Pinionfall v2026.09.19

What changed

11 roadmap items ship in this release.

• Stealth. Sneaking, NPC perception, pickpocketing, locked doors and chests with lockpicking, crimes that towns remember and guards who act on them.
• Skills and levels. Skills improve with use and raise the character’s level, NPCs have levels too, and a hotbar on keys 1 to 8 holds and casts spells.
• Bow pass. The shot follows the pointer through a ballistic solve, holding a full draw costs stamina, sneak and head shots hit harder, and arrows stick in walls and bodies.
• Searchable bodies. The dead are containers you can search and strip, and an NPC’s body with loot left on it is still there after a reload.
• Walls, gates and roads. Town walls that follow the ground, gates with a working portcullis, colliders on decor and roads blended into the terrain.
• Building interiors. Buildings laid out by zones and room roles, furnished from the prop packages, with working hearths and doors that open on E.
• Settlement props. 188 generated prop packages with LODs, colliders and interaction sockets, placed in towns by the furnishing planner.
• Town bundles re-baked. Town bundles regenerated so every town keeps its own guards, with the new walls, gates and roads baked in.
• Animations without Mixamo. Every character clip now comes from Meshy, as a library action or a text-to-motion clip retargeted onto the engine’s own rigs, with its source recorded and checked in the build.
• Trees and bushes. New species with their own bark and leaf art, species with glowing leaves and bark, and roots that meet the ground.
• Performance and memory. Cheaper shadow cascades, grass and vegetation, impostor atlases baked ahead of time, and a memory leak on planet swaps fixed.

Updating

git pull
npm ci
npm run setup:assets

Every asset bundle changed (2118.1 MB in total), so npm run setup:assets downloads and re-extracts all 6.

Existing saves are kept: they are migrated to the new save schema on first load (SAVE_VERSION 3 to 4). The town bundles are re-baked (TOWN_GEN_VERSION 14 to 16); town data a browser cached from an older version is replaced on first load.

The physics build is unchanged (WASM f2f7c482, parry v0.30.2, rapier v0.35.3).

Documentation

These pages changed with this release:

• Requirements
• Install
• Assets and animations
• Verifying the install
• Updates and saves
• Troubleshooting
• Architecture
• House rules
• Prop workshop
• Character workshop
• Character workshop settings
• Character workshop tuning
• Armour pipeline
• Generated props (TRELLIS)
• Settlements
• Render bench
• Perf profile
• The shipped memory
• Conventions
• Console levers
• Test-fly checklists

The licence text changed in this release. Read LICENSE in the repository before you update. The third-party notices changed (THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md).

Roadmap

Planned: Terrain density rework, Save safety, Quest and companion polish, Intro robustness, The Lost Origin, Cross-planet quests, NPC archers and casters, Child NPCs, Multi-slot saves, Spells v2 and Music and lore affinity.