The Ledger of Changes

Every writ, on the record

What changed, when it changed, and what it costs you — nothing. Sealed with each release.

Release 1.11
16 · 10 · 2026
Current
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.11
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NEWHold the Throne · every realm's month is metered until its cap and lit after it: a realm that reaches its cap stays awake until the 1st and costs nothing more that month. The owner can also light the fire early from the realm's card, prepaying what is left of the month's cap from the treasury. Nothing renews, and lighting is final. House members see the fire; only the owner can light it
NEWA chronicle for lit realms · a lit realm never rests, so it is now surveyed each morning instead: one entry per day somebody played, closing at five in the morning in the realm's own time zone, ending with the days of the world the fires stayed lit through. A day nobody joined writes nothing
NEWWhere the house has been · the realm's map now lays parchment over land the house has never reached, the holdings count the land explored, and the chronicle notes the day the house first reached each biome — the Ashlands with a word of warning. It is read from the world save alone, and never gives away a place nobody has found
NEWJump Master · a title for the steward who jumped the most, asked for by a tester who spent their meetings jumping. On a realm running mods, the chronicle plugin now counts every jump, and the counts stay with the house
NEWThe farm and the kitchen · the chronicle now counts the crops in the ground by kind, the ground tilled, the cooking stations, ovens, fermenters and cauldrons — and the occasional burnt supper
NEWThe Deep North and the Ashlands · the Frozen King is the eighth of the Forsaken, Fader's altar is pinned once found, and the raids of the far lands get lines of their own instead of being filed under other
NEWEvery beast that can be tamed · lox, asksvin, hens and moose are counted beside wolves and boars, young with their kind. A species appears in the holdings once the realm has one, so a farm of hens no longer reads "Wolves 0"
NEWMore of the Steward · eight new observations on a house's habits — hens that outnumber the wolves, fires per bed, chests per steward, ships nobody waits for — and never more than one of the absurd ones a survey
NEWWhen the scribe was away · if the chronicle plugin was missing for a session, or part of it was, the chronicle now says so, instead of reading a lost night as a quiet one
NEWValheim updates on a realm that never sleeps · a realm only took a Valheim update when it woke, so a lit realm could fall a version behind its players. It now checks for an update every half hour, updates itself once nobody is on, and the owner's card offers Update now. A realm running mods waits for its owner, and is warned its mods may not be ready for the new build
IMPROVEDThe public court · leads with the chronicle — its facts, its newest titles and the latest lines that name nobody — and a quiet session no longer blanks the lines
IMPROVEDA sturdier chronicle plugin · a Valheim update that breaks one part of the plugin now silences only that part, rather than the raids, the fallen, the jumps and the map at once
AMENDEDCoin packs · packs are now $9, $45 (+$5) and $90 (+$15), counted in months lit: $9 is one Small realm lit for a month. The $10, $25 and $50 packs are retired; coin already bought keeps its value
AMENDEDHolding titles · a steward with three titles who overtakes the holder of a fourth takes it, and their longest-held title passes on
AMENDEDMetres of road · road is now measured along its length in metres, not counted in painted paces, and levelled or dug ground does not count. Every realm's history was re-measured
FIXEDAfter the Valheim patch of 15 October · the chronicle read the newest world saves as empty and reported a survey of none of the world. They are read again
FIXEDBarrels · are chests, and now count as them, so a realm's next survey may find a store of new chests
FIXEDA lit realm at rest · a lit realm no longer promises to rest fifteen minutes after its players leave
So decreed, and so delivered.16 · 10 · 2026
Release 1.10
06 · 10 · 2026
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Release 1.10
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NEWThe realm paints its own map · on a realm running mods, the chronicle paints the world from the save itself — its biomes, the places your house actually built, what happened where, and the boss altars you have found. It hangs on the realm's chronicle page and, while the court is open, on the court page with every name left off; the morning raven carries a cut of it showing where the week happened. serf's own chronicle plugin comes with the mods switch, so a realm with mods on and nothing picked paints a map too
NEWRaids and the fallen · on a realm running mods, the chronicle now records what the realm saw while it was awake: raids, bosses felled, and where and when a character fell. The raven tells a raid the morning after, without waiting for the week
NEWFive new titles · Shipwright, Bench Warmer, Lamplighter, The Paranoid and Wandered Off
NEWThe Book of Titles · every title a realm can award, in one book; held titles show as badges on the Warband, and a title can be shared — to show off, or to shame its holder
