Brighter Shores Adds Hammerstrike Hall Auction Event on November 10

Fen Research is adding a new world event to Brighter Shores on November 10, 2026. Hammerstrike Hall starts at 10:00 UTC on launch day, then returns every three hours. After that first day, the daily schedule shifts earlier, with the first event starting at 01:00 UTC.

Hammerstrike Hall is built around bidding on items and completing collections. Each round lasts about 30 minutes, and your collection score turns into XP and Hammerstrikes when the event ends. Hammerstrikes can be spent in the event shop on new perks and transmogs, and purchased perks can show up in later events to help boost your score.

Players need to be a milestone 2 Merchant and finish the event tutorial before joining. Fen Research recommends doing that ahead of your preferred time slot. Both the tutorial and event entrance are in Hammerstrike Lobby, which is reached through Market Passage.

The event also has separate leaderboards for each game, with bonuses for top-ranked players, plus a global Hammerstrike Hall leaderboard tracking the highest score across any game.

The same update makes one notable change to Shipwreck. If a game has fewer than 30 players, NPCs will slowly be added so the event stays near a full 30-player count. Fen Research says this is the final planned balancing change for Shipwreck, so personal bests and leaderboards have been reset.

• Small animals like rabbits, seagulls, and crabs now react to players and run or fly away.
• Improved image and sound compression cuts the download size by about 10%.
• The Windows executable is around 25% smaller.
• Fixes address foot sliding after ladders or ropes, plus two dialogue issues in the Rags to Riches quest.

Further reading: Brighter Shores Hammerstrike Hall announcement on Steam