Greetings Exiles,

Age of Sorcery — Chapter 2 has arrived, bringing new features, a new Battle Pass with new Bazaar items, Twitch Drops, and a story recap. There’s a lot to dig into, but first, take a look at the brand-new launch trailer!



The world of Conan Exiles gets ever more dangerous and filled with new adventures. With the rise of sorcery, new arrivals to the Exiled Lands have taken notice, and are searching for anyone mad enough to hunt these sorcerers. Find their camps strewn across the world and accept their bounties.

Hunt across the land for sorcerer NPCs and bring them back dead or alive. A skull is fine, but living flesh will grant a larger reward. Get valuable resources, armor pieces, and more.




As you explore the world, watch out for the new Witch Hunt Encounter, which comes in one of four flavors of evil sorcerer to defeat. Succeed in bringing one of these bosses down for a huge reward.


Explore a range of new cosmetics in the Battle Pass and Bazaar, including the new Stormglass building pieces, new armors, weapons, decorations, pets, and more! New challenges tied to Headhunting and the Witch Hunt encounter have also been added.


From today until January 3rd, 2pm UTC, you can watch Conan Exiles streams on Twitch to earn free and exclusive rewards. All you need to do is link your Twitch account to Conan Exiles, which you can do through a handy button in the in-game menu.

Twitch Drops include: a Snowflake Wall Paint, the Festive Hunt Trophy, and the Festive Crested Lapdog (he’s beautiful).




Discover the context of some of the events through each page in the Battle Pass. Dive into the video and relive the Chapter 1 story before continuing Chapter 2.


We’ve summed up the biggest news here, but please jump over to the patch notes for a full rundown of the new additions, fixes, and improvements.

Thank you for all you do in Conan Exiles. We cheer with every bashed head, sacrificed thrall, and base constructed. The team is incredibly excited with today’s content and everything we have in store, so grab your weapon and go take some sorcerer skulls. And if you are a sorcerer yourself, well, less competition doesn’t hurt.

Good hunting!

Exiles!

We hope you’ve had a great time with Age of Sorcery so far, sinking your teeth deep into all the new systems introduced Chapter 1 and finding out the powers within Sorcery. With today’s update, we’re starting Chapter 2, where we introduce a new Encounter type (psst, Events are now called Encounters!), Head Hunting!

You can now find head hunter contracts where you will have to hunt down nefarious Sorcerers hidden in the lands. It will be your choice to bring them back dead or alive! With this new Encounter we are also adding a new special encounter, Witch Hunter. Explore the lands to find more about it! This update will also introduce a new Battle Pass revolving this mechanic, with new challenges and rewards, as well as a new batch of items for the Bazaar.

Along with that, we are also starting our pet companion rebalance. This will be the first step in revising pets moving forward, with the intention of bringing them up to a level where they can be at a similar level to other followers. There will be more changes to come in future patches, so keep an eye out!

And of course, with this new update we are releasing a bevy of bug fixes to reported issues, including fixes to the most common crashes, fixes to texture and invisible issues reported with the release of Age of Sorcery and much more.

We hope you have a great time exploring all there is included in this new Chapter. Stay safe!

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IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING MODS
Please remember that updates can mess with the functionality of your installed mods. We suggest taking a backup of your current database before updating to any new patch if you have mods installed.

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Hunt down dangerous sorcerers and bring them back for rewards...dead or alive!

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We're revising the stats of your animal companions to make them a more viable choice in your adventures!

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Chapter 2 brings a brand new Battle Pass track, with 60 levels to progress through offering new and exciting rewards!

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* New encounter type: Head Hunting!
* New encounter type!
* New Battle Pass and Bazaar items!
* Bug fixes!
* …and much more!

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(Link opens the full patchnotes in our forums).

As with every building contest to date, you all have absolutely hit it out of the park with this one! We wanted spooky houses, we got spooky houses. We wanted creepy towers, we got creepy towers. Our team had such a fun time going through each one of these and seeing the creativity was mindblowing. But also, INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT to choose.

We’ll be showing the winners for each category, along with some honorable mentions. If you don’t see your lovely creation here, please share it here and/or on social media and tag us! We know the hard work, time, and effort put into each one and want other Exiles to see them.

The winners will be contacted shortly to inquire about prizes, so if you are listed here please keep an eye on your email.

