First, here is the content recap for Verse 2, Market Square (with a little teaser about the next update with Grace and Miracles):

• You can now obtain Gold in the game:
  
  • Kill some humanoid NPCs and check what they drop;
    
  • Gold operates as an 'ethereal currency' represented only in the UI;
    
  • When you receive Gold, the system adds it to a wallet in your inventory;
    
  • You can transfer Gold from your wallet to any chest where it will also appear as in a wallet;
    
  • Your Gold balance is unaffected by your avatar's death and can't be looted in PvP.

• You can build Market Stalls to sell and buy items for Gold.
  
  • Market Stalls are available with Carpentry level 5.
    
  • The recipe will appear in the crafters' list.
    
  • Each Market Stall has a maximum capacity of active sell orders. Currently, this limit is at 120 per Market Stall.
• Permissions - currently only the Market Stall’s owner can change them
  
  • You can set the following permissions to determine who can sell goods at your Market Stall:
    
    • Private,
      
    • Clan,
      
    • Clan - Elders,
      
    • Clan - Alderman.
  • Actions you can't change the permission for:
    
    • Everyone can purchase from any Market Stall,
      
    • An order can be canceled by the seller, the Market Stall owner, or the plot owner.
• Creating a sell order
  
  • Put an item or a stack of items from your inventory on sale and give it a gold price. Each sell order size corresponds to one inventory slot.
    
  • Creating a sell order comes at a brokering fee gold charge.
    
  • This can only be done if the Market Stall is not at full capacity, the player can afford the broker's fee, and the player has sell permission.
    
  • Once created, each sell order shows the item, the stack size, the seller name, and the price.
    
  • Items with less than 100% durability and lifetime can still be sold. The buyer can see the durability state of the item in the details panel.
• Market Stalls don't yet have detailed filters or sorting options, but you can use the text search to filter items by name or by the seller's name.
  
  • You can also use a quick filter for a single item type by hovering over an item or sell order and pressing the input displayed as “Filter by item. “ This option automatically sets the item's name into the text search filter.
• Purchasing an item
  
  • Anyone can browse any Market Stall and purchase items from it.
    
  • You can only purchase an item when you have available inventory space and carry enough Gold to afford it.
    
  • Upon purchase, Gold is immediately transferred to the seller's avatar wallet.
• Canceling an order
  
  • Orders can only be canceled by the seller, the Market Stall owner, and the plot owner.
    
  • You can only cancel an order if you have free inventory space to withdraw it.
    
  • Canceling an order withdraws the item from the stall and places it in the inventory of the player who canceled it. As with the permissions on your plot(s), you must trust the people you work with!
    
  • When an order is canceled, the fee spent upon creation is lost.
• Market Stall Notifications
  
  • When your sell order is filled out, you receive the gold immediately in your wallet.
    
  • The initial release of the Market Stalls doesn't give you a visual notification when you sell a good. Your gold wallet updates as gold is transferred to it. We're still working on clear notifications for this and a Market Log where you review your active orders and trade activity.
• Destroying a Market Stall
  
  • Market Stall can only be destroyed if it has no active sell orders. The plot owner, the market stall owner, or the sell order owner(s) must cancel any active orders to be able to destroy a market stall.
• If a plot with a Marker Stall is released:
  
  • As there is no plot owner anymore, only the Market Stall owner and the owners of the different sell orders can cancel the orders.
    
  • If someone now places a plot on top of the Market Stall, they become the plot’s owner and obtain rights on the Market Stall. This means they can empty it by canceling all orders and getting all the goods. Again, be careful with who you work with on the Market Stalls.

• A lot of stack sizes have been increased.
  
• The system for selecting interactable items—loots, gatherables, and props—is now more reliable when the items are stacked on each other.
  
• The interaction range has also been slightly increased.
  
• The Unstuck ability can no longer be used during combat and now requires full stamina to activate.
  
• Mining and tree-chopping animations have been enhanced.
  
• Clan names will now consistently appear below player names in character nameplates.

• Projectiles can now penetrate water surfaces.
  
• Reduced forward movement of all melee attacks by 10%.
  
• The stamina cost of blocking in PvE combat has been reduced.
  
