A social sandbox MMO developed on Unreal 5, where you can build a home, craft your weapons and go to war. What world will you make? 

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Pax Dei is a social sandbox MMO developed by Mainframe Industries on Unreal 5, where you can build a home, craft your weapons and go to war.

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Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. In this immense, open-world playground, you choose the role you want to play.Immerse yourself along with thousands of other players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories.

Travel the relative safety of the Heartlands and find the perfect plot of land on which to build your home. Protected by the grace of the Divine, your village is a safe harbor where your Clan can grow and prosper.Everything in this world is produced by the players&#39; hands and skills. Your village needs clothes, walls, food, flowers, and prayers. Your Clan, weapons, and armor. Others require tools, materials, or mysterious reagents. It’s easy to find your place and play your part in this breathing world.

Adventure awaits as you set foot into the Wilderness. Here, you’ll battle evil beings, uncover mysteries of an ancient and wondrous past, and square off against rival Clans as you struggle for power, position, and resources.A word of warning: The further you journey from home, the stranger and more dangerous this world becomes. The glory, bounty, and secrets you bring back will enrich your entire Clan. How much challenge are you willing to accept? That’s for you to decide.

Skinning a basilisk, deciding between war and peace, picking flowers: it all matters. In a fully player-driven economy, all play styles connect and complement each other. Join the community and share in the stories about to emerge.

