The island of Koh Phangan has been redrawn by hand. • Living world map — a hand-drawn 2.5D island with day/night light, drifting clouds, sea shimmer, and your hero walking the roads between locations. • Redesigned combat — full-height hand-drawn fighters, clearer body-zone targeting, ink-blue defence cues, and a battle log that shows exactly where each blow lands. • New bestiary — meet hand-drawn island monsters, each with its own short story, on Salad Beach. • Pirate dungeon — the Jungle Caves get a carved stone-vine frame and winding maze corridors. • Persistent matchmaking — your PvP search now survives switching tabs, with a handy mini-bar. • Cleaner, warmer parchment look and smoother onboarding throughout. See you on the island!

Phangan now lives on a hand-drawn pirate parchment map. Pan and pinch-zoom the whole island, markers redrawn on the new canvas.

Multiplayer dungeons fixed (1-4 players). Bigger PvP rewards — 1v1 grants 3× XP, 2v2 grants 5× XP. New 20-second combat turns with anti-AFK protection.

Phangan Rivals 4.1 — now playable in Thai! - Full Thai language support across every screen: combat, character, shop, dungeon, settings - Language picker on the welcome screen — pick your language before signing in - Faster PvP combat turns: timer lowered from 30 s to 20 s - Stability + UI polish

Welcome to Phangan Rivals 4.0 — a top-to-bottom redesign on the new parchment palette. - Warm aged-paper canvas with hand-drawn ink across every screen: combat, shops, dungeons, profile, and the island map - Six hand-drawn pirate avatars you can pick and switch any time - Stylised Phangan island map background in your profile - 2v2 Team Battle now opens at level 3 Accessibility and polish: - Full Dynamic Type support: text scales with your iOS accessibility setting - Reduce-Motion is honoured across all animations - VoiceOver labels on every interactive control

Major visual overhaul: app-wide premium minimalist redesign with gold-trim cards, serif tracked typography, and a new old-map sepia palette with nautical watermarks (compass rose, sailboats, anchors, waves). All combat modes (PvP 1v1/2v2, NPC, dungeon) get unified premium HP bars, monogram avatar emblems with HP arcs, and gold-trim zone buttons. Shop, Tattoo Studio, Daily Reward, Salad Beach, and every modal sheet harmonized.

• 5 new Sak Yant tattoos at the Tattoo Studio — combat tier: – Snake Strike: physical damage + agility (4500 PC) – Tiger Claw: physical damage + strength (6500 PC) – Falcon Eye: critical damage + intuition (5500 PC) – Stone Skin: damage reduction + endurance (5500 PC) – Arcane Eye: intelligence + magic damage — the first INT-spec tattoo (5000 PC) • Pure-attacker, crit, tank and INT-caster builds finally have mid-game tattoo paths without alignment grind.

• Every tattoo bonus now actually works in PvP duels and dungeons — phys damage, crit, lifesteal, damage reduction, armor and more. • Light alignment finally gets its +10% damage during the day on the server. • Dark alignment now strikes first at night — the opponent's swing is nullified that turn. • Poison, burn and bleed now tick every turn; tattoo HP regen heals each turn. • END is a real survival stat — gives extra damage reduction independent of armor. • High SPI grants a passive heal chance when HP drops below 50% — clutch saves for Yoga Warriors and Island Shamans. • Character tab: tap a stat to see the full breakdown — base, equipment, tattoos and potions.

Security and reliability upgrade for dungeons and inventory. - Dungeon runs are now created server-side, preventing tampered start states - Equipping and unequipping items is fully server-authoritative with atomic belt updates - Consuming a stack now clears the battle belt slot in the same transaction, fixing edge-case desync

Reliability fixes for early-game progression and multiplayer. - Stat allocation now saves correctly for characters who haven't picked an alignment yet - Multiplayer dungeon lobbies accept non-host joiners again

Stat allocation reliability fix. - Spending free stat points now persists immediately and survives a tab switch - The Save button locks to the gray Saved state after a successful commit

Gameplay reliability and security fixes. - Hardened matchmaking queue writes and dungeon combat validation - Fixed multiplayer dungeon counter-damage and defense zone syncing - Fixed tattoo completion state so bonuses apply only after the timer finishes - Fixed dungeon rewards, chest inventory counts, and consumable buff application

Stat allocation: the Save button now stays as a gray Saved checkmark after you confirm — clear visual proof your changes were saved. It returns to the active green Save automatically when your next level-up grants new free stat points.

