Fallen London Wiki:Updates and changes/2023

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 2024-11-21.

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

Changes in 2022 can be found on a subpage.

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 2023-12-18

Game Related

• The Whisker-Ways (Guide) added

Technical

• Advanced spoilers added to Template:Storylet
• Concept:Hearts' Game added

Week of 2023-12-04

Technical

• Template:Move now has a parameter for moving settings

Week of 2023-11-27

Game Related

• New Woesel cards documented

Week of 2023-11-20

Game Related

• Profile page changes documented

Technical

• Template:Gf and Template:Gi added

Week of 2023-11-13

Game Related

• Lifeberg Shepherd's Wash content documented

Technical

• Template:Places now allows for fixed hand sizes other than 3

Week of 2023-11-06

Game Related

• Tracklayer's City teaser documented
• Hearts' Game: Season of Irreverences documented

Technical

• Template:HG added

Week of 2023-10-23

Game Related

• Hallowmas begins; new companions documented and Hallowmas (Guide) updated

Week of 2023-10-16

Game Related

• New Guide: Barristering at Evenlode (Guide)
• Tears, Sphinxstone, and Limestone, the Waswood season for the Prelapsarian Exhibition, is documented

Week of 2023-10-09

Technical:

• Template:Item Effects Converted to Lua

Game Related:

• Railroad update, including banners, court cases, Burrow expansion, and Library expansion.
• All Activity Guides now include an activity summary.

Week of 2023-09-25

Technical

• Shifting Streets added to Template:World Qualities Box and to front page.

Game Related

• Shifting Streets event begins on 9/26/2023.
• New Guide Living World Events#Shifting Streets

Week of 2023-09-18

• Category:Fifth City Stories added.

Week of 2023-09-11

Technical

• Template:ActivitySummary created as a replacement for the lost Carousel Action Summary.
• Update of Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide)/Item Comparison for new Fruits

Week of 2023-09-04

Game Related

• Forgotten Quarter Expeditions (Guide) reorganized
• Hearts' Game Expansion
• New guide: Family and Law (Guide)
• Hearts' Game (historical) made to document hearts' game seasons.
• New Guide: Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide)
• Fruits of the Zee Begins, revamped.

Week of 2023-08-28

Technical

• Max Equipment Bonuses guide menaces updated to SMW format.
• Concept:Ambition: Bag a Legend! added

Game Related

• New Guide: Deeper Discordant Studies (Guide)
• New Guide: Ambition: Enigma (Guide)

Week of 2023-08-21

Technical

• New Template: Template:Docking
• New Template: Template:Item Comparison
• New Template: Template:ItemUsesGuide For the eventual Item Uses Guides

Game Related

• The London Horticultural Show (historical) officially ends.
• New Guide: The Mind of a Long-Dead God (Guide)
• New Guide: Exceptional Stories and other Fate-locked content (Guide)/Rewards Comparison

Week of 2023-08-14

Technical

• Template:Audience updated to be more granular as per pre-crash discussion.

Game Related

• Updated Guide: Mr Chimes' Lost & Found (Guide)
• All Guides brought current to pre-crash.
• Cut off for starting The London Horticultural Show (historical). Players can begin it still end it until 8-21.

Week of 2023-08-07

Game Related

• Finale of The London Horticultural Show (historical). Players can begin it still til 8-14, and end it until 8-21.

Week of 2023-07-31

Technical

• Ongoing efforts to restore the wiki. Backfilling continues for any content between 2023-03 and the current week.
• Content from this year's Estival, The London Horticultural Show, slowly filling in.

Game Related

• The London Horticultural Show (historical) begins.
• New Guide: Estival (Guide)
• New Guide: The London Horticultural Show (Guide)

Week of 2023-07-24

Technical

• Ongoing efforts to restore the wiki. Backfilling continues for any content between 2023-03 and the current week.

Game Related

• (Re-)completion of an overhaul to Summer festivals/Item comparison, just in time for this year's Estival.

Week of 2023-07-17

Technical

• On 2023-07-23, 10:47 UTC, the FL wiki discord reports that the wiki is down due to a hard drive failure.

Game Related

• FBG relaxed the spoiler policy for Seeking Mr Eaten's Name, Discordant Studies, Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold, Where You and I Must Go, and Ambition: Enigma, allowing public discussion on official channels and creation of wiki pages of their content.

Week of 2023-07-10

Technical

• Template:Carousel Action Summary, Template:Carousel and Template:Inline Carousel Summary added. Many guides updated.

