🆕 What’s new in the game

No dead ends in ancient vaults

• If all ancient vaults have already been opened by force, the chapter 5 stage no longer becomes impossible: choose “Put the control core to sleep” in any of them. This counts as putting the automata to sleep but gives no second loot. Taisya has a special scene for this path.
• The electricity objective, research, scrap and copper cards, knowledge base and Copper works status now explain what to do after all ruins are gone: buy scrap at the Trading post or ready copper through the trade route from the Dusky island.

Fixes and trade

• The Trading post now sells smoked meat, herbs, ancient scrap and supplies for settlers: clothes, furniture, books and jewelry. This helps with Eternal winter and with restoring production after running short on supplies.
• A trade ship now stays at the pier for one game hour after returning so its cargo can be changed in time. Later small islets are also guaranteed to find a place near the coast, and a colony of six can build a third watchtower.
• All three challenges have been played by the bot through the actual chapter 10 finale, including trading, expeditions and assembling the Heart.

Colony challenges

• Challenges unlock after the chapter 10 finale, together with New Game+: “Eternal winter”, “Only six settlers” and “No Trading post”. Choose one when founding your next story colony; your choice is shown on its card.
• In eternal winter fields and apiaries do not work, homes always need heating, and elders and expeditions need smoked meat instead of honey and bread. In a colony of six the story population goal is reduced to six as well.
• Complete the finale with a challenge to earn a special name frame for your profile. Challenges do not apply in the sandbox.

The song of the shard

• The game now has sound — the song of the shard: a soft bell-like chime. Every world has its own melody.
• Near ruins the song is louder, at night — quieter and slower. With chapters and Heart shards it gains more voices: a lower line, a long low tone, an echo, shimmering notes.
• The sound starts after your first tap. Turn it off with 🔈 at the top (on a phone — in “⋯”); the main menu settings have an on/off switch and the volume.

The colony chronicle

• Once a season one of the settlers writes a chronicle page — a few lines about what happened: what was built, who came and who left, how the bandits were driven off, what was found, what the weather was like and how life is going.
• The chronicle is in the journal: 📜 → “📖 Chronicle”. The latest page can be attached to the postcard.

View from a ship

• On the 3D map there is a ⛵ “View from a ship” button: the camera flies around the colony by itself, higher and lower, gently swaying, and the map fills the screen with no buttons. Handy for a screenshot or video. Tap the screen or press any key — the camera returns to where it was.

The colony banner

• A banner with the colony’s coat of arms flies over the lighthouse and the Council house — on the 3D map the cloth waves in the wind, on the flat map you can see the flag too. The coat grows with the colony, and the banner changes with it.
• Guests see the banner too — when they view your colony.

The sky around the shard

• Clouds drift under the island with the wind: slowly in clear weather, faster and darker in rain and storms, thicker in fog.
• On the 3D map other shards hang around — with grass, groves and a rocky underside. At night lights burn on them: people live there too.
• Ships sail between the shards, with a lantern at night.
• On the flat map the clouds in the sky also drift with the weather, lights come on at night on the distant shards, and ships cross the sky.

Combat: improvements

• Fighters strike a little less often — a fight is easier to follow.
• Above the palisade section the bandits are breaking there is now a strength bar (on both the flat and the 3D map).
• Archers by a watchtower climb onto its platform in a fight and shoot from above. On the 3D map the tower got a platform with a railing.
• A beaten guard falls, then limps home. A guard reels back from a blow. A guard without a weapon fights with a stick — now you can see it in hand.
• If you rebuild the wall during a raid — close a gap while the band is on its way, or finish a broken section — the bandits choose again where to break.
• Fixed: if the bandits broke through the wall and got in, then stopped at another section, the fight counted as “the palisade held”.

Combat: gates, walls and lively fights

• A new building — the “Palisade gate”: settlers walk through the gate, bandits don’t. You can now close the colony with fence and gates on all sides.
• Behind a wall the band first has to break a fence section or a gate (the gate is sturdier). While they break it, the guard stands inside by that spot: archers shoot, spears reach over the fence, and the bandits’ clubs and cleavers can’t reach anyone. The section’s strength is shown in the raid window.
• If the wall holds to the end of the fight, the bandits leave with nothing. A broken section turns back into a building site, and builders put it up again.
• Archers by a watchtower shoot from above — 2 tiles farther and more accurately.
• Fights on the 3D map came alive: an overhead swing with a club or cleaver, a spear thrust with a lunge, an archer holds the bow in hand and draws the string, a shield rises to meet a blow. A fighter reels back from a hit and dodges a miss. A beaten bandit falls, gets up and runs off limping. Arrows fly in an arc, nose first.
• On the flat map a bandit also reels back from a blow, falls when beaten and limps away.

Combat: armour, numbers and morale

• Armour in battle: a helmet and clothes take part of every hit (a helm and mail best of all). With an armory, guards with a cleaver or club carry a shield — it catches some blows and arrows. Bandits can wear helmets, mail and shields too — you can see it on the map.
• Numbers matter: two against one hit harder. Extra bandits no longer wait in line, they gang up on a guard; a free guard comes to help a neighbour. A wounded fighter hits weaker, and a lone wounded guard facing two steps back without a bruise.
• Morale: the party has a leader with a red crest. If the leader falls or half the party is beaten, the bandits break and flee.
• A guard hits any bandit within reach: before, he chased an archer and didn’t answer those cutting at him up close. Fighters no longer recover health while being hit.

Fixes

• Raids: bandits no longer stand inside houses or walk through walls — they go around buildings, so the guards can reach them.

Rotating buildings and fixes

• ⟳ Rectangular buildings can now be rotated by 90°: the warehouse, granary, museum, sawmill, herb garden, Elder’s house and others can stand upright. While building or moving — the “⟳ Rotate” button or the R key. The entrance is still at the bottom.
• The “Auto” button in the building window is now called “Auto quota”.
• The mouse wheel now zooms the map smoothly instead of in jumps.
• 3D map: the construction bar above a building no longer comes apart when the camera tilts.
• A “Chop” mark on a berry or mushroom spot that is still resting (or in winter) is no longer placed and no longer hangs for days. Mark it when the spot is ripe.

The 3D map

• 🧊 The colony map is now 3D: the island floats above the clouds, every house has its own look, the forest sways in the wind, settlers walk and work, rain and snow fall, windows and the lighthouse glow at night.
• Everything works as on the flat map: chopping, mining, roads, storage, building and moving, selecting buildings and settlers, raids and expeditions.
• Controls: mouse — move, right button — turn, wheel — zoom; on a phone — with fingers (two fingers — zoom, turn and tilt). The arrow keys and WASD move it too.
• The flat map is still here: the “2D” button at the bottom right, back to 3D — 🧊 at the top (on a phone — in “⋯”). The game remembers your choice. If your phone struggles — switch to 2D.
• The installed game in English is now called Oskolki.