• Base stamina regeneration is paused during blocking, but food and potion regeneration will continue.
  
• The melee targeting has been improved to prioritize enemies close by.
  
• The melee Aim Assist slider has been removed from the game.
  
• The damage of all sword types has been increased.
  
• Combat skills for one-handed and two-handed spears have been divided into Handspears and Polearms categories.
  
• Fixed an issue where One Handed Spears incorrectly used Polearm damage on the final combo-chain attack.
  
• The area of effect range of the two-handed mace special attack has been reduced.
  
• Balanced the damage output of maces and spears to better align with their utility.
  
• The axe special attack now reduces target physical resistances by 20% (used to be flat value).
  
• The Hurt Proc effect has been adjusted to reduce stun duration, application chance, and flat damage.
  
• Spell Casting now correctly displays the spell icon and text on NPCs' nameplates.
  
• Fixed an issue where attempting to cast a spell on cooldown would prevent subsequent casts in the same slot.
  
• Enemies stuck attempting to path to their target will now teleport to a valid spot near their target. This is a temporary workaround to a dungeon exploit where the enemy movement is blocked so they cannot reach their target.
  
• NPCs will now verify their teleport destination to prevent unintended teleportation.
  
• Fixed issues related to NPC disappearance, aggro, and pathfinding.
  
• Fixed over-prediction of attacks against enemies moving near the player where some hits would be considered being done from behind, ignoring the blocking mitigation.
  
• Fixed an exploit where it was possible to drop an item during combat and “hide” behind it to prevent receiving damages.

• Improved Inquisitor grunts and sounds when fighting in groups.
  
• Fixed the frequency of noises enemies make while idling.

• Added several clan and party events to broadcast to the chat, e.g., new members joining, members leaving, or being kicked out…
  
• Added a settings menu to the general chat that allows players to filter what chat lobbies they see.
  
• Removed the Discord account name displayed in the chat under the player character’s name. The Discord account name information is still available in the interaction menu when clicking on a player's chat entry.
  
• Updated the Discord button textures and text so they should not appear pixelated or blurry at different UI scales.
  
• Fixed several issues with the Direct Message button usability.
  
• Fixed an issue in which the friend requests, clan invites, and party invites were also displayed to the requester.
  
• Fixed an issue where the nearby chat lobby might not appear in the general chat lobby selector.
  
• Fixed an issue where you couldn't DM a player from the chat interaction menu after sending them a friend request.
  
• Fixed an issue where texts with a line break pasted into the chat would automatically be sent.
  
• Fixed an issue where successfully linking your account to Discord from the chat settings or friend list wouldn't trigger a pop-up.

• Increased the size of the Skullcap resource for better visibility.
  
• Added a missing icon for Green Apples.
  
• Updated assets and icons for reeds and grain resources.
  
• Updated the model and icon for Green Grapes.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the placement of blast furnaces on foundations and other flat structures.
  
• Corrected the 3D model of wrought iron bars when dropped on the ground.
  
• Addressed floating and clipping issues with decorative props in enemy camps.
  
• Fixed the smoke effect emitted by Alchemy Tables.
  
• Fixed lighting anomalies when entering and exiting water volumes in pre-dungeon catacombs.
  
• Squared away some extra sound effects used to play when interacting with the map.
  
• Improved the visual appearance of the Petra Dei.

• Beards and mustaches can now be selected independently during the character creation.
  
• Subtle adjustments have been made to avatar faces.
  
• Additional body shape options and normal mapping have been implemented.
  
• Optimized several NPCs for better performance.
  
• Adjusted some shaders to improve metal brightness.
  
• Reduced excessive shininess on leather chest armor pieces.
  
• Improved cape clipping behavior.
  
• Ensured the "always cover body" feature persists in the characters' lobby.
  
• Optimized texture scaling by removing dynamic bounding boxes for detail textures.
  
• Fixed an issue causing head transparency when wearing specific clothing.
  
• Corrected display issues with specific earring models.

• Some resources and animals' spawn points have been updated.
  
• Increased Tree Branch and Gneiss Stone density in starter areas.
  
• Increased spawns for Level 14 boars, Level 24 bears, grapes, red onion, reeds, and pure iron deposits in the Wildlands.
  