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Created by Visenya. Please check out more pictures here



Created by “Holy Moly They…” on PlayStation. More pictures here!



Created by Haidenex.



Spencer Mansion created by Barden Builds(YouTube/Twitter). More photos here.



Dracula’s Castle by 3LION. More pictures here.

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Baba Yaga House by Futerko (Twitter/YouTube). More pictures here.

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Pippi
Condemned RP Decor
Beyond Decor
Dudes_Delightful_Decorations
CAS
Exile Architect
Shani’s Stuff
Tystan’s Deco
The Age of Calamitous
Shadows of Skelos
Beyond Decor: Rustic Edition
Dungeon MasterTools 2.0
AG - Architecture
Arena Pier 3.0.3
Gothic Architecture
Gothic Decorations
GrimProductions
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Cursed Temple by Jingui. More pictures here.

Mod List:
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Less Building Restrictions
Age of Calamitous
Emberlight
Glass Constructions and More
Shadows of Skelos
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Created by medusa_plays. More pictures here.

Mod List:
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Less Building Placement Restrictions
Pythagoras Expanded Building
Emberlight
Devious Desires
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Created by Capri. More pictures here.

Mod List:
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AG-Architecture
Northern Timber
Fashionist
Savage Wilds
Savage Steel vol II
GrimProductions
ExilesExtreme
Beyond Decor
Beyond Decor: Rustic
Shani’s Stuff
Crucial Decorations
Shadows of Skelos vol 2
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Created by alineloba. More pictures here!

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Barbarian Barber [vers. 3.6.2]
Beyond Decor: Rustic Edition
Glass Constructions and more
Crassus
Fashionist v4.4.4
Less Building Placement Restrictions v7.4
Emberlight 3.3.3
IMMERSE RP : Building & Placeables Decor
Lemurian Architect
Limestone Buildings - v1.6.4
Amunets Dungeon Assets - v0.9.45
DungeonMasterTools
Shadow of Skelos - Extended v.1.7.1
Shani’s Stuff
Frost and Flame Placeables
SH - Building kit (1.6.2)
Hesruk’s Dragon Head Trophies
Beyond Decor
Ancient Civilization
AH - Architecture
Gothic Decorations
Horror Decorations
Banquet Decorations
Exotic Decorations
WR Critters v1.0.1
Beyond the Forge
Witch Doctors
RA: Character Customisation
Northern Timber 3.0.3
Immersive Armor 3.2
Desert Town
Tystan’s Deco
Gothic Architecture
Dudes_Creative_Constructions
Beyond Stations
ModControlPanel
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In addition, we also selected a few entries that our team absolutely loved or made an impression on us.

Submitted for the unmodded Cabin in the Woods category.
Created by Treeyou(Twitter) on PlayStation. You can see more pictures here.



Submitted for the unmodded Gothic category.
Created by Echo. More pictures here!



Submitted for the modded Cabin in the Woods category.
Created by Aegon(Instagram). More pictures here!

Mod List:
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Immerse rp : fright night
Shani’s stuff
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Submitted for the unmodded Haunted House category.
Created by Maruch (Twitter).



Submitted for the modded Sacrificial Temple category.
Created by Accursed Berserker. More pictures here!

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Arena Pier 3.0.3
Emberlight 3.3.3
Pippi - user & Server Management
Gothic Architecture
Gothic Decorations
GrimProductions
Beyond Decor
Condemned RP Decor
Dudes_Delightful_Decorations
CAS
Exile Architect
Shani’s Stuff
Tystan’s Deco
The Age of Calamitous
Shadows of Skelos
Beyond Decor: Rustic Edition
Dungeon MasterTools 2.0
AG - Architecture
AG - Altars
Less Building Placement
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Again, huge round of applause to everyone who submitted a building and taking the time to participate; we hope you had a fun time making them! We’ll be sharing a lot of these throughout the next couple of weeks on the Conan Exiles Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and implore you to do the same.

This certainly won’t be the last building contest we’ll be hosting and we can’t wait to see what you all do then. Cheers!

Need a little boost to complete your Battlepass?

Starting tomorrow, the 11th, until November 21st, all baseline experience for challenges will be increased 5x to help you reach your goal.

Live, laugh, slay!