What's new in 3.11: - Combat redesign across NPC / 1v1 / 2v2 / dungeon: glowing body silhouettes for attack and defend zones, vertical side panels for fighters, on-screen action legend. - 2v2 Arena unlocks at level 2; Battle Royale renamed to Chaotic Battle, unlocks at level 4. Locked modes show "Available at level N" badge. - Locked map locations now show their unlock level on the marker; tapping shows a quick toast instead of the full sheet. Chaloklum Beach moved to level 3. - Inventory item details: octagonal HUD frame, neon Sell / Use / Add to Belt / Discard buttons across consumables and equipment. - Phangan Rivals brand title bigger and cleaner — hurricane glyph removed. - Shop tap feedback added; price pills no longer dragged a circular halo. - 27 tattoo bonus types now actually apply to combat and HP — previously only 8 stat-types stacked. Tattoo studio gains progress sparkles and ink-drop motion. - 9 NPC bots are now equipped with archetype starter gear instead of empty slots. - Stat allocation actually persists — fixed missing freeStatPoints write + listener race. - Dungeon entry no longer bounces back to the map on a transient Firestore snapshot. - Backend runtime upgraded to Node 22 / firebase-functions 7 with tattoo bonuses applied server-side.

What's new in 3.10: - Tutorial spotlights now follow real map markers and the combat tab — no more drift. - Compact map header: location, online, gold and level on a single line. - Tap an opponent in PvP to view their full character. - Dungeon party reduced to 4 — guaranteed bot teammate when you queue solo. - Backend runtime upgraded for stability.

Smoother loading effects across the shop, dungeon, and Character screens. Brand title in the Character toolbar. Fixed: PvP chat input and leaderboard no longer hide behind the floating tab bar.

A polish-focused update on top of v3.7. • Rotating hot-spot stroke on legendary shop items, daily reward and NPC combat rewards. • Numbers now count up smoothly: HP, Mana, XP, stat allocation points, shop prices. • Spring bloom feedback on class and alignment selection. • Light-sweep shimmer on primary "Open Inventory" and "Start Dungeon" buttons. • Island-map HUD fix: no more faint halo around the top pills. No gameplay changes — just a nicer feel.

Small polish: a soft rotating light now highlights rare loot cards in dungeon victories and the winning side of PvP results. Respects Reduce Motion.

Fresh coat of paint on the entire UI: unified design tokens, polished cards and buttons across combat, shop, inventory, map and social screens. No gameplay changes.

Stability and security improvements. - Fixed an HP calculation edge case in dungeon combat that could over-heal after a vampirism hit - Added protection against duplicate combat actions within the same turn - Tightened privacy of player presence data - Rate limiting and validation polish across multiplayer features

Stability fixes: • Fixed launch crash after Sign in with Apple on iPadOS 26 (Guideline 2.1(a)) • All Firebase Cloud Function calls now run in a detached task to work around a Swift runtime regression. Covers grantStarterItem, daily reward, combat, dungeon, PvP, marketplace and inventory paths • General reliability improvements

Stability improvements: • Fixed rare startup crash caused by concurrent catalog loading • Fixed crash when entering PvP matches • General performance tuning and cleanup

Fixed crash after claiming daily login reward. Root cause: Swift Concurrency async-let deallocation when sheet was dismissed. All server logic moved outside the sheet lifecycle.

Critical fix: resolved the crash that occurred after claiming the daily login reward. The reveal animation has been fully simplified and state handling stabilized.

New daily login rewards: every login now grants a random 10–100 PC, with a rare chance for a bonus potion or scroll. Fixed a crash that occurred after claiming the reward; the reveal animation has been simplified and stabilized.