Lighthouse: see what is missing

• 🗼 In chapter 2, at the “Lighthouse” stage, the goals now list all the Lighthouse materials (skystone, brick, ingots, planks) and how many you already have. “How to do it” tells where each one comes from; at the “Shard of the Heart” stage it tells where to tap, and that the shard arrives once the party is back.

Clearer why the airship won’t fly

• ⛵ The “Send” button in the expeditions window is no longer grey and silent: tap it and a window opens with everything that stops the airship from leaving and what to do about it (no master captain, too few people or too little bread, someone is ill, the way is closed).

Pets and quotas that set themselves

• 🐈 Cats and dogs now join the colony by themselves. A cat catches mice — food outside the granary spoils less. A dog smells strangers — bandits are spotted earlier, and the hunter tracks game more easily. With pets everyone is a little happier. You can see who has joined in the “👥 Settlers” window.
• ⚙ A building’s quota can now set itself — the “Auto” button next to ＋ and −. It grows with the colony; in autumn workshops store food for the winter, and if the storage is almost full they don’t make extra. New buildings have it on right away, old ones — if their quota was never changed. Press ＋ or − and the quota is yours again.
• 👁 In the “Islands” rating you can look at someone else’s colony — just look, without touching anything. You can hide your own colonies in the menu settings.

Tips not all at once

• ✨ At the start of a new colony tips no longer pour in one after another. While the “First steps” are going and during the first day there are none at all; after that — one at a time, at most once every half game day. Urgent tips (bandits are coming, a settler wants to leave) come right away, as before.

Meet the colony

• 👥 The introduction of a new colony now has “Who has landed”: settler cards with their past, traits and what each does best.
• 💠 In the first chapter, when you gather three arcane cores out of five, the Heart responds — a short scene and the first rune, “Spark”.
• 🔭 At the bottom of the chapter window — “What lies ahead”: how many of the ten Shards of the Heart are found, which keepers you have already met (the rest are “???”) and how many chapters are still ahead.

Buttons in their places

• 🧭 The top of the screen is redone: buttons no longer jump around. Under the day there is an events strip (⚠ what’s wrong, 🥱 idle, ⬆ promote, 🎯 tasks, 🍃 news, ⛵ expeditions, ⚔ bandits…): each icon has its own place, lights up when there is something to do and fades when all is calm. Numbers sit in the icon’s corner.
• 📱 On a phone the top shows only the main supplies: how much food (portions of everything that is eaten) and wood, and if construction is short of something — that too. When it runs low, the number turns red. All supplies are in 📦 on the left, rare windows (settlers, research, knowledge base, statistics, saving) — under the “⋯” button. On a computer all supplies are still shown at the top.

The museum is protected

• 🏛 Items on museum display are no longer offered to the merchant, in item choice for a settler or a building module, in “Salvage junk” or as a gift to Taisya. In the inventory they show as before; to sell or wear one, first take it off display.

Fewer legendaries, less fog

• 🟠 Legendary items drop 2.5 times less often, ancient relics even less. In rich places (deep ruins, ancient vaults, the merchant) there are still more rare and legendary items than in simple ones, but common and blue items are now the most frequent there: before, the best items dropped more often than plain ones.
• 🌫 Fog comes less often and passes faster.
• After salvaging items there is no longer an “↩ Undo” button at the bottom — it got in the way in the inventory. Lock valuable items 🔒: a locked item won’t be salvaged.
• 🏛 “Unneeded” and auto-salvage no longer take items on museum display.

Airships at the shipyard and a living preview

• ⛵ Airships are now visible on the map: free ones hover at the shipyard — one above the slipway, the rest nearby. A colony can have at most five airships: after that the shipyard stops building them.
• The colony preview in the main menu: wind turbines turn their blades, water wheels spin, wires run between houses, airships wait at the shipyard and piers. In winter the island is under snow, in autumn the forest turns red — as in the colony at the moment of saving.

Alarm bell, undo salvage, a living preview

• 🔔 The alarm bell is now in use: when bandits are coming, you can ring it in the raid window. Everyone except the guard hides in houses until the bandits leave. If the colony is robbed, they take half as much, and settlers are less upset. But while the bell rings, work stops.
• Salvaged too much? The salvage message has “↩ Undo”: within a minute the items come back and are worn by their owners again, if the dust you got hasn’t been spent yet.
• Auto-salvage can do “🗑 Unneeded”: once an hour everything that is not better than what anyone wears goes to dust (like the button in the inventory). And you can choose which items to salvage — for example, only boots or only modules.
• Colony preview in the main menu: smoke from chimneys, crates in storage. Houses and roads no longer stand where mountains were broken — the ground there is now flat.

Hints: how to pass a stage and how to raise settlers

• Every story stage has a “❓ How to do it” hint — in the tracker at the top left and in the chapter window. It says where the right buttons are and where to get what you need. If a stage takes longer than three days, the hint opens by itself.
• Under every daily and weekly task 🎯 there is a 💡 on how to complete it.
• Promoting settlers: in the settler card, under each unmet condition, it says where to get what is needed (who sews clothes, what is needed for furniture and so on).
• When a settler can be promoted right now, ⬆ appears at the top with the number of such settlers. Tap it — the card opens with the “Promote” button. They have ⬆ in the settler list too.
• New tips: how to raise artisans, masters and elders, and what to do if a story stage won’t work out.

Summit runes

• Two strongest runes — above “Heart”. They never drop and can’t be fused: they are made by a ritual in the “ᚱ Runes” tab of the inventory.
• “Source”: one rune each of “Key”, “Warden”, “Crown” and “Heart”, 6 arcane cores and 200 dust. You need the Archive of Knowledge and the Ancient Generator. In clothes — “Spring of strength”: the whole colony works 6% faster.
• “Echo of the ancients” — for those who have reached the very end. In a tool — “Resonance”: once every three days an arcane core appears in the colony.

Ruins with a secret

• Ruins on the map now look like real ruins: wall fragments, fallen stones, columns. Each ruin has its own pattern.
• There are four kinds of ruins: Observatory (runes are found more often), Workshop (more scrap, sometimes ingots), Storehouse (more stone and shard dust) and Dwelling (an extra item more often). The kind is shown in the ruins window.
• Riddles of the ancients. At the bottom of some exhausted ruins blue lights glow. There stand obelisks: read the inscription and light the signs in order. Or there is a broken mechanism: repair it with ingots, planks and dust. The reward is a legendary item, an arcane core and shard dust.

