based movement (prediction, input buffer, server reconcile, 10 per second sender), not yet loaded by the game and off by default
The live feed can send an "ack" event with the newest accepted input sequence, only when KHELDRA_WORLD_TICK=1; the sequence source is a stub returning 0 until the intent module lands
A character moving between zones now has a saved transfer record (requested, leaving, arrived, done) that a restart can finish or roll back, so no one is lost or duplicated mid-move; not connected to anything yet, so nothing changes in play
Added `server/gateway.mjs`: a routing table from a zone (map and channel) to the process that serves it, with the local address as the default, and a signed session token (account id, expiry, HMAC from `KHELDRA_GATEWAY_KEY`) that can be checked without the world; not used by the server yet, so nothing changes in play
Presence, feed and snapshot polls no longer scan every character: nearby players and the default character come from a per-map index, so polling cost stops growing with the player count
The mutation queue pauses for the event loop after about 10 ms of back-to-back work, so timers, requests and the health check keep running while a backlog drains; set `KHELDRA_QUEUE_YIELD_MS` to change the 10 ms (0 yields after every job)
The item and recipe catalogs are cached, so repeat loads cost nothing
The live feed now keeps a per-map list of changed entity ids and each stream re-reads and diffs only those against its own last-sent copy (verified byte for byte, with a full-diff fallback), so flush cost follows what changed instead of the whole visible set; callers pass `notify(mapId, {characters, mobs, npcs, summons})`, and `notify()` without ids still does the full diff
Idle /me polls return 304: open world events and full ore veins no longer put a moving clock in the body
Everyone on one map now shares a single prepared copy of the nearby players, mobs and NPCs for each change, so a crowd of live feeds costs about half as much server time; each player still sees exactly the same snapshot
Promo codes redeem once instead of twice
Move, talk, rest, bandage, potion, attack and loot no longer re-scan every character or copy the whole world after each action: the server notes only the characters and mobs the action touched, so a busy server with hundreds of players spends far less time per action; set `KHELDRA_ROLLBACK_VERIFY=1` to cross-check it against the full scan
The live feed is gzip-compressed for browsers that accept it and no longer sends mob loot tables or home positions, cutting feed bandwidth by roughly 99% per player; set `KHELDRA_FEED_GZIP=0` to turn compression off
The /snapshot poll is about 65% smaller: monsters, NPCs and players are sent only with the fields the client reads, and positions are rounded to 3 decimals
The game sends fewer requests: walking updates less often, auto attack stops swinging at targets out of reach, and staff and repair checks are not repeated
A zone registry tracks which map and channel each character is in, capped at 125 per zone, behind a flag that is off and not yet used by the game
With `KHELDRA_WORLD_TICK=1` the 10 ticks a second world tick now takes each character's newest movement intent, moves them one step through the shared movement rules, and the live feed ack reports the real accepted sequence; off by default and the /move route is unchanged
Map 2 settlement positions are read from `server/maps/map2-settlements.json`; the world-expansion proposal is kept as history only

2026-10-26

Gameplay

Hold the attack button anywhere over a monster to keep attacking, as in an MMORPG
Tools wear down at a twentieth of the old pace
Route clicks queue behind the current route instead of restarting it
Bows, staves, wands and rods reach their full range when you attack
Q and R walk only as far as your weapon needs before attacking, not all the way to the monster
Kheldra Town is larger: the town extends further north, east and west

Economy

A repair kit fully restores a worn tool
Gathering tools can be stored in an equipment section, where they add no weight to your pack
Staff can create, edit, switch off and retire promo codes from the staff panel, and each code is still redeemed once per character
Staff can grant up to 50,000 gold to a player per command with a reason, and remove gold with a reason, and developers can mint gold with a reason; every change is logged with before and after balances
Moving town treasury gold when the treasury is empty now reports an error and moves nothing

