All but 3 red orbs can be used.

I still need to keep testing red rocket, combat and axe orb. The rest are working.

Empty red orb.

Now can be used to convert to any red orb.

Magic scroll: convert orb.

Works on red orbs.

Scalable Mining Levels

Ore income is now based on the number of muchines AND mining level. Every extra mining level you have increases the rate of gathering ores for every machinery and miners.

Whale is now tradable.

Raw and cooked.

Donor coins.

Was planning on making them tradable today again, but I'll wait until tomorrow.

Balancing changes

Currently working with the moderators on settling with new numbers for various activities.

Red chests openable

Orbs obtainable and tradable but not bindable yet.
Other items in chests have been added.

New easy and medium magic perks

New Easy Perk: Healing regenerates 30% more health.
New Medium Perk: Reduced prices in the magic shop for some of the empowered rocks.

Magic Perk Changes

Removed Easy Perk: Teleport cooldown halved.
Tweaked Medium Perk: The chances of triggering the cooldown and mana resets have been increased from 5% to 15%.

Teleport cooldown

Reduced to 5 minutes. Losing energy after teleporting is punishing enough.

Shiny loot bags, farming all plots and using your lumberjack

Should now all neatly stack in one slot for redundant items.

Bug fixes

The barrier bonus should not reset when switching armours after casting it. (It was a display bug)
Fixed runite armour tooltips. (Not a nerf, it was a display bug)
Fixed a bug where the triggering the cooldown reset from the magic achievement perk to not work on teleport.
Fixed longer oil potion tooltip.
Fixed XP labels for some potions that were off by a little bit.
Fixed ancient wand tooltip.
Removed the message: You can't cast spells while meditating. (This is no longer the case)

Not liking an Update?

If you feel that a recent update was not up to par or you think changes were poorly calculated, make sure you post about it on reddit with constructive feedback and perhaps with some different suggested values. I'm always on the lookout to make changes to the game to make it better.
Whining in chat won't do much.

Pirate Ship - map drop rates

Cannot find maps when there is no wind.
4 Times as rare as normal maps on low wind.
3 Times as rare as normal maps on medium wind.
2 Times as rare as normal maps on high wind. (which is same as green maps)
More common than normal maps on very high wind. (But still rare considering how short the duraiton of very high wind is)

Loot potion

Now uses significantly less resources.
Those who have already brewed the potion prior to this update will get a full refund on the differences.

Crafting Pirate Ship

Now uses less ancient logs.
Now uses no charcoal, doesn't really make sense when you use the sails. Those who have already bound ship prior to this update will get a refund on the differences.

Red maps

Red maps are obtainable.

The pirate sail can be obtained from an NPC.
Red orbs are almost ready, I'm letting players potentially obtain a red chest before they go live in the next patch.

Nerfs

No longer works on shiny monsters or the gem goblin.
You may no longer reset your rocket after collecting your loot.

A new potion

New high level potion.

Minor changes

The salmon heat requirement has been lowered to 120.
Cannon part drops from the skeleton have a slightly higher drop rate.
Slighty buffed the amount of keys dropped from the faradox's tombs. (Normal & Dark)

Farming/Woodcutting loot dialogue

Can now be toggled on and off in your profile.

Midterm exams

I'm busy with school at this moment, updates will resume as normal as of next week om February 21. I'll try to update small things in the mean time such as QoL updates and bug fixing.

Adverisement

I'm going to try to advertise on various forums about the game. Let's try to reach 1k players online again and please if new players do join, help them if they ask questions in chat. Also, feel free to share this game with your friends through social media. I've put a lot of work into it and I would really appreciate the gester. Thanks guys!

Farming loot dialogue

Like woodcutting, harvesting now has a popup to show what what was obtained.

Guest accounts

May now change there username once again.

Rocket Reset.

There is a rare chance that the rocket gets stuck. I'm currently investigating the issue however you may now reset your rocket by right clicking it.

Reverting popup dims

If you havn't noticed, dialogue boxes dim the background. I added this last patch thinking it would make the UI cleaner. Turns out it's annoying so I reverted this update.

Guest accounts

May now change there username.

The login screen.

After clicking the blue login button on the homepage, your browser will remember this action and your home page for diamond hunt will be automatically set to the login screen.