Colony patron

• A new colony can choose a patron — one of the sisters you have already met in the story. Her blessings work from the first day, plus one more benefit: Vedana — richer fields, Ratmira — more stone and ore, Taisya — faster research, Ladomira — settlers walk faster.
• The other sisters are stricter with such a colony: in chapter 9 they will ask for more. The choice is in the main menu, in the new world block.

Mechanisms: new jobs

• A mechanism can be made a gatherer — it collects ripe berries and mushrooms and fells marked trees by itself — or a store keeper: with it around, food outside the granary spoils less.
• For a porter and a gatherer you can choose where to work: across the whole island or near one building.
• Tap a mechanism on the map and its window opens.
• In the achievements window, earned frames are on the left and what they are for — on the right, in one row.

Museum of Antiquities

• A new building — the Museum of Antiquities (from chapter 2). Rare and legendary items and relics go on display: the “🏛 On display” button in the inventory.
• A completed collection gives a bonus to the whole colony: three legendaries — finds more often, two relics — rare items more often, two masterpieces — faster work, a perfect item — pride and mood. And relics bring a little gold from visitors.
• Legendary items and relics now have their own story — it is in the item card.

Ancient mechanisms

• In an opened ancient vault a mechanism sometimes survives — a bronze helper. It needs neither food nor sleep. A porter collects piles on the ground and carries them to storage by itself; a guardian stands at the storage and helps fight off bandits.
• Mechanisms are in the ⚙ window in the top bar: their job, condition, repair and upgrade. Work wears a mechanism down, and at zero it stops until repaired.

Upper rune abilities

• Upper runes now have special abilities ★. “Key” in a tool — “Sense of the ancients”: mountain caches are heard twice as far. “Warden” in a tool — “Prospector”: mining rock, the owner sometimes finds a vein of ore or coal nearby.
• “Crown” in clothes — “Inspirer”: the whole colony is happier. “Heart” in clothes — “Warm hearth”: the owner’s house needs no firewood in winter.

Building neighbours

• Now it matters what stands nearby. A workshop next to its supplier works faster: the bakery next to the mill, the smithy next to the smelter, the tailor next to the weaver, the smokehouse next to the hunter. A noisy smithy or smelter next to houses spoils settlers’ mood, while an apiary or herb garden cheers them up.
• When placing a building, the bottom shows whether this spot helps. The building window has a “Nearby: …” line.
• In the journal, entries with a place have its name: “… · 📍 Fox Lake”. And the finds feed says “found in the Ruins of Three Arches”.
• On a phone the finds feed is smaller: at most two lines, one per find.
• Names disappear from the map together with the place: a mountain broken, a forest cut down, ruins taken apart — the label is gone.
• While a party on an expedition waits for your decision, the expeditions window shows only the encounter, without choosing a new expedition.

Tasks and rune words

• Daily and weekly tasks — the 🎯 button at the top. Every day three small tasks, every week one bigger one. Done — collect the reward: dust, gold, and for the week also a rune. Didn’t make it — you lose nothing.
• Rune words: put the right runes in order into an item that has exactly as many sockets as there are runes in the word — the item gets a name and a special power. The list of words is in the “ᚱ Runes” tab of the inventory.
• The four upper runes are “Key”, “Warden”, “Crown” and “Heart”. They never drop: they are only fused, with the Archive of Knowledge and for arcane cores. Each has two properties.

Blueprint of the ancients

• From chapter 4, scraps of an old ancient blueprint are sometimes found. There are five: from ruins, from a mountain cache, from an ancient vault, from a neighbouring island and from the antiquities merchant.
• Collect all five — and a unique building opens, the Ancient Aqueduct: all the colony’s fields give 30% more harvest. Only one aqueduct per colony. The scraps are shown in the inventory, in the “Blueprints” tab.

Device notifications

• The game can send notifications to your phone or computer. Turn them on in the main menu: “🔔 Device notifications”. Until you turn them on, nothing will come.
• Even with the game closed — about a new version, news from the author and new achievements. While the game is open but minimized — about bandits, expeditions and new story scenes.
• On iPhone and iPad notifications work only if the game is installed on the Home screen.

Masters’ masterpieces

• When a master works at the smithy or armory, an item now and then comes out as a masterpiece ⚜ — with the name of its maker. Its properties are like a rare item’s, only a quarter stronger.
• The higher the settler’s tier, the more often masterpieces come: a master — 5%, an elder — 7%, an architect — 9%, a keeper — 12%.

Frames for merit

• For special merit a frame appears around your name: for the finale (a different one for keeping and for releasing the Heart), for “New Game+”, a perfect item, a complete Book of finds, a swift path to the Heart, all secret achievements and all achievements at the top level.
• The frame is shown in the main menu and in the rating. It can’t be bought — only earned. Choose from the ones you have in “Achievements”. The rarest shimmer (without motion on “Simple” graphics).

Secret achievements

• New achievements: “Guardian of the Heart” and “Free islands” for the finale, “Swift Heart” — for a quick path to the Heart, “All together” — if nobody left before the finale, “Legacy of the ancients”, “Perfection”, “Chronicler” and “On the road again”.
• Some achievements are one-time — they have no levels. And where it says “in one colony”, the best colony counts, not the sum of all.
• Secret achievements have appeared. In the list they show as “???”, and how to get them is not said anywhere. Find out yourself!

An item grows with its work

• Tools and weapons now remember what was done with them: “Axe — with Miron, 1,240 trees”. Felled trees, mined blocks, harvests, workshop goods, hunted game and driven-off bandits are counted.
• At milestones the item gets a nickname — “Woodcutter”, “Terror of the thicket”, “Forest breaker” and others — and gets better with each: a tool speeds up work by 4%, a weapon makes the guard 4% stronger. The item’s owner is the one who did the most with it.
• Items with a nickname 🏅 are not touched by auto-salvage, “Unneeded” and “Salvage junk”.

Perfect finds

• About one legendary item or relic in fifty is perfect ✦: all its properties are at the very maximum. In the find window it shines especially bright. Reforging and upgrading don’t spoil it. Perfect ones may turn up among items you already have.
• The Book of finds (📔 in the inventory): everything the colony has ever found — items of every kind, legendary powers, relics and runes. Not found yet — under “???”. Complete a whole section — all settlers get a bonus forever: faster work, more frequent finds, rare items or double yield more often.

Dressed for the part

• Worn items are now clearly visible on a settler. Each has its own look: a hood and a crested helmet, a collared jacket and a belted robe, boots, an axe, pickaxe, sickle or hammer in hand, a quiver on an archer’s back.
• The trim colour shows the item’s rarity: blue for magic, yellow for rare. Legendary items and relics glow softly (no glow on “Simple” graphics). In a full set a settler has their own colours and a cloak.
• In the settler card, above the items, there is their figure in everything they wear. Inside buildings settlers also wear their own clothes.