UI

Resting at the Wayfarer Inn restores your health to full, as well as your mana
The minimap shows Map 1 roads, the river and settlements
You can accept at most five quests in ten minutes, so quests cannot be clicked through in one go
A Mage Training Yard sits beside Civic Court in Kheldra Town
Fallen monsters keep their loot bag visible to every player until it is claimed or expires
Right-click another player and choose Invite to party; a party is created first if you have none
Character, Quest Journal and Skills or Spells windows can be open together; Escape closes the top one first
The summoning trainer sells Summon Hawk at level 20
The M map shows Map 1 roads, the river and settlements
Double-click a repair kit to repair every worn tool at once
Carry weight depends on your class: fighters carry the most, summoners less, mages the least
Mounts and vehicles carry 50% more weight and slots
Right-click a player to invite them to your guild
Distances are shown in steps instead of tiles
Double-click an equipped item to unequip it
The cursor shows the gathering tool over resources and a crosshair over monsters
Pressing C, L, B, I, J or K again closes its window, including Stats, Skills and Spells
Standing at a building door shows the building name before you go in
Right-click another player to add them as a friend or ignore them
Loot bags you cannot pick up are hidden, so the map is less cluttered
The bank has separate All buttons: one fills from your carried gold, the other from your vault balance

Server

Staff can inspect quests, sanctions and reports, guilds, parties and market listings, and see world event, encounter and health status, from the staff panel
Staff can end a player's sessions, end a mute or ban early, and cancel a stuck market listing with its goods and deposit returned once

Fixes

The staff panel no longer draws its navigation and sections twice when it is opened again while the first load is still running

2026-10-24

Gameplay

Characters keep the same size relative to the world at every zoom level, and players are the same height as NPCs
Map 1 ground no longer shows a repeating tile pattern: the outer terrain is drawn at a larger scale with the repeats blended together

UI

Add a top menu bar with Character, Inventory, Skills, Map, Quests, Guild, Social, Shop and Options
Add Party and Nearby Players panels
The side menu on desktop opens and closes with the Menu button, so it no longer covers the minimap
The minimap shows land, water and mountains across all of Map 1, not just around the original town
Staff messages, events and server restarts appear in the News panel and on Discord, with 15 minutes' warning before the daily restart

Server

Add a server-authoritative class and job progression vertical slice with fifteen hybrid trees, idempotent milestones and cosmetic titles
Staff teleport and spawn commands can reach any tile of Map 1
The server reports the commit it is running in its health check
The server restarts itself after a crash, and survives internet and wifi outages instead of stopping
The website can be hosted separately from the game server, and the game moves to its own address

Fixes

Reduce lag spikes: town guard fights are no longer saved over and over, and the world is saved every 5 seconds instead of every 2
Improve frame rate on slower computers by drawing the ground with far fewer draw calls
The login message in chat shows the character's name instead of "undefined"

Website

Add a player FAQ with 126 questions and eight new wiki guides, with contents lists, previous and next links and an A to Z index
The privacy page says an email address is required to register

2026-10-23

Gameplay

Add the first spell expansion: Ice Shard, Lightning Bolt, Grave Bolt, Lesser Mend, Flame Lance, Earth Spike, Healing Wave, Guardian Ward, Siphon Life, Curse Frailty, Summon Sprite, Summon Guardian, Arcane Clarity and Magic Resistance
Add gameplay effects for Arcane Clarity, Curse Frailty and Magic Resistance, still awaiting full review
Make repair all partial, so it repairs every piece it can afford and skips the rest
Corpses can be raised for 2.5 minutes at every skill level
Spells show as Locked until the school level meets their requirement, instead of Learnable
Route planning crosses the outer Map 1 terrain, so the hero walks past the town edge
Map 1 outer terrain uses finished textures, a feathered core edge and a soft shoreline
Leave dungeon button under the damage counter, shown only inside a dungeon
Characters logged out inside a dungeon for 3 minutes return to where they entered
Maze rooms take one tap each, and number keys 1-9 take exits
Next steps reward line names the quest giver
Phone quick menu stays closed until opened, then slides in from the right