Greetings Exiles,

After unleashing volatile sorcery upon the Exiled Lands, we’re excited to reveal what the team has been working on for Age of Sorcery — Chapter 2, coming to you on 6 December! This update focuses on creating new activities and encounters that make the world even more exciting to explore and conquer.



The rise of sorcery has not gone unnoticed, and there are those who would seek to control it. Find their camps strewn across the map in this brand-new feature, pick up their bounties, and seek out the sorcerer NPCs. Bring them back dead or alive for unique rewards.

Encounter and battle various powerful sorcerers in the world. You’ll find these encounters in both the Exiled Lands and on the Isle of Siptah.


Purchase the new Battle Pass or store items for a ton of cosmetic items like the new Stormglass building pieces that lets you raise grand cathedrals, new armors, weapons, building pieces, decorations, pets, and more!

Progress through the Battle Pass with new challenges, including through the new Headhunting activity.

On top of this content you can expect bug fixes, balancing, and various quality of life improvements.


Join us later today for a stream with the dev team to ask any questions on your mind and discover more about Age of Sorcery — Chapter 2! Don't worry if you can’t make it as we’ll be putting it up on our Youtube channel.

The new content can also be tested on the testlive build right now. As always, we’re very thankful for all the excellent feedback we receive there.

Age of Sorcery — Chapter 2 releases on 6 December! Keep your eyes out for more news here and on our Twitter and Facebook channels.

Greetings Exiles,

The 3.0.5 hotfix patch is out and it’s a pretty short one to read as most of our changes were made in the backend.

• We have made some backend changes to fix certain instances of Crom Coin purchases.

• An exploit regarding the crafting system has been fixed.

• The Arcane Bookcase was able to get more items than it was supposed to. This has now been fixed and the item has been changed to its normal values.

• Fixed an issue that prevented the usage of the illusory items obtained from ‘Illusion Scroll - Khitain Captain’

• Illusions previously applied to an item will now not show if you equip them without owning the entitlement, as intended.
  
• Gurnakhi and Fiend armor would turn appendages invisible. This has now been fixed. We are sorry for the trauma.

A harrowing wind starts blowing as Yog grows restless in his sleep, waking up to suffocate the world in his cloud of nightmares.

Yog demands one thing. A beautifully horrible place to spend the Yogtober together with his favorite worshippers.



Exiles, welcome to Yogtober. Our new building contest brought to you by us and your favorite deity, Yog. Your task is simple: create a building that best fits the category of your choosing. You can choose to participate in any one of the categories and create your own personal nightmare.

Judging will be based on creativity, originality, and how well they fit with the chosen category. Judges will be from the community managers, community support, and a select few Exiles volunteers.

The buildings do NOT have to be Yog themed, we just think he’s pretty neat.

So what are these categories?

• Gothic: The romance in horror. Maybe a fascination with the dark, a sudden interest in the macabre. Pastel tones, black dye, the everbright grace of subtle white touches. Turn your home into your very own gothic canvas.
  
  
• Haunted House: Creaking floorboards, something’s ticking on the window… Did you hear something? Huh, must be the wind. Watch out for the chain clanks you might hear in the night and never, I mean NEVER go into the room with the red door.
  
  
• Necromancer’s Tower: The dark magics of the afterlife are calling to you. Answer them, but do it in a stylish way. Build a Necromancer’s Tower fitting for a dark sorcerer and imprison the earthly light inside so it is unreachable for the ones that need it.
  
  
• Sacrificial Temple: Sorcery is here. And you know there is no sorcery without some blood magic. What do you need for blood? That’s right, a sacrifice! Make your very own sacrificial temple to lure curious cats and do your bloody deeds.
  
  
• Cabin in the Woods: Never fails to scare off even the bravest exiles of them all. Isolated, in the middle of the woods, away from all living life… or is it? Only way to find out. Build a cabin in the woods and attract all kinds of cryptids so you can have a crazy party when Yog arrives.

Take your pick and start working on your cozy horror house!

There will be two winners for each category, one for unmodded and one for modded.

Feel free to share your creations on social media!



All entries must be submitted by October 31, 2022 11:59 PM EDT. We will not accept any entries after this date. Winners will be announced on November 14, 2022 2:00 PM EDT. Entries must be submitted through SurveyMonkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Yogtober




You will be rewarded a plenty with:


The 10 winners receive:
The Age of Sorcery chapter 1 Battlepass OR choice of 1 DLC pack

• The Battle Pass prize unlocks the full pass as if you bought it, but keep in mind you must still level up your pass to earn rewards!
  