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<h2>Hello Paxians!</h2>Today, we want to discuss the chat system. In parallel to other additions to Pax Dei during Early Access, enabling players to communicate with one another as smoothly as possible is a clear goal for the team. We have news on that front.We&#39;ll be patching the game on Wednesday, November 20, at 1 pm UTC. We anticipate a 1-hour maintenance for deploying the update. After that patch, Pax Dei’s chat system will be powered by Discord. We’re very excited about this collaboration and the opportunity to open a fresh approach to in-game discussions and socializing, allowing you to connect more seamlessly with your friends, clanmates, and fellow adventurers.Below, we discuss what it means and how it works, and we also touch on ideas for cool new functionalities in the future.Let’s dive into it.<h2>What’s new?</h2>While we completely replaced the underlying systems, the chat in Pax Dei should look very familiar at first glance. Proximity chat, direct messages, party chat, clan chat — it’s all there.This first iteration is more than under-the-hood changes, though, and our revamped chat is already bringing some additional benefits to the game:<ul><li>Zone chat: you can now communicate with all players within a zone.</li><li>Friends list: keep your friends close, they say.</li><li>Online presence: see who amongst your friends is online, making it easier to organize group activities or hop into a conversation.</li><li>Block and mute: sometimes, you’ll want to keep people at arm’s length (yes, it happens).</li></ul><h2>Stay connected to your Pax Dei friends anywhere.</h2>In addition to making it easier for our team to deliver a state-of-the-art communication system, the real bonus behind an MMO chat system powered by Discord is enabling friends to remain connected even when outside the game.Link your Discord account to the game, and your Pax Dei friends will appear in your Discord Friends list. You’ll be able to message them from the game as usual and via the Discord app — from a PC, tablet, phone… anywhere you have it. Your character name and Discord name will be displayed to your friends, so you better know who is who.Want to check what your friends are up to and prepare for that dungeon expedition directly from your mobile phone? Just open Discord, et voilà!<div class="aspect-video"><iframe width="100%" height="100%" type="text/html" id="youtube-0skJTuhjXHQ" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0skJTuhjXHQ?iv_load_policy=3&amp;showinfo=0&amp;rel=0&amp;cc_load_policy=1&amp;cc_lang_pref=en&amp;autoplay=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fplaypaxdei.com"></iframe></div>It’s important to note that this functionality is purely on an opt-in basis. If you don’t have a Discord account, don’t want one, or prefer to keep your Discord and Pax Dei lives separated, the choice is yours. If you don’t link any Discord account to Pax Dei, the chat system will behave as you’d expect and operate solely within the confines of your game.Please check the FAQ at the bottom of this article for more information!<h2>Coming next</h2>For those who enjoy using Discord already, this integration will enhance your experience by adding convenience and familiar features. We’re also very excited about the possibilities it opens to bring additional benefits to the game, things like:<ul><li>See if a friend is in a specific world before choosing where you want to play will be an option in the future.</li><li>Clan chat in Discord and clan announcement broadcasts to the chat system are features that are coming soon.</li><li>Voice chat is also planned for future updates.</li></ul>This is all very new — we’re proud to be one of the early partners testing these new possibilities in partnership with our friends over at Discord. We’re looking forward to the feedback and we’d love to hear ideas from the community on how that collaboration can best enhance their game experience.Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team<h2>FAQ</h2><h3>Do I need a Discord account to play Pax Dei now?</h3>No. There’s no additional sign-up required for Discord - you can just go ahead and start playing. Pax Dei will generate a provisional Discord profile for you, with a random user name and a generic avatar, so you can chat with other players from within the game. You can decide to connect a Discord account at any point to benefit from the additional ability to interact with the chat from outside the game. That remains fully optional.<h3>What if I don’t want to link my Discord profile with Pax Dei?</h3>You don’t have to! If you don’t have a Discord account, don’t want one, or prefer to keep your Discord and Pax Dei lives separated, the choice is yours. If you don’t link any Discord account to Pax Dei, the chat system will just behave as you’d expect and operate solely within the confines of your game.<h3>How do I jump in?</h3>When login in after the maintenance, you will be invited to link your Discord account in the chat window. After entering your details and accepting the terms, your Pax Dei friends will appear in your Discord Friends list and you’ll be able to message them from the Discord app as well as from the game itself.<img src="//images.ctfassets.net/96ostmeapxb7/5rOCoxQRy5ApoldJsRI9dv/fad1fa004f4b09df2d65271f5f0de316/SettingsIngame.jpg?fm=webp&w=1024" width="975" height="643" alt="SettingsIngame" /><h3>I have multiple characters. How does it show in the Discord app?</h3>When chatting with a friend, they will see both your Discord username and the name of the character you’re currently playing.<h3>Can I change my mind?</h3>You can decide to unlink your accounts at any moment. Simply open the in-game chat and click on the chat settings on the left side of the navigation, where you can find the unlink button. A simple click and confirm will unlink your Discord account.<h3>I already linked my Discord account to get a Founder’s Role. Do I have to do it again?</h3>Yes. The permissions required for the additional chat functionalities differ from the Founder’s Role for the Pax Dei official Discord server. So, you’ll have to link your account again - directly from the game this time. For more information, check our <a href="https://support.playpaxdei.com/hc/articles/22969614444957" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">support section</a>.<h3>How do I manage my Online presence indicator?</h3>Once you have linked your Discord account, you can set your presence in the Discord app. It will also show up in-game.<img src="//images.ctfassets.net/96ostmeapxb7/6zpfWIIq36wzbzMOv9p5cb/e9d3fcc946ffd69a32644e225dc1a6c4/DiscordStatus.jpg?fm=webp&w=1024" width="924" height="645" alt="DiscordStatus" /><h3>How much data is being shared with the account linking?</h3>To unlock the ability to chat from outside the game, Discord requires you to grant Pax Dei access to your profile, as described during the linking process.<img src="//images.ctfassets.net/96ostmeapxb7/2EqT3hnxmqao1pyM2rKgrn/02af01e0b9312f01ef21be0a77cce786/DiscordPopUp.jpg?fm=webp&w=1024" width="578" height="1056" alt="DiscordPopUp" />Mainframe Industries Oy respects your privacy and protects your personal data. Our Privacy Policy is available <a href="https://themainframe.com/en/legal/privacy_notice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.<h3>Fighting Toxicity: Moderation with GGWP</h3>As with any online community, maintaining a positive environment is crucial. To help with this, we are also integrating an automated chat moderation tool with our partners at <a href="https://www.ggwp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GGWP</a>, which will help monitor and curb toxic behavior.Some of you reported that the system was a bit aggressive at the beginning of Early Access. Since then, we have increased its tolerance, especially in Clan and Party chat, and whitelisted many terms. We will keep iterating to ensure that everyone can enjoy a healthy in-game environment.

Pax Dei’s chat system is now powered by Discord

<h2>Hello Paxians!</h2>Today, we want to discuss the chat system. In parallel to other additions to Pax Dei during Early Access, enabling players to communicate...

