ARENA UPDATE • New ARENA QUEUE button on the home screen and a redesigned arena menu • Duels last up to 5:00. When time runs out, the most damage wins • A new results screen after every duel: damage, kills and your rating change, with Exit and Requeue • Winners of live duels can earn a victory chest with elite-level loot • ENTER WORLD is now FARM GEAR FIXES • Skirmishes are no longer shown as ranked • Duels no longer cost you health or leave you as a spirit • A duel result lost to a bad connection is now recovered • A stale save can no longer undo a rating or gold change • Home screen buttons no longer sit under the phone's bottom edge • Hero card text now fits its card

The main questline is connected end to end, the heads-up display has been rebuilt around the modern iPhone screen, and resting now actually heals. NEW - Main questline fixed: every quest giver now hands you the next step instead of running dry after one turn-in. - New quest window: wider, easier to read, with clear objectives and rewards. - Quest tracker with three slots you can pin, promote and abandon from the screen. - Rebuilt heads-up display that fits around the camera area on newer iPhones, with an equal player / map / target row and a full-width target panel. - Minimap markers: blue stars for friends, gold marks for quests to take and quests to hand in. - Gear condition readout: a per-piece display shows exactly which parts are wearing out or broken. - Rest and recover: sit on a bench out of combat and mend twenty times faster. Many more benches added around the starter camps, villages and outposts. - The sun capital and the moon capital now fly their own heraldry on every banner. - Redrawn rocks, basalt and lava fields across the dark lands. - Merchants now stock common goods only; the deep-desert traders still carry the better stock. - Sign out from the main screen or from Settings. BUG FIXES - Fixed one account being played on two devices at the same time. Signing in now signs the older session out cleanly. - Fixed hero progress being overwritten when two saves landed at once. - Fixed a gold arrow that pointed you toward a quest you had not taken. - Fixed the quest tracker showing entries when nothing was tracked. - Fixed text spilling outside its panel on the sign-in and Settings screens. - Fixed the oversized create-account button on the sign-in screen. - Fixed the sword being held wrong in several facing directions. - Amulets no longer lose condition; only armour and weapons wear. - Several crash and stability fixes.

A big pass over how the game reads and plays on a phone, straight from player feedback. SCREEN LAYOUT BUILT AROUND THE CAMERA ISLAND - Nothing hides under the notch any more. Your own frame, the map and the target frame now sit on one clean line below it, split into three equal thirds. - The time, a menu icon and a new mail icon live in the top-left corner, all on one level line. - The six action buttons moved into a tidy three-column block in the top-right, clear of the rounded screen corners. A QUEST TRACKER YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE - Track up to three quests at once - yellow, orange and purple - each showing its progress and whether it is ready to hand in. - Tap a tracked quest for the full details, point the gold arrow at it, untrack it, or abandon it and take it again later. CLEARER QUEST WINDOWS - Every popup is roomier, and talking to a quest giver now shows a proper quest card: the story, the objective and the reward each set apart, with one big Accept button. MORE ON YOUR MAP - Blue stars for friends, yellow circles where a quest can be taken and yellow squares where one is ready to hand in. Zoom the world map in and they become the real icons. REMADE ARTWORK - The black volcanic rocks around the dark city and the lava fields have been remade: molten cracks now glow through the stone instead of it reading flat and grey, and the stray moss and pale caps are gone from the ash rocks. GEAR CONDITION AND REPAIRS - Your equipment slowly wears from the blows you take. A condition light under the quest tracker warns you before anything gives out, and repairers are waiting in cities, villages, forges, mines and caravan camps. BUG FIXES - Fixed the mail notification dot staying lit forever once you had read your letters. - Fixed the starter quest line stopping dead after the first hand-in instead of leading on to the next quest. - Fixed a chained quest showing a red "come back stronger" warning over a quest you could take right then. - Fixed swords floating away from the hand and the shoulder when facing certain directions. - Fixed enemies flickering when they attacked you from the side. - Fixed shopkeepers in starting areas selling rare gear far above the local level. - Removed two settings toggles that did nothing, and the frame-rate cap is now actually applied. - Fixed a volcanic rock that drew as a solid blue rectangle instead of rubble. - More heat and battery fixes for longer sessions.

