Conan Exiles News

We’re thrilled to announce that Conan Chop Chop has arrived, bringing you the most unhinged vision of Hyboria yet!

With the wacky turned to 11, Conan Chop Chop invites you and your friends to join forces in both local and online multiplayer for this 1-4 player party roguelite game.

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Charge into a crazy adventure as Conan, Valeria, Belit, or Pallantides, each with their unique upgradable skill trees, and stop the evil wizard Thoth-Amon. He may have an army of weird monsters and a great maniacal villain laugh, but you have your muscle-bound stick limbs, a good ol’ chopper, and a whole lot of rage, so get hackin’.

Let loose your most dramatic war cry as you mash that chop button, through endlessly varied magically generated maps bursting with loot. You will die and rise again, a little richer, a little wiser, a little more fueled by vengeance.

What is best in life? CHOP, CHOP!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061880/Conan_Chop_Chop/

Who knew toughing it out in the harsh and unforgiving world that is the Exiled Lands did nothing to harden your sweet loving hearts, aww. We received beautifully written entries, some dripping with cheese and some that gave us a hearty chuckle.

Check out the winning entries here and comment if you’re one of them! And if not, feel free to share it here too!

Winners will be contacted by email later today.



[h3]1st Place[/h3]

A lovely letter from the Exile Lupus, the Cimmerian mercenary, to Zafira, the Stygian leader of clan Iseth.
Our judges loved not only the ambiance and authentic feel of this entry, but the fantastic letter written with in-game lore on a singed note.


[h3]2nd Place[/h3]
A “card” from Insein to Shupa.
We loved that this acted just like a mini sign post you can create in the game. And it looks great in a potter!
You can see more images of the sign + adorable dog HERE.



[h3]3rd Place[/h3]
A carving from TreeYou to all you Exiles out there.
This wooden card was carved using only a knife, no gas or electricity used! Amazing!





[h3]1st Place[/h3]
A lovely card from “The King of the Imps” to the Priestess of Derketo, Yakira. Created by oldcraig.
The judges absolutely loved that the card looks handmade complete with pictures held with tape. The letter is both sad yet endearing.



[h3]2nd Place[/h3]
A simple yet elegant card from Tyros the Deathbringer to Telith, daughter of the Witch Queen. At first glance it may appear to be a charming and sweet letter, but you’ll find a deeper meaning in each sentence on a second glance.


[h3]3rd Place[/h3]
A wonderful interactive card was made by “a talented Dogs of the Desert artisan using the sweetest and tastiest blueberries.” to the Beloved Lianeele.
Finding all (14) differences in the images will increase the happiness of your loved ones until the next purge!





In no particular order, these are cards that didn’t receive as many votes from the judges but still brought smiles and aww’s.

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To Sigara from MilkMalk. A gorgeous drawing created in Procreate of the two fighting off beasts of the 8-legged variety.


From Abe to Abe, sporting some of that self love.


A card from toniapiromali, who kneels before King Conan but fell in love with the guardian beside him, mixalisj5. Instead of using words, their feelings were conveyed through a handwritten drawing.


This letter from Exile Prometeo to a furry Yeti touched our hearts.


This simple yet adorable card from JackalTaco to Arby won the hearts of judges as it brought them back to early school days of giving out cards to classmates.


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Thank you again to everyone who participated and helped spread the love. These contests are a lot of fun for us, and hope it is for you all too. Keep an eye out in the future for more opportunities to win keys and other neat prizes we’ll have!

If there’s a contest you’d like to see happen, please don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments.
Until next time, Exiles!

The world of Conan is getting a little bigger and… flatter. Almost 3 years ago we teased – by way of an April Fools’ joke – a new adventure for Conan. We want to celebrate everything we love about Conan in a more comedic and light-hearted tone. It’s been a journey, but Conan Chop Chop is almost here.
Conan Chop Chop is a party rogue-lite for 1-4 players full of mayhem, loot, and adventure. In this outrageous take on Conan the Barbarian, you are the muscle-bound hero foolish enough to try and stop the evil wizard Thoth-Amon!

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As part of the launch we’ve decided to release a free Demo as part of the Steam Next Fest.

Click here to try the Demo now!

