Shields that block, armour that soaks, and a lot of loose ends tied

Every blow in the game, yours or a creature's, now works the same way:

• Dodge. A blow can miss you outright. Your chance comes from your Agility level: 2% to start, about 12% at level 99.
• Block. A shield can stop a blow completely: 5% with copper, 8% bronze, 11% iron and 15% steel. Blocks work against boss strikes too.
• Defence. Armour no longer makes blows miss. It takes a share off every hit that lands instead: about 19% for a full copper set, 25% bronze, 33% iron and 40% steel. A blow that lands always does at least 1 damage. Wards and a meal's Guard take their share off what is left.
• Creatures follow the same rules: a little dodge and some armour of their own. Fights take about as long as before.
• The stats page shows your Damage reduction, Dodge chance and Block chance, and combat text says "miss" for a dodge and "block" only when your shield really stopped it.

• New at the anvil: an iron helm (Smithing 32), iron greaves (33), an iron chestplate (35) and steel greaves (48).
• Iron and steel sets now have five pieces. The four-piece bonus stays, and the fifth piece adds a little more.
• The jade war axe now takes four bronze bars, so it no longer beats the bronze sword for free.

• The shop, the quest board and the teleporter close when you walk out of reach, instead of staying open while every click is refused.
• "Mend" in your bag is only offered beside a workbench or forge on a claim.
• The upkeep warning comes two days before your claim lapses, as the server's does.
• Party and quest-share invites count down from when they were sent, and close when they run out.
• You can craft batches of 100.
• The Jobs tab now shows the real pace of jobs while you are away (15%).
• Thralls walk a little slower than you, as they were always meant to.
• Harvest quests count every crop you pick, not one per plot. Harvests and animal catches count for your party too.
• Collecting from, breeding and catching animals can now find you a pet.
• Before you plant at the edge of your Farming level, the game shows the chance of a poor harvest.

• Messages say the same thing the same way everywhere: "Your bag is full", "Can't reach that", "Walk over to the forge first", "That isn't yours", "Nobody by that name".
• The town is the town everywhere, never the village.
• Every item now has its own examine text.
• Prestige, Remove, Leave and Release all ask "…? Click again" before they act.
• Numbers in shops and tooltips have thousands separators.

• New icons for the workbench, claim stone, forge, bed, bookshelf, table, loom, campfire, seed crate, decor and house dressing, drawn at full size instead of shrunk.
• Items that shared an icon have their own now (oak and pine logs, eggs, cloth and linen, hide and wolf pelt), and all bronze gear is the same bronze.
• Workstations, the campfire and table-top props stand on the ground instead of floating.
• The palm and willow no longer have their fronds cut off, and fishing spots look like one family.
• Autumn bushes are proper bushes now, and the dire wolf has a mane and glowing eyes.
• Baby animals wear their parents' colours, and the wolf pup is smaller than a wolf.
• Rocks and ores all grow bigger when nobody mines them for a while, and in winter snow settles on every tree and bush.
• The mouse cursor is the same pixel size as the rest of the interface.

• The F1 editor has twelve new kinds of ground, grouped by region: meadow, forest, coast, desert, snow, swamp, highlands, cave, dungeon, volcanic, town and interiors, each with its own edges, cliff faces and walls. The world map shows them in their own colours.
• Walls need to be painted at least two tiles thick.