Changelog

New

• The game puts a Loamward shortcut on your desktop and in your Start menu the first time you run it. Delete them if you would rather not have them; they will not come back.
• Loamward has a home with its studio, Bramblewright Games: bramblewright.com, with the game’s own pages at bramblewright.com/loamward. The old address takes you there.

Changed

• You make your character in the creator before you can join the server, so nobody arrives as a blank mannequin. Players on 0.1.1 are asked to update.
• Loamward now names its maker, Bramblewright Games, in its file details.

Fixed

• Playing online, your character’s own body no longer turns into a grey mannequin under your clothes and armour.
• The Repair option shows on anything that can be improved.

Fixed

• Joining could stop at 92% and time out once the server had been running for a few hours. Joining now works however long the server has been up.
• Founding a settlement could leave you stuck inside your new settlement pillar. You now step clear of it.
• A failed improving step could leave an unfired jug that could never be improved again. Anything that can be improved can now also be repaired. (The Repair option shows in your menus from the next download.)

Website

• The download buttons are live, and the alpha is open to everyone.

New

• Loamward is on itch.io. Install it with the itch app and it keeps itself up to date.
• The website shows the server's live status: whether it is up, players online and how smoothly it runs.

Changed

• The download now holds only what players need, and Play online takes you straight to the alpha server.
• The server saves the world when it restarts, so a restart no longer costs anyone their progress.

Fixed

• World chat reaches the Discord's #world-chat channel again.

New

• The first build of Loamward for alpha testers, on a single server: a 16 km island with its rivers, lakes, mountains and forests, the start town of Alderbrook, and the game as it stands.