Land Deeds, Daily Quests and the Goals Hub

The Land Deed

A Land Deed pays for exactly one claim or one claim and merge, identical in every way to the 100 Gold versions: the same position assignment, the same rarity roll, the same resource generation. Merge insurance stays a separate 10 Gold option. The Gold path is untouched and uncapped.

• ◆new
  NEW: Land Deeds

  Held one at a time. While you hold one it is always spent first on the claim and merge pages, so there is no pay-with-Gold-instead toggle to get wrong. Deeds are granted and spent through the same ledger everything else uses.

• ◆new
  NEW: The Deed meter

  Completing a quest adds points to a meter. At 100 points the meter converts into a Land Deed. A daily player earns roughly 41 points a day, which is one Deed every two and a half days.

• ◆new
  NEW:The meter keeps filling while you hold a Deed, up to 200

  Nothing already earned is ever taken away. At 200 points the meter stops accruing and says so loudly, and spending the held Deed immediately converts the banked points into the next one. Holding a Deed rather than spending it is the only thing that stalls income.

• improved
  The claim and merge pages state what a Deed is worth

  WasA player with no Gold reached the claim page and found a Buy Gold button and nothing else

  NowThe same page carries a green panel with the Deed meter, the points still needed and a link to the quests filling it

  With a Deed in hand the claim card reads "This claim is FREE" and names the 100 Gold it is standing in for. Without one, the meter strip shows how close the next FREE claim is.

• ◆new
  NEW:The claim and merge choice is explained where it is made

  The Deed ready panel offers Claim Land ("Expand your empire with a brand new land") and Claim and Merge ("Improve an existing land: restore its natural resources, with a chance to upgrade its rarity"), because for many players this is the first time the two are put side by side.

Daily quests

Every quest is phrased as "do X", never "succeed at X", and progress accrues from normal play. You can finish a quest without ever having read it. Quests award meter points only: no Gold, no resources.

• ◆new
  NEW: One new quest a day, three held at once

  The day resets at midnight UTC. At three active quests the day's new one is not assigned, so being away for three days or more means missing quests. Progress already made and points already earned always persist.

• ◆new
  NEW:Two point bands

  Standard quests pay 30 points and cover things like "Create 2 trade offers in a market", "Visit 3 cities belonging to other players" and "Complete a delve to floor 3 or deeper". Big quests pay 50 and cover "Upgrade a Town Hall in any city", "Declare a festival" and "Deposit a lore fragment into the Great Library", among others. Roughly one quest in four is a big one.

• ◆new
  NEW:A weekly bonus of 40 points for any five quests

  Five completions inside one week, in any order and on any days. There is no consecutive day requirement anywhere in the system.

• ◆new
  NEW: The founder line

  Twelve ordered steps, from collecting resources in your first city through to training an envoy skill, each worth 50 points. It does not use your three daily slots and it never expires. Finishing the whole line is 600 points, about six Land Deeds across your first couple of weeks.

• ◆new
  NEW:One free reroll a day

  Swaps one active quest for a fresh draw. The control stays hidden until the founder line is finished, because before that most of the daily pool is still gated behind an envoy and a Market and a reroll would have nothing to swap to.

• ◆new
  NEW:Quests only appear when you can complete them

  "Accept a trade offer" is drawn only while open offers from other players exist, "Declare a festival" only when a city is off cooldown and can afford it, "List a diamond on the market" only when you hold a spendable diamond. Nothing in the pool depends on another player acting.

The Goals hub

• ⇄reworked
  Achievements is now Goals

  WasA nav entry named Achievements leading to a single page

  NowA nav entry named Goals leading to a hub with Quests, Achievements and Daily Login tabs

  The Achievements tab is the same page it always was, composed into the hub rather than rewritten. Arriving from an achievement notification still opens straight on it; every other arrival opens on Quests.

• ◆new
  NEW: Daily Login tab

  Your current streak, your best streak, the time until the day rolls over and the upcoming rewards track with the next milestone highlighted. Claiming still happens in the Shop, and the tab links there.

