Hey Crafters! Your works in progress finally have a home of their own! Worlds you haven't published now live in a new Hidden tab. Chat gets a lot more social with @mentions, replies and emoji reactions, Spooktober style now reaches inside buildings, and busy worlds load faster than ever. New Features - Hidden Tab: worlds you haven't published yet now live in their own Hidden tab on Explore, so Home shows off only the worlds you've shared. Publish one and it moves straight to Home. - Spooky Style Indoors: the Spooky Style is now offered when you create inside buildings in a Spooky world, so your rooms can match the eerie outdoors - @Mentions in Chat: type @ in chat to call out a fellow Crafter by name. When someone mentions you, a gold @ lights up on your chat button and their message glows until you've read it - Replies and Reactions: tap any chat message to reply to it or react with an emoji, from a quick smile or heart to anything on your emoji keyboard - Catch Up on Chat: an unread button takes you straight to the first message you missed Improvements - Faster loading in busy worlds, especially ones full of characters - Smoother walking, building and tapping, with fewer hitches - Slim characters are easier to tap - Refreshed placement and editing buttons that are tidier and easier to tap, with clearer icons Bug Fixes - World exits now only appear near the exit marker, so you won't be pulled to another world by walking along the edge of the map - Creatures in rooms now no longer get lost in the void! - The Spooky Style no longer disappears after you change a Spooky world's sky Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! Spooktober is here! Build a spooky world with its own eerie art, dead trees and five new maps, then share your photos under #spooktober. You'll also never lose sight of yourself again: a new outline shows your character behind trees and buildings. New Features - Spooktober Worlds: a brand-new spooky biome with its own loading art, murky ground, leafless trees around the edge and five maps to start from. - #spooktober: photos taken in Spooktober worlds are tagged in the StoryFeed, with an orange tab of their own. Check out everyone’s creations! - See Yourself Behind Anything: an outline of your character shows through trees, buildings and tall decor when you walk behind them. You can turn it off in Settings Improvements - Characters now mix up their fancy idle animations - Smoother performance in busy worlds - The camera inside rooms no longer shows past the side walls - The loading screen now shows the name of the world you're heading to Bug Fixes - Fewer freezes when your connection drops or when you come back to the app - The two-gifts-a-day limit for characters now holds overnight too Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! Your worlds just got a fresh coat of paint! Every biome has new ground and paths, the loading screens have new art, and rooms inside buildings have new floors. You can style your interiors. You can now always see yourself when you walk behind trees and buildings. New Features - Decorate Your Rooms: Restyle its walls, floors and trim with hundreds of patterns, from cozy wood planks to bold wallpaper - See Yourself Everywhere: a soft window opens around your character when you walk behind objects, so you never lose sight of yourself - Fresh Ground in Every Biome: All biomes have richer, more detailed ground textures - New Loading Screens: New art for six biomes while your world loads - Share Your Unshared Stories: My Posts now has an Unshared tray holding every comic and movie you made but never posted. Pick one and share it in a tap - New Settings: turn off Vibration, hide the room icons over buildings with Entrance Icons, or hide the unread count on the chat button with Chat Alerts Improvements - Texture for floors inside buildings now follow the room's perspective - The chat button now shows how many new Global Chat messages you have - Global Chat messages can now be up to 400 characters, twice as long as before - Joystick movement is now off by default - A minimized quest banner now pops back open when you make progress - Posts with more content shows a highlighted Story button - The StoryFeed now shows content from a more diverse group of Crafters - Story books now read in the order the stories were created - A new khaki color for paths and ground in World Colors Bug Fixes - The harvest progress ring no longer hidden behind objects - When a friend levels up your world, they get the celebration and the rewards instead of you - Dragging an object stays under your finger - Fixed rooms inside buildings bending with horizon like the outside world - Objects against the back wall of a room now stand upright instead of leaning through the wall - Fixed issues with harvesting while wearing an Animated Avatar - Fixed your Ink total sometimes showing an old number after taking actions. Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! The weather is changing! Every biome now has weather of its own, from Tundra snowfall to Desert dust devils. We also squashed a whole bunch of bugs, from fused objects to movies to the Outfit screen. New Features - Weather Comes to Your Worlds: every biome now has its own weather. Watch snow drift across the Tundra, dust devils spin through the Desert, and rain fall on Alien worlds - New global chat feature let’s you chat with your fellow crafters across worlds! Improvements - Magneted objects now float on water instead of sinking under it - Multiple optimizations that improve battery performance and decrease overheating Bug Fixes - Fixed issues with fused objects not sticking together - The Back button is no longer hidden behind your profile badge when you're inside a room or chatting with a character - Closing a movie in a story book now takes you back to the whole book, not just one character's story - Closing a movie now correctly shows the author’s page at the end of the book, instead of your own. - After you travel to a world from the StoryFeed, Explore now shows that world at the top - Using joystick to move after selecting an object now properly deselects the object. - The friendship heart now shows in front of objects in the world instead of behind them - The resize buttons on the Community Board are now in the correct order: grow on top, shrink on the bottom - Wide characters no longer cover the outfit slots in the outfit preview - The Reroll button text no longer overlaps when you change a character's outfit, and the Reroll cost now correctly shows Ink - The Save button on the Outfit screen now shows what it costs, and if you can't afford it, we'll tell you which currency you need more of - Your wallet now shows on the Outfit screen, so you can see what you have before you Reroll Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! Every great story needs a great ending, and now yours can have one. This release lets you decide when your story arc is ready for its finale, adds a Starter Pack to the Shop, and fixes a batch of Ink problems when you're playing in a world with friends. New Features - Choose When Your Story Ends: when your story arc is ready for its big finish, pick End Story and your next chapter becomes the finale — the climax and resolution, on your terms. Not ready yet? Pick Continue Chapter and keep the story going - Starter Pack: the new Starter Pack now has pride of place at the top of the Shop, with 200 StoryCoins and 500 Ink in a single bundle - Streak Reminders: turn on notifications and we'll give you a nudge before your Daily Streak runs out. Tap the reminder to jump straight into creating - Find the Rooms Inside: buildings with a room inside now show a room icon above the roof, so you can tell at a glance which ones you can go into Improvements - You can now save up to 10 custom art styles, up from 5 - The Ink cost of crafting or creating a character now comes off as soon as you tap, instead of partway through - Objects stay selected while you Inspect them, and their name now shows under the selection ring - Visual updates for the shop on iPad Bug Fixes - Minor fixes with Ink Totals being displayed incorrectly Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! This release adds some improvements to the story reading experience in StoryFeed, better support for water creatures, and a more control of your profile pics. New Features - The StoryFeed now includes STORY MODE - you can tap to swipe through any movie, comic, or chapter from the beginning of the story all the way to it’s latest chapter. Movies will automatically progress so you can sit back and enjoy the story. - Aquatic Creatures: Every new creature you craft now has a favorite place: land, water, or both! Craft a fish and set it loose in an island world, and watch it swim through the waves. - Pick Your Profile Color: Your profile background no longer has to match your avatar. Tap your portrait to open the color wheel and choose any color you like. Improvements - Movies now generate real character dialogue and more closely follow your comic to better tell the story. - We added a download button to the movie player in story books so you can save them from anywhere. - Your profile now shows how many movies you’ve created. Bug fixes - We fixed a bug that would incorrectly show Reroll buttons on other player’s movies. - Tapping an idea bubble now places your idea. Items also no longer float in mid-air when you let go close to the bubble. - Fixed buildings sometimes loading with no walls and trees growing inside the room. - Players and NPCs no longer have their feet hidden under rugs and floor magnets.