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<h2>Statement on recent changes made on Crafting, Building, and Resource Gathering </h2>Hello Paxians,We want to acknowledge the frustration some of you have felt with the recent changes, especially around crafting, gathering, and building. We understand that these adjustments have significantly impacted your gameplay, and we appreciate your feedback and patience as we make improvements. Our team is committed to enhancing these experiences in both challenging and rewarding ways, while respecting the valuable time that you, our dedicated players, invest into Pax Dei.As we make these adjustments in the upcoming weeks, we also want to provide a clear rationale behind our original changes and what we hope to achieve with them.In Verse 1 of Proving Grounds, we introduced an XP Bonus system to reflect each recipe&#39;s level and complexity better, allowing players to earn more XP from crafting complex recipes. This bonus is carefully determined by the recipe&#39;s difficulty, the number and difficulty of ingredients required, and the effort needed to gather them. Our goal was to reward players for taking on more complex crafting tasks, providing greater XP compared to simpler recipes at the same difficulty level.This bonus implied that all XP curves needed to be adjusted as well. We admit that the changes might have been too dramatic, and we’re working on rebalancing it so that the bonus feels like a net positive compared to before Verse 1, in particular thanks to your feedback.<h2>Key Player Concerns</h2>Based on the feedback we’ve received, we’ve identified several significant points of concern that we’re actively reviewing:<ul><li>Crafting Complexity and Documentation: Many of you feel that the recent updates to crafting and building have added unnecessary complexity, primarily due to incomplete patch notes. We understand that clarity in these updates is essential, and we’re working on improving communication in future patches.</li><li>Resource Scarcity and Skill Dependencies: High-level skill players have noted that certain crafting and gathering resources, like leather and specific ores, are now more challenging to acquire. These resources often require extensive exploration or are gated behind high-level skill requirements. This scarcity has led to slowdowns in skill progression, particularly in Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, and Tailoring.</li><li>Unintuitive Crafting Dependencies: We recognize that certain items (e.g., axeheads and their handles) now require mismatched skill levels in different professions, which has been confusing and frustrating. We are revisiting these inconsistencies to create a smoother, more logical crafting process.</li><li>Experience (XP) Balance and Progression: Some of you are experiencing stagnation in skills like Blacksmithing and Leatherworking, with current XP requirements outpacing the experience granted by available recipes. We hear your concerns about the “grind” becoming overwhelming, and we’re exploring ways to make XP gains align more meaningfully with resource investments and time spent.</li><li>Skills Interdependencies: Certain skill progressions, like Leatherworking and Blacksmithing, require support from other high-level skills. We value the social and cooperative aspects of Pax Dei, but we want to ensure that reliance on others doesn’t block your solo progression entirely.</li><li>Gathering Limitations and Resource Drops: Gathering-specific limitations, such as the challenge of finding beehives or acquiring lower-level resources like rough hides as skill levels increase, have also been widely discussed. We’re actively reviewing these mechanics to ensure that gathering maintains a balance between rewarding skill progression and granting access to fundamental resources.</li><li>Specific Skill Challenges (Examples):<ul><li>Leatherworking: Bottlenecks occur at higher levels due to reliance on Blacksmithing resources and the scarcity of fine leather.</li><li>Blacksmithing: Some items are currently uncraftable due to missing materials (e.g., Fine Cotton Cord) and progression stalls as players run out of accessible recipes.</li><li>Carpentry: The apparent lack of certain materials, like limestone, has impacted the ability to progress at an expected pace.</li><li>Tailoring and Cooking: High material requirements, especially for items like cloth pins and specific brewing ingredients, create bottlenecks for many players.