• ◆new
  NEW:Quest progress is announced as it happens

  A progress toast rides the existing notification queue, a completed quest gets a celebration on the board and stays visible for the rest of the day, and a filled meter fires a "Land Deed earned" toast from anywhere in the game that deep links back to the hub. The nav badge counts a new quest, a completed quest and a ready Deed alongside everything else it already cycles.

Achievement Gold rebalanced

Achievements were the main free source of Gold, and most of that Gold was going straight into 100 Gold land claims. Deeds take over that job, so the achievement bank shrinks to what it was always meant to be: a cosmetics budget. Nothing already earned is clawed back.

• reduced
  Lifetime achievement Gold drops from 2,425 to 805

  Was2,425 Gold across 68 Gold-paying achievements, with single achievements paying up to 200

  Now805 Gold across the same 68, with nothing paying more than 25

  Early achievements keep small but real amounts, mid milestones are roughly halved and the top milestones are cut hardest. A completionist can still bank one Legendary cosmetic and change, or two or three cheaper ones. Every achievement added from here follows the new scale.

• ⇄reworked
  The Carved Oak nameplate moves to Own 10 cities

  Was"Regional Power" (Own 5 cities) awarded the Carved Oak nameplate and no Gold; "Great Conqueror" (Own 10 cities) awarded 50 Gold

  Now"Regional Power" awards 15 Gold; "Great Conqueror" awards the Carved Oak nameplate

  The only cosmetic that changes hands. The City Score 250 banner stays exactly where it is.

Merge upgrade odds

A Land Deed buys one merge, so the odds on that merge decide how long a rarity climb takes for a player who never spends Gold. Every land a new player owns is Common, which is the column that was worst by an order of magnitude. No value went down; several stayed where they were. Figures below are the raw upgrade chance, before nothing: there are no modifiers on this roll.

• improved
  Upgrading a Common land

  WasCommon sacrifice 10%, Uncommon 75%, Rare 100%, Epic 100%

  NowCommon sacrifice 50%, Uncommon 75%, Rare 100%, Epic 100%
• improved
  Upgrading an Uncommon land

  WasCommon sacrifice 3%, Uncommon 10%, Rare 75%, Epic 100%

  NowCommon sacrifice 25%, Uncommon 40%, Rare 75%, Epic 100%
• improved
  Upgrading a Rare land

  WasCommon sacrifice 2%, Uncommon 5%, Rare 15%, Epic 75%

  NowCommon sacrifice 12%, Uncommon 20%, Rare 40%, Epic 75%
• improved
  Upgrading an Epic land

  WasCommon sacrifice 1%, Uncommon 8%, Rare 30%, Epic 60%

  NowCommon sacrifice 6%, Uncommon 12%, Rare 30%, Epic 60%

  Taken together, climbing one Common land all the way to Legendary using only Common sacrifices averaged 118 merges. It now averages 28. Higher rarity sacrifices still beat lower ones in every row, so feeding a good land is never a trap.

Buying through another player's Market

Foreign Markets already let an envoy standing in another player's Market create offers through it. The other half was missing: the Accept button was gated on owning the city, so a visitor saw a full board and could take none of it.

• ◆new
  NEW SKILL:A visiting envoy can accept offers, not just create themCommerce · Tier 3

  UNLOCKS: Make and accept P2P trade offers through another player's Market while your envoy is there. Uses their trade routes for determining eligible buyers and reachable offers.

  Was"Create P2P trade offers through another player's Market", and Accept was shown only to the owner of the city

  Now"Make and accept P2P trade offers", with Accept shown to the owner or to a visiting envoy holding the skill

  Eligibility resolves from your own city first and falls back to the host's trade routes, so standing in a foreign Market never lets you do less than you could from home. A plain visiting envoy without the skill still gets the NPC exchange and nothing more.