Dragonstone

Obtainable. Here's a hint: It's not THAT rare, however it's an end game item and very tough to obtain.

Tradables

The 3 Cannon Parts.
Moonstone.
Mars Rock.

Charcoal Factory Buff.

Uses much less charcoal. (about 75% less)

Guest Accounts.

Guest accounts are now a thing.
The website got a minor rework.
Made a Diamond Hunt banner, not the best at graphics but it'll do for now.

Popups / Dialogue boxes

Now dim the background to ease focus on the dialogues.

Planter

Players may now right click the planter to only harvest.

Changing your password.

Was disabled for quite some time now, it has been re-enabled.

New Craftable.

Not ready yet, but info on soon to come content.

Vendor new Items

Now sells a new unique item.

2 New brewing scrolls.

Can be both be obtained.

Promethium Moulds

Promethium mould loot have been changed from 1/400 to 1/300 per key.

Faradox's Lair requirement changes

Now requires 5 total teleports instead of 20.

Oil Barrels

Can now be set to automatically be used when you run out of oil. Click on any oil barrel to configure this option.

Bug fix

The teleport spell did not increment the total teleports casted.
This caused a problem with starting the quest: Faradox's Lair. (You need to have cast 20 teleport spells to do this quest).
The issue has been fixed.

New Craftable.

A new oil source.

Vendor new Items

Now sells a new type of ring.
Sells skeleton sword and skeleton shield.

Bug fixes.

Fixed a minor display bug where the mana bar was not displaying properly.

New spell scroll.

Dropped in the dark forest.

Magic Spell: Barrier

Now actually shows how many defence level you go up by.

Changing

Hardcore accounts may now use the player market to buy donor coins.
The achievement to find an essence using a super essence potion has been changed.
Magic page 2 and 4 are now more common.
The spell Barrier may now be casted before the fight starts.

Bug fixes

Fixed a problem where players couldn't use presets.
Fixed promethium glove mould.

Faradox's Gaurdian Requirement

Now shows the amount of total tomb keys used.

Auto wiki/faq in Chat

Typing the words 'WIKI' or 'FAQ' auto hot links them.

New update notifier

Bug fixes

Binding a runite oven should remove it from the crafting table.
The fish icon quality has been fixed. (Requires a cache refresh with ctrl f5)
Fixed the bug with 'shorter tabs' and the new seperatable magic tab in profile.

Donor Coins

Enabled for Trading.

Faster Packet Algorithme + Server info (Technical) + Recap of these past few months

Apart from the magic rework, I've been also working on a complete new algorithme to improve the quality of the general game play. The goal of this new algorithme is to make the game have a much faster response time. As you may have noticed, the game works on a 1 second ticking system. When you send commands to the server (example: Wielding an item, chopping a tree, cast a spell etc.), the server registers and processes your command. Right now, the server tries to process the command in between every tick. (A tick is one second). After a second has gone by, the packet algorithme runs through all the players and constructs the new packets to be sent to the game client. (The website). If the server is incapable of processing a command within that one second, it will continue to process it on the next second which can cause unwanted delays. What this new algorithme does is every time a command is recieved, the new packet algorithme will construct the new command right away and send it back to the client. This removes that one second delay caused by the ticking system. However, this algorithme requires more CPU power and bandwidth. The algorithme has been enabled for equipement items only. If the test works well on these items, I'll be looking to do it across all the items in the game.

Second thing, I want to be transparent with you guys and you may have noticed we have not hit 1000 players online in a while. Obviously this means the revnue stream of the game has decreased. This new algorithme might need too much CPU power and I am willing to upgrade the server only if the community really sees a difference in the response time. If the new algorithme is not really needed, I'll be removing it and won't be upgrading the server.

Lastly, some of you might not like the idea of donor coins being tradable but I'm going to be giving it a try. Players may now purchase donor items without actually needing to spend any real money. This should also help revnue streams which would allow me to keep the algorithm and comfortably upgrade the server if need be. I hope you understand why I'm doing this. I also want to mention that my motivation for diamond hunt is still going strong. I plan to spend a lot of time on programming DH in the next few weeks the fact that we have less players online does not make me want to code this game less. It's a lot of fun for me and enjoy every bit of it!

