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Live - one half fixed, one half a best guess. FIXED: the window closing with no message. A refusal was sending nothing at all, on unclaimed border and coastline - more ground than it sounds. Refusals now say which rule you hit and name what is in the way, instead of 'too close to another tree' when there is no tree for miles. BEST GUESS: the cursor offset. The grid was anchored 64 units off on each axis even in open wilderness. Removed. Please say if it helped.

Live. Khan'xhir is now stocked by Daggersmiths - plain, non-magical, grey name, no prefix or suffix. The item already existed; it was simply on no vendor's shelf anywhere in the world. Sun Dancer was the only one of the three weapon disciplines with nothing to buy - Blade Master and Blade Weaver both have theirs on the Swordsmith shelf. It needs Unarmed Combat at 100%.

Fixed and live. The starting continent and all its regions count as safe ground, and mercs refused to attack anything while standing on safe ground - including ordinary monsters you can kill yourself. So your companion just followed you around. Not specific to the animal pacts: every merc type did it. New characters were just the ones standing there. Mercs now fight exactly what you can fight. Players and sims on safe ground stay protected. No pet window needed.

Live as of 2026-08-23 21:56 UTC.

Live as of 2026-08-23 21:41 UTC.

Live as of 2026-08-23 21:09 UTC.

Live now - relaunch Shadowbane.exe to pick it up.

LIVE NOW - and it needs a client relaunch through Shadowbane.exe, because half the fix is in the client. Charm never worked on this shard: two bugs were stacking and each hid the other. All eleven charm powers were affected, not just Charm Beast. A charmed creature now appears in your pet window, follows, defends you, and other monsters will fight it. Scaling was also frozen at the untrained value and is now fixed and doubled.

LIVE NOW. Your premise was off in a useful way: there is no one-corpse rule, you can have as many as you die. What was really happening is worse - the 15 minute cleanup counts from when a corpse is MADE and was never extended, so dying on your corpse run let the first expire while you walked back. New corpses now push older ones out, capped at an hour. This was quietly destroying loot.

LIVE NOW. Your corpse was being flattened to the terrain at the moment of death - the one place a player is stopped without re-checking which building floor they are on - and the corpse had no way to hold an altitude anyway. Both halves fixed. Not caused by the Minoseeks update as suspected: this one had been there since the beginning.

LIVE NOW. Warrant scrolls drop from camp mobs and name a different nearby camp, so they push you to roam. Kills tally automatically, the writ completes on the last kill and pays xp, and progress survives logging out. One active writ per camp. There was no quest system before this - a writ is an item with a row behind it, and chat is the only notification, kept deliberately quiet.

LIVE NOW. Beasts join the two melee mercenary types rather than becoming separate contracts, so merc drop rates are unchanged: Cave Bear and Dire Wolf roll on Guardian, Great Cat and Dire Rat on Blade. They use the big named-mob models and are named for their species - Greymaw Lv30 Dire Wolf, not a generic. No armour on them; a bear in a helmet was not the goal.

LIVE NOW. New characters start with four pacts - Wolf, Bear, Cat and Rat. Use one and that companion is yours; the other three crumble. They stay at the lowest rank and never upgrade, which is the trade for getting one free at level 1.

LIVE NOW. Type lua_age() in chat. A literal /age is impossible - the client rejects commands it does not know and never sends them, which is why ours look like this. Shows your name and guild, race and class, level and xp, creation date and age, time played, and monster/player kills and deaths with K/D. Kill tracking is in memory and adds no database write when you kill something.

LIVE NOW. Both halves. Contracts match the mob's tier exactly, so that level 30 Ettin always yields rank 3 instead of rank 1 about half the time. And mercs have a real class - your healer reads as a Priest, Prelate or Confessor, not the generic base. Checked across every mob level and 16,800 rolled contracts. The class shows in the merc's name; having the client itself name it needs a client-side change we have not made.

LIVE NOW. Mobs were stopped on the server with nothing sent to your client, so your game kept running the model on the spot until you moved and it snapped. Measured before and after against a real server: about half of all melee approaches ended with no stop message, and now none do. Roots and stuns were worse - your client could be left over 20 units out, permanently. Please tell us if you still see pops.

LIVE NOW. The waystone planted on top of you - not collision, but its region, which made your client think you were inside the campfire and refuse to walk out. That is why picking it up freed you. And /stuck was not failing, it teleported you to the stone's centre, back into the cage. It now plants beside you and refuses to plant if it would trap you. The lingering fire is separate - tell us if it persists.

LIVE NOW. Runemaster passage TO any of the seven starter safeholds - Starkholm, Hengest, Scraefahl, Valkirch, Hrimdal, Hothor's Doom, All-Father's Rest - is free. Destination-based rather than level-based, so it is free at every level and from any distance, not just while you are new. Trips out to anywhere else are tolled as normal. The Runemaster names the city when he waives it.

Fixed and live. Town guards no longer attack your pet or your mercenary inside a safehold. The guard AI had a fallback that grabbed the nearest pet with none of the filters the player check uses - so it ignored the guards own data, which explicitly says never aggro a Pet. Genuinely hostile mobs still go after pets; guards protecting you no longer do.

Live now. Minoseeks is a sixth mercenary contract, dropping like the other five: a minotaur who follows you, empties bodies near you (gold too), and hands it all back when you dismiss him - which kills him, which is the point. Nothing can hurt him, and how much he hauls scales with contract rank. The price threshold is deliberately not in - he takes everything, because the bar was being less fiddly than a mule alt, and capacity is the limit instead. leisureforce.games/shadowbane/wiki/minoseeks

Live now - shipped in the 17:53 restart and confirmed in game.

Live now.

Live now - shipped in the same restart.

Live now - restart done, bridges are walkable on the shard.

Done - Shadowbane.exe now uses the same icon as sb.exe. It comes over automatically the next time you run Shadowbane.exe (the launcher updates itself), and it's in the installer download too. Windows caches icons, so you may need to refresh the folder before it shows.

Shipped 2026-08-18 as "The Leylines". Kept the spirit, changed the shape: Runemasters now teleport anyone to all 13 safeholds for a distance toll, the Muster Horn rallies your whole group to its leader, and the plantable, destructible Waystone is the personal anchor you attune in person and channel back to. Details: leisureforce.games/shadowbane/wiki/fast-travel