CHANGELOG
Guide Updates
Cairn Guide is a living project. Pages get revised whenever a fact gets confirmed, a reader flags a mistake, or something we published turns out to be wrong. This page is the dated record of every revision, so you can see at a glance how current the guide is before you trust it on the wall.
Last updated: September 4, 2026
FAQ long-tail expansion, at-a-glance tables & this changelog
- Added eight new FAQ answers covering the price, platforms, playtime, multiplayer status, cooking, finding food, and sleeping and saving at bivouacs.
- The climbing routes page now opens with a route-plan-at-a-glance table, and the survival page gained a first-response table matching symptoms to the fix.
- The about page spells out exactly how guide pages are researched and revised.
- Launched this changelog page — every future revision gets logged here.
Site structure cleanup
- Duplicate pages were consolidated onto single indexed URLs, and sitewide section navigation was added at the top of every page.
- The about page is now reachable from the contact page.
Contact page added
- New contact page for corrections and questions, linked from the site footer.
Domain redirect cleanup
- All www traffic now redirects straight to cairnguide.wiki, so no reader lands on a stale address.
Advertising & privacy readiness pass
- Completed a sitewide readiness audit: ad placement, privacy and terms pages, and indexing settings were checked and cleaned up.
Clean traffic measurement
- Moved analytics to a dedicated property so the traffic numbers reflect this site only.
Honest rewrites & the Deep Water DLC page
- Removed guide pages that described mechanics we could not confirm in the released game — combat and base-building content that did not match how Cairn actually plays.
- Rewrote four survival pages against the release version, describing systems the game actually shows instead of invented numbers.
- Added the On the Trail: Deep Water DLC page covering release status, the three new locations, playable Marco, and Free Roam.
New home: cairnguide.wiki
- The site moved to its own domain, cairnguide.wiki, with dedicated traffic measurement and clean search-engine verification.
Piton placement guide
- New page on the placement timing minigame, the six-slot harness, the scrap economy, and the three hidden indestructible pitons.
Guides hub & lineup gaps closed
- Added the guides hub index and filled in missing sections of the page lineup, with support links for readers who want to back the site.
Weather survival guide launched
- New page on the barometer, condition-by-condition impacts, warmth sources, and the retreat rules for deteriorating days.
Content expansion across every guide
- Expanded the FAQ with new answers and refreshed the existing guide pages in one broad pass.
Site launch
- Cairn Guide went live with its field-journal design, the items & crafting recipes page, and the first survival and beginner pages. Privacy and terms pages followed two days later.
How Pages Get Researched & Revised
- Facts come from the game first. Every claim about mechanics traces back to the released game itself or the developer's official store listing — not to summaries of summaries.
- Unverifiable pages get removed, not patched. In August 2026 we deleted entire guide pages that described mechanics we could not confirm in the shipped game, and said so publicly rather than quietly rewriting them.
- Uncertainty is labeled. Where the game shows no numbers, the pages describe systems instead of inventing figures.
- Corrections go out fast. Spotted something wrong or outdated? Send it in — fixes land within days, and the change is logged on this page.