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, allowing consensual PvP combat anywhere in the world without the risks associated with full PvP. Dueling is intended as a safe sparring system where players can practice combat, test builds, settle rivalries, or organize community events.

You can challenge another player in two ways:

. Once accepted, the duel begins after a 

. Pending duel requests can be cancelled using /cancelduel.

When a player receives fatal damage, the duel ends, and the losing player is restored to 

Either player moves beyond the 60-meter range.

Environmental hazards such as falling, burning, drowning, or poisoning can still kill players. If this happens during a duel, the duel ends in a draw.

Other players may heal or buff duelists during a duel. This allows players to practice combat scenarios that include support roles.

Clan members and party members can duel each other even when PvP flagged, as long as they remain friendly or allied.

Based on community feedback, additional controls and clarity have been added:

 can now be enabled via slash command or settings.

Improved cancellation messaging to better explain why a duel ended.

does not grant XP, loot, or system rewards

. The system is designed as a training and social feature, not as a competitive progression system.

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback while this feature was being developed. Your comments helped us refine several aspects of the system, including consent controls and messaging clarity. If you're interested in the full discussion and the feedback that shaped this feature, you can read it in the 

InDev - Feedback on Upcoming Dueling System.

We will continue to monitor feedback as players begin using the system and make adjustments as needed.

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Added a new legend to the player map for both the biomes and the icons.

Added toggle functionality for each of the icon types to give the player full authority on what to show on the map.

The compass will show the toggled indicators/icons.

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The Heartlands market search has been expanded to make it easier to find items.

Search for items by name using the market search field,

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As we all know, building in Pax Dei is the crown jewel of the game. We’re amazed by the community's creativity, and it’s common for a dev to share images of yet another amazing creation with the rest of the team. When the game launched, we were thrilled to offer creative freedom to each of you that enabled all of this, but at the same time, slightly nervous about the implications of allowing such power to be wielded by all of you. What ended up happening was the obvious - as the skill of the builders grew, so did the amount of content in each of the Home Valleys. And getting the game to perform with that amount of content is… not trivial. Game engines are typically optimised for so-called static content - objects that the developers are placing into levels, which get packaged into the data files that ship with the game. What Pax Dei does is completely the opposite, where the community is allowed to author huge amounts of dynamic content - the building pieces that are placed into the valleys in real time, with each valley being built in a unique fashion.

Having this perform well on a typical gaming PC - with MMO networking - is an amazingly hard challenge. We’ve historically added multiple layers of optimisation to the game to address building performance, ranging from instanced mesh arrays to advanced clustering of building content to optimise rendering datasets.

This release introduces a new advanced physics streaming solution for buildings, enabling much better performance in densely built valleys than before. The change has enabled us to significantly adjust the streaming distance settings. In our testing, we’re able to achieve higher frame rates than before and see buildings at much greater distances.

 that will be deployed tomorrow, but will be added in an upcoming patch for this content update.

In addition to the building system optimisation, we’ve been working on revamping the renderer configuration to give you a better choice between the visual quality of the game vs pure render performance for higher frame rates.

As a side note, the Unreal rendering tech we’re using is quite intense on both the CPU and the GPU of the PC you’re playing the game on. In our testing, especially on older PCs, the game's performance bottleneck has often been the CPU. The building system optimisations in this release free up CPU for physics, shifting more to rendering, which will help on computers that have been CPU-constrained in the past.

We’ve tuned and expanded the graphics quality presets from the current three (Low, Medium, High) to five (Low, Medium, High, Epic, and Cinematic). In the new system, the old Low roughly corresponds to the new Medium, the old Medium is the new High, and the old High is the new Epic. We’ve also added an automated GPU speed checker to the game, which will run once on every computer to set graphics settings to values that should provide a good gameplay experience.

The goal with these changes is to make the game perform better on slower PC, but also give even more visual goodies on the latest generation CPUs and GPUs if you so choose - or for those who care about pure frame rate performance, it’ll be easier to pick presets that give you that.

Scalable UI is back with “small/medium/large” options that can be adjusted in the settings menu. Issues and bugs from the previous system have been fixed.

Improved Material Recovery on Failed Crafts

We have introduced a new system that determines which materials are returned when a crafting attempt fails. This system is designed to make crafting failures feel fairer and better reflect the investment made into a recipe.

