Fallen London Wiki:2020 Balance Patch

On December 3rd 2020, a major balance patch was applied to the game. The patch touched many areas of the game and fundamentally changed the mechanics of some activities.

The full (and lengthy) patch release notes can be read here.

Following the patch, obviously the documentation on this wiki of many areas of the game has become out of date. The wiki editor community works to find and address these issues. To help us all not forget impacted areas, here's a list of impacted wiki areas to check. If you've fixed something on this list (or have confirmed that it's indeed up to date), please remove from the list.

• Money-Making (Helicon House, but also new cost structure of using Docks Favours for Expedition Supplies)
• Hinterland Scrip-Making (especially around Helicon House)
• Assembling a Skeleton (Guide) (Ivory Humerus value was nerfed, new bones, new bone sources (Bohemian Sculptress card)?)
• Raising Favours (Guide) and Calling in Favours (Guide) (new Favours sources. Note that many notable sources are to be updated on each Favours page individually)
• The individual guides for each Ambition (Ambition Rewards rebalance)
• Publishing a Newspaper (Guide) (Cost - and method to obtain - Whirring Contraptions has changed)
• Searching out a Missing Woman (Guide)
• Doing Business in Wilmot's End (Guide)
• Spending Secrets and Counting the Days (Guide) (new rewards? new options which raise Counting the Days on some cards?)
• Forgotten Quarter Expeditions
• Professions (Guide) and related content - favour payouts
• Item Grinding (Guide) and all tier 3 items (up-converting should no longer cost Favours)
• Opportunity Items (Guide) (need to check. Sulky Bat one definitely needs to be updated)
• The frequencies of Hinterlands Cards need to be confirmed.
• Rewards from all possible statues for all railway stations.