Fixed • The quest line no longer stops after the first quest. Handing one in left you with nothing accepted, and the arrow that should lead you to the next person had been switched off — so the road simply ended at the gate camp. The arrow now points at whoever is next, and the tracker names them (most of the main storyline was showing a blank where the name should be). • Enemies attacking you from the left or right no longer flicker or jump mid-swing — their body was being drawn away from its own shadow for the length of the attack. Some creatures were also facing the wrong way while attacking; both are fixed. • The game runs cooler. The world no longer re-checks every object in it while you stand still reading a quest, and the frame limit the game was always meant to use is now actually applied when you enter the world. • A phone with a wrong clock could drop you into an empty copy of the world where nobody could see you, and nobody could see them. Fixed. • A hero with no saved position could stall the world load. Fixed at both ends. New • Twenty-four characters out in the world now carry the names of players from our community. Go and find them — every one of them hands out a quest, and their names are reserved so nobody else can take them. Changed • Some characters and places have been renamed. • Settings is simpler: two switches that never changed anything you could feel are gone. The battery-saving frame limit they were meant to control is now always on.

THE MEDALLION AT THE CAVE The Kahf's mouth is the medallion now: the grey and ember halves, the chains, the diamond above the opening. A FAIR FIGHT IN THE ARENA Every duel ends the same way: who won, the damage each side dealt, and what each side's rating did, in one panel with the way out inside it. The sign in the sand is gone. The practice opponent is a real hero of the other faction in every mode. The plaza around the pit is one smooth curve of stone with a kerb, where it used to step in hard rectangular notches. The pit floor tiles seamlessly, the plaza no longer shows a checker of light and dark squares, and the loose rocks under the stands are gone. LEGENDARY ENCHANTS, REMADE A storm of sparks orbits a legendary sword and an arcane crown circles a legendary staff, in every pose and facing. They no longer drift off the weapon. CITY GATES Every gatehouse flies its city's banner: the sun over the light capital, the crescent over the dark. The dark gates match their walls. MORE - Tapping a far villager walks you to them and opens the talk; no more "walk closer" line. - Handing in a quest leaves the follow-up as a marker on its giver for you to take, rather than dropping it into your log. - The friends list shows each friend's helm, name, level and class at a glance, with live levels. - Entering the game selects the hero you played last. - Connecting shows the same full-screen notice as signing in, and the account panel says plainly which button creates a new account and shows its errors where you can read them. - Battery saver holds the open world at 30 frames a second and eases the animation rate; duels keep the full rate. FIXES - Mobs inside buildings can be targeted again. - A building's door is at the door. The tap point sat a step out in the street, which is also why a donkey once opened a house. - Building edges are measured from the art. Most facades fill only part of their canvas, and the old guess blocked the empty margins, so lanes between neighbours that looked open could not be walked. - A kill that a city guard helped with pays its reward. Guard swings landing far from the player were being dropped. - Creatures no longer jump sideways for the length of an attack when facing east or west. - A bag edited by hand cannot carry a legendary with impossible numbers; the server cuts any such item down to a legal one.

