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Each Gleamheart update, newest first. The game updates itself: open gleamheart.com and you have the latest.

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Version 1.9.4

  • A player in Dawnspar armour stands on a grassy rise with a Rimeiron shield raised in front of the chest, its face toward the viewer, a wooden cabin and a tall tree behind.
    ShieldsRaise a shield to block. Time it to parry. Bash to break a guard.
  • The World rules sheet with On death set to Drop some, between Drop items and Keep items, and under it: Hotbar, off hand and armour stay; the bag drops.
    Drop someA new On death choice: the bag drops, your hotbar and armour stay.
  • Under a One Block banner reading The Brinefold, a player in iron armour stands on a floating island of sand, sandstone, clay and gravel, two Shellbacks and a Waned ahead.
    The BrinefoldOne Block rises out of the sea before the Gleamheart.
  • The Blazing axe fells the trees touching the one it fells.
  • Worn Gloomseer Lenses see twice as far.
  • A Thrumcore fills half a worn Thrumpack’s tank, in the air too.
  • A Sunapple leaves you Sated. Sated heals faster while you are well fed.
  • Rivet speaks your next First steps step.
  • Any log and any fieldstone in recipes that take any.
  • Kneel low on a Mistray’s back.
  • Photo mode saves and copies on a computer.
  • Folk trade the moment the prompt says Trade.
  • The title track plays clean.
  • A passkey a work or school phone refuses no longer looks like a failed sign-in.
  • Small fixes.

Version 1.9.3

  • The share card: the four-coloured Gleamheart crest over the name GLEAMHEART in gold, and Build. Explore. Face the elements. in white.
    Your shared linksA link to Gleamheart now shows its own card wherever you share it.
  • Small fixes.

Version 1.9.2

  • Straw-gold grassland in afternoon light, a flat-crowned parasol tree standing over low terraces of dry grass.
    The Amber PlainsNew land past the horizon: the Amber Plains, reeds, and trees you haven’t seen.
  • A dark cone of Scorchstone with lava glowing in its crater and running down one flank into an ash field.
    FireswellsFireswells breathe lava in the new land. Their ash runs far.
  • The roofed stone wall of a Firstfolk maze in the Wastes, its one way in on the north side.
    The CoilvaultA Firstfolk maze in the Wastes. Wake its four marks before they go dark.
  • A cinematic title card over a Shardborn rising out of its cradle: A Shardborn wakes, THE TIDEWROUGHT.
    RisingsThe Shardborn and Isembard’s Shadow rise in cinematics of their own.
  • The Journal’s Story tab with its Cinematics list: each one you have seen, with Watch beside it.
    Watch againEvery cinematic you have seen, in the Journal’s Story tab.
  • A Waystead at dusk: a Homefire with a Waywell beside it and Bedrolls round it, Rekindled folk gathered at the fire, one with a lantern.
    Friendly folkWarm the Waned back at a Homefire. Found a Waystead and trade there.
  • The Bring in a build window: a build turned in a 3D preview, swapped blocks lit gold, and the list of swaps under it.
    Bring in a buildBring a build in from a .schem, .litematic or .vox file. Swap any block.
  • A Kinholds save row with its tools, Bring online among them, and over it: Online. Its code: ZX77-9Z31-J670-917F.
    Your world, onlineBring a world you made on your own online, with its own code.
  • A ward pillar with a blood-red gem at night, two Glintmaws beside it flashing red as it wounds them.
    The Bane WardA ward that bites: it wounds the hunters that come near.
  • A Homefire at night, a violet-white flame burning in its flue and violet embers rising into the dark.
    A home beyond fourSet the rarest ore in a Homefire: a home beyond your four.
  • A field of wheat ripe at once beside green rows, a handful of Quickloam in hand.
    QuickloamPale Ash worked into dirt. A handful grows a crop or a sapling at once.
  • Rivet flying at the player’s left shoulder over a field at dawn.
    Rivet at your sideTurn him on in Settings, and Rivet flies at your shoulder.
  • A shared picture: a great forest under a blue sky, a cabin roof below, framed in night-purple with the Gleamheart mark.
    Your picturesPictures you save and world files now carry the Gleamheart name.
  • The emote wheel open over the world: eight stone sockets round a night-purple octagon, each a character mid-gesture, one rimmed in gold.
    Everything comes with youYour earned looks, emotes, titles and private worlds come with you.
  • The Crowned Wyrm breaks from its shell, and the Kept are told when you take them up.
  • /god in your own worlds: nothing but the void can hurt you.
  • /locate fireswell and /locate coilvault give the way.
  • The Builder’s Lens pastes upside down, and keeps your copy if you drop out.
  • Your browser is asked to keep your worlds, so it never clears them by itself.

