Patch Notes

Sail between camps from your boat, buy boats from Maren and Marlow, and set out from signposts. Saves carry over.

New

• Any of your dragons can follow your leader about, like a boss pet: pick one under Follower on the leader's sheet. Your camp dragon still helps while it does.
• Tap your boat at the dock to sail to any camp you've opened, free, or send a voyage from that camp's waters.
• A signpost where each camp's track leaves for the wilds lists its land expeditions.
• Maren sells the small boats in Briarhold, and Marlow the big ones in Saltmire. Buy any, in any order, and pick which one is moored.
• Ashenveil has a little river landing, so the boat reaches every camp.

Changed

• The game is now called Hatchfire, and the draigons are dragons, each with a name of its own: the Malachite Dragon at camp from the start, then the Umber, Ochre, Opal, Pyrite, Aquamarine, Jasper, Peridot and Slate Dragons.
• Waymeet and its raids are now part of the full game.
• No Leave button in towns, on roads or in Waymeet: walk back the way you came, or use the Spellbook. The phone's back button opens it there.
• Boats are looks and cargo: any boat sails any voyage, a voyage takes its own party, and boats add no power.
• The world map in the guildhouse is a picture of the regions you've opened. Parties are sent from the boat and the signposts.
• In The Far Light, Maren gives you the rigged raft he built.
• Rigging Loft and Deck Hands are gone from the guild tree (points back); Deep Holds and Steady Keel take their place.
• Briarhold's voyages are open from the start, and a few are tougher to make up for it.

A RuneScape-style Spellbook with teleports, benches to sit on in Waymeet, and Finn the bard's songs. Saves carry over.

New

• The Spellbook is one page of icons, every spell and teleport with new art. Tap to cast or go; hold to read about it.
• Teleports to each camp, each town and Waymeet, each needing your leader's Magic. Paid teleports train Magic.
• Every bench in Waymeet can be sat on, and picnic tables stand round the carousel. Everyone sees who's sitting.
• Finn the bard plays four songs of his own at his stops, or one just for you if you tap him.

Changed

• Melody's Carousel is now the Melly-Go-Round.
• Old Tamsin's hut moved across the pond, with a little jetty of her own.
• Saltmire's camp is calmer: no lighthouse or harbour arm, a layered cliff with a proper stair, and the road to town leaves to the east.
• No Home teleport: your camp's own teleport takes you back. Without the Magic for it, walk down a town's lane or out of Waymeet's south gate.
• Walking down another camp's town lane takes your leader to that camp.
• The elder dragon's Go needs Magic 8, like the Waymeet teleport.

Sparring in the city, a new Saltmire camp, gem spells, Melody's Carousel, and every material worth grinding. Saves carry over.

New

• Saltmire's camp is rebuilt on a clifftop, with a stair down to a harbour cove, a quay with a crane, and a lighthouse that sweeps at night.
• Sparring happens in Waymeet's own ring. Fighters get the ropes, the bars and a Concede button; everyone else just sees the bout as they walk by.
• Gem spells: a second page in the Spellbook from Magic 15 to 45 (Tidecall, Calm seas, Hearthstone, Amber hour, Dreamwalk, Meteor). Pour up to five pearls, amber or moonstone into a cast for a stronger one.
• Lures: a hide and five feathers make ten at Woodworking. Fishers with lures catch fish faster.
• Quivers are sewn at the loom, one for every archery tier.
• The recruits board stands outside the guildhouse, with the recruits on offer waiting in front of it.
• Melody's Carousel turns in Waymeet's park, beside the bandstand. Hop on a horse for a ride to its own music-box waltz, and everyone nearby sees you go round.
• Tern Rock: a short first voyage in Maren's rigged raft, for driftwood, feathers and shrimp. The Far Light now sails there before the crossing.
• The main menu shows your save: your leader, guild, camp and how long since you last played. Settings has its own button under Continue.
• The Crafting table's Build tab has tabs across the top: Stations, Decor, Walls & floors, Capes and Lanterns. Decor sorts by kind, with a Can make filter.
• You can surge at camp while walking, once you've learned Surge.

