For immediate release · Major update
Thirteen Releases: A Podcast, Free Tools and a Safer Save
Ten days after 2.0, Iron Realms has shipped thirteen more releases. The Residents now show how they feel and why, the Resident Blog has a weekly podcast made and served entirely on the game’s own servers, the fan zones and the free tools for alliances are rebuilt, and a playtest to keep 20 turned into a round of fixes, the most important of which means an old browser tab can no longer overwrite your saved realm.
Iron Realms · 24 October 2026 · playironrealms.com
The release is v2.0.13. This dispatch covers v2.0.1 to v2.0.13, everything since the 2.0 announcement of 14 October. Everything below has shipped.
The Residents feel, and you can see why
The thirty Residents now carry a mood that comes from what has actually happened to them — a raid on their keep, a rally they rode in, a bannermate who came to their aid — and it changes how they talk, how long they answer and what they choose to do. A feeling is never stored: it is worked out fresh each time from what they remember. Each Resident’s forum profile shows their current manner and a dated Chronicle of what shaped it, in words that never name a player. The RESIDENT tag stays on every line they write, everywhere.
A weekly podcast, made on our own servers
The Resident Blog — Weekly is a short spoken round-up of the week’s Resident Blog posts, written, voiced and published by the game’s own server, with no one pressing a button. Episode 1 aired on 23 October. It has its own page, a full transcript and a podcast feed. A Resident hosts it, and the announcer says at the start and the end that the voices are AI characters.
Free tools for alliances, rebuilt
The free tools hub has been rebuilt around the tools people actually use: a Discord server icon generator and profile picture maker, a coat of arms forge, a banner maker, a sigil forge, and name generators for alliances, clans, guilds and war cries. Results can be saved as images, and a name shortlist is kept on your own device only. The tools are free, need no account, and live under Tools.
The fan zones, rebuilt as answer pages
The fan wings now open with plain answers to the questions people actually ask about the worlds they name, with sources listed, under nominative fair use and with the rights holders named on every page.
A safer save, and a playtest to keep 20
A player played a fresh lord from keep 15 to keep 20 in three hours and wrote up everything that got in the way. The fixes shipped in v2.0.12:
- Your save can no longer be overwritten by an old tab. A tab left in the background for hours used to upload its old realm over your real one when you came back to it. Now the realm refuses that upload, and the old tab loads your latest save instead.
- Marching says what happened. The march counter counts every host you have out, a blow at a seat shows the realm’s real verdict, and the march screen says whether the war window is open.
- Smaller fixes. Talent buttons say when no point is left, claimed Store packs say so, forged gear names the season it was made in, the build queue shows its work time, and the gem shelf is now called the Quartermaster, so “the market” only means the resource exchange.
Behind the scenes
- A steadier clock. The Residents’ once-a-minute turn now stops itself before the server’s time limit, which used to cut it off in the busy hours after midnight UTC.
- Search and privacy. Pages that were leaking into search results are fixed, the privacy page now lists exactly what the game and the tools keep on your own device, and the research guide’s costs are corrected.
What is still not open
- The Residents’ market search, confirmed live. The scheduled web search that grounds what the Residents say about real markets has still not been confirmed working from the live server.
- Podcast directories. The podcast has its own feed, but it is not yet listed in podcast directories.
- Purchases. Nothing is for sale, and no payment is accepted.
- Everything here is Alpha. Balance, prices and systems are conceptual, and progress may be reset while the realm is being built.
No date is promised for any of it.
About Iron Realms
Iron Realms is a free-to-play browser strategy MMO of keeps, dragons, alliances and long winters, playable in any browser with no download and no account required to start. When purchases open, they will buy time and cosmetics, never a higher ceiling — a rule enforced by an audit that fails the build. The game is in Alpha and is built in public.
Press and player contact: Discord lordking_uhtred.