Greetings, survivors!

If you enjoy PvP in CryoFall and you’d like another challenge, specifically designed to make it balanced for solo/duo players—we are happy to announce that CryoSmall server has now been freshly wiped and is available with new rates.
It is a great long-standing moderated community server. This server has a rule on group sizes making sure that larger groups (or alliances) are not permitted, ensuring that everyone is able to compete on a level playing field with no single large group overpowering the rest.
Join now and compete with everyone!

Server information:
— Party size is set to 2 players maximum.
— 2x rates (gather, EXP, LP).
— +1 land claim limit (max 4 land claims per player).

CryoSmall Discord: https://discord.gg/vEwHrdz
Official CryoFall Discord: https://discord.gg/hS6VzMW

Seeing as practically everyone is currently playing on EU1 (i.e. people from different all regions), it's slowly turning into a large PvP battlefield. So, to clearly reflect the reality of the situation we decided to rename it to "Global PvP"! No server wipes, don't worry. We've also changed the location to make the ping better and more equal for all players from different regions. We will also remove the raiding protection window since it didn't do much good in the first place, and now seeing, as there are people from all around the world—it makes even less sense.

We will also encourage players from all other official PvP servers to move to this server, to increase the online numbers even more and give everyone a proper experience of CryoFall. And to make this transition easier we will temporarily set Resources gathering, Skill experience, and LP gain rates to 2X for one week. It will make it slightly easier for new players to catch up to those who have already unlocked most of the technology.

Please note that this server is a fierce battlefield of large alliances against each other—it's better to play in a team. Many teams are recruiting now, feel free to drop a message on our Discord in the #looking-for-group channel and you will find a team!

We are hoping to see thrilling PvP engagements on this server! Join now!

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As a side note, for solo and small teams experience, there is a CryoSmall featured moderated community server which, while isn't yet very popular but has a chance to become very popular in the near future. Join CryoSmall Discord to follow up.

It’s been a while since our last update but we are finally ready to present you A23, the “Electricity Update”!

This time, the list of changes is so massive that it would be very hard to present them here in a blogpost. But we will do our best to share the most important changes and new features!

The biggest change in this version is the introduction of the Electricity System! Establishing a power grid for your base is an important step toward increased efficiency, production, and security. Many new advanced structures (such as electric furnace, freezer or even psi field projector) require electricity to operate, which could be provided from various generators (such as steam, solar, fuel, and even bioreactors). We've ensured that this system is simple yet powerful, so we can use it as a foundation for a lot of new, reworked, and future content.



Many players asked us if we can implement an item repair mechanic. We've considered various options and implemented the tinker table—a new structure which allows you to combine two broken items into one repaired item and also restore some extra percent of durability based on the new Maintenance skill you can master.



We've added several new creatures, two new distinct biomes (swamps and volcanic area) and also expanded the map a bit. You can find the latest map here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1704305623


A few other important changes are new status effect icons above the affected characters and reworked hitboxes. This makes PvP fights much more interesting, especially during base raids or when fighting over oil or lithium deposits!

Starting with this version, you will be able to see when a particular server was wiped, making it easy to judge which server to join, but more importantly, the featured community servers will be displayed together with the official servers, giving them more exposure. If you've considered playing on CryoSmall (a community server with a limit on party size and strict moderation)—it's a good time to join and try it!



As always, there are dozens of new items (such as energy pills, items used in food canning, slime & insect meat which can be acquired from monsters, various canned food, duct tape, etc.), new structures (tinker table, electric furnace, psionic projector, several generators, freezer, water pump, energy storage, recharge station, etc.), new technology groups (electricity, cooking, canning, etc.), new and reworked quests, reworked character status effects (their effects are rebalanced and made much more clear now), and other new content.

Some of you might be excited to hear that the LP penalty has been removed. Now, even if your character dies you won’t lose accumulated LP. This should provide a smoother progression.

There are also dozens of small quality of life (QoL) improvements all throughout the game which should make your experience in the game much more enjoyable!



Overall, there are almost 200 major changes. You can find detailed patch notes on the Official Forums: http://forums.atomictorch.com/index.php?topic=1393.0

Finally, this version also includes three new languages: Polish, Turkish and Japanese. We’re looking forward to seeing even more people joining the game!

This update is very large and took a lot of time to finish—in fact, it's probably a bit too large, so in the future we would prefer to add smaller updates but deliver them more often (roughly every 1.5 months or so). Also, it's the first update which was tested in the experimental branch by our community—and it turned out to be a great success, as we were able to dramatically improve it thanks to everyone who has participated and provided their feedback!

Anyway, it is time to jump in and enjoy the game to the fullest! As always, official servers have been wiped for this update and are ready to offer you a new chance to compete in a fresh economy!

We are happy to announce that Electricity Update is going to be released on August 12! We will make a release announcement when the update happens, but for the time being, we wanted to give you a short preview.

This update is quite large and took much more time to finish—in fact, it's probably a bit too large so in the future we would prefer to make smaller updates but deliver them more often (roughly every 4-6 weeks). Also, it's the first update which was tested in Experimental branch by our community—and it was a great success as we were able to dramatically improve it thanks to everyone who has participated and provided their feedback!

So, what's new? We're introducing Electricity system! Establishing a power grid for your base is an important step toward increased efficiency, production, and security. Many new advanced structures (such as electric furnace and freezer) require electricity to operate, which could be provided from various generators (such as steam, solar, gasoline, and even a bioreactor!). We've ensured that this system is simple yet powerful so we can use it as a foundation for a lot of new, reworked, and future content.

Many players asked us if we can implement items repair mechanic. We've considered various options and implemented the Tinker table—a new structure which will allow you to combine two broken items into one repaired and also restore some extra percent of durability based on the new Maintenance skill you can master.

