There's been a combat rebalance that much more closely ties your combat abilities to your equipment stats. After around 20 levels above your armour tier, you'll need the next tier of equipment or else your combat abilities plateau.

There is also a new PVP area, chicken quest, and door to the bank. You can also now injure yourself when shutting doors.

There's a new area across the river which has a player controlled mine that produces nickel. This also adds nickel smelting and smithing. There's also a new enemy there which drops a new type of essence.

The PVP multiplier has been reduced to 2% in the first areas of the mainland. Gloves and boots now have a value at the shops.

Congratulations to "Eldon the Cork" and "Clair the Brute" for acquiring the first hats in the game!

You can now block chat from other players and report players for spam or abuse.

The privacy policy has been updated to indicate that messages for a reported player may be stored on the server for up to fourteen days for manual review. Otherwise, chat messages aren't stored.

Here are the other updates:

• Improve the character model and add a new hairstyle.
• Improve lag spikes when you enter or exit a segment.
• Add a settings dialogue where you can change graphics settings, left click rotate, and roof visibility. Changes are saved to your account.
• Fix bugs where a character would remain walking instead of going back to idle. These broke certain macros.
• Increase the despawn time for dropped items.

There is now a pack mule that can be used to store and transport non-stackable items. Any player can take or deposit resources to it and guide it around.

The fishing resource now provides catfish. Imp defenders have been fixed. Higher level logs now burn for longer.

Many monsters now drop an "essence". There is a new player-controlled resource on the northeast of the mainland. You can take control of it by using an "essence" on the "essence forge" near the resource.

While in control of the resource, you can withdraw from its chest. Someone else can gain control of it by defeating your defenders and depositing essence themselves.