Patch Notes v0.49.38

Fishing is new from the ground up: fish anywhere along the water, more than 100 species, rods that evolve, collection books and legendary fish. Sleeping Dragon Cape is gone; in its place, Void Cracks with six bosses and a new 20-room dungeon, Starless Abyss. All quests now live in one window and phones get a home screen app. Plus a long list of fixes.

Important note for phone players

With this update, Swordwound no longer runs in a phone browser. On your phone you add the game to your Home Screen and play it from there as an app. It takes a minute and needs no app store. A step-by-step guide for iPhone and Android will be posted on Discord when the update is live. Tablets and computers keep playing in the browser as before. iPad players who want the full-screen feel can follow the same steps and add the game to their Home Screen too.

Fishing

New Fish anywhere along the water

No more fixed fishing spots. Stand at the edge of any water with a rod and cast. Fresh water, salt water, sandy shallows, magma water and void water hold different fish. Rivers, lakes, ponds, seas, streams and waterfalls each have their own too.

Fishing starts at fishing level 1 and goes to 50. It levels up on its own as you fish. No licence, no exam.

Peaceful Valley. Any shore will do. The reel starts the moment a fish bites.

Casting and reeling

• Hold Space or the fishing button to charge your cast, then let go. Land in the Perfect band and your Luck goes up for that catch.
• Reeling is a small game: in Ring, press when the rings meet; in Circles, hit the targets in order and follow the long ones.
• Good and Perfect hits both count. Miss too many and the fish is gone. A flawless phase gives you a bonus fish.
• You see your rod, line and bobber in the water. Casting, bites and the catch have their own sounds.
• Catch cards above the EXP bar show what you pulled out. Catches also show in Info chat.
• If your bag is full, the fish comes by mail.

Reeling one in over the magma in Ashen Realm.

Casting: hold, then let go at the top of the bar.

Circles: click each circle as its ring closes.

Ring: click the centre the moment the ring touches it.

The catch card: name, weight, length and what the fisherman pays.

Rarity, size and your three fishing stats

Fish come in six rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Mythic and Legendary. Each fish also has a size: Normal, Large, Giant or Monster, with its own weight and length. The item card shows what that exact fish sells for.

Rarity is the border colour. Size is on the card.

Your rod's Luck, Lure and Power. Baits and fish dishes add more.

• The water card next to the minimap lists the local fish and the stats they want. A stat turns green when you have enough. Click a fish to open its Encyclopedia page.
• A Mythic catch is announced to the whole server. A Legendary catch is announced too and gives everyone Blessing of the Gods: +25% fishing Luck for 30 minutes.
• Fish runs move to another map every 30 minutes. You get a warning 90 seconds before.

The water card under the minimap. Green means you have enough.

Rods: craft the first, evolve the rest

Craft a Rookie Fishing Rod at a Crafting Bench: crafting level 1, 6 Oak Logs, 6 Wood Scrap and 5,000 gold. Or buy one from any fisherman for 200,000 gold. Every rod after that comes from evolving the one before.

Rods go in their own slot in the bag, not the weapon slot.

A rod upgrades from +0 to +20 with gold only and it never breaks. At +20 you evolve it with gold and completed collection books. The new rod starts at +0 but keeps the stats of your fully upgraded old one.

Upgrading a rod at the fisherman. Gold only. A failed try never breaks the rod.

A +20 Rookie rod becoming a Reed rod.

Fisherman Riza, Lale the Bait Maker and Captain Demir are in Peaceful Valley. Every other fishing map has its own fisherman. They buy fish, sell collection books and upgrade or evolve your rod.

Sell Mode: click a fish in your bag, or sell them all at once.

Collection books

Each map has a Small, a Medium and a Large book. Buy the empty book and fill it: ten local species plus local fish materials. Any size and any rarity counts. Medium needs twice what Small needs. Large needs five times, plus the map's legendary fish.

A completed book can be traded, sold at the Trading Post, or used up to evolve a rod.

Filling the Peaceful Valley Small book. Any catch of that species counts.