Instead of relying on flat randomness, material recovery now considers the relative value of the ingredients used in the recipe.

Each ingredient in a recipe now has an internal value that reflects the effort and rarity required to obtain it. When a craft fails, the system evaluates the recipe's total value and determines how much of that value should be recovered.

Materials are then returned from the original recipe until the recovery target is reached.

The items returned are chosen randomly, but the probability of recovering each item is weighted by its value. This means more valuable ingredients are significantly more likely to be recovered than common bulk materials.

Because items are returned individually and probabilities are recalculated after each item, it is possible for a single valuable component to push the recovered value beyond the target.

To make early crafting experimentation less punishing, low-tier recipes now return a much larger portion of their materials when a craft fails.

This helps new players learn crafting systems without being heavily penalized for early mistakes.

As recipes increase in tier, the baseline recovery ratio gradually decreases, moving closer to the intended balance for higher value crafting.

The material recovery system is designed to support future progression systems.

In a later update, players will be able to increase the recovery ratio through gameplay systems, including things like: Advanced crafting facilities, new Miracles, Crafting specializations or Equipment. These systems will allow experienced crafters to reduce risk and better protect valuable materials.

Failed crafting attempts still grant crafting experience.

However, experience is only awarded based on the materials that were actually consumed during the attempt. Materials returned through the recovery system do not contribute to crafting XP.

This ensures that crafting failures still contribute to normal progression while preventing situations where repeatedly failing expensive crafts could generate excessive experience.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the discussion and provided thoughtful feedback while this system was being developed. Your input helped shape several aspects of the implementation and the long-term direction of crafting. If you're interested in the full discussion, you can read the feedback thread in the Feedback section on our Discord: 

InDev - Feedback on failed crafting return system

Equipped weapons are now visibly sheathed on your character when not in use.

The weapon that appears sheathed is the last weapon you used, and will be displayed on your character’s back or hip, depending on the weapon type. This allows other players to see what you are carrying even when it is not drawn.

If you prefer a cleaner look, you can hide sheathed weapons from the Character Panel → Equipment view.

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A Hide Helmet option has been added to the Character Panel → Equipment view, allowing players to hide their equipped helmet visually while still keeping its stats and benefits.

Helmets will always be visible while a player is PvP flagged, regardless of this setting.

This PvP exception will not be active in the initial PTS release, but will be added during PTS before the feature goes live.

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We have made several improvements and fixes to the baseline bow responsiveness and usability, as part of ongoing work on ranged combat and in preparation for the upcoming fletching revamp.

Ambush invisibility now ends when the arrow is fired.

Bow combat should now feel more responsive. If you hold LMB while drawing a new arrow after firing the previous one, your character will seamlessly transition into aiming and shooting once the draw is complete. You can still cancel before the aim circle appears.

Bow skill XP is now awarded when the NPC is killed, as long as the player has hit the target with a bow at least once during the fight.

Fixed an issue where an equipped bow would display a nocked arrow even when no arrows were left in the inventory.

Fixed an issue where canceling a bow draw could incorrectly trigger the "Out of Arrows" message.

If a recipe yields byproducts, they will now be indicated in the recipe (making some Meat Chunks from a deer carcass also yields bone fragments and suet).

We added back some stronger colors in the grass flowers (mainly in the Grassland biome). We overdid it a bit in the last update while trying to improve resource readability, which made some parts of the world look a bit too washed out. Thanks to our players for pointing this out!. It’s not exactly the same as it was before, but fairly close.

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As usual, we’re looking forward to your constructive feedback and bug/issue reports in the dedicated channel once the update is available for testing.

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Duelling is now possible in Pax Dei; you can provoke another player in a duel from the overlay menu when in front of them or from the chat with /duel [playername].

Added “Quick Stack” action to containers. Moves items from your inventory into the container if the container already contains that item type, making it faster to stack and organize resources. 

Added “Take All” to chests and processing crafters. Attempts to move as many items as possible into your inventory from a chest (starting from the bottom slots) and collects all completed items from processing crafters.

Players are no longer able to bypass the door permissions of an enemy Feudal Clan by relogging and immediately using certain weapon abilities.

Fixed an issue where an equipped bow would display a nocked arrow even if no arrows remained in the inventory.

Fixed an issue where triggering shield and bow usage at the same time would result in the bow being permanently non-functional.

