Citadel Studios have made a couple of announcements, on their Twitter timeline, about new features that should — as of this writing — now be live in Shards Online. The first of these is an experimental portal system that allows for travel between the various maps in the game:

The other is an addition that should be of interest to players who engage with Shards’ crafting system:

If you have alpha access to Shards, look for both of these things the next time you log in!