• Encounters will keep the same mobs for one hour after being spotted.
• Escalations now naturally drop in strength at half their previous rate. Typical escalations will now take about 20 days to lose all of their strength, while home escalations will take about 30 days.
• A bad 15m encounter site (not flat enough) was removed from hex 2,13. This site allowed smallholdings to be placed such that their fire was inaccessible.
• Starter hexes no longer include a small percentage of goblins in their uneven encounters, though they still appear as a small percentage of the larger encounters. This guarantees that new players will always be able to find small groups of the target mobs for any tutorial quests.
• Hexes -10,10 and -8,-4 now use the proper starter lists for encounters as other NPC hexes.
• The encounters for some events in the Elemental Rift, Bonedancers, Razmiran Cultists and Skeletal Uprising Escalations were fixed to use the proper encounter sizes. In some cases, this was causing reports of trees floating above the ground.

• Added shrines to all pass hexes.
• Smoothed out multiple player traps, including several in player settlements where the retaining walls met the ground at the top of the walls.
• Reduced steepness of road in -1,-6 so that it can be climbed.
• Removed obsolete Attacker/Defender Shrines from multiple hexes.
• Ground no longer pokes through the bridge in -10,17.

• Additional logging added to help track down the "can't find item" issue.
• The Pricing Window now includes information on the Lowest Price and the Highest Bid, so that information can be seen for the selected item while looking at tabs other than Market.
• Fixed an issue where, in certain specific cases, the item list would change categories when selecting a Tier.

• Company Membership and Leadership lists display correctly for companies in the same settlement.
• There is a new setting to automatically sign in to the Help channel. If you like helping other players out, enable this setting to make sure you always get notified when someone's looking for help. Leave it disabled if you don't want to be notified. Like the Quality settings, this setting needs to be set separately for each machine.
• Pasting text with return characters will only paste the text before the first return.
• When any window determines that it doesn't need a scroll bar, it will automatically scroll back to the top. This should eliminate a large number of bugs where lists appeared empty.
• Notifications appear in front of all other windows.
• The Achievement Tab in the Objectives Window is now labeled Recent Achievement Progress, to make it clear that the list is of Achievements that are being worked toward, not Achievements that were recently received.
• Elevation information is now included in the location tooltips.

• Player Taverns in -20,5 and -22,-1 face the correct direction.
• Silos in the Ranch Holdings don't float above the ground.
• Fishery Holdings have functional banners for changing colors.
• Fixed several cases where 1 or more doors at a crafting facility didn't function as a crafting door. Please report any exceptions found so they can be fixed as well.
• Barrels at the Boutique no longer float above the ground.

• The various tutorial kill quests are no longer available until after the associated training tutorial is completed.
• The gathering tutorial is now available from just one Thornkeep Scout near town, rather than having a Scout at the camp for training each role.

Edam
But turning mobs was half the fun

Midnight
what are "pass hexes"? Is that the elevation change X hexes?