• Isle of Siptah is not eligible as a DLC pack prize. All other DLC packs, as seen in the DLC tab of the Bazaar, are fair game.

Plus choice of one of the following items:

• Black Magic Starter Set
  
• Gurnakhi Gear
  
• Echoes of Acheron
  
• Rotting Rhino

We will pick 2 winners for each category, totaling 10 winners. This means 5 for modded and 5 for unmodded.

You can join from any platform you want. Modded and unmodded entries will be judged separately in their own categories.



Please send us your entry through SurveyMonkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Yogtober

• We will accept entries until October 31, 2022 11:59 PM EDT. Entries submitted after this date will not be counted.
  
• Please be sure to double check the email address you enter, so that we can contact you if you win.
  
• If you do not submit it through the SurveyMonkey form it will not be counted.

Good luck, Exiles. You have until the end of October 31st; the last night of Yogtober, Xuthalloween.



Please use only the following websites to upload your building:

• Imgur
  
• YouTube
  
• OneDrive
  
• GoogleDrive
  
• Twitter
  
• Official Forums

Additionally:

• Your entry must include an image and/or video of your building.
  
• If you include a video, please keep it under 5 minutes.
  
• If you include pictures, please keep it under 15 images.
  
• When you submit your building entry, you affirm that it is your own work. You may have help making it, but it can only be submitted once. Please do not submit an entry that you did not make.
  
• One entry per email per person.
  
• All entries must adhere to the Conan Exiles Code of Conduct .
  
• Do not edit your images in any way, such as filters.
  
• Only submit for one category.

Odds of winning will be determined by number of entries.

No purchase necessary

Privacy: Funcom’s Privacy Policy is at: Privacy Policy - Funcom

Restrictions: Void where prohibited by law. Participants must be of legal age in their country of residence to participate. Directors, officers and employees of Sponsor, its parent, and any of their respective affiliate companies, subsidiaries, agents, professional advisors, advertising and promotional agencies, and immediate families of each are not eligible to win any prizes. All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

Use of Entries: In consideration of the chance to enter the Contest, The Sponsor(s) shall have the perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license and right to use, modify, reproduce, publish, perform, display, distribute, make derivative works of and otherwise commercially and non-commercially exploit Entrant’s name, character, likeness, and entry materials in perpetuity and throughout the universe, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, without separate compensation to Entrant or any other person or entity.

General Release: By entering the Contest, Entrant releases participating sponsors and any of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agencies (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any liability whatsoever, and waive any and all causes of action, related to any claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Contest or delivery, misdelivery, acceptance, possession, use of or inability to use any prize (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, taxes, fees, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy.

Affidavit, Release and Data Collection: As a condition of being awarded any prize, winners will be required to execute and deliver to Sponsor’s a signed Affidavit of Eligibility, which includes an acceptance of these Official Rules, a release of liability and delivery information for prizes. Entrant is informed that the data collector is Funcom Oslo AS., and the data collected will be transferred to the United States of America. Upon request, Entrant will be provided with access to Entrant’s personal data. Entrant may withdraw their personal data upon request, however in such an event, Entrant will be disqualified as an entrant in the Contest prior to the fulfillment of prizes.

Prizes: Prize values based on purchase of 120 Crom Coins ($1). Offered prizes are valued at the following:

• Chapter 1 Battlepass: $10.00
  
• DLC pack: $9.99
  
• Black Magic Starter Set: $11.38
  
• Gurnakhi Set: $12.74
  
• Echoes of Acheron: $6.72
  
• Rotting Rhino: $8.96

Winners List: After November 14, 2022 02:00 PM winners will be posted on the Funcom official forums.

Sponsors:
Funcom Oslo AS.
Kirkegata 12 N-0153 Oslo Norway

• Various crash fixes that should result in improved game stability.

• Addressed a number of exploits in regards to the crafting system.

• The recipe “Rough Timber Doorframe” is now in the “Rough Timber Interior Walls” feat as intended.
  
• Building items spawned from the Admin Panel should no longer be turned into salvaged materials after restarting.
  
• The “Pick Piece” option from the building menu has been renamed to “Copy Building Piece” to better represent its use.