• Adjusted Meadowsweet to spawn more along the water in the grasslands and all non-tree biomes in the Home Valleys. Also added it to the wetlands biome in the Wildlands.
  
• Ensured all quarries in the world have mineable spawning.

• Fixed an issue that caused the skinning skill to not always receive XP from looting animal corpses.
  
• Adjusted recipes for starter professions to align with the stack amounts for the ingredients.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the map to no longer focus on the player's location in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue where holding shift and double-clicking G would move all items from one inventory to another.
  
• Fixed an issue with inventory where the button prompts stack vertically.
  
• Updated recipe names for smithy signs to be more descriptive.
  
• Fixed an issue where items sometimes drop to the ground when moving them from the inventory slot to the hotbar.
  
• Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Craft All to stop functioning.

• The game is now localized in French and German. Open the Setting, General, and pick your language in the drop-down menu. You won’t need to restart the game.
  
• You can post feedback on our Discord channels dedicated to French and German localization.

• Creating or purchasing a sell order can sometimes trigger a random error message despite being successful.
  
• Market Stall settings window is missing the confirmation and reset buttons.
  
• The right panel is not refreshed after an item is purchased, which leaves a non-functional ghost item displayed.
  
• The original slot remains selected when moving an item from one inventory slot to another.
  
• The settings button in the Market Stall UI is missing a corresponding key bind.
  
• A sell order and an inventory item can both be selected at once.
  
• If the player does not have enough gold and purchases an order using the keyboard key, an error pop-up appears with missing strings.
  
• Primary action button prompts are missing for all modal windows related to interacting with sell orders.
  
• The "Market at Full capacity!" window lacks the visuals [X] and ESC close window options.
  
• Text in the "Market at Full capacity!" modal is grammatically incorrect.
  
• Dragging items onto the Market Stall UI sometimes drops them into the world.
  
• In the Market Stall UI, hovering on an empty slot in inventory shows the selected item from the Market Stall.
  
• The purchase button in the details panel of a Market Stall is not affected by changing the client's display language.
  
• The [Esc] icon and hint are missing in the tutorial message during the first Market Stall opening.
  
• The number input box of the Gold deposit/withdrawal amount is deselected too easily if accidentally hovering over storage slots.
  
• Feedback message when attempting to destroy a non-empty Market Stall refers to it as an "inventory."
  
• Market stalls cannot be interacted with while using Emotes.
  
• Keyboard input becomes unresponsive in Market Stall when the Chat window is open.

• The friends list is empty after unlinking Discord.
  
• Changing chat channels does not always require selecting the text input field, and the channel cannot be closed by pressing enter.
  
• Disabled chat feeds are re-enabled after logging out and back.
  
• Chat System Messages - Missing Party event when promoting a leader.
  
• Tell and Reply may create an additional dialogue chat feed.
  
• Active chat may remain in the dropdown after disabling it in General chat.
  
• Opening Notifications or Party displays the General Chat headline for a moment.

• Shield bash doesn't always hit the enemy from a specific distance.
  
• The player's cast bar description can change for the spell another Player's character is casting.
  
• Zebian Acolyte and Zebian Trickster NPCs exhibit erratic behavior after losing aggro.
  
• Missing spell icon for spellcasting NPCs.
  
• Zebian Acolyte and Zebian Trickster NPCs health bar issues during combat.
  
• Ranged attack collision issue for Inquisition Catalyst on sloped terrain and stairs
  
• Casting Breath of Joy stops the Autorun.
  
• Corpse summoning and Petra Mea progress bar may persist on the screen if canceled quickly.

• The indicator of the cooldown state is inconsistent for potions in inventory.
  
• No feedback is provided for when the unstuck cooldown is finished.
  
• Storage container names can overflow the container window.
  
• The pause menu automatically reopens after unstuck usage. Plus, it can occasionally become unresponsive. To open it, you must repeatedly press the [Esc] key.
  
• The green apple icon does not appear in the cooldown HUD when consuming it.
  
• Clan UI displays active characters as offline sporadically.
  
• Examine tooltip doesn't mention the ability to pick up the item and allows unexpected key bind in that state.
  
