Ranked matches now run to a fixed length, giving up works the same way whichever command you use, and parties can vote to call a game early. Random Item gets the biggest change: crafting actually works, the item pool is much wider, and you can no longer tower to the sky.

⏱ Ranked matches

  • Every ranked match is 3 hours, the same for everyone. Your rank no longer makes it longer or shorter.
  • A rebuilt start. Both players are frozen for 10 seconds while the world loads, then the runner gets 10 seconds to move while the hunter stays put. This replaces the old 20 second head start.
  • Leaving before the match starts now counts as a leave. Looking at who you drew and quitting was free before.

🤝 Giving up

  • /giveup is new, and /forfeit and /endgame do exactly the same thing in ranked.
  • Ask your opponent to waive your queue suspension. If they agree, you leave without a suspension, but you still lose the RR either way. Agreeing only waives the penalty, never the rating.
  • 1 free leave and 1 agreed leave, each once every 24 hours.
  • Your leave history resets after 7 days instead of 30, so old leaves stop making new suspensions longer.

👥 Parties

  • The party leader can call a vote to end the game early.
  • Everyone gets a Yes or No button, and a majority decides it.
  • Nobody gets a leaver penalty for a game the party agreed to end.

🎲 Random Item

  • Crafting works in ranked. It was quietly switched off before, despite being advertised.
  • A much wider item pool, so far fewer repeats. The utility drop list alone went from 18 items to 45.
  • New height and dig limits for party games. A party leader with Gold or above can cap how high anyone may build and how deep anyone may mine. You cannot place a block above the height limit, and standing above it withers you after a three second warning. You cannot break a block below the dig limit, with no damage either way. Both are off unless you turn them on, and ranked does not use them.

⚔ Combat and world

  • Bed bombing does far less damage. Still deadly point blank, or against a runner with no armour.
  • Spawn protection is much smaller, and logs are no longer protected, so the trees by spawn stay chopped instead of growing back.

🔧 Fixes

  • LT5 and HT5 are back on the ladder. There was nowhere to go below LT4; now there is.
  • Your tier shows in tab and chat during a ranked match.
  • Random Item counts in the ranked player count, and its leaderboard shows kills and deaths again.
  • The YouTube link button works again. It was looking in the wrong place.
  • Every past update now opens as a full screen you can actually read.