How many you can build

• Some buildings can now be placed only a few times: the smithy, armory and jeweler — one, plus one more for every 15 settlers (up to four); the watchtower — two, plus one more for every 10 settlers; the Antiquarian’s study — two (a third at 30 settlers); the Trading post — one (a second at 30); the Pier — one, plus one more for every 15 settlers (up to three).
• The shipyard, Guild hall, Council house, the bell and special story buildings — only one each.
• The “Build” menu shows how many already stand and how many are allowed: for example, “2/3”. What is already built in your colonies stays and works — you just can’t place new ones over the limit.

Clear texts (continued)

• Simpler now: the windows of a raid, the Council of sisters, the Bowl of the Heart, an expedition and an ancient vault, the settler card, runes in the inventory, the choice scenes of chapter 9 and the finale, the “can’t” messages and the knowledge base pages about neighbours, defence and relics. The Bowl now has “steps” rather than “phases”, and with neighbours it is “friendship” rather than “relations”.

Clear texts

• The game’s texts are rewritten more simply: tutorial and tips, story scenes and chapter goals, descriptions of buildings, goods and research, laws and the sisters’ requests, tool hints, the “why is the settler idle” and “why you can’t build here” messages, the journal and the “Basics” in the knowledge base. Shorter sentences, everyday words — the meaning and numbers are the same.

Clearer New Game+

• A colony card where the Heart is gathered has a “💠 New Game+” button: it opens a new world with this colony’s legacy right away (relics and the trait are already chosen — you can change them). There is a hint in the Bowl of the Heart window after the finale too.

New Game+

• A colony where the Heart is gathered leaves a legacy: when founding a new colony in the main menu, choose “💠 Legacy” — the founder’s relics (one if the Heart was kept, two if it was released), the first settler’s trait and the blessing of the Heart’s keeper from the first day (twice as strong for the Heart’s guardian).
• Each “+” is harder — hunger, raids, research, late prices — and finds are more generous. The legacy of a “+1” colony gives “+2” and so on; the level is shown on the colony card.
• In statistics (“All colonies”) — finale marks: how many times the Heart was kept and released, and “New Game+” colonies.

Real fights

• During a raid the guard no longer crowds at the storage: each takes their own post in a half-ring in front of the band, archers — by the watchtowers or in a second line.
• A fight goes blow by blow: health bars over the fighters, visible swings, arrows in flight, “miss”, “block” and damage over the target — on both sides.
• The weapon decides how they fight: a bow shoots from afar and first and keeps its distance, a spear reaches sooner, a cleaver hits harder, without a weapon — a club. Bandits are armed the same way — with a watchtower the raid window shows with what.
• Health doesn’t recover during a fight: a wounded winner is weaker in the next one, while those not fighting catch their breath.

Bandits and might

• Raids grow with the colony: if your ⚔ might is above the usual for the chapter, bandits come in noticeably bigger numbers — defence no longer freezes at “good enough”, and paying them off costs more.

Putting wealth to work

• Story buildings of chapters 5–10 and contributions to the Bowl of the Heart cost more for a rich colony: on top of the price they take a fifth of the shard dust, arcane cores and gold saved above the “living” reserve (1000 dust, 40 cores, 300 gold). A building’s price is fixed when it is laid down. Colonies without big savings pay as before.

A smithy without endless dust

• Items forged at the smithy and armory ⚒ give four times less shard dust when salvaged (common ones — none). Dust is found in ruins, caches, ancient vaults and on expeditions.
• Auto-salvage no longer touches forged items: the smithy and armory forge while there are fewer free items than the quota, then stop and don’t waste ingots.

Fixes

• Fixed: after loading a colony, settlers who fell asleep in the Architect’s house (and other big houses) stayed inside “idle” although there was plenty of work. Now they go out to the door and get to work.

Balance and convenience

• Daily costs now match the length of the game day: in long days settlers both get more done and eat, heat, wear out clothes and furniture and read books more. The same for bread for the road, food spoilage and taxes.
• The production quota in the building window changes in handy steps: the airship, tools and weapons — by one, books and furniture — by 2, planks and bread — by 10.
• Wires run more naturally: from the station to the nearest houses and on over the roofs on brackets — without a web of “everyone to everyone”.
• Fixed: messages in reply to an action in a window (“Item upgraded”, a reason for refusal) hid under the window — it seemed that a button, for example “Upgrade” on a relic, did nothing.

Fixes

• Chapter 10: the last step of the Bowl of the Heart phases is clearer — the contribution is made by hand with the “Contribute to the Bowl” button, and the story tracker has a “💠 Bowl of the Heart window” button.

Fixes

• Chapter 9, “Who will keep the Heart?”: each sister now shows what exactly gets stronger and by how much (“now — defence +25%, will be — +50%”), and how she will help in the last chapter.

Chapter 10. The Heart

• The final chapter: the sisters gather the Heart in the Bowl of the Heart — a huge building in four phases. Ratmira lays the foundation, Vedana — the roots, Taisya — the copper veins, Ladomira — the pull. The colony limit is 48 settlers.
• Each phase is contributed in the Bowl window: goods from storage and the sister’s condition — plant a forest, bring power, gather the shards. The phase of the keeper chosen at the Council is cheaper.
• The last phase gathers nine shards and gives the tenth. And then — the main choice of the game: keep the Heart for the colony or release the islands.
• After the finale the colony lives on — you can keep playing as long as you like.
• Settlers prefer paved roads: if a road is nearby, they turn onto it instead of treading the trail next to it.
• Less junk and dust: plain items drop less often when breaking mountains, and caches hold less dust — by mid-game the storage is not buried.
• Fixed: while putting an ancient vault to sleep, a line stretched from it beyond the island’s edge; a stray stroke at the excavation ring and on a settler’s bow.
• Fixed: on a phone in landscape the top bar buttons overlapped — now they scroll with a finger.
• Chapter 9, “Heal people”: the conditions now say that neighbours’ requests come only after the Pier is built — the neighbouring colonies are seen from it.
• The Hall of the Sisters inside — four rooms behind partitions: each sister has a canopied bed in her own colour and her own things — Vedana’s herbs, Ratmira’s weapons, Taisya’s books, Ladomira’s map.
• Inventory: an item’s description in a cell no longer sticks out of the frame — each line fits on one line, shown in full in the hint and on the right.
• Ruins no longer “come back to life”: ruins dug to the bottom give nothing — they can only be taken apart for stone. Finds are now worth going to the far ruins for, rather than searching the near ones again.
• Putting an ancient vault to sleep is harder: it doesn’t always work (the chance is higher with the “Knowledge” skill and lower for high-level vaults). If it fails, the guardians wake up, the one doing it is hurt, and the work starts over.
• Fixed: after pressing “Update”, the game could throw you out of a colony you had just opened back to the menu a few seconds later. If the browser restarts the game itself (usually from lack of memory), the menu will say so and suggest what to do.
• Chapter 7: if a shard doesn’t count as joined, the story tracker explains why — the landfill touches it only at a corner, runs into forest or rock, or doesn’t reach it yet.
• Expedition to the Dusk island: if the captain wears no item with a rune, the window says so right at the “Send” button — before, the airship silently didn’t fly.

