Patch Notes: Tired anglers, silent tools and falling foes

Fishing

• Running out of fatigue in the water no longer kills you on the spot. It used to, whatever your health. Now you lose a tenth of your health every few seconds while you stay in the water with no fatigue left, and the screen says "You are too exhausted to swim - get out of the water!" From full health that's about 50 seconds to reach the shore, where you collapse and rest as you would anywhere on land.
• Fishing stops before you're worn out. In a lake you fish while swimming, and treading water tires you as swimming does. Once you are down to the last quarter of your fatigue, the net won't cast in the water, and a cast already out ends. The prompt says "too tired to fish in the water - get out and rest". On a pier or a boat's deck nothing changes: fish as long as you like.

Gathering professions

• Your gathering tools work from the hotbar. Use the Wood-Axe at a tree, the Pick-Axe at an ore vein or a boulder (in the wilderness or a dungeon), the Sickle at an herb patch, the Basket at a patch, or the Fishing-Net in water, from your hotbar or a quick slot, and it does exactly what pressing E there does: the gathering starts, and the goods go to your Stores with the profession's XP. The Sickle always picks the herbs and the Basket always searches for food, whichever one the patch's prompt is showing. With the Sickle, keep still until it's done - you don't need to hold E. The Fishing-Net makes a short cast; hold E instead for a longer one. If the spot needs something first, such as a higher rank, or you've already gathered it today, the tool says so.
• Anywhere else, a tool no longer fills your pack. Used away from its spot, or from the open pack, the Wood-Axe, Pick-Axe, Sickle, Basket and Fishing-Net no longer make Wood Bundles, fish or other finds, start Foraging's quests or wear down. Instead the tool tells you where its profession is done, for example: "Logging is done at a tree in the wilderness: walk up to one until the prompt shows, then press E (or use the Wood-Axe)." Offline, and for guests without the professions, the tools work as they always have. The Spade still robs graves.
• The Professions page explains how to gather Herbalism, Mining and Logging, as it already did for Hunting and Fishing, including using the tool from your hotbar at the spot. The empty Stores say where their goods come from.

The bank

• The bank window names the region whose account it shows ("Account in Wayrest"), and lists the gold you've banked in other regions beneath it. Every bank online is the Bank of the Empire, but each region still keeps its own account: gold deposited in Daggerfall is in Daggerfall's account.
• Becoming a werewolf never touched your bank or your guilds, and still doesn't. (A vampire's guilds start over, as in Daggerfall, and come back with a cure.)

Frame rate

• Fixed the overworld frame rate sinking over time. An enemy from a camp you had left behind could be restored by a load over ground that wasn't there yet, and fall forever, each second of the fall costing more. Enemies over ground that hasn't loaded now wait for it, then stand on it.

Quests and houses

• A townsperson who knows where a quest's own building is always marks it on your map when you ask them outdoors (it used to be about one answer in four; the rest said "north of here").
• A house a townsperson marked for a quest is ringed on the town map. On the Enhanced town map it looked like any other house.
• Houses' doors say "Residence" and list Go in and Buy it when you point at them, and a click goes in. Clicking any house used to ask "This house can be your home ... Buy it?". The quest's house reads by its own name, "The Residence", and is never for sale.

The Overworld

• No more light-blue rectangles on the sea in the Overworld view. The surf along the coast was drawn from high above, where it showed as flat sheets over the water. It now shows only at ground level, as it should.

What's Changed

• FIELD BUGS 2026-09-30b - the fishing death, the tools that gathered nothing, the werewolf's bank, the falling foe, the unmarked residence, the Overworld's surf by @Lattymoy in #488

Full Changelog: app-v0.1.5186...app-v0.1.5201