Two new places to be born, and a lot more happening once you are. - The Great Rift and the World's Edge: the last two Era 1 homelands, each with its own road and its own ending. - Seasons have their own events now. Storms, sickness, good years and lean ones, and crises that can cost a life. - 142 life cards got their choices back, so a lot of moments are decisions again. - Everyone has their own face now, at every age. - Onboarding opens right away instead of waiting behind a name field.

Two new places to be born, and a lot more happening once you are. - The Great Rift and the World's Edge: the last two Era 1 homelands, each with its own road and its own ending. - Seasons have their own events now. Storms, sickness, good years and lean ones, and crises that can cost a life. - 142 life cards got their choices back, so a lot of moments are decisions again. - Everyone has their own face now, at every age. - Onboarding opens right away instead of waiting behind a name field.

Your progress can live somewhere other than this phone now. - Sign in with Apple or Google to back up what carries between lives: your soul, your stones and shells, everything you have unlocked. - New phone, or a reinstall? Restore it. You see the cloud copy next to this phone first, and nothing is replaced until you say so. - The life you are living right now still stays on this phone. - The game goes by its real name in-app now: Ice Age Life.

Mostly fixes, plus one new thing. - The big one: leaving the season screen with your phone's back button could silently throw away everything you'd just done, skill gains included. Fixed. - Skill gains now land exactly as the popup says. - New: get good enough at a skill and your card's strength grows with it. Not just deeds any more. - Every homeland you finish shows up in free play now, with a proper send-off. - The Frozen Heart runs at its intended cold.

Two new homelands, at opposite ends of the cold. - The Frozen Heart: a cold desert at the centre of Asia, where noon burns, dark freezes, and camels cross the gravel in strings. - The Painted South: dry scrub in far southern Africa, where you paint a stone and carry it - the only art in the game that moves with you. - Each opens after you carry a line through the homeland before it. - Its own people, animals and weather in both. - A Sunstone in the mail for everyone already on the road. ``` (about 493 chars. The App Store cap is 4000, but keeping it inside Play's 500 means one block can serve both when the versions have not drifted.)

A third homeland, and spirit animals you earn by walking your roads. - The Great South Land: live a full life in Sahul's red desert, open once you carry your line through the East Wind Plains. - Earn your spirit: finish a homeland and its animal becomes yours to wear. - Shorter early roads, so a new life reaches open country faster. - Australian country throughout the desert - its wildlife, its faces, its land.

A second homeland, and a long pass over the encounter board. - East Wind Plains: a new land to live a life in, open once you carry your line down the Steppe Kin Road. - The encounter board is honest now. A seat shows what it will actually do, and nothing shifts under your thumb. - Keyword Arcs in the Codex: tap any keyword to see the whole ladder it belongs to. - Firekeepers can claim their daily shells in one tap. - Dozens of smaller fixes found by playing it on a real phone.

New in this version: - Ran into someone at another camp? First crushes and older admirers now play out as their own small stories, tied to real people in your world. - Gathering alongside the band feels different now, and a skilled forager can teach a younger one the craft over a couple of seasons. - The moments out on the land are richer and read cleaner, with steadier odds and fewer repeats. - Optional ads for a little Amber if you want the boost, plus one quick ad if you choose to end a life early. The whole game is still free. - Plenty of smaller fixes and polish under the hood.

The Shell Market is open. Stock up on shells, unlock new themes, and become a Firekeeper for perks that carry across every life you live. Plus refinements throughout the store.