</li></ul></li></ul><h2>Our Commitment to Change</h2>We’re actively working to address these issues and make adjustments that maintain the challenge you expect from Pax Dei, without overwhelming or blocking progression. Our team is re-evaluating crafting XP, resource distribution, and recipe dependencies to help streamline skill leveling while preserving the sense of accomplishment from overcoming complex challenges.Below are some fixes already in the works that we aim to deploy starting next week, and over the next month. In addition, we will review the XP Multiplier, which is currently balanced around recipes of median complexity at each difficulty level. We’ll shift this balance to center on the least complex recipes. With this change, the simplest leveling recipes will grant XP at the same rate as before Verse 1. More complicated recipes, however, will now reward even more XP relative to their difficulty level than pre-Verse 1, giving players greater incentive and reward for tackling advanced crafting challenges.<h3>Fixes to be deployed soon </h3><h4>Crafting Skills</h4><ul><li>Furnishings placement: The capability to place a furnishing item will be unlocked as soon as you acquire it and will no longer be based on skill level.</li><li>Tool Descriptions and Usability: The Iron Pickaxe will be able to mine Iron nodes.</li><li>Leatherworking Adjustments:<ul><li>Fine Leather, Fine Leather Bands, and Fine Leather Strings will unlock at level 26 and are adjusted to difficulty level 33</li><li>Drop rates for these fine leather items have been increased, with adjustments to ensure higher-level Skinning skills can yield lower-level hides as needed.</li><li>We’ll fix the circular dependency of creating tools for the Leatherworking Table, where Linen Cloth was needed. Instead, you’ll need Generic Leather and an Iron Knife Blade instead.</li></ul></li><li>Recipe Retention: Players who have previously unlocked recipes will retain them and will be able to continue crafting those items until the next wipe (no ETA on the wipe), even if the recipe requirements have changed.</li><li>Mead Base Adjustments: Mead base ingredients (weak and cloudy varieties) will be moved to Fermenter 1, where they can be crafted as intended.</li><li>New Sand Recipes: Gneiss and Limestone can now be turned into Sand using recipes available at the Carpentry bench.</li><li>Basic &quot;Cut&quot; Recipes for Campfires: The most basic carcass &quot;cut&quot; recipes will now be accessible at the campfire, making it easier to get started with fundamental cooking tasks. Roast, Woodsman Roast, Spiced Grilled Meat Chunks, Mountain Roast will now available on the campfire as opposed to only on the spitroast.</li><li>Recipe Placement Fixes: An upcoming update will fix a few recipes placed in the wrong Hearth.</li></ul><h4>Resources</h4><ul><li>Limestone Availability: Limestone is already present in Wetlands and Pale biomes, so we’ll increase its presence in those biomes a bit with a bigger increase of limestones in the wildlands.</li><li>Sand Availability: Sand will now drop from all mineable nodes to improve access.<ul><li>You will also be able to convert gneiss and limestone to sand on the Carpentry Workbenches once you unlock the recipe.</li></ul></li><li>Potion Resources: Increased spawn rates for potion-related resources by approximately 2x to facilitate alchemy and potion crafting.</li><li>Beehive Drops: Trees now have a 3% chance to drop Beehives, regardless of tree type.</li><li>Wood Yield from Trees: Adjustments are being made to increase the amount of wood you get from large trees. We will test this feature for optimal player experience.</li><li>Increased Resource Drops from Animals:<ul><li>Wool drops from boars and bears will be increased.</li><li>Bone drops from various animals will be increased.</li></ul></li><li>Rough Hide Accessibility: Players with high Skinning skill levels will still be able to obtain rough hides as needed. </li><li>Increased Early Resource Spawns: Early-stage cooking resources will spawn more frequently, supporting smoother progression for beginner cooks. </li></ul>Thank you for your patience and support as we work to improve your experience. As soon as possible, we will provide a timeframe for when the changes will be live, and we’ll keep you informed.We appreciate all the feedback you’ve shared with us and look forward to continuing to build an incredible world together.Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

Crafting Concerns Statement

<h2>Statement on recent changes made on Crafting, Building, and Resource Gathering </h2>Hello Paxians,We want to acknowledge the frustration some of you...

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Hello Paxians!

Now that our first major content patch is live, we wanted to update the roadmap we posted earlier this year, to give you an idea of what’s coming.<img src="//images.ctfassets.net/96ostmeapxb7/1Xw9W0TxiPDbxdk3eWk8nv/de1b332412fb3a74e0959666892cd5ad/20241030_Updated_RoadmapVertical.jpg?fm=webp&w=1024" width="1920" height="3268" alt="Updated RoadmapVertical" />We would like once more to thank all of you for your continued support and for helping us make Pax Dei the best it can be!Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

Pax Dei - Roadmap Update

Hello Paxians!

Now that our first major content patch is live, we wanted to update the roadmap we posted earlier this year, to give you an idea of what’s...