What's New at DAREBEE - The Hive Is Now a Guild
Hello everyone!
This week the Hive became a guild. There's a lot of other news too, so here is everything that happened at DAREBEE since last Sunday.
Quests Are Back
Longtime members will remember the weekend quests: defend the bridge, scale the tower, defeat the troll. They're back, and this time the Hive is a guild. Calls for help come in from across the realm and land on the quest board. Every weekend the guild answers one of them together.
Quests have their own home now: the Quests section of the forum. You'll also meet the Clerk there, our new guild record keeper. The Clerk posts each quest and the updates along the way.
The First Quest: The Lighthouse at Saltreach
Our very first quest went up yesterday. The guild brought the target down a full day early, which we did not see coming. 76 adventurers have answered the call so far.
Clearing a target early now opens an Encore. That's a second act of the same quest, so there is still something to do once the main target falls. The Saltreach Encore is open until 2026-10-12 10:00 (Athens time). Join the quest if you'd like to help!
Next weekend's call for help is The Geese of Millbrook. It runs from 2026-10-17 10:00 (Athens time) to 2026-10-19 10:00 (Athens time). We're told the geese are not friendly.
Guild Ranks
Every adventurer in the guild has a rank. Ranks are earned with Guild Points, and you collect them in every quest whether the guild wins or loses:
There are six ranks: Copper, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Mythril. Your rank badge shows up on your profile and moves up by itself as you earn points. Nobody needs to claim anything.
The Guild Ledger
The Guild Ledger keeps a permanent record of every quest the guild has answered: wins, losses, the hardest hitters and everyone who took part. You can open it from the new Guild tab in the top menu. The rank badge on your profile links there too.
While a quest is on you'll also see a quest banner on the darebee.com homepage and a progress banner here on the forum. That way nobody misses a call for help.
More for the Community
NPC Is Out for Everyone
NPC is our new 21-day RPG program. You are a cabbage farmer trying to get your cart to market while heroes on their very important quests keep wrecking it. The Hive had early access last week and now it's live for everyone. Save the cabbages!
New Workouts
New Collections
Ten New Guides
Yes, ten. It was a reading kind of week.
New Functionality and Improvements
Most of this week's community changes started with you, so thank you. If something feels off or you have an idea, please tell us. Pretty please. We read everything (and the geese are watching).
This week the Hive became a guild. There's a lot of other news too, so here is everything that happened at DAREBEE since last Sunday.
Quests Are Back
Longtime members will remember the weekend quests: defend the bridge, scale the tower, defeat the troll. They're back, and this time the Hive is a guild. Calls for help come in from across the realm and land on the quest board. Every weekend the guild answers one of them together.
- Every weekend, from Saturday to Monday. Next weekend's quest runs from 2026-10-17 10:00 (Athens time) to 2026-10-19 10:00 (Athens time) and every quest after it keeps the same hours. We skip event weekends.
- No teams. Everyone works on one shared target and every rep counts towards it.
- Every quest is a story of its own, so you can join any weekend without catching up on anything.
- Won or lost, every quest goes into the record. Losing is allowed. It's just a lot less fun.
Quests have their own home now: the Quests section of the forum. You'll also meet the Clerk there, our new guild record keeper. The Clerk posts each quest and the updates along the way.
The First Quest: The Lighthouse at Saltreach
Our very first quest went up yesterday. The guild brought the target down a full day early, which we did not see coming. 76 adventurers have answered the call so far.
Clearing a target early now opens an Encore. That's a second act of the same quest, so there is still something to do once the main target falls. The Saltreach Encore is open until 2026-10-12 10:00 (Athens time). Join the quest if you'd like to help!
Next weekend's call for help is The Geese of Millbrook. It runs from 2026-10-17 10:00 (Athens time) to 2026-10-19 10:00 (Athens time). We're told the geese are not friendly.
Guild Ranks
Every adventurer in the guild has a rank. Ranks are earned with Guild Points, and you collect them in every quest whether the guild wins or loses:
- 1 point for taking part
- 1 point for taking part in both acts (the main quest and the Encore)
- 1 point for posting in the quest thread
- 1 point for everyone when the target falls
- 1 point for everyone when the guild clears the Encore
There are six ranks: Copper, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Mythril. Your rank badge shows up on your profile and moves up by itself as you earn points. Nobody needs to claim anything.
The Guild Ledger
The Guild Ledger keeps a permanent record of every quest the guild has answered: wins, losses, the hardest hitters and everyone who took part. You can open it from the new Guild tab in the top menu. The rank badge on your profile links there too.
While a quest is on you'll also see a quest banner on the darebee.com homepage and a progress banner here on the forum. That way nobody misses a call for help.
More for the Community
- New member profiles - a fresh profile page with a Trophy Case for your badges, an option to arrange your badges in any order you like and your Guild Rank. All program and challenge badges are sharper too.
- Edit Profile in tabs - everything is grouped now, with your programs, challenges and current training together under Training.
- Now Training - you can show the programs, challenges and training plans you're doing right now. The Who's Training What page shows who is doing what, in case you'd like company.
- Respect reaction - for when "like" isn't enough.
- Workout cards - workout links in posts now show as the workout poster.
- Start Here page - new members get a proper welcome page with everything they need to find their way around. It's linked in the footer too.
- 2026 events schedule - the dates for Haunted Hive, Turkey Run, Ornaments and Snowfight are up in the News section. All times there now show in your own time zone.
NPC Is Out for Everyone
NPC is our new 21-day RPG program. You are a cabbage farmer trying to get your cart to market while heroes on their very important quests keep wrecking it. The Hive had early access last week and now it's live for everyone. Save the cabbages!
New Workouts
New Collections
Ten New Guides
Yes, ten. It was a reading kind of week.
- The Guide to Nutrition Basics
- How to Read Food Labels
- Portion Sizes, Explained
- How to Train If You Hate Exercise
- The Hip Hinge, Explained
- The Complete Guide to Planks
- How to Train Calves: Slim & Bulk
- The Complete Guide to Elbow and Knee Strikes
- Complete Guide to Clear Skin
- Exercise and Wrinkles, Explained
New Functionality and Improvements
- New DONE button - the old checkbox is gone. Workouts, the Exercise of the Day, programs and challenges now have one DONE button you can press every time you do them, and your history shows underneath ("Done 3 times, last on..."). Programs and challenges you've finished get a Start pass 2 option for when you go again.
- Training plans - you can now choose which day your week starts on. It's optional, so the plans look the same unless you change it.
- Zoomed-in desktops - if your computer runs at 125% or 150% display scaling, darebee.com and the forum no longer switch to the phone layout on a full-size screen.
Most of this week's community changes started with you, so thank you. If something feels off or you have an idea, please tell us. Pretty please. We read everything (and the geese are watching).
