Change Log
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From the first trail into the Glade to a shared world of returning adventurers: these are Wynderwood’s major recorded updates. Early entries group changes from development records by date; smaller adjustments are included where the history is available.
A clearer trail and a smoother shared world
- Town happenings: added a welcome for each first-time character, removed redundant character labels and game-day codes from news, limited news to the 20 most recent events, and kept routine wilderness encounters in the personal journal rather than town news.
- Typography: replaced em dashes with standard typed hyphens in page titles, headings and game text.
- Site information: added a common C Bianchi LLC copyright footer, a dedicated Change Log, and updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages with the privacy contact privacy@cbianchillc.com.
- Wilderness layout: Choose a trail now appears before the exploration card. Card titles, descriptions, and exploration/continuation buttons match the selected Glade, Watchtower, or Catacombs route.
- Encounter artwork: added illustrated cards for all 24 creatures and four choice-based forest discoveries, with optimized artwork and responsive layouts.
- Sage access: fixed first and returning Sanctuary visits so travel and the Sage’s greeting work together.
- Training: prevented capped ability scores from blocking further play. When all six abilities reach 20, remaining training choices become +2 maximum HP each; affected saved characters are handled automatically.
- Dungeon planning: entering an expedition requires three turns. Players can abandon an expedition between battles without a turn refund; Flee and Explore availability now matches encounter rules.
- Combat bonuses: aligned displayed attack/defense with resolved combat, including tavern favors, well blessings, mounts, familiars, equipment and temporary guard. Wizard focuses now contribute to spell damage.
- Class abilities: signature abilities recover after two other battle actions. Cleric Mending Light heals instead of also attacking. Combat cards show damage/healing previews and recovery status.
- Inventory: identical consumables stack with visible quantities, while existing item counts are preserved. The draught chooser shows available potions and useful healing ranges.
- Town convenience: added Deposit all and Withdraw all, equipment comparisons, and clearer handling of ineffective healing or focus use. Town-post feedback uses the fresh posted result.
- Reliable actions: improved simultaneous-play safety, repeated-click protection, interrupted-request recovery, and handling of stale character state across tabs.
- Daily transitions: synchronized dawn rewards, revival and interest with server state, including refreshing when returning to a tab.
- Interface continuity: routine updates preserve drafts and focus. Community refreshes request relevant data, preserve partial successes, and pause in hidden tabs.
- Mobile and accessibility: added persistent HP, turn and dawn information, clearer narrow-screen headers, keyboard-friendly dialogs, Escape/focus restoration, status announcements and reduced-motion support.
- Loading and release reliability: improved asset caching, compression, deployment verification, backups and saved-profile compatibility. Added regression coverage and seeded gameplay simulations using the actual combat and progression rules.
The realm opens, and new companions arrive
- Production launch: brought the hosted game to wynderwood.com with account-backed progress and separate development and production worlds.
- Location persistence: restored the player’s last location after refresh or sign-in; unfinished battles, forest choices and expeditions return players to the wilderness.
- Encounter safeguards: strengthened location and encounter checks so travel, banking and town services respect the character’s current situation.
- More creatures: expanded the encounter roster across the Whispering Glade, Old Watchtower and Ancient Catacombs, with level-gated statistics, rewards and descriptions.
- Shared game days: aligned resets, the sky tracker and game timestamps to 06:00 and 18:00 UTC.
- The Stable: added seven mounts with escalating prices and trail benefits, unlocked after five completed adventures. Selected daily mount benefits change at the next dawn.
- NPC portraits: added portraits to town conversations, the Sage’s Sanctuary and inn companion interactions, with responsive presentation and layered panel styling.
- Daily town contracts: added short exploration and creature-hunting tasks with gold/XP rewards, plus support for existing saved characters.
- Creature journal: began recording creature sightings and defeated counts across adventures.
- Familiar Grove: added woodland companions and their small benefits for adventurers who have completed ten adventures.
- Account and mobile refinements: continued improving weekly adventurer-name changes, navigation, account messaging, public-page presentation and hosted release consistency.
The first adventures in Wynderwood
- First playable prototype: introduced browser-based character creation, exploration, turn-based battles, leveling, equipment, a world clock, a journal, and the Briar King prestige path.
- Character choices: introduced Human, Elf, Dwarf and Halfling characters, Fighter/Rogue/Wizard/Cleric callings, and character gender selection for each adventure.
- The bank: added deposits and withdrawals, a separate vault balance, and savings that survive death and prestige.
- Death and dawn: introduced the ghost state, loss of carried gold and remaining daily turns on death, and revival at the inn with health restored at a new game day.
- Town shops: added the Blacksmith, Alchemist and Mage Emporium, followed by a larger catalog of weapons, armor, healing/guard/focus draughts, and magical gear with class and level restrictions.
- Rest and progression: added level-scaled paid resting, revised experience pacing, ability-score training on level-up, and gradual visibility of unlocked locations.
- Crown Gems and the Sage: added a story-driven return from the Briar King, with Crown Gems carried into new adventures and spent at the Sanctuary for lasting turn, bank-interest and ability bonuses.
- Daily allotment: raised the base allowance to 25 turns per 12-hour game day, with permanent upgrades supporting up to 200 daily turns.
- Town stories: introduced recurring NPC conversations, journal clues for the watchtower mystery, daily inn company encounters influenced by Charisma, and temporary favors.
- Forest discoveries: added four branching encounters with choices, story outcomes, and rewards or risks.
- Distinct regions: added the Whispering Glade and three-stage Watchtower and Catacombs expeditions, including level gates and the Ancient Key.
- A shared world: added server-validated character actions, durable account/world storage, player discovery and rankings, town happenings, persistent guilds, consent-based friendly duels, and reporting/moderation tools.
- Unified accounts: moved toward a single email-verified account flow with email sign-in, password recovery, case-insensitive name uniqueness and preserved display capitalization.
- Presentation: introduced illustrated area backdrops, original navigation icons, a sun/moon tracker, the daily-turn meter, keyboard navigation shortcuts, clearer NPC cooldowns and responsive layouts.
- Hosting foundations: established the development deployment and transactional account email support before the production opening.
This log records shipped features and fixes. Current gameplay rules take precedence over descriptions of earlier behavior. For the present account and community rules, see the Terms of Service.