TL;DR:
Changing equipement items for your hero should be lightning fast.
If all goes well, the response time of the game should be much faster in the next few patches.
The increase in the server's response time uses more CPU power and I might have to rent more hardware to achieve this.
Even though the player count has been much lower than usual, my motivaiton stays strong for programming this game! And I know we will reach that 1k players online again!

Elite Quest!

New Tradables

Runite moulds.
Donor Coins (Auto binds when bought). (See the info box above for more details)

Bug fixes

The energy reduction at faradox's tomb now works properly. (It was checking for completed hard brewing achievements intead of combat)

A mroe accurate Cannon

All cannon balls have a higher accuracy bonus.

Achievements

The 25% more essence fragments achievement perk has been changed for strange leaves.
The achievement to get an essence from an essence potion has been changed to using a combat selector potion.

Magic

You make now seperate your magic tab out of the combat one in the profile & settings. (Link on the top, next to rules)
Hovering over the silks when using the spinning wheel now says 'Craft Green Silk' instead of simply 'craft'.
The tooltip on spells now shows the name of the spell.

Oil Storage 6

You now need 10'000'000 stone instead of 20'000'000 to craft.

Magic combat Icons

The combat magic spell icons now show if the spell iseither on cooldown, missing mana or not enough magic bonus.

Green Empowered Rock Orb

Buffed, it now has double its effect.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a hard crafting achievement. (The one where you need to produce 600 charcoal in one go)

Mana Potions

2 new mana potions have been released.

Meditation & Empowered Rock Orbs

Now can be obtained from empty orbs and have also been added to the empty orb spell scroll.

Vendor

Sells new items and also tweaked the cost to trade a strange pink leaf.

Brewing Perks

Changed the brewing achievement perks to fit the magic rework.

Combat Hard Perks

Added a hard combat perk.

Magic combat Icons

The combat magic spell icons now show if the spell iseither on cooldown, missing mana or not enough magic bonus.

Green Empowered Rock Orb

Buffed, it now has double its effect.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a hard crafting achievement. (The one where you need to produce 600 charcoal in one go)

Vendor issues

There are currently vendor issues happening. The issue has been fixed.

Magic Achievements

Now all completable.
New perks have been added aswell.

A new blue orb aswell as a green orb

Both tradable.

The "Detailed" Stats Page

Now accesible from your account under the skills tab.

Enchanted Potion Scroll

The scroll is obtained from sending your workers to find brewing materials.
The rate has been changed from 1/15 per worker to 1/4.

Mana Star Drop Rates

Small and medium mana stars drop rate have been increased. They should be easier to find.

Meditation

You may now cast spells while meditating.

Combat spells XP changes

XP rates have been buffed for all combat spells.
You no longer get any magic XP from combat spells after casting spells for a total of 30 times per fight.

Teleport Spell

The mana required for teleport has been changed from 15 to 10.

Bugs Fixed

Presets are fixed.
Fixed the gust spell.
Achievements are fixed.
The Faradox quest now asks you for strange logs instead of essence logs.

Spiderwebs

Now a common drop in the haunted mansion.

Unequipping All Items

An unequip button has been added below the hero.

Meditate Enabled

Visit the magic shop to unlock meditate. (The icon is no longer in your spells tab)
Mediate is a good SD and ore sink.
Added: You may now keep training combat with meditate however you may not use combat spells.

Heal, pound and gust xp changes

Now give more xp when casted in combat.

Market

Thread is now tradable
Increased iron dagger's cap as the demand went up.

New quest

A medium quest has been added to the game.

Magic Shop

Forgot to mention: The Wand Two quest used to give a spell scroll 1 before the magic rework. It now gives the reward of having double magic bonuses on all wands. (This was active since stage 1 of the magic rework update)

Bug fixes

Yellow, green and purple strange leaves are now obtainable from tree seeds with the hard farming perk

Stage 2 - Spell scrolls

3 Spell scrolls have been added to the game. These scrolls allow players to cast none-combat spells. The scroll is tradable. (Note: The scrolls are consumed when used)

Magic Shop

Added back button.

Bug fixes

Fixed requirement for new quest. (It was checking for 15 magic instead of 5)
Fixed essence potion timers and removed from brewing list.

Heat Doubled for all Fish

I had changed this before the magic update and completely forgot about it. I realize a ton of people were swimming in heat so I decided to make cooking harder. A warning should have been said, I don't mind reverting however now the ones who have already cooked the food after the heat increase are going to be quite upset. I decreased the rate to x1.3 instead of x2. Apologies for the situation.

