Hello everyone,

with v0.2.0.6, we are releasing another larger update for Guilds of Mountgate. This update focuses mainly on the first fully integrated weather layer for the Living World, a significant Journal expansion, and a wide range of gameplay, UI, and quality-of-life improvements.

This patch also includes several changes based directly on your feedback. Some of you reported smaller issues, while others pointed out parts of the game that still felt a little clunky, unclear, or harder to use than they should be. That kind of feedback is incredibly helpful and plays a big role in making Guilds of Mountgate smoother and more enjoyable step by step.

So once again: thank you to everyone who has played, tested, reported bugs, shared criticism, or simply told us about their experience with the game. Especially at this early stage, that support is extremely valuable.

The biggest new feature in this update is the first fully integrated weather layer.

The World Event system has been expanded, meaning weather is no longer just an atmospheric detail. It is now becoming an actual part of the Living World. Weather is now displayed directly on the world map and can affect several gameplay systems.

Weather now affects:

• player travel times

• NPC trade caravans

• freight and storage deliveries

• early skills such as Fishing

The first visual rain effects have also been added, so weather is not only noticeable through systems and numbers, but also through the game’s presentation.

The world map has received improvements as well. Information layers can now be toggled on and off individually, giving players more control over what they want to see. Trade routes now also follow actual settlements on the map instead of being drawn as direct straight lines, making the map feel more natural and easier to understand.

The Journal has been expanded and now includes recipes for:

• Cooking

• Crafting

• Smithing

The goal is to make the Journal a more useful central source of knowledge as the game continues to grow.

The previous “Plants” category has also been renamed to “Foraged Goods”, which better represents the resources contained within that section.

Quests should now feel more rewarding. Quest rewards have been increased and now grant noticeably more experience.

The quest backend has also been reworked to improve quest marker behavior, progress tracking, and overall quest reliability. This should help with several situations where quest progression previously felt a bit too clunky or unclear.

Players can now also unlock passive health regeneration through the Survival skill.

One early progression unlock has been adjusted as well:

• The Birch Rod now unlocks at Crafting Level 7 instead of Crafting Level 11.

The durability system has been reworked.

Tools now generally have lower durability pools. However, higher-quality tools are significantly less likely to lose durability in the first place. This should make tool quality feel more meaningful, without making durability feel unnecessarily annoying.

Mining, Smithing, and Crafting progression related to Gold has also been rebalanced.

The Auto Health filter now automatically excludes food items that provide buffs.

This should prevent valuable or situational buff foods from being consumed automatically by accident. Players who still want to use buff foods with Auto Health can manually add them to the list.

Several UI improvements have been added as well.

The trading interface now uses larger icons, making items easier to read and recognize. Empty placeholder slots have been removed from merchant inventories, making the interface feel cleaner.

UI text and interface elements can no longer be accidentally selected while dragging the mouse.

Another useful quality-of-life improvement: all windows can now be closed with ESC. Windows close in reverse order of opening. If no windows remain open, ESC will still open the Settings menu as before.

To improve scaling and provide a more consistent user experience, all resolutions above 1080p are now automatically normalized.

This update also includes several smaller fixes, including:

• several German localization fixes

• smaller UI fixes

• smaller gameplay-related fixes

This update is another step toward making Guilds of Mountgate more stable, more polished, and more alive. The new weather system in particular is an important foundation for future Living World features and will continue to grow in upcoming updates.

As always: if you notice bugs, unclear systems, rough edges, or have ideas, feel free to let us know. Many of the smaller improvements in this update came directly from that kind of feedback.

Thank you for playing and supporting Guilds of Mountgate!

Hello everyone,

Patch 0.2.0.5 is now being prepared as the final polish update before the upcoming Steam Next Fest and is available at June 15th, 12 AM CEST.

This update focuses on cleaning up the current demo, improving some rough edges, and preparing Guilds of Mountgate for the next larger step in development.

Due to preparations for Steam Next Fest and the release of v0.2.0.5, the Guilds of Mountgate servers will be unavailable for around one hour.

The maintenance is planned for:

June 14th, 11 PM CEST

During this time, the game servers may not be reachable.

Patch 0.2.0.5 includes a range of smaller fixes, balance changes and content additions.

In broad terms, this update improves the early demo experience by fixing several UI issues that appeared after the recent visual redesign, reworking the NPC conversation UI, adjusting some early progression, and adding a few more quests and NPCs so that every currently implemented skill is properly represented at least once.

The update also improves travel events. Their XP curve has been adjusted, and their rewards now scale better with the player’s skill levels. For example, players with higher Mining levels can now find more fitting ore rewards during travel events instead of being limited to only the earliest materials.

There have also been several smaller changes to quests and NPCs. Osric’s questline has been adjusted so the player receives the hammer at the beginning of the questline, the placeholder quest in Mountgate has been removed, the Old Sailor has been reworked, and Quartermaster Brann now has his missing NPC portrait.

Crafting unlocks and whetstones also received some tuning. A bug where whetstones affected the wrong items has been fixed, and the basic whetstone bonus has been slightly reduced to leave more room for future whetstone variants.

Another important change is the updated death system. Players now lose their carried inventory and carried money on death, while skills and equipped gear remain safe. Equipped items such as armor, tools and similar gear now take durability damage instead of being lost. Currency can also now be deposited into storages, giving players a safer way to store their money before travelling.

For the detailed patch notes, please check the full patchlog on the official Guilds of Mountgate website.

With this update, the demo is now mostly where I want it to be for Steam Next Fest.

That does not mean the demo will be abandoned. If bugs or important issues appear, they will still be fixed. But for now, the focused demo development is slowing down.

From here on, development is moving more clearly toward the Early Access release.

The basic foundation is now in place, and future development will focus more on expanding the actual game instead of only extending the demo. That means more skills, more features, more quests, more NPCs, more locations and more progression built on top of the current systems.

The demo was always meant to show the early direction of Guilds of Mountgate: a grounded online idle RPG about useful skills, ordinary people, travel, work, small stories and slow progression through the world of Vellgar.

Now the focus is shifting from proving that foundation to building more of the game around it.

Thank you to everyone who has played the demo, reported issues, followed the development or added the game to their wishlist.

See you in Mountgate