This patch introduces significant changes to the Mournel tree-balancing algorithm to address community feedback. The issues we’re addressing are:

In our first Mournel balancing, large trees dropped a significant amount of Mournwood, and when this tree type spawned, it was always the only one available in Lyonesse at the time. As a result, the optimal strategy for gathering Mournwood was to form a large, uncontestable group, undermining the intended PvP dynamics in Lyonesse.

Additionally, spawn times are currently concentrated within a very narrow time window.

There’s been wide speculation about how the instances affect the Mournels. We fully agree that we don’t want any tree to be harvestable without being contested.

These changes to the trees will be as follows:

The base spawn times will be expanded to cover 4:30 PM local time to 11:30 PM local time, every day, in the region, with the most spawns happening between 7 PM and 9 PM, so the time span covered is more than double that of the earlier. 

Every day of the week will feature the same base spawns, which are all made of the small trees, with all four buildable areas of Lyonesse getting a spawn at the same time. The 7 PM and 9 PM spawns will feature a total of 8 concurrent spawns, 2 per area. With this change, a large group can still dominate a single tree if they so choose. Still, it will be impossible to block all tree acquisition for the spawn moment entirely, and the wood yield per participant will be very low, so the optimal strategy will be to go after multiple small trees with smaller groups. 

The large number of spawns will also mean smaller groups are much more likely to find a tree that might not be contested at all, or is being harvested by a group they can engage. The intent of the trees has always been that there is a significant risk of PvP when harvesting them, but actual fighting is not guaranteed every time, and this update should move the needle in this direction.

Having spawns occur concurrently in four areas greatly reduces the chance of a second instance being created, which in rare cases could otherwise leave a group alone in that second instance.

Tuesdays and Saturdays will continue to be special, with extra spawns in the central Lyonesse area. These spawns partially overlap the spawns in other areas, so up to 11 trees will be spawned at the same time in the whole of Lyonesse. Both days will feature an additional medium and large tree spawn, so there is still a reason for larger-scale battles.

To accommodate the significantly higher number of spawns, the amount of wood per Mournel has been slightly reduced to 16, 50, and 160. Overall, the total amount of Mournwood that can be gathered per day and per week remains almost unchanged after these balancing adjustments.

We’ll monitor how these changes affect the overall experience in Lyonesse and continue to discuss the game's future with all of you on Discord.

Notably, we are aware of performance issues in large-scale battles and have profiled the game to identify the root causes of the degradation. We have good leads on what is happening and are actively working to fix the performance issues we’re seeing. We’re also working on additional changes to improve performance presets for rendering.

Patch Notes - Verse 5 Patch 1.1 - Dec.19

 This patch introduces significant changes to the Mournel tree-balancing algorithm to address community feedback. The issues we’re addressing are: In ...

Welcome to the second edition of Gallia’s Community Newsletter! This edition features clan recruitment, public events, community-led initiatives, and a new player-built tool supporting Gallia’s markets. Let’s dive in.

🛡️ Recruiting Clan — Knights of Valour

: US East - Sif [RP] – Inis Gallia - Jura

 focused on growth, connection, and long-term community. Welcoming both casual and dedicated players, the clan places a strong emphasis on inclusivity, especially for adults 30+, parents, evening gamers, and weekend warriors.

Whether your interests lie in trading, PvP encounters, or PvE challenges, Knights of Valour aims to create a space where friendships form and every playstyle is respected.

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Luminari hosts a weekly public dungeon run

, open to all players regardless of combat experience. Dungeons rotate weekly across provinces, with a focus on the local temple dungeon and additional parties tackling rivulet dungeons. 

Participants are organized into independent teams of six (tank, healer, DPS) for smooth runs and maximum fun. Loot is distributed as evenly as possible, with pre-bids for named drops.

All participants must have Down Petra unlocked as a teleport point.

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Virelux showcases a strong example of organic clan life built around shared spaces and shared time. By connecting all clan plots, members created a central guild hall and storage hall, often gathering at Viggo’s Tavern to chat while crafters prepare food and alchemy supplies.

New members have access to a dedicated lower-level storage area to help them get started, with gear, materials, and support readily available. The clan favors a relaxed onboarding approach, allowing players to explore freely while always being available to answer questions. Discord is optional, with in-game chat remaining fully supported.

Based in the south-east of Dolavon, The Rangers are known for their welcoming approach to new players. Beyond operating a clan market, members often go further, recently helping recruits by collectively building starter homes and complete workstation sets.

Support is offered at each player's preferred pace: hands-on help for those who want it, quiet guidance for those who prefer to learn on their own. The clan also encourages cooperation beyond its borders and is currently discussing joint dungeon runs with another region’s clan.

