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News, patch notes, strategy and lore from the realm of DarkThrone — the free necromantic browser war game.

🔧 Update Two Weeks Into the Gold Era: What Shipped Clearer buildings (and what is still unresolved), a fairer assassinate roll, battle log exports, and 18 accounts suspended across two multi-account rings. Oct 19, 2026 🔧 Update Gold Era Begins: Season Reset, 8 Races, Full Rebalance The season reset is live: 8 races, 10-level buildings, fairer prices, combat fixes, and OGAC now watching. Welcome to the Gold Era. Oct 1, 2026 👥 Community The DTG Board Is Live: A Forum For Everyone Not Only Discord About 7 in 10 of you have never linked Discord, so most of the playerbase never saw the conversations that shaped the game. There is now a forum inside it. Sep 20, 2026 🔧 Update Forts Bite Back: Repair Timers, Siege Scaling, Lost Attacks Fort repairs now run on a timer instead of finishing instantly, the Siege Workshop finally matters for sabotage, and losing an attack still chips the fort. Sep 19, 2026 🔧 Update Salvage Funds & Casualty Rework Selling now pays into Salvage Funds, spendable but never withdrawable. Casualties scale with your whole army, so training defence no longer raises losses. Sep 19, 2026 🔧 Update Major Update — Units, Buildings, Gear & Battle Upgrades Every unit line reaches Tier 5, each building has one job, and all gear moved to the Armory. Battle upgrades gained two tiers; over-tier gear was refunded. Jul 24, 2026 🔧 Update DTG Patch Re-Cap 6 Weeks of BETA Six weeks, 60 deploys, ~50 fixes: a twice-overhauled fort, a rebuilt casualty formula, the new anti-camp shield, plus some frankly obscene engagement numbers. May 12, 2026 📜 General Alpha Is Ending — DarkThrone Beta Begins April 1 DarkThrone Alpha is ending and Beta begins April 1st — with a full game reset to launch the new era. Here's everything you need to know before the wipe. Mar 23, 2026 👥 Community OLDSKOOL-GAMING: Release Lord Of Chains - Version 2.0 Lord of Chains 2.0 is live — a dark-fantasy text-based MMORPG of armies, souls and betrayal, with deep PvP, espionage, clan warfare and a soul-driven economy. Mar 14, 2026 👥 Community Oldskool-Gaming Release: Mafia Empire Mafia Empire Alpha is open. Run crimes, take missions, train your stats and build your power — carve out a reputation from the ground up in this crime MMO. Mar 8, 2026 👥 Community DTG Update — Clan Overhaul, Combat FAQ & New Bot Commands Massive clan system overhaul, combat & XP FAQ, new Discord bot commands for fort management and clan leaderboards. Feb 24, 2026 📜 General News 06-02-26 — Discord Bot, Combat, Clans & More 500K citizens recruited, 60K battles fought, and growing. New: Discord auto-recruiting, combat updates, espionage, clans, economy — plus a Reddit endorsement. Feb 6, 2026 ⚔️ Event Greetings, Warriors — Welcome to DarkThrone As 2026 begins, thank you for being part of this journey. Whether you joined on day one or yesterday, you're now part of the DarkThrone legacy. Jan 8, 2026 👥 Community Dark Throne: Join the Community on Discord The Dark Throne rebuild is being developed in the open — join the OG - Oldskool Gaming Discord to discuss the project in dedicated Dark Throne channels. Dec 14, 2025 🔧 Update Built by the Community, Developed by the OG Team The Dark Throne rebuild is a passion project by the Oldskool Gaming (OG) team — longtime fans of the original, not a corporate reboot. Dec 14, 2025 📜 General Dark Throne: The Classic Browser MMO Lives Again Dark Throne, the browser strategy MMO loved for 17 years by tens of thousands of players, is being revived by a passionate team of fans. A new chapter begins. Dec 14, 2025

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