Game Related

• Category:Boon expanded to new boons.
• The Great Crate Commotion again, with Constables and Revolutionaries this time.

Week of 2023-07-03

Game Related

• Menace items updated to new system.
• Noise depreciated.

Week of 2023-06-19

Game Related

• New Guide: Irem (Guide)
• Launch of Irem
• Final Chapter of Evolution (Guide)

Week of 2023-06-05

Technical

• The stats granted by bones are now stored as [Semantic properties] (TODO fix link) and can be queried. See Category:Bone Info for the full list.

Game Related

• New guide: Academic Uses (Guide)

Week of 2023-05-29

Technical

• New template: {{Aw}}, a counterpart to {{Af}} and {{Ai}}, for the cases when you're addressed in writing. At least a few titles have unique forms.

Week of 2023-05-22

Game Related

• New Guide: Hellworm (Guide)

Week of 2023-05-15

Technical

• Removed categories that were once used to track the changes in festivals year from year. The function is now fulfilled by the appropriate historical pages.
• The festival banners now link to the guides not the category pages, if one is present
• Added a table for zee-menaces at a glance to Zailing (Guide).
• New guide: Summer festivals/Item Comparison

Game Related

• Hunter's Keep dramatic tension changed to Hunter's Insight

Week of 2023-05-08

Game Related

• Added several new skeleton recipes to Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Recipes, including recipes for Generator Skeletons, efficient Echo to Hinterland Scrip conversion, and Khaganian Coinage arbitrage.
• Added updates to Money-Making to reflect recent content of Hearts’ Game and Professional Activities.
• New Guide: Jack-Of-Smiles (Guide)
• Removed possibly variable Zailing... increase messages for clarity. The static Zailing Speed/2 messages were also removed for more uniform formatting.
• New Guide: Whitsun (Guide)/Item Overview, to make it easier to comb through Whitsun items.
• New (mini-)guide: Mr Chimes' Lost & Found (Guide), for a review on Mr Chimes' items.

Week of 2023-05-01

Game Related

• The penultimate chapter of Evolution dropped and was recorded.
• New Guide: Weekly Activity Checklist

Week of 2023-04-24

Game Related

• Ambition: Heart's Desire (Guide) completed.

Week of 2023-04-17

Game Related

• New Guide: Menace Locations (Guide)
• New Guide: Handsome Townhouse: Schemes (Guide)

Week of 2023-04-10

Technical

• The wiki now aims to match the game's base value for narrow challenges (50% instead of 60%). Just about all of the relevant action & guide pages have been adjusted, though there's likely other places in need of correction too.

Game Related

• New Guide: Engaged in a Case (Guide)
• A Scholar of the Correspondence (Guide) Refactored and updated.
• New POSI activity and guide Hearts' Game (Guide)

Week of 2023-04-03

Technical

• Module:Challenge's Narrow challenge section now has a "scaller" parameter for when quality = diff is not 60%, e.g. Aboard the Delight actions. ({{ChallengeSection}} and {{Action}} modified accordingly.)
• New Gadget: LoreWikiCite, to add a citation generating interface at the top the right sidebar, to be used on the Fifth City wiki.
• New template: {{Splitmerge}}, used to clarify that a page on the wiki isn't precisely mimicking its in-game counterpart. Links to the page below.
• New technical page: Fallen London Wiki:Structural Disparities
• {{IL}} now has a "Small" parameter, forcing the linked file to use its "small.png" version.
• {{Requirement}} made to use the small versions of icons, like the game does.

Game Related

• Added the retooled Watchful WYN parts.
• New Mechanic Section: Profile

Week of 2023-03-27

Technical

• New module: Module:SacroboscanTimes to generate future time-ranges for events in The Sacroboscan Calendar (Guide).
• {{World Qualities Box}} now properly maintains two-column layout in "Current World Events" section when the number of active events varies.
• For April fools' day the Liberation of Night spooks the visitors!
• New technical page: Fallen London Wiki:Statistics

Game Related

• New Guide: Shroom-Hopping (Guide)
• Expanded Living World Events#The Great Crate Commotion and Living World Events#The Great Crate Commotion sections.
• New Guide: Diving in the Magistracy (Guide)
• New Mechanic Section: Airs
• Railway Board (Guide) expanded.
• New Guide: Mr. Wines' Revels (Guide)

Week of 2023-03-20

Game Related

• New Guide: Twilit Smuggler (Guide)
• Investigating (Guide) expanded.
• Fascinating (Guide) expanded.
• Arbor (Guide) expanded.
• Term Passing... (Guide) expanded.
• Cave of the Nadir (Guide) expanded analysis.

