Notes from Firstlight
Click-walking now keeps a bounded set of requests in flight, position updates no longer compete with one another, and the connection indicator shows movement round-trip time. Replayed movement commands are rejected. Server speed limits remain enforced while cheat scoring tolerates short network bursts. Automated latency and abuse tests pass; human playtesting and live rollout remain pending.
Raise an original Cinderseed into a Lanternling and Waylight through a three-part journey with Luma. Optional daily care, saved bond, three pixel forms and show/hide controls add companionship without bought power. The field journal adds 38 original creature notes, research honors and habitat routes. Daily hunt offers now stay fixed after acceptance. Visual playtesting and rollout are pending.
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An isolated candidate adds Highpass, Frostmere, Glassmarsh, Ashfall and Starfall, a practice arena and two more private expeditions. The catalogue now has 60 quests, 32 creatures, 40 townsfolk and 24 recipes. Seven free disciplines, level-20 progression, collections, private character-key recovery and stable-account weekly reward records are under test. New reward pilots cap reviewed accounts at 100 and retain pending signatures before finalized reconciliation. Automated journeys expose pacing and gold-economy work still needed; this is not a finished-game, live-deployment or token-launch announcement.
Twenty-four original townsfolk sprites give each settlement its own cast. Dialogue portraits use the same character artwork, and conversations separate quest choices, shops and local services. Choose another unlocked quest even while one is active; the server checks the person, location and prerequisites. The new town guide searches all twenty-five townsfolk by name, place, service, item or quest, using actual game shops and workshops. The homepage introduces the cast, and the handbook now explains how to use conversations and find the right service. ASCEND remains pre-launch; token purchases add no reward eligibility.
Mirehide Coat, Copperfall Mail and Sentinel Plate now change your character’s appearance, with 96 original walking and combat frames. Shared scaling keeps the character grounded and proportional through movement and hits. The homepage becomes a compact classic game portal with an illustrated opening, actual gameplay and a clear traveller bulletin. Preview the same armor sprites on the website. The handbook groups practical chapters by purpose and explains the playable game, visible equipment, planned Solana/pump.fun token and remaining milestones. Token and real payouts remain pre-launch.
A clearer dark website pairs larger text with original artwork and actual gameplay. Search the creature guide by name or habitat and preview sixteen four-pose families, including the new Bog Angler, Fen Lantern Moth, Fen Gloomcap and Watch Rune Stalker. In the player market, search all offers by item or seller, filter equipment and materials, set a whole-lot budget and compare prices per unit. Sorting applies before pagination. The wider Social window and updated handbook explain the complete trade flow and the separate, still pre-launch ASCEND model.
The equipment guide is now a compact browser of 25 items with filters, search, actual vendor prices and crafting stations. Four more original creature families receive idle, breathing, hit and attack artwork. Nearby healers restore health for three game gold, with safe rest courts at frontier hosts. Roofs and trees fade when they cover your character. Healer routes finish on safe paving, and click-to-walk waits for delayed server replies. Larger body copy, direct equipment navigation and updated handbook chapters make the world easier to understand.
A compact illustrated homepage, selectable world atlas and explicit in-game map actions connect the website to the adventure. Held basic attacks repeat at the normal cooldown. Four deepwood creature families gain original four-pose artwork.
Four frontier creatures now have original idle, alternate idle, hurt and attack sprites, with consistent proportions and a pose viewer in the world guide. The token page has a compact layout, an interactive funded-week example and a clear official launch record. Project docs explain the game at a glance, handbook searches understand common player terms, and short Space/Q presses reliably trigger combat. Smaller road props and townsfolk, collapsible adventure hints and a corrected completed-quest label keep the field clearer.
A rebuilt classic game website gives the adventure room to breathe, with three new original world illustrations, a simpler first-evening guide and a clear separate reward explanation. The handbook is searchable, with chapter contents and more readable text. In the game, choose Walk into weapon range for a selected enemy, then attack manually. Press F or use the nearby-drop button to collect loot. The first-adventure guide now explains equipment, collection and returning to Luma.
Thirty-three original item sprites and three profession badges now appear across inventory, shops, crafting and supported world drops. A rebuilt backpack has item inspection, equipment comparisons, supply filters and explicit equip actions. The journal separates active, available and completed quests, remembers a tracked objective and opens its route on the map. A shorter website opening, clearer text and a new equipment field guide connect the actual weapons and recipes to the game.
A darker, more compact website with new night-time Firstlight artwork and four original townsfolk portraits. The project overview now explains the playable game and its separate planned token. In-game dialogue shows portraits, objectives and rewards; E talks to nearby townsfolk. The guide finds creature habitats and resource sites, then highlights the next unlocked passage or quest destination on the map. Sound, photos and controls move into More, leaving a smaller command bar. Window clicks no longer pass through into the world.