Version 1.9.1

  • The title menu: the crest over the name GLEAMHEART in gold, Build. Explore. Face the elements., and Kinholds and The Gleamlands below.
    GleamheartThe game has a new name. Your worlds, looks and name are as you left them.

Feature updates

  • The title menu with a card: The server is updating, Try again in a minute, and a New world button.
    The Steadfast updateVersion 1.9 · October 2026Every gate says why it shuts: a full world, a server mid-update, an old page, each with what to do next. A screen that fails after an update offers Reload, an invite link that ran out says so, an iPhone guest is asked once to sign in, and only friends can ask to teleport to you. Payments that hold, saves as the tab closes, smoother busy servers.
  • The title menu: Worlds (Kinholds, The Gleamlands, Players’ worlds) above Games (Custom games, Looks).
    The Worlds and Games updateVersion 1.8 · October 2026The title menu by what you want to do: Worlds (Kinholds, the Gleamlands, Players’ worlds), then Games, with Emberhold leading Custom games. Full screen on phones and tablets, the thumb fan, hold to break, the Lens by touch and left-handed play. New names: Kinholds, Forgebreak, the Firstfolk.
  • At night a Lever thrown: a line of Thrumthread burning orange across the stone to a lit Thrumlight and an open door.
    The Thrum updateVersion 1.7 · October 2026The thrum moves stone: Heavers and Haulers, Chutes and the Sorter, the Detector, and the Blastcharge. Herds that breed and follow a Tether. Hail and sandstorms. The Heart: four last Torn Pages. Clocks and notes, and a Kinhold kept by your own rules.
  • Dawnbrand in a Firstfolk Reliquary’s vault: its blade blazing gold on the stone floor before the heart plinth.
    The Kept updateVersion 1.6 · October 2026Seas past the spawn lands. The Kept: three relics, one of each in a world. The Lightless, hunters the Shadow drained. Twenty-eight creatures, the Roadhorn to ride and the Mistray to carry you. Isles found, one lobby for every round mode, and the Echoes to fill it.
  • The Cinderwrack under the Firstfolk Wastes’ rust-red sky: a burnt tower of slate brick over black crust, magma glowing at its foot.
    The Cinderwrack updateVersion 1.5 · October 2026The Tempest fights in a thunderstorm. The emote wheel: salute, kneel, raise a war cry. The Cinderwrack, where the Firstfolk city burned, and the Siphonworks deep beneath it. The Fish Compendium, the Sealed Chest, Gloomseer Lenses, rails that turn and climb, and gear that glows by its level.
  • The Firstfolk Forgeholds: four team isles over the cloud sea, each with its Homefire, its Forgewell and its Armoury.
    The Sundered Sky updateVersion 1.4 · October 2026Vesselfall: every body changes hands each minute. Forgebreak and Riftfall beside Emberhold over the cloud sea. Riftways, courses of leaps in any world, and the Makers’ Trial. Isembard’s Shadow, solid only in the light. A torch in hand, marks for your company, a gamepad, and twenty more comforts.
  • A cottage of boards and fieldstone in a meadow, framed by the Lens in a gold box, its corners marked.
    The Builders updateVersion 1.3 · October 2026The Builder’s Lens: mark a box, fill it, copy it, set it down turned, shape the land, keep blueprints. Fences, walls, gates, trapdoors, panes, scaffolding, signs, shelves, chairs, tables and carpets. Creative worlds. The Glintmaw, the Slagcaster and the Waned hunt the night, and the Rime Sovereign breaks into the Breaking Tide.
  • Players’ worlds: under New, Cloudspire by its owner, a Sky Islands world with no one in it yet, its picture beside it and Report at the edge.
    The Open Gates updateVersion 1.2 · October 2026Players’ worlds: the worlds their keepers have opened to everyone, joined with one tap and no code. List a world of your own with a name and a line of its tale. Report a chat line, a world, a cairn’s or a chest’s name where you see it.
  • The Gleam Isles from above: four broken isles round the shattered Crystal, bridges between them, the cloud sea far below.
    The Emberhold updateVersion 1.1 · October 2026Emberhold, the first round mode: eight players in four Element teams, a Homefire each over the cloud sea, one kit of spells and Skystone, the Hearthgate, Embers for looks and seasonal ranks. Worlds of your own: Sky Islands, One Block, SMP, Flat, One Land and Archipelago, with world switches. The satchel of six and the bag remade.
