# The Gatekeeper update

*v1.0 · October 2026*

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

- **[The way home](#the-way-home):** Your compass takes you home. Coordinates ride beneath it.
- **[A new key to your world](#a-new-code):** Make a New code, and the old one stops working at once.
- **[Your world, your word](#your-world-your-word):** In your own private world, /kick sends a guest back to the gate.
- **[The right to appeal](#appeals):** A banned player sees the day the ban ends, and can Appeal.
- **[Steadier ground](#steadier-play):** Smoother frames and fewer stalls, wherever you roam.
- **[News on the title menu](#news-on-the-title-menu):** Upkeep or trouble on the server: one line on the title menu says when.

**Also new:**

- A private world’s owner can /kick a guest. With a New code, they stay out.
- 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.
- Moderators see a player’s past bans, mutes and kicks at once.
- The server watches for impossible moves and reports them to moderators.
- The report flag goes to the nearest player on your screen.
- K hides First steps on a computer. The Journal brings it back.
- Sign in, Friends and Settings answer the moment you tap them, even on a slow connection.
- The Riven Lands now hold up to 60 players.

## Patches

### Version 1.0.4

- **[The Mended Lens](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/#the-mended-lens):** Vael glass, broken and mended in gold. Hold Use, and look through.
- **[Wanestone and the Farglass](https://riventale.world/guides/biomes/#underground-what-lies-at-which-depth):** Wanestone, once Moonstone, cut in twilight. Its orb is the Farglass.
- **[The Rime Sovereign](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/rime-sovereign/):** The Keeper of Water, once the Frost Wraith, rises under its true name.
- **Install Riventale:** Keep the game on your home screen, one tap from the Riven Lands.
- **Word from your friends:** Hear 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

- **[Slabs and stairs](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#slabs-and-stairs):** Half blocks and stairs in every building stone. Walk up them without a jump.
- **Your place in line:** When the Riven Lands are full, you hold your place in line and see the wait.
- **[Cairn lights](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#cairns):** Your 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

- **[The Riven Lands, in copies](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/#copies):** When one fills, Riven Lands II opens. Pick your copy under the button.
- **[World rules](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#world-rules):** Your world, your terms: its creatures, their bite, the day, and death.
- **[Cairns](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#cairns):** Raise a cairn, stone on stone, bound in gold. Your compass finds it.
- **[The Wayfarer’s Atlas](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-wayfarers-atlas):** A map of every land you have walked, your cairns upon it.
- **[Torchlight holds](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#torchlight):** Torchlight keeps the dark at bay. Hold a torch to see where it still lies.
- **[Doors and ladders](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#doors-and-ladders):** Oak doors that open in pairs, and ladders up any wall.
- **[The Hearth Medallion](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-hud):** Life in Crystal shards, hunger in the hearth’s embers.
- **[Nothing but the land](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-hud):** F1, or the eye on a phone, hides the HUD.
- **[The wide chest](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#wide-chests):** Two chests side by side open as one. Name it, and search it.
- **[The Laden Chest](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-laden-chest):** Sneak 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

- **[Share a moment](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/#share-a-moment):** Press P, or tap the camera: your view, framed, with a link to the game.
- **[The Kinlight](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/#the-kinlight):** Bring someone new. Once they play ten minutes, you both earn it.
- **When the Riven Lands fill:** Every 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](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/#private-worlds).

## 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](https://riventale.world/rules/#appeals) 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](https://riventale.world/updates/).

Play now: https://riventale.world/