EDIT: I reverted the heat back to its original numbers.

The next 24h.

Expect the server to be restarted for the next 24h. I'll be around to bug fix and tweak the new content.

Make sure to submit a bug if you find one with the rework. I will fix them on the spot today. (I'm aware the magic achievements are not up to date, no need to submit a bug on that)

Have an idea to improve the magic rework? All suggestions are to be posted on reddit. I'll be around all day!

Stage 1 - Magic rework

The new magic rework is in. I won't be explaining all the details on how it works here. I think I'd rather let you guys figure it out through gameplay. However, here's a few things to know:

• New spells
• All old magic items are converted to xp (essences, powers, charges etc) Note that the xp rates will not change.
• The essence potions will NOT be converted to xp. Feel free to drink them to earn essences, and then refreshing the page to convert them.
• Mana does not scale on magic levels.
• Ancient want refunded.
• I'm aware the magic achievements are not up to date.
• If you have essence logs, essence tree seeds strange leaves on the market, you must cancel them and refresh for them to convert to the new items.

Combat drop tables updated with magic rework.

New items have been introduced on all drop tables.

Shiny trees.

Now have an animation.

Christmas holiday over.

Sigils no longer tradable and snowballs/gifts removed.

Christmas Event 2017

You now have a chance of finding gifts from mining, loot bags and chest/green chests.
Visit the shop for a new item.

Santa hat, tree sigil and christmas gifts are tradable

Only during the christmas event.

Christmas Event

Ends on january 5th.
The magic rework will be ready by then aswell.

Christmas Event

The christmas event will be released around Christmas day. The exact date is not known however the event will extend up to January 5th. The magic rework will be released at the same time as the christmas event.

Magic complete Revamp

So if you don't already know, the magic skill is getting a complete revamp. The update is almost ready and should be released in about a week. Here is a list of changes that you should expect.

The Mana Bar

• Spells will no longer use essences but simply drain your mana bar when used.
• The mana bar is not like the hp bar, it will not reset after each fight.
• You slowly regain mana overtime or by drinking future potions.
• Mana scales with magic level

Charging Spells

• Charging spells is no longer thing.
• Spells can be casted as long as you have the requirements. (Levels, mana, cooldown)

Unlocking spells

• Similar to now, spells are unlocked from the magic pages.
• Only the combat spells are unlockable through magic pages.
• Out of combat spells, such as very high wind and the new enchant weapon spells are unlocked from new red magic pages. These pages break on use and will possibly require essences to cast (This might change). They will also be tradable.

New spell mechanics

• Damage over time.
• Toggle spells. For example, turning a spell on might increase your accuracy as long as the spell is toggled. (Mana is drained overtime on toggle spells)

New hero bonus

• A magic bonus from new robe equipements.
• Every spell requires a minimum magic bonus, and some spells will scale based on magic bonus.
• Current magic weapons will have magic bonuses.
• The combat interface will be reworked to allow players to easily switch gears during battle. (For example: It might be useful to quickly switch into your magic gear and then cast all your spells in order to have a higher magic bonus. Then quickly switching back to avoid NPC damage.
• To continue on the previous point, switching combat equipement will no longer be locked behind the hard achievements.

New equipement

• Magic robes will be the primary way of gaining magic bonuses.
• Magic amulets and rings will also be added to allow your hero to have a bit of magic bonuses to help cast basic spells with melee armour on.

What about our essences/wand etc?

• Still brainstorming on what to do with essences.
• If the wand is removed (or it might be used as a weapon..? TBA) Your logs used when upgrading the wand will be fully refunded.
• The spellscroll 1 will be removed.

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Vendor

Start exchanging items with the vendor.

New Equipement: Rings

Your hero can wear an infinite amount of rings. One of them is available as of now.

Brewing Scroll 5

Released brewing scroll 5 with the potion.
I won't spoil where to find it, however it's not from the vendor and not an NPC loot.

Farming Notification

Now works on the uncle's farm.

Vendor

Start exchanging items with the vendor.

New Equipement: Rings

Your hero can wear an infinite amount of rings. One of them is available as of now.

Brewing Scroll 5

Released brewing scroll 5 with the potion.
I won't spoil where to find it, however it's not from the vendor and not an NPC loot.

