A Week in Covenant: Combat Reborn and Guilds Complete

There were three big shifts this week, plus a stack of smaller ones.

Combat got rebuilt

The old fight system is gone. No more dice rolls.

The new one is cleaner, faster, and simpler.

The core mechanic shift: you regenerate mana by doing real productivity work outside combat. The two halves of Covenant — fulfilling your objectives and killing demons — finally talk to each other.

A few other changes:

"Doctrines" are now called abilities. It's more obvious. Players don't have to learn more jargon
Damage and HP got rebalanced so numbers feel right

Guilds are complete

Two big additions.

Shared campaigns. A campaign is a time-limited group objective: complete X tasks together, defeat Y monsters, earn Z gold. Every guild member contributes through normal play. When the goal hits, every member gets the reward. New campaigns rotate in. I would like players to create their own campaigns in the future.
Tier progression. Your guild now levels up as members play. Each tier unlocks a passive buff — XP multipliers, mana regen bonuses, drop-rate bumps — and a small catalog of tier-exclusive items in the shop. The buffs are modest on purpose. Being in a guild should feel nice and rewarding, but not mandatory.

Covenant is open source

After watching some videos of Theo (follow him on https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg), I truly believe the future is open-source. Users deserve to read the code they run and customize it however they want.

This is my small contribution.

The code is now public on GitHub under AGPL-3.0. Steal it, fork it, mock it, fix my typos. The license keeps the project from being locked away behind a paid clone.

The Tavern: a place to hang out

There's a global chat now, called the Tavern. One room, every player, low-key. A reminder that you're playing alongside other real people.

Tasks as a kanban board

The task list has a new toggle: view your tasks as a kanban board (To-do / In-progress / Done) instead of a list. Drag cards between columns. Moving a task into "Done" still triggers the same mana reward as ticking it off.

Objectives feel more connected

Filter the objectives page by area (Work, Health, Family, etc.)
Open an objective and see every task and habit linked to it
The calendar's day-details now opens as a side panel, so the calendar stays in view

Polish that adds up

A proper user dropdown in the sidebar — profile, settings, sign-out
"Last completed N days ago" on every habit card
Error pages and 404s now translate properly
Settings changes appear in the sidebar instantly
Empty states across shop filters and inventory tabs

Quest scene backdrops

The quest reader now has pixel-art backgrounds for scenes. A small thing that does a lot to make a quest feel like a place instead of a card.