Combat Overhaul, Ranged Combat & Guest Accounts

v0.2.7 is the biggest combat update yet. Attack and Defence have been merged into a single Combat skill, a brand new Ranged skill has arrived with bows and arrows, three new monsters now roam the world, and a full tier of armour and weapon sprites has been added from Bronze all the way to Blood Steel.

Combat Skill Rework

Attack and Defence have now been been combined into a single Combat skill. A few other changes came with it:

• ◆Starting HP raised — your Hitpoints level now starts at 10 instead of 1, giving new characters a much better survival buffer
• ◆Tool & weapon slots merged — one equipment slot now handles both, so there's no more juggling between "tool" and "weapon"
• ◆Equipment stat totals — the equipment tab now shows your combined attack, strength and defence bonuses across everything you're wearing
• ◆Combat & Ranged milestones — a full unlock list for both skills, visible in the skill milestones panel

The equipment tab now totals up your attack, strength and defence bonuses across all worn gear

Ranged Combat Arrives

A full Ranged combat track has launched alongside melee:

• ◆New shortbows and longbows, from the starting Shortbow through Oak, Willow, Maple and Bloodwood tiers
• ◆New arrows to match, from Flint all the way to Blood Steel.
• ◆New characters now start with a Shortbow, and 50 Bronze Arrows so you can try it immediately
• ◆Hitsplats are now synced precisely to the moment a hit actually lands, for both melee and ranged, making the combat feel much more responsive.

Ranged combat in action — new bows, arrows, and a full Ranged skill track

New Monsters & Smarter AI

The NPC system has been rebuilt from the ground up to follow a proper animated sprite convention, making it much faster to add new monsters going forward. Three have joined the world already with many many more to come;

• ◆Goblin
• ◆Zombie
• ◆Skeleton

Monsters will now pathfind toward you when you attack them instead of standing still, and per-monster attack timers have been tuned for a fairer fight.

Full Armour & Weapon Progression

A complete set of armour and weapon sprites has been added across every tier — Bronze, Iron, Steel, Carbon Steel and Blood Steel:

• ◆Full Helmets, Platebodies, and Platelegs
• ◆Kiteshields
• ◆Swords, Scimitars, and Daggers

New Smithing recipes let you craft all of it, and a longstanding bug where weapons and shields could render in the wrong order depending on equip order has been fixed.

The in-game World Events interface has been completely overhauled. Completed events and rare drops are now announced to every logged-in player, and reward details are shown directly in the event UI instead of being a surprise.

World Events have a new interface, and rewards are now announced to everyone online

You can now jump straight into EverWorld with a Guest Account — no registration required. Play immediately, and convert to a full account at any time to keep your progress permanently. Guest accounts that go inactive for 30 days are automatically cleaned up.

Jump straight in with a Guest Account — no registration required

• ◆Inventory slot moving — you can now drag items between inventory slots, and stacks merge automatically
• ◆Marketplace sell notifications — you'll get a chat message and a notification icon the moment one of your listings sells
• ◆Consistent marketplace pricing — sell prices now always inherit correctly from each item's base value
• ◆Chat channels separated — global and local chat are no longer mixed together
• ◆Duplicate chat messages fixed — messages were occasionally appearing twice; this is now fixed

The login, register, and loading screens have all been cleaned up to feel more like one cohesive game rather than three separate pages:

• ◆Unified on a single retro font throughout, instead of mixing fonts between titles, labels and inputs
• ◆The loading screen now shares the exact same wooden pixel-art card, border and background as the login screen
• ◆Quick links to Leave Feedback, Membership, Help, Report a Player, and What's New are now available right from the login page

A cleaner login screen — consistent fonts, a bigger padlock, and quick links to Feedback, Membership, Help and Report a Player

• ◆Ranged XP bug — ranged weapons were incorrectly granting Combat XP instead of Ranged XP
• ◆Weapon level requirements — equipping a weapon above your Combat level is now correctly blocked
• ◆Max hit cap — a hit can no longer deal more damage than a monster has HP remaining
• ◆Tooltip clipping — tooltips no longer get cut off at the edge of the screen
• ◆Skill milestones — skills with no milestones defined yet now show "This skill is coming soon..." instead of an empty panel
• ◆Offline summary — fixed the offline progress summary incorrectly appearing while using the Smithing interface
• ◆Cooking ingredient check — the Cooking panel now checks your inventory only, not inventory + bank, when determining if you can cook
• ◆Level-up notification spam — queued level-up notifications now only show the latest level reached
• ◆Disconnection handling — a clearer UI now appears if you lose connection to the server, and the "connected" modal can no longer get stuck open
• ◆Marketplace/trader fixes — traders now always pay at least 1 gold per item sold, and rare item drops no longer spam the chatbox
• ◆Item icon fixes — corrected the Steel Kiteshield icon and a number of other missing or mismatched item icons
• ◆Object interaction — objects with no associated action no longer show a misleading "use" option in the right-click menu
• ◆World Zoom — World zoom now adapts to your screen resolution automatically, with a manual override available in Settings if you prefer a different view.