  • A great forest of oaks and birches round a sunlit glade, the roof of a cabin below.
    The Gatekeeper updateVersion 1.0 · October 2026A compass that takes you home, the coordinates beneath it. Your private world in your hands: a New code that shuts out the old one, and /kick for its owner; bans that show the day they end, with Appeal; news on the title menu when the server needs upkeep; moderators who know a repeat offender at once; and steadier play.
  • A forest at midday: great oaks on twin trunks, their crowns heaped on branches you can see.
    The Forests and the Deep updateVersion 0.9 · October 2026The land remade: great forests whose trees fall whole to an axe and grow back; deep caves of glowcaps, still lakes, geodes and a buried Firstfolk gallery; storms, lightning, snow, ash and rainbows; Lens Foundries guarded by Brass Wardens; the Shellback, the Shard-Halo Archer and Elemental Gloops; the Path and its Dawn errand; friends as they play; and a way to report a player, with the rules behind it.
  • Blazewrought, a Shardborn of dark stone veined with fire, 48 blocks tall, standing over the land, a player at its feet.
    The Shardborn updateVersion 0.8 · October 2026Four Shardborn, giants of living land 48 blocks tall, asleep in Shard Cradles across the Elemental World: wake one, break its knees, climb to its heart, and earn its Shard, a Shardmantle, the Shardfall Cape and the title Shardbreaker. And every everyday creature rebuilt, no two alike.
  • A player casts Stonewake: a ridge of stone tears up along the ground to a pig, its edges glowing green.
    The Magic and Paths updateVersion 0.7 · October 2026Four spells, Rimeshard, Cinderbolt, Stonewake and Squall, cast from a Dawnspar Focus for Ether; the spell book and spell levels; two earned spell trails; the Firstfolk Lens Lectern, which enhances weapons, tools, armour and spells; four callings, each with a first kit and an outfit; and a pause menu with Invite friends and Leave world.
  • A Hearth Pot: an iron pot sunk into a brick hearth, the fire showing below.
    The Hearth and Harbour updateVersion 0.6 · October 2026The Hearth Pot and eleven dishes, learned by cooking or from Recipe Scraps; fishing, with a catch table, night fish and three trophy hats; buckets for water, lava, pitch and acid, and milk that clears every effect; the Live Heart; Fishing Cutter wrecks and Firstfolk Reliquaries; and a new title menu: Continue, Kinholds, The Gleamlands and Looks.
  • The Crowned Wyrm, a winged dragon of black stone, over its arena with an element pillar behind it.
    The Bows and Keepers updateVersion 0.5 · October 2026The Recurve Bow, the crossbow and four elemental arrows; daggers and the backstab; the Draw button on touch screens; every Keeper rebuilt in its true shape; and the Elemental Core’s last shape, the Crowned Wyrm, with its ending, the Gleaming Circlet and the title Champion.
  • A player in a meadow, gold motes rising round them.
    The Sun Shield updateVersion 0.4 · October 2026Seventeen effects with names of their own, the Sun Shield, food effects, Nightsight and three Wards; your character outlined, shaded and blinking; sparks for the big moments, and auras earned from the Keepers; banners in ten colours.
  • The Friends window: four friends online, what each is doing, and Join beside those in the Gleamlands.
    The Friends updateVersion 0.3 · October 2026Friends with friend codes, Kinholds, open gates and private worlds, the Songstone, Keeper’s Marks and the shop, the Journal, the compass ribbon and danger hints, touch controls you can arrange, and fixes.

Earlier

The opening scene, retold · October 2026

Version 0.2.1

  • The opening scene told again, with weight: new narration, and no talk beeps under it.

The Looks update · October 2026

Version 0.2

  • Looks: new faces, hair, clothes, gear and three saved outfits.
  • Bosses rise in short scenes the first time you meet them, and again when they turn to their second forms (single player; Settings > Video > Boss cinematics).
  • Painted textures for every block, with variants, and animated lava, magma, gems and crystals.
  • 12 new tracks, with short gaps between them.
  • Online worlds hold up to 40 players. The first Play Online plays the opening scene first; online, the pause menu says Leave world.

The first release · October 2026

Version 0.1

  • The first live release: single player in your browser, and Play Online in a shared world.