Dear Steam Settlers,

you have probably already heard the news about the upcoming technology change to a Unity version of our beloved “The Settlers Online”. While we are happy, that you can still settle via Steam at the moment, this will unfortunately not be possible with the new interim Air Client or Unity version afterwards.

Be assured, that we looked into maintaining a playable client for Steam, as we know that many of you really like the platform. In the end we decided to streamline all our Settlers to our official website.
The Steam version will shut down on the 31.12.2020. However, we are able to offer you an TSO account de-partnering from Steam. This will allow you to access your home island with all it's progress via our website.
Please get in contact with our support team as soon as possible, if you want to make use of it.

In line with our terms of sale, we hereby inform you that there will be no refund of any virtual currency you have spent in the game or for any resources you still may own on shutdown date, nor any conversion of any remaining virtual currency to another game.

Thank you for your ongoing support.
See you on the other side 😊

Your Settlers Online Team!

Dear Steam Settlers,

we are currently investigating the future of „The Settlers Online” on Steam.
Since we are exploring some different approaches, we are going to disable purchase options for the time being.
The game will remain accessible for you however.
We will let you know as soon as we have more news in this regard.

For more general information on the future of The Settlers Online, please visit our official forum here.


Your “The Settlers Online"-Team

Dear Settlers,

Today we'd like to ask you for help! We need a lot of players online and playing the game on our test server, http://www.tsotesting.com! For hitting a certain amount of active players at the same time, we will reward all players worldwide with this nice loot: 
 



Cool, isn't it?! Here's how it works:

• Go to www.tsotesting.com,
• Register / Log in and...
• Play the game for at least 15 minutes and
• take it to its' limits!

We know you can do it ;)

Your "The Settlers Online" team

Dear Settlers,

A brand new event will be making its way to you (and your hearts) this year: Valentine's Event will share the love next month. Since this will be its debut, it's important that we get your feedback as quickly as possible!



Once the version is finalised, a corresponding Dev Diary will be published.

Visit http://www.tsotesting.com/en/homepage for more details and don't forget to let us know what you think!

Happy Testing!
BB_Saqui

Dear Settlers,

For this festive season, we have several new buildings for you to add to your home-island: featuring the sparkling star that is the Christmas Market. New specialists, quest chains, skins and more - we've made sure you have plenty of new toys to play with!



So join us in the Christmas Market, grab some hot chocolate, and settle down with a mince pie. It's time for a brand new Dev Diary: our annual snow-filled Xmas event is returning to our islands! Read every detail right here.

Happy settling!
BB_Acadma

20th of November 2018
NEW FEATURES

• Weekly Challenges are a brand new set of short quest chains that have to be solved within 7 days! If you're successful, you will be awarded tokens which can be used to upgrade residences.
  The Training Grounds and Elite Training Grounds are new buildings which boost the recruitment speed of both the Barracks and Elite Barracks by 50% respectively. Available for Magic Beanstalks and Gems at the merchant.
• The Medic General & Scouting Post have been added to the in-game Merchant to purchase with Gems!

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS

• The weekly chat server reset message has been updated.
• Added a confirmation pop-up window when deleting mails: the old "delete" context menu popup will now show an overview of their selection and request confirmation.
• Fixed an issue that caused talents and skills on some specialists to not be correctly displayed.
• The Mail Window will now automatically close itself after successfully sending a guild application mail.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent players from sending guild/private mails everytime they log into the game.
• Pumpkin Field Fertilizers will not be available to trade after the Halloween Event has ended, as intended.
• Permanent retro skins can now be applied to buildings with an active production buff.
• Fixed an issue preventing the editing of Guild Ranks.
• "Brief Séance" runtime is now fixed at 24 hours as intended.
• The "Placeholder" item in trade has been removed.
• Resolved some inconsistencies with text that used the word "Fisher" instead of "Fishermen".
• The amount of pre-selected buffs should now not exceed the amount of available buffs or the camp capacity.
• Fixed an issue with the collect all feature which could lead to a visual error where items and XP were temporarily added twice and later the excess resources were removed again. This visual error only occurred temporarily and no player actually received any more/less rewards than they were due.

