New features
Grace: Essence of the Divine’s power
- Grace is an ethereal currency central to player progression, rewards, and social systems in Pax Dei. It symbolizes the Divine's power, enabling you to perform miracles for yourself or those you care about.
How to Acquire Grace
- Daily Login: Receive a small amount of Grace for free each day just by logging in.
- Gold Exchange: Spend gold to acquire additional Grace. However, the cost increases progressively—the more Grace you buy in a single day, the more expensive each point becomes. This scaling resets every 24 hours (real-time).
How Grace Works
- Once obtained, Grace can be spent to perform miracles that provide powerful abilities, bonuses, or practical utilities. There’s no limit to how much Grace you can accrue, and your total Grace pool is shared across all your characters within the same server region (EU, US, or AP).
- You can track your current Grace balance in the Grace menu and unlock its potential to shape your journey in Pax Dei.
- Grace will be developed and become more prominent with future patches.
Miracles: Unlocking Divine Powers
Miracles are powerful and thematic abilities designed to enhance your experience in Pax Dei. Whether you're focused on exploration, crafting, combat, or socializing, there’s a Miracle for every playstyle and level of wealth. They allow you to perform supernatural feats, receive divine blessings, and harness extraordinary powers to shape your journey.
Costs and Accessibility
- Most Miracles require Grace to cast, though some are free. Notably, familiar abilities like the home Teleport and corpse-summoning miracles (previously in the utility menu, T) are now integrated into the new Miracle menu and remain free of Grace cost.
- You can access the Miracle menu by pressing T.
Introducing New Miracles
- The first wave of new Miracles in this patch focuses on boosting your gathering and crafting efficiency.
- These essential blessings are automatically granted to all players.
- Additional Miracles will be introduced over time, many of which will require exploration and progression to unlock.
New Miracles: Gathering and Profession Blessings
Gathering Blessings
Gathering blessings increase the efficiency of specific resource-gathering activities, offering bonus yields when active. These blessings have a duration of 1 hour and can be refreshed by recasting the same Miracle. Different gathering blessings can be used simultaneously.
- Bountiful Harvest: Increases yield from gathering plants, mushrooms, and other gathering nodes.
- Prospector’s Blessing: Boosts yield from mining nodes.
- Nature’s Favor: Enhances yield from tree chopping.
- Hunter’s Favor: Improves yield from skinning (e.g., hide drops).
Profession Blessings
Profession blessings temporarily enhance crafting skills, increasing the success rate of crafting tasks and, in turn, accelerating XP gains. These blessings do not impact XP rewards directly or unlock recipes, as the base skill is used for those purposes.
- Different profession blessings can be active at the same time.
- If two blessings boost the same skill, only the strongest buff applies (e.g., Armorer’s and Weapon Smith’s blessings both buff Blacksmithing but won’t stack).
These blessings also have a duration of 1 hour and can be refreshed by recasting the same Miracle.
- Alchemist’s Blessing: +1 Alchemy.
- Baker’s Blessing: +1 Baking.
- Carpenter’s Blessing: +1 Carpentry.
- Cook’s Blessing: +1 Cooking and Charcuterie.
- Jeweler’s Blessing: +1 Jewelry Making.
- Tailor’s Blessing: +1 Tailoring.
- Winemaker’s Blessing: +1 Winemaking and Brewing.
- Armorer’s Blessing: +1 Armor Smithing and Blacksmithing.
- Weapon Smith’s Blessing: +1 Weapon Smithing and Blacksmithing.
- Hunter’s Blessing: +1 Leatherworking and Fletching.
Future Plans
In the future, higher-tier versions of these blessings will be introduced. These upgraded Miracles will offer greater benefits, come at a higher Grace cost, and may require unlocking through exploration and progression. We also plan to introduce other types of Miracles, such as ones that facilitate traveling.
Miracles are just the beginning of what Pax Dei has in store—let the Divine guide you on your path!
Changes and fixes
Markets
- Fixed an issue where the details panel would not refresh after purchasing an item.
- Fixed an issue that would cause items to be dropped if the user attempted to drag and drop an item stack onto the Market Stall UI.
- Fixed an issue where the "Market at Full Capacity" message was shown erroneously.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when dismantling a Market Stall while the markets tutorial popup is open.
- Hovering over an empty inventory slot no longer shows the selected Market Stall item in the details panel.
- An Esc button prompt was added to the Market Stall tutorial screen.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to trigger a purchase without sufficient Gold, which resulted in an error pop-up with missing text.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Inventory backpack icon from updating when creating sell orders.
- The original slot now remains selected when moving an item from one inventory slot to another.
- The Market Stall's settings button now has a corresponding button prompt.
- Fixed an issue where various Market Stall pop-up windows were missing button prompts.
- The Sell button is now correctly greyed out when the market stall is at capacity.
