Arcane Wilds News

Update 0.4.7 introduces stealth, streamlined structure upgrading and rogue creatures.

Patch Notes:

Features:
- Upgrading structures is no longer instant and works similar to building structures
- Burrowed explosive barrels and sentry totems are now invisible to enemies
- Objects hidden through stealth can be revealed through nearby scouting units or by moving very close with any unit
- Tier 3 camps can spawn rogue creatures that will attack your enemies if essence is tributed

Mission:
- Adjusted tech tree perk costs for more frequent upgrading in the early levels
- Various bug fixes and improvements

Tournaments:
- Various bug fixes and improvements

Update 0.4.6 makes building structures much easier by having builders pick up supplies automatically. Additionally, there are now animated particles whenever items move.

Patch Notes:

Visuals:
- Item movement is visually indicated by particle effects
- Build grid shows corruption information

Gameplay:
- Builders automatically pick up nearby supplies and also from harbors and depots
- Improved unit pushing behavior to make them move more smoothly
- Ghost walking units of opponents can now be body blocked
- Cargo slider makes a unit wait for goal load and is reset when reached
- Recorded commands are no longer cancelled when they are the only command in the queue
- Recording commands appends to the last recorded command instead of the last in the queue
- Attack moving onto neutral units is treated as focus fire

Balancing:
- Tribe starts with only 2 travois
- Warrior extra upgrade costs more and takes longer to research

Tournaments:
- Lobbies that are not full after 30 seconds are aborted
- Added an observe button next to players in the score sheet to join their games directly
- While waiting for a tournament game, it is now possible to enter another game (mission / custom / tournament observing) without leaving the queue

Other:
- Upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.1
- Main menu can be closed with the shortcut that opens it
- Trailer music replaced old main menu music

Update 0.4.5 revamps the single selection UI, adds new objective markers and improves research pacing.

Patch Notes:

Visuals:
- New single selection UI
- Minimap markers for relics and objectives

Stability:
- Various tournament bugfixes and small improvements
- Resolved a crash that could occur when joining or leaving a lobby

Balancing:
- Tier 2 and 3 research cost decreased for all factions
- Harbors have more hitpoints
- Workers do less damage to structures
- Players no longer lose when their harbor is destroyed but allied harbors still exist

Update 0.4.4 introduces in-client tournaments, reworks mercenaries and makes the game feel more vivid with run and gallop animations.

Patch Notes:

Features:
- Added in-client tournaments
- Equipment is refunded when cancelled
- "Villages" replace previous "Mercenaries"
- Villages don't spend supplies, but leave them to be taken by players
- Villages start neutral but can be allied with gifting them essence
- Allied villages provide vision and defend against raids by opponents

Visuals:
- Units have run animations
- Added horse gallop animation
- Faster gathering animations
- Added spot animation for the Spotter
- Added more information to single selection view

Balancing:
- Only harbors need to be destroyed to achieve victory
- Increased variety in unit speeds
- Reduced time between attacks for most units, while keeping dps the same

Update 0.4.3 brings many QOL improvements through an improved user interface and a new welcome screen. It also addresses some bugs related to lobbies.

Patch Notes:

Menu:
- New welcome screen

Visuals:
- Reworked harbor button and shipment notification
- Added ping and inventory detail button
- Hotkeys visible on all buttons
- Ability cooldowns are now animated
- Equipment charges have a progress bar
- Structure icons contain an additional helper icon to describe their purpose
- Builders no longer appear to be constructing the first harbor from the water
- Player colors no longer change when a new player joins

Stability:
- Resolved an issue where AI would kick players from a lobby during a game
- Leaving a lobby no longer has a delay
- Resolved an issue where ships would not move on Dragon's Reach

Academy:
- Various bugfixes and improvements