# The Builders update

*v1.3 · October 2026*

Raise your walls. New hunters walk the night.

- **[The Builder's Lens](#the-builders-lens):** Mark a box. Fill it, copy it, set it down turned. Undo anything.
- **[Fences, walls and gates](#fences-and-walls):** Fence a field, wall a keep, bar a window. Nothing jumps them.
- **[A hall of your own](#a-hall-of-your-own):** Carve signs, show your finds on shelves, and sit at your own long table.
- **[New hunters in the dark](#new-hunters):** The Rivenmaw climbs. The Slagcaster throws. The Waned keep walking.
- **[The Breaking Tide](#the-breaking-tide):** Wound the Rime Sovereign, and the sea it holds breaks free.

- **[Creative worlds](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#creative-worlds):** Build without limit in a world of your own. Nothing earned there leaves it.
- **Sound captions:** Every sound named on screen, with an arrow toward it. Settings, Sound.

**Also new:**

- Brushes raise, lower, smooth, flatten and paint the land.
- Keep a build as a blueprint, and raise it again in any world of yours.
- In your private world, /builders add lets a friend build with the Lens.
- Gates and trapdoors, of oak and of iron, open by hand. Panes and bars join into windows.
- Every jump rises as high, whatever your frame rate.
- A Rivenmaw’s bite leaves Stonegrip. A torch keeps it off.
- By day a Slagcaster’s slag cracks and burns away. The Waned glow faintly where they frayed.
- The Shard-Halo Archer’s arrows follow the difficulty now: lighter on Easy, heavier on Hard.
- Back on a phone closes the window that is open, not the game. Esc closes only the one on top.
- Gift a friend 30 days of the Supporter Pass, from Friends or the Pass tab.

## The Builder’s Lens

In creative, in your own worlds, press **I** (on a phone, the lens button). Mark a box with two corners, then **Fill**, **Replace**, **Hollow**, raise its **Walls** or **Clear** it. **Copy** or **Cut** it and set it down again as a ghost, turned and mirrored. **Undo** and **Redo** step through your last forty operations. **Brushes** raise, lower, smooth, flatten and paint the land, and **Blueprints** keep a build by name for any world of yours.

In a private world on our server its keeper builds with the Lens, and so do the players the keeper adds with `/builders add`. Chests, display shelves and the world’s shrines are never touched.

Every tool: [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-builders-lens).

## Fences, walls and gates

An **Oak Fence** and its **Gate**, a **Wall** of every building stone that has slabs, **Trapdoors** of oak and iron, **Glass Panes**, **Iron Bars** and **Scaffolding**. Fences, walls and a shut gate stand a block and a half high to anything walking into them: no jump clears them, and creatures never try. Panes and bars join into windows; scaffolding is climbed with jump and left with sneak.

Recipes and more: [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#fences-and-walls).

## A hall of your own

**Signs** stand on a post or hang on a wall, carved with four short lines. A **display shelf** holds three things on show. **Chairs** of oak, birch, pine and jungle wood seat you; **tables** of the same woods join into one long top. **Carpets** lie thin on the floor in every wool colour.

How to furnish: [How to play](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#furnishing).

## New hunters in the dark

The **Rivenmaw** is rivenrock woken by the Crystal’s light: a long, eyeless climber that coils before it springs, and whose bite leaves **Stonegrip**. A torch keeps it off. The **Slagcaster** is a spark of Fire burned into a body of slag, and throws its own slag from afar; by day its slag cracks and burns away. The **Waned** are travellers caught mid-crossing when the Wanestones failed: they walk on in their cloaks, the Dustwaned on the desert roads and the Rimewaned on the snow.

Every creature: [the creatures guide](https://riventale.world/guides/creatures/).

## The Breaking Tide

Wound the **Rime Sovereign** to half and the water it was bound from breaks through the frost: a wave of ice curls over its head, and the fight turns.

How to beat it: [the Rime Sovereign](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/rime-sovereign/#its-second-form).

## Creative worlds

On our server, choose **Creative** as you make a world. Its keeper, and the players the keeper adds, build there in creative mode with the Builder’s Lens; everyone else plays survival. Nothing earned in a Creative world counts anywhere else, and it stays Creative for good.

## Sound captions

Turn on **Captions** in Settings, Sound: every sound you hear gets a line at the side of the screen, named in the world’s own words, with an arrow toward it.

Earlier versions: [all updates](https://riventale.world/updates/).

Play now: https://riventale.world/