• Highlighted border of button bindings appears inconsistently in different UI scales and resolutions.

• The “All” in the Worlds' selector is not localized.
  
• The Discord button in the character selection menu is not localized.
  
• “Unclaimed plot” in the Plot menu is not localized.
  
• In all languages, the keyword to release a plot is the English word DELETE. Hopefully, the UI clearly indicates this.
  
• The Discord URL in the EA panel is broken.
  
• Some DE and FR texts overlap with the UI.

• Pax Dei exe sometimes still runs after closing the client window on Steam.
  
• When playing in windowed mode, the mouse pointer sometimes exits the game window area.
  
• Changing between Masculine and Feminine preset characters may cause the beard tab to behave in an unexpected way.
  
• Stack sizes of potions are inconsistent.
  
• It is possible to trigger looting animation for an already looted loot pile at world load; it is only a visual bug.
  
• Incorrect building integrity highlights in green for elements without support.
  
• Inconsistent Stamina behavior when it gets below 0.
  
• Audio: Certain ambient animal sounds are connected to the SFX slider in settings (smells like a badger’s trick).
  
• Road and landscape texture can become extremely blurry depending on the camera angle on the AMD GPU.
  
• Grass layer blends are too sharp in some places.

Hello Paxians,

The wait will soon be over! We are thrilled to announce that the next content update for Pax Dei, Verse 2: Market Square, will launch on December 13.

Note: Maintenance will begin at 9 am UTC and is expected to last approximately 2 hours, so please plan accordingly. Also, no wipe of the world or characters is planned for the Verse 2 update.

As the name suggests, Market Square will introduce a dynamic market and gold economy system. And that’s just the beginning, here’s a detailed look at what you’ll find in this update:

Verse 2 will introduce gold coins, which will serve as the universal currency for trade. You will earn gold coins as loot from NPCs and can use them to buy items from other players via a new type of crafter, the market stall. You will be able to set up bustling trade hubs, explore markets owned by other players, and utilize quick filtering to navigate them with ease. Additionally, you will have customizable trading permissions, allowing you to tailor your experience to fit your community or clan.
More details here[playpaxdei.com]

Important note: To ensure that you can start experimenting with the economy right away, we’ve decided to split this update into two phases. Gold and market stalls will be available in December, but the Grace feature will be introduced only early next year - probably in January (still needs to be confirmed), as it requires a bit more development time.

We are bringing Pax Dei to our French and German communities, allowing you to play the game in your own language. As you know, localization can be a meticulous process, and while we work hard to ensure accuracy, some phrasing might not feel quite right at first. We will welcome your feedback and we’re ready to brainstorm and refine terms with you in the dedicated feedback threads that will open on December 13 on Discord. Get your dictionaries and brains ready!

In Market Square, we will be making some adjustments to combat. For example, we will be adjusting weapon balance: mace and spear damage will be reduced, sword damage will be increased, and the axe’s special attack will apply a 20% armor reduction effect. We will also adjust stamina costs for PvE blocking and introduce a new restriction for the “Unstuck” feature, which will require full stamina and will not be usable during combat. Additionally, we will improve targeting logic for melee combat to prioritize nearby enemies. Forward movement and the area effects of certain attacks will be slightly reduced. Finally, we will fix some issues, such as spell cooldown interactions, NPC pathing exploits, and targeting bugs to ensure smoother gameplay.

We will be making visual improvements to enhance resource visibility and quality. For example, the size of Skullcap plants will be increased, and models and icons for Reeds, Oaths, Wheat and Barley will be updated. The visual appearance of Petra Dei in the world will be significantly improved, and missing or outdated resource icons will also be added or refreshed for a more seamless experience.

Character customization will receive some nice updates! You will be able to choose your beard and mustache options separately, giving you more control over your character’s appearance. We will also make additional tweaks, such as improvements to cape clipping, adjustments to metallic brightness in shaders, and better texture consistency for leather armor. Normal maps and body shape logic will also be refined to provide a more polished experience overall.

To ensure a smoother gameplay experience, we will adjust the Skinning skill to guarantee proper XP gain. Additionally, we will streamline recipe names and inventory interactions for clarity and usability. We will also fix some issues, such as inventory stacking prompts, item drops during inventory transfers, and map focus problems. Alchemy table visual effects and resource spawn positions will also be refined to enhance your crafting experience.

