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Updates

v1.9 October 2026

The Steadfast update

No gate shuts in silence. What is yours holds fast.

  • The title menu with a card: The server is updating, Try again in a minute, and a New world button.
    Every gate speaksA full world, a server mid-update, an old page: each says why.
  • A window over the title menu: Couldn’t load Settings, A new version is out: reload the page, with Retry, Reload page and Close.
    A new version is outA screen that won’t load after an update says so at once. One tap reloads.
  • In the Gleamlands, a line in the chat: That invite link has run out. Ask for a new one.
    Links that ran outA friend’s link past its two days says so. Ask them for a new one.
  • On an iPhone held sideways, a card on the title menu: Sign in to keep your worlds safe on this iPhone, and Sign in.
    Keep your worldsAn iPhone guest gets one quiet card: sign in to keep your worlds safe.
  • In a world, a card at the top: Wren wants to teleport to you, with Accept (Y) and No (N).
    Friends onlyOnly friends can ask to come to you with a Farglass, or be asked.
  • A card over the darkened title: WebGL isn't available. Gleamheart needs WebGL (GPU acceleration). Turn on hardware acceleration in your browser's settings, or open the game in another browser.
    WebGL isn't availableA browser without WebGL says how to turn it on.
Also new
  • While a wallet pays, the checkout holds, and Back never leaves it mid-payment.
  • A world waits for a payment in flight before it reloads.
  • A full Kinhold, a full listed world and the Gleamlands’ full line each get their card, with a way into your own world.
  • Single player saves as the tab closes, too.
  • When a save fails, one short line says why and what to do.
  • A world made while the browser’s storage was out never replaces your first.
  • Sign in to an account with its own character and that one plays. You are told the guest stays on this device.
  • A guest’s character that can’t move to your account on sign-in says so.
  • Accept on a friend request or a teleport always answers.
  • On iPhone, the Home Screen card never covers Looks or another window.
  • On Android, a first tap that opens a window keeps it open.
  • Looks waits for the looks you own before calling one missing.
  • The line into the Gleamlands no longer stalls on seats held for players reconnecting.
  • Busy servers run smoother: far creatures step slower, and worlds save in turns.
  • Security fixes.

Patches

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.

Every gate speaks

When a world can’t take you, the title menu says why in one card, and what to do next. The Gleamlands are full (their line too): places open as players leave. This world is full, for a Kinhold or a listed world: seats open as players leave. Our server is busy: worlds wake as others sleep. The server is updating: a page newer than the game server is asked to try again in a minute, never sent round a Reload into the same page. These cards carry one tap into a world of your own. A page older than the server gets Update ready, with Reload.

A new version is out

A tab left open across an update can find that a screen (Looks, the Journal, Settings) no longer loads: its files were replaced. When the page already knows a new version is out, the first window says so, A new version is out: reload the page, with Reload page. Your worlds and everything in them are kept.

A friend’s invite link to the Gleamlands lasts two days. Past that you still join, and the chat says That invite link has run out. Ask for a new one., instead of leaving you at the world spawn with no word.

More: inviting friends.

Keep your worlds

Safari on an iPhone may clear a site’s storage, worlds with it, when the game isn’t on the Home Screen, and a guest has no copy on an account. So from the third visit on, an iPhone guest with a Kinhold sees one card on the title menu: Sign in to keep your worlds safe on this iPhone. Its ✕ closes it for good, and signing in ends it too. It never shows beside the Home Screen card or over a window.

Friends only

A Farglass lists only your friends in the world (signed in, and neither of you blocking the other), and only they can ask to teleport to you. An Accept always gets an answer, even when the one who asked has gone.

WebGL isn’t available

In a browser with no WebGL (hardware acceleration switched off, or a graphics card the browser won’t use), the game says WebGL isn’t available and what to do: turn on hardware acceleration in your browser’s settings, or open the game in another browser.

Payments that hold

While a wallet pays, the checkout stays open and still, and the phone’s Back never leaves it mid-payment. A world waits for a payment in flight before it reloads.

Smoother busy servers

Creatures far from every player and home step every other tick, far Hearth Pots and crops are looked at less often, and private worlds save in turns instead of all at once. The line into the Gleamlands no longer stalls on seats held for players reconnecting. Single player saves as the tab closes, too.

Earlier versions: all updates.

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