Fixes

• Chapter 7: a shard joined by landfill didn’t count if a building now stands on the colony’s landing spot. Fixed — the “A shard at the edge” stage will pass by itself.

Fixes

• Chapter 7: a small shard now drifts up even to an island with awkward shores — before, on some maps you could wait for it for weeks. At the “A shard at the edge” stage the story tracker has “⌖ Show the shard”: the camera finds it by itself, even if it drifted far from the village.

Chapter 9. Council of Four

• A new chapter: Ratmira’s letter has reached everyone — for the first time since the Shattering the four sisters gather in your colony. Build the Hall of the Sisters for them. The colony limit is 44 settlers.
• Each sister has her own request — in two versions, and the choice is yours, forever. Vedana: heal people or grow the forest. Ratmira: an alliance with neighbours or a fortress. Taisya: give a relic or books and runes. Ladomira: pull in small shards or link the islands with trade routes. Each choice leaves its own blessing.
• A relic given to Taisya awakens the others: an awakened relic works one and a half times stronger.
• In the finale — the Council at the Round Stone: the colony decides which sister will keep the Heart. Her blessing becomes twice as strong, and the Heart beats for the ninth time.

Neighbouring colonies

• From the Pier three neighbouring colonies on nearby shards are visible — miners, beekeepers, weavers or smiths, each with its own name and way of life.
• You trade with neighbours by route: they pay more than the Trading post, and for what they “badly need right now” — even more. The need changes every few days.
• Neighbours send requests — they are in the journal and in the top bar (🏘). Helped — gold and friendship; refusing or delaying spoils relations.
• Relations: strangers → acquaintances → friends → allies. The warmer, the better the prices, and allies send gifts by themselves.

Trade routes

• A new building — the Pier (from chapter 8): it is placed right at the island’s edge. From it an airship flies on schedule by itself to the keepers’ islands where your party has already been.
• Each island buys its own goods and sells its own: Vedana — bread, cloth and clothes for herbs, honey and medicine; Ratmira — food and medicine for ore, coal, ingots and brick; Taisya — planks, wool and jewelry for paper, books and copper. Better than the Trading post.
• The route window has what to take, what to bring, how often to fly and an estimate of the income. An airship on a route is busy for expeditions — build another one.
• Colony guests now land at the Pier, and the route’s airship waits there until it flies off.

Handy item salvage

• The inventory has “☑ Select”: tick several items and salvage them at once. You see right away how much dust and how many arcane cores you will get.
• “✦ Unneeded” marks the extras by itself: each settler keeps one best replacement for each slot and each building for its module, the rest goes to salvage. Legendary items and relics are never included.
• 🔒 A lock on an item: a locked item won’t be salvaged one by one, in a batch or by auto-salvage, and won’t be sold to the merchant, until you remove the lock.

A new main screen

• The main screen is new, especially on a phone: a big shard at the top, below it the “Colonies”, “World”, “Sign in” and “More” tabs, and the “Play” button is always under your finger.
• Each colony in the list shows its chapter, the number of settlers, the Shards of the Heart gathered and when you played it.

Ancient relics

• A new, highest rarity — ancient relics: six named items, one for each slot, each with its own story and a power stronger than legendary ones. Look for them in the deepest ruin excavations, on the Far shard and in ancient vaults — sometimes a legendary find turns out to be a relic.
• All six relics form one set, “Legacy of the ancients”. A master or higher can wear them.

Chapter 8. Laws of the Colony

• A new chapter: the sisters have agreed to sit at one table, but Ratmira came first — with a scroll and a question: can the colony live by law so that nobody leaves? A Council house, a book of laws, a holiday, the first keeper.
• The Tablet of Laws is the chapter’s story building: the downsides of laws to mood are half as strong. And the eighth Shard of the Heart.
• The colony can grow to 40 settlers.

Keepers

• A new, sixth settler tier — keepers (chapter 7). An architect becomes a keeper if they live in the Keeper’s chambers with power, the colony has passed two laws and they are happy with life.
• A keeper works 80% faster, is one and a half times stronger in defence, and most importantly holds the colony’s spirit: each keeper (up to two) raises everyone’s mood. Every day they need more jewelry.

Holidays and the unhappy leaving

• Holidays: once a season you can hold a holiday at the Council house for a treat for every settler — Founding Day in spring, a fair in summer (Trading post prices return to normal), a harvest festival in autumn, winter lights in winter. Everyone’s mood rises for a few days.
• From chapter 7 a very unhappy settler may leave the colony: if their mood stays below 20 for two and a half days. A day before, there is a warning in the journal and in the card. Their items stay in storage.

The book of laws

• The “Law” research (chapter 7) and the Council house: the colony gets a book of laws ⚖.
• Laws come in pairs — “Long day” or “Fair day”, “Rations” or “Common table”, “Militia” or “Hired guard”, “Tithe” or “Free market”. From each pair one law is passed, forever: each has its own benefit and its own price.
• Inside, the Council house is a chamber with a long table and a lectern with the book of laws.

Wanderers and houses

• Chapter 3, “Look after your own”: while the colony grows to 18 settlers, word of it spreads across the islands — wanderers come twice as often, and after three days without them one is sure to come (it used to be a week).
• A demoted settler (an architect back to elder, an elder back to master) no longer keeps a bed in a house above their tier: a new architect or elder can move in.

The guild hall and the lighthouse shadow

• Inside, the Guild hall is a real assembly hall: a long table where the colony’s masters sit, a lectern with a book, craft banners, a cabinet with charters and seals, a shelf with sample works.
• The lighthouse shadow follows the tower’s shape, not a thin stick.
• Far shard: once the Shard of the Heart has been taken away, the expedition window no longer lists it among the loot.

Chapter 7. Pull of the Heart

• A new chapter: the islands no longer drift — someone is pulling them. An alarm bell, landfill to a drifted shard, ruins with a strange mark — and a meeting with Ladomira, the sister who always wanted to gather the Heart at once and whole.
• The Pull Node is the chapter’s story building: with it landfill is half as costly, and small shards drift up more often. And the seventh Shard of the Heart.
• The colony can grow to 36 settlers.
• A big colony is computed almost twice as fast — less load on the phone.

