Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.37.17 — Forged Gear Is Worth Forging ==
* '''Forged gear now matches the gear the bosses drop.''' Every blueprint was banded against the smithing armour ladder, which tops out at 13 defense — so a Gloomglass Visor that cost you three Gloomglass Shards and two Abyssal Pearls rolled 9-10 defense, and lost to a Mosslit Crown you can make at [[Delving]] 30. Every armour blueprint in the game was beaten by something ordinary you could just craft. An average cast is now worth the drop-set piece of its own tier: that same Visor rolls 42-55.
* '''Every cast now rolls a quality.''' Common (70%), Fine (24%) or MASTERWORK (6%). A common cast sits just under the drop gear of your tier, a fine one is level with it, and a masterwork beats it outright — the rare craft that is genuinely better than what the boss would have given you. The grade is part of the piece's name, so a Masterwork Gloomglass Visor says so in the locker, in the battle sheet and on the toast.
* THE ★ MEANS SOMETHING AGAIN. Roll bands used to be two or three points wide, so "Perfect Cast" fired on roughly half of all casts. Topping a roll now needs a masterwork AND its best result — about 1 in 80 per stat. It is a trophy, not a coin flip.
* '''Blueprint cards show what they make.''' The twelve forge cards were the last place in the game still drawing an emoji: they showed a hammer or a needle, the same picture for every recipe on the bench. Each card now wears the piece it forges, names it, and says which slot it goes in — and its roll bands spell out the odds for each grade.
* '''Your dinos get the same fix.''' The Sunstride Saddle capped below a plain Skyleather Saddle and the Frostbound Barding lost outright to a Moonstone Barding. Both are now anchored on the top of their own ladder: 13-17 swiftness and 20-26 guard.
* '''Nothing you already forged is lost.''' Pieces in your gear locker are re-scaled onto the new bands by how lucky they were — a piece that sat halfway up its old roll sits halfway up the new one, and anything that topped its roll still tops it.