• ◆new
  NEW SKILL:A Market investment carries the same rightPatronage · Tier 4

  UNLOCKS: You earn a share of every trade the owner of a city's Market completes once your envoy has invested in it, sent to your home city: 1.5% / 3% / 5% by tier. You may also make and accept offers through that Market.

  Was"You may also sell through that Market"

  Now"You may also make and accept offers through that Market"

  An active Market investment at a city has always granted the same access Foreign Markets does, and it grants the buy half now too. The card said sell because until this patch selling was the only half there was.

• ◆new
  NEW:Everything but eligibility belongs to your own city

  Resources are spent from and delivered to your home city, the daily trade allowance is your city's and capped by your city's Market level, and Master Trader and Negotiator apply as they do for any accept at that city. The host earns nothing: there is no market rent and no new cut. The 10% transfer fee is unchanged.

• ◆new
  NEW:The host's own offers are on a visitor's board

  A city's own listings are hidden from its owner, because those sit under My Offers instead. That exclusion now follows the buying city rather than the city being browsed, so a visitor sees the host's wares, which is the most obvious thing a foreign Market has to sell, and is still spared their own.

• ◆new
  NEW:A card on arrival, and a bar once you scroll

  The card names the envoy trading here and the city they are trading for, with that city's banner, and shows what it holds of each of the four resources. A resource is tinted red when the city holds less than the smallest amount any offer on the board asks for in it. Scroll past the card and the same facts collapse into a pinned bar. The bar appears at your own city too.

• improved
  Every Accept button names the city that is paying

  Was"Accept", with nothing on screen saying which city the resources came out of

  Now"Accept" over "for Riverhold", and an unaffordable row reads "Riverhold holds 3,020 metal, 5,849 short"

  The confirm step follows: "You give" becomes "Riverhold gives" whenever the buying city is not the city on screen, and a context line states that the trade goes through the host's market while everything moves in and out of your own.

• improved
  Offers you cannot reach are hidden when visiting

  WasRows you had no route to sat in the list with a "No route" tile, wherever you were

  NowHidden entirely when visiting, before sorting and paging, so the count and page numbers describe what is actually there

  At your own city they stay exactly as they are: an owner can act on that information by building the route.

• improved
  The give and receive filters are always on screen

  WasBoth rows collapsed behind a Filter button

  NowBoth rows rendered permanently above the offer list, the button deleted

  Under 640px the chips drop their text labels and show icons only, which is what keeps two rows of five inside a 320px screen.

Seed Investment, and where your envoy stands

Making Seed Investment reachable from the Invest screen last patch exposed a set of defects it had carried while nothing could start it. The whole path is reworked around them.

• reduced
  One stake per envoy per cityPatronage · Tier 3 · 2 ranks

  UNLOCKS: Stake a resource cache at a city for 1, 3 or 7 days and get it back with +5% / +15% / +40% on top, doubled to +10% / +30% / +80% at rank 2. Each stake matures within 10% of the stated rate.

  WasNo limit at all: fifteen stakes in a row at one city was possible

  NowOne active stake per envoy per city, raised to 2 and 3 by Double Down

  The cap that used to do this job belonged to a skill cut on 4 August, and its base of 1 went out with the skill. Double Down already meant exactly this for the building paths, so Seed joins that rule rather than getting one of its own.

• improved
  A Seed stake no longer pins your envoy

  WasYour envoy stays at that city for the term, with nothing on screen saying so until travel failed

  NowYour envoy is free to leave the moment the stake is made

  Travel, invest, travel on, come back to collect is the Financier fork's shape, and it is the only shape in which Diversified Holdings can work: an envoy pinned by its first stake could never reach a second city, so the per city counter it pays on could never exceed one.

• reduced
  A matured stake is collected at its city

  WasCollectable from anywhere, since the envoy could not have left

  NowCollectable only while that envoy is at that city

  This is the trade for freeing the envoy. The stake no longer holds them, but it does want them back.