THE WORLD, REMADE Every zone now shares one hand-drawn look: the green east, the steppe and the sands, the red mesa, the burnt west, both snow caps, the cave and the two capitals. Hundreds of new trees, rocks, plants, buildings and props. THE AMBER WOODS A new land between the dry steppe and the green east: a fall forest of yellow, orange and red canopies, white birches, leaf-strewn hollows, mushrooms and fallen logs, with leaf-roofed cottages, a cider press, a hunters' lodge, its own people, and new creatures - the great stag, the hollow treant and the amber owl. Two named elites hold the woods. WEATHER Every land has its own weather, and each blows for about half of every day in random spells: dust over the open sands, red dust on the mesa, dark ash over the burnt west, seed-fluff on the steppe, green leaves drifting through the east, amber leaves through the woods, snow on the caps. THE UPPER GROUND Plateaus ringed by real cliffs you cannot climb: one cut stairway down, an elite camp on top, a watcher at the foot. Twenty named elites with a reason to stand where they stand, each with its own hunt. EVERY DOOR OPENS Huts, houses, cottages, lodges, smithies, bakeries, shops and halls all open. A shut door tells you why, and how to open it if there is a way. Inside, a shop has a trader selling that trade's own goods, a hall has a notice board with your work on it, an inn is an inn, and a home is somebody's home. THE MIDNIGHT BROKER Someone keeps a second counter in the dark capital's counting house. He opens the case only between dusk and dawn, and what is in it is legendary. GROUND BUGS Crawling things live in every land, three kinds each. Walk over one and it squishes underfoot - and once in a great while, something worth keeping is under it. THE DARK CAPITAL, REBUILT Its own counting house, bathhouse, bakery, cloth merchant, potter, apothecary, barracks, scribe, tavern and prison, where three lots used to hold the same tall house. New trees, thorns, rocks, gravestones, braziers, stalls, statues and lamps, three of each so no two streets look alike. TROPHIES OF THE HUNT Finishing a named elite's hunt leaves a trophy where the camp stood. Only the hero who finished it can see it. PLACES BUILT FOR PLAY Race arches, dig squares, fishing piers, camp kitchens, kites, gaming tables, tightrope posts, snow forts. Villages and camps in every zone, built from their own kit, with the people of that land. ONE QUEUE The Arena and the Delve are one panel with two tabs, reached from one button. BATTERY SAVER On by default: the open world runs at a gentler frame rate on iPhone; duels and dungeons keep the full rate. FIXES - Equipping an item no longer destroys another item in your bag. - Handing in a quest gives you the next one again. The golden arrow no longer sits on screen permanently. - Squishing anything was silent - it played a sound that does not exist. Squishes have their own voice now. - Most buildings could never be entered: the door scan ran on a draft of the world that is deleted before you see it. - Roadside fences followed a path by being tipped on their side. They narrow as the road turns away and become a post where it runs at you. - The way up a cliff in the green east was a house with stairs on it. It is a stairway cut into the rock now, and so are the snow and lava climbs. - Three heroes fit on a bench, a seated hero shows Zzz, and sitting down means you can log out at once. - Both capitals furnish benches to their own theme. The dark city had old chairs. - Townsfolk are the animated cast facing their own way. - Shadows only where they read: trees, banners, people and creatures. - Quest markers draw above trees and buildings. - Mobs no longer spawn on guard posts, inside villages or right outside the gates. - Trees no longer show white specks; floor tiles wrap without seams; rivers no longer repeat. - Buildings were re-sized against the hero: doors stand at about a hero's height.

A remade world. Every zone was rebuilt as composed places instead of scattered props: camps, caravanserais, watchtowers, orchards, quarries and shrines with their own inhabitants, caravans on the roads, and real transitions between the biomes. Bridges are built from real planks and basalt. The rivers and the moats move. Inside the cities. Step into the Golden Palm and the Black Lantern - three floors each, from the common room to the rooftop terrace - and the Libraries of the Sun and Moon. A sailing ship is moored on the Sunwater and an iron barge on the Emberlava at the snow line; walk the pier and go aboard. One road to the end. After every turn-in the game names the next quest and the arrow leads you to its giver; the line now runs from the starter camp through the cities, the ship and the barge. 139 new fun quests. Races, kite flying, herding, digging, riddles, drum rhythms, dice at the captain's table, stealth past sleeping guests, bilge rats in the hold, star charts on the roof and more - spread through the whole level range, with the fun ones early. 52 new townsfolk with their own faces, in eight directions. Trees, huts, tents and ships are sized against your hero. Crowd control redesigned. Frost Ring, Frost Prison and Earthen Snare now last 9 seconds, break on any damage, and diminish on repeat (players, elites and bosses). Arena on every realm. Ranked and skirmish queues now pool heroes across realms, so a quiet realm still finds a duel. Music. New instrumental beds for the dark camp, the taverns, the ship and the libraries. Bug fixes - Roads no longer paint across rivers and moats. - Cactus clusters, pines and other large props can no longer be walked through. - Fixed an error storm during fun quests that could stall a race or a delivery after a stutter. - Kite flying, caravan escorts and the mounted races can now be completed reliably. - Buildings and props no longer float above their shadows on device. - Fixed a crash-prone cast when re-entering a building. - Removed the repeated ground clutter and the vocal takes that slipped into the 1.4.0 soundtrack.

A remade world. Every zone was rebuilt as composed places instead of scattered props: camps, caravanserais, watchtowers, orchards, quarries and shrines with their own inhabitants, caravans on the roads, and real transitions between the biomes. Bridges are built from real planks and basalt. The rivers and the moats move. Inside the cities. Step into the Golden Palm and the Black Lantern - three floors each, from the common room to the rooftop terrace - and the Libraries of the Sun and Moon. A sailing ship is moored on the Sunwater and an iron barge on the Emberlava at the snow line; walk the pier and go aboard. 139 new fun quests. Races, kite flying, herding, digging, riddles, drum rhythms, dice at the captain's table, stealth past sleeping guests, bilge rats in the hold, star charts on the roof and more - spread through the whole level range, with the fun ones early. 52 new townsfolk with their own faces, in eight directions. Crowd control redesigned. Frost Ring, Frost Prison and Earthen Snare now last 9 seconds, break on any damage, and diminish on repeat (players, elites and bosses). Arena on every realm. Ranked and skirmish queues now pool heroes across realms, so a quiet realm still finds a duel. Music. New beds for the dark camp, the taverns, the ship and the libraries. Bug fixes - Roads no longer paint across rivers and moats. - Cactus clusters, pines and other large props can no longer be walked through. - Fixed an error storm during fun quests that could stall a race or a delivery after a stutter. - Kite flying, caravan escorts and the mounted races can now be completed reliably. - Buildings and props no longer float above their shadows on device. - Fixed a crash-prone cast when re-entering a building.