- Fixed an issue that made closing market error message popups challenging to close in some cases.
- Button prompts for scrolling up or down have been changed from text to icons.
Gear & Crafting & Resources
- Fixed an issue with a colorless gemstone centerpiece within a coronet.
- Fixed a material and mesh issue on the mantle.
- Fixed a performance issue when dragging items in inventory.
- Fixed an issue where entering the crafting menu would cause a hitch.
Building
- Fixed performance issues on various flower and plant assets
- Fixed an issue that erroneously caused unsupported building elements to highlight green.
Combat & World Interactions
- World interactions are now better prioritized based on proximity to the aim location.
- Fixed an issue where the Hurt II proc chance was incorrect.
- Fixed an issue preventing the use of the items in the hot bar while the inventory was opened.
- The transition animation when falling now appears more natural.
- Fixed an issue where resource harvesting would sometimes continue when switching between tools.
- Updated the animation that plays when teleporting to a Petra Dei.
- Fixed various PvE sites to prevent NPCs from spawning in unintended locations.
Chat
- Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented chat messages from fading out automatically.
- The General Chat feed now defaults to Zone Chat when joining the game.
- Fixed an issue where some localized strings might not fit properly in the chat UI.
- Fixed an issue where a player's own messages were not indented properly.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the chat text field to not be focused when spamming the feed buttons.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the first chat message to appear or not appear erroneously.
- Social system messages will now show only in their relevant chat channels.
- Added the character's portrait, character name, and Discord account name to the chat settings.
- Party invites no longer require the party to already exist.
UI fixes
- Added the keybind for name randomization to the character creation name selection screen [R].
- Fixed word wrapping on storage headers.
- Fixed an issue where the ESC button label was tiny in some UI elements.
- Fixed an issue where the build reticle would remain after death.
- Fixed an issue that caused the 'Offset' Construction tooltip keybind to not show correctly.
Localization
- Added various missing localization strings.
- Fixed and modified various texts in English, French, and German.
Known Issues
Grace
- After validation, players can still change the Grace for Gold amount during the animation. There is no exploit here. The final amounts for both Grace and Gold are the ones considered.
- Opening the Miracles' wheel should not prevent world interactions.
- Grace for Gold action can be performed while falling - there is no miracle to prevent the fall damage.
- Grace menu: Sometimes, there is a visual glitch when closing the grace menu that may only be visible with low fps.
- The Crafting difficulty displayed is not updated correctly when a miracle is active - it is a display issue only, the system takes the miracles correctly into consideration.
PvE / Dungeons
- We are aware of the issue regarding some loot piles in dungeons that are too easily accessible. While some of these should now be better guarded, we are looking at making changes to all loot piles in the future so that players wouldn't be able to get the loot without having made the required effort first.
- A wall without collision is present in the corridor of The Absterium dungeon.
- Inconsistent camera behavior triggered by specific Zebian NPCs' proximity and attack animations.
- There are some visibility issues in a submerged shadowed room in The Oubliettes Dungeon.
- Casting a Pacify spell on an already aggroed enemy results in the lulled animation even though it is actively attacking.
Crafting
- Heartwood can be obtained with blessing without the woodcutting level requirement.
- The description of Basic Distilling Tools is incorrect - both the name and the description should be amended.
- Leather Brigandine is a solid shape with no holes for the neck and arms.
- Three pairs of shoes lack ankle holes when examined.
- Leather pants are a solid shape with no holes for the legs.
UX/UI
- The [E] key displayed in the Split Stack window is non-functional. Clicking on the button works.
- Pressing [E] closes the radial menu [T].
- Multiple parts of the inventory UI are misaligned.
- There is a one-slot gap in the second line of the buff bar.
- Chat UI appears for a brief second upon opening the "Party" or "Notifications" window.
- Icons are not representative of all wearable variants.
- The receiver of the Party invite also gets "Party invite has been sent" message, which often persists.
Characters
- Character Creator: Modifying the base face overrides pupil and iris size changes.
- Character Creator: Neutral male body appearance is misrepresented by default.
- The button to Randomize a name in Character Creator is always greyed out.
- Idling on the lobby and then trying to create a character will show an empty region select screen and kick the user back to the login screen.
- 2h Spears clip through the left fist.
- The player retains their items after the first death due to fall damage on a newly created character.
Misc.
- Having HP and Stamina recover simultaneously may cancel the logout timer.
- Summon Party Corpse and Summon Player Corpse do not display an error before casting when there is no corpse or no corpse in range.
- Time of day transitions are heavily stepped, with noticeable jumps in lighting when observing shadows.
- Humanoid NPC eye movement is visible when in a dead state.
- The moon and stars no longer rotate in the night sky.
- Double-clicking on a Custom Marker on the map while a Waypoint has been set will move the Waypoint to the Marker.
- The Early Access version text is misaligned with the rest of the interface and offsets it vertically.