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--- shard-updates [2026/09/08 13:13] – [Gold Panning Orders (New)] cral
+++ shard-updates [2026/09/14 01:23] (current) – [09/13/2026] Marked sorting cooldown superseded - external edit 127.0.0.1
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+===== 09/14/2026 =====
+==== Storage Keys ====
+  * **Your stored items have their names back.**  Since the last update, anything you deposited into a Resource Order Book, Power Scroll Key, Tome of Enhancement, Gardener's Key or Treasure Hunter's Key showed up under a single generic name: every resource order read "A Resource Order Deed", every seed just read "seed", every map "a treasure map", instead of the material, skill, attribute or map level.  Anything already in the key before the update still read correctly, which is why it looked like the new deposits were the broken ones.  They were.  New deposits are named properly again from the restart onward.  Rows that went in with the wrong name keep it, because the name was written into storage at the time; withdrawing one and putting it back fixes that row, and we are looking at a proper repair pass for the rest.
+  * **Sorting is quick again.**  Clicking a column header to sort was on a 3 second cooldown, and it is now a tenth of a second.  That cooldown was added to stop a sort on a very large key from hogging the server, and it was set far too conservatively: most keys sort instantly and the wait was the whole delay.
+  * **The list tells you how many matched again.**  The stash and deed lists show ''Displayed: N'' beside ''Contents:'' once more.  With a filter set, ''Contents'' is everything in the key and ''Displayed'' is what your filter actually found.
+  * **No more phantom warning.**  Closing a storage key gump printed "Invalid entry in withdrawl amount:" at you every time, whether or not you had touched the amount box.  It was harmless but constant.  Gone.
+==== Gold Panning ====
+  * **Panning is a shore activity.**  You can no longer pan from the deck of a ship, while standing on water, or from a dock.  Find a riverbank, lakeside or beach and stand on dry land.  Panning from a boat meant a safe, monster-free spot with fresh ground every few tiles of sailing, which was never the intent.  If you have been working the water, you will need to move to a shore.
+===== 09/13/2026 =====
+Everything in this update, in one place.
+==== Storage and Save Performance ====
+**The save pause is roughly an eighth of what it was.**  Five storage categories moved out of the main world file into their own storage files.  The main file used to be rewritten whole on every save, carrying millions of stored records it did not need to.
+<code>
+Resource Orders     818,685 records
+Power Scrolls     1,619,545
+Crystals            651,134
+Seeds               266,310
+Treasure Maps       156,078
+                  ---------
+,511,752 records moved, across 647 keys
+</code>
+On a copy of the live world this cut the main save file from **457MB to 150MB** and the world save from **8.5 seconds to about 1.0**.  Those are test-box figures, so expect the shape of the improvement rather than the exact seconds.
+A full trial migration was run against a fresh copy of the server's own save data and checked item by item: **6,035,739 items counted before and after, none lost.**
+Nothing changes about how you use your keys.  Deliberately left as they were: Power Scroll keys' Desolate Scrolls and Stat Scrolls, and Treasure Hunter keys' SOS's and Fishing Nets.
+  * **Storage column sorting is limited to once every 3 seconds.**  Sorting a column re-sorts and redraws the whole list, and on a large key that is work everyone else waits behind.  If you sort and nothing happens, wait a moment.  This also applies to the filter arrows on resource order books, taming order books and the rest.  (Superseded by the 09/14/2026 notes: the cooldown is now a tenth of a second.)
+  * **Runes save faster.**  The account runebook system was rewriting its whole database on every save even when nothing had changed.  It now reuses what it already wrote.  (Covered in the last notes.)
+==== Fixes ====
+  * **The Stygian Dragon altar works on the first try.**  Placing the fourth Draconic Orb after a server restart used to fail silently, no gate and no dragon, and a second set of orbs was needed.  The altar was being looked for at the wrong height, so a duplicate was placed on each restart instead.
+  * **Fewer pauses during heavy fighting.**  Staff monitoring tools were re-scanning a growing list on every creature death.  On a long champion spawn this was one of the larger stalls; it is now effectively free.
+  * **Attachment data is protected against a bad load.**  If the files that hold item attachments do not read back completely, the server now refuses to overwrite them rather than saving over good data with a partial copy.
+  * **Runebook saving can no longer crash the shard.**  Both save handlers are now guarded.
 ===== 09/08/2026 =====