Changed

• Hunting is gone. Dragonhide comes from each region's dragons: green wyrmlings at Briarhold, yellow drakes at Saltmire, ash wyrms at Ashenveil. Hide comes from wolves, feathers from wild chickens.
• Cave bats are now wild chickens, and stalkers are now green wyrmlings.
• Expeditions bring no gear. Gear is made, bought, or won in boss fights. Necklaces are still found out there.
• Made gear sells for at least what went into it, so crafting a pile for XP never loses gold.
• Market carts are open all day, from 6 am to 8 pm.
• Surging needs the Surge perk everywhere.
• The Fight job is called Combat.
• The Fellowship branch of the guild tree is gone; its points come back.
• Stats and Social hang from the banner, beside Build and Settings.
• All members opens in a box over the camp, like the Journal and Inventory. Long-press the Guild button to jump straight to it. The boxes are a little smaller.
• Two side quests are gone: Somewhere to Set Up and Wolves at the Wood's Edge.
• The elder dragon's Go costs the waystones' fare to Waymeet.
• The mage's cat and the archer's hawk are gone. Rune grades come from your drawing alone.

Fixed

• The bounty board's progress bar fills.
• Members on the Combat job show their fighting style's level bar.
• Sheets no longer draw a frame inside a frame.

Health, armour and a fighting style for everyone, and a lot of tidying. Saves were reset for this one.

New

• Hitpoints and Defence: two new skills. Health comes from Hitpoints, and Defence and armour cut the blows you take.
• A combat triangle, as in RuneScape: Melee beats Range, Range beats Magic, Magic beats Melee. Every foe, boss and place has a style, and the cards show who has the edge.
• A stance for each member: pick where their fighting XP goes.
• Gear needs a level to wear. Anything already on stays on.
• Two trinket slots. Work tools go there now, so they help at the job without taking a hand.
• Lanterns to make at the Crafting table. Whoever wears one carries a pool of light through camp, towns and Waymeet after dark.
• Three new skills: Woodworking (cut and string your own bows, fletch arrows), Foraging and Hunting.
• Hunting grounds north of every camp. Put members on the Fight job and they work through the mobs while you're away, with food and arrows from storage.
• A bounty board by the hall, with marks to spend in its shop.
• Storage opens over the camp from its own button, and shows the guild's gold.
• A little sign on the road to town tells you when someone's waiting there or a stall is open.

Changed

• Sparring goes by the same health, armour and triangle as every other fight.
• Combat is called Melee and Archery is called Range.
• Sailing is gone as a skill. Voyages count everyone's own power, Magic and Range included, with the boat's on top.
• Work outfits are gone. Only the tools are kept.
• Deeds are Achievements, Decorate is Build, and the Hall of Echoes is the Boss room.
• Recipes are picked by material, as at a RuneScape anvil.
• The Journal lists main quests and side quests apart.
• The Guild is one sheet, with Members, Stats and Friends.

Fixed

• The campfire's sheet draws the same fire as the camp.
• The dragon faces the fire when you first meet it, and people round the fire stand in front of its flames.
• Driftwood can't all be picked up from one spot on the beach.
• A double tap on the banner's crest no longer leaves a black screen.
• The leader stops working while they're off in a town.
• Lots of stale and wrong words put right.

Boss fights from above, and the guildhouse to walk round.

New

• Boss fights seen from above, in each boss's own lair. Lead the fight, read its big moves, and your companions fight beside you.
• Every boss is remade this way, at sea too, and the Hollow raid has three rooms.
• The guildhouse from above: walk in and around it, with a plan for every hall level.
• The Boss room (then the Hall of Echoes): build portals, attune them to bosses you've beaten, set up gear stands and keep the war fire going.
• The King's Road, walked from Briarhold's gate to Waymeet.
• Waystones in every town and in Waymeet, and a magic surge to get about faster.
• Sparring is fought from above, with rules set by whoever challenges.
• The guild tree rebuilt: six branches, with new ways to earn points.
• The main menu asks you to sign in or play offline.

Changed

• Fewer places on the map, and every voyage has a boss.
• Quivers are worn on the back. Crafting makes staves and bows.
• Talking in town happens in a dialogue box at the foot of the screen.
• A sturdier bow, drawn and loosed properly, with arrows in flight.

