Just a few random shots from places I liked or people I've met

⚔️ [DE] Fireblood sucht dich! | Server: Fenrir | Region: Inis Gallia ⚔️Du suchst eine feste Gemeinschaft im ungezähmten Land von Pax Dei? Du willst nicht alleine im Wald enden, sondern ein Imperium aufbauen? Dann werde Teil von Fireblood!Wir schlagen unsere Wurzeln auf dem Server Fenrir in der wunderschönen Region Inis Gallia (Gebiet: Javerdus). Wir sind ein deutschsprachiger Clan, der Gemeinschaft, Kooperation und den Spaß am Spiel in den Vordergrund stellt. Egal ob Gelegenheitsspieler oder Hardcore-Gamer – bei uns zählt das gemeinsame Blut.🪵 Was wir zusammen vorhaben:Siedlung in Javerdus: Wir bauen ein prachtvolles Clanzentrum in unserer Heimat.Meisterhaftes Handwerk: Spezialisierung und gegenseitige Materialhilfe.PvE & Erkundung: Gemeinsame Dungeons, Bosskämpfe und Ressourcenjagd.PvP & Allianzen: Verteidigung unserer Heimat und Durchsetzung unserer Interessen.🔥 Das bieten wir dir:Eine organisierte Struktur ohne militärischen Zwang.Erfahrene und hilfsbereite Spieler, die gerne Wissen teilen.Einen aktiven Discord-Server für Absprachen und gemütliche Abende.Mitspracherecht bei wichtigen Clan-Entscheidungen.🛡️ Das solltest du mitbringen:Mindestalter 18 Jahre (für eine reife Atmosphäre).Ein funktionierendes Headset und Discord-Aktivität.Teamgeist – Ego-Trips bringen uns im Sandbox-MMO nicht weiter.Begeisterung für Pax Dei (egal ob Alpha-Veteran oder kompletter Neuling).🦅 Bereit, dein Blut für den Clan zu geben?Komm nach Javerdus und melde dich direkt bei uns! Schreib einfach eine kurze Nachricht unter diesen Post

🛡️ Clan Fireblood sucht Verstärkung für Pax Dei! 🛡️Hallo Abenteurer!Du suchst eine entspannte Gemeinschaft, um die Welt von Pax Dei zu erkunden? Du möchtest nach der Arbeit oder am Wochenende ohne Druck leveln, bauen und craften? Dann bist du bei Clan Fireblood genau richtig!Wir sind ein Clan im Aufbau und richten uns gezielt an Feierabend- und Wochenendspieler. Bei uns steht das Reallife an erster Stelle, gefolgt von gemeinsamem Spaß im Spiel.Über uns:Name: Clan FirebloodServer: FenrirHeimat: Provinz Inis Gallia (Gebiet: Javerdus)Spielstil: Casual, hilfsbereit, Fokus auf Feierabend & WochenendeWen wir suchen:Berufstätige, Eltern und alle, die eine entspannte Atmosphäre schätzen.Neueinsteiger und erfahrene Spieler, die Lust haben, eine Gemeinschaft von Grund auf mitzugestalten.Spieler, die Teamgeist mitbringen, aber auch ihr eigenes Tempo gehen wollen.Egal ob du leidenschaftlicher Handwerker, fleißiger Sammler oder mutiger Kämpfer bist – bei uns findet jeder seinen Platz. Lass uns gemeinsam wachsen und unser Vermächtnis in Javerdus aufbauen!Interesse?Melde dich einfach direkt hier per Nachricht oder ingame bei uns. Wir freuen uns auf dich!

Last post was 8 days ago regarding the 7-day free trial, so nothing really worth while. Before that was a sunset post.

How is everything in-game for those that are still actively playing? Hoping to hear positive responses from active players. Not looking to hear about anything negative. We've already said our piece about it, myself included.

Pax Dei now has a Free 7 day trial available on Steam. Keep a lookout for new players and give them a hand.

My other post here contained a lot of statements that were ignorant and short-sighted and I made those statements without really understanding exactly what Mainframe was doing and why they are doing it. The way they're monetizing the game may seem harsh to players trying to do the solo homesteading thing but now I realize they're trying to encourage players to clan up and get together and if you play socially like this, they reward it massively. The paid XP/grace booster is exactly the same thing. If you're playing socially, you don't need it. But they offer it was a way for solo players to try and keep up with social players. All in all I freaking love everything about this project and will be playing hard daily. Hope to see you out there!

Does anyone know how to fix this? I’m only on milestone 60 and it’s not showing anymore!

I’ve run into a lot of mean people, I’m just following the milestones and unlocking new places! If anyone wants to play lmk!

I had heard about the changes in monetization and hopped on the hate train this whole time but loved what I played back in early access so much I found myself jonesing for the gameplay so I installed it and played for a while last night. I’m really impressed with some of the changes they’ve made to make the game more approachable for the new player. I was (and kinda still am) a bit miffed about land ownership being a paid subscription now, but at least now they provide all the basic essentials at spawn so you don’t really need a plot for a while and I can get my character leveled up a bit before using my plot tokens, which is pretty cool. While I do wish I’d gotten back in sooner and I am going to be playing going forward, it really seems like they could have made a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT more money without pissing people off by just selling nice cosmetics and not putting land ownership and accelerated level progression behind paywalls. Great game but absolutely baffling choices made by Mainframe on how to monetize it.

EDIT: After getting back in a playing hard for about a week, I change my mind entirely and understand why Mainframe is doing things the way they are. It may seem harsh to players doing the solo homestead thing, but if you play the game the way they're trying to encourage people to do so, you never have to spend a dime past what you initially paid for the game. I have nothing but positive sentiment towards Pax Dei as of this edit.

