v1.0 October 2026

The Gatekeeper update

Bar the gate. Rule your hall. The land holds steady.

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  The way homeYour compass takes you home. Coordinates ride beneath it.
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  A new key to your worldMake a New code, and the old one stops working at once.
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  Your world, your wordIn your own private world, /kick sends a guest back to the gate.
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  The right to appealA banned player sees the day the ban ends, and can Appeal.
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  Steadier groundSmoother frames and fewer stalls, wherever you roam.
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  News on the title menuUpkeep or trouble on the server: one line on the title menu says when.

Patches

Version 1.0.4

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  The Mended LensVael glass, broken and mended in gold. Hold Use, and look through.
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  Wanestone and the FarglassWanestone, once Moonstone, cut in twilight. Its orb is the Farglass.
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  The Rime SovereignThe Keeper of Water, once the Frost Wraith, rises under its true name.
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  Install RiventaleKeep the game on your home screen, one tap from the Riven Lands.
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  Word from your friendsHear when a friend comes online or your Dawn errand is ready. Once a day.

• Frames lit in older worlds now stand as Mended Lenses, and lead where they led.
• Recipes of our own: Sunapples take Resin, Sun Carrots Hedgeberries, Night Wards a Glowgourd.
• New names: Dawnspar (once Dawnstone), Rimeiron (once Glacite), Rootrock (once Worldstone), Sapped (once Hollowing).
• The Last Artificer is Isembard, once Varn.
• /give and /effect take the new names; the old ones still work.
• A guide to every creature, and a page for each Keeper.
• Fixes for Laden Chests and cairns.
• Security fixes for Friends.

Version 1.0.3

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  Slabs and stairsHalf blocks and stairs in every building stone. Walk up them without a jump.
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  Your place in lineWhen the Riven Lands are full, you hold your place in line and see the wait.
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  Cairn lightsYour cairns burn in their colour through the night.

• Restarts no longer throw you out. You are back where you stood in moments.
• A world that stumbles restarts alone. Every other world plays on.
• Every world is copied to safe storage each minute.
• A tab woken from sleep rejoins at once.
• Crowded places run smoother on weak connections.
• A busy server no longer pulls sprinters back.
• Block and bag spam is turned away at the server.
• Whole classes can join together; Laden Chests keep what they hold; lava and oil run out.
• Chromebooks start at a smoother graphics level.
• The title screen no longer stutters as the world streams in.
• Security fixes.

Version 1.0.2

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  The Riven Lands, in copiesWhen one fills, Riven Lands II opens. Pick your copy under the button.
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  World rulesYour world, your terms: its creatures, their bite, the day, and death.
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  CairnsRaise a cairn, stone on stone, bound in gold. Your compass finds it.
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  The Wayfarer’s AtlasA map of every land you have walked, your cairns upon it.
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  Torchlight holdsTorchlight keeps the dark at bay. Hold a torch to see where it still lies.
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  Doors and laddersOak doors that open in pairs, and ladders up any wall.
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  The Hearth MedallionLife in Crystal shards, hunger in the hearth’s embers.
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  Nothing but the landF1, or the eye on a phone, hides the HUD.
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  The wide chestTwo chests side by side open as one. Name it, and search it.
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  The Laden ChestSneak and break a full chest: it comes away whole, all it holds inside.

• Join a friend from inside a world, without a reload.
• Use a ripe crop to reap it and sow it again. Fields grow while you are away.
• Break a block you just placed and it comes straight back.
• Ripe crops glint.
• New in Settings: Ready hand brings the right tool, Vein sense follows an ore, a ghost shows where a block goes.
• A Chat tab in Settings: text size, how long lines stay, faces, and who you mute.
• Find a friend by their exact name.
• The first time you enter a land, its name rises over it.
• A red edge warns of a creature close by that you can’t see.
• Hold U to zoom. UI scale sizes the hotbar, chat, bag and menus.
• Search the Controls for any key; clashes are marked.
• The death screen offers your Bedroll and homes beside Respawn.
• Lock bag slots with Alt+click. The ember slot burns what you leave in it.
• Scroll over a stack to move one; Shift+double-click moves all of its kind.
• Find shows which chests nearby hold an item.
• Held food shows the drumsticks it will fill.
• Drops about to vanish blink first.
• Battery saver for long sessions on a phone.

Version 1.0.1

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  Share a momentPress P, or tap the camera: your view, framed, with a link to the game.
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  The KinlightBring someone new. Once they play ten minutes, you both earn it.
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  When the Riven Lands fillEvery place taken? One tap takes you into your own world instead.

• Three blocked messages in five minutes mute the sender for ten.

The way home

Every player carries a compass in the eighth slot of the hotbar. Hold it and use it (right click, or tap the world on a touch screen) and your homes open over the world: Spawn, each home you set, and Raise a Homefire when you have none. Dying keeps the compass in its slot.

Your coordinates sit under the compass ribbon now, where your eyes already are. Settings › HUD › Coordinates turns them on or off.

A new key to your world

A private world on our server opens to anyone who holds its code. If the code reaches the wrong hands, its owner changes it: pause, Friends, and under the invite, New code. The old code and every link made with it stop working at once. Players already inside play on; send your friends the new link.

Wrong codes are limited for each network, so a code can’t be found by guessing. Each account keeps one private world on our server, as each browser does.

More in Playing with friends.

Your world, your word

In your own private world, type /kick <player> [reason] in the chat. They are sent back to the title menu, with your reason if you gave one. They can return with the code, so make a New code if they should stay out.

A kick in your own world is yours alone: it never goes on a player’s record. In the Riven Lands, the moderators keep the peace.

Appeals

A player banned from our game server sees it on the title menu: Banned, the day the ban ends, and an Appeal button. Think a ban was wrong? Appeal, and the rules say what happens next.

• Moderators see a player’s past bans, mutes and kicks at once, so the one who keeps coming back is known.
• The server watches for impossible moves (too fast for what you ride or wear, rising or hanging in the air with nothing beneath) and reports them for a moderator to judge. It never punishes on its own.
• The report flag goes to the nearest player on your screen.

News on the title menu

When the server goes down for upkeep, or something is wrong, one line on the title menu says what and when.

Steadier play

Smoother frames and fewer stalls, wherever you roam.

Earlier versions: all updates.