Hey Crafters! This one is big. Your character can finally come to life with Animated Avatars, and the new Leaderboard shows who is crafting the most. We also rebuilt Daily Streaks around what you create, improved the Movies in the StoryFeed, and made big performance improvements to help move between worlds smoothly on older devices. New Features - Animated Avatars. Visit the new Avatars screen to browse animated characters, preview them, and wear your favorite. Unlock new ones with StoryCoin and enjoy the celebration when you do! - The Leaderboard. See how you stack up against other Crafters on the Level, Daily Streak, and Weekly Creations boards. - Community, all in one place. The Feed button is now the Community button. Tap it to open to see the Leaderboard, the StoryFeed, and Avatars. Daily Streak - Your Daily Streak now counts the days you create something, not the days you open the app. Make something every day to keep it going! - The first time you create each day, you'll get a Daily Streak celebration on the loading screen. StoryFeed Improvements - Videos are now called Movies. - Movies load faster and start playing sooner. - When you share a movie post, your friends get the video itself, not just a picture. Improvements - We redesigned the custom art styles picker and fixed the bugs. - Traveling between worlds uses much less memory, so older devices crash less, and big worlds no longer stutter after loading. - Objects in a world appear faster the first time you visit it. - Popups no longer hide behind your wallet bar. Bug Fixes - Comics will no longer put unexpected characters into them - only the ones you selected. - Long descriptions and prompts on Recipe Details now scroll instead of getting cut off. - Fixed the progression banner sometimes shrinking when you opened your Profile, which left its buttons impossible to tap. - Fixed not being able to tap Back when the StoryFeed was empty or failed to load. - Fixed movie posts showing the wrong error badge. - Fixed chapter posts written inside a building sending you to the wrong world when you tapped Visit. Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! Grab your camera. This release is all about capturing your worlds and showing them off — a full set of camera filters including real Polaroids you can write on, and a StoryFeed you can finally filter, explore and travel through. Good timing, too: the Best Island Competition runs until September 14. **New Features** - **The Camera, upgraded.** Ten new looks to shoot with, including Polaroid and Vintage Polaroid, and the filter picker now animates as you swipe so you can see each look land before you take the shot. - **Player Profiles.** Every Crafter now has a profile page with their level, their stats and their library of creations. Tap an avatar in the StoryFeed to visit one. **StoryFeed Improvements** - Filters are here: All, #Island, Photos, Chapters, Comics and My Posts. Jump straight to your own posts, your favorite kind of post, or the latest photos from the #BestIslandCompetition. - Post a photo taken in an Island world and it's automatically promoted into the #Island feed — no hashtag needed. - Tap Visit on any post to travel straight to the world it was taken in. - Tap through to any Crafter's new profile page directly from their post. - You'll get a notification whenever someone posts a photo taken in your world. - See everyone who liked your posts, not just how many. - New to posting? There's now a guide at the bottom of the StoryFeed that walks you through it. - We improved the performance of loading images in the StoryFeed **Camera** - Try the new Polaroid and Vintage Polaroid looks — they frame your shot like a real instant photo, and you can write your own note along the bottom before posting it straight to the StoryFeed. - Eight more new filters to play with: Clarendon, Juno, Gingham, Lark, Neon, Disposable, Moonlight and Ink. **Bug Fixes** - Fixed items in your backpack erroring out when you placed them, which could leave the item stuck and stop anything else moving in or out of your backpack. - Fixed a problem where your custom art styles would not be properly used when creating items. Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! The Best Island Competition is on! Our brand-new Island biome is here for a limited time, and the best Islands win prizes. This release also brings a Social feed for sharing what you make, fresher ground art, livelier weather, and a bunch of little fixes across the game. The Best Island Competition — September 7 to 14 - Make your own Island, fill it with your creations, and show it off before the event ends - 1st place wins 500 Story Coins, 2nd place wins 200 Story Coins, and 3rd place and up earn 500 Ink - Tap "Create Now" in the event popup or your Inbox to jump straight into a new Island world Improvements - New Social feed — post your creations, browse what other Crafters are making, and leave likes and comments - Added a heads-up when your Ink hits max fill so refills don't go to waste - Refreshed ground art across biomes: hand-painted grass, mottled dirt, and wind-swept island sand - Weather now rolls through more biomes, not just the Forest, and leans toward more dramatic skies - Footsteps kick up dust that matches the ground you're walking on, with new sand and wading sounds - Added a 5-Star filter to the Library to find top-rated worlds faster - Comments now show newest first, and the composer sits above the keyboard so it's easier to reply - Comic reader now refreshes when you reroll instead of showing the old art Bug Fixes - Fixed the Never Crafted tab flagging items you'd already crafted - Fixed your Collections showing up in a random order - Fixed the Post button sometimes ignoring taps in the reader - Fixed Profile stats scrolling off into empty space - Fixed a crash when moving between screens Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! This update includes a number of improvements and fixes Improvements - If you don't have enough ink to reroll, a notification will inform you how to refill your ink - Collection page now loads about 6× faster. - Sorting and rearranging objects in build mode is much faster. - Crafting or summoning while you're mid-creation now asks before ending your current session, so your work-in-progress is safe. - Petting creatures when ink is full now properly informs you that your wallet is at capacity instead of silently failing Bug Fixes - Fixed world loading sometimes getting stuck on the loading bar forever - Fixed loading screens that could get stuck as grey images - Fixed the Shop opening on top of NPC conversations - Fixed the tutorial hand disappearing from the Create button right when you needed it - Fixed the Greet hint popping back up after you'd already said hello to a character - Fixed photo uploads being potentially charged more than once on shaky connections - Fixed the chapter re-write button sometimes showing an outdated price - Reduce crashes during world load for users with massive collections