Server

Add a 64 by 64 world chunk kernel, not yet wired into play
Add a validator that rejects unsupported spell effect kinds before the trainer lists them
Add a settlement registry for the five planned maps, not yet loaded into play
Add a spell and skill audit of the live catalog
Browsers cache map terrain for a day, and map responses are gzipped (a chunk drops from about 8 KB to under 0.25 KB)
Connect every walkable part of Map 1 to the spawn, with water and mountain passes where land was cut off
Menu pages allow same-origin scripts, so their own scripts load
Restarts return players from dungeons, with 50 gold and 3 bandages each as a sorry
Dungeon catalog cached in browsers
Maze steps write no ledger event and no full save, and the logout check runs once per tick
Welcome notice reads pre-alpha instead of playtest

Fixes

Trim the world event ledger before loot and equipment repair, so both keep working after long play sessions
Serve the wiki pages from the site route
Stop a Cleanse cast with no active root, slow or poison from spending mana
Menu pages with no character say to create one at /play, instead of loading forever
Maze camera stays centred, so a corner spawn stays visible
Dungeon window says Mazes and scrolls

Website

Add a sign-in page, and link sign-in and create account from every site page
Registration is open to everyone, with no invite code, and the homepage says so

2026-10-22

Gameplay

Give basic spells the bow rhythm: one cast every 1.3 seconds, with no per-spell delays; the Portal spell now lands in the Town Square and checks ferries and combat tags like the portal books
Contested extraction of Lawless Wilds gathering nodes
Give the quiver its own worn slot
Show item weight everywhere items are listed
Add a Materials in inventory filter to crafting
Batch G1: spell cadence, gather reach, corpse loot timer, quest guide X
Show carried weight in the inventory and add the overweight speed penalty
Let a corpse be raised for 30 seconds, longer with necromancy skill
Stop characters gathering and fighting at the same time
Make training targets practise continuously until stopped
Integrate all finished feature branches
Give the new first-town vendors greeting lines
Staff ranks belong to characters; dev rank replaces admin

Economy

Give paid tiers 4 to 10 bank tabs and stable slots on the taming curve, with 75 slots per bank tab
Flag trading price outliers for review
CORE-14 settlement project tiers, upgrade costs, and decay effect
Reconcile CORE-24 territory and regional economies, record contested extraction gap
Cover worker contract escrow, payout, cancel and expiry
Live-refresh market, group finder and player bounty lists
Remove attribute caps and gold respec; make confirm prominent
Add readable messages, wait countdowns and repair and buy guards
Batch G2: shop, tooltips, modal frame, Esc, markers, settings
Add shared item context menu for inventory, equipment, bank and shop
Add a Repair all button with a cost tooltip to the inventory sheet
Seed NPC market with level 10-50 weapon and armour
Record owner decision to keep supporter decor, stable display and bank tab slots
Call the free tier Adventurer

UI

Regenerate art catalog with needs-visual-review records
Show the item tooltip on every item window
Lift the NPC card above the phone touch controls
Polish the guild hall window for phone and desktop
Restyle the NPC card as a Quest Journal page
Live-refresh HUD iframe pages on state change
Move attribute effect text into tooltips on the stat name
Add a Who's online menu link and show revival time from the server
Update the double-click assertion for the armed unequip
Refresh open windows live after every state refresh
Close crafting chain gaps, nail quest units, NPC speech, and map tab
Walk up before opening doors, boxes and objects; route far clicks around corners
Port referenced courier-sites-d assets from art/courier-sites-d-gpt6-20261017
Port referenced ambient-insects assets from art/agent-ambientinsects10f-20261017
Wire mail, gallery, weather and emote routes with Features tabs
Bring modal dialogs to the WAI-ARIA dialog standard with a shared focus helper
Wire caves, summon expiry, day/night, xp-loss, production plan, pack layout and showcase into server and Features tabs
Log characters out after 10 minutes out of focus
Ask for a missing account email and let the legacy register panel send one
Add a Nearby caches tab to the Features hub

