This update sees a huge change in the customization options of equipment. You can make your own Bronze pickaxe with +10 mining, +6 exploration and +5 defense and name it whatever you want. Troll your friends with a ‘Sword of the Ancients’ that gives +2 knitting.

A new smithing skill has been added which is closely tied to your success with gem upgrades. The ruby and emerald gems deal with attack and defense, and the rest of the gems are arranged in a combination of 3 to get certain skills. The amount of gems determines the bonus (10k is the max). The number of bonuses you can add to an item is infinite but it will increase the chance of shattering it. Build a stone anvil with stone and some silver to get started.

Weapons, shields, and armor now have durability as well. They will wear down and ‘break’ which unequips them until repaired with a repair kit, in the same way you would repair a wall. They should last a long while for general use, depending on the quality of the item. When an item gets below 25% durability it will have a reddish border in your inventory.

“Nether Leech” has been added as a new hostile NPC.

The death and character creation text has been improved. Now gold and death history is being tracked so I can do fun things with the leaderboards soon.

When you die you can earn ‘Angel Dust’ based on your loss. This will allow for unlocking trait slots in the future. So your deaths don’t have to sting so bad 🙂

There’s been a few more changes under the hood in preparation for more fun updates. More on that soon – and we are almost halfway to funding some advertising so we can have some more people running around.