Farming Notification

Now works on the uncle's farm.

Bob's Uncle Farm

Ready to go.

New Quest

New quest released.

Super Compost Potion

Now works with white leaf seeds.

Chrismas Event

To be released on Decemeber 22.
Ends early January. (Date to be confirmed)

Bob's Uncle

New Quest.

Muting

Players may now use the mute players by name or by ip. Your muted players will also be remembered even on refresh and can be managed using the 'mute list' button on the chat box.

Drop rates changed

Dagger from theif from 1/30 to 1/25
Skeleton sword from 1/50 to 1/40
Skeleton shield from 1/40 to 1/30

Mixing Stand Quest

You may no longer find brewing scrolls if the mixing stand quest isn't completed.

Bug list fix

Fixed the potion timers from the new potions using the mixing stand.
Fixed the ghostscan cooldown problems.

Bob's Family

Bob's uncle also owns a farm. Hopefully you'll be able to cross paths with him soon.

Update this weekend

I'm completely swamped this week as it's my midterm evalution for end of bachelor's school project. I'll release a content update this weekend as I need to work on school stuff until thursday.

Bug fixed

Potion timers fixed.
Fixed the random mutes people were getting along with remvoving the 'mute history' on their accounts.
Obtaining a brewing scroll prior of finishing the quest has been fixed.

New quest

A new medium quest has been released.

New brewing concept + a new brewing trainable

A new item for brewing is now available. Opens up to more brewing xp and new potion effects

Brewing scrolls

Contains info on what potions to mix. There are only 4 available for now but more will come.

Stardust seed.

Tied with the new brewing content.

Combat drop tables.

Updated (forest + caves)

Cooking oven

No longer shows the logs if you don't have any.

Login page

Minor changes to layout

Login Backend Changes

Changed the login system completely.

Server connections in public areas

Players who were not able to play the game on public networks (such as schools, libraries, hospitals etc) should now be able to play.
A new server was purchased in order to allow this. The game now runs on port 80, a default port which most networks allow traffic to be sent on)

Halloween Event Ended

You may no longer purchase a mask and pumpkins and the seeds have been removed.

A small list of changes

Super heal now uses 600k stardust instead of 750k.
Bait pricing has been increased in the market.
Excavators and needles may now be deleted with a right click.
The needle has been moved to the equipements tab.

Bug fixes

The button 'Harvest & Replant' triggered by the achievement perk should no longer harvest fully grown crops but only replant the auto-grown ones.

Halloween Event

When the event ends on November 4th, all pumpkin seeds and pumpkins will be removed.

New Craftables

Needle: Can be used to revert soft armour back to its respective resource. (long overdue update)
Ancient Staff: This item will be quite useful given the player has hard combat achievements unlocked.

New tradables

Ancient logs, ancient tree seeds, cannon and ancient staff now sellable on the player market.

Lumberjack

Now requires at least level 50 woodcutting to encounter.
Costs 1 million coins to hire instead of 100k.
Twice as less likely to show up.

Small changes

A search bar has been added when you 'look up a player' for easier access.
Halloween event extended to November 4th.
Hardcore players now have there icon set to default in chat when the account is created.
Hard accounts can now browse (only browse, not buy/sell) items on the market.

Bug fixes

Maple tree seeds should now you the right amount of bonemeal.

Update on a Saturday?

I feel like the recent updates have been meh..so I spent the day coding for an update today.

Halloween event.

The halloween event ends on November 1st. Good luck!

Magic page 4 - Empty orb

This spell has been released and also has been reduced from sacraficing 3 orbs to 2.

Ancient Tree Seeds

Now farmable.

New auto-yell message

Players who reach level 100 in a skill will be announced in chat.

Achievement where you need to cook a shark.

You may now get this achievement by 'auto' cooking a shark with the achievement perks.

Bug fixes

Fighting in the volcano with only a weapon has been hopefully fixed. I was not able to replicate the bug however I changed the backend of it.
The dark forest dialogue with bob has been fixed. (It was not working when a player had excactly level 75 combat.
Fixed a bug where players got the 15k energy achievement without actually spending 15k energy.
Fixed a display bug where the furnace would sometimes think you had the ores when you actually didn't.
Fixed the super heal level requirement label. (45 to 60)
You will no longer lose light mushrooms when trying to fight the dark forest without any arrows equiped.

