We recently shared that Claim Stability will change in the November 10 update (link). There’s one more change coming in that update, and we want to give you time to prepare regarding settlement tier progression and refined items.

Our Goals

• Keep the time it takes to level up your Township Settlement about the same. BUT More of that time should go toward gathering items at your current tier, instead of mostly gathering Tier 1 and Tier 2 items.
• Make refined items somewhat cheaper to craft, so you can use them more easily for important gear and account upgrades at higher tiers outside of just settlement advancement.

What Is Changing

The following items no longer require the same item from the tier below to be crafted: Refined Ingots, Refined Bricks, Refined Cloth, Refined Leather, Refined Planks or Study Journals. For example, making a Tier 3 refined ingot will no longer require a Tier 2 refined ingot. This will make refined items above Tier 1 easier to get. To balance this, recipes will use more materials from their own tier. Higher tiers will need larger amounts. For example, a Refined Ferralith Ingot (tier 1) requires 5 Ferralith Ingots to make but a Refined Luminite Ingot (Tier 5) requires 13 Luminite Ingots to make.

We’re also adding a new item called Settlement Research. It will replace Codexes as the main item used to level up Settlements. Crafting it will require one Settlement Research from the tier below. Leveling up your Settlement should still take about the same time and effort. You’ll just spend more of that effort on your current tier and the tiers close to it, rather than on the lowest tiers.

For all recipes that need the same item from the tier below, you will now need only one of that item. This will help keep higher-tier recipes from needing huge amounts of lower-tier items.

Here’s what this means for you:

• Leveling up your claim will still take a lot of items, but more of them will come from your current tier instead of exponential amounts of lower tiers.
• Refined items will still take work to craft, but they will use materials from their own tier instead of refined items from lower tiers.

How to Prepare

Since refined items will be easier to make, their value will drop somewhat. The same goes for the Material Research you make from them.

Before the update, we suggest turning as many of your refined materials or Material Research into Codexes as you can. After the update, you can turn those Codexes into Settlement Research at a fair rate. Just right-click a Codex and use its item conversion recipe.

• Nothing will be deleted or removed because of these changes.

Live Stream

Join our livestream on Twitch this Thursday (5 Nov) to chat about the game design choices driving this upcoming patch.

Livestream Time:

• 🇺🇸 US: 12:00–2:30pm ET
• 🇬🇧 UK: 5:00–7:30pm GMT
• 🇪🇺 EU: 6:00–8:30pm CET
• 🇯🇵 Japan: 2:00–4:30am JST (Fri 6 Nov)