A detailed explanation of Weekly Challenges and the Training Grounds will be included in an upcoming Dev Diary

You are invited to provide feedback > here. <

Dear Settlers,

As this year's Halloween Event is creeping around the corner, it's time to feast your eyes on the newly published Dev Diary and find out more about the upcoming features:

• New Quest Campaign: Can you save the Terrorized Town?
• New General: Recruit the Mad Scientist for some explosive results!
• New Buildings: Experiment in The Laboratory to master the art of transmutation.
• New Seasonal Adventures: Now rewarding 2x experience points on completion!

Read all the ins and outs of this year's Halloween Event in our Dev Diary!

Happy haunting!
BB_Acadma

16th of October 2018
NEW FEATURES

• The Mail Window usability has been improved with new features such as mass deletion, multiple select and filter sorting.
• This year's Halloween Event will be technically implemented into the game, which will officially begin on 22/10/18 at 10:00 CEST!

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Removed two side banners from the shop to increase category list size.
• Adjusted the fog in the "A Giant Battle" adventure to make only discovered camps targetable by buffs.
• Daily Quests from Premium will remain available for the whole day on which Premium expires.
• The Footie Field now displays the buff duration in a consistent format.
• Adjusted the cost of several low-level buildings to better reflect the resources players at that level can produce: Pinewood Cutter, Pinewood Sawmill, Pinewood Forester, Tavern, Mason, Fisherman, Provision House, Storehouse, Copper Mine, Coking Plant, Copper Smelter, Toolmaker.
• Players can now purchase the Ballista in the shop for Star Coins.
• Players can now purchase certain Battle Buffs in the shop for Gems.

You are invited to provide feedback > here. <

18th of September 2018
NEW FEATURES

• The technical implementation of the Anniversary Event, which will begin on September 24th worldwide and last for 2 weeks. More information will be posted in a corresponding Dev Diary.

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS

• Tutorial related highlights blink at a normal pace again.
• The title of the mails received after an unskilled explorer's search are no longer containing the term "skillful".
• The text of certain quests has been adjusted in The Mountain Clan campaign venture, Unknown Region.
• Changed units which were not affected by combat abilities in certain co-op adventures.
• The descriptions of the buffs affecting your troops in the Mountain Clan Campaign will be more specific.
• A display glitch affecting the cavalry's tooltip description due to the piercing cold debuff of the Mountain Clan Campaign has been fixed.
• The little water tile on which it was possible to apply an island deed has been linked to the proper sector.
• If a production of an epic workyard is upgraded while a buff is running, the upgraded production is also affected by the buff.
• The description of the quest "Save the Deers" has been adjusted to be more specific.
• The issue with claiming new island sectors has been fixed.
• There are no deposit limitations for Titanium, Granite and Saltpeter on the archipelago anymore.
• Settlers Headquarters cannot be deleted if it is the last storehouse in the sector.

You are invited to provide feedback > here. <

22nd of August 2018
NEW FEATURES

• Island Expansion: four new islands have been added to the home-island! Find out more details about this expansion in our Dev Diary.

CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS

• The limit for Lucky Explorers in the Black Market has been increased by one (1) since the Summer Event ended.
• The cursor will be focused on the chat input when the home island updates.
• Wildlife should now be visible again when visiting a friend's island.
• The tooltip for the buff quests "A Mysterious Coin" & "A New Gemstone" are now displayed as intended.
• The "Hearty Soup" buff now recovers the correct amount of units in "The People of the Mountain" adventure.
• Removed restrictions to player actions from the "New Settlers" quest.
• Fixed a rounding issue in the damage calculation for the General's "Sniper Training" skill.
• Fixed an issue in the "A Giant Battle" adventure where destroying a boulder wouldn't correctly unblock the path.
• The Obsidian Ore payout should now be correctly increased if multiple debuffs are still active in the Moutain Clan Campaign.
• Deleting one of multiple Provision House buildings no longer cancels the production in any that still remain.
• The cost for the Watchtower Construction Kit in the Rarity Provision House is now 8,000 Granite during "The People of the Mountain" adventure.
• Fixed a UI issue that would cause achievement tasks to not be displayed as intended.
• The PVP button in the Water Castle now works correctly again.
• The UI will now correctly focus the input on the number of buffs, instead of the stacks in all buff producing buildings.
• Opening the mail window and battle report is now properly counted for quests.

You are invited to provide feedback > here. <