>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3051280/Haven__Hearth/>A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat.Its that time of the year for your favorite open world hobo murdering simulator. Or is it?16.1 was a mixed bag, but despite popular belief, the game isn't on life support, many updates happened in the last six months including:>extensive QoL additions, such as new game items and improved user interface>several new critters and produce>new buildings, with variable levels of utilityThe pre-patch notes of the incoming World 16.2 as follows>As was announced at the start of World 16, we intend to launch the next new world — World 16.2 — without resetting World 16.>This post is to inform you that that, indeed, remains the plan, and that we intend to launch World 16.2 on Friday, August 14th, 2026 @ 19:00 UTC.>Worlds 16 and 16.2 will, then, run concurrently until the threads of their fates again unravel.>World 16.1 will end with the launch of World 16.2.>Notable Changes in W16.2>The exact changes are still pending at the time of this writing, but:>Single continent spawn>Changes to disempower characters without "Rage" in combat. The current line of thinking is to make it possible to "evict" characters without "Rage" from more or less anywhere.>Reworked system for Gildings.>A series of other changes, big and small, will, as usual, be left to the joy of discovery.Many are claiming this will be a "care bear" world, so always a good chance for newbies to start playing and not die horribly.If you never heard of this game, I recommend joining a village. There's plenty recruiting new players. - NEW SERVER WILL LAUNCH AT 19:00 UTC, Friday August 14th, 2026Links:>Official discord https://discord.com/invite/dKJ8GfE5F9>Official website https://www.havenandhearth.com/portal/>Official wiki https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Haven_and_Hearth_Wiki
I'm hyped.>Changes to disempower characters without "Rage" in combat. The current line of thinking is to make it possible to "evict" characters without "Rage" from more or less anywhere.>inb4 disposable Rage alts to evict yourself become mandatory
>>2821311Surely it won't come to this, the PvP guys are making fun of jorb by brainstorming ways to grief people.
From my understanding they only want to remove fighters without rage from PvP. Making 16.2 a PvE world is not the goal.
>>2822053I honest believe jorb being an ESL didn't anticipate people taking his word literally, meaning a click and you are gone mechanic after a timer. I think he elaborated a bit more on discord since then but we will see.
Less than 36 hours till we see how much of a boring nothingburger this "experimental" world is
I don’t really care about the changes. I just want to play the first few weeks of a fresh start again. They should reset the server more often and design the game around shorter reset cycles. Waiting a whole year is too long.
>>2828566Indeed, just make it like a PoE league, it has a set time limit, 4 to 6 months, while maintaining a "core" world that last years, like Standard League. I think that was the plan before jorb lost interest.
>>2828653They are kinda doing that with 16.X worlds but they don't stick to their six month reset schedule.
Its today bros, around 4 hours from now. As always no patch notes until probably an hour before release, jorb loves the JOY OF DISCOVERY.
>Reduced the cost of "Rage" from 50k LP to 10k. Suggested hereLETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
literal pvp worldkind of cool
>animals run away if they can't path to you>they also spam defenses while running
>>2834183It only took them 17 years to fix.
my hide survived outside in the wilderness for 10 whole hearth daysi think jorbtar deleted travel weariness because this continent has to be really really big
How do you escape PvP when you can't go through gates during combat? This is going to be a massacre once players start building on the surface.
>remove mining quality from stone pickaxesthis is actually just aids for no reason
>>2836311It's gigantic continentLiterally nothing happens around me>>2837146Just never go outside your pali lolAs far as i understand you need to run until you drop agro which only really possible if pvp guy is alone or their team is retarded>>2837600Using stone axes on lvl9 is more of aids Just make tinkers axe, it's going to be roughly the same q for week one and forget about axes in mines after week 2
>>2837146an unclaimed locked house with a mineshaft in the basement that leads to two more unclaimed locked housesif jorb is particularly dumb you might be able to go down a mineshaft into a claimed area anyway and its fine
>>2837146Run and drink until they get bored. Use bunny shoes, get to the speed boosts and keep running. Unless they really want to murder you they will stop after a couple grids
What's the best grove you have ever found? I found one with apple trees.
got a palisade upnow what do i do in the 2 weeks before the world dies
>not building right outside the RoB zone for maximum gameplay
>>2845670has anyone succeeded so far? I haven't checked RoB in 2 days. Only thing I saw last time was a completed cave claim kinda far west. I did bash a claim near the non combat area border.
>>2848270I use the area around RoB to farm hides. There are some claims very close. All newbies.
>>2848396I was using it early to farm fruit and bough, also there is a tar pit NE that helped me a little for my rowboat
I tried to make a /v/ recruitment thread twice and people just aren't biting like they were during covid times. Only got two guys
>>2860464/v/ is basically a gone board by now, i think the last "successful" board to have a functional haven/hafen group was /jp/ and the mods killed that board as well so that functioning is gone as well
log inpalisadewrite jorb suckslog out forever repeat next year
