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v1.8 October 2026

The Worlds and Games update

Worlds to keep, games to win. On a phone, the whole screen is yours.

  • The title menu: Worlds (Kinholds, The Riven Lands, Players’ worlds) above Games (Custom games, Looks).
    Worlds and GamesKinholds, the Riven Lands, Players’ worlds. Then the Games.
  • Custom games: Emberhold first with its Ranks, then Vesselfall, Forgebreak, Riftfall, Riftways and the Makers’ Trial.
    Emberhold leads the GamesEmberhold heads Custom games, its Ranks beside it. Six modes, one door.
  • A phone held sideways in a world, edge to edge: sunlit grass and a sandy shore, the stick, the hotbar and the compass.
    Full screenPhones and tablets play edge to edge. On iPhone, from the Home Screen.
  • On a phone, the wheel open as a fan by the thumb: eight emotes on two arcs, the actions in a tray beside it.
    The thumb fanEmotes fan out under your thumb. Slide to one and let go.
  • On a phone, a finger held on the turf: a gold ring filling round the spot as the block gives.
    Hold to breakA ring fills as the block gives. Slots sized for a thumb.
  • Left-handed on a phone: the fan open on the left, the actions in their tray at the top, the stick on the right.
    Left-handedThe stick on the right, the fan on the left. One switch in Controls.
Also new
  • New names: Kinholds, Forgebreak, the Firstfolk, the middle lands, Pyregold and Cinderveil. /mode sets survival or creative.
  • Android and iPad go full screen at your first tap. On iPhone a card shows the way; the corner button brings it back.
  • Drag the Lens’s corners with a finger. Arrows move the box a block at a time.
  • The phone’s Back closes the title menu’s screens and keeps you in the game.
  • Every window scrolls under a finger.
  • Sneak in the saddle.
  • Settings › Controls › Wheel: Fan or Ring.
  • Machines on a chunk’s edge no longer stall.
  • A clock hung on a wall stays up when you dig beneath it.
  • Stone and slate slabs no longer fuse into Fieldstone.
  • Ride through a reconnect and your view stays on your mount.
  • /spawn, /home and /kill are refused in Forgebreak and Riftfall.
  • Leaving in a round’s countdown hands your seat to an Echo. It is never a quit.
  • Animals you lead come back from the void with you.
  • Paying can’t be changed halfway, and your looks reach every eye at once.
  • A gift paid after your bank’s check says Gift sent.
  • Music plays at the volume Settings shows.
  • Sandstorms are lighter on phones.

Worlds and Games

The title menu is laid out by what you want to do. Worlds: your Kinholds (worlds of your own, alone or with up to eight friends), the Riven Lands (the shared world) and Players’ worlds (worlds their keepers opened to all). Games: Custom games, then Looks.

Emberhold leads the Games

Custom games holds every round mode behind one door. Emberhold comes first, its Ranks beside it, then Vesselfall, Forgebreak, Riftfall, Riftways and the Makers’ Trial.

More: Emberhold.

Full screen

On Android phones and on iPad the game goes full screen at your first tap, with no address bar. Safari on iPhone gives a page no full screen: add Riventale to your Home Screen (Share, then Add to Home Screen) and open it from there. A card shows the way on your first visit, and the full-screen button in the corner brings it back. Settings › Full screen turns it off.

The thumb fan

The wheel button opens your emotes as a fan round your thumb, on two arcs, with Chat, Camera, Zoom, Moment, Hide HUD and Sneak in a tray beside it. Press, slide to an emote and let go, or tap one. For the round wheel: Settings › Controls › Wheel: Ring.

Hold to break

Hold a finger on a block and a gold ring fills as it gives. The hotbar’s slots are sized for a thumb, every button takes a fingertip, and every window scrolls under a finger. Sneak works in the saddle.

Left-handed

Settings › Controls › Left-handed puts the stick on the right, and Jump and the fan on the left.

The Lens by touch

With the Builder’s Lens on a phone, drag the box’s corners A and B with a finger, or tap one and move it a block at a time with the arrows.

More: the Builder’s Lens.

New names

Your own worlds are Kinholds; one is a Kinhold. The raid on the Firstfolk forges is Forgebreak (/forgebreak). The makers’ people are the Firstfolk, and the lands you wake in are the middle lands. Two spell trails take new names: Pyregold and Cinderveil. /mode sets survival or creative.

Earlier versions: all updates.

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