1.8 is here! Take a look at what players accomplished in 1.7

Let's welcome our newest players: Lopseypop, nathanaelmillerlawrence, oshag_henesy and lens_mccracken1.

Thank you for submitting bugs and giving us your cool ideas. In addition to the 1.8 update, we squashed 23 of your submitted bugs and added 9 of your ideas.

The big ones

By the numbers

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Every change

1. Prestige
   1. New: Every skill goes on to 120: a perk every level, a major pick every five, the ranks Master, Grandmaster and Legend. Open Prestige from the top bar.
   2. New: To learn past 80, a skill needs 50,000 tickets once and its partner skills. How: at 80, talk to that skill's trainer and they open the gate in person.
2. Prestige perks, stronger
   1. Changed: Every Prestige perk is stronger: small perks doubled, picked perks half again. Past 99 takes a lot of xp, and the perks now show it.
   2. Fixed: Every Prestige perk now does something. Picks that did nothing were swapped for ones that work, and keep your choice.
   3. Changed: Archery's perks are damage, attack speed and defence: Quick draw makes bow shots quicker.
   4. New: Work clothes can put themselves on: tick the box in the Locker and the right set goes on when you train its skill (Kellzifer).
   5. Fixed: The Lighthouse and Pirate's Pier no longer load as a black screen (Calvinthesneak).
   6. Fixed: The Headless Rider takes a pumpkin anywhere on his road (myIittlepwni).
   7. Fixed: The Strongmen no longer stand beside the Carnival end of the Scrap Run (myIittlepwni).
   8. New: Exchange offers come down by themselves after 30 days. What's left waits at the Exchange, even with a full bank (BeeEzRadio).
   9. New: The Scrap Bench's Projects tab shows your scrap, gears, sparks and tickets (myIittlepwni).
   10. Changed: Breeding xp earned on the side is a quarter of what it was.
   11. Fixed: Bought name colours show in chat, and a bought badge sits at the name's size, just before it.
3. Necromancy
   1. New: Necromancy, a new skill: wake soul jars into companions that heal or buff your party. Start with Old Wick by the Gloam's Graveyard gate.
   2. New: Bury bones in the Graveyard, through its gate in the Gloam. Wake jars at the Soul Shelf: its How it works tab explains.
   3. Fixed: The How it works tab sends you to Old Wick, who gives every Necromancy quest.
4. Necromancy, explained
   1. New: The Soul Shelf has a How it works tab: six steps with pictures, from Old Wick to your first companion, with wiki links.
   2. Fixed: The Ossuary crafts again, so Dust and Flowers can be finished (myIittlepwni).
   3. Changed: Necromancy levels slower: every xp source is halved, and every soul wants twice as much to wake.
   4. Changed: A jar's buttons sit above what it wants: no scrolling to Give (myIittlepwni).
5. Skill trainers
   1. New: Every skill has a trainer who explains it, gives a First Lesson quest and a Ready for 80 quest, and opens the 80 gate in person.
   2. New: Where they are: Grimm the Hermit (Woodcutting, Fletching) in the Gloam; Mudge the Lamplighter (Harvesting, Fungiculture) and Brother Tithe (Hitpoints) in the Lantern Mire; Sister Morrow (Melee) in the Boneyard; Old Wick (Necromancy) by the Graveyard gate in the Gloam; Zephyr (Agility, Breeding) and Wren the Ranger (Archery) in Cloudreach; Rashid the Caravaneer (Alchemy, Cooking) in the Golden Sands; Volta (Wizardry) and Morwenna the Mage (Magic) in the Thunderhead; Darla (Tinkering) in the Trailer Park; the Auditor (Thieving) in the Vault; Salty Meg (Fishing) on the Boardwalk; Old Pickett (Mining, Smithing) in the Depths of the Mountain.
   3. New: A red line tells you when a skill reaches 80 with its gate still shut, and what the gate needs.
6. New bosses
   1. New: Seven new bosses: Kevin, Lord Mumbles, Grandma, the Sand Pharaoh, the Goose, the Weather and Gary, Who Keeps Everything. None immune to melee.
7. Boss trophies
   1. New: Every boss you help kill gives you a trophy piece. Ten pieces put its statue on your island (/trophies).
   2. New: Statues go silver at 50 pieces and move now and then; at 150 they go gold, glow and show your kill count.
   3. New: The Trophy Shelf (/trophies) shows every boss and how close each statue is. Visitors can hover a statue to see whose it is.
   4. New: Your profile's Collections has a Trophy Room for your gold and silver statues.
8. Island passes
   1. New: Gathering sometimes finds an Island Pass: thirty minutes on a private island for you and up to three of your party. Click it to sail.
   2. New: Six islands: Mining, Woodcutting, Fishing, Harvesting, Junk and Turtle Island, each with its own bonus and rares.
   3. New: Brambleberries make Bramble jam, and the Turtle's Shell goes on your island.
