Idle Forge — The Ultimate Blacksmith Idle RPG

The Tower is finally fought in a scene
Combat used to sit in two cards side by side, half of whose surface was spent drawing a border. There is now a single scene: you on the left, the creature on the right, a backdrop behind you both.

Eight backdrops, one per 50-floor stretch: The Forecourt, The Crypts, The Rust, The Dead Grove, The Molten Flow, The Rime, The Abyss, The Summit. Past floor 400 they loop back, sinking further into the dark.
The monster now walks into frame at the start of each floor, and it is far larger than before — especially on a phone.
Its health bar spans the whole scene; yours moved down against the potion row, where you actually look when deciding to drink.
Wide, low creatures no longer float above the ground: every species now stands on its own feet.
One PvP arena per rank
Combat replays used to run on a bare background. They now run in an arena — yours, the one for your rank, never your opponent’s.

The Pit (Bronze), The Stands (Silver), The Colosseum (Gold), The Crucible (Platinum — a platform above the great forge, the only place you fight without a crowd).
A plate names the arena at the bottom of the screen, in your rank’s colour: crossing a rating threshold is now something you can see.
The guild directory
Every guild carries its tag in front of its name — [LFE] — the same one used in chat, so a guild you meet in chat is recognisable in the directory.
Level, members, power and leader now fit on a single line. Cards are a third shorter, so many more fit on screen.
A search field by name, with a clear button.
The list is paginated by 10 instead of stacking endlessly.
The top three guilds carry a metal seam down their left edge — shown only on the full ranking, never on a search or a country filter, where “first” means nothing.
“Full” no longer looks like a button: it is a state, not an action.

🗼 Infinite Tower
Defence no longer makes you invincible. Tower combat subtracts defence from incoming damage: past a certain point you took exactly one damage per hit, and the record holder was strictly immortal from floor 1 to floor 510, then died 40 floors later. Damage reduction is now capped at 95%. Median progression moves by only 2%, and no record already achieved is lost.
The Tower finally accounts for your critical damage: it applied a flat ×2 regardless of your stat.
🎯 Beginner Objectives
The first-seven-days screen has been fully rebuilt: same stone frames as the rest of the game, the day rail always visible, the claim button always reachable without scrolling, and Escape now closes it. Claiming a reward no longer jumps your selection back to day 1.

🐛 Fixes
Pantheon Unique pets showed their internal id (“fossil_watcher”) instead of their name in the menagerie and in the Tower.
Fusion and evolution result cards: the header broke away from its icon, names spilled out of their slots, and the fusion row overflowed the screen on small phones.
Monthly Challenge end-of-season titles (“Champion — Season 12”) stayed in French in the English client, including permanently in the header.
Happy forging! 🔨

⚒️ Update — Major combat rebalance & the Garnet gem
Aug 24, 2026
Blacksmiths, a big update just landed. It’s mostly about combat — read the balance section, your power score has changed.

💎 New gem — the Garnet
An eighth gem joins the set: the Garnet, which boosts your critical damage. It only drops from epic rarity upwards, and it got its own hand-drawn artwork in the style of the other seven.

🧙 Character sheet
Critical damage is finally displayed, along with the multiplier it produces (×2.75, for example). The tooltip explains which modes it applies to.
Your equipped title is now clickable: one click opens the Titles tab, from the character sheet and from your profile.
Long titles are no longer cut off on mobile.
⚖️ Combat rebalance — please read
The power formula has been reworked. It used to add up a price for each stat, while combat actually multiplies them: defence and health reinforce each other, attack speed has diminishing returns. The result was that a defensive build crushed everything else — 92% wins against 5% for an offensive build at equal investment. That gap is now 18 points across the seven archetypes instead of 87.

In practice:

Your power score has been recalculated. It may go up or down: that’s not a bug, it’s the new model.
Invasion thresholds have been re-indexed to match, so difficulty stays where it was. About 8% of players shift by one level, in both directions.
Initiative no longer counts towards your power score. Measured twice: an all-initiative build won 0.3% of its duels, and adding +30,000 initiative to a real build changed nothing. It keeps its in-game effect (who strikes first).
Critical damage is capped at +300%. Pushed to the extreme, a crit build reached +590% and none of the 28 tactic pairings could bring it below a 55% win rate. A 250% build is still entirely viable — only 2 players out of 1,392 are affected by the cap.

✨ New

- Evolutions — a new tab where you submit your ideas and vote for other players’. Alongside it, the roadmap shows what’s in progress, planned and shipped, with a public note on every reviewed suggestion. - Tower — run summary: when a run ends, you now get a full recap of everything you collected floor by floor. No more clearing forty floors without ever seeing what they earned you. - Tower — new leaderboard: a 4th ranking tab, based on the highest floor you’ve ever reached. - Gem locking: your gems can finally be protected from selling, just like equipment. And on mobile, a long press on a slot locks the item — the lock simply didn’t exist by touch before. - Accurate rarity rates at last: the forge banner was showing rates that didn’t match the actual roll (Lucky Forge, prestige talents and event bonuses weren’t counted). It now shows the real rates, the forge level each rarity unlocks at, and how long it keeps dropping. A “?” opens the full legend. - Help on mobile: a “?” on each upgrade shows its description, which was hidden on small screens until now. - Redesigned player menu: the top bar goes from 8 items to 4, everything else lives in a menu opened from your identity block. Patch notes are now readable in-game, with the full history. 🔧 Fixes Fusion - A locked item can no longer be fused — it was the last remaining way a protected divine item could disappear. - Fusion selection now tracks the items themselves: selling or forging mid-selection no longer shifts anything, and you can no longer fuse five items you never picked. - “Prepare” on gems no longer mixes gem types together.