IMPROVEDHolding titles · a steward may hold three titles at once rather than two, keeps what they already held when the cap is reached, and every title names who is closest behind it. Some titles now rotate with the week, so a title can change hands without anyone out-building a lifetime
IMPROVEDTitle names · five titles were renamed to say what someone actually did: Keeper of Bees is now The Beekeeper, The Portalwright is Mind the Gap, The Scribe is Sign Painter, Hand of the Week is The Foreman, and The Oft-Fallen is Corpse Runner. Nothing anyone held was lost
IMPROVEDThe morning raven · stops leading with the same three lines every morning, and tells each title or boss once
IMPROVEDBeasts and bosses · the sea serpent gets its own line rather than being counted as one of the Forsaken
AMENDEDStandard · drops from $0.30 to $0.25 an hour, so a Standard realm never costs more than $15 in a month — the summon picker now shows that cap beside the rate
AMENDEDLarge is retired · a Valheim realm was measured using about 2 GB and under one core, so Large bought nothing Standard does not. It is no longer offered; a realm already on Large keeps its size and rate until it next wakes from deep rest, then becomes Standard
AMENDEDAdventure Backpacks · has left the mod shelf: its newest release added a startup splash and phones home by default, with the only way out buried in a config file. That is not something we put in front of players unasked, so a realm that had picked it now runs without it. The shelf was re-checked against Valheim 1.0.16, and Asocial Cartography joined it
FIXEDPaces of road · levelling ground with the hoe and digging with the pickaxe paint the same dirt as the path tool, and the chronicle was counting all of it as road. Only path and paved stone count now, so a realm's road falls at its next survey — on one realm by about 40%. Nothing was torn up; it was never road. The line that said most of everything built was road is retired too: it compared ground with buildings
FIXEDValheim 1.0 worlds · a world saved in Valheim 1.0's new format is read again — the chronicle had gone quiet on those realms
FIXEDWaking a realm · waking a realm that is already up now says so, instead of starting it a second time
FIXEDWho is in the realm · exploring a new crypt no longer makes a realm think four players have arrived — a count that could keep an empty realm from going to rest
So decreed, and so delivered.06 · 10 · 2026
Release 1.9
08 · 09 · 2026
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.9
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NEWThe Chronicle · every realm now keeps a chronicle of its own. Each time the realm rests, the world itself is read and written down — what stands in it, who has walked it, which titles the household holds and where the portals lead — from the founding survey onwards. It has a page in the hall, and every realm card has a way in
NEWMods · a Valheim realm can run mods from serf's tested set: switch them on, pick from the shelf, and apply — the realm restarts with the set you chose. Some run on the realm for everyone who joins; others your players add on their own PC, and the tab says which is which. After a Valheim update mods can break until their makers catch up, so a realm says plainly when the set has not been re-checked yet. Switching mods off returns the realm to plain Valheim
NEWThe morning raven · a raven flies the morning after your realm sleeps, carrying what changed while you were away. It goes to every member of the house — silence it in one click from the raven itself, or from Settings
NEWThis is me · claim your character in the chronicle and it will say you rather than a stranger. A realm's owner can release any claim on their realm, you can unlink your own at any time, and claimed characters are named on the realm's court page while the court is open
NEWYour house address · a realm of a house can fly an address you can say out loud instead of a string of numbers. It sits behind a switch on the realm card and is ready from that realm's next summoning
IMPROVEDResting realms · a realm gone to rest shows a line from its latest chronicle instead of sitting there blank, and every realm names the game it runs on the house and sleeping lists
IMPROVEDRealm colours · a realm keeps its own colour on every page it appears on, painted the moment the page lands rather than a beat later
FIXEDAfter a game update · a realm now checks its game files on every boot through a patch week, so an update landing mid-week can no longer leave a realm unable to start
FIXEDWaking a realm · the realms of a house keep watch until a wake actually lands, instead of reporting a realm asleep after you have woken it
FIXEDCrossplay realms · a realm with a crossplay player still standing in it no longer goes to rest under them
FIXEDTaking your world home · the download waits for the world to finish banking, so the link works the first time you press it
IMPROVEDUnder the keep · a pass over the machinery that summons, rests and bills your realms — steadier through a game update, and stricter about who may act on a realm. Nothing to do on your side
So decreed, and so delivered.08 · 09 · 2026
Release 1.8
24 · 08 · 2026
