Brighter Leek #26

Posted December, 8 2025

Welcome to the 26th edition of The Brighter Leek.

The Christmas event is in full swing. Snowballs are flying in every direction, although mostly into Zondrin's snowman, which is slowly growing bigger each day.

Over the last fortnight, the team have been working on Milestones, the Mine of Mantuban 7 ⭐️ quest, the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest, the Blacksmith and Miner minigames, and a quality of life update.

Milestones

We've covered most of the Hopeport, Hopeforest and the Mine of Mantuban professions in previous leeks, which means this leek it is the turn of the Crenopolis professions.

Detective:

• As previously mentioned, crime den foes will no longer have personalized striping, and will instead have a fixed combat level based on the detective level of the crime den.
• We are adding a new 'booking prisoners' passive activity to Detective.
• We are adding a new 'crime maps' passive activity to Detective.
• Wanted poster ventures are now unlocked by reaching milestone 1.

Merchant:

• The grapes and cinnamon ventures are now unlocked by reaching milestone 1.
• The leather offcuts are being grouped into three categories (cow, soft and tough), each of which has its own stall.

Leatherworker:

• We are adding boar leather, which is used in Armorer and is unlocked by reaching milestone 1.
• We are adding a new 'book binding' passive activity to Leatherworker. Like upholstery, book binding does not require any items nor does it fill your backpack, making it easy to set up.

Again, we are saving some activities for later milestones, so leveling up is more rewarding.

Launch Schedule

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 the new profession equipment mechanic.
• Milestones - Past action improvements.

James B (Legendary Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Coding the Blacksmith 'horseshoe forge' passive activity.
• Milestones - Coding the Detective 'crime maps' passive activity.
• Coding for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Coding for the quality of life update.
• Preparing this Brighter Leek.
• Reading and replying to support requests and customer emails.

Ian (Multipurpose Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Mapping Hopeforest.
• Milestones - Mapping Crenopolis (new streets and buildings).
• Mapping for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.

Content Team

Paul (Hairy Leek) has been working on:

• Coding for the Mine of Mantuban 7 ⭐️ quest.
• Descriptions for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Milestones - Coding for the Chaos Mining minigame.

Steve (Lanky Leek) has been working on:

• 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:

• Graphics for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Graphics for the new Detective 'booking prisoners' passive activity.
• Milestones - Profession equipment meshes and materials.
• World events - Graphics planning.
• Graphics for this Brighter Leek.

Greg (Laid Back Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Carpenter inventory icons, Stonemason inventory icons, profession equipment icons.
• Splash art for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.
• Graphics for this Brighter Leek.

Lewis (Sloth Leek) has been working on:

• Graphics for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Combat foe parts (sparring guards, goblins, thieves).

James T (Jimmy Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Graphics for the new Blacksmith 'horseshoe forge' passive activity.
• Graphics for the Christmas 2025 event.
• Milestones - Graphics for the new Blacksmith 'recycling scrap metal' passive activity.

Alex (Octo Leek) has been working on:

• Milestones - Combat foe skins (Mine of Mantuban and Hopeforest).

Audio Team

Joe (Crunchy Leek) has been working on:

• Audio and particles for the Crenopolis 6 ⭐️ quest.
• Milestones - Audio and particles for new activities.
• A new global music track.

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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