Patch Notes

Beta 0.24.4 - The Sun Is Setting

October 1, 2025	Beta 0.24.4	The Sun Is Setting
Sunsetting Hey everyone, Idlescape will be entering the sunsetting stage after this patch goes live. This means we'll stop accepting microtransaction purchases and move from active development to just maintenance. The game will continue running until our rented time expires on the last day of November. IS+ will be globally given to all players until the time expires and I will manually cancel further recurring payments for all existing subscriptions. Working on Idlescape and playing with you all has made for an incredible last few years, but with growing time constraints IRL and the volunteer-style team backing the game it is no longer feasible to continue supporting the game as it is. A couple weeks ago we explored the option of pushing to 1.0 once legal hurdles had been handled, but the sheer amount of work we have to do with the little time we have to do it means this year+ indefinite pre-1.0 state would keep going. Not only this, but if we did push to 1.0, the workload would only increase. The scope of the game is just excessively large for a purely volunteer team to handle without burning out. That said, with the last legal hurdles (TL;DR IP Rights) handled, there are still several avenues for Idlescape to continue, even if only spiritually. The existing codebase and assets will continue to exist so that personal projects from the team may pop up; I (Nick) will probably start tinkering with a much more limited scope game using what I've learned and made over the last few years, but I don't expect to have something playable for a while. The Discord will remain open and what we do is up to the community. I'm leaning towards keeping the main chat channels open and archiving the rest. I'm personally going to share whatever I'm up to there and to keep up with y'all and the team. I will continue to restart the server to keep it running (mostly) smoothly, as well as push any patches that the CCs prepare. Who knows what the future holds, though? Today's Patch Adjust disconnect sometimes killing sessions Fix some farming issues Fix dungeon key drop level Fix some cases of sapphire rolls in smithing

Beta 0.24.3 - FINE YOU CAN HAVE THE BACKPACK AUG COST CHANGED

September 25, 2025	Beta 0.24.3	FINE YOU CAN HAVE THE BACKPACK AUG COST CHANGED
UI Changes Improve season league info display Small simplification to fishing info box Center markers on thumb when min=max Bug Fixes Fixed a backend crash Fix double shrine reminders Fix weakening enchantment equipping Fix some listing issues Balancing Dwarven Adventurer's Backpack lowered from 2 styg bars and 15 scales to 3 styg bars, 3 scales, 3 leather, and 3 chitin Totems stack additively Farming mastery no longer double boosts loot rolls Don't consume Chances stack on every action Remove second geode roll from myst seeds Made it easier to roll perfect affixes by reducing the decimals and adding larger intervals Nerf unstable totem drop rates Multiplied all instances of corrupted totem droprates by 10x, but halved aug roll Other News f1sh has joined the team as a community contributor! say hello!

Beta 0.24.2 - New Old Management

September 18, 2025	Beta 0.24.2	New Old Management
Fixes Refactored a bunch of backend functionality that was problematic, especially related to socket message spam. This should fix a bunch of high prio issues. Yes, market is being re-enabled. Game News So as y'all have known for a long while, 1.0 / Steam have been on the horizon for over a year. The primary blocker for this hasn't been a technical one for a long time, but has been a management/legal issue (the hopefully final of many). Without going into too much detail, the company ownership was split in such a way that made finalizing things difficult, but everything is getting fully consolidated by the end of this month. This may result in some service hiccups as we have to transfer some technical things around / get new contracts setup, but I don't expect that to take more than a day (if things go smoothly). This may not immediately affect the game development, but that frees us up to do what we need to do to further the game. So, Steam Soon? It's still next up after C3.0, which is still under development. Things have been going at a steady pace for that project, but things have continued to be busy IRL which limits my time to work on it.

Beta 0.24.1 - updaaate

September 11, 2025	Beta 0.24.1	updaaate
Fixes Fix tooltip getting cutoff with scroll Fix missing corrupted totem spawn rates Fix socket connecting to previous character Fix overgrowth not consuming extra seeds Fix erroneously high corrupted totem spawn rates Changes Move skilling dungeon bonus level outside random range Increased corrupted totem spawn rates Queue scrollcrafting by amount Reduce myst seed drop rate Added hold shift to scroll tooltips Removed affix feedback option (it's been long enough) Update Volcano Core description Increase fiddlehead rate in tangle Decreased corrupted totem spawn rates something else got added too C3.0 News Currently in the process of updating the UI to the new technical systems. It should be far more robust since all events are now automatically exposed to client instead of being manually sent/updated

