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The volcano and the Keep

September 14, 2026 · 19:09

The road west out of Emberfall goes up. Three zones of it, a camp at the foot, and a volcano at the top with four floors inside it.

Grimhold's door is open as well. Two floors, two bosses, and the last of them is the hardest fight in the game.

Nothing new is craftable up there. Everything above level 85 is dressed by what falls off things, and the best of it is a necklace at 1 in 951.

West of Emberfall

  • Slagreach, The Sulphur Steps and Reekhollow — the ground rising toward a live volcano, levels 86 to 92
  • Wickmere, a camp on the near side of it: a tavern, a vendor and a bank door
  • Mustergrave at level 79, a barracks below Cinderward, and what the necromancer has raised out of it

The Kiln

  • Four floors inside Reekhollow, and you climb up into them rather than down: the bellows, the throat, the drift and the heart
  • Levels 92 to 99, ending at the Heartforge colossus and the Magma shade
  • The Kiln-Tender stands in the bellows at level 93

The Keep

  • Grimhold's door was shut from the other side, and is not shut any longer
  • The hall at level 95 and the spire at 99
  • Mereth the Unsleeping keeps the hall. Orwen the Unburied is at the top of the spire

What falls off them

  • A helm for each style off the level 86 monsters, at 1 in 381
  • The Tender's chain, a necklace, at 1 in 381
  • Mereth's vigil, a ring, at 1 in 381
  • Orwen's reliquary, a necklace, at 1 in 951 — the strongest piece of jewellery in the game
  • There is no new crafted rung. The ladder still ends at forgesteel, wardhide and shroudsilk

Alchemy

  • Fumewort tonic, brewed at alchemy 99, healing 490
  • Fumewort grows in Reekhollow, worked at farming 92

Enchanting

  • Superior protection gives +20% armour and health, up from 15%
  • Superior drain heals 4% of your maximum health on a killing blow, up from 3%

Balance

  • The Wolf fights as melee. It had been shooting at you
  • The Glade poacher, level 4 in Greenglade, carries the ranged gear the wolf used to. Wolf pelts drop as often as they did
  • The Siegebloom tonic sold for 396 coins and cost 394 to brew. It is worth 73 now, in line with the rest of the ladder
  • The castle's road has been redrawn to make room for the mountain west of it. Nothing about it has moved apart from where it is drawn

Fixed

  • Tallowhearth asks for level 71 rather than 74, so everyone who can stand in Hallowgate can reach its board

The reference

  • A boss is marked as one in the index, not only on its own page