After a long while, Townforge testnet will restart with version 0.36 on the 1st of september.
Remember to delete your wallet cache if you have one from earlier testnets, as well as any file called latest-block-hashes-testnet.data from a previous testnet.
The main change in this testnet is PoS: one may stake in-game buildings (as opposed to raw gold like most other currencies). PoS block reward is 5% of PoW block reward. There is a new townforge-stake binary that stakes for you. PoW is still around, you can do both, and PoW can also be done with merge mining. Block time was reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds. Hopefully there won't be too many orphans, but it should make game actions a bit snappier.
For now, the 0.35 testnet is still running, and the seed node will stop a couple days before the restart.