Changelog

Feature: Every multi-battle report has its own address now, ending in the battle IDs (…/battleboard/multi/americas/1234,5678). Links shared before keep working.

Feature: The battle IDs in a report are clickable chips: open any of them to jump to that battle's own report. The single battle report now shares the same header, with its ID called out and the region named West, Europe or Asia.

Feature: Rebuilt the battle timeline: cumulative kills per guild with real axes, a legend you turn on and off with a click and a detail box on hover. The simulation player is gone.

Fix: Fixed the multi-battle report reloading itself: the loading screen came back every few seconds and threw you to the top of the page.

Fix: Reports keep your reading position when the page re-renders underneath: a live battle refreshing its numbers no longer sends you back to the top.

Fix: A multi-battle link with a single battle opens that battle's report right away instead of sitting there loading.

Performance: The first visit to an uncached battle paints the report from the warm-up payload, without rendering the page a second time.

Fix: The zone list and every content count now come from the game's own zone definitions instead of the community survey: each zone shows the chests, resource nodes and dungeons the game actually places in it.

Fix: Removed six duplicate zones: the survey listed each of them twice, once under the real name and once under a one-letter misspelling, splitting the contents between the two. The list goes from 406 entries to the 400 real zones.

Feature: The zones whose board the survey never published now take theirs from a community mirror that has the complete set. Those boards are drawn at the 45° angle the client shows the roads lattice at, so they are turned upright and scaled to fill the card; one zone keeps the "no screenshot recorded" state because the only capture of it is the whole game interface.

Fix: Fixed the Roads of Avalon zone artwork: every zone now shows its own survey screenshot. Until now the 316 zones shared only four placeholder images, which is why the board never matched the contents listed under it.

Fix: The section now covers 406 zones instead of 316, taken from the live Roads of Avalon survey, so whole families that were missing are back (Settun goes from 5 zones to 10).

Fix: Corrected the chest, resource node and dungeon counters. The old numbers came from a source that went offline in April 2025 and attached every count to the wrong icon, so chests and nodes were swapped around.

Feature: Zones whose board has not been surveyed yet are listed too, with a clear "no screenshot recorded" state instead of a broken or unrelated image.

Feature: New Avalon Maps section: browse all 316 Roads of Avalon zones with their real in-game board and the chests, resource nodes and dungeons recorded in each one. Linked from the header with a TOP badge.

Feature: Every zone has its own page: full board, recorded content breakdown, a guide to reading the zone name, and the sibling zones that share its layout. Avalonian Rest zones are labelled as hideout maps, the only road zones where a hideout can be placed.

Feature: Search by zone name, stack content filters with AND logic, sort by chest, resource node or dungeon counts, and share any filtered view through the URL.

Feature: The section is localized across the 17 supported languages, with canonical URLs, hreflang alternates, structured data and sitemap entries for every zone.

Feature: Weekly Discord giveaway: 2 winners each take 1M silver + 1 mount. New animated header banner and first-visit reminder, available in every language.

Feature: The battleboard now remembers your last guild search and minimum-players filter, restoring them automatically on your next visit.

Fix: Fixed item icons that fell back to the placeholder: ids using dots (e.g. T3.MOUNT_HORSE) are now normalized, since the renderer only serves the underscore form.

Performance: Added a background job that preloads the most-used item icons from recent kills, so the first visit after a deploy loads them instantly.

Feature: Dragonfire's new Dragonslayer gear, potions, mounts and abilities are now available in the Build Creator.

Feature: The Firewing Drake is listed in the Fire Drakes category with localized stats and abilities.

Maintenance: Dragonfire item, spell and consumable data has been refreshed, including fish and crafting components.

Feature: All Dragonfire items and abilities now show their real icons: over 500 item and spell images are served from our own servers, with the official renderer as backup.

Performance: Build and ability images load much faster: they now go through a retrying, cached proxy, so slow or rate-limited renderer responses no longer stall pages.

Fix: Mount market prices now load reliably from the server with retries and caching — no more failed price loads.

Fix: Fixed the build editor: potions and food were missing from the item selectors, so nothing could be picked there.

Feature: The mounts tool now shows every mount's abilities with real icons, slots, types and localized descriptions.

Performance: Battle reports now warm their cached data on hover, focus, and selection, while the poller precomputes recent completed battles for faster opening.

Performance: Multi-battle reports now load a lightweight core first and fetch kills, intelligence, composition, and timeline only when each section is approached, reducing the initial payload by about 75%.

Performance: Completed battles now use long-lived CDN caching, static route reuse, and Server-Timing and Web Vitals diagnostics to improve and measure real loading performance.

Maintenance: Database migrations can now run without psql, executing statements separately so concurrent indexes work in the application container.