Their guiding principle is simple: everyone should feel welcome — clan member or not. Several players have noted that this kind of support made the difference in sticking with the game, especially during the early experience.

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Community Tool Spotlight — Pax Dei Market Tracking

Community member Adain has added a new feature to their site focused on market activity. Players can now, among other things, track their orders and view market activity across locations

A useful addition for traders and crafters alike.

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That’s all for this week’s highlights!

If you or your clan are hosting events, building something special, or contributing tools or initiatives to the community, send us a DM as we’d love to feature you in an upcoming edition.

Gallia’s Newsletter - Community Highlights - Dec. 18 edition

 Hello Paxians, Welcome to the second edition of Gallia’s Community Newsletter! This edition features clan recruitment, public events, community-led i...

We recently unveiled our upcoming temporary Yule 

, and we’re happy to share that the event will run from December 17, 2025, after maintenance (around 11 am UTC), to January 13, 2026!

This month-long celebration will give you plenty of time to gather ingredients and craft our festive Yule recipes. To begin, you’ll need to craft (on the Log workbench) and equip your Yule Charm, which will unlock access to Yule-exclusive resources. If you unequip it, you won’t be able to see these resources. From there, you can explore all the seasonal recipes—and even prepare a few extra items to trade or sell once the event comes to an end. 😉

We’re looking forward to seeing your homes, villages, and market stalls transformed with seasonal decorations, and of course, your characters proudly wearing their new festive attire.

For our lore aficionados, we’ve also prepared a short text exploring the origins of Yule in Pax Dei and the symbolism of the goat.

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The ancients said that in the First Winter, before people knew how to mourn or remember, the dead wandered.

The Veil was thin, but the paths were dark, and nothing guided the lost souls home. Even Meirothea, whose moonlight softened the night, could not illuminate every place where sorrow hid.

One evening, as she walked across the frost, Meirothea found a child’s spirit sitting beneath a bare tree. The child was cold, afraid, unable to speak their own name, for humanity had not yet learned a true language, only a handful of words, and none for grief or mourning.

Meirothea knelt and whispered, “Little one, follow my voice.” But the child could not rise. Their feet were tangled in shadows.

So, Meirothea called for her wolf. But the wolf’s steps were too heavy, and the shadows grew wary of his teeth.

Then, Meirothea called for her bird. But the bird’s wings could not reach the low places where sorrow pools.

So Meirothea called out a third time, into the stillness of the world: “If any creature knows the hidden roads, show them to me.”

From the dark roots of the tree, a small shape emerged. A creature with bright eyes, nimble hooves, and horns like twin crescent moons. It bowed to Meirothea, as though it had been waiting for her to speak.

The goat stepped to the child’s spirit and gently touched them with its horn. Where it touched, the shadows loosened. The goat turned, walking a path that had not existed the moment before, a path that wound between the thorns of sorrow and the deep drifts of forgetfulness. And the child followed. 

When they reached the Veil, the goat returned to Meirothea and bowed again. “Why do you help the lost?” the Redeemer asked. The goat did not speak, goats still rarely do, but it placed its forehead against her hand, and she understood: “Because the living rarely look downward, and the dead often do.”

From that day, the goat walked before Meirothea in all winter journeys. Its hooves found every hidden road. Its horns broke every snare of shadow. And its bright eyes reflected every soul who sought the way home.

So at Yule, we weave little straw goats to honor the First Guide. We place them in doorways, on hearths, or beside the fire or a lantern, believing the goat still walks unseen, clearing a path for the spirits of the departed.

And we say: “A wolf guards, a bird warns, but a goat leads you home.”

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Celebrate Yule in-game with a limited-time event!

 Hello Paxians, We recently unveiled our upcoming temporary Yule  , and we’re happy to share that the event will run from December 17, 2025, after mai...

After a successful testing phase on the Public Test Shard Arcadia, we’re excited to announce that our new content update, 

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We would like to thank all players who provided feedback during the testing phase, as that allowed us to make adjustments and changes before deploying to live. We are still 

 in a dedicated thread and evaluating the situation. Further changes are expected over the next few days/weeks as we continue to adjust.  

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It’s time to rally your friends and clanmates and set foot in 

, harvest them as soon as they appear, and race toward the shrines to claim them and begin building in this contested land.

We can’t wait to witness the first skirmishes, clever strategies, and bold constructions emerging in the PvP zone.

Please note that the balancing related to Mournels and the Shrines was changed temporarily in Arcadia for testing purposes and has now been rolled back. The update going live uses the intended balancing, where the Mournel hardness and health are higher than during the test, and the Shrine claiming costs are back to 200 Mournwood and 50k Gold.

