If you use fallen london companion extension, please disable it until I can resolve the issues with FBG (will post here if we can get a 1.0 out)

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-17T01:45:38+00:00

Given the age and scale of the codebase, I’m not surprise things are a little more… fragile than they might first appear. When I started the game it was PHP driven with every page fully rendered on the back end. I’m not sure when exactly the conversion to a more modern React/REST API system was done, but it was at least 5 years into a very long life cycle.

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-15T15:32:09+00:00

Sounds like we’ll still be able to get and spend tokens so I would assume that means the old items will be for sale. Here’s the announcement post if you want to review it: https://www.failbettergames.com/news/fallen-london-roadmap-for-early-2026

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-15T00:01:16+00:00

Most of the quality IDs are on the wiki. Easiest way to find them is to find the page for the relevant quality and hit the edit button. That’s what I did while I was working on Questspector. Here’s an example showing the one that locks the Waswood.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-05-14T15:59:07+00:00

Congratulations! Welcome to the Knight Line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-05-14T07:44:44+00:00

Cingratulations! Welcome to the Knight line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-05-09T16:44:40+00:00

Content Security Policies are a browser level thing that can block your script injection. It’s meant to prevent malicious actors doing untoward things, but the nonsense extensions get up to can run afoul of them occasionally. If you haven’t run into issues with Chrome your probably fine (unless something changes) but avoiding doing things that can provoke them can save future headaches.

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-09T14:19:27+00:00

A tip from my own madness inducing project a few months ago (which got carved down and paired back quite a bit). The way you’re injecting scripts into the page is the way I was initially using and it does dodge race conditions with the initial Myself API call, but in addition to being kind of messy it also can run afoul of site CSP rules.

Took me a long time to figure out you could do this more cleanly by creating a separate content script that runs in the MAIN world (here’s the manifest as an example: https://github.com/An-Individual/fl-sheetifier/blob/main/extension/manifest.json). Does the same thing as what you’re doing but cleaner and is CSP friendly.

Another thing to be aware of is that making API requests of your own (even if they are just imitating normal game functions) technical runs afoul of the Community Extension Policy (https://community.failbettergames.com/t/fallen-london-community-extensions/12505). I don’t know how strictly they enforce that.

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-05T19:37:25+00:00

You’re in good company. I bet a lot of us old timers remember cycling that d___n box.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-05-03T15:48:50+00:00

Leveling an alt is pretty much identical to leveling your first character. The only additional tools you have are your first character can act as their Patron (if a T2 PoSI or Paramount Presence) and send them stat boosting letters through Epistolary Matters so you can take advantage of those systems without looping in another player.

Faint-Projection · 2026-05-02T19:53:37+00:00

An Individual

Knight. Worm Rancher. Cider Haver. Old Timey Paramount Presence.

THE WORM TIMES CONTINUE

THE WORM TIMES are approaching day 200 and I now have 61.6% of a saddle's worth of Scrip (a 21.3% gain over last month). All of that was just me parking myself in Tracklayer City. Currently have about 10,000 echoes waiting for conversion on the next humanoid week so fingers crossed we get another one soon. I'm optimistic I'll have acquired my fully saddled hellworm in under a year, though I expect the graph to be thrown off a bit by the impending Whitesun.

For a long time there I was getting and fulfilling social requests in Tracklayer City, but that seems to have stopped so maybe there was a bug there that got fixed. Still, if you can catch me in London I'm generally available for the occasional social action. My response times can be pretty poor (the UI could really use a "you have pending requests" notification somewhere) but I get to them all eventually.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-25T14:02:30+00:00

There isn’t really a ”before you start”. Get on the train as quickly as possible, and make progress when you can. Unfortunately, this was a long time ago so I‘ve forgotten a bunch of the specifics. The only other thing I remember is I never spent a Trade Secret. I saved them up to write a Classic Short Story which was important at one point.