• Fixed an issue where the Delving Bench would return random items instead of recipes.

• Explosive jars should now deal more consistent damage when placed on uneven surfaces.
  
• Shaggai Creatures ranged attacks are now functional on Dedicated Servers.
  
• Minimum Stamina consumed or minimum Damage taken value is now 1 to prevent some unintended situations with certain character builds.

• Casting Darkness would cause players and NPCs to fall through buildings when in high altitudes. We fixed that as that is not the kind of dark result we were aiming for.
  
• Resurrected Corpses should no longer turn invisible, delaying the inevitable uprising of Casper’s army.
  
• Lighting Storm was unintendedly causing high amounts of damage to Building Structures. This has been addressed.
  
• Lightning Storm will no longer damage the caster or the caster’s clan mates.
  
• Lightning Storm will now strike up to 4 targets each striking cycle with a small delay between each target.
  
• Due to the increased frequency of strikes, the base damage dealt by Lightning Storm has been reduced.

• Addressed an issue where some items could not be spawned in via the Admin Panel.
  
• Fixed an issue where some items were misplaced in the Admin Panel.
  
• Removing the bracelet no longer kills your followers too.
  
• If creativity overflows you, removing the bracelet while in Creative Mode will now kill you. Carpe Diem.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed for Extended Leap to be reset while climbing.
  
• Fixed an issue that could prevent Challenge states to be updated correctly.
  
• Addressed an issue that could cause problems with item rotations in the Bazaar.

• The international #spellchekker team saves the day once again by fixing a bunch of nefarious and honestly, quite unpleasant typos and grammar mistakes in international versions of the game.
  
• The Thaumaturgy Bench UI was cut in some localizations, which is now fixed.
  
• The Claim All Rewards button now works with one single press instead of twice.
  
• Addressed an issue where the unspent points pip would show up after dying.
  
• Consolidated how Illusions show in situations where you don’t own the base item or the item used for the Illusion.
  
  • If you don’t own the item used to apply the Illusion, you will still be able to equip it, but you will only see the base version. If you equip the item later after owning the Illusion item, it will show with the Illusion applied.
    
  • UI icons will also be greyed out to give better visual feedback.

• The last Foundation removed now makes a sound when picked up, as intended.

• Due to some platform-specific requirements, the Crom coins packs (new virtual currency) won’t be available immediately after release for the Microsoft Store version. You can read more about this in this separate announcement.
  
• The MStore version of the game will receive this patch on Sept. 15. This should not affect compatibility when playing.
  
• Maelstrom creatures may not despawn after the storm has passed in Isle of Siptah.
  
• Yellow lotus potion (potion of natural learning) might erase acquired feats from Isle of Siptah and from the Library of Esoteric Artifacts.

• Fixed a sizeable number of crash and stability issues.
  
• Addressed performance issues caused by Explosive Jars.

• Fixed an issue where Rough Timber Interior Walls were not affected by stability nor proximity checks.
  
• Gate frames now need to snap to buildings properly again.
  
• Placing foundations near trees or large rocks removed them, leaving the foundations floating. This has now been fixed.

• Changed recipe for improved fishtraps and shellfish traps so they can be properly placed.
  
• Fixed an issue where all placeables had the dismantle option.
  
• The materials you get back with the dismantle option is now affected by the Crafting Cost Multiplier server setting as well.
  
• The “Rough Timber Balcony” recipe was missing from the “Rough Timber Frames” feat. This has been fixed.

• Killing vultures now correctly counts towards the “Defeat Bird Creatures” challenge.
  
• Addressed an issue that could cause Events to not be correctly updated under certain circumstances.

• Addressed an issue that could cause the Bazaar to fail to load under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed an issue where some DLC pieces were not able to be spawned via Admin panel despite owning them.
  
• Entering the Sorcery grotto on Siptah would kill players. Sorcery is dangerous, but not THAT dangerous. So we fixed it.
  
• “Flex” emote is now correctly granted after achieving level 58 in the Battle Pass.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused server passwords to not be saved when using Direct Connect.

• Fixed an issue that could cause animations to desync for other players when riding the Batmount-bile.
  
• Fixed an issue where characters would appear as floating after landing under very specific circumstances.

• Addressed an issue where the Crom Coins balance was not updated correctly under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed an issue where the server browser could incorrectly show 0 players in a populated server.