Server

Show live uptime, players online, memory, event-loop lag and server errors on /health and the status page, with one-hour charts
Pin ecology respawn floor, grace and per-character discovery
Pin advisory alt detection
Pin existing PvP escape rules
Pin party encounter budgets
Pin solo raid reward parity
CORE-11 entry warning, combat-tag logout refusal, and safe-zone tests
Lock CORE-07 adopted companion rules (loyalty bounds, rabid departure, re-tame)
Adopt best-practice defaults for open design decisions
Propose inferred rules for partial CORE items
Propose power grid and contested extraction design with open owner decisions
Reconcile CORE-19 power, storage and maintenance as existing components
Reconcile CORE-04 archery and ranged combat as already implemented
Pin solo/guild endgame ascension parity
Add current main audit for 2026-10-22
Separate production release gates from gameplay scope
Finish guild hall server rules and audit log
Update the death-splash test to the no-checking rule
Every water body has a fishing spot
Keep one location per account; refuse a second IP while a session is active
Allow one active session per account
Port cosmetic monetization spec, checklist and idea inventory
Make clock-sensitive tests deterministic
Make server test harnesses reliable under load
Wire racing, tournaments, festival, contraband and speedrun into server routes
Expose the abuse ledger report on a dev-only route

Fixes

Resolve 390px mobile HUD overlaps
Block movement into town NPC footprints
Align PvP zone loot copy with owner decision
Guard load-time localStorage reads so storage failures do not block play
Harden journal, inventory and HUD layouts for narrow and short screens
Fix shop card layout on narrow and wide screens
Fix play.html element order after dialogs-a11y merge

Website

Import the draft art for 44 registered cosmetics and emotes; nothing is for sale yet
Describe the paid tiers by their bank and stable allowances, not by price alone
Withhold cosmetic and emote sales until their art is approved
Add a Manage subscription button that opens the Stripe Customer Portal for subscribers
Link the community Discord from the site navigation and every page footer
Move account creation to a website page and a dialog on the login screen
Site: art on every homepage card, rename Join to Join newsletter
Show the supporter tiers on the store page

2026-10-21

Gameplay

Monsters wander near home; town guards show a blade cut when they strike
Add backlog wave: weather, caves, mail, tournaments, talents, siege and wiring
Flag suspicious offline job patterns
Minigames: fill end-to-end gaps across all board and expansion games
Minigames: shared framework, hub and 25 games with capped rewards
Move Android material out of the Kheldra repo
Gameplay expansion catalogue and agent task board
Explain dungeon exit when /stuck is used inside a dungeon
Game item fixes round 1 and 2 (checkpoint)
Exclude flat images from near-duplicate clustering

Economy

Record approved membership pricing
Approve four tier prices and rank proposed entitlements
Stock first-town gear for levels 1-25
Let arrows fill the shop stock; cap them by quiver, not weight
Show the early-revival price on the death screen
Close out economy work and remove dead listing fee
Remove unused 5 percent market tax and close launch wipe item
Record owner decisions on economy open items
Make merchant purchases server-authoritative and idempotent
Fund offline wages from reserves and charge exchange fees
Add server-side economy config
Add retention principles to economy doc
Add read-only economy telemetry
Add idea register with float and sink criteria
Revise economy and monetization doc
Systems: quality tiers, tool wear, lore, moods, notices, shrines, auctions, repair tax, guild rites
Finish partial item fixes: sell prices, tracker removal, monster drop sources
Bank rows show item tooltips

UI

Warm the daylight world and keep lantern light on by day
Keep the phone menu sheet clear of overlays without relying on :has()
Five character slots, with empty slots shown; switch, log out and all windows in the menu
Add staff ranks, moderation and staff controls in the menu
Polish phone menu, GM item caches, and finish the backlog polish pass
Hide joystick until touched and keep quest markers off dialogs
Add who's online tab with all, friends, guild and party views
Free up map space on phone screens
Add feature hub and client tabs for the held backlog systems
Run queued game-host updates in a quiet US window
Minigames: verified detail, rules for MG-28 to MG-33, cosmetic overlays
Round 3: timed crafting queue, weights and carry limit, click-to-approach, U panel, settings groups
Dungeon entry: arrow-key movement, entrance art and new Crypt location

