Originally posted by JerryPie in #announcements / Heartwood Online Discord:

Without further ado, fishing and other fun activities are now available in Heartwood! Good luck and have fun discovering new secrets.

(See patch notes below)

Originally posted by Davro in #patch-notes / Heartwood Online Discord:

v0.4.7 - Patch Notes

Fishing and Cooking have been added as new skills! Alongside these new skills, we have some exciting additions:

• Fishing Leaderboard
• New crafted gear
• New monster drops
• New gear with crafting bonuses
• New gear with ability perks
• New NPCs
• New Quests
• New gathering nodes
• New crafting station for Cooking
• New legacy marks
• New rare spawn
• Nearly 100 new items
• 11 new mounts
• Visual update in Oakwood, near the Keevah NPC
• New tool slots for fishing poles and fish baits
• New item type, 'Offerings'
• New system to pair with fishing and cooking, 'Shrines'
• Overseer and Canis no longer spawn on a timer
• Drop rates across the game have been adjusted slightly
• Due to the new system for summoning bosses, the drop rates for Overseer and Canis drop have also been tweaked. The amount of time it takes to summon a boss and obtain a rare drop should correlate with previous drop rates when the boss could respawn every 60 seconds
• Weapon Damage and Shield Block are now affected by item rarity
• Level modifiers corrected on some gear
• Claiming or tagging a monster now makes it so all other players see a grey health bar
• Fishing Poles have been added to Carpentry
• Crafting times reduced for certain items
• Quests now have level requirements
• Some quest rewards changed to match new requirements
• Quest experience has been significantly increased
• Rare spawn kill experience has been significantly increased
• Monster kill experience has been increased for all enemies, starting at Boars (~level 12)
• Bank and Inventory UI have received minor visual updates
• Skeletal Mages and Archers have had their health slightly reduced
• Smaller monsters have been removed from Miner's Hollow and Feasting Den
• Changed gathering animation for herbalism to kneel from swing. SFX updated to match
• New hover text has been added to player UI for displaying attribute names
• New UI icons have been introduced for new crafting skills and items
• Click and hold functionality added for talent page, shops, crafting
• Added /reply and /r as chat functions
• Added /w as a shortform command for /whisper
• Fixed an issue that would cause players to get stuck in ore nodes
• Changed 'Drop' option to 'Discard'
• Added 'Sell All' functionality for selling to merchant NPCs
• Added confirmation popup for blocking players
• Player speech bubbles have been updated to have a darker background
• Updated gold and gem formatting. Ex., 1,000,000
• Misc fixes to gear spritesheets and animations
• Various bug fixes
• 'Loadouts' are now available from the in-game shop. These will allow your character to save preset gear loadouts and swap to them at any time from the inventory
• New login methods have been added for PC and Android:
  • PC players can login with Steam, AppleID or a Google account
  • Android users can login with Google account or AppleID

PC Changes

• Experience numbers are now viewable on player HUD
• Right click functionality added for selling items to NPCs
• Right click functionality added for equipping and unequipping items
• Right click functionality added for adding items to trade window

Class Changes

• Rogue
  • Rogues no longer lose Invisible state when casting Self Heal or Evasion
  • Rogues no longer lose Invisible state unless an ability hits a target
  • Bonus damage from Invisible has been reduced from 150% to 100%
  • Thousand Knives Attack Power modifier has been significantly increased to compensate for Invisible changes
  • Increased hitbox of Thousand Knives to better match the graphic
  • Fixed a bug with Shuriken Storm that would cause the SFX to play on your next swing
• Mage
  • Mage Freeze Magic Power modifier has been reduced
• Warrior
  • Fixed a bug with Bola Throw that would cause the SFX to play on your next swing
  • Fixed a bug with Ground Slam that would cause it to target cursor location
• All Classes
  • Self Heal ability is now available at level 1