What’s New

Official patch notes, developer roadmaps, and community announcements.

This page carries the official patch notes for CoolRPG: Volume I, newest first, and the current developer roadmap. Builds are named by date. Announcements and discussion are in the forum at the bottom of the page.

Patch Notes

Build 2026.10.11

New

• Credits are now a command on the title screen and in the main menu, listing every artist, plugin author and licence.
• Remove Ads (Android). The free Android version shows a small banner at the bottom of the screen. Remove Ads in the main menu buys the ad-free version through Google Play. The banner goes at once and stays gone on that device, and a reinstall restores the purchase.
• Official guides published on this site: the Player Guide, Backstories and the spoiler-filled Walkthrough.

Improved

• Real passages everywhere. The glowing crystals that marked dungeon and ship entrances are gone. Every way in and out now looks like what it is: stairs, doors, archways, ladders, ropes, trapdoors, a burrow or a tapestry.
• The Pirate King's flagship has painted decks, a rope ladder and jolly boat, a companionway and a hull ladder.
• The Nameless Dungeon (all three levels) is redecorated room by room: pillared halls, shrines, storerooms, lairs and traps all look the part.
• Olde Island Fortress floors are cleaner: one main stone per room, with worn patches instead of a scatter of mismatched tiles.
• Smaller download. Unused files were trimmed from the game: about 231 MB down to about 113 MB.
• See what you are walking into. Dungeon rooms with a fight now show the monster waiting there (the boss, in a boss room), and it is gone once beaten.
• Quest givers look the part: Dusty Rennick the old prospector, one-eyed Bart, the merchant Kardon Karien, Captain Argos, Warden Sylthir and Harbor Captain Wrenlow each have their own look and portrait.
• In-game Help on the title screen is rewritten for this game, with the support address.

Fixed

• Rescue Gwelayn: the battle at the altar could be fought again after she was rescued. It is now a one-time fight.
• One-time rewards: the Chieftain's Tomb, the Weapons Cache and the finds in the Iron Helm Inn can no longer be collected twice.
• The Pirate King: the flagship's escape hatch now opens only once the Pirate King has been defeated.
• Kardon Karien and Bart no longer turn into a candle after you accept their quests.
• Captain Argos no longer appears twice in the officers' quarters.
• Gold in the Hills: the black squares in the mine are now proper pits with rocky rims.
• The Nameless Dungeon's Library is furnished as a library again, with the bookcases, the yellow mould and the Elvish Spectacles from the module.

Build 2026.10.08

New

• The world map is rebuilt: hills and mountain tiers, rivers with stone bridges at the fords, waterfalls, and roads between the cities.
• A hand-painted parchment minimap (press Tab or choose Map).
• All seven cities are rebuilt with their own look: Slateholm on the fens, storm-dark Ravenstone, the elven capital Avenrho, the imperial port of Novatia, Beth's cathedral precinct and the bronze-working town of Corvis.
• Thirty city interiors (taverns, inns, chapels, general goods and herbalists) now have their own floor plans and furnishings.
• Pirate Island is now a jungle island with a shrine, a waterfall pond, a pirate camp and a lookout.

Improved

• Detail pass for the Cave of the Unknown, Olde Island Fortress and the Pirate Island sea caves: proper walls, cave floors, water pools and props that match each room.

Fixed

• Ravenstone: you could be stranded when leaving the city for the world map. A docked boat now takes you out.

Build 2026.10.06

New

• Quest Log and tracker. Every quest is broken into its real steps as journal entries, ticked as you go. The current objective is pinned to the top-right of the map.
• City Travel Portals. A column of blue light at the heart of each city takes you to any city you have already visited.
• Treasure rooms are marked with a chest and a compass icon, and their loot is taken once.
• Achievements are synced with Google Play Games on Android.

Fixed

• Neutralize Poison and Cure Disease (spells and potions) had a 0% chance to cure. They now always work.
• Saves on Android now survive closing and reopening the app.
• Gold in the Hills: the boss, Xikek's war band, could be unreachable or fought twice. Both are fixed.
• Fourteen doorways and stairs set you down on top of an NPC or a wall. Every landing in the game was checked and corrected.

Build 2026.09.29

New

• The free cities of the Western Lands: Slateholm, Ravenstone, Avenrho, Novatia, Beth and Corvis, each with an inn, a church, a market, an apothecary and a tavern full of rumours.
• Proof of Worthiness: earn the trust of Avenrho's wardens to pass its gate.
• The Pirate King: a two-level island and the Pirate King's two-deck flagship, given by Harbor Captain Wrenlow near Slateholm.
• An intro film before the title screen (press OK or tap to skip).
• Stables with horses and livestock in Morgansfort.

Build 2026.09.28

New

• Dungeons from the module: the Cave of the Unknown (Rescue Gwelayn), the Olde Island Fortress, and all three levels of the Nameless Dungeon, plus its hidden Library.
• Church and Magic Shop services: healing, resurrection and spell training.
• Combat effects: spells, criticals and heavy hits are now animated, and a free effects pack has been added.
• Ochre Jellies split when struck by weapons, as the Basic Fantasy rules say. Only fire and cold hurt the parent.
• The Black Chancery font is now used for all game text.

Fixed

• "My attacks never land": physical attacks had a 0% chance to hit, game-wide. Every class and monster now hits normally.
• Level-up HP and MP, the real Basic Fantasy XP tables, and corrected monster statistics.

Build 2026.09.26

New

• Companions: recruit up to three of eight adventurers found around Morgansfort, and swap your party at any inn.
• Mana and recovery: Magic-Users draw mana from Intelligence and Clerics from Wisdom. HP and MP recover slowly while you explore, never in battle.
• Potions in Small, Medium and Large sizes.
• Magic Tomes: Magic-Users learn new spells from tomes or trainers.
• Jewellery: a Neck slot and two Ring slots.
• Side-view battles, with your party on the right.

Fixed

• Monsters never attacked: no enemy had a damaging action. Every monster now fights back.
• Talking to some companions could lock the game.

Build 2026.09.23

New

• Card-based character creation: a roll card, race and class cards with boons and banes, and a parchment character sheet.
• A class compass in the upper-left corner, with points of interest.
• Regional random encounters on the world map: wolves, boars, orcs, giant bees and spiders, rats, and mountain and water monsters.
• Treasure: monsters drop treasure rolled by the Basic Fantasy treasure tables.

Fixed

• Clerics and Magic-Users levelled at the wrong speeds. They now follow the rulebook.
• Weapon types were mixed up, so some classes could use weapons the rules forbid.

Developer Roadmap

What is being worked on, roughly in order. Dates are targets, not promises.

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