- World events: five occasions that sweep the whole server at once, at least one every 15 minutes
- The Storm of Riches — rain, lightning and thunder; luck x1.5 and mentions x1.5
- The River's Surge — currents, swell and foam; big nuggets x1.5
- The Dance of the Fireflies — night only, on the Shore and in the Bamboo Grove; luck x1.8
- Mystic Mist — a violet fog over the whole island, and it reaches inside the cave; XP x1.5
- The Breath of the Cherry Trees — petals falling over the Bamboo Grove; mentions x2
- New dig zone: the Sandbank, resistance 2, between the Riverbank and the Shore, with 21 shared minerals
- A villager who hints at what lies underground
- An event badge on your card, with its countdown
- Three new building packs for the island: temple, village and dungeon
- Events run on the clock: draws at :00, :15, :30 and :45, and one that starts at 16:00 ends at 16:10 for everyone
- Quest rewards are now worth 2.5 times the materials you hand in, everywhere
- Auto mode picks the nearest zone that actually works, and no longer changes its mind on the way
- Rain now has its own ambience, and thunder rolls in from a real distance
- Rivers and still water carry the current, the swell and the foam of an event
- Quest dialogue showed "He asks for" with nothing under it, on the nine quests that ask for a deed rather than an ore
- Artefact value was frozen at forging, so a better quality no longer read as better
- The forge swallowed clicks: two presses out of five were dropped, and clicks died on scenery
- River ribbons folded over themselves in bends and stretched their texture into chevrons
- The bounty list collapsed on itself, and the objective showed the quest title instead of the goal
- Twelve surface lanterns burned in broad daylight