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We owe the community a clear update on where Heartwood and Shadowfang currently stand.Development on Shadowfang has stalled, and we do not currently have a credible release timeline. Working on a project of this scale with a small team of d…
Shadowfang has continued moving forward over the past weeks, but as development progressed it became clear that the Q1 timeline we previously mentioned isn’t realistic anymore.Rather than rushing the update out in a half-finished state, we’…
Quick update time.Recently we added a handful of popular suggestions to the game, several related to guild management and a few smaller QoL improvements (like the game remembering whether you had chat open or closed). Nothing huge, but nice…
Winterforge went live yesterday.Thank you to everyone who jumped in immediately, reported issues, shared screenshots and generally turned the game into festive chaos faster than we expected. While Winterforge this year doesn't hold a ton of…
Holiday jingles can be heard in Heartwood again, as the Winterforge holiday has begun! This year, townsfolk are reporting a brand new pastime sweeping the land... snowball duel mechanics. Challenge your friends and rivals to see who has the…
We’ve been talking internally for a while about how we communicate with the community and the truth is: we haven’t been as transparent as we should have been. Updates often went quiet, features were worked on behind the scenes without much …
Winterforge is here again! As Heartwoodian's prepare for the holiday festivities, the good elves are hard at work producing enough gifts for everyone. Maybe you can lend a helping hand. And... Try not to get too distracted by a certain elf …
Happy One Year Anniversary! - The First Annual Dryad Bloom Festival has begun! A temporary questline and items have been added to celebrate Heartwood's first year in Early Access - Crafting experience bonus added for Magic Recipes - Certain…
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**v0.4.7** Fishing and Cooking have been added as two *new* skills! Alongside these new skills, we have some exciting additions: - Fishing Leaderboard - New crafted gear - New monster drops - New gear with crafting bonuses - New gear with a…
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**v0.4.6** Patch 0.4.6 is introducing some exciting new mechanics that we felt could use some more explanation so players may better understand our goals with the update. To help with this, we've broken up the patch notes into a few section…
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Added /age command to check character play time Added 'last seen' for friends and guild members Added a 'Logout' button to character select screen Logout option on Dashboard now takes players to Character Select screen Hat visibility settin…
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**v0.4.4** - Winterforge has come to Heartwood! - Added new NPCs for Winterforge holiday event - Players can now destroy items in their inventory - Updated stack splitting option to allow numeric entries - Updates bulk deed creation to allo…
New system: Deeds! Deeds are used to create larger stacks of items that can be traded between players. Deeds are created and redeemed in the bank. Players can no longer drop items on the ground. (Don't worry, enemies still drop items) New p…
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**v0.4.1** - Added the Pumpkin Festival! - Pumpkin bags now drop from all enemies - Pumpkin gear - Event mount - Event dye - Players can now progress to higher tier trees with woodcutting - Trees only drop their specific type of logs now - …
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**v0.4.0** - New region: Bone Mines - New region: Sheep Fields - In-game leaderboards - 4 new class abilities - New enemies - Two new bosses - New armors - New weapons - New mounts - New legacy marks - New crafting recipes - New ore nodes a…
- Improved performance for full map overview - Added the ability to toggle helms on player UI - Updated player inspection to show player gear - Updated player inspection to view stats on player gear - Item stats are now visible on quest UI …
https://i.imgur.com/qandSva.png We can't believe it, we made it a whole week without dying from lack of sleep! Thank you all for sticking with us through these early bug fixes. Things are starting to smooth out rapidly, and we have a lot mo…
Added Rusty Key for opening Rusty Lockboxes. Increased radius of Mage's Hellfire. Reduced makeover costs substantially. Several optimizations to improve performance on mobile devices. Added an option to set FPS on mobile. Elder Rack item na…
Increased stack size per slot in bank substantially. Increased spawn rate for Stags due to player density. Fixed an issue with inventory that wouldn't allow items to continue stacking when inventory was full. Fixed an issue that caused moun…