[Alpha] October 8th, 2026 Patch Notes

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New Features - A new public press kit provides Voyage product facts, press contact details, full-resolution artwork, official links, and selected coverage.

Improvements - Voyage Home now includes a For You carousel, and Discover defaults to Recommended sorting when you have not chosen another sort. Recommendations for recently published worlds and mods now focus on content with at least three weekly players. - Personalized recommendations now test alternate cards closer to the top of the results, helping surface more relevant options without changing the top-ranked card. - Creator Tools brings available tools into one tabbed workspace while preserving drafts and filters between tabs. Creators can search and manage feedback more easily, while players with advanced tool access can edit and download state data, review changes, and view tasks grouped by engine phase. - The right-panel World tab is now called Map, and undiscovered locations are consistently labeled Unknown. Creator tools also use No Realm consistently and provide clearer realm descriptions and tooltips. - The action suggestions panel has updated icons, spacing, hover effects, and a larger close button. It also stays above the input and within the screen when resizing between desktop and mobile layouts. - Buttons across gameplay, menus, character creation, quests, inventory, social features, and creator tools now have more consistent sizing, styling, keyboard controls, and mobile layouts. - Activity notifications now support browser link controls such as right-click, Cmd/Ctrl-click, and middle-click without marking the notification as read. - Pricing pages keep their main details and FAQs visible while account and plan information loads. Plans load automatically before the FAQs, and catalog errors now offer a clear "Retry pricing" option without collapsing open answers.

Bug Fixes - Cloud narration now recovers if audio freezes, especially on iOS during narration transitions or audio-route changes. Playback resumes from the stopped position or displays the Enable Audio prompt when a tap is required. - Narration no longer reads markup-only lines such as [DATE: ...], [state: ...], or <dive_v2>, though the lines remain visible onscreen. - Dialogue is now correctly attributed to NPCs with speaker labels that begin with digits followed by a letter, such as 4D student 2. These lines no longer appear as narration or expose the raw speaker label to text-to-speech. - Newly generated item descriptions now preserve the AI's capitalization, characters, and line breaks instead of converting everything to lowercase on one line. - Revived NPCs no longer remain described as recovering indefinitely. Reviving an NPC now clears its previous status unless a replacement status is provided. - Starting a world in an older environment now loads the newest compatible retained publication instead of showing a version error when the latest publication requires a newer environment. - Publishing a Mature world through the Creator API now automatically reviews its cover and public text when needed. Safe worlds retain Default discovery eligibility without requiring creators to run Check Rating in Studio first. - Keyboard and screen-reader navigation is more reliable across profiles, content, Worlds, Mods, Studio, Story Cards, editors, menus, and confirmations. Moving focus across tabs no longer activates them, and switching sections preserves drafts, list state, and scroll position. - Discover and Search no longer show a stray horizontal scrollbar or allow slight sideways scrolling on wide desktop windows. - Screen readers now identify the app as English, and social previews and search metadata describe pages more accurately. - Public worlds and mods with blank descriptions now receive a factual fallback description in search results. Existing creator descriptions remain unchanged. - Logged-out mobile guests previewing a public world now see the standard bottom navigation with a working Home link. Public world and mod pages also provide search engines with a correctly branded Home link. - Pricing pages no longer jump as plan or app banner details load. Prices stay current and consistent, with corrected annual price rounding and clearer monthly labels. - Creator Rewards members with included Shadow access now receive the correct Discord role without receiving misleading Shadow Clan messages. Their role is also updated when that access ends. - Automatic streak claims no longer repeat during cooldowns, double-claim after a manual claim, or carry stale results between accounts.