Beta 0.24.0 - Big Skilling Updates

September 3, 2025	Beta 0.24.0	Big Skilling Updates
0.24.0a Nerfed unstable totems Fix farming replant when partially running out of seeds Fix too strong totem affixes Fix cooking quality applying to base puddings Space for overflowing numbers in UI New Skilling Changes (Some of this is outdated from the test server, will update it when it's corrected) The essence All gathering skills have now options to obtain dungeon fragments for their respective gathering dungeon The fragment is then processed through the production skill into a key Production skills no longer passively produce dungeon fragments, but each one has enchantments or talents to regain the option Mining Core Fragments added to Deep Pit with a very low chance Superheating has a reduced effect on Core Fragments Since the heat cost of core fragments is that high, their rate would otherwise explode Foraging new rare Duskview nodes in Haunted Woods and Living Forest Duskview is a hatchet/foragingset enchantment Added to shrine pool HW node can only be accessed with the enchantment LF node has a base chance, which can be increased with the enchantment nodes contains Ancient Sap Droplets 10 Droplets can be crafted with an Elder Tree Seed to an Ancient Oak Seed Droplets were introduced to reduce variance 10x higher chance, but you need 10 -> running completely dry is less likely new unique buff ingredients in both nodes Fishing new rare Snorkeling nodes in Open Ocean and Stormy Seas both are locked behind high amounts of bonus rarity nodes contain Ancient Fiber Strings new buff ingredients in both nodes New Talent for Snorkeling New Achievement with another level of Snorkeling Fiber Snagging reworked, now removes all non-fiber options from a loot roll instead of replacing the drop with a fiber Change was required to prevent Fiber Snagging from being op to get Ancient Fiber Strings The size of nodes now scales multiplicative with level and bait instead of additive Level and bait were completely dominating the node size, making node size as a balancing tool irrelevant Fix Fishing UI using wrong bonus rarity in some places Fix Fishing UI showing the wrong node size Fix Fishing UI rarity thresholds being affected by Deadliest Catch and Fiber Finder Fantastic Fiber Finder talent nerfed from 3 -> 2 levels of Fiber Finder Greater Chests The drop rate of crafting components for the legendary gathering tools from Greater Chests was heavily nerfed. The drop rate of dungeon fragments was heavily buffed. Farming Passive Ancient Oak Seed drops removed Reintroduce them with Bark's Boon new hoe enchant Bark's Boon talents exist Added to shrine pool Key chance is shown in farming tooltip Fix Ancient Oak Seeds dropping from themself New Talents Zen Garden I & II if you have at most 1/2 plant(s) in your plot, increase their growth rate by 50% Ignores totems Growth rate of plants now scales multiplicative instead of additive Fertilizer now actually does what the tooltips says and increases farming xp by 30% The xp in the farming tooltip includes both the fertilized status and your current totem effects Every Skilling Dungeon can drop an unstable variant of one of the farming totems They are a lot stronger, but you shouldn't be able to fully sustain them on your plot (in an ironman setting) Added another secret totem Farming backend was refactored to split up monoliths. Please check if everything still works. Smithing Core Fragments were removed from the Volcano Forge refining table Two Volcano Core talents re-introduce them with first talent 1-3 with both 1-5 The number of Core Fragments per Core Ingot was increased Core Ingots are now directly the key Existing Dwarven Research Keys will transform into identical Core Ingots Existing Core Ingots will be legacy. The crafting recipe (which now converts legacy core ingots into core ingots) for them might get removed at any time. Runecrafting 10 Ancient Fiber String can be combined into an Ancient Cloth Piece This will take a while This is already the key! Existing Academy Research keys will transform into identical Cloth Pieces Existing cloth fragments will be legacy. The crafting recipe for them might get removed at any time. Removed passive Ancient Cloth drops To passively get ancient fiber strings, you need Fraying now The rate was overall decreased and the scaling based on item tier reduced This means that low level fibers were less affected Consumes cosmic runes comes with two talents Other changes Achievement tooltip now displays progress multiplicators Cooking Potion selection was made a bit more intuitive by displaying the corresponding item together with its buff Krampus key is no longer craftable. Snowballs were moved to "Rare". Therefore "Event" is now empty and was removed. Making space for a future search bar in crafting Other Stuff This Update Disconnect socket on unloading Fit chat equipment tooltip Better related skills for enchantments Limit some edge case decimal printing Achievement talent desc improvements More improvements to post-restart session reloading Fix DT proccing on modified exp

Beta 0.23.7 - prepping the prep

August 29, 2025	Beta 0.23.7	prepping the prep
Today's Update New Quest Added the next Story quest, "From Whence Corruption Came," since it doesn't rely on any of the new content coming in C3.0 or Skilling Dungeons rework. UI Enchantment list skill grouping Enchantment tooltip part of talent description Clarified some tooltip stat names Added + sign to some positive values to show they're additive Can now shift+wheel scroll tooltips Multi-vendor button with setting added Added sell junk button dialogue popup Fix selection tooltip with scrolling Center wide fishing info headers Show correct decimals in some enchantment descriptions Clarify fishing stat descriptions Clean up lots of input fields Highlight enchant variables in tooltips Other Bugs Stop double counting scroll queue Get fastest run of each party for combat hiscores properly Misc Adjusting rune costs for a couple things to be more thematically fitting Skilling Dungeons Progress Ice has been making a lot of headway in polishing up the Skilling Dungeons content! It's currently available to playtest publicly on https://dev.idlescape.com/, so feel free to stop by and give some feedback on it on Discord in the playtest channels! Combat 3.0 Progress The technical portion of C3.0 are approximately 80% rewritten. Without getting too deep into the process, here's a screenshot of the number of lines of code that were changed: I've essentially thrown out all of the old combat technical design in favor of massively optimizing the system and making it robust. If you're wondering why this is taking so long- originally, I had intended to keep as much of the old framework as possible and optimize the worst offenders, but after banging my head into a wall for weeks trying to do that it became abundantly clear that only a complete rewrite could accomplish the goals we set forth for the technical specs. Once the tech side is done the content side should be incredibly simple to complete. Oh, and yes, there will be a public playtest when I need bugs found and balance suggestions!