New Hoarfrost Buildings

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Update - August 13, 2026 11:45 AM

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Hello folks,

We’ve been listening closely to your feedback following last week’s Hoarfrost building update, and we understand the changes didn’t land the way we intended.

Our goal was to preserve the long-standing “glitch troop” behaviour while making it accessible to everyone, but we have heard your concerns around the cost of maintaining access and the value of investing in the new buildings so we're making a few changes in response:​
  • Glitch troop effects will now be available at every level (1–10) of the Blightbloom Tree and Well of Eternal Winter. This significantly reduces the Gold needed to maintain access.​
  • Stats on the new Hoarfrost building levels 2-10 are being increased by roughly 20%, making upgrades more worthwhile for players who have already invested in them.​

We want these buildings to feel accessible to players who aren’t at the very end game, while also making sure those who spent Gold upgrading them feel better about that investment.

As a thank you for your patience and to recognize the frustration around this rollout, please expect the following when you next login to KAW:
⭐ 3 Bloodfrost Chests
⭐ 1 Golden Crux Chest
⭐ 5 Health Crystals​

We appreciate everyone who took the time to share feedback with us. We know Hoarfrost’s old behaviour has a long history in KaW, and we want to do right by that history and the players who have built around it for years.

Thank you for sticking with us ⚔️​

New Power Rises in Hoarfrost



Warriors, the frozen lands of Hoarfrost are expanding.

Six formidable new buildings have emerged, each offering new heights of power to those with the gold, and ambition, to claim them:
Citadel of Crimson Dominion
Circle of the Usurper King
Well of Eternal Winter
Blightbloom Tree
Spire of the Eternal Wyrm
Prison of the Blood Seraph

These buildings are available exclusively for Gold and provide stronger stats then previous Hoarfrost buildings, so gather your wealth and prepare to strengthen your kingdom.

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Hoarfrost Building Competition


To mark this expansion, a new Hoarfrost Building Competition will challenge rulers to build, upgrade, and rise above their rivals.

COMPETITION AVAILABILITY
August 5th, 2026 - September 7th, 2026
12 PM Pacific Time

HOW TO COMPETE
Spend Gold on new Hoarfrost buildings.
Every bit of progress you make during the competition earns you points.
The more you build, the more rewards you’ll claim!


NEW REWARDS

3 Brand New Stat Items
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Hoarfrost Antlers

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Sanguine Blades

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Helm of the Usurper

1 Exclusive Banner
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Banner of the Bloodroot

Players can also earn various "Proof of Loyalty" items to increase ally slots.

The frozen frontier awaits. Build your legacy, fortify your kingdom, and prove that your reign can endure even the coldest lands.

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Hoarfrost Building Glitch Update


Many seasoned players know about a glitch tied to Hoarfrost buildings: keeping a single Level 1 building let players perform extra hits once a unit's health bar was depleted. It's been a long-standing behaviour we've left in place, since it was mostly harmless and available to everyone.

However, the switch from razing to exchanging buildings made it possible to upgrade every building and accidentally lock yourself out of this option. It was also never clear or intuitive that keeping a building at Level 1 mattered.

With this update, we're fixing the underlying behaviour in old Hoarfrost buildings and recreating the effect on two new buildings instead: Level 10 Blightbloom Tree and Level 10 Well of Eternal Winter. The goal is to honour one of the game's longest-standing "glitches" while making sure everyone can access it without needing to avoid upgrading.

Note: You only need one Level 10 Well of Eternal Winter for extra Troop hits, and one Level 10 Blightbloom Tree for extra Assassin hits.

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Agree with those posters above that plates should be used otherwise HF eventually are nerfed.

Onto another idea start adding new towers for Fatesands. It will cause 2 things for EE wars. 1st better defence & higher incoming troop loss &/or fails. 2nd other side of the coin is harder to win on bigs & repins. The OSW community might have their own ideas or comments. Just a random idea
 
If you wanted to make it fair for players who weren’t aware of the gt/gs glitch, you shouldn’t have removed the option to destroy buildings in the first place. The option to destroy buildings without receiving any gold back should still have been available. That would have solved the problem.

Instead, you handled it the wrong way and created even more problems.
 
Since you’re adding the glitch to the new level 10 Well of Eternal Winter, why not add it for the other two (Citadel of Crimson Dominion and Circle of the Usurper King) too?
 
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