2025-10-03 v1453
I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treater than neighborhood kids. — Robert Brault (b.1938)

• At about 10AM EDT on Saturday 3 October, we began a “nothing counts” Wild Day, in conjunction with moving the game to a new server. The intention was that when the new server went live, it would start from a backup taken shortly before 10AM. In other words, everything that had happened on the previous server after 10AM would be rolled back once the server move was complete.
  
  Unfortunately, due to human error, the 10AM backup was corrupted and rendered unusable. We’re very sorry about that.
  
  The most recent usable backup was several days older, from approximately 30 September. We have reverted to that version, which means that any progress you’ve made during the last four or five days has been lost. We are of course very sorry about that too.
  
  In compensation, all players have been awarded several pecks’ worth of ranks.
  
  
• Update (5PM EDT 4-Oct-2025): apparently not everyone received those ranks who should have, although most did. We’re looking into why that happened. All missing ranks will be awarded (for sure!) at the next update.
  
  
• You’ll have to explore to see what is new.

2025-09-03 v1449
Hoarding can never end, for the heart of man always covets for more, its raging appetites can only be quenched by the heavy sands of the grave. — Bangambiki Habyarimana (b.1977)

• It will be necessary for you to explore if you wish to discover what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2025-08-06 v1445
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. — Earl Wilson (1907–1987)

• Remember to take a break, eat, and sleep.

2025-07-02 v1440
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus (1913–1960)

• Look before you leap!

2025-06-05 v1436
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization — Daniel Webster (1782–1852)

• Sorry for the delay. Our gerbils were a bit overwhelmed by the amount of art pouring into our library (over 8200 individual images!) They needed some cuddles, reassurance, and a little reprogramming.
  
  Speaking of 8200+ amazing pieces of artwork: thank you again to our volunteer artists, who have been expanding the Clan Lord world for the past 25 (27?) years. We wouldn’t be the same without you!
  

2025-05-07 v1432
Yes, I will spend the livelong day
With Nature in this month of May;
And sit beneath the trees, and share
My bread with birds whose homes are there.
“In May” — W. H. Davies (1871–1940)

• Thank you to our volunteers and artists for their continued work!
• Other than some behind-the-scenes bug fixes, everything else for this update is a secret. Or maybe not-so-secret?

2025-04-02 v1427
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

• You’ll have to explore and depart to see what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2025-03-05 v1423
Choice is how you can tell an intelligent man from a fool. — Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

• You’ll have to explore to see what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2025-02-05 v1419
We love the things we love for what they are. — Robert Frost (1874–1963)

• Testing potential new Champion ability: Charge. It has some small limits to the number of uses for now, until we figure out balancing. Apply for testing in Champ HQ.
• A few stubbornly wild pets can now be tamed by healers.
• Boostus got a little boost.
• Young lights can now better ward off the dangers of the dark.

2025-01-01 v1414
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. — Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

• Season’s Belated Beatings!

2024-12-04 v1410
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. — Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

• Take 2: Three new areas will now properly give exploration rewards. Anyone who has explored these areas already will be able to do so again to receive the reward.
• Some dreary weather is looking clearer, and we wish you a merry Bawkmas.

2024-11-06 v1406
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. — Democritus (c. 460 bce – c. 370)

• A statue remembering The Good Cat has been added to the Memorial Garden.
• A few cats waited until exiles were done trick-or-treating to put on their own costumes, wander around, and beg for treats.
• Improved <mumble>, <mumble>, and <mumble>.
• Three new areas will now properly give exploration awards. Anyone who has explored these areas already will be able to do so again to receive the reward.