Since the release of Pax Dei 1.0, we’ve continued to improve the game with new features, balancing changes, quality-of-life updates, and new reasons to explore the world.

If you are discovering Pax Dei for the first time, there is now a smoother path into the world, especially with the Achievement system, which can help guide your first steps and introduce you to core activities.

If you are returning, there are more goals to pursue, more systems to explore, and more reasons to gather your friends and see what has changed.

Since 1.0, Pax Dei has not only grown in content. It has become easier to approach, more rewarding to play, and more alive when shared with others.

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Starting and day-to-day play are smoother

Many updates since 1.0 have focused on reducing friction and making regular play feel better, especially for players starting fresh or coming back after a break.

Achievements help guide your first steps and give long-term goals. 
The Achievement system adds almost 300 achievements, 

with milestones, rewards, and objectives for both new and experienced players. For newcomers, it can act as a light guide through the first steps of Pax Dei, helping introduce gathering, crafting, building, combat, exploration, and other core activities. For returning and elder players, it adds new objectives to pursue and new rewards to claim without replacing the freedom of the sandbox.

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Crafting progression is more flexible in key professions.


XP curves and crafting XP rewards have been adjusted for Blacksmithing, Weaponsmithing, Armorsmithing, Tailoring, and Leatherworking, so players can choose what to craft based on usefulness or preference rather than feeling forced into a narrow set of “XP-optimal” items. Material recovery on failed crafts has also been improved, especially for lower-tier recipes, making experimentation less frustrating.

Inventory, crafting, and item management are easier.


Increased stack sizes, Quick Stack, Take All for containers and crafters, Craft All for processing crafters, better recipe sorting, and various UI improvements all help reduce the time spent managing items and menus.

Resources, maps, and UI are easier to read and use.


Many resources have been made larger or visually clearer, making them easier to detect in the world. The map has also been significantly improved, with better zoom-in and zoom-out, marker filters, and biome legend/key improvements. Clearer notifications, scalable UI options, better tooltips, and many smaller fixes make the game easier to read, navigate, and understand.

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Playing with others has more tools and more personality

Pax Dei is at its best when players cooperate, trade, compete, and create stories together. Several updates have strengthened the tools and systems that support that.

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Province-wide chat, better chat readability, improved notifications, unread counters, grouped messages, and login notifications make it easier to communicate and stay connected with other players. The clan menu and character stats sheet have also been improved, making it easier to understand your character and manage clan-related information.

Clan permissions have started to improve.


The Homesteader rank and the new Villager & Up permission level are the first step toward more flexible clan management, making it safer to welcome new or returning players into shared spaces.

Players can now challenge each other to consensual duels. This is a major addition for training, testing builds, friendly rivalries, clan events, and learning combat without the risks of open PvP.

Characters have more personality and presentation options.


New emotes and facial expressions have been added to the emote menu, giving players more ways to express themselves, roleplay, celebrate, tease, greet, or simply bring more life to social moments. Sheathed weapons are now visible, and the Hide Helmet option gives players more control over their appearance while adventuring and socializing.

The world has more depth, purpose, and polish

Pax Dei has also gained more activities, more visual polish, more atmosphere, and more reasons to explore, fight, craft, and build.

Dungeons and enemy behavior are more reliable.


Aggro behavior and dungeon encounters have received several fixes and balancing changes, making PvE more reliable and more readable. Enemies should behave more consistently, and several dungeon population and spawn issues have been addressed, helping group content feel better to run.

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Archery, Fletching, and bird hunting have expanded.


Bow handling has been improved, and archery has been expanded with Fletching changes, new bow progression, rebalanced arrows, a new set of Recurve Bows, and archery targets for practice or competitions. Birds have also been added across the world, giving players new creatures to hunt, new resources to gather, and more life and movement in the landscape.

Master Crafting gives exceptional items and crafters more value.


When you achieve a very high success on a craft for an item with Item Power, the item can gain a permanent Item Power boost, and your name is recorded as its master crafter. This gives skilled crafters a new way to create standout items and leave their mark on the world.

Lyonesse now gives clans meaningful PvP objectives.


The open PvP region now has clearer objectives through Mournel trees and Feudal Shrines. These systems give clans reasons to contest resources, claim territory, and establish a lasting presence in the region. Clans can claim and upgrade shrine sites, place Feudal plots, manage upkeep, and use claimed shrines as strategic locations.