Auto fishing

• New The Auto-Hunt window now has auto fishing, with rules for what to keep and what to open.
• A Fishing Pass unlocks auto fishing for that character for good. Every player gets one by mail.

Auto fishing lives in the Auto-Hunt window.

New Legendary fish

Every fishing map has one legendary fish and it can bite anywhere on that map. Sell it to a fisherman for the gold on its card, or open it for materials. Bigger fish sell for more.

Power Crab on its item card: Legendary, Large.

• A Normal fish opens into 1 material, Large into 2, Giant or Monster into 3.
• They can also give a Flawless or Ancient Spirit of their region: Earth, Stone, Sand, Ember or Void.
• Legendary catches are announced to everyone, but they do not give Blessing of the Gods.
• Blackened Bay fishing is not open yet. Deep Kraken, Kraken Ink and Kraken Soup belong to that water and come later.

Void water in Void Cracks. Fishing level 40.

New What legendary fish turn into

Five new recipes. Each one makes one item and costs 3,000,000 gold.

• They stack and you can trade or sell them. The timed ones survive death and using another one adds time.
• Drag a Forge Seal onto the item you want to upgrade. More seals multiply. The bonus stays until an upgrade succeeds.

New Fish materials and useful junk

• Opening a fish gives materials and better waters give better grades: fish meat, eyes, scales, teeth, skeletons, oil and roe.
• Regional finds: Sun Scale, Dune Roe, Ember Fin, Magma Oil, Void Eye and Void Ink.
• Junk is not junk any more. Bottles go into potion recipes; other catches salvage into Scrap Metal, Old Leather or Shell Powder. Knotted Rope and Rusty Hook have crafting uses too.

Right-click a fish and pick Use to open it.

New Bait and meals

Made at the Master's or Grandmaster's Cooking Hearth. Each recipe makes 3.

Change Old bait and food now use the new stats

• Foods keep their HP and MP effects.
• Change Fishing Efficiency now gives 10% / 20% / 35% / 50% Power (was flat 10 / 20 / 35 / 55).
• Change Fishing Bait is cheaper and earlier: crafting level 9 (was 17), 10,000 gold (was 20,000). The recipe makes 3 from 6 Fish Roe (I) + 1 Fish Glue.
• Recipes, salvaging and the Fishing Basket use the new fish materials.

Void Cracks

New Levels 75 to 90, where Sleeping Dragon Cape used to be

A void realm with 15 monsters, six bosses and 16 exploration camps, plus new bestiary cards. Monsters run from level 75 to 89: Shackled Shade, Cursed Tome, Glutton Coffer, Grave Porter, Starless Golem, Rifthound, Rootlasher, Spiderbloom, Abyss Priest, Bonetalon, Violet Imp, Rime Wraith, Star Diviner, Emeraldwing and Crimsonbough Sage.

Void meteorites spawn at levels 75, 80, 85 and 90. The sanctuary in the middle has a teleporter and the way down to Starless Abyss.

The sanctuary at the heart of Void Cracks.

The sky over Void Cracks.

Left to right: Crimsonbough Sage, Cursed Tome, Rime Wraith, Star Diviner, Starless Golem, Violet Imp.

Bosses and their chests

Each boss drops its own chest. The equipment listed is what a chest can hold, not what every chest holds.

Left to right: Riftgate Knight, Shrineback Colossus, Ilvaneth, Starmaw, Vorkhaal, Zhalnuur.

All six chests can also hold:

• Gold, Mount Talisman: Nimbleness and Mount Talisman: Wind.
• Coarse Enchanting Dust and Flawless Earth Essence.
• Attack, Speed, Lethality, Shattering and Critical Potions.
• Essence of Enlightenment for Attack, Defense, HP or Mana; Grand Vizier's Might and Moonlight Miracle.
• Blacksmith's Recipe and Enchanted Anvil.
• Skill Scroll, Skill Book, Skill Codex and Book of Forbidden Spells.
• The Riftgate Knight Chest can also hold Dragon Essence, Summit Essence and Tidal Essence.

