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Patch Note - September 14, 2026

Item: Benny's Viking Cloak
Was mistakenly kept as a Special rather than an Armor piece after the V2 migration. It's slot is now Armor - anyone who had this equipped has been mailed earlier today. Current Arena snapshots unaffected.

Referral Milestones Ladder
"Active" is no longer a requirement to count. Since we have all the relevant Referral abuse tools in-place, all referrals count towards the ladder other than same IP. TOS as always applies. As always, we continue to review referrals frequently - any abuse will result in a permanent ban.

Families R4/Underboss Privileges 
Underboss (R4) can now be given the privileges to kick members. Don's (R5) must turn this setting on themselves.

Intel Currency Drop
Would previously try to display as an item when dropped from complications when it was currency rather than a box sent to inventory. Resolved.

Arena
Family [TAGS] were not displaying in the new arena.

Gym (Combat Mastery)
Would not display the increase from career perks regarding Block, Dodge & Crits - should now read true and match battle reports.

Live Feed
 "New Users Joined" feature pinned to the top of live feed - you can now see daily growth and will read the number of registrations on a 24 hour rolling period.

Sapphire Frame
Was not rendering in Chat - resolved.

Careers
Rank 5 item reward is now displayed on Careers rather than have to cross reference it's potential drop in the Wiki. Please note, we're aware some nodes are matching in stats even though they're 10 levels apart, we're currently doing an exclusives pass and expect this to be rectified later this week.

A polite reminder after yesterdays ban wave - Multi-accounting or abusing our authorisation to allow same household/IP accounts to send cash (inc. Withdrawing from a farm & attacking with your main account), items or consumables is not tolerated. Attack logs, bank logs, market logs, drop logs, family treasuries and every aspect of the game is logged and checked on a routine basis - as other have learnt, masking your IP across different accounts does not work and anyone found breaching our TOS regarding this matter risks a permanent ban with no right to appeal. We do this to protect our legitimate player base, economy and integrity of The Fifth Family.

https://www.thefifthfamily.com/tos.php

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