Since 1.0, dozens of new decorations and building pieces have been added, including furniture, tableware, candleholders, rugs, statues, benches, hedges, trellises, animal trophies, new climbing plant patches, and more. These additions give players more ways to personalize homes, villages, gardens, halls, and social spaces.

The world looks better and performance continues to improve.


The skybox, clouds, and night sky have been drastically improved, while color balancing across the world has been updated to make environments feel more vivid, natural, and easier to read. The game has also been upgraded from Unreal Engine 5.4 to Unreal Engine 5.6, and we’ve continued profiling and addressing performance issues, with a particular focus on improving render performance during combat and making the game feel smoother in demanding situations.

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For new players, the path into the world is clearer, smoother, and more welcoming.

For returning players, there are new systems to explore, more goals to pursue, better tools to manage daily life, and stronger reasons to reconnect with friends, clans, and neighbors.

The heart of Pax Dei is still the same: a social sandbox shaped by the players who live in it. But since 1.0, that world has become easier to enter, more rewarding to progress through, and more alive to share with others.

New or Returning to Pax Dei? Here’s What Has Changed Since 1.0

 Hello Paxians! Since the release of Pax Dei 1.0, we’ve continued to improve the game with new features, balancing changes, quality-of-life updates, a...

is now available on Steam. This Trial is not a limited-time event like a Steam Free Weekend; it is intended to remain available over time.

New players can now experience Pax Dei for 

and discover everything the game has to offer, from building and crafting to exploration, PvE, PvP, trade, and community life.

The Trial grants access to the full Pax Dei experience for

Progress their character without gameplay restrictions

As part of the Trial, players also receive a temporary Plot that allows them to claim land and establish their own home.

the Trial is not a separate version of Pax De

i. It is the full game experience, limited only by duration.

If you want to know more about how the Pax Dei Trial works, head to our dedicated support article: 

Pax Dei 7-Day Trial is now available for free on Steam

Access to the game ends unless Pax Dei is purchased

Characters and progression remain safely stored on our servers

all items and materials placed or stored on it are transferred to the 

, allowing them to be recovered later if the game is purchased.

Players who decide to continue their adventure later will be able to return

 to the same character and recover their belongings

In other words, progress made during the Trial is not lost. The Trial is part of the same persistent Pax Dei experience.

We have also implemented a system that allows players to try the Trial again after a set period of time, giving them another opportunity to experience the latest changes to the game. This period is currently set to 

 Please note that there may be a short gap between the Trial’s release and the start of this promotion.

Pax Dei 7-Day Trial Is Now Live on Steam

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The R47 update is now live across all shards. 

a revamped Fletching and Archery experience,

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Several bird species have been added across the different biomes of Pax Dei: Grouses, Ptarmigans, Pheasants, Geese, Vultures, and Eagles.

Birds roam on the ground and react to nearby players. When disturbed, they will take flight.

They can be hunted both on the ground and in the air, though they are especially challenging to hunt without a bow.

Birds provide feathers, which are used in Fletching for advanced arrow crafting.

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Added a new family of Recurve Bows, ranging from Tier 2 to Tier 4.

Recurve Bows provide increased accuracy, faster arrow speed, and more serious damage, but have slower draw and reload times than standard bows.

Higher-tier bows now also provide improved accuracy and faster draw and reload times.

All existing bows have received updated visual models, with color variations for attuned and warded versions.

The former Curved Bow has been renamed Woodrunner Bow to align with its new model and clearly differentiate it from the Recurve series.

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This release adds new ground-standing and wall-mounted archery targets.

When hit by nearby players, the target announces the hit accuracy, allowing you to practice your aim or organize archery competitions.

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: When entering the game, you will likely receive a large number of Achievement notifications. You can silence them by pressing N.

The game now features an Achievement system, with content designed both to guide new players through the game and to offer harder-to-complete goals for elder players.

Achievements are shared across your account by Region (US, EU, SEA). This means that if one of your characters on an EU world completes an Achievement, all your other EU characters will also have it, but your characters in the US or SEA region will not.

This release includes almost 300 Achievements. Some are very easy to attain, while others are extremely hard.

The game HUD now includes a milestone tracker showing the Achievements you are currently working toward.

Achievements can be manually added to the tracker, but the auto-tracked new player experience achievements take priority.

Each Achievement grants a reward when completed.

Achievements that track skill level requirements will unlock retroactively for players who have already reached the required skill level. All other Achievements require you to complete the associated task after the system is live.

Achievements that require a PvE kill work similarly to XP grants: everyone in the party of the player who kills the enemy will count as having killed that enemy for Achievement tracking purposes.