Small shards

• After the Ancient Generator the islands have shifted: from time to time a small shard drifts up to the colony’s edge — with ruins, ore or a grove. Reach it with landfill across the void.
• Each arrival is a tremor: without an alarm bell someone outside gets bruised. The alarm bell (chapter 6) rings by itself — everyone has time to take cover.

Landfill

• The island can be expanded! The “Earthworks” research (chapter 6) opens the “Landfill” order ⛰: builders fill the void at the island’s edge with stone and clay — tile by tile out from the shore.
• New land is bare at first, then grows over with grass — build, plant, set up storage.

Chapter 6. Spark of the Ancients

• A new chapter! Taisya no longer hides knowledge — she teaches. Six stages: copper from ancient scrap, the first power, a grid across the colony, the first architect, workshops driven by power — and the Ancient Generator.
• The Ancient Generator is a story machine running on arcane cores: 20 units of power, the sixth Shard of the Heart, a colony limit of 32 settlers.
• Colonies that have already finished chapter 5 will start chapter 6 by themselves on loading.

Architects

• The fifth settler tier — architects (from chapter 5): an elder living in a lit Architect’s house, wearing an item with a rune set in it, can become an architect. Architects work 60% faster and are as strong in defence as elders.
• Every day architects also need books and light at home: without power for two days in a row — back to elder.
• Level IV of workshops — “Power drive”: only with power and when the colony has an architect; another +25% to speed. The price is three times the building cost, copper and an arcane core.

Ancient electricity

• A new research from chapter 5 — “Ancient electricity”: no magic, just copper and water. The copper works melt ancient scrap into copper.
• A water wheel (right next to water) and a wind turbine give power, poles carry it for 8 tiles and connect to each other — the wires are visible on the map.
• Powered workshops work 20% faster, and houses with light are cosier. If power is short, it is shared equally. The building window shows whether it is connected.

Chapter 5. Hidden Knowledge

• A new chapter! Taisya is the keeper who hid the knowledge of the ancients after the Shattering. Six stages: open an ancient vault, learn the language of runes, fuse runes, go down into the underground library, take the knowledge without a single blow — and build the Archive of Knowledge.
• The Dusk island is a new expedition destination: the entrance to the library opens only if the captain has an item with a rune set in it.
• The Archive of Knowledge is the fifth Shard of the Heart; research is a quarter faster, runes are found one and a half times more often. The colony limit is 28 settlers.
• Colonies that have already finished chapter 4 will start chapter 5 by themselves on loading.

Fix

• The missing first Shard of the Heart now also appears in colonies that have finished all four chapters.

Shards of the Heart

• The first Shard of the Heart — the one beating in the Altar — now also lies in supplies: after chapter 4 there are four of them, as there should be. In colonies already started, the missing shard appears by itself.

Ancient vaults

• From chapter 4 surviving buildings of the ancients appear on the island — sanctuaries, storehouses and workshops. They are guarded by mechanical guardians, and inside lie the island’s best finds: high-level items, arcane cores, dust, blueprints.
• Storming: the guard fights the guardians one on one, like bandits. A broken guardian doesn’t rise again, and a guard who loses goes off to heal their bruises.
• Or without a fight: after studying “Rune reading”, you can put the mechanisms to sleep for cores and dust — the “Sorties” job at the vault.
• The farther a vault is from the landing spot, the stronger its guard and the richer it is. All about them — in the knowledge base, the “World” section.

Oskolki 1.0

• The first big release! Thanks to everyone who built colonies on the shards while the game was growing — your feedback made it what it is.
• The story has four chapters: “Shards of the Heart”, “Sky Roads”, “The Green Thicket” with Vedana, Mistress of the forest, and “Stone and Steel” with Ratmira. Two of the four keepers of the Heart have been met — two more lie ahead.
• The colony grows from labourers to artisans, masters and elders; settlers have mood, friendships and quarrels, skills and traits, gear in six slots and weapons.
• Production: bread, planks, furniture, cloth and clothes, ingots and tools, brick, books, jewelry, honey, medicine, hunting and the smokehouse; the granary, resource camps, building upgrades, a Trading post with living prices.
• Finds with rarity, properties, sets and legendary powers — in ruins, caches, excavations and expeditions; encounters on the way with choices, and a map of the archipelago.
• Bandit raids from chapter 4 — one-on-one duels, towers and the palisade.
• Worlds of three sizes — up to 200×200 — and nine modifiers; seasons, day and night, a forest that grows back and has to be cut through.
• A knowledge base about everything in the game — 📖 or the K key, without spoilers beyond your colony.
• The chance to fight off a raid in the raid window is now calculated by duels — the same way the fight goes.
• Next — new chapters and keepers, ancient relics, ancient vaults with mechanical guardians and much more.

One-on-one fights

• A raid at the storage is no longer a general brawl with sparks, but duels: a free guard faces a free bandit, and you see who beats whom. A guard who loses runs off to their house (sometimes bruised) and doesn’t fight until the end of the raid; a bandit who loses runs back where they came from.
• Each fight’s outcome depends on the fighter’s strength: the “Combat” skill, a weapon, being a master or elder; towers and the palisade help in each one. All bandits fled — the raid is repelled; no guard left at the storage — they rob it.
• The raid window shows how the fight goes: how many duels are won and lost, how many bandits are still on their feet.

Knowledge base

• The knowledge base — a guide to the whole game: 📖 in the top bar or the K key. Sections: basics, buildings (by groups, as in the “Build” menu), goods, production chains as a tree from raw materials to the finished good, research, jobs and skills, population tiers, mood, finds (rarity, properties, sets, legendary powers), expeditions and encounters on the way, world modifiers, beasts, bandits, story chapters and achievements.
• Everything is linked: from bread — to the bakery, from the bakery — to the mill and the chain; search by name and description. The building window has “📖 In the knowledge base”.
• The knowledge base is open even without the game — on the site at /wiki/ (link at the bottom of the main menu): handy to read on a phone while you play on a computer.