Hey Crafters! This release has lots of premium features to speed up and enhance your creative flow! New Features - **Speed Up Creation.** Create up to 10 versions of your idea in the time it usually takes to create just one! - **Add to collection**. Add anything you’re not ready to craft just yet to your collection! - **Your Collection, reimagined.** The collection is now better organized across your creations and community creations, and the compact view and category filters let you see and find what you’re looking for more easily. - **StoryCoin & the Shop!** StoryCoin or SC for short lets you use premium features like sped up creation, camera upload, ink refill and comic creation. Free SC daily in the shop! - **Social rewards**. Visiting StoryWorlds, and posting on message boards for the first time now earns you Ink! If you want a lot of Ink find those Points of Interest (POIs)! Improvements - New storm weather effect in Forest biomes - Creatures can follow you around — tap one and hit Follow to bring a companion on your adventures! Bug Fixes - Fixed your currency count sometimes jumping backwards — what you earn stays earned - Fixed the share toggle not actually sharing your creations

Hey Crafters! A fun update today with a top-requested feature AND something hidden for the explorers among you. We won't spoil it, but rumor has it something's brewing in the Forest worlds. Craft a pair of boots before you head out. You'll thank us later. New features - You can now upload photos to help create items, buildings, and creatures! Use a picture on your phone to help get the exact look you want with less typing. Your prompt text will influence the result so you can adjust the colors and style as needed. - Pets! You can now make any creature in your world follow you around while you explore that world. - And for the curious: head to a Forest… Improvements - Chapters no longer auto scroll when you compose them so you can read comfortably. We added a guiding finger to teach new players how to scroll through. Have fun, and tell us in the Discord when you find it!

Hey Crafters! This update is about feel. There's a new floating joystick for getting around, and the Ink you collect now streams off the ground and into your wallet. Best of all, character rerolls are free, so keep rolling until the right character shows up. We also fixed a pile of small annoyances in onboarding and the chapter compose screen. New - Character rerolls are now free! - Move with the new floating joystick: drag anywhere on screen and it appears under your thumb - Objects along the world border now fade out when you walk close, so they can't hide your character - Collected Ink streams up from the ground into your wallet Improvements - Newly summoned characters now always appear somewhere you can see them - Moved the recipe clone button so it's harder to hit by accident - Tapping an idea in Get Ideas now takes you straight to the Create screen - New HUD graphic while harvesting - Picking recipes for a chapter no longer shows rows of empty cells - Ink pickup range is larger, so it's easier to collect - Rebalanced the XP you earn from chapters - Chapter text no longer auto-scrolls while you're trying to read it - The chapter compose screen now tells you when text is generating instead of sitting blank - Refreshed the paper graphic on the chapter compose screen so there are no creases where your eye reads - Your character's location is revealed during onboarding so they're easier to find - The tap hint during the harvest onboarding quest no longer hides behind the community board Bug Fixes - Removed leftover text on the chapter compose screen that referred to a button that no longer exists - Resummoning a character no longer creates a duplicate - Onboarding quests now correctly count down the items you have left - Quitting the app during the onboarding placement quest now brings you back into placement when you return - The Create button no longer appears during onboarding when it shouldn't - The tap hint no longer stays stuck on screen after opening the comic screen