The demo will take you through the first zone in the game, giving you a chance to sample the combat, a small part of the world and some of the basics of each character and their skill trees. We've included a few items and equipment as well, so you can get a feel for how they impact gameplay. Lastly, online co-op has been disabled for the demo but you can always use remote play together.
We hope you enjoy this very different take on Hyboria!

• Fixed a stability issue that would cause the Microsoft Store version to crash at launch for some players.
  
• Addressed an issue that could cause old mods to crash due to a change in materials.
  

• Added new option for Microsoft Store players to run the game without BattlEye.
  

• Fixed an issue that could cause character transfers to fail and get characters stuck in limbo.
  

Greetings, Exiles!

Conan Exiles had a year of solid growth in 2021, and with what’s on the horizon we’re very excited about 2022 too! However, before we get to all that exciting new stuff, we have some house cleaning to do.

TLDR: we need to reduce the number of official PC and PlayStation servers.

[h3]Server merges list[/h3]
Scheduled server closures/merges are listed on this page . Servers listed here will have an in-game notification about the closure/merge.
We will update here as we complete the list for each region so please keep an eye on it.

[h3]Why?[/h3]
The goal with the official servers is to provide easy access to exciting gameplay in Conan Exiles through meeting and interacting with other players, whether there is PvP or more friendly encounters. On these servers, travelling across the Exiled Lands or the Isle of Siptah should include encounters with other players and their creations, whether a massive fortress or our beloved default 2x2 hut near the river.

Both with early access in 2017 and when Conan Exiles launched back in 2018 official servers filled to the brim. Then players found their preferred play hours, and server population stabilized at a healthy level. The same happened with Isle of Siptah servers when the expansion launched last year.

But official servers have their limitations. We have more than a thousand of them across the different platforms, regions, modes, and now maps. To keep this manageable we run all of them with default settings. Many players seek a different experience with regards to gathering and XP rates, purges, player limits, et al., and of course – on PC – one or more of the amazing mods the community has created.

Over the years, and even over the few months since Isle of Siptah launched, we have seen a continuous shift toward player-run servers and solo/co-op play. While activity in the game is higher than ever (outside of those crazy release months), several official servers see few players online during any given week.Less than a handful players on a server doesn’t provide the experience they were created for, especially when a server is essentially someone’s solo game. Hence why we will consolidate onto fewer servers.

[h3]How does it work?[/h3]
Perhaps most importantly, we will not just shut off the power to servers and leave it at that. When a server is shut down, we will transfer all characters – active or not – to another server along with everything in their inventory. This transfer is not subject to the “no encumbrance” rule which applies to free transfers. However, transferred characters log in at the starting area so bring something to help you carry!

No constructions will be transferred. We realize this is not optimal. The main concern is that there can be a building in the same spot on the destination server already – especially on the popular PvP server base spots. Another is that this would complicate the database merge operation significantly.

Players on a server which is closing will be notified ahead of time through Message of the Day, and we will also provide a list of servers and dates here as they are decided on.

[h3]How many servers?[/h3]
Having looked at the current player activity trends and making projections for that exciting new stuff to come later this year, we aim to close about one third of official servers.

This is not distributed evenly across platform, region, mode, and map, however. Thanks to the success of Conan Exiles on Game Pass, Xbox servers are well populated, and we will only close a few Xbox servers that were opened in the wrong region last summer. Thus, this almost exclusively affects PC and PlayStation servers.

Exact numbers for each of the combinations of platform, region, mode, and map varies greatly, and will be available once we share the servers and dates.

[h3]How are the servers decided?[/h3]

• Characters from a closed server will be merged to another server in the same location. For example, someone connecting to a server on the US east coast will not have to suddenly connect to one on the west coast.
  
• Goal is to impact as few players as possible, so low population throughout January 2022 is the primary factor. Both average and peak population is considered, with most weight on the former.
  
• Among low populated servers, we put some weight on the number of structures on the server.
  
• Destination servers for the character merge are chosen based on population, with the aim of increasing average population across the board and not creating login queues.
  

[h3]What about the future?[/h3]
The shift toward private servers and games and a more customized game experiences is expected to continue. But we also expect Conan Exiles to continue to grow. How exactly that will pan out over the next year and beyond is hard to predict.

It’s possible we will do more closures in the future. It’s also entirely possible we will need to open new servers! This we will have to come back to sometime after that exciting stuff we can’t say more about just yet.