Tombstones with items will now disappear when they are looted, and the character is revived.

Fixed an issue where a player was not able to decrease the price in a market stall if they had no gold in their inventory.

Fixed an issue where enemies would, in some cases, permanently regenerate health while in combat.

Fixed an issue where players could see their character briefly standing up after they died.

Fixed an issue where a character could be stuck in the bonfire geometry after teleporting to a Feudal Shrine.

Now, only players who have visited the Feudal Shrine are able to teleport to it using the map.

Fixed the issue where simultaneous HP and stamina recovery canceled the logout timer.

Fixed an issue where staves would deal no damage if the player was wearing Hunter's Trousers of Binding Roots.

The Battleaxe now has SFX for blocking attacks.

Made an attempt at fixing the UI progress circle when skinning that sometimes lingered long after skinning was completed.

Fixed an issue with some spells that had too high particle counts.

Will'o’wisps now die a bit more gracefully and telegraph their death with different colors.

Fixed the colour of flowers that were looking washed out or grey. This change mainly impacts the Grassland biomes.

Optimizations to GPU memory usage to improve overall performance.

Added a hide helmet option to the Character Panel. Helmets will always be visible when players are flagged for PVP.

Weapons placed on the ground now act a little better. Added position tweaks to many items - they still stand up, but look like they have been deliberately stuck into the ground. Hammers and axes are resting on the ground.

Introduced a new system that determines which materials are returned when a crafting attempt fails. This system is designed to make crafting failures feel fairer and better reflect the investment made into a recipe. Instead of relying on flat randomness, material recovery now considers the relative value of the ingredients used in the recipe.

Fixed an issue where all items could be repaired from the top bar Crafting menu instead of just the items that can be crafted directly through that menu.

Fixed an issue that disrupted crafting when health was regenerating, effectively forcing the failure of the craft. 

Crafting tables are now open, showing recipes that match the character’s skill level for the main skill for that crafter, and not any other skill level used for recipes on the crafter.

If a recipe yields byproducts, they will now be indicated in the recipe (for example, making some Meat Chunks from a deer carcass also yields bone fragments and suet).

As with every content update, resource spawn locations may have changed. These locations are generated by a dynamic system that balances resource availability across the open world, rather than being placed manually. While this can sometimes require players to adjust their routes, it may also lead to the discovery of more efficient or convenient farming paths.

We understand that frequent changes can be frustrating, so we have made improvements to increase spawn stability. For this release, approximately 60% of resource locations remain unchanged. In future updates, spawn points are expected to become even more persistent, provided they are not removed as part of resource rebalancing. This comes from improvements to the resource deployment system, which now includes logic to reuse spawn locations when possible. This release includes more changes than future updates because the improved system relies on additional data about spawn locations. This data will be available for upcoming releases, but was not fully in place for this one.

The following improvements to resource availability and distribution have been made with this release:

Ensure a more even distribution of Tin, as there were noticeable differences in distribution between home valleys. 

Added lower-tier mining nodes to the wildlands to increase variety, based on player feedback of specific biomes like rocky terrain having few or no nodes in some cases. These added nodes will not reduce the number of higher-tier nodes; they are an addition. The new nodes may, however, be located at the spot where another node previously was.

Added tin, copper, and impure iron nodes, as well as barley, to Lyonesse. These will not reduce the number of other resource spawns, but they may spawn in the location where another type of resource previously spawned. 

Increased the number of cotton spawns, based on player feedback. We also added a small amount of Cotton near the water in the Wildlands and Lyonesse.

Map: Added a new legend to the player map for both the biomes and the icons, with toggle functionality for each of the icon types to give the player full authority on what to show on the map.

The Heartlands market search has been expanded to make it easier to find items. You can now search for items by name using the market search field, and sort listings by item name.

Added back the option to scale the UI and fixed the issue that was preventing the settings from persisting between game sessions.

The “See role” button in promotion or demotion notifications for Clan roles now forwards the user to the appropriate Clan UI panel (Members), regardless of the UI's previous state.

Change the name “Equipment menu” to “Character” in the Settings/Controls.

Added a loading spinner in the Equipment menu when equipping/unequipping gear.

Added indicators for door-opening direction in the building UI.

“Attack Power” naming has been changed to “Damage Bonus”.

Fixed some inconsistencies between the Emote icons and the Blessing icons wheel menu.