• ◆new
  NEW:You choose the term

  WasThe card sent no term, so every stake silently took the 3 day default

  NowThree term pills: 1 day, 3 days and 7 days, showing the rate each pays for your envoy's rank

  The terms and their rates were always in the skill. Nothing could reach them.

• ◆new
  NEW:The card states what you get and when

  Was"about +30%", which is neither an amount nor a date

  Now"152 to 159 metal on 17 August, 4:12pm", with the duration beneath

  Each stake matures within 10% of its stated rate, which is where the range comes from. Both ends are worked out on the server, so the figure on the card is the figure the collection pays.

• improved
  Reinvestment is an option you take, not something that happens to youPatronage · Tier 3

  When one of your envoy's investments matures, you may roll its whole return into a fresh term at the same city at a rate 10% better, once per stake. You may still take the payout in hand instead.

  WasHolding the skill meant every collect rolled the whole return into a new stake and paid out nothing, with no opt-out and no way to ever take the money

  NowA matured stake offers Collect and Roll it over, and a stake created by a roll cannot roll again

  The bonus is a single +10 percentage points on the rolled stake's rate. It used to add 10 points per roll, compounding, which is how a 1 day stake reached +130% and 13,700 resources by the tenth day while the player received nothing at any point.

• improved
  The resource picker is resource pills

  WasA dropdown

  NowFour clickable resource pills, the same pattern the Market uses

What the investment cards say

Every path now renders in the same order: what it is, where your envoy has to be, what you choose, how much, what you get, what you already hold, and the button. The numbers on them are the numbers you are charged.

• ⇄reworked
  Venture Fund runs one fixed 7 day termPatronage · Tier 4

  UNLOCKS: Send your envoy to another player's city and fund it with diamonds. Each diamond draws 2% of that city's daily output of its primary resource every day of the 7 day term, and the city's own production rises 5% while you are invested. Yield you have not collected stops building up after 5 days.

  WasA choice of 7, 14 or 30 days, with a multiplier on the rate that the card never showed

  NowOne 7 day term and no term control, stated as "Duration: 7 days" like every other fixed term path

  The multiplier is what made the card wrong: the rate quoted was always the 7 day rate, so tier 2 at 14 days read +4% and paid 4.8%, and tier 3 at 30 days read +6% and paid 9%. With one term the rate a tier quotes is the rate it pays. Ventures already running under a 14 or 30 day term keep paying exactly what they were sold at until they end.

• ◆new
  NEW:Venture Fund is priced in three diamond tiers

  WasA free-typed diamond amount

  Now1 diamond for 2% of daily output, 2 for 4%, 3 for 6%

  Not new numbers: the rate has always been 2% per diamond. This is the same rate expressed as a tier grid so the card matches every other path.

• improved
  City Sponsor names its resource before you pay

  WasThe boosted resource was rolled at random when the investment was created, so nothing could name it beforehand

  NowWorked out from the city and the envoy, quoted on the card, and charged on exactly what was quoted

  Only extractors the host has actually built are eligible, which the random roll never checked. A host with no extractor at all cannot be sponsored on this path and the card says so, rather than naming a building that is not there. The same two cities and envoys always give the same answer, so two investors at one city can back different extractors. The host can still retarget the boost afterwards, and the card says that too.

• improved
  City Sponsor states up front that your envoy stays

  WasThe pin was real and unmentioned until travel failed

  Now"Your envoy stays at this city for the whole term. They cannot travel until it ends on 17 August. However, they CAN still perform other actions in the city like Checking into a Hotel or Learning at a School."

  Absentee Patron lifts the pin as well as the requirement to travel there, and its card carries a green version of the same notice.

• ⇄reworked
  Benefits state the modifier, not the outcome

  Was"Training here finishes 15% sooner", "A room kept for your envoy, even when the Hotel is full"

  Now"-15% training time in this School", "Guaranteed room in this Hotel, even when it is full"

  An outcome stops being true the moment anything else touches the same number. A modifier is always true. Every benefit line follows the rule now, all of them sit in one green box, and each box ends with its own Duration line.

