# The Emberhold update *v1.1 · October 2026* Keep your fire. Break theirs. Raise a world of your own. - **[Emberhold](#emberhold):** Eight players, four Homefires over the void. Keep yours burning. - **[The Hearthgate](#the-hearthgate):** Walk under the arch near the spawn, or tap Emberhold. - **[Create a world](#worlds-of-your-own):** Seven worlds to begin from. Make one here, or on our server for friends. - **[Sky Islands](#sky-islands):** Isles adrift over the void, heavy with ore. Glide between them. - **[The satchel](#the-satchel):** Six sockets and your off hand. Tap the round one to swap hands. - **[One kit for all](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/#the-kit):** Rimeshard, Cinderbolt, Stonewake, Squall, and Skystone to bridge the gaps. - **[The edge](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/#the-edge):** Squall at the brink sends them into the void. - **[Embers and ranks](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/#embers):** Embers for looks no shop has. Seasons rank the fiercest. - **[Your record and the ranks](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/#ranks):** Every round on your record. Rank with friends or everyone, season by season. - **One Block:** One block in the void. Break it, and it returns as something new. - **[SMP](https://riventale.world/guides/playing-with-friends/#private-worlds):** A world on our server for thirty, kept for good, and you its keeper. - **[World switches](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#world-rules):** Low gravity, mighty jumps, wings for all, no PvP, a frozen sun. - **[The bag, remade](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#bag-and-chests):** Rows of eight. Your gear worn on your figure. The satchel beneath. - **Every item says what it is:** Hover or tap anything in the bag: a line says what it is. **Also new:** - Bots take empty seats after 30 seconds. They carry a rune before their names. - Your record keeps wins, kills, final kills and Homefires broken, and every streak. - Rank with friends or everyone, by wins or by streak. A season lasts 28 days. - A rooted player takes at most three shards from any one hit. - A Cinderbolt’s burst reaches two others at most, and burns none of them. - Friends in a round show as Emberhold, with Join. - /emberhold says where the Hearthgate stands. - /world says which world you are in. A world’s keeper can ban guests from it. - Keys 1 to 6 pick a socket. The key left of 1 swaps hands; Settings changes it. - Tooltips, recipes and guides count life in shards and food in embers. - On a phone, messages keep clear of the medallion and chat clears the stick. - Every item now says what it is. The Lens Setting is now the Lens Mount. - The Vael Lens Lectern says plainly what it raises and what it needs. ## Emberhold Eight players, four teams of two: **Ice**, **Fire**, **Stone** and **Wind**. Each team keeps a **Homefire** on its own isle of the Riven Isles, hanging over the cloud sea. While yours burns, every death sends you back beside it after four seconds. Once an enemy breaks it, your next death is your last. The last team standing wins; when the eight minutes run out, the teams still standing are ranked by points. Empty seats fill with bots 30 seconds after the first player sits down, so a round always starts. Bots carry a hollow rune before their names, give fewer Embers and never count for the ranks. Everything about rounds: [the Emberhold guide](https://riventale.world/guides/emberhold/). ## One kit for all Everyone fights with the same five slots: **Rimeshard**, **Cinderbolt**, **Stonewake** and **Squall**, and a stack of **Skystone**, the only block in a round. Your bag stays at home. Wall in your Homefire, bridge the gaps in the broken bridges, or build out to the four small isles where the Wards wait. ## The edge Squall near an edge throws a player into the void, and the kill is yours. Its cooldown in a round is 12 seconds, and its whirlwind is slow enough to see coming. Stand at an enemy Homefire and hold your swing to break it: its ring and banners turn black, its lanterns go out, and its team is one death from the end. Three fights between players are fairer everywhere, in rounds and in the Riven Lands: a rooted player takes at most three shards from any one hit, no player can root you again for three seconds after a root, and a Cinderbolt’s burst reaches at most two others and burns none of them. ## The Hearthgate Two doors lead in. On the title menu, press **Emberhold**: its line says how many wait in the round that is filling. In the Riven Lands, find the **Hearthgate** near the spawn, a gold-banded stone arch over a threshold of the Crystal’s light, and walk under it. `/emberhold` in chat says where it stands. A friend in a round shows as **Emberhold** in Friends, with Join. ## Embers and ranks Every finished round brings **Embers**: more for a better place, for kills, final kills and Homefires, less for bots. They go to your character in the Riven Lands with a small reward for your bag, and they are spent on looks only Emberhold has: the title **Emberwarden**, the **Hearthfire** spell trail and the **Emberhold Cape**. Never a loot box, never money. Your record keeps every round: wins, losses, kills, final kills, deaths, Homefires broken and your streaks. Signed in, you are ranked among friends and everyone, by wins or by best streak, through seasons of 28 days. ## Worlds of your own **Create a world** offers seven to begin from: **Riven Wilds** (the Riven Lands’ own land), **SMP**, **Sky Islands**, **One Block**, **Flat**, **One Land** (one biome everywhere) and **Archipelago** (a sea of islands). Make one in your browser, or on our server for your friends. An **SMP** world lives on our server for up to thirty players and is kept for good. Its maker is its keeper: they can ban and unban guests, and set its time and weather. `/world` says which world you are in and who is there. Every kind of world: [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#kinds-of-world). ## Sky Islands and One Block **Sky Islands** are grassy isles adrift over an open sky, their hanging roots heavy with ore; glide between them, and mind the drop into the void. **One Block** begins with a single block in the void: break it and it returns as something new, phase by phase. ## World switches Each world of your own sets its rules and now its switches: **Gravity** (Low, Normal, High), **Jump** (Normal, High, Mighty), **Glide** for everyone, wings or not, and **PvP** on or off. `/rules` lists them. ## The satchel and the bag The hotbar is now the **satchel**: six sockets and your **off hand**, the round socket beside them. Keys 1 to 6 pick a socket; the key left of 1, or a tap on the round socket, swaps hands. The **bag** is remade in rows of eight, with your gear worn on your figure and the satchel beneath. Saves carry over item for item. How to read it: [the HUD](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-hud). Earlier versions: [all updates](https://riventale.world/updates/). Play now: https://riventale.world/