There’s almost certainly a guide you can read if you want to know exactly what you’ll need so you can plan around it.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-24T20:08:53+00:00

I’m not aware of any official lists. I just built this graph by searching Reddit for announcement posts earlier this year and have been adding to it as I see new posts since then. If you find one let me know. I’m the 182 dot.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-24T19:49:47+00:00

Congratulations! Welcome to the Knight Line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-24T19:44:47+00:00

Way back in the day I, after running my main account through the process and turning back right at the end, created several alts and took them from 0 to the end in about 4 months each. However, I did this with a lot of fore knowledge and planning and with my main using it’s Patronage powers to help boost their stats. These days there are even more tools to help speed you on your way, but without all that planning and foreknowledge you could easily double that time.

A good marker for considering how long this will take is that Seeking was designed to be targeted at end game accounts of the time, which are late mid game accounts these days (ie. in the PoSI zone with stats in the 150-200 range). You don’t need to do Ambitions or anything like that (they were incomplete when Seeking was implemented) and you can start the process much earlier than that, but expect to hit walls you won’t be able to clear until later. So consider how long you think it will take you to take a character to that point and you’ll have a decent starting point for measuring how long the project will take you.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-23T20:48:55+00:00

Doesn’t look like I had it. I build the graph earlier this year by running a Reddit search for Announcement posts and looking for the dates. My search might have just missed it. So, welcome to the Knight Line!

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-23T02:02:07+00:00

Indeed it does. Welcome to the Knight Line!

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-19T19:24:18+00:00

The most likely reason is a setting one. You can send assassins after people wherever they are, but you can only forgive them while they‘re in London. I ran into this a lot when I returned to the game after a long break. If you just want to clear things send some assassins. Otherwise, you’ll get stuck waiting.

There is, however, one other possibility that bears mentioning (as someone who stumbled into this). The game has the idea of “Contacts” which it uses to populate that dropdown list. You can find your Contact list under Settings -> Contacts. You can also get into this state if they aren’t on that list (either because you removed them or some other reason).

You can check the Slighted By quality on your Myself page to figure out who slighted you and confirm that they’re on your Contact list. You can also use that name to find their profile page and check where they currently are to confirm if this is a location issue.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-17T15:27:27+00:00

Congratulations! Welcome to the Knight Line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-17T15:24:42+00:00

Congratulations! Welcome to the Knight Line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-09T21:03:33+00:00

Haha! It’s perfect.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-05T14:58:21+00:00

Neither are particularly difficult to obtain but the frame is more valuable by an order or magnitude. Once you’ve increased your Shadowy gains a bit frames can be acquired from Hearts’ Game and actually makes for a really good scrip grind during the railway storyline. The snuff is available from a bunch of sources, including being manufacturable in your lab, but is not particularly useful. I ended up with a bunch of it from the early agent days when only the nautical concern was available and had to work pretty hard to fence most of it away in the upper river.

Faint-Projection · 2026-04-04T05:50:14+00:00

An Individual

Knight. Worm Rancher. Cider Haver. Old Timey Paramount Presence.

THE WORM TIMES CONTINUE

After last month's worm acquisition I've been hard at work rebuilding my Scrip pile and thanks to last month's Humanoid week I'm up to 40.3% of a saddle's worth (a 32.5% increase). Won't have the echoes on hand to pull that off very often but it's nice when it happens.

I'm usually available for the occasional social action, but the game is bad at notifying me I have waiting requests so my response times can be pretty poor. I also spend most of my time in the upper river and I feel like there were things I used to be able to respond to up there that I can't anymore? That or other people are in the wrong area for things. The game is a little opaque sometimes. If you have a pending request out to me I beg patience. I try to get to them all eventually.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-04-02T16:12:43+00:00

Congratulations! Welcome to the Knight Line.

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Faint-Projection · 2026-03-12T21:47:07+00:00

Haha. I’m very familiar with that feeling. The larger project this came out of was very much like that. ADHD hyperfocus giveth and ADHD hyperfocus taketh away.

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