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We've been working for a long time on revamping the underlying permission system in Pax Dei, and this release includes the first changes from that work.

Clans now have a new Homesteader membership rank for new clan members.

In permissions, you can now set the required access permission to Villager & Up, locking Homesteaders out.

For plots, even if a plot has been shared with a Clan, Homesteaders cannot destroy building pieces placed more than 36 hours ago.

There is one exception: if the piece is a prop (a furnishing piece), such as a chest, placed by the Homesteader themselves, they can destroy it, as it is their own prop.

This restriction does not apply to plots set to Public or to plots owned by the Homesteader themselves.

A future version of the game will improve this mechanic and give you more granular control over destruction permissions.

We will continue to roll out additional permissions improvements in future releases.

The game now features a Province-wide chat channel, allowing you to chat across Home Valleys.

The chat message layout has been made more compact, allowing more messages to fit on screen.

Chat channels now show how many messages are waiting to be read since you last opened them.

Multiple consecutive messages from the same sender, sent within one minute, are now grouped together.

General chat feed settings, where you can choose which chat feeds are displayed in the General feed, have moved to the Chat Settings menu.

You can now separately configure which chat channels show a HUD notification when a new message is received, and how long those notifications are displayed.

When a player logs in, other players can now receive a notification that they have come online. You can configure whether your own logins send this notification, and whether you want to see login notifications from other players.

When a new player joins Pax Dei, a notification is now sent. Remember to welcome them to the game!

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In addition to the Archery Targets, we've added several 

The game client now uses new fonts with improved readability (named Lora and Fira Sans).

Areas near the Petra Dei now spawn some Flint, and the distance from water at which Flint can spawn has been expanded by 10 meters.

Garlic spawn yield has been increased from 3 to 5.

The Bronze Ingot recipe now requires 60 Charcoal instead of 100 Sapwood.

All furnishing pieces have been moved from the Log Workbench to the Basic Carpenter Workbench or the relevant workbenches: the archery target to the fletching workbenches, the trophies to the leatherworking workbenches, etc.

Adult Birch Trees' hardness has been lowered from 2 to 1, meaning you can now chop them down with a Bronze Chopping Axe.

R47 is Live! - Birds, Fletching & Achievements - Release Notes

 Hello Paxians! The R47 update is now live across all shards.  This content patch introduces: birds to  hunt, a revamped Fletching and Archery experie...

Here are the Patch notes for the R47 content patch.

The Known Issues are at the bottom of the Patch notes.

If you want more details on the new content, head to the 

Reworked archery gameplay, balancing, and animations.

Updated bow progression and visual models.

Refactored the Fletching profession and added new recipes.

Achievement progress is shared across all characters within the same region.

Added the Homesteader clan membership rank.

Added the Villager & Up permission level.

Homesteaders cannot destroy building pieces placed more than 36 hours ago on Clan-shared plots.

Added functional wall-mounted and freestanding Archery Targets.

Existing Crafting Site Archery Targets are now functional.

Areas near the Petra Dei now spawn Flint, and the distance from water at which Flint can spawn has been expanded by 10 meters.

Garlic yield has been increased from 3 to 5.

Adult Birch Trees now have a hardness of 1 instead of 2, allowing them to be chopped down with a Bronze Axe.

The Straw recipe has been changed to use Reeds instead of Flax.

Fixed an issue where some Winemaking and Brewing recipes did not grant Crafting XP.

Ivies can now be destroyed when placed on construction pieces.

All furnishing pieces have been removed from the Log Workbench. Most are now crafted at the Basic Carpenter Workbench, while others have been moved to more relevant crafting stations, such as Animal Trophies at the Leatherworking Bench and Archery Targets at the Fletching Bench.

Added unread message counters to the chat sidebar.

Added configurable login and first-time player notifications.

Consecutive messages from the same sender are now grouped.

Consolidated chat preferences into a single settings panel.

Separated General Feed filters from HUD notification settings.

Added the ability to edit and remove clan announcements.

The Journal, Redeeming Queue, and Clan menus can now be closed using their respective keybinds.

Fixed a crash caused by repeatedly pressing the Reset Keybinds button.

Fixed an issue where the inventory character preview was not centered.

Added hit impact VFX for weapons and special attacks (excluding bows).

R47 - Patch Notes

 Here are the Patch notes for the R47 content patch. The Known Issues are at the bottom of the Patch notes. If you want more details on the new conten...

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