Feature: Rebuilt battle and multi-battle reports with player, guild and alliance breakdowns, kills, equipment, composition, battlemounts, callers, solo bombs and a timeline.

Performance: Improved detailed multi-battle loading with shared requests, background warm-up, API fallback and automatic retries while new battle events are published.

Fix: Localized the new Battleboard interface, including player composition, guild filters and role labels, in every supported language.

Fix: The minimum players filter is now applied consistently across the Battleboard server, API and client, including guild searches.

Fix: Unified battlemount detection between the Battleboard and player role stats for consistent classifications.

Performance: Multi-battle summaries are now resolved from the local cache with an upstream API fallback, reducing external calls.

Feature: Added a new Rankings hub for players, guilds, weapons, global score, ZvZ, battles, and seasonal K/D across all regions.

Performance: Player profiles now preload from search, serve recent kills and deaths from PostgreSQL, and persist full statistics for much faster cold loads.

Feature: Added Google sign-in alongside Discord with a redesigned, localized account access screen.

Fix: Improved mobile navigation with a scroll-safe drawer, accessible language selector, and clearer Rankings access.

Maintenance: Refined partner and support controls into compact, dismissible actions that stay out of the battle view.

Feature: The old payment prompt was replaced with a discreet Buy Coffee support reminder.

Maintenance: Removed the former paid plans, checkout, manual payments, access gates and supporter badges.

Fix: The API delay warning is now compact, sits beside the battle server selector, and only appears for the selected affected region. It also shows the exact sync delay.

Fix: Online and restart indicators now check each Albion region independently and no longer depend on the battle API.

Maintenance: Refined the home hero into a more compact layout with clearer shortcuts to Battleboard and Builds.

Feature: Added an always-visible Opera GX partner banner with a PC download referral link, translated into all 17 languages.

Feature: Redesigned the player profile and guild pages with the Battle Dispatch visual system.

Performance: Player and guild search is now near-instant: local battle-data cache first, a 5-minute in-memory cache, and smarter Albion timeouts (especially on the Americas server).

Fix: The guild shown in search results now refreshes when a profile is opened, so it always matches the profile.

Performance: Player and guild profiles open instantly: the server serves the data directly instead of making a second Albion round-trip.

Fix: Improved battle and event ingestion resilience with non-overlapping scheduled runs, faster timeout recovery, cached-data fallback, and accurate per-server health reporting.

Fix: Validated battle IDs and build UUIDs before database queries to prevent invalid NaN/null lookups and related errors.

Feature: Redesigned public builds and collections with compact horizontal cards, responsive one/two-column layouts, and an at-a-glance equipment row.

Fix: Fixed ability icons by resolving render URLs from localized spell names instead of internal identifiers.

Feature: Restored and redesigned the About, Contact, Terms, Privacy, Battle Reports, and ZvZ pages.

Fix: Fixed production builds so PostCSS development dependencies are retained during deployment.

Feature: Added a Bandit Assault tracker for the Americas, Europe, and Asia servers.

Feature: Shows upcoming windows and live countdowns in UTC and your local time zone.

Feature: Includes event probabilities and phase details to plan your participation.

Fix: Discord and ExitLag panels now show the full message, are clickable, and keep ExitLag visible.

Feature: Builds uses compact columns that prevent gaps between loadouts of different lengths.

Feature: Builds loads more results as you scroll, preserving filters and sort order without manual pagination.

Fix: Mobile Battleboard uses stacked cards with the date, guilds, players, kills, and fame visible.

Fix: The footer now uses the same primary logo as the header.

Fix: Improved hydration and reduced-motion support make navigation and animations more stable.

Feature: Redesigned the complete Albion Battle Hub experience with the Battle Dispatch system across the home page, Battleboard, Builds, guides, markets, players, and tools.

Feature: Refined the header branding with a fully visible, centered Albion Battle Hub emblem.

Maintenance: Aligned the Trending Builds section header with the rest of the home layout on desktop.

Fix: Set Spanish as the root locale so the home page opens in Spanish while /en remains in English.

Feature: Expanded multi-language support to 17 global locales with instant language switching in top navigation.

Feature: Added full native translations for Korean, Japanese, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Arabic, German, French, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Fix: Fixed canonical URLs, hreflang tags, dynamic sitemap indexing, and search parameter exclusion rules across all pages.

Performance: Optimized dynamic i18n middleware routing and server-side locale validation.

Feature: New Gold Price page (/market/gold) featuring real-time price history charts, server switching (Americas, Europe, Asia), and period filtering (24h, 7d, 30d).

Feature: New Premium Prices page (/market/premium) with tier comparison (1, 3, 6, 12 months), savings calculations, and full in-game benefit breakdown.

Feature: New gold and premium price ticker in the top bar, rotating through the Americas, Europe and Asia servers every few seconds.

