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Brighter Shores — patch notes and updates

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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.

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7-May-2026 - Patch notes2026-05-07General bug fixes • Fix 'Unloaded mesh found' error when brewing rams horns. • Fix combat level up interface not temporarily muting the music as intended. • Fix Lobster Spot and Oyster Spot info cards. Fractured Reality bug fixes • Fix Angry Squidbeast card to say 'Attacks with Impact' instead of 'Attacks with Cryonae'. • Fix Angry Squidbeast to have correct defeated animation. • Add missing padlocks to locked rooms during the quest. • Fix bug where other player's minecarts were incorrectly visible in Flooded Depths. • Change the name of the 'Cantilever Spring', as it is not a cantilever spring. • Fix one quest item appearing in the quest she
6-May-2026 - Fractured Reality Quest2026-05-06Grrrayam the kobold would like your help finding his pet metaliths. He last saw them hurtling into the deepest part of the Mine of Mantuban during an ill-advised game of minecart racing. All you need to do is track them down (pun intended). If only things were ever that simple... To start Fractured Reality, you will first need to complete the Mantuban's Legacy quest, and then speak with Grrrayam in the Truck Cave. The lead developers for the Fractured Reality quest were Paul and Ian. Quality of life improvements • Give enchantment potion reagents a rare border color so they stand out more from other item drops. • Drinking an enrage potion now
28-Apr-2026 - Enchanted Trees2026-04-28Alchemists can now brew tree enchantment potions at the potent potion station. These potions allow you to enchant trees of your choice in Hopeforest. There are 10 different potions, each corresponding to a different species of tree. Only a single tree of each species can be enchanted at a time. You can change which tree is enchanted by making another potion and using it on a different tree. Once a tree has been enchanted, it will stay enchanted until you choose to enchant a different tree. The reagents for tree enchantment potions are rare drops from various Hopeport and Hopeforest combat foes. You can find all the information on the new poti
21-Apr-2026 - Bonewright Bounties2026-04-21Bonewright bounties have landed with a resounding thump. Or is that just the Bonetron 8000? The goblins in the Mine of Mantuban are in a quandary. They cannot agree which weapon will be most appropriate for their newest creation. Is one-handed or two-handed better? Should the Bonetron 8000 be equipped with a ranged or melee weapon? Muddle is of the firm opinion that it only needs a shield, as everyone knows that defense is the best form of offense. Clearly the only way to decide who is right is through exhaustive testing, and so the goblins are offering bounties for you to bring them the Guardian weapon they think is the best for the Bonetron
16-Apr-2026 - Pickaxe Resonators2026-04-16Pickaxe resonators can now be found growing on the brambles in Hopeforest. To be able to chop out a resonator, you will need the appropriate woodcutter level for the bramble it is attached to. Resonators are attached to your pickaxe, and each resonator corresponds to one kind of ore or rock. There is no resonator for deathstone, as deathstone is not mined with a pickaxe. Mining with a resonator gives you a 5% chance of finding a geode. There are four kinds of geode, one for each of the Mine of Mantuban professions - Blacksmith, Bonewright, Miner and Stonemason. Breaking open a geode will give XP in the corresponding profession. It is random w
12-Apr-2026 - Patch notes2026-04-12Quality of life improvements • Make the rabbits in Central Junction and Thimble Lane easier to catch. Bug fixes • Fix bug where the camera could get stuck in a vertical position. • Fix bug where walls and trees which obscure your avatar were no longer being removed.
7-Apr-2026 - Easter 2026 Event2026-04-07Dorothy has been left in charge of the new Rabbit Cafe on Old Street East in Hopeport. After waking up from a well-deserved afternoon nap, she discovered all the rabbits have gone missing! Dorothy will be eternally grateful, and maybe even give you a little reward, if you help her recover them before her boss comes back. The Easter 2026 event will be removed with the game update on 5th May 2026, after which you will not be able to recover any rabbits or claim any rewards. As with previous seasonal events, we will never make these Easter 2026 rewards available again, so now is your only chance to get them. Steve was the lead developer for the
31-Mar-2026 - Patch Notes2026-03-31Quality of life improvements • When foraging, the verb now indicates if you have Forager's Gloves which are boosting that foraging spot. This was actually in yesterday's update but was missed from the news. Bug fixes • Fix bug where 'Past Milestone' was missing from all NPCs (such as fish and combat NPCs). • Fix bug in Filtration Station Twin Streams mode if you pulled the fast flow lever before the second stream started. • Fix bug in Filtration Station Faulty Flow mode where it could occasionally generate an impossible puzzle. • Fix bug with camera angle when completing Stonemason rock eater bounties.
30-Mar-2026 - Tannery Upgrades2026-03-30The Leatherworker stations in the Tannery can now be upgraded. A fully upgraded station will run 10% faster. You can obtain a tannery upgrade by following these steps: 1) Mine a tourmaline gemstone in the Mine of Mantuban. 2) Trade the tourmaline with Dina Torrelli in the Jewelry Shop for a tannery upgrade. 3) Install the upgrade into the appropriate station in the tannery. There are 10 different upgrades, with one available in each milestone of Miner. The full list of tannery upgrades can be seen in the Miner profession interface. You can also track which step you are on for each upgrade by looking at the icon in that interface. Quality of l
23-Mar-2026 - Stonemason Bounties2026-03-23The rock eaters have arrived in the Mine of Mantuban as part of Stonemason Bounties. These hungry blobs want you to serve up a delicious meal consisting of a freshly crafted weapon or shield. You will find that rock eaters are not as fussy as kobolds, and they will be satisfied with any weapon or shield of their favorite flavor (or damage kind as us humans might call it). Stonemason bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 3 Stonemason and you can pick up stonemason bounties from the bounty board in the Stonemasonry Room. There are two kinds of stonemason bounties: • Craft only • Craft and deliver to a rock eater Quality of life improvemen
18-Mar-2026 - Patch notes2026-03-18Bug fixes • Revert change to interaction point for Anron when trading with him. • Fix progress wheel not always completing properly when using Forager's Gloves. • Fix crash when refilling the greenfly sprayer while standing in the Mine of Mantuban. • Fix two tiles in Stump Clearing which you could not walk on.