With this update, you will be able to filter visible chat lobbies through a new settings menu in the general chat. Discord account names will no longer appear beneath your character names in chat, but they will remain accessible via the interaction menu. Additional updates to the UI are also being made.

We hope you’re as excited as we are, and that you’re ready to earn gold and go on a shopping spree starting December 13!

And for those of you who read thoroughly, we can confirm that another content update is already in the works for early next year. Stay tuned for more details.

Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

Friday’s announcement regarding markets and economy triggered many questions from the community. We’ll try to answer as many of these in as much detail as we can below.

When it comes to timing, our rule of thumb is ”it will be deployed when ready.” For markets, we can tell you that we are super ready - like, super super ready!


That won’t be possible in this first pass of the markets. We have been looking at visual customisation of the markets for later updates, as we know being able to customize the stalls is important. So - we don’t have an ETA for customization, but it’s on the list.


Yes, we have visual variants coming in a later update - no ETA yet. You can see below some Work in Progress designs. Here is what you’ll be able to sell/buy on the specific stalls:

• Alchemist: herbs, mushrooms, minerals, drinks and potions.
  
• Woodsman: leather, leather armor, hides, bow, fur, meat.
  
• Crafter: ores, metals, metal armor, tailoring.

In development - Stall variants

In development - Alchemist Stall


There won’t be one initially. In a later version we’re going to surface market areas on the map.


In this first version of the market stalls, you will have to be at the market stall to see what is being sold in the stall. We will be updating the system so you can browse the contents of the stalls at a greater distance (i.e. within a Heartland). When browsing remote stalls within the Heartland, if you find wares you’d like to buy, the market UI will let you set a map waypoint to the stall to make it easier to visit.


The maximum amount of gold a player can own is a Very Large Number, which we intend no player to ever reach.


Not in this version of the Markets. We have later plans for market logs that give you essential information on your active orders and all your order activity. We’ve also discussed making it so that players who have connected their Discord accounts could ask the game to notify them using a DM when they make a sale.


The market stalls will have their own inventory, and items listed for sale will go into the stall’s inventory. Note that there will be a fee to list an item for sale, which is set at 5% of the item sale price and a minimum of 1 gold, so the stalls will not be great for storing items in place of chests. We intend to observe how this fee works out and might adjust the fee in the future.


Currently, you will not be able to deconstruct a market stall if it contains an item for sale. You’ll have to delist all the items before you can deconstruct the market stall.


The stall owner and the plot owner will be able to de-list items from the stalls they control, assuming they’ve given other people the right to list items in their market. The player who de-lists an item takes the item to their inventory. Therefore, the first version of the Market Stalls is optimized for players and their trusted allies to sell their wares to the public as opposed to running a market where everyone comes to sell their items.

For the first version of Market Stalls, you will be able to share permissions with your clan to post items for sale, and anyone can buy from any stall. In the future, we’re going to make it safe to list items in a public stall without the fear of the stall owner “stealing” your item by de-listing it. We’d also like to let you limit who can buy from the stall, so you could set up a stall with discounted item prices for your clan, for example.


The existing sales will continue to exist and will not be affected by the permission change.


Currently, there is no time limit for how long the items on sale are listed.


In this first version of the markets you will only be able to sell items. We already have the design for adding buy orders, and we want to include that feature in a future update.


We currently allow all items to be listed regardless of their condition. As a buyer, you will be able to see the condition of the item being sold.


Initially, each stall will be set to a cap of 120 orders. This is likely to evolve in the future.


Until further notice, all gold coins will come in the form of PvE loot.


We have plans for this, but no details to share yet.


You will earn a certain amount per day for free and then you can gain incrementally more on a daily basis by sacrificing gold at an increasing cost. The cost gets reset on a daily basis. Grace is a non-transferable resource.


We will share more about the locations later. The amount of Grace you can earn to perform all miracles is limited by time and how much gold you’re prepared to invest in it, which influences how much you’re willing to use for fast travel. We’re also looking into increasing the cost of fast travel miracles based on the amount and value of goods you’re carrying, making these miracles great to go out on adventure but not necessarily the best options to bring the goods home or transport them over long distances.


