Idle Forge — The Ultimate Blacksmith Idle RPG

Three linked systems: Fishing, the Mount and Cooking
Sep 3, 2026
Fishing
A new screen at forge level 6. You cast hooks onto the water to bring up fish, seaweed and horseshoes.

The reserve holds up to 50 hooks and refills one every 30 minutes, even while you are offline. Nothing is lost by not sitting in front of the screen.
Three increasingly rich zones, selected by your fishing level. Only the last one yields legendary resources.
Some tiles ripple or wriggle: hitting the right one at the right moment lands a special catch worth three times the experience. A given occurrence only pays once — no point emptying your whole reserve onto it.
A creel sums up what you have caught, and a card shows the real rates of the zone you are in.
The Mount
It feeds on the horseshoes you fish up, and it survives ascension — it never restarts from scratch.

+0.2% damage per level (up to +20%) in the Tower, in PvP and against guild bosses.
-0.5% upgrade time per level (up to -50%). The upgrades panel now shows the duration actually applied, not the raw one.
Ten creatures, hand-drawn and hand-animated, one per 10-level tier: war hound, sphinx, fire drake, griffin, pegasus, cerberus, royal griffin, ice dragon, phoenix, eternal dragon.
Each has its own setting — from a dirt kennel to a cosmic sanctum. Crossing a tier is something you can see.
Changing shape requires an Evolution Core, crafted in the Lab. Experience earned before you have one is never lost: it piles up and pours in at once.
A medallion on your character sheet shows your mount and its level, and takes you to its screen in one click.

Beginner Objectives
The seven-day screen is the first thing a new account sees, and it looked like nothing worth claiming. It now carries the forge’s own atmosphere: rising embers, a medallion on the selected day, turning rays on the tier you can actually claim, a progress chain under the seven plates, and a burst of sparks when you claim.

All of it is purely decorative, and it switches off entirely if your device is set to reduced motion.

Tutorial
The tutorial now walks you through the player menu and its three screens that have no other entry point: patch notes, the roadmap, and bug reports. Clicking the highlighted entry no longer derails the rest of the tour.
The step counter no longer changes its total halfway through: it used to show “1 / 18” then “2 / 17”.
The highlight ring no longer stays parked on an unrelated element when its target disappears.
The forge level-up celebration no longer swallows the first click of the next step.

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! 🔨