- Resize the chat however you like: drag its corner or edge, on a computer or a phone. It remembers your size.
- Emoji now show in chat, and a new emoji button sits beside the chat box. Each emoji counts as one character.
- Messages sent quickly now simply appear in chat one after another, with no waiting indicator. Send too many at once and you get one gentle reminder to slow down.
- Added a Skills guide page with XP tables and unlocks.
- Chat messages sent too quickly are now delivered after a short delay instead of disappearing.
- Recent public chat now stays visible after you refresh the page.
- Chat now shows lowercase letters and normal punctuation.
- Links are now automatically removed from public chat to keep players safe.
- Added this changelog page, and a roadmap at the bottom of the homepage.
- Added a Discord button under the game view, and a Discord link on the homepage, so you can join the community.
- The Tigers statue is now cast in bronze. Prefer the cuddly look? Switch it to Plush from the statue's plaque.
- Added chat tabs: Chat shows only player messages, Game shows drops and catches, and All shows everything.
- The chat can now be made bigger, and it remembers your tab and size.
- Added a Suggest button in the chat, so you can send us your ideas.
- Added a new skill chain: fish, light the hearth, and roast your catch, then repeat.
- Added new outfits for each body type.
- Added the Tigers statue in Holtgrove, beside Cobblethorn's stall.
- Added more hair colours.
- Added Male/Female body types.
- Added a new skill, Roasting: cook your catch over the Kindlecross Hearth.
- Fixed players getting stuck at the stall. Sellers now stand at the counter.
- Added skill chains: line up Felling and then Whittling or the hearth, press Start, and your woodcutter repeats the loop on their own, even while you are away.
- Added a sideways layout for phones held in landscape, with panels that fold away.
- The game is now sized for phones held upright, with bigger buttons and easier-to-read text.
- Added a welcome-back card that shows what your character did while you were away.
- Idleholt is now online only: your progress is kept safe on the server, and the game pauses until it can reconnect.
- Fixed a progress-saving bug that could reset some players' experience.
- Added a calm notice when saving is having trouble. It keeps retrying on its own.
- Anglers now sit in a striped beach chair on the jetty.
- Added selling straight from the bank.
- Added a vault room behind the bank's round vault door.
- Fixed players walking through the bank walls. The bank is now entered by its door.
- Bank, stall, and other windows now fit phone screens.
- Fixed flickering on the ground, paths, and decorations.
- Holtgrove Bank is now one bigger building with a round vault door, and every item is kept in its vault.
- Banking now walks to the nearest bank, or to the one you choose.
- Banks are now full buildings with tellers behind the counter.
- Added fishing at the pond.
- Added character looks: pick a hat, hairstyle, hair colour, skin, and tunic, and change them any time.
- You can now walk anywhere: tap or click the ground.
- Your character now keeps working while you are away, at a gentle pace, and all progress is worked out on the server so the hiscores stay fair.
- Added a bigger game view with the chat laid over it, and a side panel with Inventory, Skills, Equipment, and High Scores tabs.
- Added bank actions: Withdraw 1, Withdraw All, Deposit 1, Deposit All, and Examine, by click, right-click, or long-press.
- Added a Sell tab that walks your goods between the bank and the stall for you.
- Tree canopies now fade away while they hide your character.
- Fixed a black screen some players saw right after an update.
- Fixed upside-down roofs on the cottage and the bank booth.
- Added pixel-art item icons and a carved inventory grid.
- Open games now update to the newest version on their own, saving your progress first.
- Added a new homepage, plus privacy and terms pages. The game now lives at idleholt.com/play.
- Added player accounts: sign in with an email link or with Google, and your progress is saved online.
- Holtgrove is now shared: see other players walking the woods with you.
- Added public chat and emotes: wave, cheer, bow, and shrug.
- Added hiscores for every skill.
- Idleholt now plays on phones: drag to turn the camera, pinch to zoom, and tap to pick a tree.
- Add Idleholt to your home screen, with its own icon.
- Everything is now true to scale: trees stand 6 to 15 metres tall beside your woodcutter.
- Trees are richer, with layered canopies, bark, and three shapes of every kind.
- New ground with worn paths, a pond with a sandy shore, and scattered flowers, bushes, and rocks.
- Smoother idle, walk, and chop animations.
- Better keyboard controls: arrow keys move through the side panel tabs, and Escape closes the bank, the stall, and pop-ups.
- A long break no longer floods the chat; the catch-up is summed up in a short note.
- Axe prices rebalanced, so each axe is affordable by the time you can use it.
- Holtgrove got all-new hand-made 3D models: seven kinds of trees, the woodcutter, the bank booth, Cobblethorn's stall, and the hearth.
- The camera now orbits and follows your woodcutter, with smooth zoom and tilt.
- Rolling hills, soft sunlight and shadows, and distance fog.