We've added several new creatures and two new biomes (swamps and volcanic) and expanded the map a bit. You can find the latest map here.

Recently, we've run a survey to determine the players' satisfaction with the game and gather feedback. Majority of players voted to make the game progression a bit faster and to get rid of LP loss on death. We've applied the required changes now! And we will listen to your feedback after the update is released to consider further changes.

Another important changes are status effect icons over the affected characters and reworked hitboxes. This makes PvP fights much more interesting, especially during base raids!

Overall, there are almost 200 major changes. You can find detailed patch notes on Official Forums

Starting with A23 version, featured community servers will be displayed together with the official servers, making them much more popular. If you've considered to play on CryoSmall (community server with a limit on the party size and strict moderation)—it's a good time to prepare for the wipe and A23 launch!

Anyway, just a few more days left! Stay tuned! When the update hits—we welcome you to join all the freshly started servers (server wipe) with a new economy for this A23 update!

Greetings, survivors!

While we are working on the next major update we thought it would be a good time to gather your opinion for the current version of the game. To do that we've prepared a survey that anyone can take. It is fairly short, so it should only take about 5 minutes to complete. Please try to give us your honest opinion so we can better focus on features and changes that you think are important. To take the survey - please follow this link. (The survey has now been concluded and link removed. Thank you to everyone who participated!)

We've also updated our roadmap so you can see our future plans here.

Also, we want to use this opportunity to let you know about a new community server planned to launch this Saturday (June 8th). It will provide a properly moderated experience for players who want to play the PvP either solo or as a small team. We're wholeheartedly supporting the community initiative and looking forward to the results of this experiment. Here is an announcement by the server's owner, @Buddaz:

CryoSmall is a community server project looking for feedback from interested players about the following: maximum team size, gather rate, LP gain, wipe times, and wipe frequency.
With this feedback I hope to have a server up and running this upcoming Saturday (June 8th).
In order for this community project to work as intended I will need help from you, the players, to make this a well balanced server and keep it fresh and exciting for everyone involved.
The goal of this project is to keep team sizes low so that all players are on an even playing field and prevent anyone, including server owners/moderators, the ability to gain an uneven advantage.
A maximum team size and a rule of no alliances will be strictly enforced.
CryoSmall will be the first CryoFall server built strictly by player input!
CryoSmall is located in the UK. The reason behind this location is so locations in the US and EU will all have similar ping. It seems like UK would be the best place to host the server in order to have the most impact for the playerbase.
Please join our unofficial community Discord to give your input: https://discord.gg/vEwHrdz

It is finally time for the A22 “PvE Update” to go live!

This update introduces the last remaining basic feature that we wanted to see in the game before we can start working on content updates again: a separate PvE game mode!

With this update online, all servers are now separated into PvP and PvE, allowing everyone to choose the type of gameplay they want to see. Either classical high stakes competitive PvP, or this new relaxed and creative PvE. Community server operators can also make this choice and launch their servers in either mode.

Obviously, even in PvE (player versus environment) game mode you can still expect challenges, not from players in this case, but from many different creatures inhabiting the world of CryoFall.

But let’s take a look at what is actually new in this update.

Introduction of separate PvE servers makes it possible for us to finally improve the balance for PvP servers based on many requests from our community and make it more rewarding for both: defending and attacking players. Some major changes include significantly increased bomb damage and unlocked chests (to prevent a complete base wipeout during a raid), but to counterbalance it certain features are made much cheaper, such as land claim upgrades or repair of different structures. We are also considering to introduce a so called "raiding window", which could potentially help prevent offline raiding and ensure that most engagements happen when players are actually online. However, given that this feature is highly experimental we are planning to run polls for each of the official servers first, where you—the players—will be able to decide whether you want to see it enabled and how. We don't want to force any such changes on you. If we see overwhelming support for this feature and there will be a reasonable consensus on the actual time for the raid window then we will enable it for a particular server. Community server owners are also free to configure the raiding hours as they wish or even disable the feature altogether.

If you have any feedback regarding these recent changes or if you just want to get involved in the community directly - please don’t hesitate to join our Discord server.

Another big addition is the support for Chinese languages, with Traditional and Simplified both available. We will also have separate servers available for Chinese regions! This should help us expand the number of active players in the community. We welcome everyone to join!



There are also some content additions such as next tier of land claim building, armored walls, hunter’s tools, new helmet with a lamp available very early in the game, large cistern to store liquids, new quests, couple of new decorations and more. While the content wasn’t our focus for this update we were still able to include a few additions which should make it more interesting. But the real content update will come with next A23 version, when we introduce the Electricity System and dozens of new structures, items and mechanics into the game! So stay tuned!

This update also features dozens if not hundreds of small improvements and additions such as removing ALL empty technology nodes to help and speed up the progression in the game, improved server browser with detailed server tags and their descriptions (official, featured, PvP, PvE, modded, etc.), improved chat and social features, improved resource contesting mechanics with active timer, many balancing changes to items, weapons and ammo, new recipes such as pharmaceutical chemicals in T4 and much, much more.



The Map was also slightly changed for this update, expanding the western tropical region a bit and adding a few small points of interest in the south. We decided not to go too far this time and instead focus on the map when new biomes (e.g. swamp, winter forest, and pragmium wasteland) will be ready in one of the following updates.

As always you can read our detailed list of changes for this version on the forums.

If you'd like to learn about differences between PvP and PvE game modes we have prepared this handy guide here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1741743411
Anyway, what are you waiting for—join the game now and enjoy a new start in a fresh economy! As always all official servers are restarted (wiped) for this update to make it possible for everyone to compete under the same rules and challenge each other!