Fallen London Wiki:Updates and changes

Technical and more impactful changes to the wiki's systems and content for more immersed editors.

"For when you don't want to comb the Recent Changes."

The sections are weekly. The current date is 2024-11-05.

Significant changes in the game itself can be found on the Fallen London Timeline.

Changes in previous years can be found on their subpages (2022, 2023).

News format and content guideline →

What belongs here? Any major changes of public interest in wiki infrastructure. Not so good additions: minor things related to one article ("I fixed a typo", "ID") plans for things yet to happen Good additions (non-exhaustive): "The guide XY has been rewritten and updated for new grinds" "Template Z now has a new parameter, which does the following: ..." "Template/Property A has been created/retired" "We now have completely covered piece of content Aleph"

General format The list isn't updated once per week. Add changes any time! Anyone can add an update. Normally the contributors themselves would record it, but if you feel something's missing feel free to add it! Feel brave to add stuff! It's better to removes things later than to miss potentially important info! The sections use weekly breaks. Simple but informative. Brevity and clarity! It's not necessary to date the changes beyond the weekly section. Naming the contributor also isn't mandatory but is accepted (e.g. if you wish to thank somebody) Sub-headers Technical and Game-related should be self-explanatory. If you find something not fitting in either, don't hesitate to use a more fitting one!

Week of 2024-10-07

Current week

Technical

• Module:SEO utilities is created, improving SEO descriptions for storylets/cards/actions with variant text descriptions.

Week of 2024-09-30

Game Related

• The third chapter of Firmament is released and documented.

Week of 2024-08-26

Game Related

• This year's Estival, The Sixth Coil, ends.

Technical

• Module:GainLoss now implements {{Gain}} and {{Loss}} in Lua.
• Module:Truncate has been rewritten for more accurate truncation of text over the character limit, no longer letting ignored characters push out characters that were within the limit.

Week of 2024-07-29

Game Related

• This year's Estival, The Sixth Coil, begins.

Technical

• Restructured Experimental Object variant text records and filled in all currently-known missing levels. A complete list of lab variant text locations and requirements, now fully accurate, can be found at Category:Experimental Object Text Uses.

Week of 2024-07-22

Game Related

• A new expansion to The Stacks is documented

Technical

• New template: Template:AS, which resolves a value of Apocrypha Sought: to a description and shows it on mouse-over, similar to Template:EO.
• New variant text templates: Template:Reputation and Template:Profession text
• All templates for linking variant text inside game quotes are now categorized in Category:Variant text templates

Week of 2024-07-15

Game Related

• The last of the historical in-game announcements is added to the wiki, bringing Category:Announcements up to date

Week of 2024-07-08

Game Related

• The Midnight Trade (Guide) is written for the second new activity added in Firmament chapter 2

Technical

• Character counting in descriptions is updated to no longer count newlines as characters
• Template:ActivitySummary is updated to include Stuivers per action
• Template:Ask is added, to allow for linking to link-parameter-generated SMW query pages like item gains and losses pages

Week of 2024-07-01

Game Related

• The second chapter of Firmament is documented, with The Stacks (Guide) being written for a new activity added therein

Technical

• Character counting in descriptions is updated to no longer count formatting HTML tags
• Module:Truncate is also updated so that the special tag <span data-truncate="ignore> can be used to exclude templates from the character count

Week of 2024-06-24

Game Related

• The new intermittent opportunity to purchase advanced ships is documented

Technical

• Pre-crash image histories are mostly restored
• Template:RatKetBuying is created
• Module:IL is added, replicating the functionality of Template:IL in Lua

Week of 2024-06-17

Game Related

• Baroque! is updated to reflect an unexpected description change after years of being retired
• Updates to The Rat Market (Guide) continue

Week of 2024-06-10

Game Related

• Impossible Theorem (Guide) is added

Week of 2024-06-03

Game Related

• The new Horticulture activity is documented, and Vertiginous Horticulture (Guide) is written for it
• Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Tutorial is added

Technical

• Template:Menace is updated to accept a new Quality type parameter, to account for Attracting Attention in the Orphanage

Week of 2024-05-27

Technical

• Staging returns, allowing for testing of larger changes

Game Related

• New Rat Market system begins to be documented

Week of 2024-05-06

Technical

• New template: Template:ExpiringSoon
• New template: Template:Announcement

Game Related

• New Whitsun items and options are documented

Week of 2024-04-29

Game Related

• The new Living World Event, The Lorn-Fluke's Fury, is documented

Week of 2024-04-22

Technical

• The UrlGetParameters extension is added to the wiki, allowing for significantly shorter URLs for semantic-query-based pages
• The Graph extension is removed for security reasons

Week of 2024-04-15

Game Related

• The new Adornment, Luggage and Crew items are documented
• The first chapter of Firmament is recorded

Week of 2024-04-08

Game Related

• The prologue to Firmament is recorded

Week of 2024-03-18

Technical

• Template:Item, Template:ItemList and other item templates are updated in anticipation of the announced Firmament slots and qualities

Week of 2024-03-11

Game Related

• The new Living World event, A Ghost Ship in Port, is recorded

Week of 2024-03-04

Technical

• Fallen London Wiki:Patch Tracking is added to track progress on documenting larger patch notes

Week of 2024-02-26

Game Related

• The new Hearts' Game content is recorded

Week of 2024-01-29

Game Related

• An Intimate of Devils and Selling Your Soul (Guide) is added

Week of 2024-01-22

Game Related

• A Panther's Progress (Guide) added