9. Melee hits harder
   1. Changed: Melee does 25% more damage (12.5% against players): a sword hits harder than a bow or a wand at the same gear.
   2. Changed: Second Wind fires under 60% health (was 40%).
   3. Changed: The mammoths, Old Rex, the Tar Pit Horror, the Yeti, the Ice Elemental, the Frost Giant, the Frost Jarl and the Ice Wyrm take 60% from melee (were immune).
   4. Changed: Weak to melee: Clawhand 140%, Captain Claw and the Storm Golem 150%, Old Bessemer and the Junk King 160%, the Iron Ogre 170%.
   5. Changed: Melee pets: the Rexling +8% melee damage, Jarl's Hound +10% melee accuracy, Lil' Crusher +10% melee strength (+15% on armoured monsters).
10. Melee abilities
    1. New: Charge (Melee 40): reach a monster 2-5 tiles away at once and stun it. Sister Morrow in the Boneyard teaches the melee abilities.
    2. New: Parry (Melee 70): turn the next swing aside and strike back for double.
    3. Changed: Heavy Blow heals you for part of the hit. Cleave and Whirlwind hit more monsters and hit harder in a crowd.
11. Blade oils and the War Boar
    1. New: Blade oils (Alchemy 45-60): Sun heals, Ember burns, Frost slows, Storm jumps. Click one in your bag to coat your blade, 300 hits a coat.
    2. New: The War Boar: +6% melee damage, from Goblin Cutters (0.2%). Its Legendary, the Tuskmarshal: +12%.
12. Fighting
    1. Changed: The Fury meter is gone: abilities no longer need it, and the HUD has no rage bar.
    2. Changed: Melee armour gives 28% more defence, every piece at every tier.
    3. Changed: Magic reaches two tiles less: a wand casts from three tiles, the Last Word from four.
    4. Fixed: The Tusk's card lists his 1% chance at a 2X potion for everyone who hurt him.
    5. Fixed: A boss's kill and a WANTED bounty go to whoever is on its map when it falls and did 5% of its health. The run report shows anyone else as no share.
    6. Fixed: Gear you swap during a boss fight no longer shows as loot in the run report.
    7. Fixed: The Sand Pharaoh's card matches the fight: he resists fire and frost (Calvinthesneak).
    8. New: The Arrow Case: every kind of arrow in one bag slot, and it refills your quiver (myIittlepwni).
    9. Changed: The Page Folio and the Arrow Case are sold in the Store (Upgrades, 100,000 tickets each), hold 20,000 in all, load only out of a fight, and take 2 s to reload when they refill.
    10. Changed: The Abilities window is one choice per tier, like Prestige. Settings can hide the ability row out of a fight; phones have no ability bar.
    11. Changed: Bosses come back no sooner than 25 minutes (mini bosses 15), and nobody can claim a boss: everyone there at the end with 5% of its health shares the kill.
    12. New: Mini bosses turn up in the dailies (one or two kills).
    13. New: Boss-only gear and late materials: Rex tooth, Wyrm scale, Mammoth ivory, Pterodactyl sinew and the Nova core.
    14. Changed: Boss nameplates show what kind of boss it is: world, dungeon or mini.
    15. New: The Tusk: once a day, at a random time, he drags himself into the Yard. A mini boss who hits back; everyone who hurts him shares the tickets.
    16. Changed: Kevin and Grandma are redrawn, and the Big Sandwich is now the Sand Pharaoh.
13. Dungeons and boss drops
    1. Fixed: Monsters inside every dungeon now drop loot as they do outside, and a click in a crowd picks the monster in front.
    2. New: A reward screen when you clear a dungeon: your time, your best, kills, xp and loot.
    3. Changed: Every dungeon chest holds one more thing, and bosses drop more.
    4. Changed: The Gardener, the Deepwarden and the Pumpkin King pay far more, are back within 45 minutes, and can drop Island Passes.
14. Bosses and dungeons pay
    1. Changed: Bosses that paid less than ordinary monsters pay far more: Captain Claw, Old Bessemer, the Matriarch, the HOA President, Crusher and more.
    2. Changed: The Pumpkin King, the Gardener and the Deepwarden pay double. The casino's mini bosses pay up to five times more.
    3. Changed: The Ice Man and the Undertow no longer pay twice: their own drops are smaller, the raid prize stays.
    4. Changed: The Great Pyramid, the Night Ward, Rat Court and the Long Night Shift pay 20-30% more. Kevin has half again the health.
    5. Fixed: The Pumpkin King drops 12-24 ectoplasm; a typo gave up to 2,904. The Witch's brew and the Hawk-Eye Stew take 10 now, and burying one gives 5 xp.
15. Gear past Mythic
    1. New: Gear past Mythic: Quirks, hidden perks, Push, Perfect Ink and matching pairs, from level 100+ monsters and world bosses.
16. Recipe cards
    1. New: Twelve very rare recipe cards drop around the world. Click one in your bag to learn its dish.