Server

Link 50-product draft catalog to decisions register
Draft 50-item cosmetic catalog with SKU and release gates
Resolve payment provider and catalog ambiguity
Reconcile monetization decisions and archive policy
Require an email address to create an account
Share terrain by reference in rollback copies
Pin durable saves in HTTP tests that read the save file
Turn on write-behind persistence by default
Add held backlog features and wire them into the server
Approve dual Kheldra and Open Faldon community outreach
Add queued remote restart and update for the game host
Ignore deploy/.env so VPS secrets stay out of git
Ignore stray save folder created when the server starts from the repo root
Weight limit covers remaining item paths
Hide gather nodes on cooldown from the navigation index
Add CC0 license records and asset pipeline docs
Add license-gated asset sourcing pipeline

Fixes

Fix phone layout overlaps on play screen
Correct purchase atomicity reference in economy doc

Website

Leaderboard: account creation counts on the site and in game
Add back-to-main-site links to the login card and character screen
Show players online and their rank tiers on the homepage and login
Add GM role, GM commands and a sitemap page
Restyle site to the game palette and remove placeholder copy
Redesign the public site with game art and a clearer layout
Add daily economy report and playtest prep
Add Kheldra Discord invitation and community outreach copy
Add Google Analytics to every page and a sitemap
Replace reset wording with no-wipes policy and add legal and backup docs
Add safe public domain deployment and operations runbook
Add store page with no sales before launch
Remove reset wording from refund policy
Add refund minimization section to economy doc
Root serves the landing page; the game moves to /play
Landing page, video navigation and newsletter sign-up

2026-10-20

Gameplay

Unified XP curve: one shared slow curve for characters, skills and spells (L5 about 1h)
Record the worn-equipment report as closed by the owner, not reproduced
Add MMO improvement review
Loot refusal says when it opens to party/everyone

Economy

Dock: 4-column grid, icons for Awards, Market, Group finder and News, caption hidden
Attribute points on level-up, soft caps, token/gold respecs, milestone free respecs, webhook-safe token grants
Economy sinks (bank, repair, crafting, market, upkeep ledger), lumber value offset, moderation and admin console, server.mjs wiring, proxy-aware client IP
Balance pass 2: slower XP curves (L5 ~1h), grandfathered migration, gold sinks, opt-in XP loss model
UI fixes from feature tour: shop open after approach, crafting layout, Awards dock label, chat tabs, onboarding scroll, empty icon manifest
Prune settled gold offers after an hour
Duels (server), economy abuse watch (dev-token flags + offline report)
Server fixes from HTTP sweep: first-move allowance, clearer purchase/equip errors
Achievements and titles, market search, group finder; mobile/toast/journal CSS fixes
Auto-loot, Loot all (F), bank sort
Chat: global and trade channels with rate limits, tabs and commands
Shops: 10,000-unit shelves refilled by the next 1-minute tick
Shop: show restock as relative time
Shop modal: MMO-style one-line rows, purse header, clear tabs