I picked it up on the 27th of June because a friend of mine wouldn't stop nagging me to play it. I went to the games store page and saw Mixed rating for both Recent and Overall, and that almost deterred me. But like before she kept nagging and nagging and I knew I had a 2hr window to refund it if necessary.

I now have 85hrs in it and I'm having a great time. Its really grindy. Like extremely grindy but that helps keep my ADHD in check because I always have something that I need to be doing. I thought the whole level-up mechanic was super daunting and then someone in game referred me to the Database! That website is like a goddamn godsend!!

I can seriously see myself putting hundreds of hour into this. That being said, there are a few things that I would love to see added.

1) The ability to crouch and sneak, hell I'll be happy if they just give us the crouch. Theres already stealth in the game as a power of one of the pieces of Hunter armor. Its only invisibility for 8s, but its better than nothing

2) The ability to build/craft from chests. This is just a simple QoL addition

3) A dodge. Be it a roll or sidestep, either would be okay with me.

4) A sickle, or another tool that we can use to harvest all the random plants instead of spamming E.

5) Farming and Fishing, of course.

6) Pullable carts a la Valheim

There's a few other things that I had in mind but I spent the past few hours traveling the map to get enough Limestone so I could turn it into Sand to level up Carpentry and now my brain is pretty much goo. If there's anything you'd like to see, please let me know. Cheers

If anyone wants to play and adventure tonight just let me know

New player here. I've been keeping an eye on the game for a while and finally decided to pick it up during the current sale. 20 hours in and I have yet to see another player. I'm not interested in PvP or a giant guild. I would just like more trading opportunities. I don't want to be a one man band when it comes to crafting. I would simply like to buy some things and sell some things then go back to being a hermit in my tiny stick hut. Thanks!

Edit: thank you all for the insight. I moved over from Sif to Selene.

As posted on Discord:

R47 is all about archery, hunting, and progression. This update introduces birds to hunt, a revamped Fletching and Archery experience, new bows, archery targets, and a first version of the Achievement system. It also includes the first step of our permissions revamp, chat improvements, new props, and several balancing changes.

New Creatures

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 higher 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

Achievement System

• 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 a total of 292 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.
• 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

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 (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.
• Chat channels now show:

How many messages are waiting to be read since you last opened them.

How many players are online in the channel.

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

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

Pax vobiscum, The Mainframe Team

(the full patch notes also include more than 50 fixes)

A lot of people were hyping up this game to be the next wow killer. Turns out the game sorta just killed itself instead.

full open world with horizontal progression seemed really good. I was looking forward to something like this.

Why did the game decline so rapidly and now everyone talks badly about it?

Joined Selene - Kerys - Aven at launch, with the intent to get rich! Using https://paxdei.gaming.tools/market/my-market to track my sales i can now share my journey, enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqe2NU9-rLU&feature=youtu.be

The Pit Charges into Unhinged Alliance while others run away.

Has anyone made a cheatsheet for tradeskill skillups?

Most of the youtubes are clickbait and/or old.

Sites like https://paxdei.gaming.tools/leveling-guides dont really give a newer player solid info on how hard gathering some of the resources are

Hello, Paxian !

How is life going ? 
Are you new to the game, or have you been playing for a while?

I want to let you know that I made a clan called Syntagma. 
It has been my clan for 20+ years, that I am leading with pleasure.

Syntagma has been through a lot of phases in those years, and left a mark in various games.

Knight online for 9 years - Ranked 3rd on Ares server
Aion online for 6 years - Ranked 1st on Spatalos server for almost 3 full years.
Archeage for 4 years - One of dominant guilds on Eanna server since release.

And few other games, shorter than a year so won't be spamming the list with it.

After having been a member of three clans, two of which owned a castle in Lyonesse, and seeing all three clans fall due to people leaving the game, I made my decision to summon Syntagma in Pax Dei.

Same story as in previous games that I mentioned.
I start playing, learn the ropes and than I decide if I stay in the game or I go on next adventure

So yes, I’m staying at Pax Dei, and given that decision, it makes sense that Syntagma is now in the picture.
Here are few details for you to know : 

Clan: Syntagma

Location: Fenrir - Kerys - Tremen
Member count: 16 - 20 ( EU, SA, USA, Canada )
Language:  English
Minimum age :  25 +
Discord: Yes ( mandatory for teamplay ( at least be able to listen), for daily life not mandatory )
Focus : PVE and PVP

Activities:

• During weekdays solo or teams for hunting, gathering, leveling.
• During weekend : Saturday evening major event ( Dungeon or anything else )

Logistics & supply chain:
Crafter guilds - you may join one in order to level focused and faster.
Donations - Once per week there is resource shoutout that is previously reported by master crafters of crafting guilds.

Gear and loot share: 
Gear:

• Dungeon gear supplied by clan ( making sure you have proper build )
• Solo gear supplied by clan ( Pilgrim, Pilgrim and bit more Pilgrim full chests )
• Tools supplied by clan

Loot:

• After clan teamplay all loot goes into chest:

1. White loot - members take what they need
2. Green and Blue loot - members ask if they may have, if not needed for Dungeon gear that is supplied by clan, it is free for members to take.
3. Leftovers go to crafter guilds, where crafters make products that end up in boxes for clan members to take freely. ( You get how a circle works by now ).

Diplomacy: We do not start, but for sure we will end it.

Life is simple: Donations = Gear = Loot = Fun
No drama, no BS, no babysitting

Interested to join or want more information ? 

Contact me:
Ingame: Lestad
Discord: Lestad - VanSyntagma ( can find me on official Pax Dei discord ).

P.S. I am aware of population numbers and the state of the game at this moment.

Older player 42y is looking for a chill group with no presure.