• ⇄reworked
  Expedition Sponsor describes what it has always doneCommerce · Tier 5

  UNLOCKS: While your envoy is visiting a city, fund an exploration for that city's owner, or for any other player's envoy currently in the city with you. When their envoy completes that exploration, you receive a copy of the same discovery rewards: resources, lore fragments and Cultural Influence. Their rewards are not reduced. You cannot sponsor your own envoys, and it applies to explorations only, not wonder visits.

  Was"Fund another player's exploration and take a share of what they bring back"

  Now"Fund another player's exploration and receive a copy of everything they bring back"

  A copy is what it always paid: the same resources, the same Cultural Influence and the lore fragment, with the explorer's own find untouched. The description said otherwise. This is a copy correction, not a change to the reward.

• ✕removed
  Double Down's Hotel and School clausePatronage · Tier 3 · 2 ranks

  Your envoy runs 2 / 3 separate investments of the same type at one city by rank. Each keeps its own term and pays on its own. Sponsored expeditions become charges instead, one spent per exploration.

  Was"Hotel and School investments are limited to one"

  NowRemoved

  It could never apply. Double Down is on the Financier fork and Hotel Patron and School Donor are on Patron, so no envoy has ever been able to hold both.

• ◆new
  NEW:A matured stake is findable from the map

  A city where you have something waiting gains a badge in the nameplate's existing badge slots, beside the cultural landmark laurel and the festival icon, and its row in the Nearby drawer gains a gold Collect chip. Freeing the envoy means a matured stake can be anywhere, so it should not need hunting for.

• improved
  The currency switch sits above the prices it changes

  For a Market Leverage holder both prices always render, with the switch striking through the one not being used so the comparison stays visible. Without the skill neither the Gold price nor the switch renders at all, and the tiles are shorter for it.

Fixes

• The self-trade warning is reachable.

  Every self-trade check compared a field no response has ever set, so both the row badge and the confirm step's doubled-fee warning were unreachable on every board while the trade itself went on charging 20%. Trading between two of your own cities is legitimate, so the warning has real work to do.

• A trade row quotes the fee that buyer actually pays.

  Both row labels stated their percentage as a fixed figure, so a Master Trader, who loses nothing in transit, was promised 20% by the row and 0% by the confirm step it opened. The row reads the same figure the confirm step has always used.

• No broker is paid to bridge a city to itself.

  A city holds no trade route to itself, which both the listing and the accept path read as "unreachable" before falling through to a broker search with the same city on both ends. Any broker-holding city with a single route to it matched, so buyer and seller each lost 5% of their leg to a city that had bridged nothing. Reachable in ordinary play, on an offer posted through the very market you are standing in.

• A row can no longer promise a broker cut the accept will not take.

  The listing tried a broker before the host's own route while the accept path tried them the other way round, so a row could announce "via broker, keeps 5% of each side" on a trade that then completed through the host's route for nothing.

• The Nearby Collect chip and the nameplate stake badge reach you.

  The map request sent no credentials, so it always took the anonymous path and the two facts that drive those markers could never be returned to anyone.

• An investment refusal says why.

  Eight investment actions showed a generic "Investment failed" or "Collection failed" toast in place of the specific reason the server had sent.

• One Deed meter per screen.

  On the claim and merge pages the meter hint strip and the "or earn it FREE" panel each carried their own copy, so with a target selected, no Deed held and not enough Gold, the same 55 / 100 appeared twice on one page. Both now read one flag.

• An uninsured claim and merge paid with a Deed says FREE.

  It totalled "Gold cost 0", where FREE is the word the rest of the flow uses for the same thing.

• The homepage no longer offers "over 0 Gold" from achievements.

  The FAQ answer rounded the lifetime achievement total down to the nearest 1,000, which was fine at 2,425 and read as zero at 805.

• "Seed Investment" states its per-city limit on the holdings row.

  The row reported no limit at all, matching a code comment that claimed Seed Investment never had one. It had one until 4 August, and it has one again, so the row now reads it.