Fated and hardcore changes

Professions reset on a life restart. If a Fated or hardcore character dies or abandons a run, their profession ranks, known recipes and recipe-discovery progress now reset with the new life. Before, you came back at level 1 with endgame ranks and every recipe. The abandon-run prompt now lists professions and recipes among what you lose. I recognize this is a significant nerf to professions, bu

Abandoned and ascended runs restart correctly. Ending a run without a recorded death no longer gets treated as a brand-new character. That bug rerolled your stats and could drop you into the world still flagged dead.

Bug fixes

Fated ascension no longer destroys unbound objects. Ascending was wiping every unbound object in the world, including room loads and other players’ unbound gear. Fixed.

Dead hardcore characters no longer cause crashes or mixed-up sockets

when you disconnect from limbo. The old bug could hit whichever character you had just picked next.

Choosing a character whose run has ended no longer crashes the game * when your connection drops at the restart prompt. A dead character left in the void after a linkdead death is also cleaned up before the restart.