Hello Paxians!
The R47 update is now live across all shards. This content patch introduces:
birds to hunt,
a revamped Fletching and Archery experience,
New bows, archery targets,
an Achievement system,
the first step of our permissions revamp,
several chat improvements,
a few new props,
and some balancing changes.
Let's dive into the details.
Birds
Several bird species have been added across the different biomes of Pax Dei: Grouses, Ptarmigans, Pheasants, Geese, Vultures, and Eagles.
Birds roam on the ground and react to nearby players. When disturbed, they will take flight.
They can be hunted both on the ground and in the air, though they are especially challenging to hunt without a bow.
Birds provide feathers, which are used in Fletching for advanced arrow crafting.
Bows
Added a new family of Recurve Bows, ranging from Tier 2 to Tier 4.
Recurve Bows provide increased accuracy, faster arrow speed, and more serious damage, but have slower draw and reload times than standard bows.
Higher-tier bows now also provide improved accuracy and faster draw and reload times.
Bows now require crafted Bow Strings.
All existing bows have received updated visual models, with color variations for attuned and warded versions.
The former Curved Bow has been renamed Woodrunner Bow to align with its new model and clearly differentiate it from the Recurve series.
Archery Targets
This release adds new ground-standing and wall-mounted archery targets.
When hit by nearby players, the target announces the hit accuracy, allowing you to practice your aim or organize archery competitions.
Achievements
Note: When entering the game, you will likely receive a large number of Achievement notifications. You can silence them by pressing N.
The game now features an Achievement system, with content designed both to guide new players through the game and to offer harder-to-complete goals for elder players.
Achievements are shared across your account by Region (US, EU, SEA). This means that if one of your characters on an EU world completes an Achievement, all your other EU characters will also have it, but your characters in US or SEA will not.
This release includes almost 300 Achievements. Some are very easy to attain, while others are extremely hard.
The game HUD now includes a milestone tracker showing the Achievements you are currently working toward.
Achievements can be manually added to the tracker, but the auto-tracked new player experience achievements take priority.
Each Achievement grants a reward when completed.
Achievements that track skill level requirements will unlock retroactively for players who have already reached the required skill level. All other Achievements require you to complete the associated task after the system is live.
Achievements that require a PvE kill work similarly to XP grants: everyone in the party of the player who kills the enemy will count as having killed that enemy for Achievement tracking purposes.
Permissions Foundation
We’ve been working for a long time on revamping the underlying permission system in Pax Dei, and this release includes the first changes from that work.
Clans now have a new Homesteader membership rank for new clan members.
In permissions, you can now set the required access permission to Villager & Up, locking Homesteaders out.
For plots, even if a plot has been shared with a Clan, Homesteaders cannot destroy building pieces placed more than 36 hours ago.
There is one exception: if the piece is a prop (a furnishing piece), such as a chest, placed by the Homesteader themselves, they can destroy it as it is their own prop.
This restriction does not apply to plots set to Public, or to plots owned by the Homesteader themselves.
A future version of the game will improve this mechanic and give you more granular control over destruction permissions.
We will continue to roll out additional permissions improvements in future releases.
Chat System Improvements
The game now features a Province-wide chat channel, allowing you to chat across Home Valleys.
The chat message layout has been made more compact, allowing more messages to fit on screen.
Chat channels now show how many messages are waiting to be read since you last opened them.
Multiple consecutive messages from the same sender, sent within one minute, are now grouped together.
General chat feed settings, where you can choose which chat feeds are displayed in the General feed, have moved to the Chat Settings menu.
You can now separately configure which chat channels show a HUD notification when a new message is received, and how long those notifications are displayed.
When a player logs in, other players can now receive a notification that they have come online. You can configure whether your own logins send this notification, and whether you want to see login notifications from other players.
When a new player joins Pax Dei, a notification is now sent. Remember to welcome them to the game!
Miscellaneous
In addition to the Archery Targets, we’ve added several Animal Trophies and a large Ceremonial Pyre.
The game client now uses new fonts with improved readability (named Lora and Fira Sans).
Balancing
Areas near the Petra Dei now spawn some Flint, and the distance from water at which Flint can spawn has been expanded by 10 meters.
Garlic spawn yield has been increased from 3 to 5.
The Bronze Ingot recipe now requires 60 Charcoal instead of 100 Sapwood.
All furnishing pieces have been moved from the Log Workbench to the Basic Carpenter Workbench or the relevant workbenches: the archery target to the fletching workbenches, the trophies to the leatherworking workbenches, etc.
Adult Birch Trees’ hardness has been lowered from 2 to 1, meaning you can now chop them down with a Bronze Chopping Axe.
Pax vobiscum, The Mainframe Team
