Seasons

The game runs on seasons, with season 11 set to last 210 days total. Each of the three orders is collecting points towards a total, and the order with the most points when the season ends will win the season and earn a royal medal for every member. You can see the progress of the three orders on the homepage of the website; the order in the lead is shown at 100%, while the percentages of the other two orders show how far behind the leader they are.

At the end of every season all knights get reset, but the first Dark Tower of the season typically opens right away, giving the chance to start collecting resources once more.

### Why Seasons Get Reset

Seasons get reset for 3 reasons:

* To keep the game open for new players. If you start a new game and everyone is already level 3000, then the desire quickly fades. This behavior can always be proven at the end of the season.
* To roll out planned changes. Certain changes can only be made at the restart of the season.
* There are players who want to change their strategy and focus to achieve other personal goals.

### What Gets Kept

* Collected free tickets, diamonds, combat skills & bonuses (bought with diamonds or won at the fair), and Royal medals are retained.  Titles are also retained; they can only be changed by buying a new one to replace them.
* Combat bonuses (resilience, sharpened blades, rock hard, clover, and ninja reflexes) will unlock as you level up. E.g., if you level up and apply a skill point to strength, you will unlock 3 previously purchased sharpened blade bonuses.
* Other bonuses bought at the store (balanced food, chains, docility, and featherbed) are in full effect immediately.
* Epic combat skills (bow shot, drain life, and curse of agony) can only be used once your knight has regained the appropriate combat division rank.

### What Gets Reset

* All combat and hunting levels are reset to 1, all hunting skills and bonuses are lost, all blacksmith upgrades are reset to level 1, all cooking and crafting skills are lost, and you lose all gold, serfs, arrow makers, arrows, and everything else in your backpack except free tickets.
* All order members are reset, and your knight will be assigned to an order once he reaches level 50.
* The difficulty of the Dark Tower is reset, though the total number of floors carries over from the last tower of the previous season.
* Any undelivered gifts (except diamonds) will be lost when the season changes.

### Season History

#### Season 11

* Started October 11th, 2023
* The first tower of the season had 870 floors
* A new area named the dungeons will be released allowing for multi-player combat challenges
* The entertainer bonus was eliminated; the diamond value for their entertainer bonuses was refunded to players; the increased bounty hunting bonus was also eliminated, and gold rewards throughout the game (adventures, dark tower, hunting bounty) were reduced; gold prices in the game have been revised to reflect lower gold production levels
* You will need to unlock existing bonuses before buying new ones of that type, for example all clover bonuses will need to be unlocked before new clover bonuses can be bought
* A new combat bonus, deadly accuracy, has been introduced

#### Season 10

* April 7th, 2023 to October 11th, 2023 (see a list of Season 10 changes)
* Check the News page on the Knight Manager website for up-to-date announcements about changes in season 10!
* You will be limited to having 3 combat skills active at one time; use the command **change combat skills** to select up to 3 skills to activate.
* At the start of season 10, the diamonds paid for all combat skills you owned at the end of season 9 will be refunded to you, and all combat skills will be reset; you can choose to buy any or all of those skills again as the season progresses.
* New players that start during season 10 will be placed in a rookie ranking, instead of comparing their performance to established knights; opponents for rookies will be selected from the rookie ranking.
* New command will be added for an automated battle system which will keep fighting without user intervention until you run out of energy or interrupt it with a new command.
* New hunting skill: herbalism will allow you to forage healing herbs, carrots and barley bundles in the forest; healing herbs will be used to heal injured hunters in the dark forest; bandage will no longer be used in the dark forest.
* New objects: healing herbs, carrots, salad of resurrection, barley bundles, crusty bread, dragon meat pie, treasure chests/keys

#### Season 9

* September 29th, 2022 to April 7th, 2023 (see a list of Season 9 updates)
* A number of hunting changes were introduced, including new orcs and new hunting skills; combat tournaments were rolled out; small and large meals were revised so instead of healing during combat, they provide a 15-minute boost to your total health points; raspberries and blackberries were added; blackberry stew recipe was added; other new scrolls will be coming.
* The knight no longer eats apples or apple pie if it would cause him to gain too much energy.
* The small and large meals have been adjusted and now cause less nausea.
* The experience gain in adventures has been increased by 50 percent.
* New command: **my activity** tells you your activity level rank and combat division progress.

#### Season 8

* Ran from April 8th, 2022 to September 29th, 2022
* The dragon was rolled out, along with dragon scale shields and dragon saddles; the daily gift limit was increased to your level + 5, with the ability to keep sending gifts with a longer delivery window (+30 minutes for each gift over the limit); the orc king started fighting back, and even eating knights that he took down.

#### Season 7

* Ran from mid-November, 2021 to April 8th, 2022
* The game launched in Canada; the backpack was introduced to hold silver arrows, throwing axes, free tickets, province coins, along with a whole slate of new objects, and scrolls to use them; wolf hunting was introduced; the ability to speed gift delivery by paying diamonds was introduced; the game was rolled out to Canadian players; a 48-hour lock on the top floor of the Dark Tower was introduced.

#### Season 6

* Ran from June 18th, 2021 to mid-November 2021
* The ability to send letters in game was introduced; the randomization in the store was updated so that the chance of a particular skill or bonus appearing goes up the longer it has been since it last appeared; province coins were introduced, so that province fights no longer used energy.

#### Season 5

* Ran from March 15th, 2021 to June 18th, 2021
* Orders and province battles were added; the docility bonus was added; the Dark Tower was modified and expanded; the number of gifts that could be sent was limited; the chances of winning a bonus at the fair was raised with each consecutive spin; level and milestone rewards were added; the execution skill was introduced to tower bosses starting at floor 200.

#### Season 4

* Ran from July 3rd, 2020 to March 14th, 2021
* Fights were expanded to 8 rounds; the ability to send gifts and letters to other knights was added; direct attacks on other knights, limited to 3 per day, were added; players from Germany, the UK, and the US were combined onto a single leaderboard and able to participate in shared events; the minimum hourly energy recharge was raised to 10 energy from 5; level 3 skill upgrades were made available; the strength, defense, speed and luck bonuses were standardized at +50 points, instead of +5%; the resilience bonus was added; the hunting lodge was added.