Verse 5 also brings several gameplay and crafting updates, plus new signs and decorations to discover.

Make sure you don’t miss anything and read the 

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 are just around the corner with limited-time festive recipes. Event dates will be shared very soon.

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To be sure you don’t miss any information about our next content update, claim the @arcadia role on the Discord. 

Verse 5 - Battle for Lyonesse is now live!

 Hello Paxians! After a successful testing phase on the Public Test Shard Arcadia, we’re excited to announce that our new content update,  Verse 5 - B...

You can find more information about the game content and mechanics:

Battle for Lyonesse update adds significant new gameplay to Lyonesse, the open PvP area in the world of Pax Dei. For more details, you can check our post describing the 

New resource: Mournwood, which you can harvest from new Mournel trees that only appear in Lyonesse. Be careful - Fast Travel is disabled if you carry Mournwood.

Mournel trees are very scarce and appear only in the world during regional peak game hours in the evening. You will see the spot where a tree is about to appear in the game map of Lyonesse, a set amount of time before it spawns.

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Mournel trees are very tough and have a ton of health. Fully harvesting one will likely require sustained effort from many players. However, Mournwood is given in stages; a single player can harvest it, even if entirely chopping down the tree would take much longer.

Lyonesse will gain 12 new Feudal Shrines that only a Clan Elder and the Alderman can claim. Claiming a Feudal Shrine site costs both Gold and Mournwood. The sites have a Mournwood upkeep cost, with storage for up to a week’s worth of upkeep.

Claiming a Feudal Shrine allows you to place three plots at the site, which can be upgraded to host up to 22 plots.

You can set a Feudal Shrine that your Clan has claimed as your Petra Mea Home point, and you can use a spell that costs 20 Grace to fast travel to it.

The balancing related to Mournels and the Shrines was changed temporarily in Arcadia for testing purposes and has now been rolled back. The update going live uses the intended balancing, where the Mournel hardness and health are higher than during the test, and the Shrine claiming costs are back to 200 Mournwood and 50k Gold.

You can now acquire Mournwood from Mournel trees in Lyonesse.

You can use Mournwood along with Gold to control one (or more) of the 12 new Feudal Shrines in Lyonesse.

The shrines can be upgraded to allow more building and a feature upkeep system.

Lyonesse map has been updated to show the Shrines along with the heraldry of the controlling Clan and the Mournel tree spawns.

While bearing Mournwood, characters are unable to call upon Fast Travel miracles, including using Unstuck.

Logout time in Lyonesse has been expanded to 60 seconds and resets if you receive damage during this time. Remember to only log out in locations you know are safe.

Doors require players to be members of the controlling Clan when placed on a plot near a Shrine. We will introduce similar controls outside of Lyonesse.

An issue that sometimes flagged players for PvP upon entering Lyonesse through the safe areas has been fixed.

You’ll now only experience the “20s Weapon Switching Cooldown” when equipping a weapon that is different from the last one that was equipped.

Fix for NPC spawning issue that caused named NPCs in dungeons to be extremely rare. They should appear at expected rates now.

Fixed an issue where the Valet of the Chamber was accidentally showing up in a place where it shouldn’t have.

Cultists have heightened security and become more protective of their piles of ill-got loot.

Cave populations have been bolstered and rearranged to the whims of the Divine.

Zebian Cultists have rearranged and bolstered their forces within Zebeum dungeons.

Fixed an issue where multiple players could sit on pre-placed chairs in POIs.

Fixed issues where creatures in caves would spawn in unreachable places.

Demonic trees from the Corrupted Plains biome are no longer interactable by any player-facing means.

The resource balancing has seen quite significant changes, as you can read below. We’d like to highlight that while the number of spawn nodes in some specific cases is now less than before, the total harvestable resources are up across the board for all resources due to the respawn timers being faster.

XP from Elite and Boss enemies has been increased by 18%.

Elite enemies deal more damage, especially Elite Cultists and Demons.

Enemies should lose interest in you a bit sooner, especially if you haven’t done anything to them and you’re running away from them.

Pure Iron found outside Lyonesse has been slightly increased.

Respawn timers for most resources were made significantly shorter. This affects all world areas and effectively makes the amount of daily spawns higher than before, even for resources where the spawn node amount was lowered.

The previous Verse accidentally distributed significantly more Pure Iron and Cotton to Lyonesse than intended. The number of spawn nodes has been reduced, but with the spawn timer change, the total number of daily resources available is higher than in Verse 4.

Lyonesse now spawns all resources that are available in Wildlands.

Enchanting resources spawned on the ground in Lyonesse were reduced from 4 to 2 nodes.

