Update, October 20

October 20, 2026

New: Four spells

Magic Arrow (1st circle): a quick arrow of light that hits as hard far away as up close.
Lightning (4th circle): calls a bolt down on your target, harder than Fireball.
Reveal (6th circle): throw light at a spot to find anyone invisible or hidden around it.
Mass Dispel (7th circle): sends every enemy summon in an area back where it came from.

The Blacksmith in Bramblewick now sells longbows and crossbows, and the Rookery's Armourer sells longbows.

Report bugs in #bug-reports on our Discord. When one is fixed, you earn points. Type /points to see yours.

A cart's name now shows its owner's colour, so you can tell whether opening it is a crime.
A cart left unused for 12 hours falls apart with everything in it, unless it's hitched to a horse or inside your house.

Windows, nameplates, buttons and the hotbar now stay on screen: you can't drag them off, and they move back into view when your window gets smaller.
Auction house messages now show in chat in their own green.
If you're not using Chrome, the login screen now tells you. Firefox players get a page of fixes to try: https://theoldeworld.com/firefox

Your character no longer glides without walking after going through a gate or taking a dungeon stair.
Holding the right mouse button no longer bounces you on dungeon stairs or turns you around upstairs.
Spells, thrown bottles and dropped items land on the floor you point at, upstairs too.
Brigands and camp fighters who lose sight of their target now fight back against whoever is hitting them.
Corpses no longer show a tag that belonged to something else, like [Summoned].
Roads no longer turn yellow at dusk.
Auction notices no longer garble enchanted item names.