Fixed an inconsistent display of the Filter by Type tooltip in the Market Stall.

Fixed issues where localized text would exceed button boundaries.

Fixed an issue where canceling the bow draw would cause the “Out of Arrows” message to appear.

Fixed an issue where the ESC key did not close the redeeming queue.

Fixed an issue where the Home Shrine indicator was missing on the map.

Fixed an issue where Icons in Radial menus remained greyed out after being highlighted.

Fixed an issue where some UI tabs would disable melee and ability inputs.

Fixed an issue where XP notification would show a summed-up amount of experience instead of the amount given to each piece separately.

Player is now properly informed in the chat that they have been muted.

Removed "Application message" section from Invited Players in the Clan menu.

Similar items should now be stacked in the redeeming queue.

Spells and Special attacks in the equipment tab now display their description when hovered over.

The buyer is now informed about it if the price changes during the purchase.

Fixed the issue with the Gear fragments that were locked into the equipment slots.

Fixed an issue where the UI panel could jitter across various crafters.

Fixed an issue where releasing a plot blocked the player from using tokens.

Fixed an issue where chat history would disappear when teleporting.

Players should no longer get random portraits when their portraits don’t load, but instead see an icon with a question mark. 

Fixed an issue where messages written on Zone chat would not show above the character's head, like when written in other chat channels.

Fixed an issue where players were unable to reply to a Discord message from players who are not on their friends list.

Fixed an issue where clan invite notifications would sometimes only appear on the screen for a split second.

Grace Help pop-up was removed as it was a legacy from before we implemented the interactive tutorials.

Added a new advanced physics streaming solution for buildings, enabling much better performance in densely built valleys than before

Revamped the renderer configuration to give you a better choice between the visual quality of the game vs pure render performance for higher frame rates.

Improved performance in the dungeons slightly by tweaking the insect effect on certain enemies.

There is a known issue where using the [F] Intercept ability with Hand Spears on humanoid enemies can prevent the target from dying if the ability does not deliver the killing blow. After this occurs, the NPC will continue to take damage from subsequent attacks but will not die. As a workaround, the NPC can still be killed using bow attacks. 

When using the Intercept ability with any one-handed spear equipped, enemies start to lose HP over time  

When the Player's character revives in Lyonesse and someone takes all items from their corpse, they teleport to the place where they were defeated. 

Avatar becomes unable to move, when healing a target that is moving out of range 

Switching between a shield and a bow while holding block button causes the shield to stay visible as if it was equipped together with the bow.  

Spells fail to cast on first activation when taking high damage

Moods disappear incorrectly during and after PvP combat state

The default tunic is missing from the avatar when you are in Character Edit mode.

The Reset button doesn’t reset the Face Detail settings to the initial state during the character creation. Instead, it will set all sliders to the middle point.

System messages related to the Duel feature are missing the sender's name, displaying a blank space where a player name would normally appear.

The sheathable shield or weapon disappears when both are triggered simultaneously.

Character's hair clips through the sheathable shield.

Sheathed weapons clip with some wearable items, such as the Cleric Alb of Reflection Hood.

Sheathed staves are shown on top of a shield, while swords and axes are shown under a shield. Axes also clip through the shield

Sheathable bow animation glitch, when triggered simultaneously with another sheathable weapon

Player gets no feedback for why they can’t type messages longer than the character limit of 1000 in chat.

Chat does not consistently snap to the latest message received.

Older chat notifications remain on the screen for a longer time if the UI scale is changed from “Large” to “Small” while the notifications are still visible.

Longer sleeves on some armour appear unnaturally stiff during emotes.

Arrows clip through the character’s model when the bow is drawn.

There is no SFX at the beginning and end of a duel.

Hiding and unhiding chainmail gear in the Inventory UI sometimes takes a long time to reload.

Grass might appear on stretches of the road, obstructing visibility.

Sun’s rays may pass through terrain/mountains in low or medium overall quality settings.

Additionally Crafted  material's label moves in the UI, when the recipe is selected in the crafting UI

Inconsistencies with naming in Poorly Parted meat parts in Butcher's Workbench 

Strawberry Mead recipe is duplicated in Barrel Bottle and appears as two separate items 

Craft All button moves below the Craft button if there are 3 digits in the amount of crafts

"Craft All" button fills crafting queue more slowly than the keyboard shortcut (Left Shift + C)

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