Enchanting resources dropped as loot from NPCs were increased significantly, and the chance of dropping 0 Enchanting resource loot was removed from the Residual Collector, Reaper, and Hoarder. An issue causing Collectors, Reapers and Hoarders to be much less likely to spawn than intended has been fixed.

Increased durability and lifetime of weapons, tools and shields by 33% & decreased lifetime of armor by 33%.

Loot from Loot Piles has improved significantly. You can now expect to get some gold, some stacks of valuable materials, faction relics, and a reasonable chance of getting a rare relic.

NPCs no longer drop Nubuk leather; instead, they may drop Suede leather or better.

Changed some ability cooldowns for NPCs that affect their behaviors in different ways to make them a bit more tactical to fight against.

All chests and storage containers have had their capacity increased, and their descriptions now clearly indicate how much they can store. The size of individual containers has also been tuned to better reflect the difficulty and cost of manufacturing them.

Increased stack sizes of various crafting components, most notably for components related to Tailoring, Leatherworking, Baking, and Brewing.

Processing crafters, such as Kilns and Furnaces, now have a more sensible default sorting of Recipes (yes, charcoal now appears before Lime).

Fixed an issue where door states were not replicated correctly and caused problems with more than a single player.

Fixed an issue where the Long Log beam connected one way, but not the other.

Fixed an issue with crafting attempts getting stuck occasionally.

Fixed an issue with grass being visible through the Water Well.

Fixed the inconsistent names of the Limestone wall construction pieces.

Fixed recipe tiers for parted chamois meat.

The Bronze Bar recipe is now unlocked by default.

Garden Wheelbarrow (static) for decoration, also functioning as a small container.

A few new animal hide rugs of different sizes.

Lots of new candleholders — both wall-hung and table styles.

The HUD has been adjusted and does not overlap with any other UI elements, as follows:

The pickup, crafting progression, and combat progression Notifications have been moved to the left side of the character.

The Zone & PVP component has been adjusted and moved slightly upwards.

The Main Notification has been adjusted and moved slightly downwards.

Revive is easier to respond to. The notification is longer, and a key-hold action has been added.

Fixed an issue with information about Item Power bonus that can be granted by Enchanting, not taking previous Enchantments of that item into account.

The duration of the Active Premium status has been added to the Premium tooltip.

Fixed an issue with duplicated "+" symbols in the Polish localization of Premium Bonuses tooltip text.

Fixed an issue where flickering occurred in item tooltips within UIs when the language was set to German.

Fixed an issue where looting and skill notifications would stop displaying.

Fixed an issue where the map inside the Plots menu of the construction hammer would briefly display all zone names in one place before the map fully loaded.

Fixed an issue where notifications about splitting Gold would still appear after leaving a Party.

Fixed an issue where outdated localization appeared for text indicating corpse expiration timer.

Fixed an issue where pickup notification would sometimes stay on the screen and blink.

Clan application notifications are now only sent to the Alderman and Elders.

Incorrect usernames no longer display when receiving Clan or party invites.

The readability of interactive tutorials has been improved.

Fixed an issue with Snag Trees' physics when being chopped down.

Fire in the Brickmaker Crafter is now properly aligned.

Fixed an issue where the bloom of the sun shining could be seen passing through the mountain range.

Fixed an issue where some foliage was appearing in places it was not supposed to.

Fixed an issue where some trees were stretching vertically and did not look correct.

Fixed an issue where the player’s crosshair turned red when hovering over another player, outside of PvP.

Fixed several pieces of leather garments that had minor clipping on the belts and the waist area.

Hammer now stays in hand while destroying a building.

Updated the visual style of the Sylvan spell effects.

Added 2 new subscription plans, “Premium + 6 plots” and “Premium + 8 plots”.

Added the option to purchase individual Plot tokens on:

Client no longer crashes when the Steam subscription purchase is cancelled.

There is no information about releasing Feudal plots when disbanding a Clan that owns at least one Feudal Plot.

User may occasionally be unable to place a plot or see the Feudal borders upon claiming a Feudal Shrine as Clan Leader or joining a Clan with a claimed Shrine as Villager - 

"Fast travel location unlocked!" notification appears when approaching an unclaimed Feudal Shrine or a Shrine claimed by another Clan.

In the Southeastern part of Corbin, in Lyonesse, the map shows a road leading to a Lost Souls camp, but the camp is on a cliff and not accessible by road.

Multiple floating border Stones between Avalon and the center, in Lyonesse.

Stretched texture on a paved path in Lyonesse Avalon.

A path to Carnac Feudal Shrine in Lyonesse - Brecilien does not lead to the entrance

A path is blocked with a boulder in Lyonesse, Avalon

Misaligned walls are present on the road near the cliffside in the Eastern part of Lyonesse - Corbin.

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