We sympathize with this sentiment. The reason we’re planning to use this mechanic here is not inspired by evil and manipulative industry standards, but because we think it's the best fit for the design goals we’re trying to achieve with Grace. Grace will be a hugely valuable resource that we want to be throttled by both time and in-game wealth and success (gold and social positions). We’ll share more details on Grace, Miracles and the Divine at a later point.

Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

Following thurday's hotfix, we saw quite a few questions and feedback regarding crafting and wanted to clarify some (pain) points.


This was actually a visual UI bug. The cap was always 40, and going above it did not increase the crafting chances. We've now fixed it to be displayed correctly. We know some of you were trying and even succeeded in reaching level 41, and we understand your frustration. That is why we wanted to fix it as soon as possible while clarifying it was not a nerf.


We get it - alchemy is tough! That’s intentional. Skills in the game aren’t designed to be mastered all at once by a single character. Some, like alchemy, are meant to take longer. If you’re in a clan, consider assigning specialties so everyone can excel at different skills. For solo players, patience and perseverance will pay off—try focusing on fewer skills at a time for better progress.

Please note that some changes will soon be made to Meadowsweet spawn - they’ll be added to wetlands and biomes along water (as long as they’re not in a forest). Oh, also, they’ll be bigger at some point to be better noticeable.


Some changes were made to some stacks, and not all resources got a stack revamp, leading to some discrepancies. It’s very likely that bones’ stacks will be reviewed soon and will be increased.
Note also that we plan to re-adjust all stacks early next year to make them all more consistent.


Spoiler: Jewelry is planned to get a glow-up by spring next year, as it’s supposed to be linked to enchanting. As all stats would probably change by then, we think it’s best not to include any stats for now instead of having too many changes later.


We’re looking into this currently and will certainly make some changes, especially when it comes to drops of large animal hides – so that they not only drop from all bears but also on stags (depending on your skinning skills) – as we know not everyone can gather a group to manage to kill a bear. More info on this pretty soon.



We know that animal and resource spawns have changed, and you should assume that as soon as we deploy a patch or hotfix affecting resources, the spawn locations will also change.

We understand that it can be confusing and you’ll need to change your route – take it on the positive side: you might discover new spots closer to your place and find a better route!

Now, some changes will be made soon regarding some spawns like:

• More branches in starter areas
  
• More pure iron deposits in the Wildlands
  
• More grapes, red onions and reeds overall
  
• More level 14 boars and more level 24 bears. Yes, even more bears!!

Overall, regarding the spawn of resources, even if locations themselves change, the “pattern” of where a certain resource will spawn will remain the same. For example:

• Skullcap (Galerina Marginata), also known as deadly Galerina, typically grows in coniferous and mixed woodlands within temperate biomes. They are commonly found on decaying wood, particularly rotting logs, stumps, and fallen branches of coniferous trees like pine and spruce.
  
• Morel (Morchella): Found in broadleaf woodlands within temperate biomes, often near ash, elm, and apple trees. They thrive in moist, well-drained soils, typically in spring.
  
• Divine Mushroom (Ganoderma Lucidum) typically grows in subtropical and temperate biomes. They are commonly found in broadleaf woodlands, particularly on decaying hardwood trees like oak and maple. They thrive in warm, humid environments and are often found on tree stumps, logs, or near the base of living trees.
  
• Wheat typically grows in grasslands and open areas within temperate biomes. It thrives in well-drained, fertile soils and is often found in meadows, prairies, and disturbed areas.
  
• Flax typically grows in grasslands and open areas within temperate biomes. It prefers well-drained soils and can often be found in meadows, prairies, and disturbed sites.
  
• Castor plant (Ricinus communis) typically grows in tropical and subtropical biomes. It thrives in well-drained soils and is often found in open areas, such as grasslands, disturbed sites, riverbanks, and scrublands. The plant can also adapt to various environmental conditions, including arid regions.
  