UI

Prune third-party art to what catalog items actually use
Wire DustyChest CC0 icons; bring in asset-sourcing records, registry and candidate catalog
Stand-in icons for nearly every item, plus 2026-10-21 docs
Death splash fix, fixed character size on zoom, docs refresh
Pre-grade raster props and actor sprites once instead of a ctx.filter per draw; record performance notes
Prefetch the crafting recipe book so the window fills in at once
World map default size, death splash copy matches its buttons, record map and playthrough findings
HUD: top row no longer swallows canvas clicks
Journal Map tab opens the world map instead of toggling it straight back closed
Document compact HUD; note phone layout and crafting load gaps
Compact HUD: small one-row hotbar, icon-only dock, tight activity panel, smaller windows; prune stale tracked quests
Account recovery: optional email, verification, password reset, mailer abstraction, login UI
Trusted proxy and bind host settings
Compact world saves, quest names in tracking toast, playtest guide
Label gear with the play style it suits and warn on a mismatch; record owner reports
Wire pack 004: 23 alchemy and gathering icons; add worn-equipment persistence test
Wire NPC roles through the shared resolver, tint painted sprites per role, painted ranger portrait
Client: onboarding checklist, duel UI, chat/help/friends/settings updates, tester CSS fixes
Wire pack 003: 14 ingredient and cooked-food icons; seeds get no produce icon
Write up provisional art approvals with evidence, limits and backlog coverage
Wire pack 002: 24 food and potion icons; replace earlier potions, bread and raw fish
Record art handoff pack triage in open-work doc
Record provisional approval for wired item icons and HUD badges
Wire 16 common-item icons into inventory art; fix hammer matching cooked meat
Wire painted HUD dock badges (backpack, quest, spellbook, gear) from art handoff pack
Painted world sprites for all 70 NPCs (per-NPC lookup); cutter fragment cleanup; cursor test matches SVG cursors
Painted icons for the 7 missing spells; item icon pack loader
Icon sheet batches for all item templates; cutter --all mode
Icon sheet cutter (magenta key, trim, 128px) and batch lists for remaining hand-authored items
Housing: distance check on build/demolish + tests; audio recipe tests; art catalog keeps provenance
Gather cursor icons over ready nodes; ComfyUI icon generator script (samples unreviewed)
HUD: experience bar under stamina
Tracker drops completed quests
Spell trainer: Learn buttons + NPC action; click dungeon entrances to enter; harden sorts
Restore painted character art: extract approved atlas poses
Keep hold-attack block ahead of click handler (test regex)
Loot windows (owner 2m, party 5m, all 20m); hold-to-attack; legacy sound respects mute; brighter town ground; slim chat panel
Esc with nothing open opens Settings; default to full daylight, softer night tint
Show character/skill levels in crafting, skills, spells and abilities windows
NPC dialogue: Track/Untrack button for the shown quest
Crafting book: side tabs with All, search keeps focus, craftable-only checkbox
Art tests: count character families separately from item-icon samples
Art generator: item-icon recipe and 20-icon unreviewed sample (not wired into client)
Art generator: --replace only overwrites files it generated
NPC modal: full quest text, hide overlay markers
UI: hide empty message-log backdrop; NPC dialogue as centered modal
Overnight work: real-browser QA fixes, reviews, world map, loot, spells, mob AI, chat/friends/bounties, perf and security fixes
Overnight checkpoint 2: chat, friends, bounties, dungeon book, settings, loot tables, spells, mob AI, UI smoke tooling, eval-free client
Overnight checkpoint (new files): tests, docs, asset scripts, tools, art
Overnight checkpoint: balance passes 1-5, gear levels, potions, quests, UI books/windows, flows tests, audits

Server

Make the CI workflow manual-only (workflow_dispatch)
Add community ideas doc
Launch kit: CI workflow, backup/restore tools, Docker/Caddy/systemd deploy kit, deployment and operations docs
More tree nodes: forestry and mining reach L5/L10/L20 within ~12%; sim skips depleted sites
Add launch preparation checklist
Single tracked quest with a quick switcher; sliding login sessions
NPC placement audit + test; move Brook Fisher to the mill pond; re-carve NPC pockets for saved worlds
Stop archiving per-tick mob wandering in the event ledger
Remove unused exports
Cut per-mutation and per-tick world cost: cheap rollback snapshot, skip idle persists
Archive finished docs under docs/archive and rewrite references
Close open items: home build reach, land reclamation notices, factory demolish control, open-work doc

Fixes

Deactivate stalls on failed renewal per owner policy
Fix hotkey clash (achievements on H), document new systems and keybindings

Website

Link art sourcing docs from the index; mention Credits in the player guide
Plot-site validation, titles in party/guild, rename flow, duel spells, UI verification fixes (CSP img blob, level-up toast curve, attribute styles), docs
Attribute points affect real pools, level shown from XP, CC BY icons wired, /credits
Add dry-run marketing scripts for Discord, YouTube and Instagram
Block duplicate live sends in marketing scripts
Test hardening: scripts, dev-state analytics salt redaction, dungeon-flow timing
Wire UI tag and redraw backpack when painted icons finish loading
Player tools (invites, feedback, analytics, news), legal pages and site, write-behind persistence (off by default), 339 painted item icons, test hardening

