Brighter Leek #25

Posted November, 24 2025

Welcome to the 25th edition of The Brighter Leek.

It looks like everyone enjoyed their time as part of the maintenance crew in our latest quest. Good job to all you newbies out there for making it back in one piece!

Over the last fortnight most of the team continued to work hard to get the Milestones update ready for a beta test early next year. At the same time Rod and Paul are working on creating more quests for you to enjoy, and James B, Lewis and James T worked on the Christmas 2025 event.

Milestones

It's time for some details on the changes to the Woodcutter and Carpenter professions coming in the Milestones update.

Woodcutter:

• We are adding teak trees, which are used to make teak planks in Carpenter and are available in milestone 0.
• We are adding mahogany trees, which are used to make mahogany planks in Carpenter and are unlocked by reaching milestone 1.
• We are adding cypress trees, which are used to make pufferfish boxes in Carpenter and are unlocked by reaching milestone 2.
• Ash trees are now unlocked by reaching milestone 1, and ash logs are used exclusively for crafting shields in Bonewright.
• New shortcuts are being added to Hopeforest, with each shortcut being blocked by a different kind of bramble. Each woodcutter milestone you reach unlocks one new bramble shortcut.
• Passive woodcutting now uses new species of trees, instead of using the same trees as active woodcutting. The new species are hornbeam, elder, acacia, linden and maple.
• The appearance of ash trees is being adjusted to make their leaves the correct shape.
• We are shifting and replaced various trees in Hopeforest to make space for all the new trees.

Carpenter:

• We are adding teak planks, which are used in Builder and are available in milestone 0.
• We are adding mahogany planks, which are used in Builder and are unlocked by reaching milestone 1.
• We are adding pufferfish boxes, which are used in Fisher and are unlocked by reaching milestone 2.
• Passive carpenter items are being adjusted to be made from the 5 new kinds of branches.

As you can see, in both these professions we are saving some activities for later milestones, so leveling up is more rewarding.

Launch Schedule

The Christmas 2025 event is scheduled to launch on the week commencing 1st December 2025.
The Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest is scheduled to launch on the week commencing 12th January 2026.

What we've been working on this fortnight.

Technical Team

Andrew (Bossy Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Coding for bounty rarities and bountiful milestones.
• Milestones - Adding a way for players to (optionally) auto select foe packs when first logging in after the Milestones update.
• Milestones - Designing and coding a new profession equipment mechanic.

James B (Legendary Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Coding bramble improvements.
• Fixes for the Mine of Mantuban 4 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Designing a new profession equipment mechanic.
• Coding for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Preparing this Brighter Leek.
• Reading and replying to support requests and customer emails.

Ian (Multipurpose Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Mapping Hopeforest (new bramble shortcuts and new trees).

Content Team

Paul (Hairy Leek) has been working on:

• Coding for the Mine of Mantuban 7 ⭐️ quest.

Steve (Lanky Leek) has been working on:

• Coding for the Mine of Mantuban 4 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Coding for the Filtration Station minigame.

Rod (Charred Leek) has been working on:

• Coding for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.

Graphics Team

Nic (Cactus Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Miner (duraben) and Leatherworker (boar hides and upholstery) meshes and materials.
• Milestones - Combat foe skins.
• Graphics for this Brighter Leek.

Greg (Laid Back Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Botanist inventory icons, Woodcutter inventory icons, Carpenter inventory icons.
• Splash art for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Graphics for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Graphics for this Brighter Leek.

Lewis (Sloth Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Graphics for the new Leatherworker book binding passive activity.
• Graphics for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.
• Graphics for the Christmas 2025 event.

James T (Jimmy Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Graphics for the new Blacksmith making horseshoes passive activity.
• Graphics for the Christmas 2025 event.

Alex (Octo Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Graphics for the new Detective passive activity.
• Milestones - Combat foe skins.

Audio Team

Joe (Crunchy Leek) has been working on:

• Audio and particles for the Mine of Mantuban 4 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Alchemist (new potions) and Leatherworker (book binding) audio and particles.
• Audio and particles for the Christmas 2025 event.
• A new global music track.

Daniel has left Fen Research for personal reasons. We wish him all the best in the future.

Infographics

The major features of Project Milestone are:

Botanist

• A new profession that replaced Gatherer.

Milestones

• A better structure for leveling up, based around reaching a milestone every 50 levels, with a new XP curve to match.
• Adjusts the level of repeated (i.e. reskinned) activities, such that there are no repeated activities within a milestone (and therefore there are no repeated activities within the first 50 levels of a profession).
• Milestone unlocks, such as new activities, bounties, world events and dungeons, which deliver meaningful rewards for reaching a milestone.
• New activities in many professions.

Bounties for all professions

• Bonus objectives, which add variety when leveling up.
• Rare bounties will sometimes appear, which give better rewards, but appear less frequently on the bounty board.

World events

• A repeating calendar of multiplayer events.

Dungeons for all professions

• Solo and multiplayer excursions into unexplored regions of Adothria.
• Remixes the profession in a whole new way, adding more options for leveling up.

Minigames

• Unique activities that give you a new way to level up the profession.

Fen Research Team

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