Hey Crafters! This release helps you stay in touch with the Storycraft community messages with revamped push notifications. Players can now opt in to push notifications after they’ve completed onboarding and checked their community board messages. We’ll notify you with what other players are saying about your creations if you decide to opt in. We also fixed a bug that was causing some players to see the tutorial screen for swiping Idea Cards twice. Have fun and enjoy the community!

Hey Crafters! This release is all about making your first steps into Storycraft smoother. We've improved onboarding for new players providing a smoother, more guided introduction to crafting, placing, and exploring. Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! This release brings some extra sparkle to placing your creations. Dragging an idea out of the bubble now feels way more satisfying! Plus we’ve got a big batch of stability fixes across crafting, travel, and building interiors. Improvements - Placing an idea from the bubble now has a lot more juice — expect haptic feedback, sound effects, a satisfying scale bounce, a shimmer effect, and particles when your creation lands - You can now clone objects you've placed on walls for even easier decoration Bug Fixes - Fixed a crash when naming characters that could leave you unable to craft anything except creatures - Fixed getting trapped in the placement bubble when crafting a building inside an interior - Fixed a broken placement state that could occur when crafting in a world you don't own - Fixed freshly crafted recipes sometimes failing to open on slower network connections - Fixed exiting a building interior showing a default splash screen instead of your biome's cover art - Fixed the Go Home button not showing your world's cover art - Fixed travel breaking after placing a large number of objects Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! This release is all about smoothing out onboarding — new Crafters get clearer guidance in their first few creations, and we've cleaned up a bunch of little snags in placement, Desk taps, and character creation that were getting in the way. **Improvements** - We’ve improved the prompt suggestions for new characters and made the prompt field bigger to make more space for details - Added a helpful finger-drag hint to guide new Crafters through their first four unique ink creations - Made the placement bubble easier to tap - Streamlined the creature creation tutorial by removing an unnecessary ink refill step - Updated the Desk shortcut button to a cleaner arrow icon - The focused character no longer switches automatically when you make a new character, making it easier to add supporting characters and stay focused on your story **Bug Fixes** - Fixed players getting stuck in the Compose screen after a story moment wrapped up - Fixed the tutorial hand pointing at the wrong spot when using the placement bubble - Fixed tapping your desk occasionally sending your avatar flying to the top of the map - Fixed prompt text overlapping the clear button on the Invention screen - Fixed a buggy biome selector during Story creation — it now uses a smoother carousel Thanks for playing!

Hey Crafters! This release is all about getting to your comics faster and giving you more control over how they turn out. Comics and their thumbnails now load quicker throughout the world, and you can spend ink to reroll a chapter comic if it doesn't come out the way you hoped. We've also squashed a bunch of bugs that were tripping people up in Compose, idea cards, and the pen pickup. New Features - Reroll a chapter comic with ink if you want a different result - Added a Go Home button for quick travel back to your home - Added a fun new animation for your Dream post-it note Improvements - Comics and their thumbnails now load faster throughout the world - Made the book icon on your desk bigger and easier to tap - Thicker text outlines make in-game text easier to read - Improved content moderation to help keep Dreams and Story Arcs safe for everyone Bug Fixes - Fixed compose slots re-downloading every time you left the recipe picker - Fixed a stuck popup that could appear when meeting an NPC - Fixed incorrect pronouns showing up in the Dream Select tutorial text - Fixed a blank Compose screen when tapping chapter titles - Fixed slower world loading for players with lots of story arcs - Made the "write your own" button on idea cards easier to tap - Made the Flip Suggestions button easier to tap in the Invention screen - Fixed creature suggestions during the tutorial not matching your chosen genre and biome - Fixed players walking off-screen while picking up the Crafter's Pen - Fixed the Create button occasionally appearing in worlds you don't own - New Crafters can no longer accidentally travel to adjacent worlds during the tutorial

