# Gleamheart updates

Each Gleamheart update, newest first. The game updates itself: open [gleamheart.com](https://gleamheart.com/play/) and you have the latest.

## Latest

### Version 1.9.4

- **Shields:** Raise a shield to block. Time it to parry. Bash to break a guard.
- **Drop some:** A new On death choice: the bag drops, your hotbar and armour stay.
- **The Brinefold:** One 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

- **Your shared links:** A link to Gleamheart now shows its own card wherever you share it.

- Small fixes.

### Version 1.9.2

- **The Amber Plains:** New land past the horizon: the Amber Plains, reeds, and trees you haven’t seen.
- **Fireswells:** Fireswells breathe lava in the new land. Their ash runs far.
- **The Coilvault:** A Firstfolk maze in the Wastes. Wake its four marks before they go dark.
- **Risings:** The Shardborn and Isembard’s Shadow rise in cinematics of their own.
- **Watch again:** Every cinematic you have seen, in the Journal’s Story tab.
- **Friendly folk:** Warm the Waned back at a Homefire. Found a Waystead and trade there.
- **Bring in a build:** Bring a build in from a .schem, .litematic or .vox file. Swap any block.
- **Your world, online:** Bring a world you made on your own online, with its own code.
- **The Bane Ward:** A ward that bites: it wounds the hunters that come near.
- **A home beyond four:** Set the rarest ore in a Homefire: a home beyond your four.
- **Quickloam:** Pale Ash worked into dirt. A handful grows a crop or a sapling at once.
- **Rivet at your side:** Turn him on in Settings, and Rivet flies at your shoulder.
- **Your pictures:** Pictures you save and world files now carry the Gleamheart name.
- **Everything comes with you:** Your 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

- **Gleamheart:** The game has a new name. Your worlds, looks and name are as you left them.

## Feature updates

- **[The Steadfast update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-9/):** Version 1.9 · October 2026. Every 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 Worlds and Games update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-8/):** Version 1.8 · October 2026. The 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.
- **[The Thrum update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-7/):** Version 1.7 · October 2026. The 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.
- **[The Kept update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-6/):** Version 1.6 · October 2026. Seas 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 update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-5/):** Version 1.5 · October 2026. The 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 Sundered Sky update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-4/):** Version 1.4 · October 2026. Vesselfall: 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.
- **[The Builders update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-3/):** Version 1.3 · October 2026. The 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.
- **[The Open Gates update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-2/):** Version 1.2 · October 2026. Players’ 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 Emberhold update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-1/):** Version 1.1 · October 2026. Emberhold, 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.
- **[The Gatekeeper update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v1-0/):** Version 1.0 · October 2026. A 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.
- **[The Forests and the Deep update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-9/):** Version 0.9 · October 2026. The 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.
- **[The Shardborn update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-8/):** Version 0.8 · October 2026. Four 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.
- **[The Magic and Paths update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-7/):** Version 0.7 · October 2026. Four 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.
- **[The Hearth and Harbour update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-6/):** Version 0.6 · October 2026. The 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 Bows and Keepers update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-5/):** Version 0.5 · October 2026. The 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.
- **[The Sun Shield update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-4/):** Version 0.4 · October 2026. Seventeen 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 update](https://gleamheart.com/updates/v0-3/):** Version 0.3 · October 2026. Friends 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.

Play now: https://gleamheart.com/play/