Notifications, an installable game, and a new look

Notifications

• The game can notify you when your queue runs out or you die, when a letter arrives, when something you listed sells, and when somebody challenges you in the arena
• Turn them on or off for each device from the Notifications section of your account page
• Choose which of the four you want in the same place. All four are ticked to begin with, and the choice covers every device
• Nothing is sent about the character you are playing while you have it on screen
• Letters and challenges from players you have muted are never announced
• On an iPhone or iPad, add Embershard to your Home Screen, open it from there, and turn them on in it
• Signing out stops notifications to that device until you sign in on it again

App

• Embershard can be installed as an app from Chrome or Edge, or added to the Home Screen on an iPhone or iPad
• A new icon, in the browser tab and wherever the game is installed
• A game left open in a background tab no longer redraws itself each time a task finishes, which saves battery. It catches up when you come back

Interface

• Here, Character and Travel look like tabs, and switching between them no longer makes the top of the page jump
• The dark buttons press in when clicked, and stay pressed until the game answers
• The chat is framed like the map, and headings have new dividers
• The page has a paper texture, the task, skill and health bars look cut into it, and corrupted places look mildewed
• Text boxes, checkboxes and scrollbars match the page
• A fight, loadout or challenge you opened stays open when a task finishes
• To save a loadout, press Save what I am wearing and give it a name. The box closes once saved
• Gear shows the level needed to wear it next to its stats

Reference

• Items in your bag, your bank and what you are wearing open their page in the reference, and so do monsters where you stand
• At the crafting stations, each recipe and its ingredients open their page in the reference, as do the ingredients at the enchanting bench