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A big day for the world itself: four new zones in the north, a fresh look for the places already built, and a long list of fixes to how they appear. Four new zones lie under the ridge to the Barbarians. Frostmere Tundra…
30 commits
A big day under the city and at its gates: the Human City rebuilt, traps you can fall into, and portals that wait for your group. The Human City and Harbour have been rebuilt. The new versions replace the old ones. A…
29 commits
A day of first places and tidier windows: five zones went in as drafts, and Escape, the item window and the spell gems now behave the way the classic game's did. The first five zones are in the game, each in two draft…
14 commits
A day for Humans and for finding your way: two new zones to start in, a map that fills in as you travel, and a new look for every window. New Humans start in the Human City. The Human City and its Harbour are now part…
24 commits
Two fixes you will notice when you log in, and a long day in the workshop making the world's buildings lighter and closer to the original. What you wear is now always what everyone sees. Some weapons, such as the Sword…
21 commits
A day for roofs and spell effects in the game, and a long one in the workshop for the people who build the world. A zone can now have indoor parts. A builder can mark an area of a zone as indoors, as a box, a circle or…
38 commits
A day spent planning, with nothing new in the game itself. Nothing changed in the game today. The only work was planning for the days ahead, written down in the project's own notes. There is nothing new to see when you…
2 commits
A quiet day for players and a busy one in the workshop: the zone builder got easier to paint with. None of it is in the game yet. You can now paint by dragging a picture onto the model. In the builder, which works…
12 commits
A quiet day for players and a busy one in the workshop: one small change in the game, and the builder's tool learned to handle bodies and city ground. The class picture is now readied with the other effects. The game…
8 commits
A full day: every class got new spells, the game got painted icons, and ice, zones from the builder and ships with decks came into the game. Every class has new spells, and wizards have familiars. Each class's spells…
17 commits
A quiet day for players and a busy one in the workshop: a new tool for making the world's places by hand, none of it in the game yet. A new builder's tool for making zones by hand. It works inside Blender, the program…
2 commits
A day for riding and for the sky: mounts arrived, the night has a moon, and water and lava got a new look you can switch off. You can ride a horse. Right click a bridle, or type /mount, and its mount is under you. Do it…
12 commits
A day mostly spent under the floorboards: the world's contents moved into its own database, game masters got tools to fix a zone in place, and the server list learnt to hold more than one world. The world's contents now…
172 commits
The two starting cities were rebuilt from the ground up, each with a hunting ground outside its gate, and a few long-standing looks and annoyances were put right. Fairhaven and Dreadhaven are rebuilt as real cities.…
52 commits
A day spent on looks: the classic-style bodies became the ones everybody sees, and every one of them got new armour that fits. The classic-style bodies are now the default. Ogres, trolls and Iksar now look as they did…
6 commits
A day for how it feels to move, for the people who build the world, and for one bad moment at character creation. Your own character no longer stutters when it runs. Your body was moved sixty times a second but drawn as…
14 commits
The biggest day yet for how the world looks and feels: new bodies for all, weather and water that behave, and a long list of stutters gone. Everyone has the new bodies now. The first look of the new player bodies is…
63 commits
The busiest day of the week: game master tools, rogues' old trade, the road to sixty, and fights and trades that finally do exactly what they say. Petitions, the way the original had them. Press P or type /petition. New…
69 commits
A day split between speed and looks: the world can run half as fast again, the first new bodies arrived, and a lot of new cities went on the drawing board. The world can run at thirty updates a second. It ran at twenty.…
19 commits
Mostly under the hood today, but it's the day the game got ready for a lot of people in one place. A hundred players in a town, at a fifth of the cost. The server now works out who can see whom once per update and packs…
24 commits
RetroQuest is an independent fantasy MMORPG in active development, inspired by the early days of online worlds. Here is a first look at where the project stands in September 2026. Two starting cities Highspire is an…