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.8
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AMENDEDRest when empty · a realm nobody has joined is now held open for an hour rather than half of one — 1.7 cut it to thirty minutes, which was not long enough to summon a realm, share the address and have your court arrive. A realm someone has played on still rests on the window you chose
FIXEDWaking a realm · a wake the keep refused now says WHY it refused — you are already keeping as many realms awake as you may, the region is full, the realm is already up — instead of reporting a fault. And a realm woken again and again can no longer stop answering altogether
FIXEDRealm colours · realms of the same game wear their own accent and their own banner again, instead of two of them turning up in the same colours
IMPROVEDBring your own world · the world-import step has a way back and its place in the summoning, instead of stranding you mid-flow
IMPROVEDOn a small screen · the bottom bar now shows what actually fits and keeps the rest under More — and the Hall and the front door, which only ever lived in the sidebar, are finally reachable from a phone
IMPROVEDRealms of your houses · a realm says whether it is awake at the top of its card, rather than in the middle of its buttons
So decreed, and so delivered.24 · 08 · 2026
Release 1.7
16 · 08 · 2026
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Release 1.7
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NEWRealm banners · every realm flies a banner keyed to its own accent
NEWAwaiting first arrival · a realm nobody has reached yet says so, instead of sitting there looking empty
AMENDEDThe charter trial · re-cut to match the monthly cap: a full month of a small realm on the house, and the letter now says when the coin expires
AMENDEDRest when empty · every realm now rests once the last player leaves — the keep-a-realm-awake setting is gone, and a realm nobody joins rests after 30 minutes rather than two hours. Your world is kept, and a resting realm still costs nothing
IMPROVEDThe realm card · a realm with players in it no longer looks like one gone cold, and the advanced settings sit in tabs
IMPROVEDThe treasury · throne rows, and a ledger that pages itself instead of hiding in a scroll well
FIXEDThe summons · one summon at a time per steward, a refused summon says so instead of hanging, and a world can only be sent up once
FIXEDThe ledger · tributes show the day they were given, not the dawn of time
So decreed, and so delivered.16 · 08 · 2026
Release 1.6
15 · 08 · 2026
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Release 1.6
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NEWThe Steward's Hall · a hall on Discord for petitions, proclamations, and tales from the realm
NEWThe ban list · keep your realm to the company you choose, straight from the realm card
NEWThe join band · a realm's address and password together on both screens, and the password can be changed after summoning
NEWRealm sigils · every realm, and every realm of a house, now wears a mark of its own
NEWSign the ledger · give a tribute as yourself, or stay nameless
IMPROVEDThe Sigil Mint · three new silhouettes and five new charges to strike your arms with
IMPROVEDThe dismiss lock · only a realm's owner may end a session while others are still playing
IMPROVEDRegions · every region is named as a place, not a provider
So decreed, and so delivered.15 · 08 · 2026
Release 1.5
12 · 08 · 2026
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Release 1.5
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NEWHouses · found a house, summon your fellows, and share control of the realm
NEWThe Sigil Mint · strike your house arms in the Armory and fly them over realm and court
NEWThe charter trial · new stewards get 72 hours of realm time on the house
IMPROVEDThe summons · a freshly woken realm stays lit until someone actually joins
So decreed, and so delivered.12 · 08 · 2026
Release 1.4
04 · 07 · 2026
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.4
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IMPROVEDSummon time · realms now wake in under 90 seconds
NEWThe Treasury · hours-of-play-left estimate on every balance
NEWRavens · a warning raven flies before an idle realm is archived
FIXEDDismissal · world saves no longer delay dismissal
So decreed, and so delivered.04 · 07 · 2026
Release 1.3
19 · 06 · 2026
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.3
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NEWDeep sleep · long-idle realms are tucked away safely and wake on command
NEWThe household · stewards can change their name and email at court
IMPROVEDThe summons · live boot progress, and a proper ceremony when the realm is ready
FIXEDDismissal · the world banks a final save before the hearth goes dark
So decreed, and so delivered.19 · 06 · 2026
Release 1.2
12 · 06 · 2026
WRIT OF CHANGES
Release 1.2
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NEWCoin purse · top up the Treasury with coin packs
NEWYour Court · pool a shared war chest with your fellows
IMPROVEDStable address · realms keep their name and address through sleep
FIXEDFirst run · a fresh court is greeted properly instead of an empty realm page
So decreed, and so delivered.12 · 06 · 2026