• Meadowsweet (Filipendula Ulmaria) typically grows in temperate biomes, particularly in moist habitats such as wet meadows, riverbanks, marshes, and woodland edges. It thrives in damp, fertile soils and is often found in areas with plenty of sunlight, although it can also tolerate partial shade. Meadowsweet is known for its fragrant, creamy-white flowers and has historically been used for its medicinal properties.
  
• Green and Red Apples typically grow in broadleaf woodlands within temperate biomes. They prefer rich, well-drained soils commonly found at forest edges or in open clearings.
  
• Grape typically grows in broadleaf and mixed woodlands within temperate biomes. It prefers well-drained soils and is often found in forest edges, clearings, and riverbanks or rocky slopes.

We hope this clarifies some of your concerns. Please continue to provide feedback in the dedicated thread and the crafting channel. We’ll do our best to reply to those in a timely manner.

Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

Hello Paxians,
We’re excited to see everyone explore the new maps released with Proving Grounds, rebuild new villages and castles, and craft new gear to wander in Inquisitors' forts!

Our next content update will focus on the Pax Dei economy system. With the addition of gold coins as currency, market stalls, and customizable trading, you will be able to experience a more collaborative economy. Here’s an overview of what to expect!

Gold coins are currently becoming Pax Dei's currency, acquired as loot from NPCs, making it a valuable resource for adventurers. Gold will serve as the backbone of trade, giving you a universal currency for buying, selling, and trading. This opens up exciting new avenues for earning and spending, adding extra value to every encounter.

In case you wonder, the scripture is Dei Voluntas Auro.

You can now create your own market stalls and place them on your plot(s) to showcase goods, crafted items, or rare resources. Want to build a bustling trade hub? Set aside an area for a market square, build a Market Stall or two and together with your friends, create a unique shopping destination for other players to visit.

Exploring the market is now more exciting and accessible. With the ability to browse other players' market stalls, you can discover an ever-changing array of items. Plus, with filtering and sorting options, you can easily find exactly what you need, whether it’s rare crafting materials, armor, or unique collectibles.

To add a personal touch to trading, you can set permissions on your stall. Decide who can place sell orders, from limiting access to clan members to opening up sales to the entire player base. This gives you the freedom to manage exclusive trade relationships and craft a niche marketplace.

Whether you’re venturing out to collect gold, crafting rare items, or building a thriving market hub, everyone can find their place in this exciting new economy.

But this is just the beginning! Gold will soon have another significant role: acquiring Grace. You might be wondering, “What is Grace?” Let us give you a sneak peek.

Grace represents divine favor and serves as a resource for performing miracles. Think of it as a spiritual energy, enabling you to cast unique, non-combat-related spells. These miracles could include blessings that enhance crafting and gathering skills or utility abilities like fast travel to specific locations. Every character will receive a small amount of Grace by logging in each day. Additional Grace can be obtained… by using gold for those seeking more.

The introduction of Grace and its ties to gold will create even deeper opportunities for growth, exploration, and collaboration in Pax Dei.

Pax vobiscum,
The Mainframe Team

• Rebalanced the XP Curves and lowered XP Requirements per level to match the progression on skills affected prior Verse 1 update.
  
• Fixed an issue where players have lost access to some building recipes that they had unlocked before Verse1 update.
  
• Increased Limestone spawns in homevalleys and significantly in the Wild making leveling up carpentry skill to 32 easier.
  
• Iron Pickaxe can now mine Regular Iron nodes.
  
• Standardized wood output from chopping trees of different sizes.
  
• Simplified recipe flow for low-level cooking skills.
  
• Increased the amount of raw meat chunks gotten from carcasses to make low-level cooking more accessible.
  
• Materials for cloth pins recipes are now easier to obtain.
  
• Craftsman forge no longer requires Fine Cotton Cord.
  
• Added a conversion recipe for turning Gneiss and Limestone into Sand,
  
• Increased stack sizes for sand, glass and charcoal.
  
• Significantly increased the drops for wool. Also bears and level 5 boars now have a chance to drop wool.
  
• Increased green apple stack size to 20 so it falls in line with red apples.
  
• Fixed an issue where XP earns were allowed to continue even if players have reached max level. XP accumulation will now stop at the defined level cap.
  
