Editing Changelog (section)

== v0.55.18 — Excavations Reach The Contract Board ==
* '''Digs were invisible to the bounty board.''' The whole fossil chain — maps, crates, skulls, the [[Museum]] — sat outside the Fang Mark economy that every other activity in the valley feeds. [[Delving]] had ONE contract in thirty-three, and the board had no way to even see an excavation.
* '''Two new writs.''' The [[Excavation]] Writ wants six digs dug out; the Deep Survey Writ wants twelve. Both are gated on [[Delving]], so they never deal to someone with no maps and one slot, and both are sized to the 12-hour rotation rather than to a cave's tempo — twelve is 38% of what four slots can dig on the slowest ground in the game, which leaves room for the manual collect every find needs.
* THEY COUNT WHEN YOU DIG THE FIND OUT, not when the timer ends. A dig that finished while you were away is parked in its slot and has not counted yet — the same line the Excavator track and the toast have always drawn.
* '''And two bounties were gated on the wrong skill entirely.''' The Delver's Writ has been gated on EXPEDITIONS since v0.25: it dealt to players who had never lit a torch, and withheld itself from delvers whose [[Expeditions]] lagged. The Harvest Writ was gated on [[Taming]], copied from the Tamer's Writ beneath it. Both now gate on the skill they actually ask for, and a new rule ties every bounty's gate to its subject so a third one cannot happen quietly.