2026-10-19

Gameplay

Actors keep a standard size when zoomed in and shrink only when zooming out
Group skills into paged categories (Combat, Magic, Gathering, Crafting, Support)
Implement owner-approved factory placement policy
Implement owner-approved land reclamation and release policy
Tell players which PvP zone they are in
Size factory footprint to comparable starter buildings
Pin the no-seizure invariant for homes and guild land
Stop combat-tagged players escaping into the protected town
Confirmed voluntary release of guild land
Cover the farm and livestock loop end to end
Make every implemented spell castable from the client
Smelting needs one ore, reachable from Workshop Scrap
Let owners withdraw stored factory inputs
Add remaining spell effects: town portal, grave command, soul bind, wisp summon
Define missing items and give generic materials real sources
Update hospital and factory gameplay status
Add owned factory production loop
Update hospital verification evidence
Cover hospital patient reach and capacity
Filter hospital patients by treatment reach
Keep hospital evidence count current
Document cooperative hospital implementation boundary
Cover hospital supply and treatment rules
Add cooperative hospital service
Document supported healing spells and cast failure safety
Cover greater Mend gameplay
Verify dismantle then release conserves materials
Allow safe dismantling before home release
Clarify waystone pacing versus spell cooldowns
Document implemented spell effects and XP awards
Keep PvP spell attacks on shared cadence
Remove spell cooldowns per gameplay direction
Implement safe voluntary home release

Economy

Gameplay polish batch: bank box at the door, book-style stats/skills/spells, dock slide-away, gear overlay, hover tips, zoom, nameplates
Batch movement reports, sell values, potions, spawn ring, catalog fixes
Book-style quest journal, visible town walls, route distance, shop sort/filter and layout fixes
Share merchant stock across players per NPC
Owner-approved PvP item loss (#149) and stall suspension rule
Implement owner-approved physical stall rent and sales fee
Prove physical stall trades conserve coins and items
Cover farmed hay buying and feeding a mount
Verify concurrent stall buyers settle a listing once

UI

Slim compact window frame and tighter journal/book spacing
Maximise modal windows, add character portrait with gear slots to Stats, fix character card test harness
Polish login and character screens: town backdrop, framed cards, password toggle, remembered account name, character cards
Abilities rebuilt as a paged book; new beginner-friendly Crafting window (N / dock)
Tracker: raise above the HUD and confirm with a message when tracking
Add HUD tracker with Track buttons; richer quest, skill and spell detail
Group spells into school pages (Destruction, Restoration, Necromancy, Summoning)
Compact NPC dialogue card
Journal retheme and scrolling, minimap NPC names, world-map NPC info panel, route fixes
Rebuild quest journal: region rail, searchable/sortable contents, one page per quest with Accept and Guide
Redesign quest journal with status tabs and badges; move second-bar toggle beside hotbar
Enlarge town 5x with role-placed NPCs, texture-built ground, world map and painted art
Rebuild inventory as a single window; instant tooltips; bow auto-defend
Add combat feedback, usable world objects, world skills, new-player guide and painted art
Add RuneScape-style interaction loop, two-bar hotbar and world geometry rules
Add game HUD, map 1 collision data, new-player hotbar and polished screens
Update generated production art manifests and SVG assets
Smooth movement, inventory interactions, vendor merging and town ground
Record in-repo provenance for botanical-icons-c assets
Backfill art provenance from folder manifests
Connect committed NPC role portraits from the approved concept atlas
Port world light and map-edge feathering, unify world labels
MMORPG HUD theme pass, readable nameplates and phone hotbar
Add community hospital care panel
Align spellbook UI with no-cooldown casting