A redesigned website with original Firstlight and Sunken Sanctum illustrations, a browsable world atlas and an eight-chapter player handbook. New ground materials add texture to the playable world, and a compact combat panel keeps more of the battlefield visible. Consistent navigation connects the soundtrack, economy report and clear ASCEND launch information.
A new Firstlight party illustration leads a compact dark game portal. The world guide now has a selectable atlas with connected roads and shareable location links. In-game maps offer Walk here, Stop walking and explicit Talk or Travel actions on arrival. Hold Space or the attack button to repeat basic strikes at the normal cooldown; release to stop. Mire Brute, Rune Mireling, Elderfen Rustback and Ironwood Lashling gain four original poses each. The handbook explains the new controls. This remains a playable alpha; ASCEND and funded token payouts are not live.
Open Social, then Player market. Saved characters can list unequipped items from safe town paving for a fixed whole-lot gold price. Listings last seven days and can sell while you are offline. Review the price before buying; collect gold or return unsold items in My orders. Each character can hold ten unsettled orders. A lost save acknowledgement holds the exchange safely until it can be confirmed. Character blocks apply to purchases. This is a gold-only game market: it awards no ASCEND points, charges no listing fee and offers no gold-to-token withdrawal.
Save your character and open Social, then Friends. Meet nearby adventurers, exchange requests and keep up to 50 accepted friends across reconnects. Requests expire after 24 hours. Online friends show their map and can whisper across the world. Up to 100 character blocks remove friendship and stop new messages and invitations in both directions. Shared-world characters and existing party/guild memberships remain visible. Blocks stay saved; unblocking does not restore a friendship. Contact storage failures stop communication until preferences recover. These features are free and do not change token eligibility or rewards.
Level-eight adventurers who cleared the Broken Gate can start a private expedition from the safe Echo Rift landing. Every member confirms before a 20-minute, three-stage run. Parties have isolated monsters, loot, damage and nearby chat. Leaving or disconnecting returns a character to the landing with earned progress; remaining members may continue. The final Warden awards ordinary game loot. New original beacon art, larger enemy hit areas, H for herbs and T for the nearest target improve field controls. Token rewards remain paused.
Echo Rift now has a repeatable shared level-eight boss with fixed impact tiles, cross and ring attacks, a faster final phase and original three-pose artwork. Active nearby fighters divide a fixed XP/gold pool and receive one Rift Core each. Two quests lead into two level-ten forge recipes. Compact attack, art and herb controls leave the arena visible, and the entrance is a protected recovery landing. This shared encounter is not an instanced dungeon and does not award ASCEND contribution points.
Saved characters can trade game items and gold on safe town paving. Both players review the same offer, changes reset approval, and both balances save together. Persistent guilds hold up to 32 members with invitations, leadership transfer and guild chat. Find Party, Guild and Trade under Social [P]. Five supply quests now name distinct delivery recipients, with correct map markers and hand-in validation. No token is needed for any social feature.
Ascend Online / ASCEND and the funded weekly model are confirmed. Arc Vault verifies Solana ownership with a message signature; reviewed weekly manifests use capped contributions, case-sensitive wallet records and integer allocation. Treasury transfers require operator signing, and paid status requires finalized on-chain proof. Click-to-walk now routes around props; the adventure guide shows your next task; quest hand-ins require the nearby giver. No mainnet token or real payout is claimed.
The launch direction is pump.fun. Original token artwork, draft metadata and a public token-status page are prepared. No official token address exists yet. Wallet linking, contribution accrual and payout preparation are disabled on the public server until the selected network integration is ready. The NPC and world-object click targets now align with their sprites.
Ascend Online is live at ascendonline.quest. Explore richer forests and marshes with sixteen new scenery pieces and new art for Bog Anglers, Lantern Moths, Gloomcaps and Rune Stalkers. Characters save across server restarts, and private recovery codes let you return on another device. Seven original music themes are available in game and on the soundtrack page. Live token payouts are not yet enabled.
Five original sprite atlases, seven instrumental themes and twelve sound effects are integrated into the game. Equipment now has armor, head, offhand and accessory slots, nine weapons and eleven recipes. Arc Vault gains persistent storage. Eight new quests track hunting, travel and crafting, while party chat and whispers extend social play. The local preview saves characters through restarts. This remains an alpha; full classic-MMO content and a public funded reward launch are unfinished.
Arc Vault now verifies EVM wallet signatures and displays funded claim periods. Server-owned contributions, persistent reward records, a tested ERC20 escrow, four-player parties, profession XP, healing herbs and usable laptop chat replace the previous preview-only economy. No public token launch or live payout is claimed.
Roadmap, changelog, and known issues are now available in-app so alpha scope and limitations are visible without reading the repository.
Arc Vault can store a Solana devnet address as preview account metadata and now explains native token utility, pump.fun launch status, creator-fee buybacks, and P2E reward limits.