New Tree

High level tree released. (shiny version too)

Cook's book

2 New recipes have been added.

Magic page 4

Magic page 4 released, 2/3 spells currently working.

Cook's book : fish stew

Now uses raw shrimp and sardine.

Magic combat spells (above hero)

Now ordered by category/color.

Cook's Book

Added new recipes and changed the way the book works.

3 new craftables

Boating dock, runite oven and furnace.

Bug fixes

Fixed the number of charged spells from undefined to N/A for magic spells that cannot be chaged.

Next update

There might be an update this week to add new magic spells.
Next update will also include a way to combine 3 orbs in order to make an empty one.

Future Updates

Update schedule will change. There should be more updates deployed on a weekly basis. When the schedule is official, I will release it. I'm doing my best to manage my time in terms of updates.

Cannon

Can now be combined and used in combat.

3 new craftables

Cannon related.

Bug fixes

Some players had the light mushroom image broken, this has been fixed.
Fixed the achievement where you need to use 3 different types of arrows in combat

Combat Drop tables

Updated for the moon drop tables.
As always, I never release the droptables of the latest current highest mobs to not spoil anything.

Bug fixes

The harvest & replant button will now work if more than one plant has been instantly grown.
The tooltip for the oil on the top bar will be doubled from a green orb.
The achievement to spend 15k energy in one tick will now trigger if you find a gem goblin.
The dark forest now uses the right amount of energy.
The wiki link has been added to the home page and the updatelog link has been fixed.
You may now longer fight in the graveyard if your hero is on the rocket.

Cannon

The cannon may be used to fight alongside with you in combat.

New tradables

Bones & Cannon parts

New Combat Area

Fully completed, loot bags also can be opened.

Magic page 4

These set of spells are to be released next patch and will really make magic worth while.

New Hard Combat Achievement Perk

Won't spoil, nothing too fancy.

Arrow Changes

Arrows are now set through the equipement tab.
Arrows now cost 1 bone instead of 2. (per arrow)
Green bow orb has been changed to save 50% of arrows fired.

Feather Changes

Feathers are now a 100% drop from all birds.

Light Mushrooms Graphical Changes

They have a cyan color now. You might need to refresh your cache to update these.

Bug fixes

Harvesting a tree should now show the correct title.
Skeleton is now an undead npc. (Scythe effect works on all skeletons now)

Big update next week

I've been working on a lot of different content at the same time and they are nearly done. Here's a teaser: One of many parts of the next update (next week) includes a craftable cannon which can be used in combat. Won't spoil the other stuff though.

Bug submissions

Bug submissions will be replied to in the next 12h.

New Combat Area

This area is quite complex, and it's not 100% done. A bit of content can be obtained from it though. It will be 100% complete in the next patch.

New Seed

A new seed has been released. Getting it requires a few actions.

Miniquest

In relation of the new combat area.

New Schedule

Hello guys! Just wanted to give you guys a little update on what's been happening. I just started my full time internship along with a 4 month end of bachelors project which are both followed by professonals in the software engineering field. I started my intership and the project this week and I have decided to set an official weekly day for Diamond Hunt updates. This will allow me to mange my time, and I'll be able to add new content and really test everything before release on mondays. I'll be working on Diamond Hunt everyday and hopefully will deliver awesome new content on a weekly basis.

Info:

• Updates will occure every Monday.
• All bug reports will be answered on Monday, right before the update.
• Server will be monitored for a few hours after the updates go live to hot fix bugs if they rise.
• These weekly updates should contain much more content at once as I have all week to work/test them.

Gem Goblin

Rarer than shiny monters. Goodluck!

A lumberjack

A lumberjack lures around certain trees. Maybe you'll cross paths and he can help you out.

Green maps from loot bags and boats

Like the regular map, you have a very small chance of finding green maps from loot bags or from boats.

Other tweaks

Green orbs now show up on the look up page.
Giant excavators now show up on the look up page.
Green maps, like the regular maps now have the notification.

What's next?

