The official 7.41e notes describe gameplay balance changes and do not announce a cosmetic catalog release, so this patch alone did not trigger a catalog or price-dataset replacement.
Source / data basis: Official Valve 7.41e patch notes plus the site’s dated saved gameplay snapshot.
The official 7.41e notes are a gameplay balance update. Because those notes do not announce a cosmetic or marketable catalog release, we did not infer new market rows or replace the saved price dataset from this patch alone.
Represented compact hero fields were corrected on the hero pages. The draft challenge and pick helper now identify their saved 2026-07-31 matchup snapshot, refreshed after the 7.41e review; rolling aggregates may still include matches from earlier balance periods, and the tools make no live API requests.
Economy
Mid-2026 tracked-catalog checkpoint
A dated note on reading saved aggregate estimates, their coverage, and their source timestamp without treating them as the whole Dota economy.
Source / data basis: The saved catalog snapshot metadata, row coverage and derived methodology shown on the Economy Index.
The economy index aggregates saved provider price proxies for tracked rows. It is not market capitalization, transaction flow, or coverage of every cosmetic; exact listing and completed-sale semantics are unverified.
Read the displayed source date, row coverage, breadth calculation and category weights on the page. The report summarizes the same stored observations and inherits their limitations.
Supply
Reading newly observed catalog rows
First-seen means the tracker observed a catalog row; it does not prove release timing, first trades, supply changes, or a predictable price curve.
Source / data basis: The tracker’s saved first-seen rows and displayed dataset timestamp; no release date is inferred.
A newly observed row has no deterministic price path. The tracker does not infer scarcity, unlock schedules, a floor, or a preferred purchase time.
The new-items page uses saved first-seen observations and shows their dataset timestamp. It makes no sync-cadence or real-time claim; trending is another derived view of stored fields.
Trading
A fee scenario can erase a paper flip margin
Sale fees affect break-even. The calculator’s built-in mode is a static local scenario reviewed 2026-07-20, not a current official fee claim; verify the venue preview.
Source / data basis: The calculator’s versioned local fee scenario reviewed 2026-07-20, not a live venue fee schedule.
The site’s static local fee scenario can put break-even above the purchase price, especially with its one-cent component minimums. It is not a current official rate.
Use the investment calculator and fee calculator for illustrative inputs only. Neither supplies current official fees, exact proceeds, execution, or a winning outcome.
Trading
Comparing saved price and buy-order fields
The difference between saved provider fields is a comparison proxy; exact listing, bid, liquidity and execution semantics are unverified.
Source / data basis: Saved primary-price and buy-order fields from the same catalog response, with unverified execution semantics.
A difference between the saved primary-price and buy-order fields does not prove that either is executable or that the gap is a transaction cost.
The price table places provider-labelled fields together for research. Verify the exact venue listing and bid; the selling guide explains the limitations.