• Fixed an issue where skill levels in the UI did not show the correct level cap (40) for all skills. Players who reached the level cap were erroneously shown the max level at level 41, even though their skills were capped at level 40.
  
• Overall, XP curves have been lowered by an average of 20% of total XP up to level 40. The reduction per skill and specific level can differ. Below are the average reductions per skill.

XP Cost reduction up to lvl 40 - 28/11 Hotfix vs. Verse 1 05/11

• Blacksmithing – 27%
  
• Armor smithing – 26%
  
• Weapon smithing – 28%
  
• Tailoring – 28%
  
• Leatherworking – 24%
  
• Cooking – 3%
  
• Charcuterie – 32%
  
• Baking – 7%
  
• Winery & Brewing – 11%
  
• Alchemy – 33%
  
• Fletching – 17%

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.

On Wednesday, November 20, at 1 pm UTC, we’ll be patching the game. 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.

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:

• Zone chat: you can now communicate with all players within a zone.
  
• Friends list: keep your friends close, they say.
  
• Online presence: see who amongst your friends is online, making it easier to organize group activities or hop into a conversation.
  
• Block and mute: sometimes, you’ll want to keep people at arm’s length (yes, it happens).

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!
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!

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:

• See if a friend is in a specific world before choosing where you want to play will be an option in the future.
  
• Clan chat in Discord and clan announcement broadcasts to the chat system are features that are coming soon.
  
• Voice chat is also planned for future updates.

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


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.

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.

When logging 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.

When chatting with a friend, they will see both your Discord username and the name of the character you’re currently playing.

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.

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 support section.[support.playpaxdei.com]

Once you have linked your Discord account, you can set your presence in the Discord app. It will also show up in-game.

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.

Mainframe Industries Oy respects your privacy and protects your personal data. Our Privacy Policy is available here[themainframe.com].

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 GGWP[www.ggwp.com], 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.

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's level and complexity better, allowing players to earn more XP from crafting complex recipes. This bonus is carefully determined by the recipe'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.


Based on the feedback we’ve received, we’ve identified several significant points of concern that we’re actively reviewing:

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Specific Skill Challenges (Examples):
  
  • Leatherworking: Bottlenecks occur at higher levels due to reliance on Blacksmithing resources and the scarcity of fine leather.
    
  • 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.
    
  • Carpentry: The apparent lack of certain materials, like limestone, has impacted the ability to progress at an expected pace.
    
  • Tailoring and Cooking: High material requirements, especially for items like cloth pins and specific brewing ingredients, create bottlenecks for many players.

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.

 
[h4]Crafting Skills[/h4]

• 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.
  
• Tool Descriptions and Usability: The Iron Pickaxe will be able to mine Iron nodes.
  
• Leatherworking Adjustments:
  
  • Fine Leather, Fine Leather Bands, and Fine Leather Strings will unlock at level 26 and are adjusted to difficulty level 33
    
  • 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.
    
  • 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.
• 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.
  
• Mead Base Adjustments: Mead base ingredients (weak and cloudy varieties) will be moved to Fermenter 1, where they can be crafted as intended.
  
• New Sand Recipes: Gneiss and Limestone can now be turned into Sand using recipes available at the Carpentry bench.
  
• Basic "Cut" Recipes for Campfires: The most basic carcass "cut" 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.
  
• Recipe Placement Fixes: An upcoming update will fix a few recipes placed in the wrong Hearth.

[h4]Resources[/h4]

• 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.
  
• Sand Availability: Sand will now drop from all mineable nodes to improve access.
  
  • You will also be able to convert gneiss and limestone to sand on the Carpentry Workbenches once you unlock the recipe.
• Potion Resources: Increased spawn rates for potion-related resources by approximately 2x to facilitate alchemy and potion crafting.
  
• Beehive Drops: Trees now have a 3% chance to drop Beehives, regardless of tree type.
  
• 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.
  
• Increased Resource Drops from Animals:
  
  • Wool drops from boars and bears will be increased.
    
  • Bone drops from various animals will be increased.
• Rough Hide Accessibility: Players with high Skinning skill levels will still be able to obtain rough hides as needed.
  
• Increased Early Resource Spawns: Early-stage cooking resources will spawn more frequently, supporting smoother progression for beginner cooks.

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