Patch notes: the skill tree rework, a rebuilt start, voting rewards and your Account page

The skill tree, rebuilt

The Build page is now one connected tree instead of four separate ones. Four fighting styles and four crafting clusters branch out from your start, with hybrid nodes where they meet and a Starward ring waiting at Ascension. Every node shows its rarity and what it does before you spend a point, fights and the world read your build directly, and the whole tree is drawn as one pannable, pinch-zoomable map in the pixel style, with its own full-screen view.

New crafting-side perks are in reach: free fares on the roads, buy orders that fill first, extra food from cooking, faster healing after a fight, an extra affix on what you make, repairing anywhere, tools that don't wear out, and better odds on rare finds.

A new start: First Steps

Landfall has been rebuilt from the ground up as First Steps, the game's opening hours. New Wayfarers follow the Harbour Board's postings through hunting a Reed Boar, a leather route through Haven, and their own Reedrunner starter set, ending on a "ready for the road" moment that sends them out into the world. The chapters after it have been trimmed down so the main story moves faster without losing its rewards.

The tracker stays firmly on the main story, with optional quests explained before you take them, and the map keeps later regions veiled until you're closer to them.

Voting rewards: the Herald's Ribbon and Vote Points

The Vote page (Help menu) is live. Vote for Shardcrown on top-list sites and earn Vote Points, spendable in the Vote shop for bound supplies and the Golden Jester cosmetic set (title, frame, banner, mount skin and more). Every UTC day with a counted vote is a Herald's Ribbon day: string enough of them together and you unlock titles, a frame and a banner, kept for good.

Voting never costs anything and nothing earned this way can be traded, sold or bought with money.

Your Account page, rebuilt

A real Account page: status chips for Discord, 2FA and email up top, and tabs for Friends & rewards, Share cards, Sign-in & security, Preferences and Your data. Friends & rewards and the standalone Invite Friends page (Society menu) now share the same cards: your invite link, reward track, and the monthly referral contest board, where the most active referrers each month win a title, a banner and a frame.

A menu that grows with you

New Wayfarers see a shorter menu that opens up as they play: Factions, Wars, the Build page, the Stable, Commissions, Rankings, Relics, the Frontier, Raids and Ascension all unlock in turn, each announced with a bell notification and a highlighted "Try it" entry the first time it's available. Veteran Wayfarers keep everything they'd already reached.

The public Wiki

A public Wiki (/wiki) with search and pages for items, beasts, mounts, regions, places and raids, plus a handful of written guides — all drawn straight from the game's own data, so it stays accurate.

Share cards

Share your best moments: level-ups, Stable arrivals, epic-and-up chest drops and world firsts can now be shared as image cards to X, Reddit, Bluesky or Discord, with sharing on or off from your Account page.

Chat moderation

Staff can now mute (shadow mutes that don't tip off the muted player) and delete chat lines, with a visible placeholder left behind. Muted players keep a full, uncut list of who they've muted.

Also in this update

• The main menu is reorganised and carries pixel-art icons throughout.
• The level-up screen now lists which pages just unlocked for you.
• A worn-gear nudge points new Wayfarers toward the Smithy.
• A handful of player-reported bugs fixed, including the main mission and the Frontier page.