So I just got back from my trip, and I wanted to rework some of the backend of the system. This includes reworking the bot detector, the alt trading detector, and the network layer of the game. This may take a bit of time which will reduce the amount of content updates we will get. However, I'll do my best to release content as well as reworking the backend. After the backend is revamped, I'm going to re-read all the recent reddit posts which I've responded to (or not) to implement the tweaks and content some of you have suggested. The backend work should take around 8h, and I'm going to work on that today and tomorow. Thanks for understanding!

New, better looking sprites for some NPCs

Thanks to Zspitfire04, we have new sprites. He made a handful of fantastic looking images to replace exisiting NPCs aswell as new soon-to-come monsters.

Achievement Perk: Plants automatically growing addition

There is now a button to instantly harvest/replant the seed that has been triggered by this achievement.

Bugs

Binding the green bonemeal orb now shows the correct image of the bonemeal bin.
Fixed the magic lables to become red if the player does not meet the requirements for the spell.

New Mineral

Found on mars using the rocket and a bound green rocket orb.

Green orbs

Green orbs have been released in the game and are tradable.

Green chests openable

Green chests have the same chance of getting a green orb than getting a blue orb from a normal chest.
Green chests also contain blue orbs, but are much rarer than green ones.

Normal Treasure Chest

They now have a very rare chance of giving green orbs. Good luck!

Green orbs to have no link with blue orbs.

The vote has been closed a while back and the results show that most players would want to see no link between blue/green/red orbs. http://i.imgur.com/o9qS3Or.png What a close vote!

New Quest

A new quest has been released.

Green Treasure Chests

It is now possible to get green treasure chests (they have a higher chance of getting you green orbs.)
Green orbs are still being worked on, they will be released next patch. Collect them chests!

New craftable

A level 73 item has been released. I'm going to be adding new craftables inbetween the multiple of 5's. It will help fill in the gaps.

List of bug fixes

Sending your hero to space in the rocket will now increment the 'total rockets used' correctly.
Hard magic perks had some bugs when converting essence fragments, this has been fixed.
Changed the wording of some of the achievements to make them clearer.

Green & Red Orbs Vote

Going to let this vote go on for about 24h. The leading % will be the end choice. You can vote here: http://www.strawpoll.me/13772056
Note: Some updates include green/red orb effects though are disabled until the release of the orbs.

Bonemeal Bin

Interface revamp which include all types of bonemeal sources.

3 New Potions

Like the stardust crystal potion, these potions provide permanent buffs.

Chisel effects buffed

Changed the machinery upgrade effects from the chisel. Click on the chisel to read them.

Giant excavator buff

For you 0.001% of players who have them, they now give 3x the promethium they used to give. (1/8k instead of 1/24k with one bound)

4 oaks/willow grown at the same time achievement changes.

The 4 oaks have been replaced with 2 oaks.
The 4 willows have been replaced with 3 willows.

I changed this because I didn't want players to feel like they needed the extra 2 donor patches to finish these achievements. Although they do help in many ways, this change should reduce the pay 2 win feel.

Market History

You may now see the last 10 actions done on the market.

Woodcutting Hard Achievement

Instanly growing a tree from your woodcutting perk will trigger the hard achievement to instantly grow a tree. The blue orb works too.

Growing 4 oaks/willow trees achievement

Shiny trees will also work for this achievement. (Example: 3 willow trees and 1 shiny willow tree.)

Preparing Dotted Sardines

Can be right clicked to instantly rub dotted leaves on them.

Achivements perks

They should are all functional now.
The chat icon for achievements have been removed for those who don't have the hard achievements completed.

Achievements

Fixed a few achievements that were not completable.

RNG Achievements

Given that Diamond Hunt is quite a heavy RNG game, it's tough to not have achievements that are completely RNG free. Some of the new hard achievements DO contain some form of RNG but I'm trying to not go over the top with them. Hope you guys understand, and if you have any suggestions for alternative achievements or new elite achievements please submit them on reddit. I read every post.

Combat, Magic, Fishing and Cooking Achievements

You may now complete every hard achievement from every skill.
All perks for hard achievements are still none-functional. They are being worked on and will all be released next patch.

Treasure Chest Buff

Promethium ores and promethium bars have been added to pirate chests. The amount obtained scales based on your mining level.
Stardust Logs added to the chest.
Essence logs added to the chest.

Achievement Tweaks

The hard crafting achievements where you need to craft a total of 'x' bars have been reduced by half.
The hard mining achievement no longer requires you to use 5 diamonds with the chisel.
The oxygen potion achievement has been fixed, the counter will start as of now.

