Your record and the Lantern
Everything you do out here is counted, and the paper prints the news, the weekly boards and the records.
The game keeps count of what you do: every tree you fell, every fish you land, every piece you build, how far you've walked and how long you've spent out here. To see it, tap your portrait and open the Record tab. It shows how your week is going, your best yet at a few things, and the whole tally underneath.
This week#
Every Monday the weekly boards start again from nothing, for everyone at once. They count only what you did that week, so somebody who turned up on Tuesday has the same chance as someone who's been here since the first day. There's a board for the experience earned in each skill, and a few for plain counts like trees felled and fish landed.
Your Record tab tells you where you stand, as a share of the people who did any of that thing this week. If you're top 20% of anglers, that's out of everyone who went fishing, not everyone in the woods, because it wouldn't mean much to call a farmer the worst miner. When the week closes, the best hand on each board gets a line in the Lantern.
Your best yet#
| Best | What counts |
|---|---|
| Biggest fish | The heaviest fish you've ever landed |
| Deepest underground | The deepest mine level you've climbed down to |
| Longest voyage | The furthest you've come ashore from where you set out |
| Most experience in one day | Experience earned in one game day, across every skill |
What's in the Lantern#
The Lantern is the paper for the north woods, at /paper, and anyone can read it without signing in. At the top of the front page is the almanac, which tells you where we are in the year and what's coming (see The year). Below it is the news: firsts, deaths, big kills, new settlements and skills reaching every tenth level. Beside it are this week's leaders and the standing records. There are pages for the weekly boards and the weeks gone, the all-time records, every first in the order it happened, and one page for each settler with their skills and their whole record.
News is held back a quarter of an hour before it's printed, and it never says exactly where anything happened, so nobody can use the paper to find you or your mine. The counts only ever say how much, never where.
Records never reset. A first can only happen once, so if you're the first to do something, your name stays on that page for good.