Brighter Shores Bonewright Bounties Patch Notes (21st April 2026)
Brighter Shores adds Bonewright bounties today, letting players help a group of very indecisive goblins settle an argument about their mechanical creation.
Brighter Shores' goblins have a problem: nobody can agree what weapon to strap to the Bonetron 8000, their pride and joy down in the Mine of Mantuban. One faction wants melee, another wants ranged, and Muddle is apparently convinced a shield is all it needs. The solution, naturally, is to outsource the testing to players.
The Bonewright Bounties update drops today and unlocks once you hit milestone 2 Bonewright. From there, you can pick up bounties at the Leech Pools board in two flavours: craft-only, or craft and deliver directly to the Bonetron 8000. Alongside the new content, the update adds weapon-type icons to ranged weapons and the Blacksmith, Bonewright, and Stonemason profession interfaces, so you can actually tell at a glance whether you're looking at a one-handed melee or two-handed ranged item. Small addition, but one that should have been there from the start.
The balancing side fixes a geode XP inconsistency across Blacksmith, Bonewright, and Stonemason, where the same rock or ore was awarding different XP depending on your milestone. A few bug fixes round things out, covering graphical errors on geode cards and a stubborn poplar tree blocking progress in the Beecause quest. Here's everything that changed.
Full Patch Notes
Bonewright bounties have landed with a resounding thump. Or is that just the Bonetron 8000?
The goblins in the Mine of Mantuban are in a quandary. They cannot agree which weapon will be most appropriate for their newest creation. Is one-handed or two-handed better? Should the Bonetron 8000 be equipped with a ranged or melee weapon? Muddle is of the firm opinion that it only needs a shield, as everyone knows that defense is the best form of offense.
Clearly the only way to decide who is right is through exhaustive testing, and so the goblins are offering bounties for you to bring them the Guardian weapon they think is the best for the Bonetron 8000.
Bonewright bounties are unlocked by reaching milestone 2 Bonewright. You can pick up Bonewright bounties from the bounty board in the Leech Pools.
There are two kinds of Bonewright bounties:
• Craft only
• Craft and deliver to the Bonetron 8000
Quality of life improvements
• Ranged weapons now have an icon indicating if they are one-handed or two-handed.
• The Blacksmith, Bonewright and Stonemason profession interfaces now have an icon indicating if the weapon is one-handed melee, two-handed melee, one-handed ranged or two-handed ranged.
Balancing Changes
• Fix an issue where Blacksmith, Bonewright and Stonemason geodes award different XP for different milestones of the same rock or ore.
Bug fixes
• Fix graphical errors on some geode cards.
• Fix lobster pots and oyster nets not reflecting the grade of equipment you own when placed.
• Fix a poplar tree in Snakes Path that could not be chopped while at a certain point in the Beecause quest.
• Fix descriptions on leather offcuts to correctly reflect the item that is made from them.
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