Server

Add placeholder asset hooks for overnight agents
Path guide for Guide targets and tracked quests; idle stamina regeneration on the server
Add load bot, throwaway-server runner, cost benchmark and scaling plan
Pin quest event de-duplication and replay protection
Record 2026-10-19 owner decisions for open gap items
G0 lane: verify and harden startup, saves, backups and restarts
Legacy save without terrain migrates and keeps character data
Character state survives graceful stop and abrupt kill (G0-13, G0-15)
Rehearse backup, damage, restore and restart with a real character
Factory placement over HTTP, with retries and refused sites
Add current-main audit pinned to 0960cd56
Refuse factory sites on claimed homes and guild land
Farming loop from seed to recipe, with live HTTP evidence
Validate factory footprint before construction
Reconcile spell effect status and add summon lifecycle test
Reconcile spell effect status with implemented kinds
Triage remote branches with no PR
Add current main audit pinned to 9067bff7
Resolve audit findings and integrate gameplay branches
Skip identical SQLite world writes
Ignore server runtime data directory
Realign stale town fixtures with current footprint and terrain
Consolidate gameplay slices and server safeguards
Reject a competing SQLite server process
Test owned factory production lifecycle
Test hospital capacity and ledger atomicity
Test rejection before first SQLite world save
Verify the active writer stays authoritative
Document quest acceptance and event-ledger requirements
Cover quest acceptance ledger failure atomicity
Require a writable event ledger before quest acceptance
Cover repeated authenticated spell casts
Test SQLite server exclusivity and crash recovery
Reject concurrent SQLite world servers
Test spell ledger failure atomicity
Reject spell casts when event ledger is unavailable
Verify greater Mend tops off and rejects at full health
Cover authenticated home release over HTTP
Test immediate repeated world spell effects
Test complete home release asset recovery
Wire town armorer starter catalog

Fixes

Fix quest journal list rows collapsing into each other
Explain a corrupt save and leave it untouched
Fix courier marker 404s and the dead art runtime tag
Stop 404s from courier markers and the dead art runtime tag
Give farm seeds a source so crops can be planted
Move browser session token from sessionStorage to HttpOnly cookie
Block archery shots through overworld terrain
Sandbox generated HTML and SVG assets
Validate account identity in character ownership checks
Block movement through solid town interior furniture
Server review hardening (tests, dev-state redaction, event ledger, stamina, receipts, worn-copy trades)
Block trading or storing worn copies that would mint durability
Bound event ledger, honor regenerated stamina, retain retry receipts
Make server test suite green and redact dev state dump

2026-10-18

Gameplay

Implement graveCommand targeting for active necromantic summons
Apply Soul Bind damage mitigation to normal and heavy enemy attacks
Use actual progression skill XP and learned spells in regression fixtures
Add regression coverage for frostbind and battlefield revival
Apply frostbind immobilization to enemy pursuit and return AI
Keep inventory open during equipment refresh
Show early revival payment feedback
Extend wilderness loot grace to fifteen minutes
Make defeated monster loot auto-approachable
Show equipped projectile stack quantity
Add resource tracking to world finder
Preserve full projectile stacks when equipping
Add safe relocation for overworld mobs near town

Economy

Test dungeon-local wisp summoning and encounter membership
Clear legacy merchant cooldown display
Allow purchases while merchant stock is available
Normalize merchant stock and restock policy
Show exact equipment repair materials
Add ore merchant stock
Price loot by item value

UI

Add character inventory hotkey
Double click bandages to heal
Toggle modal hotkeys
Enable right click resource gathering
Expose stats and progression tabs in character panel
Use approved painted art and gate unreviewed assets

Server

Add townPortal destination and cooldown regression test
Implement townPortal spell with safe-travel checks and destination validation
Cover wisp summon lifetime and duplicate-slot rejection
Implement summonWisp spell with timed server-side summon and slot validation
Add regression tests for frostbind enemy pursuit and leash movement
Cover forged identity and downed interior NPC access
Cover all town door ranges and malformed interior/recovery states
Reject invalid character state for town building access
Protect death timer from repeated down events
Cover death revival and town interior entry exit boundaries
Cover owned character creation boundaries and rollback
Record owner testing approval and starter town completion

Fixes

Fix summon wisp positioning and encounter membership in dungeons
Enforce identity and living state for interior NPC services
Harden basic gameplay state and ownership boundaries
Reject invalid death and health states before town interactions
Make repeated death notifications idempotent
Validate health state before death and revival mutations
Reject inherited and unsafe character keys in town building actions
Validate character creation inputs before mutating world
Correct mainline SQLite status and missing hospital factory modules

2026-10-17

UI

Optional authoritative terrain visibility for overworld combat