Fixed

• Signing in can't get stuck any more, and there's a way out while it's slow.

Waymeet opens: a town to share with other players.

New

• Waymeet, an online town. Walk its streets, chat with quick chat, fish its pond, play dice and darts in the tavern and spar in the ring.
• Raids for up to four players, from Waymeet's arena.
• World events: now and then the elder dragon lands in Waymeet's square, and everyone there fights it together.
• Work parties: raise the Festival Pavilion with everyone, a step at a time.
• Seasons that follow the real months, with snow, petals and leaves, and festivals through the year.
• Cloud saves, signing in with Apple or Google.
• Player cards with two pinned show-offs, friends, and visiting a friend's hall to look round.
• The towns redrawn from above and walked round, with townsfolk going about their day.
• The waystones: travel between camps, towns and Waymeet.

Changed

• The dragons, foes and pets are redrawn, with full animation.
• The Trophy Hall became the Hall of Echoes.
• Mage magic looks like storybook magic: orbs, blooms and shooting stars.
• Saltmire and Ashenveil are drawn as places of their own.

Fixed

• A quick second tap on Fight no longer opens a second fight under the first.

Boss fights, the Trophy Hall, and everything from the later 0.9.1 tester builds.

New

• Boss fights everywhere, played the RuneScape way, with ticks, hitsplats, eating, drops and kill counts. Each boss has its own unique drop and a pet.
• The Trophy Hall: a hall of doors to every boss you've beaten.
• Ashenveil Woods: a third region, with a forest camp under the great tree, the Circle's story and its people.
• Briarhold and Saltmire's towns, down the lane from camp, to walk round.
• Friends and more: get to know the people in town, with daily moments, gifts and scenes of your own.
• Members make friends with each other, and do a little better side by side.
• Quest steps play as scenes, at the fire and at the places they happen.
• The guild hall from inside, with stations to build and a room to decorate.
• Looks for everyone: hairstyles, beards, face marks, and a guild crest on a pennant over the hall.
• Capes, worn for looks.
• The guild's banner: tap its crest for the Journal's pages and Settings.

Changed

• Raids are called boss fights, and the leader leads them.
• The map hangs in the hall, and the sea chart is on the ship.
• The Workshop has its own station, and the charter became the Guild Tree.

A big update for testers. Saves from 0.9.0 start over.

Saltmire

• Saltmire's own story: false lights on the bluffs, smugglers, and something under the reef.
• Raids at Saltmire's places, on land and from the deck.
• A second cart, open after dark.

The guild

• Everyone moves now. They breathe and blink, walk the roads, chop, mine and hammer at work, and fight each in their own way in raids.
• Archers start in leather and work up through dragonhide, taken from wild wyrms.
• One tier number across all gear, so a sword, a staff and a bow can be compared at a glance.

The dragon's watch

• After the way is cleared, fly the dragon as it escorts the party, and pick up what it spots on the way.
• A Watch button on the map, under any place with a party out.

Dragons

• More eggs to find, on both sides of the water.

The first build in testers' hands. Here's what's in it so far.

The guild

• Hire a crew and train them in Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Smithing, Cooking, Tailoring, Combat, Archery, Magic and Sailing.
• They keep working for hours while the game is closed.
• Arms and armour from scrap to tidesteel, with kits for sailors, archers and mages. All of it shows on whoever wears it.
• A guild hall to build up, with perks to choose as it grows.

Out in the world

• Places to send a party, by land and by sea.
• Raids to play by hand: the Old Mine, the Wolf Den, the Ruin and Smugglers' Cove.
• A boat that grows from the Raft to the Galleon, for voyages and trade runs.
• A new camp across the water at Saltmire.
• Watch a party on the road through the dragon's eyes and clear its way.

Dragons

• The Dragon, at your camp from the first day.
• Eggs to find. What hatches from them is for you to see.

Life at camp

• Camp spells to trace, market carts, deeds to earn and a collection log.
• An angry chicken.

Price

• Free up to the crossing to Saltmire. One purchase ($4.99) opens the rest. No ads.