# The Worlds and Games update

*v1.8 · October 2026*

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

- **[Worlds and Games](#worlds-and-games):** Kinholds, the Riven Lands, Players’ worlds. Then the Games.
- **[Emberhold leads the Games](#emberhold-leads-the-games):** Emberhold heads Custom games, its Ranks beside it. Six modes, one door.
- **[Full screen](#full-screen):** Phones and tablets play edge to edge. On iPhone, from the Home Screen.
- **[The thumb fan](#the-thumb-fan):** Emotes fan out under your thumb. Slide to one and let go.
- **[Hold to break](#hold-to-break):** A ring fills as the block gives. Slots sized for a thumb.

- **Left-handed:** The 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](https://riventale.world/guides/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](https://riventale.world/guides/how-to-play/#the-builders-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](https://riventale.world/updates/).

Play now: https://riventale.world/