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Technical Issues Overnight

Last night there were technical issues with the skill. These have now been resolved. Resources that would have been produced during the downtime have been credited and the forest has been reopened. Trade requests will need to be resubmitted as most of them will have expired. We appreciate your un...

Achievements Instead of Milestones – Starting Season 16

With Season 16, the previous level milestones will be replaced by a new system: Achievements. Many of you appreciated milestones as an important source of diamonds and arrow makers – we know that. That’s why we’re not simply removing them, but evolving them into something more dynamic. From no...

Knight Manager API – Launching with Season 16

With Season 16, we are launching the official Knight Manager API – an extension for testers, power players, and curious tinkerers. The API allows selected game data to be accessed programmatically. It is designed as a playground and optional extra and provides no gameplay advantage. Access is...

Name Restrictions – Update

Thank you for the many responses regarding character names. Based on the received feedback, the existing rules have been adjusted. From now on, only titles that are earnable or purchasable in the game will be blocked. All other names are allowed again....

NEW from Season 16: Order Sponsor Bonus

Noble Knights, starting with Season 16, loyalty to your Order will be rewarded more than ever. Players who regularly contribute to order buildings will now receive personal bonuses based on their individual share of the weekly donations. Shrine of Luck Your share of gold donations increases ...

Update on Alexa Plus & Classic Alexa

We received the following information directly from our contacts and would like to share it with you: There is currently a known issue with mobile text input in the Alexa app. The responsible teams are already working on it and looking for a solution. If you would like to switch back from Alex...

New weekly events are coming!

In Season 16, mysterious forces will sweep through the kingdom. Every Monday, the Forest Spirits and Battle Spirits awaken and grant special power to selected abilities. Forest Spirits’ Blessing. The spirits of the forest observe which hunting skills are neglected by the knights. The two least-u...

First Changes Coming in the Next Season

As we prepare for the next season, we’ve started improving core game mechanics to make them more stable and future-proof. One of the first areas we focused on is the dragon fight. The fight against the dragon is now handled using the AudioPlayer system, just like dungeon battles. This has two majo...

Reworked Healing System in the Dark Forest

We have completely redesigned and centralized the healing system in the Dark Forest. This gives us far better control over who heals whom, when healing occurs, and which conditions must be met. One of the first improvements affects your tag-team partner: If your partner is able to heal and is in...

Change to the Advent Calendar

Today, on December 8th, the Advent calendar will be updated one last time at 12 PM as usual. Starting tomorrow, the update will then take place at 12 AM midnight German time every day....

Dungeon System Update – Stability Greatly Improved

Over the past few days, we’ve been working intensively on the dungeon logic, fixing several issues and even rewriting some core processes from scratch. Since then, we’ve completed over 200 dungeon runs without a single hang or delay – a very promising sign! We’re confident that we’ve identified a...

Alexa Speaks Again!

Good news, Knights! The ongoing issues with Alexa’s voice output have finally been resolved last night (German time). A huge thank you to our community! Thanks to your detailed reports, tests, and feedback, we were able to provide Amazon with the information they needed to identify and fix th...

Status Update

Some players still appear to be receiving occasional silent responses. We’ve therefore moved all sound files to the same endpoint as the skill itself – which allows us to rule out audio URLs as the cause. Requests are processed correctly on our side, but some devices still remain silent from time...

Outages

Hello Knights, yesterday there was a major worldwide outage affecting the infrastructure provider Cloudflare. Many well-known online services were temporarily unreachable or showed error messages – and some of you were unable to use the Knight Manager skill or could only use it in a limited way. ...

Current Situation in the Dungeons

We’d like to give you a quick update regarding the current waiting times in the Dungeons. We’re aware that, especially on certain evenings – most notably on the day when the dungeons reset – waiting times can increase. During those moments, a very large number of groups are trying to enter the dunge...