Hey Crafters! This release both gives you more freedom to tell the stories you want, while also providing more ideas for potential story elements to include. You can compose chapters with as few as one element, or up to six, including past creations, community creations, or new creations. We can’t wait to see what you do with your new creative freedom! New Features - Quests have been replaced with your brand new Desk where you take your creations, pick your character, and add up to six story elements to compose their story chapter by chapter - The Desk can be minimized to make maximum space to see your world - Search and filter your collection to more easily find the creations you want to include in each chapter - Swap or create characters from the Desk, and see their dream and current story challenge Improvements - Get Ideas is now available to all players, letting everyone brainstorm items, characters, buildings, and creatures to add to their story - Create ideas you like with a single tap - Get notified when your comic is done generating - Completing chapters now rewards you with double the Author XP - Dream, What happens next, and Chapter text now appears word by word so you don’t have to wait as long Bug Fixes - Fixed issue with chapter and comic generation failing or being lost if you background the app or quit - Fixed delays in a new character's image appearing in the world after you create them or name them

Hey Crafters! This release improves the first time experience for new players and fixes a bug with character creation. - New players will now receive a notification that teaches them the best way to collect Ink when they run low - Fixed a bug that could break character creation if you did not have enough Ink to afford it Keep crafting stories!

Hey Crafters! This release brings you the ability to end your characters stories when you choose, plus a round of polish improvements — from smoother object placement to better visuals and performance fixes throughout the game. New features - You can now end your characters stories at any time you choose after chapter 3. Improvements - Pinch to zoom while placing an object for more precise positioning - Search bar clear button is now easier to spot in dark mode - Improved performance in the character quest carousel for players with lots of NPCs Bug Fixes - Fixed objects not layering correctly on top of each other - Fixed Ink chiplets stacking too high when collected - Fixed NPCs disappearing mid-conversation - Fixed a missing permissions prompt on first launch - Fixed shadows disappearing when far from objects - Fixed shadows clipping through the bottoms of objects - Fixed collection search not working after returning to the screen - Fixed being able to drop objects behind walls/under floors - Fixed flickering of magnet and floor objects

Hey Crafters! This release adds new tools to make decorating your worlds faster and more fun, plus a new way to control your audio! New Features - Clone any object you've placed in your world — the copy appears in the same spot and rotation as the original - Toggle multi-place mode in your inventory to place the same item repeatedly without reopening your bag each time - Control game audio with the new master volume slider in settings - Retrieve previously typed prompts from your history without losing what you're currently writing Improvements - Improved loading performance for large worlds - Harvested items now show a red outline instead of appearing greyed out - Text typed into collection search is now saved and highlighted in the create box when no results are found Bug Fixes - Fixed an error notification appearing on the suggestion card when generation was already in progress - Fixed harvest failures after travelling between worlds - Fixed the wrong loading screen appearing when travelling from the quest menu - Fixed the Get Ideas button not reappearing after a refresh - Fixed visual glitches during world transitions - Fixed magneted objects losing their orientation after being moved - Fixed cloned objects appearing in the wrong display order

Hey Crafters! This release integrates idea cards with the create screen making it easier than ever to get ideas for your story and world and to quickly create them! ### New Features - Flip idea cards to see suggestions, and even write your own to save for later - Create screen can access saved ideas and suggestions, which can be one tap copied into the text box

Hey Crafters! Ink harvesting now results in ink pools on the ground letting you turn your pen into a handy-dandy ink suction machine! Collect ink drops, splashes and even volcanoes letting you create more characters, items, buildings and creatures to fuel your stories! Try harvesting different objects and different worlds for better chances!

Hey Crafters! This release provides a new way to get ideas for things to create once you reach level 10! Improvements - Reduced chance of bugs related to internet connection loss Bug Fixes - Fixed issue where content moderation would lead to other issues