Encounters on the way and the archipelago map

• An expedition is no longer just waiting: on the way the party meets a fire in the fog, a thunderstorm, a fragment of an ancient tower, an oncoming merchant airship, nesting grounds, the wreck of a strange airship, a helpful current, a cloud of shard dust or a leak in the hull. Each encounter has a choice: risk it for finds or pass carefully.
• A short flight — one encounter, a long one — two. The airship waits for your decision (the expeditions window opens by itself, ⛵❗ in the top bar), and the waiting time doesn’t count towards the journey; no answer within 8 hours — the captain picks the careful option.
• Encounter results come on return: extra items, planks and cloth from wrecks, meat, shard dust, and sometimes bruises or a delay. What happened on the way — in the expeditions window and in the journal.
• The archipelago map in the expeditions window: your shard in the middle, neighbours around it (each world has its own layout), tapping an island picks the destination, the airship is visible on its route.
• Their own interiors for the watchtower (a ladder to the hatch, spears, a shield, a brazier, a signal horn), the lighthouse, shipyard, mine, mining camp, clay pit, Altar, hunting lodge, smokehouse, tannery, jeweler and herbalist — instead of a generic workshop. The palisade, the Sacred grove and the Oath Stone no longer have “Inside”: there is nothing to see.
• ✨ Tips about new features: short hints appear when a new feature becomes useful — the “Supplies” window, who is idle, mood, the inside view, the granary, resource camps, building upgrades, living prices, clearings in the forest, snow clearing, ancient scrap, encounters on the way. Those who hid the tutorial see them too; they are turned off separately — “Tips about new features” in the main menu.

Mood and relationships

• Settlers have a mood: 😄 happy → 😣 depressed. It is made up of being fed, their own bed and a sound house, warmth, health, varied food and honey, their tier’s needs, friends — and fresh impressions: a repelled raid, a finished chapter, a promotion, a return from an expedition, a new face in the colony please them; a ruin, a demotion, quarrels upset them.
• The settler card has a mood bar; tap it to see what it is made of. In the settler list — an icon by the name.
• Inspired settlers (75+) work 10% faster, depressed ones (below 25) — 15% slower. Very bad (below 15) — a settler may break down: drops work and wanders alone for a few hours.
• Relationships: those who work and live close grow closer — each pair has its own compatibility. Friends lift the mood, foes spoil it; now and then quarrels happen. Friendships, quarrels and breakdowns — in the journal 💬, friends and foes — in the card.

A wall of forest

• Nobody walks through the forest anymore: the forest is chopped from its edge, and a passage is cut to go deeper. A building behind the forest can’t be placed without a passage — the game will hint “cut a passage”.
• On forest maps the landing spot is a clearing: the thick forest around a new colony is cut so the colony doesn’t end up in a forest “pocket”.
• If a settler is cut off from the storage by forest (for longer than a couple of hours), they are “stuck”: it shows in the list and in the journal (⌖ — show on the map). Those sleeping at home or inside a building don’t raise false alarms.
• The hunter shoots game in the forest from its edge; beasts walk through the forest as before.
• New settlers’ job priorities follow their skills: what they are good at comes first, the rest is in the middle.
• There are many more names; in a big colony — nicknames instead of numbers (“Miron the Red”).
• Inventory: an item that is better than what someone wears has a green “⬆ name” mark.
• The finds feed shows where an item came from — “Find in ruins · Ignat”, a mountain cache, the smithy, an expedition, a trophy after a raid.
• Raids: the fight at the storage is now visible — the guard gathers, the bandits fight, the outcome comes in a game hour; only guards who made it to the storage count in the fight.
• Raids: a clear advantage decides — one and a half times stronger means almost certain victory, twice as strong — certain; the raid window shows the exact chance in percent.

Legendaries and overgrown ruins

• The production building window: “⚡ Speed and output” in percent; a tap shows what it is made of: the worker’s skill and tier, gear, module, the autumn harvest, fertilizer, crop failure, a bountiful year, the Oath Stone.
• Legendary items drop half as often, but each usually has a unique power (★): Tireless, Fleetfoot, Prospector, Sense of the ancients, Golden hands, Warm hearth and others; now and then two powers, sometimes none.
• Ruins overgrown with forest on all sides can’t be searched until a way in is cut: the ruins window has “Cut a way in”, and marking a sortie marks chopping from the colony’s side by itself.
• In winter an area of roads is cleared completely — without a patch of snow in the middle.

Convenience and beauty

• Journal: events with a place (a find, a cache, an excavation, a herd, a raid, a starfall, a storm) have a ⌖ button: the map moves there.
• Who to give a set item to: you see who already has items of this set and which bonus will work — such settlers are higher in the list.
• The production building window: icons of raw materials and products with their stock in storage (not enough raw materials for a cycle — in red), a tap opens the good’s card.
• The lighthouse burns at night: the lantern’s fire and a slowly turning beam (only the fire on “Simple” graphics).
• Trails are more visible: trampled grass is light, straw-coloured; a trail is dark earth with an edge, ruts and pebbles; a road is paving.
• The 3D island in the menu: lower mountains, with clouds and distant islands around, as in the game.
• “Shelving” costs more: 60 planks and 40 stone.
• In winter cleared paths are an even strip with snow banks along the sides, not patches; they appear and melt together with the snow.
• Bridges: the “Road” tool over shallow water builds a bridge (stone and 3 planks per span), and builders lead it from the bank.

Long research, snow and old ruins

• Research takes longer — and the deeper in the tree, the longer: the first nodes take about a day of work, Aeronautics — about five. A second Antiquarian’s study means a second researcher, twice as fast.
• In winter trails and roads get snowed over — walking on them is slower. A new job, “Cleaning”: cleaners clear the snow, and what is cleared shows on the map; while winter lasts it slowly drifts over again. In spring the snow melts.
• Ruins exhausted to the bottom: “Take apart for stone” (the “Sorties” job, 60 stone, sometimes a find in the rubble) — the ruins disappear from the map. And untouched ones can be searched again after a couple of weeks: rain and wind uncover something new.

Chapter 4. Stone and Steel

• A new story chapter: Ratmira, keeper of the Stone island, and bandits — exiles from her island. Six stages: a tower and a palisade, an armourer, fighting back, the pass, elders and the Oath Stone.
• Bandits (from chapter 4): a band is spotted in advance and heads for the storage — fight back, hide or pay them off. Defence — the guard (the “Guard” job, the “Combat” skill), the watchtower and the palisade. Victory — trophies; defeat — the bandits carry off part of the supplies.
• Weapons: spears, bows and cleavers from the armory — the guard is stronger, the hunter more accurate. A new gear slot.
• Elders — the fourth settler tier: the Elder’s house, honey from the apiary, their own weapon. They work faster than anyone and lead the guard; an elder can also captain an expedition.
• The Stone island in expeditions — only the armed are let in. The Oath Stone is the fourth Shard of the Heart: one and a half times more stone and ore, stronger defence, fewer raids.
• The colony grows to 24 people — from the start of the fourth chapter. Seven new story illustrations.
• A building can no longer be placed so that it blocks the last way into a neighbouring one (a workshop ended up walled in and stood without a worker).

The nursery and chapter buildings

• Foresters also tend the nursery: it works with both “Field” and “Forestry” — saplings no longer wait for the fields to be free.
• Buildings and research of story chapters appear only from that chapter: the shipyard and “Aeronautics” — from the second, the nursery, herbs and “Forestry” — from the third. What is already studied and built stays.

