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Blackstone Depths opens below the frontier

The elite cave dungeon now forms a complete descent, with stronger traversal, encounter flow, navigation continuity, and companion behavior underground.

Stage
Implemented
Area
World
Published
July 16, 2026
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What changed

Blackstone is built as a place rather than a corridor of fights: a sealed threshold, a readable descent, hostile spaces that leash naturally, and encounters staged around the shape of the cavern.

The finished pass also tightens enemy facing, tunnel navigation, and companion follow behavior, letting the dungeon test the same party fundamentals the wider world depends on—pulling, positioning, and recovery under pressure.

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