Hard Achievement Bugs

Fixed a few achievements that were not completable.

Mining, Crafting, Woodcutting, Farming and Brewing Achievements

Perks are displayed but are not working ATM - they will be coded next patch.
Combat, Magic, Fishing and Cooking achievements will be ready next patch wit perks

Giant excavators

Reduced the cost of promethium bars from 1000 to 500.

Hard achievements

About 60% done - they will be released in the next patch or the one after that.

Shiny Trees

Just like combat, you have a very rare chance of a shiny tree to start growing. (example: Shiny stardust tree.)

New Potion

A high level potion was released.

New Mining Machinery

Along with runite ore. Runite ore is very very rare and is considered end game content.

New oil storage

Hold up to 8 million oil.

Bug fixes

Fixed the popup in the tombs. Using your keys should now act normally.

The market - My thoughts

I want to spend a good part of this week to revisit the market. I'm looking into changing the way the price limits work. I'm also going to be improving the alt trading detection. I'd also like to implement some kind of system where you can see graphs or averages of items being traded and perhaps have a kind of history that players could browse - just a thought.

Updates

Exams are over so we will have more frequent updates.

Promethium Armour

Craftable using moulds only.

Bug fixes

Bone amulet now works on moon bones.
Fixed a display bug with the foundry - clicking the essence logs and switching to another log will remove the red background around the essence log.
Casting other spells will not trigger the cooldown for ghost scan given you have the medium magic perks.
Fixed a bug where players were stuck in the tombs after dieing to the first enemy. You can reset your tombs by using your keys even if you have none.
The upgrade gem button from the chisel has been removed given you have a diamond already socketed.

Lookup Player

Achievements are now shown when you lookup a player.

Bug fixes

Woodcutting timers no longer freeze.
The medium woodcuting perks (+5 logs) will now be shown when you click your axe.
Combat notification will be turned off when your hero is on the rocket

Crystal Seed Achievement

Finding a crystal seed in a chest will also trigger this achievement.

New Medium Magic Achievement Perk

Added a new magic achievement perk.

Profile

Changed the description on the notifactions achievement toggle.

Graveyard

The graveyard now requires ghost scan to hit the enemies.

Faradox's Crystal

Fight a series of enemies in a row to increase your chances of getting more loot from the chest.

Moon loot bags openable

Good luck!

Scythe buff

The scythe now has a 100% increased in damage to all undead creatures. It also ignores 50% of undead's defence.

Market

New tradables

Profile

You make now toggle on/off the popup when one of your achievement perk triggers.

Quest

Were getting closer to Faradox

EDIT 2: We had harddrive failures which caused the save files to be corrupted, the rollback has been re-executed. The issue has been fixed, everything is working as intended.

The rollback.

Hello guys, so this is the first time DH2 had to execute a major roleback. 4H of progress was lost for everyone who was logged in after the update of today. This is the story; and usually with bugs like this I can fix them really quickly, but this time was different. If you're interested, keep reading, if not read the TL;DR. So after the update today, I ran all tests and everything seemed fine. I decide to leave the house to go downtown with my GF to a festival (just for laughs). I order a drink, it's 2:30 PM at this point (2h after the update went live). I get a message from my brother with the title 'BIG BUG'. I see his post and I realize players are able to create stardust from nothing using the rocket. I'm with my gf and tell her we gotta go. She understands and we throw our drink out and get back in our car to fight traffic to my school (which was the closest place i could get to a computer). I knew there was a bug 2H in, but I had to fight traffic to get to my university which took a long time. Anyways, I wanted to take the time to explain to you the situation. This is the first actually 'dupe' bug we had in the game. I take this stuff very seriously and will always stop whatever I'm doing to fix these kinds of things straight away. I had to roll back. There was already hundreds of millions of stardust created from bug abuse that was generated out of thin air, and for the sake of the economy the roll back was a must.

Sorry for the legit players who had to lose progress or items because of this - I had to do it, for the better of the game/economy. I will do my best to prevent such bugs in the future and improve my tests so we don't run into this problem again. Thanks for those who understand.

TL;DR: A bug was found after the update today which allowed players to create stardust from thin air. This was abused and over 100M stardust was created. Rollbacks were executed and were necessary to conserve the economy.