Chapter 3. The Green Thicket

• A new story chapter: an island under a solid thicket and Vedana, Mistress of the forest — the first of the four keepers of the Heart. Six stages: planting, a path through the thicket, the herbalist, gifts, caring for your own and the Sacred grove.
• The Green island in expeditions: it opens when the colony plants a forest; herbs and saplings are brought from there.
• The Sacred grove is a story building: the third Shard of the Heart, clearings grow back twice as fast, illness and bruises heal twice as fast.
• The colony grows to 20 people — from the start of the third chapter.
• Five new story illustrations.
• The “Medicine made” counter in statistics.
• A big colony no longer lags: idle settlers don’t scan the whole map every moment looking for work.
• Build menu: each building shows how many already stand (and how many are being built); when you choose a building to place, the same ones are outlined on the map.
• The top bar on a phone: expedition and research percentages no longer stick out of the button.

Herbs and medicine

• A new research, “Herbalism” (after “Forestry”): it opens the herb garden and the herbalist.
• The herb garden grows healing herbs (the “Field” job, rests in winter). Herbs dry out: in an overfull storage they spoil.
• The herbalist (artisans only): herbs + cloth for bandages → medicine. The ill and bruised recover by themselves while there is medicine in storage — buying it from the merchant is no longer a must.
• The Trading post buys herbs and medicine.

Forestry

• A new research, “Forestry” (the “Husbandry” branch): it opens the Nursery — it grows saplings (the “Field” job, rests in winter).
• The “Plant” tool 🌱 (the 6 key; “Cancel” is now 7): circle the grass — a forester plants saplings from storage there.
• A new job, “Forestry”, in the “Jobs” window (skill — chopping). A planted tree shows as a young growth at once and becomes forest in a year — even in the middle of a field where forest wouldn’t grow by itself.
• The “Trees planted” counter in statistics.

Save protection

• Saves are split by account: each player has their own, and play without signing in has its own. After you sign out, the next player on the device doesn’t see your colonies.
• A cloud save can no longer be accidentally overwritten by another colony: if the slot is taken, the colony moves to a free one by itself.
• The server keeps several earlier versions of each colony: if a save gets corrupted, write to us — it can be restored.
• Colonies played without signing in show separately in the menu after you sign in — the “To account” button moves them to the cloud (if such a colony is already in the account, the more advanced one stays).
• Signing in with Yandex in the app on iPhone: if signing in finished in the browser and not in the game, the browser shows a code — enter it in the game. This way nobody can get into your account with a planted link.
• Changing your password signs you out on other devices.
• The game no longer lags if a spot marked for mining or chopping is unreachable (for example, behind mountains): settlers don’t look for a path to it again and again.
• Raw materials left at a construction site no longer vanish under the finished building — they are carried out to the door (in old saves too).
• The “Who to give it to” window on iPhone: the settler list scrolls all the way down.
• Narrow phones: top bar buttons no longer go off the edge of the screen (saving is always visible), and wrap to a new line when space runs out.

The colony grows to 16

• The population limit grows with the story: in the first chapter — 8 settlers, in the second — 12, after the Lighthouse — 16. The 👥 counter in the top bar shows the limit.
• Wanderers ask to join only if there is a free bed for them: want more settlers — build houses.
• Wanderers avoid a hungry or freezing colony, and come more often to a well-fed one with a supply of bread and empty beds.
• Settlers break off chopping, hauling and building to eat earlier — fewer reach the storage completely hungry.

Storage, trade and a second chapter without dead ends

• Storage is not endless: a storage zone tile holds 100 units, the “Warehouse” building — 500. The storage window shows how much space there is and what lies there. When it is overfull, bread, flour and grain slowly spoil.
• Trading post: sell surplus for gold any day and buy raw materials (ore, coal, clay, wood…) if they have run out on the map.
• Charcoal pit (after “Metallurgy”): coal from firewood. A mine by a mountain (after “Geology”): ore or coal from the depths — slowly, but without end.
• Research: each topic has a price in goods and a duration in hours of work instead of “knowledge points”.
• Every shard has its own name — “Quiet Haven”, “Grey Crag” — instead of a jumble of letters.
• A kind icon on every building: housing, food, wood, textiles, metal, knowledge…
• Phone: building by finger is more precise — a second tap on the “ghost” places the building where it stands, and the ghost itself can be dragged.
• Settlers go hungry less: they step away to eat in the middle of workshop work without losses (what is done waits in the building), and leave distant ruins for lunch in advance.
• Fixed: resources dropped right on a storage tile “got stuck” — they weren’t counted in supplies (because of this an airship might not get built).

Chapter 2. Sky Roads

• The second story chapter: after the Altar, masters build a flying airship and lead expeditions to neighbouring shards.
• The shipyard (only masters work there) and the flying airship; the “Aeronautics” research.
• Expeditions: a party of 2–4 settlers, the captain is a master. Four islands, a “careful” or “bold” pace. The party flies off for several days and brings back materials, skystone and items — bruises happen.
• A lighthouse of skystone opens the way to the Far shard, where the second Shard of the Heart sleeps.
• Six new story scenes.
• The server no longer uses HTTP/3 — on some iPhones the connection dropped because of it.
• The connection to the server is restored at once when you return to the game (iPhone drops the connection of minimized apps), and it notices a “stuck” connection by itself.
• The “What’s new” window scrolls.
• The “Connection diagnostics” page (at the bottom of the main menu): checks the server, the socket and the cache on the device, and can reset the game cache.
• Signing in with Yandex ID for all new players; those who played by name can link Yandex to their account — colonies and achievements are kept.
• Signing in and linking with Yandex also work in the installed app: after agreeing in the browser, just go back to the game.
• Signing in and registering with a login and password — next to Yandex ID. Those signed in can set a login and password or change the password.
• The “Personal data” page — what data the game stores and how to delete it.
• A nice preview of the game link in messengers and social networks, and a splash with the game’s description while loading.
• The statistics and achievements window — in the main menu and in the game — no longer slides under the iPhone status bar and scrolls.

The first version on the server

• A colony on a floating shard: chopping, mining, storage, roads, building and moving buildings.
• Production: bread, planks and furniture, cloth and clothes, ingots and tools.
• Ruins, mountain caches and digging deeper; settlers’ gear with rare properties and sets.
• Artisans, a research tree, day and night, seasons and winter, storyteller events.
• Story: “Chapter 1. Shards of the Heart”.
• Achievements, statistics and cloud saves.
• A mobile version: finger controls, full-screen windows.
• A graphics setting: “Simple” for weak phones.