A WHOLE NEW SOUNDTRACK Every zone has its own music now, ten tracks each. The desert, the oasis, the snow, both capitals, the caves and the arena no longer sound alike, and coming back to a zone does not replay the same loop you heard last time. The main screen has a theme of its own instead of silence, and a new Sound panel gives music, in-game sounds and overall volume their own slider and their own mute, so you can keep the effects and turn the music off. A WORLD WORTH CROSSING Landmarks are back. Volcanoes, canyons, rock spires, oases, standing stones, ruined arches, buried statues and sunken caravans were being built into the world and then removed before you ever loaded in. They are out there now, and they are solid. The land has rhythm too. Instead of the same even scatter everywhere you will cross thickets and open pans, and the scenery, the wildlife and the roaming groups thicken and thin together. Hundreds of new pieces of scenery are in rotation, the green east grows its own flowers and oasis growth at last, and the northern snow, which is over half the map, has its own wildlife instead of being empty. ALSO NEW - Gear now shows a required level, rolled when it drops. Anything your hero cannot use yet is marked in red. - Tapping to move draws a marker on the ground where you tapped. - Roads are wider, and travelling along one is faster than cutting across the sand. - Spirit healers now stand at both starting camps, so an early death is a short walk back. - The game tells you when a newer version is waiting on the App Store. FIXES - Logging back in no longer discards where your hero was standing. - The volume slider in Settings was drawn underneath another button and could not be tapped. - Sign-in failures now say what actually went wrong, and every account has a Sign out. - A deleted character no longer keeps showing as online to other players. - The Sun camel rendered blank when it faced south. - Entering the Kahf, and dying inside it, now return you to the right place. - Desert wildlife no longer wanders across the snowline. - Much less heat and a far steadier frame rate: the game no longer keeps the entire world running while it is off screen. - Fights happening off screen no longer clatter away beside you.

NEW - Now on iPad: World of Clashes plays full-screen on iPad as well as iPhone. - Full Arabic: the whole game plays in Arabic, and notifications arrive in your chosen language. - Mail notifications: letters from other heroes reach your phone even when the game is closed, sealed with the cave-crystal stamp and its own chime. - Duel preparation: every duel now opens with a 10-second prep phase where both fighters pick their abilities before the fight begins. - Arena Season 0 has begun. Climb the ranked ladder; the top gladiators earn exclusive titles when the season ends. - Zone music now shuffles between several tracks with smooth crossfades. - Epic and legendary finds can now drop from monsters out in the open world, announced with the same beam of light and fanfare as the great cave treasures. BUG FIXES - Heroes no longer lose progress between sessions. The game could sign back in on the wrong account and then quietly refuse to save; your character now always returns exactly where you left it. - One drop table for the whole realm. The open desert and the caves were running on two different sets of odds, so gear rained outdoors and almost never appeared underground. Both now follow the same tuned table, and a rare find feels rare everywhere. - Worn-out grey junk now drops as junk, instead of arriving dressed up as usable white gear. - Townspeople, merchants and city guards now stand where the realm says they should, so two heroes in the same place meet the same faces. - The Arabic interface no longer renders off-screen. - Disconnected players grey out correctly instead of standing frozen. - Damage numbers on training dummies always show. - Equipped gear no longer drifts out of position. - Diagonal walking animations play properly.

NEW — THE MAIL ROAD • Mail posts now stand in every village and across both capitals. Write to any hero by name and send gold or gear along with your letter. • Your mailbox holds letters from other heroes alongside your daily and weekly rewards. • Tap Trade on another player to open a letter already addressed to them. FIXED • Fixed attachments being taken from the wrong bag slot when your bag changed after you picked them — the wrong item could be sent away. • Fixed mailing an item permanently costing you a bag slot. • Fixed a single upward swipe closing the game mid-fight. Leaving now takes two swipes.