Arc Goals now give returning players capped daily objectives for meadow kills, Memory Fragment recovery, and Wisp Dust recovery plus weekly Broken Gate clear and Gate Relic recovery goals with server-authoritative rewards, reset timing, and suggested next goals.
The alpha economy now includes off-chain gold sinks and public report fields for creator fees, buybacks, reward-pool funding, and sink spend.
Broken Gate Entrance now unlocks Echo Rift after the Broken Gate clear, opening a repeatable combat variant with Glitch Slimes, Corrupt Wisps, Gate runes, and a return arch.
The Phaser client now plays lightweight generated cues for movement, targeting, attacks, Arts, hits, pickups, and Gate travel after the first player gesture.
GateStone tiles now render with the stone tile art, and Echo Rift has owned rift-crystal blockers to give the repeatable Gate variant a stronger visual identity.
The Bounty Board now presents repeatable goals with status chips, route hints, clearer progress bars, period summary, and reward strips for the returning-player loop.
The target window now gives Gate Sentinel phase guidance, live Gate Shard counts during the shield, and clearer advice for shield and final-phase windows.
The map window now reads more like an in-world cartograph, with position and gate summaries, terrain swatches, object-colored blockers, and clearer locked/open Gate markers.
The chat panel now reads like a compact signal log, with sender badges, timestamps, typing state, clearer empty state, and ASCII-safe control helper copy.
The launch checklist now captures token metadata placeholders, current pump.fun assumptions to verify, creator-fee allocation policy, buyback reporting, reward eligibility, pre-launch gates, and forbidden copy.
Arc Vault and the public economy report now explain that creator fees are recorded before allocation, buybacks are reported only after they occur, and claims remain disabled until wallet, treasury, and review gates are live.
Glitch Slimes and Corrupt Wisps now expose server-authoritative chase, windup, attack, recover, leash, and idle states through the world view and target panel.
The realtime server now exposes protected admin endpoints for player lists, chat mute/unmute, and a capped runtime ledger of reward and shop economy events.
The Broken Gate Sentinel now raises a shield at half health, spawns Gate Shards that must be destroyed, then enters an enraged final phase before the Gate clear reward can be claimed.
A redacted /economy page and /public/economy-report endpoint now summarize runtime reward and shop activity without player ids, wallet data, chat, or moderation details.
Guest characters can now be linked to a normalized account name and one-time recovery code, allowing the same session to be recovered before joining on another browser.
Economy events and account/moderation audit events now persist through the repository adapters, with Postgres schema support and a protected admin audit endpoint.
The public economy report now includes a redacted time-bucket history chart and bucket totals for recent reward and shop activity.
Players can link an email, request a one-time login code, and recover the existing session. Codes are hashed, expiring, single-use, and persisted through the repository adapters.
Local Postgres compose support, a db:check script, expanded env examples, and deployment notes now verify the same schema path used by the realtime server.
Passwordless login codes now use an email sender adapter with console delivery for dev/test and Resend delivery for production configuration.
The server can now start provider authorization, exchange callback codes, link a provider identity to an existing session, and recover linked accounts through repository-backed identity lookup.
The account panel can start OAuth linking for an active character, and the entry screen can recover an OAuth-linked account through a short-lived handoff token when a provider is configured.
A deploy:check script now validates production mode, Postgres, admin and CORS settings, Resend, public web URLs, and optional OAuth config before release.
Monsters now retaliate with configured damage, town floor tiles protect players from hostile retaliation, defeated players respawn at the current Layer entrance, and player HP/damage feedback is visible in the Phaser view.
Mirel now sells a Field Blade upgrade, Gate Sentinel drops a Gate Relic and rare Sentinel Edge, and inventory/shop panels show weapon attack bonuses with comparison hints.
Broken Gate now works as the first short dungeon-style loop: enter the Gate, fight Gate mobs, defeat the Sentinel, collect the Gate Relic, and turn in Luma's Broken Gate Lamps quest.
Equipped weapons now unlock active Arts: Quick Cut, Sweeping Cut, and Fracture Slash. The server validates range, cooldowns, weapon match, target state, and boss shield state, while the target UI exposes the Art button and Q shortcut.
Broken Gate Entrance now has a mini-boss that grants a one-time Gate clear reward and durable completion badge.
Broken Gate Entrance is reachable through clickable Gate exits, with map-local presence, chat, monsters, drops, and snapshots.
Player placeholders use layered body parts and show the Training Blade when equipped; equipment updates broadcast to nearby clients.
Corrupt Wisps spawn in the outer meadow, drop Wisp Dust, and unlock Luma's Static in the Grass quest after Clear the Glitches.
Mirel the Meadow Quartermaster sells field supplies for off-chain gold with server-side range, stock, quantity, and balance checks.
Character progress survives reconnects through guest sessions, with memory and Postgres repository adapters.
GitHub Actions runs typecheck, tests, and build on push and pull requests.
