Into the Vault #153 | New Lands Revealed, Next Patch Details

New Lands Reveal Teaser

Last night during our latest development stream, we revealed which new continent we have been working on, check out the reveal teaser video below before reading the rest of this post!

New Continent Information

As you will have gathered from the teaser, the next continent being worked on is indeed the strange and enigmatic land of Sarducaa!

We will be releasing more information as we progress along the road to releasing this new continent, teasing various aspects of the new land and its mysteries and inhabitants.

There are a few key aspects that will come alongside the eventual release of the new continent, which we find rather exciting and will share with you below.

North American Server Location

As we have said in the past, this new continent will be hosted in North America.

We are currently testing locations in the US West region, as this allows for the most accessibility for regions which are outside the USA, such as SEA and Oceanic regions, while still providing a vastly improved latency for players within North America compared to Myrland.

The final location is not set in stone however, and we will continue to run tests and evaluate different options with the goal in mind of facilitating the smoothest gameplay experience on the new continent for the highest number of players throughout the world.

Existing Character Access to Sarducaa

One of the most unique and fleeting opportunities is being there at the beginning of something new, struggling alongside everyone else in a desperate scramble to progress basic skills and gather resources. Although this blooming phase has since past for Myrland, we are excited to facilitate it once again for the release of Sarducaa.

In order to allow for this, we will be restricting access to Sarducaa upon its release so that only new characters may travel there from Haven. We are still evaluating whether or not characters created now on Haven will be able to access Sarducaa upon its release, or if you will be required to make a new character post-release with the goal being to ensure everyone starts on an equal level. If you have any opinions about this, don’t hesitate to let us know!

Existing characters on Myrland will not be able to set foot on Sarducaa until the construction of the bridge of Tekton has been finished, which is currently planned to take multiple months.

This means everyone beginning on Sarducaa for its release will be starting on equal terms, with no access to accumulated skills, wealth or items such as trinkets.

Additional Character Slot

Naturally this means players with both of their currently available character slots already occupied would not be able to participate in the beginning of Sarducaa without deleting one of them, which we obviously don’t want to unfairly force anyone to do.

As such, we are looking into possibilities for a third character slot, with more details on exactly how that will work to come in the future.

Next Patch Details

Alongside the new continent, we are also working on a few new updates which are planned to be released before Sarducaa, the first of which is planned to contain the following items:

Proximity Voice Chat Upgrade

VoIP is a core aspect of our game, as it facilitates the kind of immersive and personal feeling interactions that really thrive in a sandbox style game.

As such, we want to provide the best VoIP experience we can, and to that end we have