Week of 2023-03-13

Technical

• New template: {{Game Events}} to display current and upcoming events on the main page.
• New property: Property:Carousel type for experimenting with small carousel embedding. Not yet deployed. (Additionally, Property:Amount, Property:Item, Property:Item, Property:Carousel actions, Property:Carousel name and Property:Has carousel action summary.)
• New template: {{Shrug}} for when the math is fluid still.

Game Related

• New Guide: The Temple Club (Guide)
• New Guide: Defender of Public Safety (Guide)
• New Guide: Piracy (Guide)
• Casing (Guide) expanded with tables.
• The Piracy update has been recorded ("Become a Corsair!") alone with the fifth chapter of Evolution.
• Max Equipment Bonuses now lists hopefully all special qualities.

Week of 2023-03-06

Game Related

• New Guide: Hunting the Beasts of the Zee (Guide)
• New Guide: Alchemy at Station VIII (Guide)
• New "Guide": Active Access Codes
• New Guide: Department of Menace Eradication (Guide)
• Attending a Party (Guide), The Nibbles Tray retired per update. (New one at Heavily Entitled.)
• Work in your Cabinet Noir (Guide) split into Deciphering (Guide) and Disappearing (guide)

Week of 2023-02-20

Game-related

• Finished a mostly comprehensive sweep of early game changes introduced over the last month. (Primarily the work of User:Vanila and User:TFF)

Week of 2023-02-13

Game-related

• The fourth chapter of Evolution now reflects all instances where Evolution Content Toggle affects the displayed text.

Week of 2023-02-06

Technical

• {{Property listing}} and {{Property category}} switched to safe separators.

Game-related

• Factions (Guide) now features a Renown Storylets section.
• FEAST OF THE ROSE story developments recorded.
• Money-Making/Midgame readjusted.
• The stories of the Missionary and the Firebrand now fully reflect the changes made to them in January.

Week of 2023-01-30

Game-related

• New guide: The Season in Soup (Guide)
• Recorded storylets related to FEAST OF THE ROSE including the new On the Scent of the Exceptional Rose story (and updated actions in accordance to the new mechanical-effects-of-fate-locked-items policy).

Technical

• Truncation is now a module, and ignores {{af}} and {{ai}}.
• New template: {{DuchessArtefacts}}, connects articles relevant for Dove Mask Shard etc.
• New template: {{Specialisation}} for T3 profession specialisations.
• Feast of the Rose (Guide) tables moved to subpages.
• New template: {{Ai}}, informal variant of {{Af}}.

Week of 2023-01-23

Technical

• Top comments of the wiki can now be seen at Fallen London Wiki:Top comments.

Game-related

• Added a section for An Intimate of Devils on An Intimate of Devils and Selling Your Soul (Guide).
• Recorded content on Mrs Chapman's Boarding House for Those Who Temporarily Have Nowhere Else To Go.

Week of 2023-01-16

Technical

• New border colour, "lighblue" for onboarding category in {{Card}} and {{Storylet}}. (Social engagements update)

Game-related

• New Guide: Tournament of Lilies (Guide)
• Parabolan Hunting (Guide) - Expanded to cover parabolan destinations, since they follow the same sequence.
• Content related to Delighted dreams has been recorded and added to some guides.
• Guides table-ified.
• Social engagement tutorial content recorded.

Week of 2023-01-09

Technical

• {{Faction}} can now also show Connected sources and uses, code cleaned up.
• {{GuideNeedsWork}}'s reason can now optionally be collapsed.

Game-related

• Raising Favours (Guide) converted to tables.
• Raising Connections converted into tables. Each faction separated into its own page.
• Calling in Favours (Guide) Added Connections.
• Parabolan War (Guide) gains Chessboard section.
• Inspired (Guide) - converted to tables.
• Attending a Party (Guide) - updated, table added and restructured.
• Seeking (Guide) - Restructured
• New guide: Tales of Mahogany Hall (Guide)
• Living World Events now has a record of previous living world events
• New guide: Master-Classes in Etiquette (Guide)

Week of 2023-01-02

Technical

• {{Item}} now has its own Wiki Note parameter.

Game-related

• New guide: Work in your Cabinet Noir (Guide)
• Cleaned up PoSI Item Crafting, cross linked guides where appropriate and lowered future upkeep burden.
• Christmas (Guide) gains notes on ToL gain strategy.
• Opportunity Items (Guide) now lists all associated content.