17-Mar-2026 - Forager's Gloves2026-03-17Forager's Gloves can now be crafted by talking to Jack Wellis in the Leatherworks. You can craft a new pair of Forager's Gloves in each milestone of Leatherworker. Each pair of Forager's Gloves gives a 20% speed boost when foraging two specific items. For example milestone 1 Forager's Gloves give a 20% speed boost when foraging Nettle and Wrack, and milestone 2 Forager's Gloves give a 20% speed boost when foraging Pond Weed and Bellplant. These improvements are cumulative, so milestone 2 Forager's Gloves have all the benefits of milestone 0 and milestone 1 Forager's Gloves. You can see details on which Forager's Gloves unlocks are available i
13-Mar-2026 - Patch notes2026-03-13Quality of life improvements • Filtration Station and Kobold Arena bounties will now show up more often on the bounty board. • You can now drink XP potions during a game of Filtration Station. Bug fixes • Fix an occasional crash when starting Filtration Station.
11-Mar-2026 - Blacksmith Bounties Launch2026-03-11Blacksmith bounties are now available. They are unlocked by reaching milestone 2 Blacksmith. You can collect blacksmith bounties from the blacksmith bounty boards, which are located in Goblin Workshop, Gnome Forge, Upper River Bend and Kobold Arena. All these blacksmith bounty boards carry the same bounties. There are three kinds of blacksmith bounties: Craft only - Craft the weapons listed in the bounty for extra rewards. Craft and deliver weapons to the Kobold Arena - The kobolds in the Kobold Arena are hungry for battle, but they need the shiniest metal weapons you can make to really show off their skills. Filtration Station - Spongle has
2-Mar-2026 - Monumental Fishing2026-03-02Additional fishing spots can now be unlocked by completing the odd-numbered stages of the Fallen Monument. Each odd-numbered stage will add additional fishing spots for one kind of fish. For example, completing stage 1 of the Fallen Monument will unlock two new Ray spots in Ray Bay. Because the additional spots are unlocked by Forager, you can see all the information on them in the Forager professions tab. Completing the final stage of the Fallen Monument still unlocks a new venture slot. You might think these new unlocks mean that you should just level up Forager before every other profession, and that is indeed the case this week. However,
23-Feb-2026 - Fisher "Catch of the Day" Bounties Launch2026-02-23Today we have launched fisher bounties. Fisher bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 2 Fisher. You can pick up fishing bounties from any of the three bounty boards, although it is worth knowing that every bounty board will contain the same bounties. The fisher bounty boards can be found in Eel Street, Starfish Point and Wild Path. There are three kinds of bounties: • Catch only • Catch and deliver to the fishmonger • Legendary fish Legendary fish require a special technique to catch, using legendary fish bait which can be purchased from Melv's Supplies. You place the bait in water, and wait for the fish to approach. Standing too close w
18-Feb-2026 - Patch Notes2026-02-18Venture balancing We have realized that when we previously increased the number of items given by ventures we overshot, and went from ventures giving too few items, to giving way too many items. As such, we have now partially rolled back that increase, to a point somewhere in the middle of the 2 extremes. We have implemented this as follows: • Reduce the number of lobsters, oysters, grapes, cinnamon sticks and brimstone you get from ventures. • Change the length of the lobster ventures and brimstone ventures to 23 hours. • Increase the low price of lobsters, oysters, grapes, cinnamon sticks, brimstone, and explosives. This ensures the daily w
The Brighter Leek #302026-02-17Welcome to the 30th edition of The Brighter Leek. With the launch of Project Milestones Phase 2, we are now turning our full attention to Phase 3, starting with bounties and world events. As you can see from the launch schedule below, we have plenty of updates heading your way very soon! Launch Schedule This is subject to change. This is what we are aiming for, not a promise. The aim is to move to a weekly update schedule which alternates between large updates and small updates. Week commencing 23rd February 2026 - Fisher 'Catch of the Day' bounties. Week commencing 2nd March 2026 - quality of life improvements and small features. Week commen
17-Feb-2026 - Patch Notes2026-02-17Balancing • Change the milestone cash compensation code to ignore the change in price in certain venture items (lobsters, oysters, grapes, cinnamon sticks, brimstone and explosives), as people with a huge number of these banked were not getting a fair amount of compensation. This means when you next login, if you had a lot of these you may get some additional compensation. • Change how XP and knowledge potions boost combine with rare bounty boosts. Previously if you had say: an XP potion multiplier of +20% and a rare bounty multiplier of +100%, the two boosts were MULTIPLIED together giving a total boost of 1.2 x 2.0 = +140%. This was overpow
12-Feb-2026 - Patch Notes2026-02-12Bug fixes • Fix some combat passive foes being in the wrong foe pack. • Fix Blobs remaining clickable when defeated, which made it difficult to pick up the loot they dropped. • Add a small delay before you can choose a foe pack, so you don't accidentally choose a foe pack if you happen to click just as it opens.