    2. New: Your Recipe Book (/recipes) keeps every card you've learned. The rest show as silhouettes.
    3. New: Salty Meg on the Boardwalk buys spare cards and sells them on to anyone who hasn't learned them.
17. Multi-step dishes
    1. New: Six dishes cooked in steps, including a new Soup of the Day every day. Any campfire or range: Meals tab, Multi-step dishes.
18. Cooking and eating
    1. Changed: Eating heals the moment you press it, with its own bite sound.
    2. New: The Yard's water pump fills vials. Water goes in soups, stews, breads, pies and dish steps, for double xp.
    3. Changed: Food stacks to 99 again, and smoked fish sits under Fish.
19. Items with a use
    1. New: Every item that could only be sold now makes something: Charcoal Briquettes, Sun Olive Oil, Lucky Buttons, Spotlight Arrows, the Lucky Chip and more.
20. The Meditation Stone
    1. New: Meditation Stones on six maps: sit, keep still, then offer one drop for a 10-minute melee buff.
21. The Star Tent, restocked
    1. New: The Star Tent in Cloudreach has three shelves of things for Star Fragments, all bound to you. Fragments come from mining Shooting Stars.
    2. Fixed: Each Star Tent row is as tall as its text; nothing overlaps.
22. Store buffs
    1. New: Six Store buffs in the Store's Boosts tab: Party Horn, 2X Prestige XP, Long-Life Tin, Golden Lure, Travel Pass and Event Pager. One item is 20% off every day.
23. The Events window
    1. New: The Events window (the Events button in the top bar, or /events): what's on now and later today, who's there, Take me there, Post in chat and Remind me.
    2. Changed: An event's lines in chat keep themselves up to date instead of piling up.
24. Gold Rush and the Big Sale
    1. New: Two new world events: a Gold Rush turns one map's monsters golden for 15 minutes, and the Big Sale takes 30% off every shop for 10.
25. Skilling
    1. Changed: Gathering and making dailies ask for more (about six times as many), for the same tickets. A job you already have keeps its count.
    2. Changed: A tool works nodes one rung above it, and the Frozen Reach fishes from 94; each fishing spot's label shows its own level.
    3. Changed: With 2X Skilling or 2X Crafting on, 2X Prestige XP gives three times; its clock pauses while it isn't paying.
26. Gathering
    1. Changed: Rocks, trees and fishing spots of level 20 and up hold 7.5% fewer for every 10 levels. Lower ones are unchanged.
    2. Changed: Mining and Woodcutting Island Passes are rarer: 0.025% a gather (was 0.033%). Fishing's stays.
    3. Fixed: Nova and singularity tools work the nodes that ask for them.
    4. Changed: Trees pay no more xp than mining does at the same level: gloomwillow 60 (was 120), yew 80 (was 170), palm 110 (was 190).
    5. Changed: Harvesting gives 15% less xp and 20% fewer crops a harvest.
    6. Changed: Fishing gives 10% less xp.
27. The Endless Cul-de-sac
    1. New: The Endless Cul-de-sac is lived in: houses of every colour, cluttered yards, parked cars, and two new monsters with their own drops.
28. The default theme
    1. Changed: The default theme, the classic screen, is now everyone's starting look. Midnight is the one other choice, in Settings, Look.
    2. Changed: The game starts at 60 frames a second for everyone, and the 60 cap is exact on every screen.
    3. New: Prestige has its own link in the top bar.
    4. Fixed: Worn capes show again (pantomim3).
    5. Fixed: A reforged item's +X sits in the top right, clear of the favourite star (myIittlepwni).
    6. New: Put the ability buttons where you like: Settings, Layout, Move things (myIittlepwni).
    7. Fixed: The ability bar sits behind windows, so the anvil's Strike button can be reached again (dookiebetts800).
29. The default theme, rebuilt
    1. Changed: The default theme's windows are rebuilt: the Bank, the Kennel, the Furnace and every crafting station, the Gem Sorter, the Gem Bag, the Chart Table, Nestor's eggs, Bronny's Order and the Jukebox.
    2. Changed: The top bar has plain Store, Hiscores, Map and Wiki links; Events, Bugs and Notifications sit on the right.
    3. Changed: Under the minimap: Pet, Hunt, Prestige and Sound. The minimap is a little smaller and stays inside its frame.
    4. New: Press Tab to hide the side panel and press it again to bring it back. Change the key in Settings, Keys.
    5. Changed: The Bag tab has sub tabs for the Buff Bag, the Pouch, the Quiver or Magic Bag, with Sort and a Shelves view in the bag's head.
    6. Changed: The Gear tab is a paper doll with every worn piece once, and one gear card shows a piece's stats, perks, reforge and Gear Score everywhere: bag, bank, shops and profiles.
    7. Changed: NPC dialogue is a compact window at the bottom of the screen, and a skill trainer's lines show the skill's icon.