Feature: Top bar gold and premium ticker is now fully interactive with official game icons, linking directly to their respective market pages.

Feature: Added direct links to 'Gold Price' and 'Premium Price' inside the Explore header dropdown menu.

Feature: The home page now shows the latest battles with a server selector, so you can see recent ZvZ fights at a glance.

Feature: Added a Trending Builds section on the home page featuring the community's most upvoted builds.

Feature: Killboard is now a direct link in the header next to Battleboard, instead of being tucked inside the Explore menu.

Performance: Optimized API caching to reduce server resource usage and keep battle and event data fresh.

Maintenance: Cleaner home page: tighter hero section and uniform, more compact build cards.

Feature: Redesigned navigation: the sidebar is now a top header with centered dropdown menus.

Feature: Live Albion streamers are now shown in a header dropdown.

Feature: Added HOT/NEW badges and distinct icons to the navigation menus.

Fix: Fixed missing abilities in public build cards caused by strict ID matching fails with numeric values from the database.

Feature: Added slot-specific border colors and glow shadows (amber for weapons, purple for helms, cyan for chest armor, green for shoes, silver for capes) to differentiate abilities at a glance.

Fix: Forced active abilities to render on the top row and passives on the bottom row across all equipment slots in build cards.

Fix: Prevents Postgres client pool exhaustion in development mode by caching the client globally and limiting max connections.

Performance: Battle list now loads almost instantly (~5ms) by reading from a PostgreSQL cache instead of hitting the Albion API on every visit.

Feature: New background polling system that fetches battles from all 3 servers every 30 seconds and stores them permanently in the database, accumulating history like AlbionBB.

Feature: 3-tier cache for battle details: in-memory → PostgreSQL → Albion API. After the first visit, subsequent loads are instant.

Feature: You can now search for a guild by typing its name and pressing Enter, without needing to select from the dropdown.

Fix: Fixed duplicate battle fetch on component mount when SSR data is already available.

Performance: Disabled equipment backfill that made 30+ extra API calls per battle, drastically reducing battle detail load times.

Feature: When a guild has 0 cached battles, the system now falls back to the Albion API with sequential page fetching and in-flight deduplication. Results are auto-cached in the database for instant future lookups.

Feature: Guild search now prioritizes exact name matches over similar results, and shows a clear message when a guild is not found on the selected server.

Performance: Reduced initial battle poller from 20 to 6 pages since the Albion API times out beyond offset ~200, improving reliability of background battle ingestion.

Feature: Added an informative banner on the battleboard explaining that battles are cached for performance and history builds up progressively over time.

Performance: Reduced auto-refresh interval from 300s to 60s for a more responsive experience, and added automatic cleanup of battles older than 90 days.

Feature: Added a floating Discord widget on the landing page and a Discord icon link in the footer for community support.

Feature: Added Players count and AVG IP columns to the Alliance and Guild statistics tables on single and multi-battle pages.

Performance: Optimized battleboard performance: parallelized Albion API page fetches, added cache to multi-battle detail, and re-enabled CDN cache for battle lists.

Fix: Fixed admin panel user list: synced username/avatar on re-login, prevented phantom users from duplicate emails, and added pagination with Load More.

Fix: Fixed several security vulnerabilities and strengthened platform protections.

Fix: Created missing player_guild_daily_snapshots and player_guild_history tables in production database, enabling full guild history tracking for player profiles.

Feature: Replaced the header with a persistent sidebar navigation. All links, server status, language switcher, and user menu are now integrated into the sidebar for a cleaner, more spacious layout.

Feature: Added an icon-only collapsed mode for the sidebar. When collapsed, navigation icons remain visible with tooltips for quick access.

Feature: Redesigned the live streamers bar as a floating, rounded pill element at the top of the content area with glassmorphism styling.

Feature: Moved the Updates/Changelog slide-out widget from the left side to the right side so it's no longer hidden behind the sidebar.

Fix: Improved player and guild search reliability by adding automatic retry logic with exponential backoff, reducing cases where searches would fail on the first attempt.

Fix: Fixed guild history to show all guilds a player has been in (not just the current one), using stored daily snapshots from the tracking cron.

Maintenance: Removed the top header bar on desktop. On mobile, a minimal bar with hamburger, logo, and user avatar replaces it.

Performance: Optimized multi-battle data flow and cache usage for faster battle/player search and loading.

Feature: Upgraded Multi-Battle players table with sortable combat metrics, better pagination, cleaner IP=0 display, and larger weapon icons.

Fix: Fixed player links from Multi-Battle so profile and battle stats open with global data instead of selected-battle-only context.

Feature: Added Guild History blocks to player profile and battle stats with global timeline rendering.

Feature: Implemented global daily guild snapshots and history interval tracking to improve day-level accuracy over time.

