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To keep you updated: - Still working on the right way of the $Islands implementation. - Skins - Content for more Quest This all takes time, thank you everyone for being here!

Throughout the night, we discussed and planned with the community how to create a sustainable economy for the game. This is the reason why we made major changes to Gold. Gold Nodes are now breakable, creating a deflationary system. Island owners will receive 75 Gold for every Gold Node that is completely destroyed, creating a new resource cycle and helping balance the economy long term. Unfortunately, we also had to roll back the Realm update. While it introduced new features, it created more issues than it solved. Scalability remains one of our highest priorities, especially as we support 400–500+ concurrent players. As a result, all player progress has been rolled back to yesterday's state. This was not a decision we made lightly. Database backpressure caused items to duplicate, disappear, and behave unpredictably, which threatened the integrity of the game economy. We learned an important lesson from this that we cannot rush implementations simply because there is a demand for them. Additional gameplay adjustments: • Monk has been nerfed, especially in boss fights. • Boss encounters are intended to be team based content and should not be easily farmed solo. • Team up with other players and fight together for Shards. After discussing it with the community, we also decided not to enable $Islands as a Marketplace payment method at this time. While it seemed like a good idea initially, we do not believe it would currently benefit the chart or the long term health of the ecosystem. The Marketplace will remain USDC only until we find a sustainable solution that allows the game economy itself to organically support the growth of $Islands. With that said, the gates are open once again. See you on the Islands. 🏝️

🌍 Introducing Benon & Axos two new realms designed to improve scalability, allowing us to focus on expanding the game and unlocking more utility for $Islands.🏝️ Island Owners: When players farm on Benon and Axos simultaneously, you earn loot from both realms, effectively doubling your rewards.⚖️ This is part of our ongoing balancing and development process, so expect more updates and another video very soon.🎮 Play now: islands.games