    8. Changed: The quick slots sit beside the chat; the ability row is in the bottom-right corner with its book.
    9. Changed: A level-up shows a card in the middle of the screen with its own happy chime.
    10. Changed: Your health bar is green, with a heart; monster plates step off your character, and pointing at a player shows their total level.
30. Chat
    1. New: Whispers: /w name message (also /msg or /tell), and /r replies to whoever whispered you last.
    2. New: Trade and Party chat: /t for Trade, /p for your party.
    3. New: Right-click a name in chat or in the world for a small menu: Message, profile and more. Names in chat open profiles.
    4. New: The emote picker opens with chat's most used emotes first; search covers them all.
    5. Changed: Kill lines read "Killed <monster>. Dropped: ..." with pictures; long world lines are shorter, and world messages are smaller.
31. Your character sheet
    1. Fixed: The Character window now shows every buff: pets, charms, capes, oils and Prestige. They always applied; the window just left them out (AndyReidisaPAWG).
    2. New: New rows: two fish on a line, extra logs and free smelts.
    3. Fixed: The Cinder Salamander's free smelts work. They never did before.
32. The wiki
    1. Fixed: The wiki was checked against the game across all 1,823 pages: every place, level and drop is now read from the game itself, so it stays right.
    2. Fixed: One page per map, with its real name.
    3. Changed: Search finds mentions on monster and pet pages too, and Enter lists every page that mentions the word (nathanaelmillerlawrence).
33. Smaller things
    1. New: /find is one window with a search bar.
    2. New: The wiki's search drops down pages and mentions as you type: try "double" (nathanaelmillerlawrence).
    3. Fixed: Big numbers fit on profiles: 12.3M, the whole figure on hover.
    4. New: The Jukebox has Popular and Favorites, and a station search.
    5. New: The Prestige window shows your tree and your recent picks; a worn Mastery Cape twinkles.
    6. New: Settings has a frame-rate cap and an idle slowdown; F9 shows the readout.
    7. Fixed: Characters hold every tool, bow and weapon the right way round.
    8. Fixed: Lil' Crusher shows when he's out, wherever you are.
    9. Fixed: Leaving the Crypt puts you beside the Gloam's stairs.
    10. Changed: The Forge and Marked Cards are gone from the game.
34. From the ideas board
    1. New: From your ideas: bank Ctrl-Z, @mentions, plot timers on hover, Dig up, safer pedestals and more (BeeEzRadio, AndyReidisaPAWG, jimmytomato, Calvinthesneak).
35. Report board fixes
    1. Fixed: Trades keep forged and socketed gear, every log burns, felled trees show, wands reach the Ice Wyrm (BeeEzRadio, pantomim3, myIittlepwni, Calvinthesneak and others).
    2. Fixed: Click Livia to talk: her quests, then Let's trade. Her stall still opens the Exchange (cenozoicmegafauna).
36. Fixes
    1. Fixed: Windows fit phones, health shows whole numbers, the stream player reaches every edge, and the Yard runs smoother (myIittlepwni, BeeEzRadio and others).
37. Smoother and steadier
    1. Fixed: No more dips every few seconds while monsters wander nearby: the frame rate holds steady until everything is still.
    2. Fixed: Chat and Drops / XP keep the last hour, so a long session stays quick.
    3. Fixed: A pop-up an ad blocker hid no longer greys out the screen: it shows anyway (ChildishArbino).
    4. Fixed: The skilling picture over your head is a little smaller.
    5. Fixed: A missed chop no longer draws an effect; it caused a little lag.
    6. Changed: Other players' fights are quiet: 10% volume, and only when they're near you.
38. Less lag
    1. Fixed: Arriving on a map after coming back to the game no longer freezes the screen.
    2. Fixed: Maps load from a few big files instead of hundreds of small ones, and their ground paints in a moment instead of seconds.
    3. Changed: A smoother frame rate: each frame draws only the part of the map you can see, and still shadows are drawn once.
    4. Fixed: A slow connection no longer falls behind: the game sends what is near you, and only what changed about you.
39. Phones and tablets
    1. Fixed: Windows fill a phone, turned phones and tablets fit, and the bag's pictures fit their squares.

Worth knowing

• The default theme is the old-style screen for everyone. Midnight is the one other choice, in Settings, Look.
• Every place, level and drop on the wiki now comes from the game itself.
• Rocks, trees and fishing spots of level 20 and up hold 7.5% fewer for every 10 levels; lower ones are unchanged.

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