Fix: Added safe API fallbacks so player pages keep working when guild-history tables are not yet migrated.

Maintenance: Moved Guild History into Explore navigation and fixed duplicate-key issues in header mappings.

Maintenance: Redesigned floating Discord and Changelog widgets with smoother motion and a more compact footprint.

Feature: Massive responsive layout improvements across the entire Dashboard (Kills, Battles, Regears, Spawns, Events, and Super Admin Panel) for mobile screens.

Fix: Fixed the 403 Forbidden error that prevented Super Admins from managing Spawns, Events, and Regears without being in a guild.

Feature: Added a dedicated Guides section in navigation and expanded the guide index with new reference pages.

Feature: Added the Black Market guide with core flow, FAQ, and a direct link to the Crafting Calculator.

Feature: Added the Shapeshifter Transformations guide with 8 forms and full stat blocks.

Fix: Fixed Discord widget total members by using dynamic invite detection with a safe fallback.

Maintenance: Moved Changelog out of Explore and exposed it as a dedicated widget-style entry in the header.

Feature: New Tool: Loot Split Calculator - Effortlessly split your haul with party members matching in-game mechanics with repair fees, tax margins, and role percentages. Export a detailed receipt image for Discord.

Feature: New Tool: Albion Render API Browser - An interactive explorer to find and generate exact URLs for any 2D sprite or 3D render in the game.

Fix: Fixed a critical layout collapsing bug resulting in black images when exporting 2D build cards or player stats to your clipboard.

Feature: Item quality indicators now display on the kills page — items show their quality border (bronze, silver, gold) directly from the Albion render API

Feature: Added complete Faction Warfare Hub with 6 informative tools

Feature: Added Faction Overview with global mechanics, locations, and unique colors

Feature: Added Standing Calculator and full table with all 21 ranks and prestige titles

Feature: Added Red Zone Events tracker with phases, spawn schedules, and weapon cache buffs

Feature: Added Fortress Fights mechanics, siege timelines, and defense point systems

Feature: Added Points Calculator detailing group size bonuses and PvE activity multipliers

Feature: Added Campaign Tracker showcasing daily rewards and faction chest milestones

Fix: Fixed battle statistics limit where only 100 kills were shown. Now paginates through events to show 100% of kills, damage, and healing.

Fix: Fixed visual issue where damage and healing amounts showed multiple decimal places instead of clean integers.

Fix: Fixed special off-hand items (Sarcophagus, Timelocked Grimoire, Facebreaker) being listed under Weapons instead of Off-Hand

Fix: Fixed dashboard spawns guild context lookup using the session guildId/guildRole

Feature: Added /api/proxy-image endpoint to proxy trusted external item images

Maintenance: Expanded sitemap with Builds, Changelog, Features, and Tools routes

Fix: Added missing empty-state subtitle in Spawn Tracker translations

Fix: Improved dark-mode visibility for native select and option elements

Feature: Added automatic regear cost estimation on battle pages

Feature: Implemented multi-language support for Discord webhooks

Fix: Fixed permission check for Super Admins creating regears/events

Fix: Fixed the 'View Death' link URL in Discord notifications

Fix: Fixed off-hand items appearing incorrectly in the Weapons category

Fix: Removed furniture banner items from off-hand lists

Feature: Added guild filter to the battle players table

Performance: Optimized battle detail page loading speed (cache, timeout, fewer requests)

Fix: Removed battlemount data from equipment breakdown due to inaccurate API data

Fix: Resolved 504 image errors and build creation crashes

Fix: Improved battlemount detection for accurate killboard stats

Feature: Added the new Mounts Database tool

Feature: Added comprehensive guide for Smuggler's Dens

Feature: Reorganized navigation into a beautiful grouped mega-menu

Feature: Added complete Farming and Mounts raising guides

Feature: Added animated Discord Giveaway banner in the header

Feature: Prepared platform for Google AdSense integration

Feature: Improved blog layout and reading experience

Feature: Added automated guild member synchronization tool

Fix: Fixed guild member search functionality

Fix: Added noindex tags to player/guild pages to optimize SEO crawler budgets

Fix: Fixed regear linking on the killboard pages

Feature: Added clickable YouTube video thumbnails to build pages

Feature: Redesigned build filters, tags, and category layouts

Feature: Added expandable floating interactive buttons

Feature: Translated landing page features and updated value props

Fix: Resolved React Server Component hydration conflicts

Fix: Fixed Stoneskin potions being hidden by generic vanity filters

Fix: Added missing off-hand weapons like Cryptcandle to DB

Performance: Optimized Neon DB queries to reduce JSONB payload sizes

Fix: Restored guild search functionality on battle pages

Maintenance: Updated dynamic OpenGraph social sharing images