New Starless Abyss

Talk to the Abyss Keeper in Void Cracks. A 20-room dungeon that plays by Well of Fate rules: three monster rooms, then a room with two meteorites and a card vote after every room.

A meteorite room in Starless Abyss.

Quests

• New All quests in one window. Press U or open it from the menu.
• Island, Main, Hunt, Camp, Riding and Clan quests, with Active, Upcoming, Completed and All filters. Each quest shows its goals, rewards, who gives it and where. Track it or take the reward from there.
• On the phone, tap a quest in the list to see its details.

Phone

• New On the phone you now play from the Home Screen app. The install screen shows you how for your browser. Google sign-in works inside it, on iPhone too.
• New Settings, Game, Auto-Attack Nearby: for touch controls, on by default.
• Change Control settings stay on each device. Changing them on your phone no longer changes your computer.
• Change The action button changes with what is near you: talk, mine, chop, gather, attack or fish.
• Change The camera starts closer to your character.
• Change Chat opens from its button only. Tapping the closed chat feed does nothing.
• Change The EXP bar is thicker. Menus and windows stay clear of notches and the home bar. Full screen is in the menu where the browser allows it.
• New Stack menus have Split.

Hunting and rewards

• Change Monsters more than 13 levels below you give no EXP, no drops and no gold.
• Change Monsters more than 15 levels above you give EXP, but no drops and no gold.
• Bestiary cards drop at any level difference. Dungeons ignore these limits.
• Change Dock Raccoons hit new characters much softer.
• Change Boss chests now hold Skill Scrolls, Skill Books, Skill Codices and Books of Forbidden Spells instead of ordinary equipment, scrap and basic potions. Boss equipment, mount talismans and other special rewards stay.
• Change Boss chests give Coarse Enchanting Dust (was Enchanting Dust).

PvP and parties

Outside safe zones and party protection:

• Neutral or better: you can attack another player when either of you has PvP on.
• Neutral or better: you can attack Troublemaker, Outlaw, Wicked and Cruel players without turning your own PvP on.
• Troublemaker and below: you must turn your own PvP on to start a fight, even against other hostile ranks.
• Heals and buffs follow the same rule. You cannot heal someone you could attack.
• Change Taking down a player who has PvP on no longer costs karma.
• Change A party stays alive with one member. It ends when the last member leaves.

World

• Change Void Cracks leads straight into Blackened Bay. Blackened Bay now opens at level 90 (was 95).
• Change Dragon Spirits are now Void Spirits. Level 85 equipment uses Void Spirits (was Mist Spirits). Level 90 equipment uses Tide Spirits; where to get them comes with Blackened Bay.
• Change Meteorites moved to new spots in Thirsting Desert and Ashen Realm.

Change Thirsting Desert camps

All seven camps have new hunting goals and six moved to new places.

Well of Fate and mail

• Change The card vote opens 3 seconds after you clear a room.
• Change The two cards never take the same kind of cost.
• Change The dungeon display shows the current room and the total.
• Change Payout and refund letters say which dungeon and when.
• Change Claiming mail takes the currency and whatever items fit in your bag. The rest stays in the letter.

Windows and item cards

• Change Shops open your Inventory next to them. Other NPC windows leave it closed.
• Change Auto-Hunt shows clearly whether it is running. Start and Stop are always in reach.
• Change Item cards are easier to read. One line per stat, each effect with its own duration, bonuses written like "+50% EXP Bonus", long durations in days.
• Change Encyclopedia recipes show the fee and the time per item.
• Change Big quest rewards show short, like 13.7M. Hover for the full number.
• Change A fully upgraded item says so.
• Change Portals show where they go and the level you need.
• Change Fish in your bag have a border in their rarity color.

Look and feel

• Change Terrain, characters, armor, weapons, monsters, mounts, pets and island furniture have more depth.
• Change Water looks the same everywhere, islands included, with matching shorelines.
• The Frenzied Plains coast with the new water.
• Change New artwork for rods, rarity badges, legendary fish, fish materials, collection books, Scrap Metal, Old Leather and Shell Powder.
• Change The login scene has new lighting and mist. Character select lights the character you picked.
• Change Less stutter opening windows for the first time, smoother long lists, lighter on phones.

Removed

• Dawnmist Forest is gone. Characters left there are back in town. Void Cracks leads straight to Blackened Bay.
• Mist Spirits and Mist refining compounds are gone. You get the same amount of the Void version by mail.
• Old fish materials became the new ones, one for one, by mail. Materials already sitting in mail were swapped there.
• The Apprentice, Master and Grandmaster Fishing Rod recipes are gone. Craft the Rookie rod and evolve.
• Clan fishing tasks for 10, 25 or 60 catches are gone.
• Crafting and salvaging jobs that used removed materials returned your materials, finished items and gold. Trading Post listings and orders were returned or refunded.

Fixes

Combat

• Fix Boss damage and resistance bonuses worked on some non-boss monsters.
• Fix A small EXP share could round down to zero.
• Fix PvP could be switched off during the 30-second lock after hitting a player. Duel hits do not start this lock.
• Fix Dragging the camera with the right button changed your target or stopped your action.
• Fix Clicking your current target again restarted the action and made its card flash.
• Fix Many monsters in Thirsting Desert and Ashen Realm froze mid-animation while they kept hitting you.

Windows

• Fix Invisible edges around Inventory, party info and the quest tracker blocked clicks on things behind them.
• Fix The Trade confirm button could hide behind Inventory. On narrow screens Trade stays in front.
• Fix A window that was fading out still caught clicks.
• Fix An NPC menu stayed open over the shop or upgrade window it opened.
• Fix Encyclopedia Back and Forward did not work by touch.
• Fix Currency symbols in NPC talk showed wrong, including riding licence prices and Ruby Crystal amounts.

Phone

• Fix Resting a thumb on the joystick cancelled gathering, chopping or walking to an NPC.
• Fix Sideways drags and lost touches fired skills you did not mean or left quick slots lit.
• Fix Dragging with one finger let go of a button held with another.
• Fix The minimap swallowed camera drags.
• Fix Group Finder filters and results scroll together, so you can read and pick a group.
• Fix Island furniture did not follow your finger.
• Fix Rotating an iPhone could leave the portrait layout or the rotate prompt on screen. Coming back from the background could leave the wrong layout.
• Fix Duel invites hid behind the player card.
• Fix On iPhone, tapping a text field closed the keyboard or jumped focus. Fields and labels now stay above the keyboard, in sign-in, Settings, Trading Post, selling, reports and character names.
• Fix Closing the keyboard left the page shifted, so taps missed.
• Fix Long chat messages disappeared while typing.
• Fix Verification-code and terms dialogs hid behind the sign-in message.
• Fix Loading screens lost their 3D background.

Inventory and crafting

• Fix Picking up an item and using, moving or trading it right away could get your character stuck.
• Fix Crafting progress, finished count and the Take button disagreed and stopped updating after a reconnect.
• Fix Salvaging the same item again did not restart its timer.

Timers

• Fix A wrong clock on your device threw off timers. That covered crafting, dungeon countdowns, Well of Fate votes and debt, mount mutation, riding quests, clan disband, loot ownership, item binding and expiry, shop resets, listing ages, character deletion and verification codes. All of them now run on the server's clock.

Clans, dungeons and reconnecting

• Fix Clan bonuses and capes did not always update when a member left or changed maps.
• Fix Island recall was sometimes unavailable after revival or a reconnect.
• Fix A missed revival or dungeon transfer could leave you stuck until you reloaded.
• Fix Auto-Hunt said it was running when it had stopped.
• Fix Coming back to a hidden tab showed a fake ping spike.

World

• Fix Leaving water left your arms and legs in the swimming pose.
• Fix Cut trees grew back the moment you returned instead of staying stumps.
• Fix Some cauldron and furniture faces were see-through.
• Fix Stonecutter blades had a green tint.
• Fix Portal gates floated above the ground.

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